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Che Battalion
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1966
Number 382
Probation Lifted From A&M
At Faculty Committee Meeting
By HAROLD V. RATLIFF its practices in the athletic pro-
DALLAS, Tex. (A 5 ) — Texas
A&M’s probation was lifted Sat
urday, thus clearing the decks of
all rules violations in the South
west Conference.
The Aggies were taken off an
indefinite probation given them
for football practice out of sea
son and taking up athletic schol
arships.
SANCTIONS ALSO were voted
when the probation was invoked
a year ago, prohibiting Texas
A&M from playing in bowl
games. These sanctions were re
moved effective Jan. 16, 1967.
Action on the probation cli
maxed a quiet meeting of the
faculty committee, governing
body of the conference, with most
of the news being produced by
the coaches and athletic directors
in their meeting Thursday.
AT THAT time the coaches
and athletic directors moved to
cut down on the verbal abuse of
football players when they con
sidered charges that Jerry Levias,
the Southern Methodist star, had
been subjected to racial barbs.
The coaches and athletic direc
tors also made some changes in
the officiating set up in an at
tempt to improve it.
Neither of these matters was
taken up by the faculty commit
tee, which indicated it thought
the athletic directors and coaches
had handled them satisfactorily.
TEXAS A&M also is on proba
tion in the NCAA, which cannot
remove it until next October
when its infractions committee
meets. However, in recent years
the NCAA has been paralleling
action of the Southwest Confer
ence and there were no indica
tions the NCAA wouldn’t go
along with the conference this
time.
Removal of A&M from proba
tion and a report that there were
no complaints of rules violations
on file brought to an end two and
one-half years of turbulence dur
ing which four schools were put
on probation and two were repri
manded for violation of recruit
ing rules.
SMU, TEXAS, Arkansas and
A&M were the schools given pro
bationary terms, the former and
latter with sanctions invoked.
Texas and Arkansas were taken
off within a year while SMU was
removed only last May, thus be
coming eligible to play in the
Cotton Bowl Dec. 31 against
Georgia.
Texas Tech and Baylor were
the schools giving reprimands.
This means only Rice and Tex
as Christian escaped the dog
house in the period.
DR. ALAN Chapman of Rice,
president of the conference, said
the removal of A&M from the
list meant that officials had as
sured the conference that the
school had satisfactorily revised
gram to meet the rules.
While there was no explosive
news from the conference meet
ing, it did deal with interesting
items ranging from making
transfers eligible for varsity
play without having to be junior
college graduates to a discussion
of Cotton Bowl affairs.
Tuition Hike Suggested
By Coordinating Board
Increase To $7
Per Hour Asked
“AND A SAVIOR WAS BORN”
A modernistic painting- of the Nativity scene on display in the Memorial Student Center,
is viewed by James Weber. The painting is (Battalion photo by Russell Autrey)
A&M Gots $216,750 Grant
The Texas College Coordinating
Board M'onday approved six in
stitutional research type propos
als by Texas A&M University
with matching grants totalling
$216,750.
Dr. Wayne C. Hall, Texas
A&M’s academic vice president,
said the six grants were among
23 projects totaling $770,295 okay
ed by the board.
Dr. Hall and other University
officials returned Monday night
from Austin where they attend
ed the board sessions.
THE BOARD also approved a
doctoral program in economics
at Texas A&M, Hall said.
With emphasis on econometrics,
the degree plan involves the
Graduate Institute of Statistics,
the Texas Transportation Insti-
SCONA XII Was
‘‘Proven Success’
The 12th Student Conference
on National Affairs was a proven
success because of “better pre
paredness and preparation,” Bob
Heaton, chairman, said yesterday.
Three main points guided the
success of SCONA this year.
“Registration, in recent years a
big problem because of the time
involved, was faster. We had
organization meetings before
hand and ironed out the bugs
then,” Heaton remarked.
The housing and transportation
committees were also better pre
pared.
Heaton said none of the dele
gates had any problems getting
to and from the airport and their
rooms.
The roundtable discussions
were “more interesting” due to a
“more knowledgeable leadership”
provided by the co-chairmen.
SCONA had never before hosted
co-chairmen from the Spanish
and German embassies in Wash
ington, as well as the French and
German consulates in Houston.
Jack Raines, class of ’60 and
graduate student at Rice Univer
sity, was one of the first to com
ment on the “improved organiza
tion of SCONA.
French Consul-General Yves
Rodrigues was impressed with
the “knowledge and concern of
the delegates during the round
table discussions.” He said he
hopes the delegates will “now un
derstand the complexities of for
eign policy” in the United States
or any other country.
Five foreign universities sent
delegates this year. The Univer
sity of Mexico, University of
Nuevo Leon, and Monterrey Tech
were represented, while dele
gates came from McGill Univer
sity and the University of Que
bec in Canada.
