THE BATTALION
Pag-e 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, June 22, 1967
CADET SLOUCH
Foreign Student Teenagers Write Own ‘Obits’
by Jim Earle Over 1966 Period In Indiana Traffic Court
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The Leaf
By PETER GRENDEN
It has broken loose
The leaf.
Now free it roams
The leaf.
“Psychedelic is th’ feeling a guy has when he’s on LSD! Or
to compare it with our experience, it’s like that way-out
feeling we have when our graded quizzes are handed back!”
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Newspapers Rated
Tops In New Poll
Four out of every five persons in the U. S. get news
daily from one or more newspapers, giving newspapers a
wide margin over any other news or advertising media.
This was one of the statistics amassed by the News
print Information Committee in a study of the informa
tional and communications services utilized by Americans.
The results put a new perspective on findings of the
widely-promoted Roper survey concerning television as a
news medium.
Dr. Leo Bogart, executive vice-president of the Bureau
of Advertising, ANPA, who conseled NIC on the new pro
ject, said “Our new study finds that on any given day,
four out of five people get news from the newspaper. With
considerable overlapping, three out of five get news from
television — and over half from radio.”
Dr. Bogart said inflated ideas about TV audience size
can now be effectively dealt with on the basis of the new
evidence.
Dr. Bogart also pointed to a re^nt study by the Opin
ion Research Corporation, showing that in approximately
60 per cent of those respondents surveyed, newspapers are
ranked as the “best way to find out what’s really happen
ing.” The results also showed that newspapers are the one
medium people turn to for information on their whole range
of personal interests.
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BRYAN AERO, INC.
Hig-hway 21 E. Coulter Field
Phone 823-8640 — Bryan, Tex.
Foreign student enrollment for
the first summer session at Texas
A&M reflects an 11 per cent gain
over the comparable 1966 period.
Bob Melcher, foreign student
advisor, reports 410 international
students from 54 countries among
5,144 summer students.
Last summer’s first term inter
national enrollment was 370.
India leads the 1967 pace with
48 students. The Dominican Re
public and Pakistan are close be
hind with 47 and 46 students, re
spectively. Other leaders include
Tunisia, 33; Netherlands, 28, and
Colombia, 25.
The majority of A&M’s foreign
enrollment is composed of 240
graduate students. Seniors num
ber 36, juniors 44, sophomores 32,
freshmen 37, and special students
21.
The first summer session ends
July 14, with the second term to
begin July 17.
Editor’s note: The follow
ing article appeared in the June
12, 1966, edition of the Houston
Chronicle.
Gary, Ind. — “Services for Em
mett Taylor Jr., an honor student
at Gary High School, who was
killed in an automobile accident,
will be held Wednesday in the
First Methodist Church.
“Taylor, who was captain of
the football team last fall, met his
death when his car ran a traffic
light and was struck broadside by
another auto. He is survived by
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Em
mett Taylor, a brother, William,
and a sister, Brenda.”
This obituary isn’t true.
The youth is very much alive.
His “obit” is strictly a matter
between him and a Gary Munici
pal judge who ordered him to
compose it or serve a jail sentence
for a traffic violation.
Judge Richard S. Kaplan has
been ordering teen-age traffic
offenders to write their own obit
uaries, interview undertakers and
view the bodies of accident vic
tims in funeral homes.
Kaplan’s approach to the teen
age speeding problem has been
in effect since May 8. It has
been praised as a booster of police
morale and an imaginative attack
against a rising traffic death toll.
Its critics have called it "nutty”
and “weird.”
ribly sobering experience they
have been through.”
The judge, an energetic man in
his 50’s with a well-trimmed mus
tache, said he has had about 100
percent cooperation from police,
parents and the youthful drivers
in Gary.
The undertakers, he said, have
been “most cooperative in exhib
iting the bodies of a car crash
victim.
Quickly she
The leaf.
flees imprisonment
Flying thru the open air
At once detached from all
Laughing, dancing carefree,gr
Where to ?
“When 1 came into this court in
January, 1964, we had 300 teen
age traffic offenders in here each
week,” he said.
“Since my innovation of a
juvenile jury (high school seniors
selected by school principals,
teachers and counsellors), the
number has dropped to 25 or 30 a
week.
“I started this obituary pro-
“They even describe how diffi
cult it was preparing a badly
damaged body for funeral serv
ices,” he added.
In case no bodies are available,
the traffic offender is notified by
the undertaker when he should
pay a visit.
Residents of this steel making
city have grown accustomed to
the Kaplan way in court and are
no longer surprised by his style.
In one case he swore in the
No control,
Wonderful.
As the breeze
Thus it flys,
Uncontrolled
Freedom and life?
Breeze dies
And so the flight
Where to? Where docs it Ians
Drown in a torrent stream,
Burnt in the parched day sun,
Crushed ’neath a trodden walk.
Life released when fled the ti#
Where is that tree of life?
