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LlOn psBilly Hobbs Makes First Team AP All-America riday. e at See Story Page 4 Che Battalion Saturday — Cloudy, winds Southerly x- •x 15-20 m.p.h. becoming partly cloudy •£ x- by noon. High 63, low 42. g: :g Sunday — Clear to partly cloudy, •:!: gi winds Northerly 10-15 m.p.h. High :£ •g 56, low 37. VOLUME 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1967 Number 514 W* m P.M, t t Survey To Help In Housing Plan • -g •X •X A questionnaire for Texas A&M students and faculty-staff will en able the university community to participate in an A&M housing decision. The survey designed by a pri vate consultant, will help provide answers to A&M’s future housing needs and standards. Questionnaires are enroute to each element of A&M's popula tion—dormitory students, o f f - campus students and faculty and staff members. “Completed forms should be re turned as soon as possible,” notes Howard Vestal, A&M’s manage ment service director. “Due to tabulation processes, question naires received after Wednesday, Dec. 13, will not be considered.” Vestal said off-campus students should return the survey forms in the addressed, stamped envelopes provided. Dormitory students should com plete the form and return it through regular channels, cadets through unit commanders and civilian students through house masters. Faculty-staff members are requested to use faculty ex change mail facilities. The survey was authorized by the A&M Board of Directors at its November meeting. A private firm, the Housing Survey Agen cy, was hired for complete objec tivity. The questionnaires allows stu dents, faculty and staff to present opinions of type, cost, condition and preference of housing. Data will be compiled and analyzed by the agency for a report and rec ommendations t o the board. Prompt replies are stressed. SCONA Panelists Defend U.S. Policy In SE Asia Nobel Winner Tours Nuclear Facility Here Dr. Robert Hofstadter, 1961 Nobel Prize winner, toured Tex as A&M’s nuclear physics facili ties this week and presented a student lecture on some of his current experiments. Dr. John A. McIntyre, associate director for research at the Cy clotron Institute and a former graduate student under Hofstad ter, arranged the visit. Dr. Hofstadter had partici pated in a meeting of the Robert Welch Foundation in Houston earlier in the week. About 70 persons, including a graduate class in nuclear physics and an undergraduate class, at tended the lecture. Dr. Hofstadter was “very im pressed” with the facilities for research at A&M, said Dr. McIn tyre. Dr. Hofstadter is a professor of physics at Stanford Universi ty and was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for his determin ation of the size of the proton by an electron scattering technique. Among the facilities visited were the Cyclotron Institute, dedicated at the first of the week, and the Nuclear Science Center reactor. First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings certif icates. —Adv. Wythe Named President Of Judging Group L. D. Wythe, Jr., of the Texas A&M Animal Science Depart ment, whose team won the recent International Collegiate Live stock Judging Contest in Chica go, has been elected president of the International Intercollegiate Livestock Coaches Association. The association was founded in 1959 to encourage training of livestock judging teams, im prove contest technique and as sure fair appraisal of contestant ability, improve scholarship and cultural development of judging students, and improve techniques in livestock selection and live evaluation of slaughter animals. Wythe is a charter member of the organization. He has served as secretary-treasurer two years and was vice president last year. The coach’s team victory at Chicago retired the famed Bronze Bull Trophy. According to con test rules, the trophy was to be come the permanent property of the first school to win the inter national event three times. A&M’s two earlier victories were in 1959 and 1965. Wythe also serves as editor for the National Block and Bridle Club, a society for agricultural college students majoring in ani mal science. The Texas A&M Saddle and Sirloin Club is af filiated with the national oi-ganiz- ation. ■Bl s l l f ‘Expedite War, ? Dobriansky Urges . SCONA PANEL Anand Panyarachun, Thai ambassador, opens the Thursday panel session on ‘‘Stability in Southeast Asia.” Other panelists are Dr. Lev Dobriansky and Tracy S. Park Jr. At right is John Daly of the SCONA Executive Committee. SCONA Delegates Divided Over