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High -i;: jii: 72, low 44. g: VOLUME 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1968 NUMBER 550 7 j )KS \ore Applicants sought | Civilian Council To Hear For Issues Posts a By DAVE MAYES Battalion Staff Writer Students who want to hold key positions in the Memorial Student Center Great Issues Committee next year should apply at the Student Programs Office by Fri day, according to Janet White- head, committee vice chairman of public relations. “We are expanding our entire scope of operations,” Miss White- head said, “to create greater stu dent interest in the important international, national and cam pus issues of the day.” Instead of the previous seven, we have 14 key committee posi- WILLIAM ARROWSMITH Issues Lecture By Prof-Critic Set Thursday An educational critic who has said “colleges and universities are as uncongenial to teaching as the Mojave Desert to a clutch of Druid priests” will give a Great Issues lecture Thursday at Texas A&M. Dr. William Arrowsmith will speak on the topic “Toward A New University,” at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom, announced Gerald Moore of Arlington, Great Issues chairman. Professor Arrowsmith, Univer sity of Texas faculty member 10 years, has lectured in more than half of the 50 states and made the keynote address, “The Future of Teaching,” at the American Council on Education congress in New Orleans last year. In the ACE presentation he said that by “making education the slave of scholarship” univer sities have become “irrelevant” to students. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. tions, she noted, and 11 of these still need to be filled.” Offices open for next year are chairman of speakers series, is sues, seminar, arrangements, graphic arts and radio-TV com mittees. MISS WHITEHEAD also listed openings for committee secretary, treasurer, press agent and liaison for the Student Conference on National Affairs (SCONA). She added that applicants are also being considered for chair man of a Great Issues subcommit tee, Political Forum, to be select ed directly by the MSC Council. Besides Miss Whitehead, com mittee officers include David Maddox, Great Issues Chairman, and Dick Westbrook, vice-chair man of programs. “Interviews for applicants will be from 4-5:30 p.m. next Tuesday and Thursday in the Great Issues Office, formerly the MSC Caucus Room,” Miss Whitehead said. MISS WHITEHEAD noted that the committee is attempting to switch from speaker-oriented to issue-oriented programs. “Until now,” she said, “Great Issues has usually been most con cerned with finding big-name speakers, not topics for them to speak on. Next year, we will concentrate on presenting A&M students with some of the ‘great’ issues of the day.” “Because of this change in committee policy,” she continued, “we have revamped the Speakers Series, strengthened Political Forum, replaced the "annual Hy dro-Space Fiesta with a Seminar Series and dropped the ‘World Around Us’ Series.” THE SPEAKERS Series, ac cording to Miss Whitehead, will concern such national and inter national issues as Crime: syndi cates, penal institutions and crim inal rights; The Draft: a debate; Minority Problems: black power, hate groups and riots; France: DeGaulle; and Russia: the Soviet system. Campus issues will include drinking on campus, the new morality, fraternities and sorori ties, faculty-student relations and grading. A four-day seminar on “Cities —Yesterday, Today and Tomor row,” complete with exhibits and films, will replace Hydro-Space Fiesta next year. Topics to be discussed will include population control, transportation, communi cation, the individual in urban society and physical and environ mental structure. Teed The Orphans’ Plan “There is no necessary link between scholarship and educa tion, nor research and culture . . .” Arrowsmith declared. Primary Gives New Support To McCarthy The provocative speaker’s “The Shame of the Graduate Schools” was published by Harp er’s in March, 1966. Professor of classes and Uni versity Professor in Arts and Letters at Texas, Dr. Arrow- smith has been acclaimed here and abroad for his new transla tions of the classics. He studied at Princeton and Oxford and taught at Princeton, Wesleyan and the University of California before joining the UT faculty in 1958. He became full professor of classics in 1959 and chaired the department in 1965- 66. Arrowsmith is member of numerous professional societies and is listed, among others in “Who’s Who in the American Theater,” “Midcentury Authors” and “Directory of American Scholars.” The Guggenheim Fellow was named Texas' Piper Professor for 1966 “for outstanding aca demic achievement.” He is founding editor of three literary publications, advisory editor of two others and edits “Delos.” A&M students with activity cards will be admitted to Arrow- smith’s presentation free. Gen eral admission is $1.50, high school students and Aggie wives 75 cents per person. Travis Will Support Of Seek CSC By BOB PALMER Battalion Staff Writer Leon E. Travis will seek support for his “miss a meal, feed a multitude" program from the Civilian Student Coun cil Thursday nig-ht. The program to support two Vietnamese orphanages was originated in the Student Senate early this month by Senate President Jerry Campbell. As part of the campaign to convince the university's Executive Committee to all the mess halls to