Activities Begin Tonight
SUSAN McCLURG
CANDY WELLS
BETTY SMITH
Jets Bomb Hanoi,
Hit Cong Troops
Near Khe Sanh
SAIGON <A>)_U. S. jets at
tacked targets in the Hanoi area
Thursday for the second straight
day.
Air Force fighter-bombers hit
a t North Vietnam’s nerve center
'n radar-guided raids through
monsoon clouds while other
planes, 300 miles to the south,
worked over the menacing con
centration of North Vietnamese
regulars around Khe Sanh with
napalm and explosives in bright
sunlight.
North Vietnam’s official news
agency declared in a broadcast
dispatch the Americans bombed
Hanoi suburbs and a residential
sector within the Communist
capital.
It said ground gunners shot
down two planes.
There was no confirmation of
these details from the U. S. Com-
man d in Saigon.
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‘Combat Cutie’
To Be Chosen
From Finalists
One of the fifteen candidates
for Combat Cutie will be named
the winner at the Combat Ball
tonight in Sbisa Dining Hall
“The field will be narrowed to
the finalists around 3:30,” Robert
Gonzales, Cutie Committee chair
man, said. “The winner will be
named at 11:30 by Pat Rehmet
after we have time to look over
the finalists.”
The ball will be following the
theme of “R&R (rest and recup
eration) in Hong Kong.” Music
will be provided by the Tornadoes
from Texas Southern University.
Uniform for the Ball will be
fatigues, combat boots and battle
scarves. Dress for dates will be
either along the theme or casual.
Combat Cutie candidates in
clude Nancy James, who will be
escorted by Michael Shaw; Pam
ela Pogue, who was submitted by
John Bendele, and Judy Alex,
whose name was entered by
Johnny Falco.
Other candidates are Harriet
Young, who will be escorted by
Lawrence Brown; Wynne Jones,
whose name was entered by
Geoffrey Pigott; and Sherri
Tyler, who will be escorted by
Larry Hammes.
Peter Insani will escort Martha
Jones, Joseph Webber will escort
Sue Roberts, and David Powell
will escort Irene Armour.
Among other candidates are
Bonnie Browne, whose name was
entered by Joseph O’Leary; Susan
McClory, who was submitted by
Daniel Bailey; and Betty Smith,
who will be escorted by James
Youngblood.
Rhonda Mattox, who will be
escorted by Darrell Struss, Kaye
Ward, whose name was submitted
by Sanford Ward, and Candy
Wells, who will be escorted by
Clayton Cushing, are the remain
ing candidates.
The Combat Ball is part of the
Military Weekend, opening today,
which also includes a basketball
game wtih Southern Methodist,
Military Day Review, Military
Ball and a baseball game with
Texas.
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PRACTICE REVIEW
Lt. Col. R. L. Brooks looks over the alignment of commanders and colors as the cadets
practice for Saturday’s review. The 2:30 p. m. formation will be one of the highlights
of Spring Military Weekend. (Photo by Mike Wright)
Davenport Rebuffs Critics
Of ‘New Morality’ Concept
By MIKE PLAKE
“When New Morality—Why all
the Confusion” was the topic of
Dr. Manuel M. Davenport, pro
fessor and head of Texas A&M’s
Department of Philosophy, last
night as he spoke to The Apollo
Club in the Memorial Situ dent
Center.
Dr. Davenport expressed, the
belief that many people today
critize the New Morality unjustly.
He said some philosophers base
their argument on the fact that
the New Morality isn’t new at
all, so it really had nothing new
to offer.
“AND I agree that the idea
isn’t necessarily new. Socrates had
it. He based many of his thoughts
and ideas on the situation ethic—■
that is, on a person considering
‘Career Day’ Planned March 9
For 1,000 High School Students
An inside look at Texas A&M
awaits approximately 1,000 pro
spective students Saturday, March
9, the university’s annual Career
Day.
High school and junior college
students from throughout the
state, along with their parents,
teachers and counselors, are in
vited to tour A&M’s facilities
during the one-day open house,
noted Edward Miller, chairman
of the sponsoring Student Inter-
Council.
Miller said Career Day regis
tration begins at 7:30 a.m. in G.
Rollie White Coliseum, with a
Corps of Cadets review scheduled
for 9:30 a.m. on the university’s
main parade field.
A&M Academic Vice President
Wayne C. Hall will officially wel
come the students and other
guests at 10:30 a.m. in the
Coliseum.
Shortly before noon, the stu
dents will divide into groups for
afternoon visits to facilities cor
responding wtih their academic
interests.
The students will be given de
tailed briefings in agriculture,
architecture, business administra
tion, engineering, geosciences,
liberal arts, science or veterinary
medicine. The Texas Maritime
Academy also will present a pro
gram.
Prior to the tours, the visitors
will have lunch in Sbisa Hall with
student guides representing the
university’s major divisions.
the situation instead of relying
on a pat set of rules for every
occasion.”