U. S. Position In War Profs To Attend Chicago Meeting Five members of Texas A&M’s English Department will partici pate in the Modern Language Association of America’s annual meeting Dec. 27-29 in Chicago. They include Dr. Lee J. Martin, department head, Professors C. D. Laverty, H. E. Hierth and H. P. Kroitor, and Instructor Pat Decker. Martin said the meeting is ex pected to attract 10,000 ML A members, representing every sec tion of the nation. A random sampling of college delegates from across the nation participating in the 13th Student Conference on National Affairs indicates a near split concerning the United States’ position in Vietnam. Cadet Sgt. Charles Aldrich, junior history major at the Air Force Academy, emphasized his personal opinion that the U. S. must honor its commitment in Vietnam. “There is no value in pulling out,” he said. “We wouldn’t dare fail to honor it. We need to con sider what withdrawal now would mean in the future.” Dan Borne, senior history ma jor at Nicholls State College in Thibodaux, La., feels the U. S. should give a broader base to the Vietnam government. “AN AMERICAN type of de mocracy doesn’t appeal to the Vietnamese in this period of his tory,” he remarked. “A Commun ist coalition government in Viet nam would serve the purposes of that country better than a de mocracy along lines of American ideals.” Cadet Lt. Stephen Rader, senior at the U. S. Military Academy, said the U. S. has a proper motive for being in South Vietnam. “I believe the key to our suc cess there lies in more effective pacification programs,” Rader commented. “It would seriously hamper the U. S. effort to stop bombing. The North Vietnamese are going to escalate the war if they get the opportunity. Stop ping the hombing would provide them the opportunity.” PEGGY RANUM, senior physi cal education major at Colorado State University, favors giving the South Vietnamese the chance to fight their own war. “We can play a supporting role,” she said. “I’m against im mediate withdrawal. That would mean that the lives of our fight ing men had been lost in vain. But the South Vietnamese have to win the war themselves.” Rodney Elkins, senior political science major at Northwest Lou isiana State College, contends the U. S. must impress on the Com munists that there is a point from which we cannot retreat. “WE MUST establish bound aries,” he explained. “There will be no clear-cut victory. I support a coalition type government. Democratic and Communist seg ments will tend to compete to prove themselves superior on a purely economic basis.” John McMurphy, junior politi cal science student at the Univer sity of Alabama, backs a U. S. pullout in Vietnam in order to Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. —Adv. let nationalism take its course in determining the country’s des tiny. “Let nationalists rather than American troops fight Commun ist ideology,” he suggested. “The deployment of U. S. troops is working to our disadvantage be cause we are not letting the forces of nationalism work. These forces have ben proven success ful in overthrowing Communism in Indonesia and keping Burma and Cambodia neutral nations. RUTH McGILL, junior biology major at Rice University, favors more economic aid for South Viet nam but would like to see the South Vietnamese doing more fighting. “Our big brother influence is too strong,” she said. “They need an identity of their own.” John Henvey, a senior econom ics major at Hardin-Simmons University, claims the U. S. needs to re-assess its objectives in Viet nam. “I’d suggest that we quit bomb ing, start de-escalation and turn over the major part of the war to South Vietnamese troops,” he said. “Bombing drives the Viet namese more toward Communism than it draws them toward us.” The conference, with 145 dele gates from 50 universities and colleges in the U. S., Canada and Mexico, continues through Satur day. By CHARLES ROWTON Battalion Editor “If it would expedite ending the war in Vietnam, there is no reason why we shouldn’t expedite our war effort,” Dr. Lev E. Dobriansky proposed in Thursday night’s SCONA panel presenta tion, “Stability In Southeast Asia.” Dobriansky was the moderator for the panel, which also included Anand Panyarachun, Thai Am bassador to the United Nations and Canada, and Tracy S. Park Jr., Director of Research for Ten nessee Gas Pipeline Company. Dobriansky said he sees the nature of the Southeast Asian struggle as a conflict between communist colonialism and free nationalism. “I don’t believe we will ever obtain stability as long as there are