close for eve ning chow March 22 and allocate the money saved to the pro gram, the senate conducted a sur- SCHOLARSHIP BENEFIT PERFORMERS Buck Owens and his Buckaroos, one of counttry music's top groups, will head a perform ance in G. Rollie White Coliseum Monday at 8 p. m. Sigma Delta Chi, professional jour nalism society here, is sponsoring the show, and proceeds will go toward journalism schol arships. Tickets are being sold this week inthe Memorial Student Center and various area business firms. Owens Country Music Group To Sing For Scholarships CONCORD, N. H. <A>) _ New Hampshire Democrats returned a startling split decision today, giving President Johnson a nar row, empty victory in the na tion’s opening presidential pri mary — while awarding rebel lious Eugene J. McCarthy 42 per cent of the ballots and appar ently 20 nominating votes at the party’s national convention. Richard M. Nixon won the overwhelming Republican vote he sought to help wipe out the memory of past defeats and propel his quest for the GOP presidential nomination. But the drama was in the Democratic story. It was a story of political trouble for Johnson, and a leadoff success for McCar thy, whose campaign on a plat form protesting Vietnam policy once was scorned as incon sequential by Democratic profes sionals. MINNESOTA’S McCarthy far surpassed his forecasts — and those of his opponents. John son’s name was not on the bal lot, but the state Democratic or ganization waged a tough write- in campaign. Its product: a minority win for the President, who received 49 per cent of the vote. The near-final count had John son leading McCarthy by less than 4,000 votes. The President’s promoters had forecast a 3-1 vic tory — and even that prediction was toned down from earlier 10-1 talk. By MIKE PLAKE Buck Owens, a former Texas farm boy now turned country— singer-millionaire, will perform at G. Rollie White Coliseum next Monday night. Owens, with his Buckaroos, Fay Frushay, Tommy Collins, Freddie Hart, and the Tennessee Gentlemen will entertain in a show sponsored by Sigma Delta Chi, the professional journalism society chapter at . A&M. Owens and his band have per formed before all kinds of audi ences, from a group of bearded Hippie in Greenwich Village to the tuxedoed patrons of Carnegie Hall. Titles brought to the top of the selling list by Owens are “Tiger By the Tail,” “Together Again,” “Act Naturally,” and many others. IN ADDITION to writing songs and singing them himself, Owens has furnished many pop ular recording groups with his material. The Beatles, for example, bor rowed and gave their own inter pretation to “Act Naturally.” Ray Charles has been known to be a steady consumer of Owens- composed tunes. Owens incorporates a unique style into his song-writing. He puts it this way: “When I just sit down and say I’m going to write a song, I don’t end up with anything. I have to hear something, or have some incident come to mind, or wake up at 3 o’clock in the morn ing with an idea, go over to the piano or pick up a guitar. “I NEVER write it down; I just formulate it, and if I can remember the words or the melody at least two or three days later, I figure it’s a pretty good song.” Owens has been voted Ameri ca’s No. 1 male artist for four years in a row. Since 1963, every single he has recorded has made the top position on the nation’s country music lists. Robert Shelton, in “The New York Timess” reviewed Owens and his Buckaroos with enthusi asm: “He and his four-member band . . . give the impression of having a wonderful time, of do ing and singing something meaningful, and perhaps that quality rock too often ignores, of entertaining.” OWENS STARTED as an in strumentalist in a recording studio in California. There he worked in recording sessions with such personalities as Son ny James, Faron Young, and Tommy Sands. After trying in vain to break into the business with his own recordings, Owens was told “there was plenty of singers, but not much material.” “That’s the way I got started in the artist business,” he said. “By writing songs, and doing them and getting other people to hear them. Many reasons have been given for Owens’ acceptance in the music field, especially the fact that his audience has such a wide base. WILLIAM T. ANDERSON, in the April, 1967 issue of “The Many Worlds of Music,” said: “Two reasons for this accept ance of Buck’s tunes are their earthiness and their integrity. Another is the tigerlike drive that permeates the man’s music, lifting it beyond the confines of the country field and giving it a basic appeal for all people.” Tickets for Monday’s show are on sale in the Memorial Student Center. The profits from the show will go towards journalism scholar ships for high school students interested in journalism at Texas A&M. vey of board students. “We polled 74 per cent of the board students,” Travis said. “92 per cent favored giving up the meal to feed the orphans.” THE RETURNS were 3,479 for and 288 against. “I think the results were very good,” said Travis, who is opti mistic about Civilian Council sup port, “but I don’t know if they were good enough. We will find out for sure next Monday when the Executive Com mittee votes.” If the council agrees, 40 cents per person would be given to the cause, totaling $2,000. This would be a great help to the two orphanages in Tay Ninh and Rach K e i n , according to Campbell. “We found out through an Ag gie ex, Maj. Cullen