Total registration results
showed 168 delegates attending,
from universities in 17 states and
two foreign countries.
tute and the Department of Eco
nomics.
A&M RESEARCH proposals
and total funds include:
Development of model system
for master planning in Texas in-
Aggies To Donate
Apples, Oranges
To VA Hospital
A&M students, College Station
school children and parents send
Christmas cheer to 1,200 patients
in the Veterans Administration
Center at Temple this week.
They will donate fruit for the
veterans through a project origi
nated and coordinated by P. L.
(Pinkie) Downs Jr., official A&M
greeter.
A&M students traditionally
give apples and oranges from
their annual Christmas dinner.
Downs has arranged receptacles
for the fruit at Sbisa and Dun
can Dining Halls Wednesday eve
ning, when Aggies have the
Christmas feast.
A&M Consolidated and Lincoln
High students, A&M faculty-staff
members and College Station
citizens may leave fruit at a
point near the Memorial Student
Center post office Thursday,
Downs said.
VA Center Recreation Chief
Harley D. Mitchell will pick up
the fruit Friday.
The fruit will be distributed in
plastic bags with candy, nuts and
a Christmas card provided by the
Bell County A&M Mothers Club.
stitutions of higher education,
$96,000.
Study of goals and need of
architectural education to 1985,
$23,000.
Study of the role and scope of
computers in the Texas System
of Higher Education with evalua
tion of equipment needs, $30,000.
Evaluation of needs and pro
gram development for veterinary
medicine in Texas, $24,000.
Study of needs and programs
in geosciences in Texas to 1985,
$23,750.
Development of scientific tech
niques for space management and
utilization in physical plants of
educational institutions, $20,000.
Open House
The city of College Station will
sponsor an open house at the city
hall 2-5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 16.
Councilmen and other city of
ficials will host the event, with
wives serving refreshments.
By JACK KEEVER
AUSTIN <A>) _ The Texas
College Coordinating Board rec
ommended Monday that a typi
cal Texas undergraduate at a
four-year state-supported col
lege should pay more than dou
ble his current tuition next Sep
tember.
If approved by the legislature,
it would be the first tuition in
crease at Texas’ 22 public col
leges and universities since 1957.
“In essence,” Cigarroa said,
“it is a tax on students.’ ’
“THOSE WHO would double
tuition rates in Texas would
plant a dagger and a thorn in
the heart of the hopes of Texas
youth,” said Sen. Ralph Yar
borough, D-Tex., speaking at
St. Mary’s University in San An
tonio.
In-state residents who now
pay a flat $50 a semester tuition
fee should pay $7 a semester hour
or $105 for a normal 15-hour
semester next year, the board
said.
The fee for out-of-state resi
dents attending Texas’ four-year
schools would be $20 a semester
hour, or $300 per semester in
stead of the curent $200 fee.
The board said this would
bring in an additional $4i3.8 mil
lion to the schools during the
next two-year fiscal period.
“CONSIDERING fees in addi
tion to tuition, the in-state stu
dent under the new rate would
pay between $122 and $146 per
semester,” a report by the board’s
staff said. “At least 35 per cent
of state-supported colleges and
universities in the nation charge
more.”
The report said, “Under the
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Dean Anticipated
Board’s Decision
Dean of Students James P.
Hannigan said last night he
was “not at all surprised” by
the Texas College Coordinat
ing Board’s recommendation.
“This step was more or less
inevitable,” Hannigan said “The
recent speculation along these
lines indicated that such a move
was in the cards.”
Hannigan pointed out that
the final recommendation dif
fered from what many people
predicted.
“In the past, reports had al
ways referred to doubling the
tuition,” he noted. “The actual
decision deals with a $7-per-
hour increase instead.”
A&M Debaters Capture Trophy
During Forensics Tournament
Texas A&M debaters captured
the junior division runnerup tro
phy in the Harding Invitational
Forensics Tournament at Searcy,
Ark., over the weekend.
James Byrd of Houston and
Robert Peek of Jacksboro won
four matches and lost one, losing
to Freed-Hardman College on a
3-0 ballot in the championship
round.
Byrd and Peek bested Western
Illinois and the University of
Arkansas by two to one decisions
in the quarter and semifinals.
The Aggies argued the affirma
tive against Western Illinois and
had the negative in the two final
matches.
Texas colleges took three of
the top four prizes with Texas
Tech winning the senior division
championship. Hardin - Simmons
was second. Freed-Hardman was
the 1965 Tennessee all-college
champion.
A&M sophomores Wayne Pres
cott of Houston and Ronald Hinds
of Midland posted a two and
three effort at Searcy, noted Carl
Kell, A&M debate team coach.
Byrd is a soph, Peek a freshman.
