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• -v''. ‘ LIBRARY CAMPUS 14 COPIES Che Battalion Weather $: xi :$ Thursday — Cloudy, thunder storms jx in the afternoon, wind Southerly 15-30 m.p.h. High 79, low 71. :$ Friday — Partly cloudy, winds North- erly 15-25 m.p.h. High 71, low 67. $: ■'.•X'X'X'X’X’X’X'X’I’X'X'I’X’X’X’I'X'X’X’X'X’X’X'X'X'I'I'X'i’I'C^'X*.** VOLUME 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1968 Number 566 Davenport Hopes To Wr/S(]()\ / Y To Consider Philosophy Major By Fall By DAVE MAYES One of the youngest depart ment heads at Texas A&M, Dr. Manuel M. Davenport, 38, took the reins of the fledgling Depart ment of Philosophy and Humani ties last summer with the hopes of conferring doctoral degrees by 1976. Tucked away in a small office Youngkin Chosen Head Yell Leader Bill Youngkin of Gilmer, a junior agricultural education ma jor, will be head yell leader next school year, Dean of Students Janies P. Hannigan announced. A 6-foot-l cadet, Youngkin is expected to apply a high degree of enthusiasm and ability in the responsible position, according to Malon Southerland of the com mandant’s office. Southerland chaired a commit tee Hannigan appointed to screen applications and select the head yell leader. Youngkin was one of three yell leaders elected by the junior class. The committee in cluded Bill Lancaster, assistant director of the Memorial Student Center; Neal Adams of Tyler, this year’s head yell leader; Patrick G. Rehmet of Alice, dep uty corps commander, and Reese Brown of Tyler, Corps battalion commander. YOUNGKIN was the commit tee’s unanimous choice,” Souther land noted. “He was also the top vote-getter among his class mates.” A 1965 Gilmer High graduate who worked on his grandparents’ chicken farm, Bill is operations sergeant on Second Brigade Staff and active in other student areas. As head yell leader, he will work with juniors Robert Segner of San Antonio and Barney Daw son of Wichita Falls and sopho mores David A. Hoelscher of Alice and Gary Mauro of Dallas in leading yells at athletic events, have charge of two yell practices a week during football season and head the Tranksgiving Bon fire construction. “Youngkin’s bearing, obvious high standards, moral character, ability to express himself, his view points and his ideas im pressed the committee,” Souther land added. Y* lYAilte BILL YOUNGKIN AS HEAD YELL leader, the son of Mrs. Frances Taylor of Gilmer will be at the center of the “esprit de corps” for which A&M is well known. “Mauro and I will work very closely to help new civilian stu dents become a part of the 12th Man,” Youngkin said. “The new student tends to be closer to his high school than A&M. We have several ideas that should help him feel he’s a part of the Aggie spirit.” The Distinguished Student pointed out that the Corps is smaller in relation to student body size. “I don’t think the 12th Man should get smaller,” he declared. The outstanding sophomore of Company B-2, Youngkin is a member of the Ross Volunteers, Town Hall, election commission, junior class secretary-treasurer, Collegiate FFA secretary and a former YMCA Fish Camper. Air University Chief Predicts ‘More ( dibas, V ietnams’ F or U. S. economic, psychosocial and scien tific-technological factors that have an impact on the recom mendations or the decisions- he will be making.” Carpenter, who made the com missioning address here last spring, indicated international af fairs are more complex with for mer tenets of foreign policy no longer applying. Regulations Will Be Enforced At Thursday Election Air Force ROTC cadets in New York for the Arnold Air Society conclave where A&M’s Corps Commander was honored heard that service preparation must cover various social-technological fields in order to handle future assignments. Air Force Lt. Gen. John W. Carpenter III, Air University commander, predicted probable “Cubas and Vietnams” for some time to come in greater or lesser scales. The Maxwell AFB-based Air University official keynoted the 20th national meeting of the so ciety. A&M Cadet Col. Lonnie C. Minze of Houston was one of the nation’s top nine AFROTC cadets honored by the Air Force Associ ation. He received the W. Ran dolph Lovelace Memorial Award as the outstanding cadet in Re gion 6. Other recipients were from Boston, Mississippi State, Ohio State, Michigan Tech, Michigan, Southern Cal and Colorado State Universities and Virginia Military Institute. “In today’s Air Force, we are looking ahead to see that our of ficers are prepared to serve in tomorrow’s Air Force. These are the men who must be able to plan, acquire and operate the tools of aerospace warfare,” General Car penter said. “The officer must not only be a highly qualified, professional military technologist, but he must also understand the complicated world in which we live,” he con tinued. “Along with the military element, he must understand the interplay of the other aspects of national power . . . the political, University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M. —Adv. Sophomores will elect a class president tomorrow, with voting booths in the Memorial Student Center open from 8 a.m. until 7:30 p^m. Election Commission Chairman Tony Benedetto said that the elec tion will be conducted in accord ance with current University Reg ulations. Anyone wishing to vote must wear shoes and socks. “No literature containing any candidate’s name will be allowed to be circulated in the MSC or within 50 yards of the MSC on Thursday. This will be interpreted to mean the passing of any num ber (one or more) between per sons,” Benedetto explained. Violation of this regulation will result in forfeiture of voting privileges and possible removal of a candidate’s name from the bal lot. Candidates names on the ballot are John MacGillis, Robert L. Bowling, John Gingrich, Albert J. Reinert, John G. Otto, John P. Maline, Allen D. Janacek, and Col lier R. Watson. Benedetto said both activity and identification cards would be re quired to vote. on the first floor of the Academic Building, Davenport has been working closely with administra tion officials to establish an un dergraduate major in philosophy by next fall and a master’s degree program within four years. “A&M is perhaps the only school of its size that offers no degrees in philosophy at all,” the slim, soft-spoken Colorado native pointed out. “I WANTED this job for the