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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
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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.
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