As an example he gave the
concept of lying.
“If you were an ethical abso
lutist, you would not believe in
lying. You would believe that the
truth must be told in any situa
tion.
“But consider this.
“If an insane person came up
to you with a loaded rifle, and
you knew he was intent on killing
your best friend, what would you
tell him.
“IF YOU knew the location of
your friend, and you told the man
where he was, the man would find
him and kill him.
“So what should you do? Lie.”
Dr. Davenport said the New
Moralists reject two other tradi
tional ideas.
He said they consider the con
text—the situation surrounding
the person—to be all-important.
One of the main values of the
New Moralists, he noted, is their
view of the significance of human
values.
“They rely on human as op
posed to supernatural values more
today.”
THE MAIN human value may
be one of several things.
Love is often placed high on
the New Moralist’s scale of per
sonal values. But love, Dr.
Davenport explained, can be in-
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terpreted in any number of ways.
“It can be love as interpreted
in the New Testament. An
orthodox Christian can be a
member of the New Morality, to
some extent.”
“It can also be love as inter
preted by Hugh Hefner, editor of
Playboy.” He continued that
although he thought Hefner’s
philosophy began on a sexual
base, it was now widening.
HE CITED an article by
theologian Harvey Cox called
“God and the Hippies” as an
example of Playboy’s widening
scope.
“Love can also be considered
strictly from the standpoint of
happiness. Whatever makes the
largest group of people happiest
the greatest part of the time,
could be considered the highest
form of love.”
“There is one point where I
agree with the New Moralists. I
don’t think human values should
be sacrificed for the sake of
absolutes.”
“This is one important point
where I agree. I don’t think
ethical absolutism has a valid
place.”
DAVENPORT said he thinks
most moral situations—not only
those dealing with sex, but with
every moral decision—should be
considered in the context of the
situation.
However, he said, “I do think
love is too subjective to be a
criterion for morality. I think it
needs to be something that
reaches over a longer range than
present feelings.
In a last example, he compared
the New Morality to democracy,
by paraphrasing Winston Churc
hill.
“I think democracy is a terrible
system of government. But it’s
better than all the rest today.”
NTSU Prof
To Speak For
YMCA Forum
Dr. Sidney Hamilton of North
Texas State University will open
the 16th annual YMCA Marriage
Forum Tuesday by discussing
“How Can You Tell It’s Love” at
7:30 p.m. on the second floor of
the YMCA.
Hamilton, the first of a series
of five weekly lecturers, will
speak on such topics as premarital
sexual relations, the “sexual revo
lution” and sex morality.
“The Marriage Forum has been
very popular with the A&M stu
dents,” said J. Gordon Gay, co
ordinator of religious life and
general secretary of the YMCA.
“Last year we had audiences with
standing room only for most of
the speakers.”
Purpose of the forums, Gay
explained, is “to give adequate
information to young people who
are interested in the many prob
lems of marriage.”
“We believe this series will
serve as a basis for helping solve
problems and answer questions
which arise before and after mar
riage,” he said.
“Topics were chosen for the
Marriage Forum from student
suggestions in ‘Write Ins,’ ques
tionnaires the YMCA circulated
during Religious Emphasis Week
three years ago,” G'ay explained.
Hamilton, who received his doc
torate in psychology from New
York University, is a professional
marriage counselor and the author
of “Work Book in Marital Psy
chology.”
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Daily Texan Blames University
For Not Guarding LBJ Better
AUSTIN (A?)—The Daily Tex
an, student newspaper at the
University of Texas, said today
the bottle-throwing incident dur
ing President Johnson’s visit was
regretable but that the univer
sity should have protected him
better.
Two university students were
arrested during a scuffle between
officers and anti-war pickets
Tuesday night as the President
left the campus after appearing
at a birthday party for Gov. John
Connally. A soft drink bottle
was thrown but missed the presi
dential car.
“A certain element has repeat
edly made it known that they feel
only contempt for the Presdent
and will waste no opportunity—
especially if there is extensive
press coverage—to make their
contempt known in the name of
‘freedom of expression’,” the edi
torial said.
“. . . While one can only ex
press distaste at the disrespect of
the protesters and especially the
uncontrolled violence of the bottle
thrower, the lack of planning and
forethought for the occasion was
completely unnecessary . . . How
fortunate the campus is that the
violence was controlled before
anything more happened. Pre
cautionary safety measures to
protect the President were not
all they could have been, it would
AF Searches Gulf
For Missing B52
FORT WORTH (A 5 )—A B52
bomber vanished mysteriously
Wednesday evening on a flight
over the Gulf of Mexico, Air
Force officials reported Thurs
day. A search was under way
for the giant plane and its eight
occupants.
The search area covered 7,000
square miles south and east of
Matagorda on the Texas Gulf of
Mexico coast.
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