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KATHY CREWS
CHERYL SCHNEIDER
Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1967 Number 406
‘Underwater’ Theme Set
For Fish Ball Saturday
By BILL ALDRICH
Battalion Special Writer
“Under Water in Blue” is the
theme for Saturday night’s Fish
Ball, which will be held in Sbisa
Dining Hall from 8-11 p.m.
Tickets may be purchased at
the Memorial Student Center Stu
dent Programs Office until Fri
day afternoon and will also be
available at the door. They may
be purchased from any freshman
class officer for $3.50 per couple.
Dress for the annual event will
be Class A winter uniforms with
white shirts and black bow ties
for cadets and black suits or tuxe
dos for civilian students. Girls
may wear long or short formals.
AGGIE SWEETHEART Kathi
Austin will be on hand to help
in the selection of the Fish sweet
heart. She will be an honored
guest at the dance, and will crown
the sweetheart.
Candidates will be presented to
the judges Saturday afternoon at
2:30 in the MSC. Judges will in
clude freshmen class officers and
advisors, in addition to Miss Aus
tin.
The sweetheart candidates will
be presented to the class at 9:30,
and the winner will be crowned at
10. The Sweetheart will be “drop
ped” to the class, and presented
roses by Miss Austin.
The seven finalists were nar
rowed from an original field of
35 entrants, according to Fresh
man Class President Gerry Geist-
weidt.
They are Kathy Frances Crews,
Karen Cox, Janet Kaye Feldmann,
Glenda Jean Phillips, Cheryl Ann
Schneider, Deborah Ann Spurlock,
and Betsy Stark.
MISS CREWS is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Logan W. Crews
of Temple. A junior at Temple
High School. She will be escort
ed by Gary T. DeCola. She is
5 feet, 3 1 inches tall with hazel
eyes and blond hair.
Karen Cox is a 5’7” senior at
Eastern Hills High School, Fort
Worth. She has blue eyes and
blond hair, and is planning a
career in art and modeling. She
is the daughter of Mrs. Grady Cox
of Fort Worth. Her name was
submitted by Blaine Purcell.
Janet Feldmann is a blond-hair
ed, blue-eyed junior at Marlin
High School and is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Feld
mann of Marlin. She is 6’8” and
will be escorted to the ball by
Virgil Yoakum.
RICHARD CONLEY will escort
Glenda Phillips, a 5’1” senior at
Winnsboro High School. She is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Glenn Phillips of Winnsboro. She
has brown hair and hazel eyes.
Cheryl Schneider, a senior at
Robert E. Lee High School in San
Antonio, is the blue-eyed, brown
haired daughter of Mrs. Ava Sch
neider. She plans to major in
art and elementary education and
will be escorted by Robert Burn-
‘Kiss-In’ At 0. U. Produces
Varied Comments From Ags
A straw poll here Wednesday
produced a bevy of comments
about a “Kiss-In” this week at
the University of Oklahoma.
The “Kiss-In” was in protest to
an administrative ruling that stu
dents be prohibited from making
a public display of affection on
campus.
The story goes that six couples
—or 12 persons—drew a sizable
audience as they put on a kissing
exhibition on campus.
“Sounds wonderful,” grinned
David Gay, a junior economics
major from College Station. “It
would be a good day at A&M to
have enough girls for something
like that. But you shouldn’t have
to stand up on a platform to get
a kiss.”
“Kissing is everyone’s personal
right,” claimed Mike McKinney,
a sophomore government major
from Johnson City. “I think you
ought to be able to kiss your girl
whenever you like.”
Among the comments at Aggie-
land:
“I GO FOR KISSING, but it
should be done in private,” re
marked Joe Busettil, a wildlife
science major from Long Island
City, New York. “I don’t care
for wild protests—they should go
through regular channels to the
proper authorities.”
Weather
FRIDAY—Clear, winds northerly
15 to 20 m.p.h. High 51. Low 29.
SATURDAY — Clear to partly
cloudy, winds southerly 5 to 10
m.p.h. High 58. Low 27.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
“THE demonstration was bad,”
commented Bill Gilmore, a sopho
more architecture major. “It
turned something nice into a big
show. But the ruling is bad, too.
Kissing should not be offensive
to others.”
“I think the ‘Kiss-In’ was a use
less display,” declared Mark Mc-
Neel, a senior journalism major
from Houston. “It’s something
you laugh at, that’s all. I just
finished three years in the Army,
where you learn to live with
rules.”
An Aggie pointed out that a
ruling against public display of
affection would smear a long
standing tradition at Texas A&M
football games. Students joyfully
kiss their dates after every
Aggie score.
| Chuikov Refutesl
1 Defense Claims |
side.
Deborah Spurlock is a Trinity
University freshman majoring in
biology. She is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. William Spurlock of
San Antonio. She has blue eyes
and blond hair, is five feet, eight
inches tall, and will be escorted
by Lewis Radicke.
