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14 COPIES B VOLUME 61 Cbe Battalion —| A; Thursday — Cloudy, winds Northerly 10-20 m.p.h. High 57, low 44. Friday — Cloudy, intermittent rain -i;. showers, wind Easterly 10-15 m.p.h. Si High 59, low 41. S’ COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1968 NUMBER 554 Zinn Explains Fall Policy On Day Student Permits By MIKE FLAKE Battalion Features Editor Unless a student has “a very unusual situation,” he may find it difficult to get permission to live off campus next year, ac cording to Bennie A. Zinn, direc tor of the Department of Student Affairs. Zinn made the statement in light of the university policy gov erning the issuance of day stu dent permits, which students must have if they are living off cam pus and are attending classes at Texas A&M. “The university policy requires all undergraduate male students to live on the campus unless they live with near kin,” Zinn said. THE DIRECTOR of student af fairs said exceptions to tfej. policy would be made througf’vcus de partment for “very unusi*^ situa tions.” An “unusual s^liation” could be a job, health <'Vndition, or any number of personal rea sons. All students making applica tion for the day student permit will be screened by the Depart ment of Student Affairs before they are cleared for off-campus living. It is Zinn, however, who makes the decisions as to whether the permit is issued. A few unofficial rules have changed regarding the issuance of day student permits. BEFORE THIS year, students brought slips of paper or state ments from their employers that the student was working for “such-and-such” a firm. “Now, if a job is involved, the student’s employers will be re quired to furnish Student Affairs with a letter, giving details of the job, such as hours and days in the work schedule, description of work, location of work and compensation,” Zinn said. ‘Appreciation Banquet’ Tickets On Sale In Programs Office t By DAVE MAYES Battalion Staff Writer Only 400 tickets are still avail able to seniors who plan to attend the Appreciation Banquet honor ing A&M’s championship football team, announced Mike Baggett, banquet committee chairman. The steak dinner, sponsored by the Senior Council, will honor Coach Gene Stallings, his staff and the varsity football team at IE Senior’s Paper Places First In OklahomaMeeting Ronald J. Kent of San Antonio, Texas A&M industrial engineer ing senior, had the top technical paper in Oklahoma University’s annual Engineering Week com petition. Also winning prize money in the six-state Southwest region contest was Michael Kenny of Houston. Kent’s $200 first-place paper was titled “Derivation of a Meth od of Estimating the Labor in MIG Weldments.” Kenny, sen ior industrial engineering major, won $100 and third place with “The Most Economical Method of Producing Self-Reinforcing Nozzles from Forgings.” The other three prizes were claimed by mechanical and indus trial engineering majors of Okla homa State and the University of Missouri. Awards were made at a “Knights of St. Patrick” banquet at which OU’s Engineering Week queen knighted officials. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. GOLD St* SALE HALT mm BRITAIN ^ DAI I V ^ uoi.i) crisis ; ROCKS WORLD BOLD CRISIS QUEEN SHUTS ! BULLION MARKET Ls»-><;*.» >:>' m- • >>5 ' :: '—->*• jssflaK mail The Queen acts i on gold: Banks shutdown ,,<• ****** lam GOLD MARKET shut today < -- iio < x •r-jrr.. COLO RUSH MOW a Xl 'sr;S-£ T AMPa>E Pfy GOLD MAKES THE HEADLINES News of the gold crisis fills the front pages of British na tional newspapers in London. The London gold market closed in a move to help stem the gold buying spree there. (AP Wirephoto) Zinn also commented on other rules regarding off-campus living. “Students requiring permission to live off-campus, who are less than 21 years of age, must have their parents provide permission in some communication to us,” he explained. ZINN SAID if a student, (for example, a freshman or sopho more) comes to him and requests a permit, ha is usually turned down. “There are two reasons for this,” he noted. “First, a student in that classification may not be fully informed about the activi ties available to him on campus. A student living in a dormitory is more likely to get communica tion regarding campus rules and First Of A 2-Part Series 6:30 p.m. Monday in the main ballroom of the Ramada Inn. “The tickets, on sale for $3.50 at the Student Programs Office in the Memorial Student Center, are selling slow among the civil ian seniors due to lack of pub licity,” Baggett said. “IF WE DON’T sell out by Thursday,” he continued, “we may decide to open ticket sales to the entire student body.” Sanford Ward of Austin, presi dent of the senior class, will open the banquet program by intro ducing Associate Athletic Direc tor Marvin Tate as master of ceremonies. “Grady Allen, senior All-South west Conference end, will speak on behalf of the football team, then Coach Stallings will com ment on the past season,” Baggett said. The assembly will view a 30- minute color film of Cotton Bowl highlights, tracing the pageant from A&M and Alabama football practices and drills to the Cotton Bowl parade to the game itself. Featured will be slow-motion shots of the scoring plays. BAGGETT added that, if fin ished in time, a new color film on the highlights of the entire A&M football season will have its premier showing at the ban quet. Dress to the banquet will be suit and tie, with class A summer uniforms with boots optional to Corps members. “Years ago, it was traditional for the senior class to honor the football team with a banquet,” Baggett explained. “Early in the school year, the Senior Council decided to revive the tradition and to really ex press our thanks to the team for