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LIBRARY CAMPUS 14 COPIES B *K [Miss Meal, Feed Multitude’ Proposal Gets Green Light Che Battalion COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1968 NUMBER 553 151 Students To Run In March 28 Election Two Offices Uncontested As Filing Ends JUNIOR SWEETHEART Nancy Jane Nilson, a junior majoring in elementary educa tion in the University of Texas at Austin, was named JJunior Class Sweetheart at Saturday’s Junior Ball. She was escorted by Dennis Koop. (Photo by Dan Gable) European Trips Planned By 26 ’RE fies” 319 A summer in Europe awaits at least 26 students and faculty par ticipating in one of three Mem orial Student Center Travel Com mittee programs, according to Dave Mayes, committee chair- | man. The Experiment in Interna tional Living, a student exchange program founded in 1932, has ac cepted Frank W. Tilley of Jack sonville-, senior industrial engi neering major; Blaine S. Purcell of Wichita Falls, sophomore in veterinary medicine; A1 Reinert of Fairfax, Va., sophomore in geology; Ronald L. Adams of Tyler, sophomore mechanical en gineering major; and Jeanna Chastain of College Station, freshman in veterinary medicine. The five Experimenters will spend the summer in one of four European countries, three of which are behind the Iron Cur tain. Each will spend the first six weeks with a native family adjusting to a new language and unfamiliar customs. The final four weeks the Ex perimenters will travel in groups of 10 on a guided tour of the country. Tilley and Purcell are bound for West Germany; Miss Chas tain, Czechoslovakia; R e i n e r t, Russia; and Adams, Yugoslavia. Four A&M students have been accepted by the International As sociation for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experi ence (IAESTE), an 8 to 12 week overseas employment program for students with technical ma jors. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. •X | :[:• :$ I Participating in IAESTE this year are Gary D. Sheffield of Texas City, junior architecture major; Agustain Fernandez of Eagle Pass, sophomore in chemi cal engineering; Christopher Kupper of Marlin, sophomore mechanical engineering major; and Ronald J. Cox of Danville, 111., a fifth year architecture major. IAESTE has placed Sheffield with an architecture firm in Trondheim, Norway; Fernandez with a chemical plant in Leon, Spain; Kupper with an engineer ing company in Scotland; and Cox with an architecture firm in London. Sixteen students and faculty have signed to participate in one of several of the committee-pub licized flights to Europe from Dallas and New York, Mayes said. Students and faculty plan ning to spend this summer in Europe will have their last opportunity to take advantage of reduced air travel rates at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Mem orial Student Center Social Room, according to Dave Mayes, chairman of the MSC Travel Committee. “Flights .still available are Dallas-London, June 3-Sept. 4 ($373 roundtrip), and several New York-London flights leav ing on different dates ($245 rountrip),” Mayes said. “There are still seats available on some flights for A&M person nel,” he said, “but they are rap idly dwindling.” He added that at least three of the sixteen were planning to incorporate a Russian tour in their travel plans. DEADLINE NEARS Mrs. Sylvia Herrera, Brazos County license clerk, issues 1968 car license plates to Maj. Thomas W. Comstock, assis tant professor of aerospace studies. The license booth in the MSC is selling the plates through March 29. State law reqiures that new plates be in place by April 1. (Photo by Mike Wright) By BOB PALMER More than 150 candidates have announced for the March 28 class elections, Tony Benedetto, election commission chairman, announced. The election will be conducted in the basement of the Memorial Student Center from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Those filing for Senior Class president were William E. Brad ford, Clarence T. Gore, Henry M. Johnson, Beverly E. Davis, Den nis J. Fontana. CANDIDATES for social sec retary are James A. Mobley and Bruce F. Baxter. Uncontested are Robert J. Buske for MSC Coun- H cil representative and John M. Rowan for senior concessions manager. Entered in the vice-president’s race are Ira D. McCauley, Steph en A. Holditch, William A. Mc Kean, Harold T. Welch, and Roger L. Engelke. Elections commission candi dates are Francis X. Gallant, Dun can P. Munn, Larry Napper, Glenn A. Davis, Charles B. Ches- nutt and Ray F. Grisham. Those seeking the office of his torian are Ronald C. Wise, Con- rado M. Hein, Charles W. Wallis, Don Wayne Bonifay and Frank W. Burpo. ROBERT J. FOLEY, Lonnie H. McGaughy, Stephen F. Petit- fils, Orpha B. Thomas, Charles F. Schwab and David C. South ard are running for secretary- treasurer. Yell leader candidates are Bar ney Dawson, Marshall Cox, Ken neth J. Edwards, Robert Segner, Russell L. Boggess, A. Phillip