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PILLAR OF PROGRESS Workmen remove concrete forms as construction reaches top level of new Services Building’. Rifle Team Faces Tough Competition Cbe Battalion Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1967 Number 398 Packard Deplores Use Of Surveillance Devices SPECIAL CRITIC SPEAKS Vance Packard, best-seller author and social critic, spoke on the invasion of privacy before capacity crowd in MSC ballroom Thursday night. Another Duncan Area Dorm Added To List For Renovation Texas A&M’s smallbore shoot ers have ranked among the na tion’s top 20 teams the last two years and have never finished low er than second in the nine-mem ber Southwest Rifle Association. “Unless we have a lot of luck next week, we’ll have one of our poorest years — a second 1 place,” Officer-in-Charge Maj. Luther G. Crum remarked. A&M shoots against Sam Hous ton State this week and takes on the University of Houston and an SWRA championship, Feb. 17. Major Crum’s charges have only one loss in league shooting again st Arlington State, Hardin-Sim- mons, St. Mary’s, Trinity, Rice, Texas Tech and Texas. UH, one of the two association schools that give shooting scholarships, is un beaten. “HOUSTON has the best team in the Southwest,” the Army of ficer credited. Arlington State and UH provide scholarships, topnotch equipment and ranges, he noted. A&M also fires against LSU, Tulane, McNeese State, and Allen Academy and competes in an Oklahoma University 40-team tourney, Kansas State Invitation al, San Antonio Fiest Match and Fourth Army ROTC contests. Ag gie hopes hide on Christopher M. West, a sophomore from San An tonio who made National Rifle As sociation All-America as a fresh man. West averaged 272.88 (out of 300) last year and has boosted his norm to 280. Chris has shot 285, six off the association rec ord. MARION THOMPSON, senior team captain from El Paso, also scores high. Freshmen William A. Herring of Clint and David P. Bailey of Waco have steady hands and eyes, Major Crum added. Prospects are good for next year. John Whilden of Dallas has indicated he plans to attend A&M. He lists a 98-95-85 on the three- position target. The 278 is com parable to West’s frosh shooting. Team members expend 50,000 rounds of .22 rimfire ammo a year and practice two afternoons a week. A six-point indoor layout in the Military Science Depart ment, 32-point outdoor and 10- point indoor ranges at Kyle Field are shooting sites. International targets, with a one-eighth inch nine ring and point “bull,” are fired. “The 32-point range is used for freshman instruction,” the major said. Equipment and am munition are provided by the Army. Some team members buy their own rifles and accessories. The 30-member team includes civilians, Army and Air Force ca dets, of which 15 shoot in com petition. Membership require ments include fulltime undergrad uate student status and a 1.00 grade point ratio. One of the most adventurous ocean-going sailors in history, Robert Manry, will speak here Feb. 17. Manry, who holds the world’s record for captaining the small est boat ever to crpss the Atlantic non-stop, will give his own color ful account of “Tinkerbelle’s Run to Glory.” His presentation is set for 8 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom under sponsor ship of the MSC Great Issues Committee as -a feature of the “World Around Us”' series. By BOB BORDERS Probably the greatest danger to individual freedom today is the proposal of a central data center in Washington containing dossiers on private citizens. This was the opinion of Vance Packard, author and social critic, as he presented the first of the spring Great Issues lectures Wednesday night in the Memorial Student Center ballroom. “The enormous growth of meth ods for maintaining surveillance over ordinary citizens is a cause for alarm,” Packard said. He said Americans live in an environment characterized by the observation of private citizens. “There is massive infringement upon the privacy of our lives,” he said. “Justice Brandeis once said ‘The right to be left alone is the most cherished by man’,” Packard emphasized. He said the increase in the sur veillance of private citizens in the past few years is a result of technical changes, the scientific revolution, and growth in organ ized and impersonal living. “We are becoming a nation of strangers,” Packard said. He said one of the reasons sur veillance has increased is because we have become more affluent. Credit companies and other agen cies keep and freely exchange personal information on their cus tomers and clients. Another reason privacy is being invaded is because we live in a state of cold war during which necessary secrecy must be main tained. “And finally, surveillance is a perpetuating and self-expanding industry,” Packard said. He said there are several tech niques of stripping us of our privacy. The most obvious and most pub licized of these is through mechan ical devices, such as tiny micro- Weather FRIDAY—Clear to partly cloudy, winds southerly 10 to 20 m.p.h. High 67. Low 36. SATURDAY — Partly cloudy to cloudy, winds