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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1968
NUMBER 556
APO Blood Drive
Passed By Senate
AH, SPRING!
Two students brave the wind and rain as they change classes during Thursday’s chilly
weather. The calendar said it was the second day of spring—would you believe fall?
(Photo by Mike Wright)
Exes To Face Challenges,
Albritton Tells A&M Club
“I have no doubt that the
Texas A&M Association of For
mer Students can raise a million
dollars in 1969,” remarked Ford
D. Albritton Jr.
The association’s president
elect told Brazos County A&M
Club members this week that a
12-month self-study revealed new
challenges for the alumni organi
zation.
“SINCE World War II, Texas
A&M has undergone tremendous
change. I know of no institution
that has done more than A&M
to prepare for its mission in the
future,” Albritton declared. “The
association recognizes that the
organization must make basic
changes to meet challenges of
serving its membership and its
school.”
Richard (Buck) Weirus, execu
tive director, spoke on A&M
men’s service to the university.
More than 140 attended the larg
est Brazos County A&M Club
meeting ever held, according to
President Joe Buser, FSA as
sistant director. Bryan’s First
National Bank sponsored the
meeting.
Albritton noted the association’s
long-range plan includes three
basic objectives: to strengthen
the association, serve A&M’s in
terest and perpetuate ties of
friendship formed during college
days.
HE STRESSED improved com
munications from campus to
alumni and from alumni to cam
pus are fundamental to achieve
ment of objectives.
The Bryan industrialist said
specific projects being undertaken
by the association include student
recruitment.
“Too many bright young men
leave Texas for their higher edu
cation,” Albritton noted. “A&M
must attract the top students
DISCUSSION
Edwin H. Cooper, director of civilian student activities at
Texas A&M, answers questions posed by Gordon Sorrel,
president of the Apollo, Club. Cooper was the last of four
speakers for this semester. (AP by Mike Wright)
from Texas and we’d like to get
superior students from other
states.”
“One of the handicaps is the
lack of understanding of changes
that have occurred at A&M.
You’d be shocked to learn how
little many high school students,
guidance counselors, parents and
others know about the excellent
educational opportunities we have
in this community,” he continued.
Albritton said the association
has dedicated itself to assist the
university with these two pro
grams, utilizing its state-wide
organization.
“The Brazos County A&M Club
is leading the pack and I con
gratulate you on the type pro
grams you are conducting. This
club can be most meaningful to
the association and to Texas
A&M,” he said.
A FORMER students’ goal of
$448,000 for 1968 fund objectives
was broken down by the presi
dent-elect. He said it included
$11,500 in merit scholarships,
$9,000 faculty recognition, $30,-
000 each in faculty research, fac
ulty salary supplementation and
graduate fellowships; $19,000 in
emergency funds for faculty re
cruitment atid other programs
not funded by the legislature,
plus association membership pro
grams, club and class programs,
directory of former students,
computer locator records, month
ly magazine subscription and
world-wide muster.
Albritton said “1969 will be a
year to find ways and means to
enlist former students to invest
more time and more dollars in
A&M. The legislature just has
so many dollars for higher edu
cation and there are many fine
schools in Texas.
“The A&M administration has
done a great job in getting its
share, but in order for this insti
tution to achieve excellence it
must depend more and more on
its alumni. I’m confident that
A&M men will, as they have in
the past, respond to the chal
lenge,” Albritton concluded.
Grid Banquet
Tickets Open
To All Classes
Alpha Phi Omega, national
service fraternity, received Stu
dent Senate approval Thursday
night to conduct a campus blood
drive April 24 - 25.
Ronnie Smith, representing the
fraternity, submitted the proposal
at the senate’s monthly meeting
in the Memorial Student Center.
The student governing body
granted Alpha Phi Omega com
plete charge of the drive, from
planning through execution. The
donated blood will be given to
the Wadley Research Foundation.
A registration period designat
ing individual donation time is set
for April 8-9, Smith said.