ARKANSAS DEBATE WINNERS
James Byrd (left) of Houston and Robert Peek of Jacks
boro teamed to win the junior division runnerup trophy
for Texas A&M in the Harding 1 Invitational Forensics
Tourney at Searcy, Ark. Byrd is a sophomore, Peek a
freshman. They are members of the A&M Debate Team
coached by Carl Kell.
proposed charge pattern, out-of-
state students studying full-time
in Texas will pay less than out-
of-state students under similar in
stitutions of study in 27 per cent
of public institutions elsewhere.”
Exempted from the $7 semes
ter hour charge would be medi
cal, dental and baccalaureate de
gree nursing students, who would
pay the same tuition they now
pay. The $20 semester hour
charge also would exempt out-of-
state graduate students.
BRIG. GEN. D. F. BLAKE
General Talks
At Exercises
Air University Commandant
Brig. Gen. Donald F. Blake will
speak at Texas A&M commis
sioning exercises Jan. 21, an
nounced Col. D. L. Baker, pro
fessor of military science.
The head of the Air Force
ROTC at Maxwell AFB, Ala., has
24 years military experience and
was promoted to brigadier gen
eral last August.
General Blake was assigned to
the Air University commandant
post following four years in Air
Force Headquarters in Washing
ton. He served on the Air Staff
and for three years was the Air
Force member of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff Tactical Branch, Re
quirements and Developments
Division.
The 1942 West Point graduate
earned pilot wings that year and
flew 62 combat missions in the
China-Burma-India theater dur
ing World War II. After the
war, he studied the Russian lan
guage, international relations and
European history at Columbia
University for intelligence as
signments in Europe.
Lighting Device
Will Be Shown
A Texas Transportation Insti
tute research device will punc
ture 100 feet of air above the
Drill Field near the Memorial
Student Center during the 40th
annual Texas Highway Short
Course today through Thursday.
The telescoping steel tower
supports new type lights under
study for freeway interchange il
lumination, said Ned Walton, TTI
traffic and design department re
search assistant.
The closed tower was trailered
onto the field in front of the Me
morial Student Center Friday.
Two other light towers are situ
ated in the west comer of the
field.
“We’re setting our demonstra
tion equipment here because of
participants’ transportation prob
lems to the research annex,” Wal
ton said.
He held numerous combat wing
posts in the U. S. including Tex
as, and overseas from 1954 to
1962. While wing commander of
the 64th Troop Carrier Wing,
Dyess AFB, Tex., he attended the
basic airborne course at Fort
Benning and was awarded the
parachutist badge.
General Blake, a 1950 graduate
of the Air Command and Staff
College at Maxwell, wears the
Distinguished Flying Cross, Air
Medal with an Oak Leaf Cluster,
the Purple Heart and numerous
service and campaign ribbons.
Cadets To Sing
Wednesday Night
In Services Here
Texas A&M’s Singing Cadets
will present a program of reli
gious Christmas music Wednes
day night in the All Faiths
Chapel.
The annual Christmas pro
gram sponsored by the YMCA
and student chaplains begins at
7:45 p.m., announced J. Gordon
Gay, YMCA general secretary.
A reading of the Christmas
story from the second chapter of
St. Luke by Head Yell Leader
Tommy Stone will be followed by
the 40-minute Singing Cadet pro
gram.
Numbers in the presentation
directed by Bob Boone include
“Allelujah,” “The Carol Brothers
Carol,” Fanfare from “Christmas
Day” and “The Coventry Carol,”
Singing Cadets president Kurt
Schember said. Soloists will be
A1 Meyer, Jack Smith, Jim Cain
and Schember. Mrs. June Bier-
ing accompanies the 61-voice
glee club.
The Wednesday program will
be the Cadets’ first public ap
pearance on campus this year.
“Anyone who heard our pro
gram at SCONA last week
should come because we have
added several new numbers for
the YMCA program,” Schember
noted.
Three Vet Students Suspended
Three Texas A&M veterinary
medicine students were suspend
ed indefinitely Friday for van
dalism and three other students
for theft, announced Student Af
fairs Director Bennie A. Zinn.
Zinn said the veterinary medi
cine students were suspended as
the result of a window-breaking
incident here last Saturday night.
Campus Security Chief Ed
Powell reported the trio tossed
rocks through the windows of a
South Gate cafe and also broke
a car windshield in College Sta
tion. He also said they attempted
to break windows at the univer
sity’s Exchange Store.
There is no apparent connec
tion between this incident and
the current series of window-
breakings with BB guns in the
Bryan-College Station area, Zinn
stated.
A freshman management maj
or was suspended for stealing a
watch from another student in
his dormitory and later stealing
a watch-band from a local dis
count store. Both incidents oc
curred last week.
Two chemistry majors also
were suspended for stealing gas
oline Thursday morning from an
other student’s car.
Zinn said restitution has been
made in all the cases and no
charges have been filed.