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. . Lamar Tech junior
KAREN PEARSALL
. . . SWTSC junior
JANIS BOON
. . ETSU junior
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JANIS HOLDER
. . . Universal City Secretary
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SUSAN ARMSTRONG
. . . Abilene High senior
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Five AF Sweetheart
F inalists Announced
VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1968
NUMBER 559
Class Voting To Continue
Through 7:30 p.m. Today
Sophomores Seek
Unity For Class
By MIKE FLAKE
Battalion Feature Editor
Voting’ machines for next year’s
class officers and yell leaders will
remain open until 7:30 p.m. to
day, according to Tony Benedetto,
chairman of the election commis
sion.
“Results will be posted, as soon
as possible after the pools are
closed, on the Student Programs
Office door,” Benedetto said.
Run-offs will be next Thurs
day.
Benedetto remarked that he ex
pected a greater turnout in vot
ing this year because of increased
campaigning efforts.
Officers to be elected for each
class will be president, vice-presi
dent, secretary - treasurer, social
secretary, historian, MSC Coun
cil representative, and election
commissioners.
In addition, a senior concession
manager will be chosen.
Yell leaders will be elected from
the junior and senior classes for
next year.
★ ★ ★
Editor’s note: As has been the
policy in a continuing series of
articles prior to this election. The
Battalion has sought out the can
didates for their qualifications
for their respective positions, and
has attempted to report the plat
forms on which they are cam
paigning. Following are the can
didates for sophomore president
who provided us with this infor
mation.
Gary Jerome Martin, a White
Band freshman, majors in aero
space engineering. Martin had
three years experience with his
high school student council. He
was a student senator and mem
ber of the National Honor Society
during his senior year.
His platform:
“My platform is based on class
unity.
“A rivalry is good in some in
stances, but when it involves dif
ferent sections that may divide
the class, unity should be placed
first.”
“I will attempt to bring more
civilians into activities conducted
by our class that formerly have
been Corps - dominated,” Martin
noted. “This is going to be very
important in preserving the Corps,
because we must show that we
can work together with civilians,
and not be divided by a constant,
cutting rivalry.”
MIKE SCHILHAB, a civilian
pre-law student from Conroe, is
a second candidate.
Schilhab was interviewed this
year for freshman representative
to the Civilian Student Council.
He served as President of his
freshman, sophomore and senior
classes in high school. He was
also on the student council.
As his principal point in a plat
form, Schilhab said “more class
unity is needed. This can be ac
complished through new projects
and activities for the whole class.
“I feel that we should promote
more social activities as a class
throughout the year—as a means
of helping the students to better
acquaint themselves with the
school and their classmates.”
ROBERT B. PRICE, a fresh
man Corps of Cadets member
from El Paso, forms a platform
around class unity, but with a
slightly different method.
“I think we could have more
frequent meetings which are open
to all interested sophomores.
Those attending the meetings
could give their ideas directly to
class officers on class projects.”
Price was president of the larg
est Future Farmers of America
chapter in the country. He was
runner-up in his area F.F.A. Pub
lic Speaking competition in 1967.
Price said more frequent meet
ings on the part of the entire
class would result in greater par
ticipation and cooperation “from
the individual members of the
class.”
“With this increasing partici
pation,” Price explained, “we
could be assured of having suc
cessful projects.
“The meetings would also pro
vide a lasting contribution to- stu
dent government, through direct
class participation.”
“We should be able to progress
further in this area than any
class before us.”
Steve Pringle, a cadet pre-law
major from Hubbard, is a fourth
candidate. He was president of
his senior class in high school
and of the district FFA chapter
in Hubbard.
HIS PLATFORM:
“If I am elected. I propose more
class unification through greater
class participation on a stronger
Sophomore Council.
“With representatives from each
Corps outfit and each civilian
dormitory, I feel that we could
function more closely as a class.
Thus, we could have more suc
cessful class activities.”
John T. Pratt, a Maroon Band
marketing freshman, was presi
dent of his high school band in
1967.
He places the reputation of the
class of 1971 as a main point in
his platform.
“I will uphold the reputation of
the class of ’71 by representing
it to the best of my ability,” Pratt
said.
COOPERATION is a must be
tween the civilians and the Corps.
This won’t come about in a year—
it is a gradual thing, but we can
start the program on the right
track.”
“In addition, our class must
keep the reputation of the giving
the best class dances. This will
be done,” Pratt said.
Other candidates for sophomore
(See Voting, Page 5)
WISH WE WERE IN COLOR
The Fish Pond and memorial fountain took on the appearance of a ceremonial Aztec blood
bath Wednesday as red dye mysteriously turned up in the water, on the fountain and
around the edge. (Photo by Mike Wright)
‘Artists Can Give Solutions
To U.S. Problems’—Target
By DAVE MAYES
Battalion Staff Writer
The complex problems facing
America must be solved by the
artists, novelists, playwrights and
musicians “who are seeing what
is really happening,” novelist
George W. Target claimed here
Wednesday.
The British critic of contempo
rary America, addressing a
Graduate Lecture Series audience
of about 175, said that the mem
bers of the artistic professions
are the only ones who have the
ability to “tell it the way it is.”
“The true artists look at the
trends and predict what’s going
to happen. They aren’t fright
ened by the present and want to
live in the future,” Target ex
plained.
TARGET WAS highly critical,
on the other hand, of the estab
lished conventional solutions to
U.S. problems, especially the
“educational solution.”
“Teachers who merely impart
information have done more dam
age to the world situation than
Camera Committee To Sponsor
Photo Contest Here May 11
The Texas A&M Camera Com
mittee will holds its annual na
tional intercollegiate photographic
competition May 11 in the Me
morial Student Center.
Salon ’68, open to students,
faculty and members of photo
graphic associations sponsored by
universities and colleges in the
U.S., will provide competition in
eight categories.
MSC Committee Chairman
Frank Tilley of Jacksonville said
color or monochrome prints
mounted on 16 by 20 inch mats
must be received by May 8.
Three distinguished profes-
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
sional photographers will judge
entries in landscape, news, por
traiture, sports, human interest,
nature, still life, fashion and ad
vertising categories at the MSC
Assembly Room May 11.
“Visitors may sit in on the
initial judging of prints, but final
selections will be made in closed
session,” Tilley added.
Awards for the committee’s
10th salon will be first, second
and third place ribbons and a
ribbon for each print selected for
exhibition, according to Louis
Hodges of Houston, salon chair
man.
Award winners and accepted
prints will be displayed in the
MSC for one week.
anyone else,” he exclaimed.
“The only good teachers,” he
said, “are those who, like Socra
tes, dare to make moral state
ments which tend to change or
alter the behavior of their stu
dents. And these teachers are
pretty rare nowadays.
“You people are being cheated
if you think you can get an edu
cation by attended classes at a
universtiy,” Target told the audi
ence.
HE ARGUED that one learns
only when he is participating in
informal discussions with his
peers and professors.
“Charging bulls will get much
more mental exercise than steers
sitting contentedly on their back
sides.”
Target ended his lecture with
this remark:
“I don’t care if you reject
everything I’ve said tonight—so
long as you have arrived at your
decision by your own mental
processes and not by using stock
responses.”
Dr. Manuel M. Davenport, head
of the Department of Philosophy
and Humanities, introduced Tar
get as a moralist “whose philos
ophy is based not on bookishness
but his own experiences” as a
deck hand, grocery clerk, soldier
and teacher.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. —Adv.
The Air Force Sweetheart will
be chosen Saturday night from
five finalists at the annual Air
Force Ball in Sbisa Dining Hall.
The informal dance will last
from 8 p.m. until midnight. Uni
form will be long-sleeve summer
with ascots.
Music will be provided by Texas
Southern University’s Toronados.
The band recently played at the
Army’s Combat Ball.
“We are expecting a good turn
out from both the Army seniors
and the Air Force cadets,” Steve
Melzer, Ball chairman, said.
THE BALL is free to all Air
Force cadets, Army seniors and
their dates.
Sbisa will be decorated for the
ball with Cadet Slouch, Snoopy
and Red Baron cartoons.
Special guests for the evening
include President Earl Rudder,
Gen. Spencer J. Buchanan (USA
ret.), Maj. Gen. John P. Doyle
(USAF ret.), and Rear Admiral
James D. Craik (USCG ret.).
Candidates for Air Force
Sweetheart are Janis Holder,
Karen Pearsall, Janis Boon,
Susan Armstrong and Diane
Devore.
MISS HOLDER, a hazel eyed
brunette, was entered in the con
test by Anthony W. Groves. She
is a secretary in Universal City,
is 5 feet four inches tall and
weighs 115 pounds.
A junior elementary education
major at Southwest Texas State,
Miss Pearsall has green eyes and
brown hair. The 5-foot-2-inch
Paving Project
To Start Soon
First phase of a four-street
paving project on the south side
of the A&M campus will begin
next week, announced W. H. Bad-
gett, system physical plants man
ager.
Badgett said the $72,668 proj
ect will extend the pavement of
Throckmorton, Houston, Russell
and Bizzell to Jersey Street,
which is currently being widened.
Throckmorton will be paved
first, Badgett noted, and probably
will be closed most of April.
Houston and Russell will be
under construction during May
and Bizzell in June and July.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
Kerrville resident weighs 100
pounds, and her name was sub
mitted by Quentin N. Killian.
Escorted by Marshall J. Gas-
pard, Miss Devore is a junior
elementary education major at
Lamar Tech. The five-foot, six-
inch brunette weighs 120 pounds
and is from Anahuac.
Miss Armstrong, who will be
escorted by Richard Bowen, is
a senior at Abilene High School.
She has hazel eyes, blonde hair,
weighs 107 pounds and is five
feet, one inch tall.
Miss Boon, a green-eyed red
head, is a resident of Ennis and
will be escorted by Russell E.
Bell. The elementary education
major at East Texas State weighs
115 pounds and is five feet, two
inches tall.
BB&L
Benton, Hall,
Lippke Named
Drum Majors
Michael B. Benton of Dallas,
Lawrence A. Lippke of Yorktown
and James J. Hall III of Corpus
Christi have been selected as Tex
as Aggie Band drum majors for
1968-69, announced Lt. Col. E. V.
Adams, director.
The junior Army cadets were
chosen by a 14-man selection com
mittee. They will be recommend
ed to President Earl Rudder
through the commandant’s office
for appointment to cadet rank
next September.
Selection was based on perform
ance in directing the band in the
“National Anthem,” “Spirit of
Aggieland” and marching maneu
vers. The selection committee
was composed of this year’s com
bined, Maroon and White Band
commanders and drum majors,
first sergeants, sergeant major, a
freshman and sophomore of each
band company and Colonel
Adams,
Benton, an accounting major
and Woodrow Wilson High grad
uate, was recommended for head
drum major.
Lippke and Hall were approved
for Maroon and White Band drum
major posts, respectively. An ag
ricultural economics major, Lipp
ke is the third Aggie Band mem
ber of the Yorktown family.
, Hall is an industrial engineer
ing major and graduate of W. B.
Ray High School of Corpus.
NEW DRUM MAJORS
The Texas Aggie Band will be led onto the field next year
by these three juniors, named 1968-69 drum majors this
week. Left to right, they are Lawrence Lippke, recom
mended for Maroon Band drum major; Mike Benton, rec
ommended for head drum major; and James Hall, recom
mended for White Band drum major. (Photo by Mike
Wright)