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IpRARY PMPUS . 14 COPIES srthj [ Che Battalion | Weather : x Thursday — Cloudy, intermittent liR-ht xj x- rain, winds Southerly 5-10 m.p.h. High -x 57, low 48. Friday — Cloudy, with light rain early ;x morning becoming partly cloudy in the afternoon, winds Southerly 5-10 m.p.h. jx High 66, low 51. VOLUME 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1968 NUMBER 546 Personnel Drive Set For MSC Committees HUNGRY VIETNAMESE CHILDREN Starving orphans wait in line in South Vietnam for their meager helping of rice. Board paying Aggies are being asked by the Student Senate if they are willing to give up a dining hall meal so that Vietnamese orphans will be able to eat a decent meal. loach r de- f the jrna. the iring )um. >rded the 'exas third was ip in d to i the ision ’exas scond liege outh- i the as a Miss Meal, Feed Multitude’ f the i the 3rded ;cond was 41.6, fs Student Senate Goal Lggie oods, ished with ::11.5 By BOB PALMER Battalion Staff Writer Aggies are being asked if they are willing to give up a meal to help two Vietnamese orphanages. A poll being conducted by the Student Senate is being sent to all dormitory presidents and Corps unit commanders, according to Leon E. Travis, Senate welfare chairman in charge of the pro gram. ‘‘They will poll members of their outfits or dorms to see whether they are willing not to eat for one meal and send the money that would have been used for that meal to Vietnamese or phans,” Travis explained. Travis said this contribution by the Aggies would take the place of the planned blood drive for soldiers in Vietnam. The drive is tentatively sched uled for March 22. “IT WILL be on a Friday even ing, with nothing coming up that weekend,” Travis noted. The Senate is conducting the poll, according to Travis, to show the University Executive Council that the student body will back up the senate. “Although the senate does not need the poll, we felt that the council would be more willing to approve closing the mess halls for that meal and allocating the funds to the drive if we can show that this is what the Aggies want,” Travis said. If the 5,100 board-paying stu- 'dents agree to forfeit their meal, the Food Services Department will turn over 40 cents per person to the program. “THIS COMES to a total of more than $2,000 that we can give to the two orphanages,” Travis said. Student Senate President Jerry Campbell, who introduced the “Miss a meal, feed a multitude” resolution to the senate, explained how he learned about the orphans’ situation. “An Aggie Ex, Maj. Cullen Allen, who has recently returned from Vietnam, informed us of the problems of the orphans in the Tay Ninh and Rach Kein or phanages. Job Recruiters’ Progress Said Continuing At Record Pace College recruiting activity, at least on the bachelor’s level, is progressing at the record pace of last season after a slow start, reports Robert O. Evans, place ment and corporate support di rector here. Evans cited the College Place ment Council’s second salary sur vey report for 1967-68, which shows a recent flurry of activity has not only recouped any deficit in volume but has even placed this year’s figures for bachelor’s can didates about two per cent ahead of the totals for the same period last year. Texas A&M is one of 115 insti tutions participating in the coun cil’s study of beginning salary of fers made to male students by business and industrial employ ers. The council is a non-profit organization representing more than 2,000 employers and 1,000 colleges and universities. In January, when CPC issued its first report for 1967-68, a paradox existed: the number of >ffers reported was down sharp- y but the average dollar value of >ffers was up. This led the coun- :il to suggest that a more defin- tive analysis of the current trend Would be provided by the March data. Now the picture appears clarified: competition is every »it as keen as last year. In January, the number of of fers to technical students was off 26 per cent compared with the >revious year. Now the total is Up just past that of March 1967. ^on-technical volume, which was down only slightly in January, bas gone 7 per cent ahead of last year. The picture remains unchanged on the advanced-degree level, however. While there have been gains since January in the num ber of offers reported, the vol ume for both master’s and doc toral candidates continues to lag behind the corresponding period last year. The number of doc toral offers is currently 18 per cent under last year and master’s volume is down 31 per cent. the Aggies would, on their own, not eat that meal, they might be better able to understand some of their problems,” he noted. “General Omar Bradley recent ly wrote that even the people opposed to the Vietnam war can not be opposed to the men fight ing it,” Campbell commented, “and we might add ‘to those who for whom it is being fought’.” 1Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav- W* R ings Center, since 1919. sb&l ~ Adv - AH, SPRING! John Belcik, sophomore from Yoakum, is a special victim of the Bryan-Colleg-e Station monsoon season—he works for the Housing office and has to venture into the rain at night to deliver telegrams and other messages to civilian dormi tories. (Photo by Mike Wright) New Chairmen Announced By Directorate “In Tay Ninh, provincial capi tal of Tay Ninh Province, the orphanage with about 45 children needs clothes and beds. Many of the children are having to sleep in baby beds that they have out grown long ago.” IN THE Rach Kein, which is the capital of a district in Long An Province, many of the youngs ters have recently been freed from the Viet Cong. “Now the object is to influence the people there that they should support the Saigon government,” Campbell said. “The importance of influencing the children of Vietnam cannot be underestimat ed, and the Aggies can share in it.” Campbell explained that the money will be sent to former students stationed near the two orphanages, who would see that the money was distributed. “More than half of the world’s children are constantly hungry,” Campbell noted. “One-fourth of the children live only brief lives before dying of starvation. “AGGIES CAN help relieve some of the suffering of these By DAVID MAYES Battalion Staff Writer Students interested in serving on Memorial Student Center com mittees should attend the Spring Personnel Drive at 7:30 p.m. April 2 in the MSC Assembly Room, according to Benny Sims, president-elect of the MSC Coun cil and Directorate. “We plan to have booths man ned by committee chairmen to provide information on committee programs and answer any ques tions,” Sims said. Good results from this person nel drive, couple with the high caliber of recently-appointed of ficers and committee chairmen should give us a good start on next year’s programs,” he added. SIMS WAS referring to the 10 new appointments approved by the MSC Council Monday. New chairman of Great Issues is David Maddox of College Sta tion. Maddox, a member of the YMCA Apollo Club, Phi Eta Sig ma and the Debate Club, was this year’s chairman of the Speakers Series, a subcommittee of Great Issues. Maddox is a junior majoring in management with a 2.90 grade point ratio, Louis Adams, a junior chemical engineering majbr from Kings- children, while helping the United States’ cause in Vietnam, by sim ply agreeing to miss a meal.” Campbell pointed out that most Americans do not know the mean ing of the word “hungry.” “If 5 I I m m^ilw mm \ WKmm MARRIAGE FORUM SPEAKER Dr. Sidney Hamilton of North Texas State University answers a question following- his address to the YMCA’s Marriage Forum series Tuesday night. The talk was the first in this spring’s series of forums. (Photo by Mike Wright) Likes, Dislikes Important In Marriage, Hamilton Says ville. was nair-rd new chairman of Town Hall. /V Ross Volunteer, Adams is scholastic sergeant on Corns Staff with a 2.31 GPR. The Council approved sopho more history major Jim Finane as the new Council vice-president. Finane, of Longview, has a 2.23 GPR and was a Directorate as sistant this year. JOE M. (Mac) Spears III of Alice, sophomore accounting ma jor, is vice president-elect in charge of operations. A member of Phi Eta Sigma and a Fish Yell Leader. Snears has served on the Public Relations Commit tee and as a Directorate assistant. He nested a 3.0 GPR last se mester. / A nre-medicine major from Port Lavaca. Harry A Snowdy, was approved as vice-president in charge of programs. Snowdy, a sophomore with a 2.87 GPR. was an directorate assistant and a member of the SCONA ar rangements committee. New Leadershin Commit tee Chairman is Paul M. Mebane. a junior from San Antonio major ing in aerosnace engineering. He is scholastic sere-eant on First Group Staff, a Ross Volunteer and a member of Phi Eta Sigma. Mebane was vice chairman of the Leadership Commitee this year, and posted a 2.71 GPR last se mester. TOMMY B. ELLIS of La Porte was named chairman of Contem porary Arts. A junior architec ture major. Ellis was this year’s publicity director of the Travel Committee. Last semester, he posted a 2.44 GPR. The Council also approved, Wil liam L. Black of Pratt, Kansas, as chairman of the Camera Com mittee. A nre-med major carrying a 2.23 GPR, Black was vice-presi dent of Mitchell Hall. William G. Fuller, a junior carrying a 1.7 GPR in govern ment. was chosen chairman of the Flying Kadets. The Poteet native participated in SCONA XII and XIII and was treasurer of the Flying Kadets. A journalism maior from Fair born. Ohio, Davis G. Mayes, was approved as chairman of the Travel Committee. Mayes was Travel Committee chairman this past year and junior class repre sentative to the MSC Council. , He has a 1.5 GPR. ALL THE newly appointed of ficers and chairmen will assume office at the MSC Awards Ban- ouet. April 25. Trov P. Wakefield ’38, was ap pointed former student repre sentative to the Council. Wake field, a Madisonville native, is an independent oil operator. By BOB SOLOVEY Do you prefer soft creamy can dy or hard chewy candy? Would you like to be presented to a Royal Court? Do you prefer women with long or short hair. Dr. Sidney Hamilton asked these and several other questions to more than 300 persons at the YMCA’s opening Marriage Forum Tuesday night. The questions, taken from na tional surveys, helped Hamilton evaluate his audience, and the an swers started his listeners, too. The knowledge of basic likes and dislikes is important in under standing the nature and motiva tion of each sex, he said. THE FIRST of five marriage forums was concerned with “How Can You Tell It’s Love?” Hamilton divided the topic into five parts. 