such a fine season,” he said. < re*. wrfxiX <* J •A w#x** HU C.UNKDIAN activities than one living off-cam pus, away from the center of acti vity. “Second,” he explained, “is that to keep the dormitories open for some of the students, we must have them operating at full ca pacity. Otherwise, we could not afford to have dormitories avail able.” ZINN ADDED that some of the dormitories now in operation have not been completely paid for. Part of this money comes from the room rent paid by the students at registration. “In other words, the dormi tories must have enough students living in them to pay for their operation,” Zinn said. He explained that other excep tions under certain conditions would be considered. “If the dormitories are filled, exceptions may be made for a few upper classmen.” Zinn said students who do re quest day student permits should do it early. “EARLIER FILING enables us to check records and render de cisions early,” he noted. “We will notify students as soon as pos sible whether or not his permit has been issued.” He warned that students who wait until after August 15, the cut-off date, would forfeit their $20 room deposit fee. He added that the room deposit fees will be raised to $30 next year for students. It will, how ever, remain $20 for returning students. FRIDAY: On-Campus Living Vs. Off-Campus Living. Pre-Meds Set Banquet Talk By AF Doctor Maj. Kenneth Cooper, Air Force doctor who recently devel oped a new physical exercise program, will be featured speak er for the Texas A&M Premedi cal-Predental Society’s annual banquet at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Ramada Inn. Leon Noel, society president, said Maj. Cooper will discuss “The Role of Physical Fitness in Clinical Medicine.” Noel said approximately 150 persons are expected to attend the banquet which usually at tracts representatives from all the state’s medical schools. In addition to Maj. Cooper’s talk, a highlight of the evenuing will be announcement of this year’s outstanding premedical and predental students, Noel added. Cooper, director of the Aero space Medical Laboratory at Lackland AFB, explained his new exercise program in a book en titled “Aerobics,” a condensed version of which appears in this month’s issue of Reader’s Digest. The book basically establishes guidelines for determining the amount of exercise necessary to become and remain physically fit. Cooper received his M.D. de gree from the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine in 1956 and later studied at the Harvard School of Public Health. He entered the Army in 1957 but transferred to the Air Force in 1960 and performed his resident work at Brooks AFB. SCON A Begins Drive For Funds, Members FORUM SPEAKER, LISTENERS Dr. Henry Bowman, University of Texas sociologist, chats with four members of his Tuesday Marriage Forums audience here. They are (from left) Karen Lader, Kay Loyd and Nancy Bemus, all of Sam Houston State College, and David Howard, YMCA public relation chairman. (Photo by Mike Wright) Premarital Sex Said ‘Risky 9 By Marriage Forum Speaker By BOB SOLOVEY “The pill does niot give the green light to intercourse—some one first has to swallow it.” Dr. Henry Bowman, noted soci ologist from the University of Texas, told more than 300 stu dents and guests here Tuesday that the human factor always makes premarital sex risky. In the third of five Marriage Forums in the YMCA, Bowman explained that the birth control pill, although effective, must be taken with “religious regularity.” “Some girls can miss one pill, some girls can trap men by not taking it, and many cannot get the prescription needed from their doctor,” he said. BOWMAN EMPHASIZED that there are no cut-and-dried an swers about premarital relations, and that he only wanted to pre sent one viewpoint as “food for thought.” He asked the audience to ex amine their own assumptions about dating and premarital re lations. He said many of his students ask him about a “sexual revolu tion” as espoused by Playboy’s Hugh Hefner as if one, in fact, has occured. “There is no evidence that there has been any sexual revolution,” he said. “As always, there is male and female exaggeration of ex ploits, greater female freedom and more frankness about sex, but there is no evidence that pre marital relations are any more frequent than they were many years ago.” “TODAY YOU are called upon to make your own standards and set your own patterns. There are less pressures. You can make your standards whatever you want them to be,” Bowman said. “Never before has the indivi dual had the freedom to determine his own values and his own stand ard of sexual behavior,” he added. Bowman asserted that today sex is made more prominent be fore the wedding than after the marriage. He pointed out that when stu dents are in school they evaluate what they are doing in terms of an eventual degree, and he added that in sex they must also evalu ate what they are doing now in terms of a future goal—a happy marriage. “I BELIEVE that most young men will abide by the line that a woman draws,” the speaker ob- First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings certif icates. —Adv. served. “But why doesn’t the man draw the line?” “A girl wants security. She wants a boy who won’t take ad vantage of her even if she gets aroused,” Bowman continued. He noted that premarital “test ing” disregards a girl’s nature. He said that a girl isn’t usually responsive until a few years after marriage. “Not having sexual intercourse before marriage may be frustrat ing but it’s only one of many frustrations which a man should be able to handle. “EVEN AFTER marriage there are many times that a man can not have sexual relations with his wife. That doesn’t mean that he State Senator Banbara Jordan of Houston