southwesterly 10 to 20 m.p.h. High 64. Low 42. “Tinkerbelle” is the 13-foot sloop Manry sailed on a 78-day journey across the Atlantic from Falmouth, Mass., to Falmouth, England, in 1965. He has since written a book by the same name. At the time of his biggest ad venture, Manry was a 47-year-old copy editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He had cruised on Lake Erie, but for many years had been fascinated by stories of other small craft crossing the ocean. Manry’s reason for making the dangerous journey is simple, yet complex. “There comes a time that one must decide, of one’s dreams, ei- phones which are connected to tape recorders or other monitors. Packard said other less-publi cized methods were infrared cameras and closed circuit tele vision. Another way of invasion of privacy is by personal inventories and the exchange of information with other organizations,” Pack ard said. He said the government has dossiers on many private citizens now, compiled from tax returns and other information, and a cen tral data bank is now being con sidered which will contain all material recorded about each indi vidual in the country. Packard said technical authori ties believe it would be relatively easy to establish such a center sometime in the distant future. “This way we see an erosion of privacy in our country, in the testing of people who will be in important positions in industry and government,” Packard said. He pointed out that there has been an increase in the use of psychological tests for school chil- Chicago Prof Will Discuss Meteorology Dr. Tetsuya Fujita of the Uni versity of Chicago will conduct a meteorology seminar here Feb. 15. The satellite meteorologist will discuss “The Concept of Ro tating Thunderstorms” at 3 p.m. in 305 Goodwin Hall, announced Dr. Vance Moyer, Meteorology Department head. Dr. Fujita is the only person to receive Japan’s Okada Award and the Meisinger Award in the U. S., the country’s premier me teorological awards. He is me teorology professor in Chicago’s Geophysical Sciences Department and received the Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo. “Dr. Fujita is internationally eminent for his work in satellite meteorology and mesometeorolo- gy,” Dr. Moyer said. Issues ther to risk everything to achieve them,” he emphasized, “or sit for the rest of one’s life in the back yard.” On his own, Manry outfitted the tiny craft for the rugged 3,00(>-mile trip. Equipment in cluded a sextant, ocean charts and a Victory Girl Radio trans mitter for sending distress calls. Also aboard were 28 gallons of fresh water, a solar still for freshening salt water, canned food for 90 days, two extra suits of sails, foul weather gear, medi cines, books and photo equipment. “Life” magazine devoted a 10- page spread to Manry’s story and color pictures. dren, and usually their parents are not notified. “We are also seeing an increase of the use of lie detectors. Last year 300,000 people submitted to the polygraph examination,” Packard said. He emphasized that with the many potentialities for those who would invade our privacy, the individual should forever be on his guard. LBJ To Answer Pope’s Message On Peace Talks WASHINGTON <A»)_President Johnson “very much appreciates” Pope Paul’s Vietnam peace mes sage and will send a personal reply, the White House said Wednesday. The Roman Catholic pontiff sent direct messages Wednesday to Johnson, Chief of State Ngu yen Van Thieu of South Vietnam and President Ho Chi Minh of North Vietnam urging them to turn the current lunar new year truce into negotiations for peace. MEANWHILE, U. S. strate gists, in addition to taking into account foreign peace appeals, kept a close watch on shooting incidents marring the cease-fire which began Tuesday. How well the Reds observe the truce figures heavily in Washing ton deliberations on whether to extend the cease-fire beyond the four days proposed by South Viet nam’s allies. U. S. sources said all options are still open. The general U. S. policy is to seek an end to the war through either peace talks or a scaling down of the fighting with out a specific negotiated agree ment, or a combination of both. ONE POSSIBILITY would be quick resumption of full-scale military operations at the end of the four days. Another would be to hold back for an extra three days until the end of the seven- day cease-fire period announced by the Viet Cong. Still another would be to pro long the lull beyond the seven days. A peace message from the Pope has been described by Johnson as influential in his thinking a year ago when he extended the halt in U. S. bombing of North Vietnam for a month beyond the 1965 Christmas-New Year truce. REPORTS FROM Saigon indi cated a sizable number of viola tions of the cease-fire by Com munist forces so far—more than two an hour during the first few hours. But Washington authori ties said it is too early yet to draw major conclusions from this. Meanwhile, a State Depart ment spokesman said, the United States will continue to send planes on reconnaissance flights over North Vietnam. One such plane described as unarmed was shot