SENIOR CLASS President
Sanford T. Ward announced that
tickets for the Appreciation Ban
quet honoring Coach Gene Stall
ings and the 1967 Southwest Con
ference football champs would
be available to all classes.
Ticket sales for Monday night’s
banquet will continue through
Monday noon at the Student Pro
gram Office and the dean’s office
in the Veterinary Science Build
ing, Ward announced.
“This is a chance for the Ag
gies to show their appreciation
for our football team,” Ward said.
“We want to show Coach Stall
ings how much we think of him
and the team.”
Tickets for the banquet, which
begins at 6:30 p.m. in the main
ballroom of the Ramada Inn, cost
$3.50.
A 30-MINUTE color film of
Cotton Bowl highlights will be
shown at the banquet. The film
will track the pageant from the
practice drills, through the Cot
ton Bowl parade and the game
itself, featuring slow motion sec
tions of scoring plays.
Leon E. Travis, senate welfare
committee chairman, reported on
the progress of the Senate’s “Miss
A Meal Feed a Multitude” pro
gram.
TRAVIS announced that only
about 160 students had registered
against the proposal to send
money allocated for Friday’s eve
ning meal to two Vietnamese
orphanages. These people may
eat in Sbisa, but the money spent
for their meals will be deducted
from the fund.
Travis praised several people
who are not on the Student Sen
ate but helped with the drive.
They were Tony Groves, Greg
Duesing, Steve Wamick and
Guillermo Palm.
The senate also voted to allow
election commission members who
are running for offices in the
coming election to continue to
work on the commission. Election
Commission Chairman Tony
Beneditto explained that there
would not be enough people to
man the polls if those running
were disqualified.
APO BLOOD DRIVE
Ronnie Smith appears before the Student Senate asking approval for the annual blood
drive conducted by Alpha Phi Omega. Bob Pennington, sitting in for secretary Rob
Moreau, take the minutes.
Burglary Ring Broken
By A&M Campus Security
Cooper Finishes Apollo Series
By MIKE PLAKE
Battalion Features Editor
Edwin H. Cooper, director of
civilian student activities, spoke
to an Apollo Club audience Thurs
day night about his observations
of five other campuses in com
parison to A&M’s.
His speech, “Texas A&M in
Comparison to Other Universi
ties,” was based on a recent trip.
The speech concluded the spring
program of the Apollo Club.
COOPER’S five-campus tour
included Purdue, Louisiana State
University, Virginia Polytechnic
Institute, Auburn, and Pennsyl
vania State University.
These particular schools were
selected, Cooper said, because
they are the land grant institu
tions for their states, just as
A&M is for Texas.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
“Most of these schools have
outstanding student life pro
grams,” Cooper said. “They have
vigorous programs of activity
centered around the residence
halls.”
Cooper explained that the main
emphasis of his trip centered
around the activities of students
outside the class room.
“THE UNIVERSITY feels a
responsibility to help develop stu
dent leadership. The overall ob
jective of my trip was to study
these other school programs and
determine what they are doing
that would be applicable to our
campus,” Cooper said.
He said that actual dormitory
construction was similar for all
the campuses, except Purdue.
“If you woke up in almost any
of these school’s dorm rooms, you
wouldn’t see much that was dras
tically different.”
Cooper said “The most exciting
things he saw on his trip were
the residence hall programs.”
A RESIDENCE hall, as Coop
er explained it, is not only a
dormitory.
“They were much more than a
place to sleep, or a place to mi
grate from every weekend.”
“Take Purdue University, for
example. There, they have 700
students living in each residence
hall. These halls are built in
an “H” shape—with washaterias,
a radio station, a snack bar, and
a reference library located in the
cross bar of the “H”.
“THESE HALLS have devel
oped the leadership of the stu
dents to such a point that it is
quite an honor to belong to a
residence hall. Students compete
for the privilege of living in cer
tain halls,” Cooper noted.
“Some of the halls had local
judicial committees,” he added.
“These committees are very ef
fective, because they are initiated
and staffed from students in that
dormitory.”
Cooper said that in one in
stance student judicial commit
tees became more strict than ad
ministrative decisions.
“One dean of students upheld
80 per cent of the judicial com
mittee’s decisions. He felt the
other 20 per cent were too harsh
on the students who committed
the offenses, so he lightened the
punishment.”
COOPER said the key to all the
successful residence hall pro
grams that he observed was the
wide involvement of students in
the programs.
“This develops their leaders.
This leadership brings a respon
sibility on the part of the stu-
(See Cooper, Page 3)
Campus security officers solved
a series of burglaries Thursday
night with the apprehension of
two sophomores and recovery of
university and private property
valued at approximately $5,000.
Security Chief Ed Powell said
burglary charges will be filed to
day by the Brazos County district
attorney’s office.
Most of the stolen property,
which included tape recorder, tel
evision set and auto stereo tape
units, was found in the Mitchell
Hall rooms of the youths.
Powell said the two suspects
made statments. Officers said
they threw several electronic
items in a pond near Highway 6
north of Bryan. Officers were
attempting to recover the sunken
property this morning.
Powell indicated the arrest
clears up six campus burglaries
dating back to before Thanksgiv
ing.
Burglarized facilities included
the Memorial Student Center,
Educational Television Depart
ment in Bagley Hall, Electrical
Engineering Building and the Cre
ative Application of Technology
Rudder Named
To West Point
Visitor’s Board
A&M President Earl Rudder
was named Thursday by Presi
dent Johnson to the Board of
Visitors of the United States
Military Academy at West Point.
The 12-member board includes
six congressmen and meets three
or four times annually, usually
on weekends.
A major general, Rudder re
tired from the Army Reserve last
June after 35 years of service.
He received his commission on
graduation from Texas A&M in
1932.
Rudder entered active duty in
1941 and became a World War II
hero. He was awarded some of
the nation’s highest combat deco
rations.
Rudder commanded Texas’ 90th
Infantry Division for nine years.
In 1963 he was named deputy
commanding general for mobili
zation for the U. S. Continental
Army Command, Fort Monroe Va.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
to Education (CATE) Center in
Buildings C and D of the tem
porary classroom area behind the
A&M Press. The chief noted ETV
was struck twice.
He said several Mitchell Hall
residents assisted in breaking the
case. A television set was stolen
at noon Thursday from one of
the rooms in the dormitory.
Powell said one of the appre
hended students had been involved
in prior offenses on campus. Char
ges against him, however, were
reduced and he was allowed to
remain in school.
RFK License Plates Prove
Unpopular In Brazos County
Numerous Aggies are becom
ing RFK boosters — whether
they like it or not.
Those are the letters stamped
on a series of license plates be
ing sold at a Brazos County sub
station on the Texas A&M
campus.
One customer, noted Mrs. Syl
via Herrera who is in charge of
the sub-station, decided to take
his business elsewhere, rather
than display a tag associating
him with presidential hopeful
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.
A studen t from New York
elected to wait out the RFK run,
explaining he sure didn’t want
those initials on his car when he
went home.
“That’s a hell of an initial to
have on a license plate,” one gent
observed.
Another fellow said he’d pre
fer to have LBJ.
The topper came when Mrs.
Herrera was distributing RFB
plates.
“What does that stand for,”
one man inquired, “Bobby Boker.”
Mrs. Herrera noted that in
order to purchase plates, one
should have his car title. She
added that she cannot accept out-
of-county checks.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. —Adv.
BB&L
AGGIE STARYE-IN
Carl Feducia, Second Brigade Commander, assists the Stu
dent Senate as he posts a notice of the “miss a meal” pro
ject on a Sbisa Hall door. The project, is slated to raise
funds for two South Vietnamese orphanges by closing the
dining halls tonight. (Photo by Mike Wright)