Callahan, Billy J. Youngkin and Robert L. Nida. JUNIOR OFFICES Presidential candidates are John R. Gingrich, John C. Otto, Albert J. Reinert, Collier R. Wat son, John F. MacGillis, John P. Maline, Robert L. Bowling and Allen D. Janacek. Those running for vice-presi dent are Edward V. Turley, Frank Montalbano, George Som erville, Charles M. McLean, Jim my D. Dunham and Kenneth E. Graeber. CANDIDATES FOR election commission are William V. Stephens, John R. Drewein, Ger ald Geistweidt, William H. Seele, Rex Eugene Stewart, Robert H. Dean, John M. Konopacki, Steven E. Cook, Jose F. Flores, Jose G. Velasquez, John H. Ward, and Ruston P. Chandler. William H. Richard and Dean T. Eshelman have announced for MSC Council representative. Ronald B. Smith, James St.John and Ronald J. LaFevers are in the race for social secretary. In the secretary-treasurer race are Richard J. Oates, Robert Van Ness, Mark A. Fairchild, Thomas C. Washbum and Daniel L. Swords. THISE RUNNING for junior (See Election, Page 2) Library To Close During Shutdown Electrical equipment mainten ance Saturday will cut power to several buildings including Cush ing Library. Dr. James P. Dyke, director, said the library will be closed all day because of the power shut down. “We urge all persons who have need of the library materials to obtain them earlier or after Sat urday,” he said. Cushing will be open at regular hours Friday and Sunday, Dyke added. First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings certif icates. —Adv. Duncan, Sbisa To Be Closed Friday Evening The Student Senate’s “miss a meal, feed a multitude” project is set for Friday, announced Sen ate President Jerry Campbell. The program to raise funds for two South Vietnamese orphanages by closing the dining halls Fri day evening was formally ap proved Monday by the university’s faculty Executive Committee. The committee, however, includ ed provisions that any student desiring not to participate in the program will be served in a Sbisa Hall cafeteria line, provided he lists his name on a roster which will be available in the dining halls Wednesday and Thursday. Campbell said more than $2,000 can be obtained to buy food and other essentials for orphans at Tay Ninh and Rach Kein by fore going the one meal which would normally be prepared for approxi mately 5,000 dormitory students. The funds will be sent to two former students stationed near the orphanages for distribution, Campbell said. The Civilian Student Council unanimously endorsed the project after a survey indicated backing by 92 per cent of both civilian and Corps students residing on cam pus. Leon Travis, head of the Stu dent Senate’s Welfare Committee, is directing the “miss a meal, feed a multitude” drive. ALL THE MARBLES Sammy Garcia, Fish Drill Team commander, accepts the overall championship trophy of the A&M Invitational Drill Meet from Col. J. H. McCoy, commandant of the Corps of Cadets, after the team standings were announced. Assisting is Mitch Woodward, presi dent of the Association of Former Fish Drill Team Members. (Photo by Dan Gable) Fish Drill Team Takes First In A&M Invitational Tourney The Fish Drill Team Saturday won A&M’s annual Invitational Meet and received President Earl Rudder’s approval to march in the National Intercollegiate ROTC Drill Championships at Washington, D. C., in April. In a blanket finish with the Marion Guard of St. Mary’s Uni versity and Sam Houston State’s Loman Rifles, the Fish Drill Team took the overall champion ship by 3.45 points. The A&M team scored 1,000.84 points out of a possible 1,250 in the day-long competition. St. Mary’s totaled 997.39 and Sam Houston 995. Scores from in spection, basic and fancy drill competition were totaled to de termine team standings. Defending champion Sam Houston won first place trophies in basic and fancy drill. St. MSC Croup Visits LSU Union A delegation representing the Memorial Student Center Council flew to Baton Rouge today for a fact-finding tour of Louisiana State University’s new student union. MSC Director Wayne Stark said the purpose of the trip, first of approximately four planned during the coming weeks, is to provide student, former student and faculty representatives a first-hand basis for making recommendations for the pro posed $6 million expansion of A&M’s student union. In addition to Stark, the LSU delegation includes Dr. Haskell Monroe, MSC Council faculty representative; Wayne Schmidt of Bryan, councilman represent ing former students; Wayne Pres cott, student representative, and W. R. Matthews of Bryan, archi tect for the MSC expansion. LSU opened its $5.5 million student union approximately three years ago, Stark said. Later trips are planned to the University of Oklahoma, Okla homa State and the University of Houston, Stark said. The MSC expansion is part of a $12 million project which also will include a new auditorium to replace Guion Hall. Mary’s took third and second awards in the same