Can the leaf find substance agais
Can return be made once mot! 1
No. no more.
Glazener To Head LE. Dept-
or 30
he
Aggieland has been not-so-silently invaded by a count
less number of large black birds that seem to have taken
permanent residence in .the trees around the campus.
These birds can be easily spotted at almost any time
of the day milling around on the lawn in front of the Aca
demic Buiuding, or cooling off in the Fish Pond’s fountain.
One can identify them by their shrill waaaaaaaaack that
regularly begins with the sunrise. Anyone on campus
fortunate enough to have a room close to a tree will con
firm this statement.
These menaces are guilty of spending a major portion
of the day and night decorating nearby sidewalks and auto
mobile roofs with their peculiar form of “pop art.”
Students find they must re-route themselves around
the more obvious danger areas when going to and from
classes, or risk the possibility of being disgustedly “dirtied.”
Since summer and its heat are now emporary entrench
ed at Aggieland, students may find that it may be better
to tolerate a case of perspiration in the sun, than risk the
cooler environment of a troll down a shady sidewalk.
Yes, summer has arrived at Aggieland — and the
Dr. Everett R. Glazener has
been named head of the Industrial
Education Department at Texas
A&M, announced Engineering
Dean Fred J. Benson.
The 1942 A&M graduate has
been a department faculty mem
ber since 1962 and was appointed
professor in 1965.
Dr. Glazener, 45, will replace
Dr. Chris H. Groneman, who has
resigned effective Aug. 31 to ac
cept a position at the University
of Hawaii.
Regular semester enrollment in
the department includes 300 un
dergraduates studying industrial
technology, industrial distribu
tion and industrial teacher educa
tion and 60 graduate students,
pursuing masters and doctoral
degrees.
Glazener, native of Fairfield,
joined the A&M faculty from
Colorado State College. He
headed Arkansas A&M and Pearl
River Junior College (Poplarville,
Miss.) departments. The profes
sor also taught in Poplarville
public schools and a Naval Radio
Material School at A&M two
years after receiving his bachelor
degree in 1942.
Glazener studied at A&M for
New Prof Dies
Of Heart Attack
Dr. Paul L. Petrich of Nor
wich, Conn., who was to join the
Texas A&M faculty Sept. 1, died
Tuesday of an apparent heart
attack at Moscow, Idaho.
The 44-year-old professor was
preparing to attend the first ses
sion of a secondary principals
conference he was directing at
the University of Idaho. He had
accepted appointment in A&M’s
Education and Psychology De
partment.
Principal at Norwich Free
Academy, Petrich was complet
ing education doctoral work at
Indiana University. The former
professional basketball and base
ball player at Houston and Wich
ita Falls is survived by his wife,
Nancy, and three children.
PARDNER
You’ll Always Win
The Showdown
When You Get
Your Duds Done
At
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his masters and was awarded the
doctor of education at Penn State
in 1958.
The new department head is
member of numerous professional
organizations, including the
American Council on Industrial
Arts Teacher Education, and is a
prolific writer. Glazener has
authored several texts and more
than 30 professional articles.
gram to cut down that 25
still lower and it is working,
said.
The first two weeks of the
judge’s new system brought 12
“i-etums,” as he calls the auto
biographical obituaries.
They run about 50 to 100 words
and must be accompanied by a
somewhat longer report of the
traffic offender’s visit to the un
dertakers.
,f When they bring in their
obits and reports, they are very
chastened, indeed. It is a ter-
Ward Receives Ph.D. In Spanish
mother of a teen-age traffic vio
lator as an assistant probation
officer.
In another, he fined a newspa
per reporter $47 for speeding.
Then paid the fine himself be
cause the reporter had been fol
lowing a police runner in connec
tion with a series of stories on
vice.
“He was doing a fine job, but
I had to fine him to be consistent
with my attitude toward law
breakers,” Kaplan said.
“Nobody gets off — my wife,
the mayor, the governor —- no
body.”
Misspelled Word
Gives New Status
An English piofessor at AMI
summer session, who threatens;
fail students for excessive mil
spelled words, returned a set;
letters his students had write
recently.
He remarked to the class tin
one student had misspelled tk
word “marital,” meaning *
riage, and had written insto
“martial,” meaning military.
“This student has a new ms:
tial status,” he said, “one ?!
Texas A&M modern languages
professor, James H. Ward III,
received his Ph.D. in Spanish at
Tulane University’s spring com
mencement.
An assistant professor, he
joined the A&M faculty last fall.
The Tennessee native received
bachelor and master degrees at
Grinnell College, Iowa, and Tu-
Uni-
lane.
Dr. Ward studied at the
versity of Madrid in Spain as an
undergraduate and specializes in
contemporary South American
literature. His dissertation was
titled “A Study of the Evolution
in the Thought and Poetry of Luis
Pales Matos, As Seen Through
Six Themes.”
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