down. But this, in the assessment of State Department authorities, did not constitute a major truce viola tion. An extra dormitory has been added to the list of those to be renovated in the Duncan Dining Hall area, according to Frank Nicholas, assistant to the com mandant of the Cadet Corps. Nicholas said Dormitory 8 is being vacated and will be turned over to air-conditioning contrac tors Monday. Cadets in Squad rons 9 and 11 and members of Third Wing Staff are being moved to other dormitories in the area. “We originally told the con tractors we could give up two dormitories during the second se mester for the renovation work,” Col. D. L. Baker, Corps comman dant, explained. “After we looked at the registration figures, we decided that by housing two ca dets to a room as much as possi ble in both housing areas, we could give them one more dormi tory to work on.” Nicholas said Physical Plant Director W. Howard Badgett had SEA To Discuss New Techniques New techniques in education will be presented by film in a Student Education Association meeting tonight. The 7:30 p.m. meeting will be in 113 Biology Building, an nounced President Don Houston. Mel Chastain, program direc tor of the Educational Television Department, will have charge of the program. “The club will elect delegates to the state convention at this meeting,” Houston added. requested that as many dormi tories as possible be vacated in order to facilitate completion of the 12-dormitory airconditioning project by September. “We’re trying to avoid a situa tion such as the one in 1964, when construction of the new dormitories continued right up into September and the begin ning of sessions,” Nicholas ex plained. Civilians in Dormitories 10 and 12 have been allocated new rooms in 14 other dormitories, Nicholas said. The Band and Company E-l have been moved from Dormi tories 9 and 11 to Dormitories 1, 3, 5 and 7. In addition, Companies E-2, F-2 and Fourth Battalion Staff are moving to the western area of the campus. Commenting on the Corps’ tra ditional housing arrangements, in which virtually all seniors and many juniors have rooms to themselves, Baker said cadets have been fortunate “to go so many years paying for one bed and getting a room with two.” About 950 students, including Corps and civilians, were relo cated in order to open dormitories for the project. The 12 buildings, plus Duncan Dining Hall, are to be linked by chill-water pipes for cooling and with new heating units. Radiators were removed from vacant dormitories during the semester break. The project will provide air- conditioned rooms for 2,400 stu dents in the eastern housing area. Nine air-conditioned dormitories in the other area now house ap proximately the same number. Vet Dean Named Consultant Adventurous Sea Captain Speaks For Great To USAF Surgeon General Dr. A. A. Price, dean of the Winner of the Faculty Distin- College of Veterinary Medicine, has been appointed national civi lian consultant to the U. S. Air Force Surgeon General. As a consultant, Dean Price will advise the surgeon general on matters pertaining to Air Force relationships with civilian medical agencies. Copies Of Review Available In MSC All students enrolled in the Colleges of Liberal Arts, Sciences and Geo-Sciences may pick up their copy of The Review in the Memorial Student Center this week. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M,” —Adv. guished Award in teaching at A&M, Dr. Price was a short term consultant to East Pakistan in 1959 through A&M’s program with the Agency fpr International Development. He also served four years as a consultant to the Tropi cal Medicine and Parasitology Study Section of the National In stitutes of Health. Dr. Price joined the College of Veterinary Medicine faculty in 1947 and was named dean in 1957. He earned DVM, MS, and BS de grees at A&M. During World War II, Dr. Price served as an infantry company commander, battalion executive officer, and battalion commander in the U. S. Army, with combat duty in the European Theater. He is a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve. Opinions Varied OnDress Rules “Better Than Other Campuses” Junior Wayne Prescott believes that civilian dress “is pretty good” and is better than some of the other nearby campuses.” “Wait ’til Spring” “Students are abiding by the rules of dress now, since its so cold,” says sophomore Ron Hinds, “but when spring and warmer weather arrives we’ll be able to tell how serious the problem is on our campus.” “I don’t think it is all that bad,” says freshman Louis Milner.” I think the students are pretty decent looking. I don’t believe its ever been a real problem and it’s certainly not getting any worse.” “Shoes With Socks” “Its getting worse in some cases,” says junior chemical en gineer major Gordon Bentzen. “Slacks and sport shirts may be the answer. I’m against blue jeans and shoes without socks.” “There’s a Variety” Marilyn Bishop, freshman, thinks that civilian dress is “fine” and that there are no “extreme cases,” but there is a variety that is unlike other college cam puses. She also expressed a need for more variety of dress.