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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1968
NUMBER 546
Personnel Drive Set
For MSC Committees
HUNGRY VIETNAMESE CHILDREN
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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’.”
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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
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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
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