1. How can I be sure of marry ing the right person? 2. Has sex desire influenced my choice ? 3. Personality factors — court ship — infatuation vs. love. 4. Am I socially adequate ? 5. Should time and distance in terfere with true love ? The almost totally male audi ence was told not to worry about marrying the right person. YOU CAN’T be sure that you are marrying the right person, but the important thing is that you be the right person. “Every human being possesses the desire to maintain self-re spect. There must be integrity and there must be self-respect if you expect others to respect you,” he said. “Each one of us is unique. There will never be another person in the world quite like yourself . . . nature never repeats her mis takes,” he quipped. “And because you are unique, each person lives in his own pri vate world.” HAMILTON NOTED that a couple that has arguments is more normal than one that does not, because it shows they love each other enough to disagree. “Above anyone else your wife comes first. Give her a chance to respect herself,” Hamilton said. “When you get married you are not in love. You aren’t really in love until you’ve been married 10, 15, or 20 years.” Arctic Films To Illustrate Cotlow Talk AFROTC Cadets Wives To View Overseas Tours A film of life on the frozen top of the world will be narrated Thursday at Texas A&M by the explorer who photographed Eski mos in temperatures ranging from 40 to 70 degrees below zero. Lewis Cotlow’s “The High Arctic” will be presented at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center ballroom by the “World Around Us” series of Great Is- Married AFROTC cadets and their wives will preview future overseas assignments here Thursday. A slide presentation will show military installations, native scenery and landmarks in South east Asia, Hawaii, other Pacific areas and Europe. The 7:30 p.m. program will be in Room 302 of the military sci ence annex, announced Col. Ver non L. Head, professor of aero space studies. He and Maj. Hal Wandry will conduct the presen tation. “These slides depict areas where our cadets will be travel ing on military assignment,” re marked Col. Head, ranking Air Force officer in the A&M de tachment. While designed for married cadets and wives, Col. Head said the presentation is open to any one interested in attending. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. sues. The film depicts one of earth’s last group of people unaffected by civilization. The Eskimos, with which Cotlow lived several months, have a culture that has remained unchanged for ages. “The explorer describes the subjects of his film as “surviv ing heirs of an ancient race.” He notes that the Arctic has changed little since paleolithic times. The widely-traveled explorer will be present for a question- answer session after the film, according to Frances Kimbrough of Bryan, series chairman. Cotlow has studied primitive people in the African sub-Sa hara, upper Amazon and interior New Guinea, with the object of recording their way of life be fore civilization affects them. Several books about his ad ventures have been published in a half-dozen languages. Admission will be free to stu dent activity card holders, $1.25 for general admission and 75 cents for Aggie wives and public school students. He added that a couple who gets married is really still in fatuated, and unless a couple grows together and remain mu tually considerate and both mem bers actively contribute to the effort needed to make a marriage successful, a two-year honeymoon could turn into 50 years of un happiness. “A MAJOR cornerstone in mar riage is sexual adjustment, but pre-marital relations are not necessary,” he continued. “The biggest problems in mar riage are communication, finances and sex, in that order,” he em phasized. “Sexual behavior can and is learned after marriage. Some times we fit sex into an infantile level. But a good marriage results when two people value each other more than they do themselves.” Hamilton stressed that when the rest of marriage is stable, then sex is able to take its nor mal and very important place to strengthen the relationship. “A man wants a woman who is an economist in the kitchen, a lady in the parlor and a activist in the bedroom,” he remarked. “THREE OF the most impor tant things are truth, beauty and goodness. Build your marriage on the good things. Most mar riages could be better but all could be worse. “It’s easy to be a lover, but to show common sense day by day is something else,” he said. “Most importantly, recognize your own limitations and realize that your partner will have hers too. Don’t overplay her few bad qualities, but consider her many good points. “GIVE IN love and you’ll re ceive proportiantely,” he said. “Don’t go into marriage asking yourself what you can gain from your partner, but consider what you can give in return. “ “Jealousy reflects a per son’s own feeling of inadequacy. It will eventually destroy a mar riage. Trust is a tremendous fac tor in any marriage,” he said. Next week’s forum concerns “Making Marriage Meaningful,” by Dr. Robert Ledbetter of the University of Texas. First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings certif icates. —Adv. | [I i mi id 1 ■. 1 m i I it-