phases and the A&M freshmen were tops in inspection and second in basic. Third in the fancy phase went to the King’s Rifles of Texas A&I. Fish Drill Team Commander Sammy Garcia of San Antonio received the four-foot tall cham pionship trophy from Col. Jim H. McCoy, commandant. It im proved on A&M’s 1966-67 team record, which included a runner- up finish to Sam Houston in the A&M meet. Last year’s team was also second in the national championship. Saturday’s drill, which will be used in the Cherry Blossom Fes tival meet April 5-6, included the “Reese March” in honor of Maj. Calvin Reese, team sponsor who has resigned at A&M to accept a position at Ellington AFB, Houston. Basketballers Hurt In Crash; 2 Women Dead Two A&M basketball players were injured in a car-pickup col lision which killed two women Sunday night 11 miles west of Nacogdoches on State Highway 7. John A. Underwood of Honey Grove was listed in satisfactory condition at the University Hos pital late Monday, while Terry Trippet of Odessa was in satis factory condition at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bryan. Both are 22- year-old seniors. The dead were identified as Mrs. Lena Arriola, 57, and Mrs. Ola Shelton, 58, both of Nacogdoches. A hospital spokesman said Trip- pet received a broken wrist and cuts and bruises. Underwood reportedly sustained facial cuts and bruises, a twisted knee and a twisted arm. Trippet was captain of this year’s Aggie basketball team and Underwood was a starting guard. The Department of Public Safe ty’s investigating officer, John Steed, said the accident occurred at 7:55 p.m. when Vick Arriola, husband of one of the dead wo men, attempted to turn left in his pickyp off Highway 7 to a private road. Steed said Underwood, driver of the other vehicle, swerved to the right in an attempt to miss the truck but hit it at an angle. CHOICE ’68 To Be Voted During April 24 Elections Election date for CHOICE ’68, a national presidential primary for American college students, has been set for April 24, accord- Baptists, Methodists Lead In Religious Preferences Texas A&M students claim denominational preference among 53 different faiths and sects, according to a survey by J. Gordon Gay, YMCA general secretary and religious life coordinator. Almost 60 per cent of A&M’s 10,907 spring semester students list affiliation with three faiths, however. Baptists number 2,308, 2,222 Methodist and 2,028 Catholic. Gay, who has compiled denominational preference through most of his 40 years at A&M, said the 1968 listing varies little with previous years. “It’s usual for about half the student body to name Baptist and Methodist preferences,” he said. Presbyterian, Lutheran, Episcopal, Church of Christ, Protestant, Christian, Moslem, Jew ish faiths and the top three account for 96.5 per cent of A&M’s spring enrollment. The other 3.5 per cent name, among others, United Church of Christ, Mormon, Unitarian, Assembly of God, Hindu, Christian Science and Buddhist preferences. Thirty-three denominations listed by six or fewer students include Annenian, Baha’i, Christa- deiphia, Deist, Fundamental, Jain, Mennonite, Rosacrucian, Zo- roastrian and others. ^ Two students claim to be agnostics and one professed atheism. ing to Clarence Daugherty, stu dent senator. “I hope A&M students realize the effect this special primary could have if they take interest in it,” he said. “STUDENTS have an obliga tion to themselves, their school and their nation to make their choice for student officers and national leaders,” he said. The name of Governor George Romney has been removed from the ballot. CHOICE’S Board of Directors, composed of students from colleges across the nation, decided that Romney’s decision February 28 to withdraw from the presidential race “left them with little alternative but to com ply with the spirit of his an nouncement.” Romney’s withdrawal reduces the number of candidates on the ballot to thirteen. Romney’s political philosophy of moderate conservatism, how ever, is expected to be well repre sented by the remaining candi dates. NORTHEASTERN University, of Boston, Massachusetts, was the first college in the U. S. to vote in the CHOICE ’68 election. On Feb. 16, over 2,500 students (out of a potential electorate of 4,000) participated in the pri mary. Leroy Wheelock, Jr., student body president, termed it ’’larger than any other election we can recall.” The ballot to be considered at A&M April 24 will include a list of presidential candidates and three referendum questions. Two of the questions concern policy in Vietnam. The other pertains to governmental spend ing on America’s “urban crisis.” Weather Wednesday — Cloudy to partly cloudy, afternoon rait\ showers or thunder showers, winds Southerly 10-20 m.p.h. High 76, low 65. Thursdayay — Cloudy to partly cloudy, afternoon rain showers or thunder showers, winds Southerly 10-20 m.p.h. High 76, low 65. 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