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an Cbc Bdttdlion Volnme 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1967 Number 410 MSC Council Posts Roberts, Prescott Official Take Over Slated For April 20 amed asi made tl a last f 11 as i as Sou# pions. the All-1 team we ille, Sok New 'i v Mexi ;stern ai Westen o 15 wi! The k “PREMARITAL SEX .. . DANGEROUS” j gjjJ Dr. Henry Bowman of the University of sex at the YMCA’s Marriage Forum 3eg- aI ,j Texas spoke on the dangers of premarital Wednesday night. s affe'- A&M Researchers To Get . s $100,000 In NASA Grant many 11 S A $100,000 supplemental NASA grant to Texas A&M for interdis ciplinary space-oriented research programs in physical life and en gineering sciences has been an nounced by Congressman Olin E. Teague. Harry E. Whitmore, Space Technology Division head, said the grant will support a broad integrated program of space-re lated scientific and engineering basic resources activities. Individual projects and princi pal investigators included in the grant are: “Gas Dynamic Studies in an Arc-Driven Shock Tube,” Dr. Richard E. Thomas. “Fracture Mechanics of Visco elastic Composite Materials,” Dr. William B. Ledbetter. Viet Cong Guerrillas’ Morale Reportedly ‘At All-Time Low’ S A captive North Vietnamese officer, who was a platoon lead er in the Viet Cong’s hard-core 85th Battalion, reports that the failure of the lunar new year truce to produce peace negotia tions has put the guerrillas’ mo rale “at an all-time low.” Lt. Truong Hiep told AP spe cial correspondent Hugh A. Mul ligan in an interview through an interpreter at the South Korean Tiger Division’s wire-enclosed stockade in the central highlands Bryan Residents Are Participants In 3-Day School Two Bryan residents are among 60 participants in a three-day school at Texas A&M for emer gency care and transportation of the sick and injured. They include Sergeant Major Ernest W. Bowers and Major Robert Lealos of the United States Army Reserve. Bowers and Lealos also earned basic first aid certificates in a 10-hour special course Monday and Tuesday at A&M’s Memorial Student Center. The emergency care and trans portation of the sick and injured course ends Friday. Participants are instructed by experts from the medical profession and the Red Cross. Among the topics are resusci tation procedures, rescue breath ing, emergency driving, surgical emergencies, ambulance crew as signments, and importance and limitations of immediate care. at Phuoc Thanh: “Night and day the Viet Cong long for peace. “They had high hopes for ne gotiation. Now they know they cannot win without direct help from Russia or Red China.” A Korean private captured Hiep earlier this week with a karate blow. A Hanoi regular, he had infiltrated South Vietnam a year ago. THE PRISONER’S pessimistic view was in contrast to broadcast declarations of the Viet Cong and North Vietnam that they intend to fight on. Ho Chi Minh’s Foreign Minis ter declared there will never be peace negotiations in Vietnam under “the threats of U.S. bombs and bullets.” Another Hanoi dis patch said U.S. air attacks have had little effect in disrupting land communications in North Vietnam. It attributed this to a “well-organized defense and re pair work system.” U.S. AMBASSADOR Arthur J. Goldberg, arriving in Saigon Wednesday night on his South east Asian fact-finding mission, said the path to unconditional peace talks is still open if the Communists want to talk. Saigon’s Tan Son Nhut air base was under full alert against any Viet Cong attack as a spe cial military jet plane brought Goldberg, head of the U.S. mis sion to the United Nations, from a visit to Formosa. Patrols fanned out around the base and parachute flares pierced the dark- University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. “Studies in Low Altitude Flight Mechanics,” Dr. Richard E. Thomas. “The Effect of Porosity on Shearing Resistance and Ther- man Conductivity for Amorphous Soils in Vacuum,” Spencer J. Buchanan. “Plasma and Magnetohydrody namic Research,” Dr. P. T. Eu bank, Dr. Nicholas Gothard and Prof. Stan Lowy. “Digital Computer Solution of Two Dimensional Plan Stress Problems,” Dr. J. George H. Thompson. “Search for Anistropies in Cos mic Ray Muon Intensities at High Energies,” Dr. Nelson M. Duller. “Rheological Properties of Sol id Rocket Propellant Slurries,” Dr. P. T. Eubank. Additional research programs will be initiated, particularly in the College of Science, Whitmore added. Research is conducted on the A&M campus and at the A&M Research Annex west of Bryan. Part of Buchanan’s research is carried out in NASA’s vacuum chambers at the Manned Space craft Center near Houston. By PATRICIA HILL Battalion Staff Writer Scott Roberts and Wayne Pres cott were elected president and vice-president of the MSC Coun cil and Directorate, announced Steve Gummer, current president of the organization. Roberts, a junior economics major from Austin, is sergeant major of 1st Brigade staff and has an overall grade point ratio of 2.33. Prescott, sophomore economics major from Houston, is a civilian with an overall grade point ratio of 2.8. The requirements for holding an office on the Council are: 1) The student must be interest ed in student activities; 2) he must have had some experience in the student programs at the MSC; and 3) he must have an overall grade point ratio of 1.5, and must have posted at least a 1.5 the previous semester. Composed of ten students, five A&M Mascot Gets ‘Recess’ This Weekend Reveille III, already bigger than her predecessor, will par ticipate in the Military Weekend review Saturday during a day of “leave” from her school work. The Alaskan-born collie has been in a private school in Hous ton since December. She will re main in the “obedience school” until April, according to her Ca det Company E-2 handler, John Harris of San Antonio. “Rev has been working out with the Bellaire High School band,” Harris explained. “She is learning quite well,” Brier said, “and this trip should do her good.” faculty members, and two former students, the Council is the gov erning body of the MSC. The MSC Directorate is made up of the president and vice-pres ident of the council, plus the