Allen, who has recently returned from Viet nam, about the plight of these or phans,” he said. “IN TAY NINH 45 children need clothes and beds. Many must sleep in baby beds that they have outgrown long ago.” “The object is to influence the people that they should support the Saigon government,” Camp bell said. “The importance of this can not be underestimated, and the Aggies can share in it.” Campbell explained that the money would be sent to former students stationed near the two orphanages, who would see that the money was distributed. YMCA Forum Speaker Warns Against ‘False Expectations’ By BOB SOLOVEY “A marriage should be a 5-year contract subject to renewal.” “Marriage will collapse by its own weight. The word marriage will be deleted from our language and people will be ‘pair bound’.” The two striking statements represent new theories of mar riage as advanced by some of to day’s philosophers, noted Dr. Rob ert Ledbetter, University of Texas sociologist. Speaking Tuesday in the second of five marriage forums sponsored by the YMCA, Ledbetter spoke of two alternatives—divorce and “Making Marriage Meaningful.” THE NUMBER of divorces to day and the apparent failure in many cases to maintain a mean ingful relationship within the present form of marriage has prompted some to suggest dras tic forms of social contract chang- Among 20 points she listed were her requirements of a man with the same religion, of the same political beliefs, a family man, older and intelligent with nothing less than a master’s de gree, a pleasing personality and a man who didn’t smoke or drink. SHE ALSO wanted a man will ing to work so that she wouldn’t have to take a job, attractive, in- Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. —Adv. There is no one element that will make a marriage a success. Sex and finances are two impor tant early elements but not neces sarily the strongest, he noted. Ledbetter said there are a great many expectations, often false, that each individual has of the other person prior to marriage. “MOST PEOPLE haven’t faced up to the realities of a relation ship. Some become disillusioned when what they get isn’t what they expected,” he said. Ledbetter cited a case where a young college girl apparently wanted to snub her boy-friend and did so by writing him a letter out lining her expectations of him that he couldn’t possibly realize. FORUM SPEAKER Dr. Robert Ledbetter (right), University of Texas sociol ogist, talks with YMCA Freshman Programs Chairman Jim Stephenson (lift), and Special Programs Chairman Gordon Sorrell following Dr. Ledbetter’s Marriage Forums presen tation Tuesday. The talk was the second in the spring series. (Photo by Mike Wright) Liberal Arts Majors Post 117 DS Ratings dependent, a person who would re main agreeable and never go to bed angry, and a person who would appreciate her and be toler ant of her. Maybe her boy - friend should have listed what he wanted from her, but instead wrote back to say he had dropped his candidacy. “Individually, the points that (See Marriage Forum, page 2) Texas A&M’s College of Lib eral Arts had 13 students with perfect grade ratios among 117 fall semester Distinguished Stu dents, announced Dean Frank Hubert. He said 117 distinguished stu dents, out of 1,377 with liberal arts majors excluding business administration, included 69 men and 48 women. Distinguished status is award ed students who have a 2.25 or better grade point ratio on 15 hours or more a semester and no grade below C. A perfect grade ratio of 3.0 indicates juniors and seniors received A’s in all work. Sophomores and freshmen may have a 3.0 GPR with a B grade, since physical education course hours are not figured but grade points from PE apply to the ratio. DALE GRAVETT, freshman government major of Corpus Christi, had a 3.133 GPR last fall, including a B in physical education. A freshman journal ism major of Karnes City, John Ewaldi posted a 3.125 with a B in PE. Perfect grade ratios were list ed for Carolyn Arnold, sopho more education major of Hast ings, Okla.; Donald Cochran, gov ernment senior, Pacific Grove, Calif.; Judith Franklin, journal ism senior, Bryan; Michael P. Hardin, freshman government, Fort Stockton; Frances Kim brough, junior modern lan guages, Bryan Also, Clinton J. Machann, sen ior English, Chriesman; Margar et Matocha, senior education, Donna; Shirley Nichols, sopho more English Chriesman; La- reida Philp, senior history, Cald well; Della Aycock Porter, jun ior economics, Dallas; Victoria Rohe, junior history, Nederland; Patrick Stout, junior government, Houston, and Elizabeth Welsh, freshman modern language, Wet- zikon, Switzerland. THE COLLEGE’S number of fall distinguished students was a 20.6 per cent increase over the 1966-67 school year. ‘Engineer’s Week’ To Finish With Saturday Picnic A combination picnic and steak fry will top off the activities now being conducted for “Engineer’s Week” at Texas A&M. The j>icnic will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday, and steaks will be seized until 2 p.m. at Hensel Park. Other activities include de partmental eliminations in vol leyball and a tug of war. The championship will be decided in hn “engineered” mud trench. Tickets for the picnic go off sale Thursday at noon. The events are open to engi neering students, their wives, guests, and all faculty members. First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings certif icates. Adv.