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Lectures Draw Top Speakers
THE BATTALION
Tuesday, March 21, 1967 College Station, Texas
Page 3
Girl Watchers’ Corner
By RUSSELL AUTREY
The University Lecture Series,
although well known for the out
standing speakers it has present
ed, has remained a relatively un
publicized program, and most
students have only a vague idea
of what the series is.
Sponsored by the Graduate Col
lege, the lecture series is designed
to give students, faculty, and the
general public an opportunity to
hear renowned speakers in sub
jects of broad social, political and
intellectual interest.
The program began in 1963
when Dr. Wayne C. Hall, dean
of Graduate College and now also
academic vice-president, and Dr.
Robert W. Barzak, associate dean
of the Graduate College, decided
there should be a program of out
standing speakers at A&M.
“We felt there was a definite
need on campus to bring renowned
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people to speak in fields of in
terest to the general public,” Hall
said.
For many years, a graduate
lecture series had been presented,
but it was narrow in interest and
for a more limited group of
people.
“We wanted recognized au
thorities in the social fields and
in subjects of a broader spectrum
of appeal,” Dr. Hall said.
“We try to get a rounded mix
ture,” Hall continued, “but put
weight in social areas, humani
ties, classics and fine arts.
This year, for example, the pro
gram included a poet-writer,
physician, scientist, librarian,
economist and a former state
governor.
Dr. Barzak was the chairman
of the lecture committee until the
addition of Dr. Haskell M. Mon
roe as assistant dean of the
Graduate College in 1964 who
then took the chairmanship.
The Universtiy Lecture Com
mittee is an informal group of
people with one person selected
from each degree granting college
to be on the committee. This
committee recommends the speak
ers to be selected.
“From the first, we decided we
wanted to have people with an
academic background,” Monroe
said. “Frankly speaking, we
wanted people whose work was
good enough to be of interest to
all.”
Monroe explained that the Uni
versity Lecture speakers are dif
ferent from speakers presented
by the Great Issues Committee of
the Memorial Student Center in
that they are more of academic
nature and not of the “front page
news” type speakers.
“We would not want someone
of the Bennett Cerf type in the
University Lectures because he
is more of an entertainer,” Mon
roe said.
Some of the persons in the lec
ture series have included Edward
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Dr. Howard L. Gravett, chair
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Pre-Dental Committee, said the
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president of the Standard Oil
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“An interesting thing is that
those drawing the largest crowds
are not the technically oriented
people, but the interest is in the
arts and social fields,” Hall re
marked.
Since its start, the University
Lectures has presented a total of
20 lecturers.
The series usually has six
speakers each school year. Two
are often obtained through the
Danforth Foundation which gives
money to pay half the cost. Other
speakers are shared with South
west area schools and the cost
split among them.
Each speaker generally speaks
at night to a large audience in
the M.S.C. Ballroom or the Chem
istry or Biology lecture rooms.
Often, if possible, the lecturer
speaks in the morning or after
noon to a select group on a
limited topic.
A budget of $1,600 is provided
to the program from a fund by
the academic vice - president.
Speaker fees, however, range
from $2,000 and down, Monroe
said. They have a 25-30% accept
ance of speakers invited.
One weakness of the program
lies in the fact that there is no
adequate auditorium,” Monroe
said. Most of the lectures are in
the M.S.C. Ballroom “which is
what its name implies.” There is
not a building on campus designed
for lectures of this type.
“One of the frustrating parts
of the task is lack of student
participation,” Monroe said. He
explained how people are always
saying that A&M has no culture,
as it is located so far from cul
tural centers, but “when we have
people worth hearing, the turnout
may be quite small.”
The turnout, Monroe continued,
is related to the fame of the man
and relative to the encourage
ment of faculty members. There
is no advertising budget and
therefore the series often has
less promotion than Great Issues
and other campus programs.
A beneficial aspect of the lec
tures is that students and general
public have a chance to meet and
talk with these people, Hall com
mented.
“Another value of the program
in addition to being there is the
impression the speaker gets,” Dr.
Monroe said. “With little excep
tion, the lecturers write back and
give a very favorable impression
of the University.” In its small
way, this is very good public re
lations. “It lets people know of
the progress A&M is making.”
Dr. Hall feels the program to
be satisfactory. He said that no
changes are expected to be made
in the near future.
“I have been quite happy with
the caliber of people we have had,
and in general, we draw good
crowds,” Hall said.
The program appears to be a
good idea. After A&M began its
series. Rice University copied
A&M’s example and now presents
a similar program.
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Rocket Expert To
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which remain unchanged over
much longer periods than with
the details of design.
“There is no doubt that the
technological development in the
1970’s will be as rapid as in the
current decade,” he continued,
“and much of the machinery and
technology of the 1960’s will be
obsolescent in the 1970’s and
1980’s
“I believe that students should
be taught to work out designs
from first principles, relying as
little as possible on text books,
using handbooks only to provide
the basic data,” he added. “By
taking part in the design of
small-scale projects in this way,
they become better equipped to
take part in the almost unfore
seeable developments of the
1970’s.”
Other convocation activities to
day include round-table discus
sions on “What Should the Engi
neering Colleges Do to Meet the
Challenges of the 70’s?” and
“How Should Industry and Gov
ernment Cooperate with the En
gineering Colleges in Their De
velopment During the 70’s?”
A 7:30 p.m. banquet in the
Memorial Student Center ball
room completes today’s program.
The featured speaker for the ban
quet will be Dr. John C. Calhoun
Jr., vice president for programs
at Texas A&M and former science
advisor to Secretary of Interior
Stewart Udall. Dr. Calhoun will
discuss “Resources Engineering.”
Meteorological rocket network
expert Willis L. Webb of the
White Sands Missile Range in
New Mexico will confer with
Meteorology Department officials
and conduct a seminar here
March 28.
Dr. Vance E. Moyer, Meteoro
logy department head, said
Webb’s “Structure of the Strato
spheric Circulation” seminar will
be at 3 p.m. in 305 Goodwin Hall.
Webb is chief scientist at the
atmospheric sciences office and
laboratory, U. S. Army Elec
tronics Command at White Sands,
and member of the National Aca
demy of Sciences’ upper atmos
phere rocket research committee.
“He is well known for his work
with the Meteorological Rocket
Network, of which White Sands
is a station,” Dr. Moyer said.
Webb recently published a book
in the International Geophysics
Series on upper- atmosphere
meteorology, “Structure of the
Stratosphere and Mesophere.”
“We will discuss the possibility
of cooperation between the White
Sands office and the department
for student analysis of MRN data
for theses and dissertations,”
Moyer added.
The SMU graduate was recipi
ent of the Civil Service Award
for sustained superior perform
ance in 1958 and the Army Com
mendation for meritorious civil
ian service a year later. Webb
is also affiliated with Texas
Western University’s physics de
partment at El Paso and is a
member of the Meteorological
Rocket Network Committee of
the Inter-Range Instrumentation
Group.
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