The seventh finalist is Betsy
Stark, a freshman at SMU from
San Antonio. She has brown hair
and blue eyes and is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Stark of
San Antonio. She is a 5’7” brun
ette and will be the date of David
Craighead.
Political Forum
Sponsors Lunch
The fourth in a series of in
formal political sandwich lunches
will be presented Friday in th^
Social Room of the Memorial Stu
dent Center. These lunches are
sponsored by the Political Forum
for students and faculty.
Mrs. S. W. Kowierschke will dis
cuss “The Future of the Republi
can Party in Texas” and conduct
a question and answer session. She
will be closely questioned by the
Democrats, independents and Re
publicans present.
Mrs. Kowierschke is a member
of the Republican Womens Club
and is serving as vice chairman
of the Brazos County Republican
Party.
This is another continuing ef
fort by the Political Forum to pro
vide an informal atmosphere for
discussion of political procedures,
techniques and basic political is
sues. The Forum is jointly spon
sored by the Great Issues Com
mittee and the Department of His
tory and Government .
Sponsors of the meeting request
that persons planning to attend
contact the MSC Student Pro
grams Office by Thursday after
noon.
MOSCOW <A>) _ The head of
Soviet qivil defense contradicted
a general Wednesday and said
the Soviet Union’s defenses are
not capable of knocking out ev
ery hostile plane and missile in
the event of war.
Marshal Vasily I. Chuikov’s
warning came on the heels of
remarks by a Soviet general
who implied that any missiles
fired at the Soviet Union would
not reach their targets.
These exchanges come at a
time when the United States is
seeking to head off a Soviet-U.S.
race to develop antiballistic mis
sile systems.
Soviet military chiefs have
said previously that many at
tacking missiles could be destroy
ed by the Soviet defense system,
but not all.
“Unfortunately,” said Chuikov
in a television address.
“There are no means yet which
would guarantee complete secu
rity of our towns and most im
portant objects from the blows
of the enemy’s weapons of mass
destruction.”
Chuikov said that “in practice
it is impossible to intercept com
pletely all modern planes, even
more so rockets launched through
space. A certain number of them
may reach the target.”
Chuikov spoke on the eve of
Armed Forces Day. It will make
the official date of the Red
Army’s founding 49 years ago.
His warning contrasted with the
claims made by the men on active
military duty responsible for the
nation’s defenses.
Marshal Andrei A. Grechko, a
first deputy defense minister,
wrote Wednesday in the govern
ment paper Izvestia on the offi
cial position.
The U. S. government confirm
ed publicity last November that
it knew the Soviet Union was
building ABM defenses. This was
the signal for President Johnson
to launch an effort to dissuade the
Russians from an ABM race.
The U. S. position is that there
cannot be a fully effective de
fense against missiles — as Chui
kov said Wednesday. The Ameri
cans argue that it would, there
fore, be wasteful to build ABM
defenses.
Junior Journalist
Represents B-CS
In Houston Meet
D. R. Janacek, a junior journal
ism major, has been named the
area representative for the Toast
master’s Club of Bryan-College
Station.
The talk given by Janacek was
entitled “The Problem.” His
speech was concerned with the
quality of teaching in major col
leges throughout the nation. The
“publish or perish” idea, in re
gard to time consumed instead of
teaching, was brought forward.
Janacek will represent the Bry
an-College Station club in area
competition at the Houston Engi
neering Society Building, March
4. He will have an opportunity
to go to district, state, national
and international competitions.
YMCA Lecturer Focuses
On Love, Infatuation, Time
By RANDY PLUMMER
Battalion Special Writer
“A couple is not in love when
they are first married, they are
infatuated and infatuation is only
the threshold of love. People do
not fall in love, they grow in
love.”
This was the observation of
Dr. Sidney Hamilton, visiting
lecturer from North Texas State
University, during the second
YMCA - sponsored Marriage
Forum Wednesday night.
Addressing the interested group
of Aggies, Hamilton differenti
ated between love and infatua
tion. Time is an important factor,
said Hamilton. Infatuation is
only the springboard to the last
ing emotion that is termed love,
he remarked.
Hamilton also brought out that
love, unlike infatuation, gives
security and fosters mutual faith.
In answer to the question of
how can one be sure that he is
marrying the right person, Ham
ilton said flatly that it is impos
sible to know before marriage.
“Each partner in a marriage
must learn to make concessions
and respect each other’s indi
individuality. A mutual giving
and receiving of love will make
a successful marriage. Marriages
have to be made, they cannot be
planned successes beforehand,”
Dr. Hamilton pointed out.
Those who are incapable of
loving were also cited by Hamil
ton during his lecture. “The im
mature cannot love, for emotional
maturity is a basic criterion for
marriage. Also those with paren
tal fixations are not ready for
love. One cannot give love while
still involved with and dependent
on his parents.”
The last group that Dr. Hamil
ton mentioned as incapable of
giving love were “those with so-
called Don Juan complexes. If one
is promiscuous with his emotions,
he cannot devote all his love to
only one person.”