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■ . . . ■ ;. ■ . . Che Battalion -VI - .... Wednesday — Cloudy, occasional light £: drizzle, winds northerly 5-10 m.p.h. :j:* ; :* High 43, low 33. § :§ j£ xl Thursday — Cloudy, rain, winds east- rg erly 5-10 m.p.h. High 49, low 41. COULEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1968 Number 521 Housing Plans Begin Next Semester il be on Pens Ai son. A Afffriei iference v arsi| ih will son a Mi e Fish season. ] nple Jit nary to: onday, i their fi i Bill Co buck Smi s scorinit h has a! ?am with i a 0.11 e > points i ey freshn >d McAlp heir seai ver Heni College Lon Moi Board To Consider Plans For Big MSC Expansion WINTER WONDERLAND Professors and a student cross the campus between an ice-covered hedge and frosted trees near Nagle Hall. Freezing rain and drizzle made walking hazardous on some sidewalks, and the low temperatures were expected to continue across the state through today. ‘Africa In Revolt’ Is Topic Of Thursday Great Issues A free-lance writer, John Peer Nugent, will be the featured speaker for a Memorial Student Center Great Issues presentation Thursday night. “Africa in Revolt—What’s Hap pening Now” is the topic of Nu gent, formerly Newsweek’s first chief African correspondent. The talk is set for 8 p.m. in the MSC Ballroom. Earlier Thursday evening on NBC-TV, (6:30 p.m. Central Stan dard Time) Nugent will appear with astronaut John Glenn in a documentary, “The Trail of Stan ley and Livingston.” The film re traces on foot the route Henry M. Stanley used to search for David Livingston nearly 100 years ago. Janet Whitehead, Great Issues’ publicity chairman, said Nugent has traveled black Africa from one end to the other since 1961, daring fate continually. “He has faced firing squads in Zanzibar, only to be saved by an urgent cable to the British Gov ernment from Dean Rusk,” Miss Whitehead remarked. “Nugent was once deported from South Af rica for interviewing the Nobel Prize winner, Chief Albert Luthu- li; had his car mistakenly blown up by UN forces, and survived beatings and cannibal attacks. He covered the Katanga wars, and was on hand when Guinea be came the first black land to ac cept, then reject Communism.” Nugent is the author of “Call Africa 999,” a book described as a unique and heretical report of the horror and mad comedy of emerging Africa ablaze with in trigue and violence. JOHN PEER NUGENT Profs, Students To Take Part In CBS National Smoking Test “The National Smoking Test” to be broadcast by CBS television Jan. 16 will be used to measure a Bryan-College Station group’s attiudes about smoking by two Texas A&M professors. Employing the one-hour TV special question format, the test will be administered by Drs. Donald J. Merki and John M. Chevrette of A&M’s Health and Physical Education Department at 8:30 p.m. in the Memorial Stu dent Center Ballroom. Interested persons—smokers or non-smokers—are invited to par ticipate, Merki said. “We expect about 400, includ ing 300 students enrolled in health and physical education courses,” the assistant professor added. Community participants should be in the ballroom by 8:30 p.m. All materials will be furnished. “No individual responses will be made public,” Merki said. The CBS special will be tele vised at 9 p.m. CST by KBTV- TV of Bryan. A no-point-score test, the broadcast will deal with questions related to dangers of tobacco use, why smokers continue University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. to smoke, how the habit is formed, how many actually smoke and diseases attributtable to smoking. The investigation under Coun cil for Organized Research sup port will relate test profiles and smoking behavior, anti-smoking education experiences and future attitudes and behavior. MERKI, specialist in smoking research with the National Clear inghouse for Smoking and Health, said a followup test is planned “to check for changes in smoking attitudes and practices.” He said the half hour before the test will be devoted to obtain ing participant biographic in formation and familiarization with the test answer sheet, which will be handled by A&M’s IBM 360/65 computer for tabulation. Merki has conducted previous research on smoking habits and recently presented a paper on rural youth anti-smoking educa tion. He surveyed 1,200 eighth and 11th grade students at Ur- bana, 111. His doctoral disserta tion at the University of Illinois was written under U. S. Public Health Service contract. The department of health edu cation specialist was an All- American basketball player at St. Joseph’s College in the mid-1950’s. Camera Group Hosts MSC Photo Display Photographs by the nation’s leading photographers are on dis play in the Memorial Student Center concourse by the Camera Committee. Frank Tilley of Jacksonville, chairman, said the Photographic Society of America’s “Tops in Photography” 60-print exhibit