chairmen of the 15 standing com mittees of the MSC. “Our job is to make decisions on policy for the use of the build ing,” Gummer said. Each of the 15 committees has a chairman and one faculty ad visor who works with them. The MSC Council and Directorate has a $100,000 budget that it works with throughout the year. Also elected at the February meeting were the chairmen of the standing committees. They are: Henry G. Cisneros, Leadership; Gerald Moore, Great Issues; Frank Tilley, Camera; Bob Bur- ford, Personnel; Betty Franklin, Public Relations; Fred White, Recreation; Don Smith, Flying Cadets; Theodore Witliff, Radio; Norman Gabitzsch, Chess; Rob ert Gonzales, Town Hall and Pat Rhemet, SCONA. Chairmen for the other five committees will be announced later. “It will be Scott’s and Wayne’s job to coordinate all these stu dent activities and to do as good a job as has been done in the past,” said Gummer. Gummer, a senior from San Antonio, is an accounting major and is Corps Staff scholastic of ficer. Remarking on the election of the committee chairmen, Gummer said, “All of these people will of ficially take office at the MSC Council and Directorate Awards Banquet April 20.” Roberts said that the organiza tion has lots of new ideas for next year that they hope to in corporate into the program. “We’re very optimistic,” said the forthcoming president. Dominican Aggies Will Celebrate 123rd Anniversary Of Independence Dominican Republic students here will observe the 123rd cele bration of the independence of their country with a special presentation March 3 in the Me morial Student Center. Rafael Vargas, Dominican Club president, said the 8 p.m. pro gram will include traditional music, the Merengue dance, a student skit and slides depicting life in the Caribbean country. It will be open to the public. Dominican independence was declared Feb. 27, 1844, by a Trini- taria of Duarte, Sanchez and Mela, regarded as the fathers of the country. The top Dominican holiday is celebrated by fiestas, speeches, special programs and school parades, Vargas said. The Dominican Club, first of its kind in the United States, was formed last October with Vargas, president; Alejandro Fondeur, vice president; Rafael Ledesma, secretary; and Leo Flores, treas urer. William Beach of the Inter national Programs Office is fac ulty advisor. He is campus co ordinator of Dominican Republic programs. Fifty students from the coun try are studying at A&M, 37 under Agency for International Development contract adminis tered by International Programs. PrapllF GIRL WATCHERS’ PERCH?? Two students take advantage of the spring-like weather from their perch high on a fourth-floor window ledge. Generals McNickle, Dahlen To Review Corps Saturday Two generals will review the Corps of Cadets at 2 p.m. Satur day during Spring Military Weekend. Maj. Gen. Melvin F. McNickle oft he U. S. Air Force and Maj. Gen. Chester A. Dahlen of the U. S. Army will be on campus gjL MAJ. GEN. McNICKLE (USAF Photo) for the ceremonies, according to the Office of the Commandant. McNickle, who commands the Oklahoma City Air Materiel Area based at Tanker AFB, Okla., is a 1936 graduate of the University of South Dakota. Immediately prior to his current assignment, he served as Director of Supply and Services and Deputy Chief of Staff for Systems and Logis tics at Headquarters USAF. Dahlen, a 1933 graduate of West Point who later was gradu ated from the Air and Army War Colleges, is presently deputy commander of the Fourth U. S. Army at Fort Sam Houston. He has been chief-of-staff for the Allied Forces of Southern Europe in Italy, commanding general of the Seventh Infantry Division in Korea, assistant commandant of the Fort Benning, Ga., Infantry School and assistant commander of the Second Infantry Division. TJCPA Sets Competition For Members The Texas Junior College Press Association’s spring contest is expected to draw entries from 21 member schools. Deadline for entries in the newspaper categories is set March 17, with all material to be received in the association’s head quarters, Texas A&M’s Journal ism Department, by March 20. Dr. David R. Bowers, TJCPA director, said competition is in news, sports and feature stories, editorials, columns, cartoons, headline writing, make - up and advertising. Entries in each category must have been published in respective student newspapers since Sep tember 1, Bowers noted. Winners will be announced April 15. Yearbook competition is sched uled during the fall term, with 1967 winners to be announced at an Oct. 16-17 TJCPA conference at A&M. MAJ. GEN. DAHLEN (U. S. Army Photo) TEES Gets $1,000 For Electronics The Texas Engineering Exten sion Service has received a gift of $1,000 for the advancement of the University’s electronics pro gram, Engineering Dean Fred Benson announced Wednesday. The contribution came from Homer Allspach, plant manager at Luling, La., for the Chemical Division, Union Carbide Corpo ration. Collegian Comments Should C.LA. Subsidize Student Groups? David Gay Gay, a junior in economics com ments: “Yes, I think they should simply because they haven’t been able to get probate funds. None of the leaders of NS A felt com promised at all, besides, it’s in our national interest to send students to those foreign meet ings!” Charles Greer Greer, a graduate student in physics thinks “it’s unfortunate that they got caught but that it is part of their job to investi gate. I don’t see how you can limit their means, however, it is unfortunate they have to get in volved with students.” James Campa Campa, a freshman studying math, says,” If they’re going to do this they’ve got to have reliable organizations. Also these organizations have to be fully aware of their responsi bility to keep everything secret”. Calvin Schehin Schehin insists, “there is no thing wrong in sending people to represent our society and our culture.” Here the senior in ag- eco is refering to the annual conventions held abroad dealing with various student organiza tions. Ranee Palmer Palmer, whose father was in volved with the counter-intel- legence during W.W. II, protests that; “students are used when they have so many men on the C.I.A. payroll. He is a Fresh men in History.