Red regimes in Peking and Hanoi. Even if we should win we would have only relative stabil ity,” he said. DOBRIANSKY outlined five factors that are necessary if relative stability is to be ob tained. A free world victory in Viet nam, the spirit of “Free Asia for the Asians,” political soldifi- cation, economic construction, and the ability thwart and meet the enemy’s political warfare were seen as necessary if stability is to be maintained. Dobriansky, professor of eco nomics at Georgetown University, is economics editor of the Ameri can Security Council’s Washing ton Report, and has authored more than 400 articles on the USSR. “If we were to withdraw from Vietnam tomorrow, we would find Cambodia, Laos, and even Thai land in the same situation,” he continued. He discounted the disease of “nuclearitis” that he said affects the thinking of war opponents. WINNING the war, Dobrian sky concluded, would be useless if victory were not followed by solidifying a now-weak govern ment and bringing about some form of democratization, in addi tion to massive revamping of the agricultural processes. Panyarachun expressed discon tent and disappointment with factions that protest the war in (See SCONA, Page 2) ★ ★ ★ Dr. Trager To Speak Tonight On ‘Independent SE Asia’ Dr. Frank N. Trager, noted authority on Southeast Asia, will be the featured speaker for a Friday evening program of the Student Conference on National Affairs. Trager’s talk, “Nationalist In dependent Southeast Asia,” is set for 8 p.m. in the Memorial Stu dent Center Ballroom, announced SCONA XIII Chairman Pat G. Rehmet of Alice. Professor of International Af fairs in the Graduate School of Public Administration, New York University, Trager has divided his professional career among the university, the federal govern ment, and nonprofit agencies. Currently, he is an associate of the Foreign Policy Research In stitute at the University of Penn sylvania, an associate of the Cen ter for Strategic Studies, George town Universtiy, and a consultant of the Hudson Institute and the National Strategy Information Center. In addition, Dr. Trager is a member of the Southeast Asian Development Group, U. S. Agency for International Development, and a member of the State De partment’s East Asia and Pacific Advisor Panel. The speaker is the author or co-author of numerous articles and books, among them “Burma,” “Building a Welfare State in Bur ma,” “Marxism i n Southeast Asia,” “Burma from Kingdom to Republic,” and “Why Vietnam?” Trager is a former director of the U. S. Economic Aid Mission to Burma and has frequently re visited Southeast Asia. He also was associated with the Civil Works Administration and the Federal Resettlement Administra tion. A frequent lecturer on policy questions for schools of the U. S. Departments of State and De fense, Trager has taught at John Hopkins and Yale Universities and the National War College. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. 1 Collegian Comment What Do Delegates Think Of SCONA? Woody McMurphy, a junior polit ical science and Spanish major at the University of Alabama: “SCONA is a well-organized, well-planned program that is pro viding me with an appreciation of our foreign policy, especially in Southeast Asia.” Pauline Cisneros, a freshman at Our Lady of the Lake College in San Antonio: “After one day at SCONA, I realize I have yet to learn so much about the U. S. and its place in the world. It has been a great experience. Barbara Waters, a senior at Tex as Christian University: “SCO NA has helped me to become more aware of the seriousness of the Vietnam war. Just listen ing to the viewpoints of others has been enlightening.” i*«i David L. Murphy, a senior his tory major at Southern State College of Magnolia, Trk.: “I wish we had something like SCONA at Southern State. I think it is useful and eye-open ing.” Judy Seidenberger, a junior at Sacred Heart Dominican College: “I have learned that many stu dents of my peer group are aware and interested in the nation’s and the world’s problems. They are part of a thinking group.” Alfred E. Lim Jr., a senior cadet and history major at the U. S. Air Force Academy: “My initial impressions are the general friendliness and the energetic conversation we have had in our discussions.” John H. O’Neill Jr., a Midship man First Class at the U. S. Naval Academy: “The atmo sphere for academic discussion is superior . . . The friendliness and hospitality of the Aggies have made this one of the best con ferences I have attended.” ' ———HI • : •: y.v.v,.-.-'.v.;y.y.v.. v .