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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
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