will be a Political Forum speaker here Friday. The Great Issues presentation on “Texas Politics in 1968” will be at 12 noon in the Memorial Student Center Social Room, an nounced Bill Preston of Hender son, forum chairman. Admission is free. Texas’ first Negro woman sen ator, the legislator was elected to represent District 11 in 1966. Senator Jordan became the first Negro to serve in the Texas Sen ate since 1883. The native Houstonian is a practicing attorney and member of the Texas State Bar and American Bar Association. She graduated in the top five per Moderating rainfall and tem peratures are expected to co incide with the vernal equinox and the sun’s “climb” into the northern hemisphere during the next 30 days. The long range weather fore cast of moderate rain (about 3.4 inches) and near normal tempera tures accompanied Texas A&M Meteorology Department reports to observers in Bryan, College Station and the East Yegua Creek basin. Bryan’s wettest day was Feb. 14, with .73 inches. Wettest and dryest spots were less than 2,000 goes off with some other woman down the street,” he said. Bowman guessed that almost 750,000 woman suffer premarital pregnancies each year. Some end in births out of wedlock, some in hasty marriages and some in abortions and death. “Maybe we can develop a new image of masculinity as a man who can draw the line himself, who has respect for girls and does not take advantage of them,” Bowman noted. Responsibility before privilege was the Bowman credo. Next week Bowman will re turn for the fourth marriage for um. His topic will be “Sex in Hu man Relations—Marital.” cent of her high school class and received the bachelor of politi cal science and history degree at Texas Southern magna cum laude in 1956. Senator Jordan’s LL.B. is from the Boston University School of Law. One of United Press Interna tional’s 10 most influential wom en in Texas last year, she was named by President Johnson to the Commission on Income Main tenance Programs in January. The Texas legislator serves on the Houston Council on Human Relations, steering committee of Harris County Democrats and Alley Theatre Board. She is member of the NAACP, Southern Regional Council and Houston’s Good Hope Baptist Church. feet apart. A station on Rose mary Drive totalled 2.50 inches for the month. On nearby Inwood Drive another observer’s gauge measured 1.77 inches. While moderating effect is dis cernible in February rainfall to tals, unusual temperatures dis guised the arrival of spring. Area temperatures averaged 48 degrees for the period, which is six de grees below normal for February, Clark said. The sun stands directly above the equator today. Its “travel” will bring summer north of the equator and winter to the south ern hemisphere. First Negro Woman Senator To Speak For Friday Forum Moderate Rain, Weather Forecast For Next 30 Days $9,000 Is Goal Of April Drive In Texas Cities Easter fund drive plans for the Fourteenth Student Conference on National Affairs will be made in the Memorial Student Center 7:30 p.m. Thursday. “The April fund drive, running from April 11 to 15, is when we contact old sponsors and tell them of the accomplishments of SCONA XIII,” Bill Howell, drive chairman, said. “We also ask them for help in the coming con ference.” Howe said that they also will conduct a fund drive in June to make new contacts. “We hope to bring in about half of our $18,000 budget in the April drive,” Howell commented. SCONA IS the only one of the major conferences that depends solely on outside funds, Howe noted. Listed as fund drive targets are Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Longview, Tyler, Corpus Christ! and Kingsville, as well as Bryan and College Station. “If anybody has any contacts, especially among former students who are interested in this type of program, we would appreciate having their names,” Howell said. “Anyone wishing to participate in the fund drive should leave his name in the Director’s Office of the MSC.” SCONA XIV Chairman Don McCrory has also announced the SCONA membership drive. Inter views will be conducted Wednes day through Friday. Civilians were particularly urged by Mc Crory to join the committee. He noted that several subcom mittee chairmanships are still vacant. McCrory said he had contacted several authorities in an attempt to pick the most suitable topic for SCONA. These included the White House; Samuel P. Hayes, head of the Foreign Policy As sociation; John Scott, special as sistant to the publisher of Time, and Phillip E. Mosely, associate dean of the School of Interna tional Affairs at Columbia Uni versity. 100-Mile Club Membership Grows To 376 Texas A&M professors, staff members and students without time for organized sports have run the equivalent of a trip to the Panama Canal and back since last October. The 376 runners are members of a 100-Mile Club, a Health and Physical Education Department voluntary conditioning program. Members join the club only for exercise and a certificate awarded after they’ve run 100 miles. About 20 have the certificate. Most are still enroute. The first 100-milers were Joan and Ernest Uken of Johannes burg, South Africa. Mrs. Uken is the former “Miss South Af rica.” More than half of the 6,628 miles members have jogged or sprinted in the last five months is by A&M students. They’ve averaged 12 miles each while faculty-staff personnel and local citizens—mostly high school stu dents— have averaged 38 miles each. Inclement weather has held the club’s average daily distance to 43.3 miles during the last 153 days. With better running weath er, 100-milers may race off the tip of South America before sum mer is over. Members mark their progress on department charts. BB&L Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. —Adv.