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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1967
Number 514
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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.
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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.
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‘Expedite War, ?
Dobriansky Urges
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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
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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)
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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.
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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.”
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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.”
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