will be shown through the last weekend of January. The PSA exhibit consists of award-winning salon prints and represents the top work of Ameri can photographers. Many of the pictures have been in foreign salon exhibition. The camera committee is affili ated with PSA and submits mem ber photos for society competition. The A&M club has contests throughout the school year and annually sponsors an Intercollegi ate Photo Salon, which draws entries from all over the U. S. First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings certif icates. —Adv. Preliminary studies for a multi- million-dollar expansion in the Memorial Student Center area will be reviewed by A&M’s Board of Directors at its February meeting. J. O. Adams, construction di rector for A&M, said a portion Singing Cadets’ Douglas Show To Be Aired The Mike Douglas Show which features a 35-minute performance by Texas A&M’s Singing Cadets will be aired by KBTX-TV in a special telecast at noon Sunday, Harry Gillam, station manager, announced today. Gillam said the 90-minute color show, taped for initial release last month, will be presented as a public service for Bryan-College Station residents. KBTX-TV does not normally carry the Mike Douglas Show, Gillam explained, but secured special permission from the pro ducers. “Since the show includes the Singing Cadets, we wanted all local viewers to have the oppor tunity to see it,” Gillam said. The 62-voice glee club is di rected by Robert L. Boone and accompanied by pianist June Biering. Mrs. John Connally and the wives of four other governors also appear on the show as co hosts with Douglas. Greenhut Paper Gets Translation A paper by Dr. M. L. Greenhut, Economics Department head at Texas A&M, has been translated into Japanese and included in a book of essays. Written by Dr. Greenhut in 1957, “Games, Capitalism, and General Location Theory,” was published in the “Manchester School” publication. The recent translation by Japa nese Economist Koji Takaka for a book, “Location Theory and Planning,” honoring distinguished professors Ito and Esawa. An other Japanese economist, Hisao Nishioka, edited the book. Silver Taps Slated Tonight For Buth Silver Taps will be conducted at 10:30 tonight for Billy Fred Buth, junior animal science ma jor from Valley Mills who died Dec. 26 of injuries received in an auto accident Christmas Day at Gatesville. of the long-range building addi tions might be approved by the board Feb. 26-27. “This is actually a preliminary study of space utilization,” Adams explained. “The board also will consider preliminary plans for renovation of the YMCA build ing.” The proposed expansion is a continuation of A&M’s compre hensive construction program de signed to keep pace with progress and a mushrooming enrollment. Within the past year the univer sity completed the Cyclotron In stitute, Olin E. Teague Research Center and a major addition to the Biological Sciences Building. CURRENT PROJECTS include a new Services Building, Engi neering Research Center and ex pansion of the library and veter inary medicine facilities. The additions planned for the MSC area and the block now in cluding Guion Hall are under study by two architectural firms, Dede Matthews and Associates of Bryan and Jarvis, Putty and Jarvis of Dallas. Proposed expansion to the MSC includes: • Doubling of dining and cafe teria facilities. • More lounge area for patrons. • A faculty lounge. • An exchange store and new location for a post office. • Additional meeting rooms and housing facilities. • A larger area in the basement for bowling and games rooms. Complex plans which replace Guion Hall and require additional space, tentatively include: • A multi-story building to house the Office of Continuing Edu cation, Student Placement and Student Aid, the University Development Office and pos sibly new offices for the As sociation of Former Students. • A 2,500-seat auditorium. • A 750-seat auditorium. • A 250-seat auditorium. • Exhibit spaces between the auditoriums. Current plans call for a mall- type walkway over Houston Street to connect with the auditoriums and various offices. ADAMS SAID tentative plans Davis To Speak To Hillel Club Claude Davis, political science professor, will be the featured speaker at the regular business meeting of the A&M Hillel Club at the B’nai B’rith Hillel Founda tion at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Davis will speak on “New Di rections of the Supreme Court.” Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. —Adv. BB&L ASSAULTED BY NORTH VIETNAMESE The hulk of a destroyer U. S. Army helicopter rests in a rice paddy as smoke from U. S. B-52 bomb strikes forms backdrop in Que Son Valley, where a North Vietnamese force killed 20 Americans and wounded 54. The Valley is 30 miles southwest of Dan Nang. AP Wirephoto by radio from Saigon) stipulate Houston would be closed as a street and used as a walk. Trees along the street would be retained, he added. The auditorium-office complex also would connect via an over head walkway to parking facil ities to be constructed south of Joe Routt Boulevard. Administrative offices in the MSC would be moved to the post office-gift shop area to make way for additional hotel rooms. Student activity offices, ear marked for expansion, may be located on the second level of a new addition on the MSC’s south side. Tectonophysics Gets Grants Of $156,200 Texas A&M’s new Center for Tectonophysics has been awarded two grants totaling $156,200 for studies of the mechanical proper ties of rocks. Dr. John W. Handin, director of the center, said the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers has provided $115,000 for rock fracture studies. The new facility also received a $41,200 grant from the Na tional Science Foundation for Re search entitled “Distribution of Fractures in Layered Media Un dergoing Extension.” Dr. Handin is principal investi gator for both projects. Co-inves- tigators are Dr. Melvin Friedman, Dr. John Logan, George Sower and David Stearns. A&M formed the Center for Tectonophysics last year. It em phasizes applications to major problems of earth structure, such as the origin of earthquakes, the mechanisms of folding and fault ing and the nature of mountain building. The center’s findings, Dr. Han din noted, will be of interest to civil, geological, mining and petroleum engineers. Dr. Handin said the origins of natural forces and the real stress-strain-time relations of the earth’s crust are largely un known. These relations, he pointed out, are not subject to direct measure ment and must be learned through controlled laboratory experiments in which the natural environment is simulated as realistically as possible. Civilians Make Current Room Reservations Civilian students will reserve their current dormitory room for next semester this week at the housing office, Housing Manager Allan M. Madeley announced. Housing office officials re ported that 234 students reserved their rooms on the first day of registration, Monday, “The weather was a factor in delaying some of the students from signing up,” one worker said. “I expect a larger turnout Tuesday if conditions improve.” Those who wish to change rooms will be allowed to register from 8 a.m. Monday until 5 p.m., Jan. 26, Madeley said. The rooms will be assigned on a first-come, first-serve basis. “CORPS students transferring to a civilian dorm are to use the period starting Monday and bring a room change slip signed by their unit commander,” Madeley noted. Madeley also said that all civilians transferring to the Corps are to report to Room 104 of the Military Science Building. Cadet registration for the com ing semester will be handled by the first sergeants and sergeants major. “STUDENTS WHO reserve rooms for the spring semester and cancel after Jan. 15 or do not register will forfeit their $20 room deposit,” Madeley said, “un less they are not allowed to register by the university.” According to Madeley students who have a $20 room deposit on file will not have to pay addi tional fees to reserve rooms. Those planning to be day stu dents next semester were urged by Madeley to secure a day stu dent permit from the housing office to save time during regis tration. LBJ Leads Nixon, New Polls Show WASHINGTON Two pub lic opinion polls reported Monday that President Johnson is running ahead of former Vice President Richard M. Nixon. A special survey by Louis Harris, copyrighted by the Wash ington Post, said Johnson is riding a new crest of popularity that would make him the favorite over all four leading Republican presidential contenders if the election were held now. This is a reversal of the situ ation two months ago when a Harris survey indicated that any one of the four GOP possibilities could defeat the President. Final Exam Schedule January 19, Friday 7-10 p.m. Mathematics 103, 122, 210 & 308 January 22, Monday 8-11 a.m. Classes meeting MWF8 January 22, Monday 1 - 4 p.m. Classes meeting TThSFl January 22, Monday 7-10 p.m. Classes meeting MWF12 January 23, Tuesday 8-11 a.m. Classes meeting MWF9 January 23, Tuesday 1 - 4 p.m. Classes meeting MWThl January 23, Tuesday 7-10 p.m. Classes meeting TThl2 January 24, Wednesday 8-11 a.m. Classes meeting MWF10 January 24, Wednesday 1 - 4 p.m. Classes meeting Mathematics 102, TF1; Mathematics 102, 121, 209 & 307 January 24, Wednesday 7-10 p.m. January 25, Thursday 8-11 a.m. Classes meeting M3TThlO January 25, Thursday 1-4 p.m. Classes meeting MWTh2 January 25, Thursday 7-10 p.m. Chemistry 101, 202 & 227 January 26, Friday 8-11 a.m. Classes meeting MWF11 January 26, Friday 1 - 4 p.m. Classes meeting M4TThll January 26, Friday 7-10 p.m. Biology 107 January 27, Saturday 8-11 a.m. Classes meeting TTh9F2 January 27, Saturday 1 - 4 p.m. Classes meeting TF2 or TWF3 or TTHF3 mmm 4 .. avX v.v.\ .v.v: