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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1968
Number 561
RANGER AND FRIEND
During the past basketball season, Ranger III occa
sionally showed up in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Here,
Campus Security Sgt. M. A. Maddox was called on to
take charge of the bulldog after Ranger’s antics de
layed the A&M-SMU basketball game. (Photo by
Mike Wright)
Ranger III Dead
Ranger III, pet bulldog of President Earl Rudder’s
son Bob and unofficial Aggie mascot, drowned Saturday
and was buried beside his predecessor Sunday.
The 22-month-old bulldog reportedly jumped out of
a boat while on a family outing at Carter Lake, five
miles south of College, where the Rudders are building
a cabin.
Robert Gonzales, Corps public information officer,
reported the events as Mrs. Rudder had recounted them
to him.
“The first we heard of Ranger’s death was 10 a. m.
Sunday when someone called the guardroom and asked
for a representative of the Corps to be present at the
burial,” Gonzales said.
By the time Gonzales and Hector Gutierrez, Corps
Staff supply segeant, reached the Rudder home, Ranger
had been buried and President Rudder was taking Bob
out for some hunting.
“Mrs. Rudder met us at the door,” Gonzales said.
“She said that Bob was about to go out on the lake in
the rowboat Saturday afternoon when the president
told him to take Ranger along.”
She pointed out that Ranger had been out in the
boat several times before and had always stayed in
the boat.
“Ranger had been playing along the lake’s edge
all day, splashing up water and trying to catch it in his
mouth,” Gonzales recounted. “Apparently he tried the
same thing in the boat.
“When Ranger fell out of the boat he shoved it
away. Bob quickly turned the boat around and jumped
in after him into the eight-foot-deep water.
“President Rudder also dived in, but the heavy
bulldog, who can’t breath through his nose, came to the
surface only once, then sank,” Gonzales continued.
Ranger III now lies next to Ranger II, across a
ravine from the front of the Rudder’s campus home.
“We treated Bob to evening chow in Duncan,”
Gonzales said. “He was feeling pretty low and we tried
to cheer him up.”
“Bob says he wants to get another dog,” he went on,
and he would only want a bulldog.”
Ranger II was officially presented to Bob in May,
1966, by that year’s Aggie graduating class. Seven
weeks old at the time, the registered English bulldog
replaced Ranger II, which died Dec. 9, 1965, following
surgery.
The original Ranger, named in honor of the Ranger
battalion which Rudder commanded during World War
II, died shortly before the family moved to College
Station in 1968.
While Ranger II technically belonged to Rudder’s
son, the dog was adopted by numerous Aggie dormitory
students.
He roamed the campus at will and was often absent
from the president’s home for extended periods. Among
his favorite hangouts were Sbisa and Duncan Dining
Halls, where he was assured of friendly pats and plenty
of chow.
Ranger III was always more accessible to the stu-
(See RANGER, Page 3)
RANGER’S GRAVE
... beside his predecessor’s
Election Results Affirmed
Despite Student Protests
Candidate Lists
Given Approval
By MIKE PLAKE
Battalion Staff Writer
Fundamental changes and clar
ifications of election procedure
for future student elections were
approved last night in a special
open meeting of the student elec
tion commissioners.
Current student dissatisfaction
with last Thursday’s class elec
tion proceedings proved to be an
underlying cause for the special
meeting.
ONE OF THE candidates who
failed to finish in the run-offs,
John R. Gingrich, (a candidate
for Junior class President),
lodged a formal request from the
floor that the election results not
be accepted by the commis
sioners.
Gingrich said a new election
should be held because of im
proper procedures which took
place in the Memorial Student
Center while students were vot
ing.
He cited an example of stu
dents passing lists of candidates
among those in the waiting line.
He said this was a case of formal
campaigning within the MSC on
FIRST IN A
THREE-PART SERIES
. . . The elections should be re
held.”
THE PEOPLE turned away,
Election Commission Chairman
Anthony Benedetto said, either
had beards or wore no socks.
“Later, however, after consult
ing with Dean Hannigan, it was
decided that students be required
to comply with current civilian
clothing regulations, which are
listed in the University Regula
tions,” Benedetto said. “People
who wore beards that were in
anyway connected with their re
ligion or culture, however, were
permitted to vote.”
Goldman’s argument, that the
election be invalidated because of
the clothing regulation enforce
ment, was voted down.
The act of formal campaigning,
formerly interpreted by members
of the election commission, was
also discussed. A majority de
cided that “There will be no
formal campaigning on election
day in the polling place or within
50 yards thereof. Formal cam
paigning by the candidate or
mass distribution of literature by
the candidate or his supporters
will not be permitted.”
CORPS JUNTA
Leaders of the “bloodless coup” that overthrew Corps Staff Monday march to morning
chow in front of their respective Wing and Brigade colors. From left, they are Bill Mor
gan, First Brigade commander; Carl Feducia, Second Brigade commander; John R. Bald
ridge, First Wing commander, and Rich Engel, Second Wing commander. Note “Cofed-
eracy” flag at left. (Photo by Mike Wright)
For MSC Committees
election day, which is prohibited
by the current voting regulations.
HE ALSO said it gave those
candidates whose names were on
the lists an unfair advantage over
other candidates who had no lists
being passed.
Gingrich’s motion failed to pass
as the commissioners accepted
the results of last week’s election.
The issues which followed dur
ing the remainder of the meeting
concerned changes in the present
regulations and clarification of
rules given in the regulations.
One item of argument was a
written statement from Steven
Goldman. He wrote that “ap
proximately 54 students were
turned away . . . after waiting
an hour-and-a-half to vote. . . .
I vigorously protest this action.
Spring Personnel Drive Begins
By DAVE MAYES
Battalion Staff Writer
Students wishing to join one
of 11 Memorial Student Center
MSC Directorate’s Spring Per
sonnel Drive, according to Joe M.
(Mac) Spears, vice president-elect
of operations.
“The drive, set for 7:30 p.m.
tonight in the MSC Assembly
Room, will give students a chance
to talk with committee chairmen
at individual committee booths,”
Spears said.
Throughout the evening, Ben
jamin Sims, president-elect of
the MSC Council and Directorate;
Keller Webster, executive vice
president-elect of operations, and
Wayne Prescott, executive vice
Police Charge
Third Student
Fourth Army Chief To Speak
To Engineers Here Wednesday
Fourth U. S. Army Commander
Lt. Gen. L. J. Lincoln will talk on
the effect of advancing military
tecnology on engineering develop
ment here Wednesday.
General Lincoln’s Engineering
Lecture presentation, “Engineer
ing Frontiers — Military View
Point,” will be at 3:30 p.m. in
the Architecture Auditorium, an
nounced Dean Fred J. Benson.
The general, in his 35th year
of Army service, has viewed high
ly complex engineering required
by U. S. fighting forces.
The 1933 West Point graduate
earned a civil engineering degree
at Princeton, instructed at the
academy and received an honor
ary science doctorate from Ferris
State College.
Military service has taken him
to Hawaii, Southeast Asia, Korea
and the Mediterranean for promi
nent parts in engineering pro
jects from Pacific atomic tests
to major construction in nine
countries extending from Morocco
to the Khyber Pass and the Black
Sea to Eritrea.
Lincoln, 57, was district engine
er in Denver and Kansas City.
During his three-year tour at the
latter, Kansas and lower Miss
ouri Rivers flooding required the
district to play a key role in flood
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
fighting and extensive early
emergency activity.
A general 12 years, he was
commander of the Army Engineer
Center and commandant of the
Army Engineer School at Fort
Belvoir, Va., and had world-wide
Army logistics, at Department
of the Army headquarters at the
Pentagon.
He was appointed commanding
general of the 4th Army, Fort
Sam Houston, last July.
General Lincoln wears the Dis
tinguished Service Medal with
cluster, Legion of Merit, Republic
of China’s Special Breast Order
of Pao Ting and France’s Legion
of Honor.
In Burgl
aries
GEN. LINCOLN
Burglary charges were filed
Friday by Texas A&M security
officers against a third student
after several thousand dollars
worth of university property was
stolen during the past five
months.
Campus Security Chief Ed
Powell said his office also filed
felony theft charges against an
other youth believed responsible
for taking a television set and
radio from a dormitory room last
week.
Charged with burglary was
Franklin Rodney Kuppersmith,
19, sophomore psychology student
from Mobile, Ala.
Theft charges were filed
against John H. Holt Jr., 22, of
Livingston, a junior majoring in
industrial technology.
Both students are free on $1,000
bond each, Powell said. Their
cases were filed in the Brazos
County Justice of the Peace Court
of B. H. Dewey.
Powell said Kuppersmith is
suspected of involvement in a
portion of the burglaries for
which Jerry F. Janecka and Er
win G. Kirkvold were charged
last Friday. Janecka is a 19-year-
old engineering student from
Hillsboro. Kirkvold, also 19 and
an engineering student, is from
Sioux Falls, S. D.
Janecka and Kirkvold, both
currently free on $4,000 bond
each, are suspected of buglar-
izing at least six campus facilities
dating back to before Thanks
giving.
Powell said Kuppersmith has
been formally charged with only
one burglary, the Memorial Stu
dent Center Dec. 4.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
president-elect of programs, will
give short talks on the purpose
of the MSC student programs, the
organizational structure of the
Directorate and the functions of
various Directorate committees.
“WE HOPE to make this
spring drive an annual affair,”
Spears continued.
“By having a personnel drive
the second semester,” he said,
“we hope to recruit freshmen who
have seen enough of the commit
tees in action to have some idea
of which committees they most
want to join.”
Spears said that sophomores
and juniors will also be needed
to staff many committees initiat
ing next year’s programs begin
ning the last week in April.
“We are especially concentrat
ing on the civilian students this
spring,” Spears said.
“WE HAVE sent 2,000 letters
through Mr. Edwin H. Cooper,
director of civilian student activi
ties, for distribution to the civil
ian dormitories.”
Spears added that Cooper an
ticipated a large civilian turnout
as a result of the Directorate’s
publicity efforts.
“We will be looking for about
30 freshmen and sophomores to
help raise $18,000 during the
Easter and June fund drives,”
Harry Lesser, vice-chairman of
the Student Conference on Na
tional Affairs (SCONA), com
mented.
“Great Issues will be doubling
the number of programs it will
present next year so we can use
anyone who is really willing to
work,” David Maddox, chairman-
elect, said.
Directorate committees partici
pating in the Spring Personnel
Drive are Great Issues, SCONA,
Travel, Radio, Camera, Chess,
Flying K a d e t s , Recreation,
Bridge, Dance and Contemporary
Arts.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. —Adv.
AIR FORCE SWEETHEART
Diane Devore, a Lamar Tech junior majoring in elementary
education, was named Air Force Sweetheart at the Air
Force Ball here Saturday. She was escorted by Marshall
T. Gaspard, a senior mechanical engineering major. In the
background is a portion of the Ball’s “Snoopy and the Red
Baron” decoration theme. (Photo by Mike Wright)