challenge of building a new de partment. Things were just go ing too smoothly for me to stay on as associate professor of phi losophy at Colorado State Univer sity,” he explained. When he became head of phi losophy and humanities, Daven port actually inherited a “ghost department.” Only books and of fice records were left; the last professor had already gone. Now he has two new profes sors to share the teaching load and has had time to make some observations of the A&M student body. “I’VE FOUND that students here are very similar to those I left at CSU in their backgrounds and attitudes, and just as enjoy able to teach,” he said. “The student body also seems to be more interested in philoso phy than I expected, which strengthens my belief that the department has a tremendous growth potential.” Davenport leaned back in his chair and gazed thoughtfully at the line of bookshelves which double as his office wall, trying to recall his boyhood days in east ern Colorado. “I suppose I really became in terested in philosophy,” he said, “when I began reading Nietzsche at 15. One book followed another and I haven’t finished reading yet.” HE RAN his fingers through his dark hair and laughed: “I really went to college just for fun. “You see,” he continued, “I knew I could earn a living doing a number of things that didn’t require a college degree. “I held several jobs while earn ing my way through school and became pretty good at some of them. I worked as a stonemason, motel clerk, ranch hand and beer truck driver, to name a few,” he said. After he had graduated from Bethany Nazarene College in 1950 with a philosophy degree, Davenport said he continued driv ing his beer truck until one day a friend suggested he take a teaching job at a nearby one-room country schoolhouse. “EVEN THOUGH I enjoyed my experience there as an elementary school teacher, I soon decided I’d rather teach on a higher level. I was afraid I’d start thinking like a fifth grader even when I wasn’t teaching class,” he quipped. While completing his master’s degree at Colorado College in 1953, Davenport became interest ed in the life and work of the philosopher - physician, Albert Schweitzer. “I had always wondered,” he said, “why Schweitzer, an avowed agnostic, would spend his life healing the sick in a remote hos pital.” Seven years later, when a Peace Corps research grant gave him the opportunity, Davenport called on Dr. Schweitzer at his hospital in Lambarene. THROUGHOUT his unforget table two-week visit, Davenport was impressed by Schweitzer’s relatively simple yet satisfying (See Davenport, Page 2) U. S. Power Limits BEFORE.. . Workmen remove parts of prefabricated library carrels from a van outside the new addi tion to Cushing Memorial Library. After sliding down the ramp, the heavy parts are moved to the already-completed section of the $3.8 million addition. (Photo by Mike Wright) $3.8 Million Library Addition Said 95 Per Cent Completed The $3.8 million addition to Cushing Memorial Library is 95 Y&r e e n't complete, reports Charles E. Brunt, assistant man- j iy:er of system physical plants. jThe addition, complete with hundreds of mahogany-paneled bookstacks and gleaming marble walls will furnish Cushing Li brary with 200,000 square feet of new floor space. It will raise the stack capacity to more than one million volumes in the Cushing Building. Problems caused by weather and fixture and furniture sup plies have delayed completion of the building several times. The completion date was once set for last December. Because of bad weather, conditions which slowed the concrete and other exterior work, an extension date was set for March, 1968. Now, according to one of the construction inspectors, May 1 is the target date to begin filling the shelves with books. “This building will be a show case on campus,” Brunt said. The new addition also will house a separate room with fa cilities for electronic learning carrels. The carrels were re cently demonstrated by the Edu cational Television Department here at an open house in the ETV studio. $ll,000Netted In Fund Drive, Reparts Show By BOB PALMER Battalion Staff Writer Topic for the 14th Student Conference on National Affairs will be “The Limits and Respon sibilities of American Power,” SCON A Chairman Don McCrory revealed Tuesday. “The topic is aimed at the two major questions facing the Amer ican public,” McCrory said. “It deals with both the international aspect — what are the limits of our power — and the national one — can we afford it?” The Dec. 4-7 conference is al ready off on a sound economical footing as a result of the Easter fund drive, McCrory said. Finance Committee Chairman Bill Howell estimated the drive netted more than $11,000, more than any previous Easter drive. THE FINAL results are still being tabulated from the drive, but both Howell and McCrory said the drive went “extremely well.” The total budget for SCON A XIV is $18,500. Howell was opti mistic about collecting the bal ance in the June fund drive. Howell listed as the major causes for the success of the fund drive the “organization of SCONA XIII” and the enthu siasm of new contact. Howell also indicated that the topic for the coming SCONA also generated interest. “We want to explore the right ness or wrongness of U. S. in volvement on its present large scale,” McCrory said. “CAN WE BE policemen to the world?” McCrory asked. The chairman also said that the conference will explore how the country managed to get to its present position from its isola tionism of the pre-World War II MIIIm ... AND AFTER Once the parts are inside, they are installed in place. Electronic learning aids, recently demonstrated at the Educational Television Department here, are to be added later. (Photo by Mike Wright) Morgenstern To Speak Tonight On ‘Decisions, Social Welfare’ Fish To Compete In TU Drill Meet The national champion Fish Drill Team shoulders rifles Sat urday for its first competition since winning the National Inter collegiate ROTC Drill title at Washington, D. C. The freshmen, commanded by Sammy Garcia of San Antonio, will compete against 10 teams in the University of Texas meet at Austin. Malon Southerland of the com mandant’s office, faculty advisor, said the fish expect to meet about the same units that march ed in the annual A&M Invita tional in March. A&M won the meet. Dr. Oskar Morgenstern, a noted political scientist, will lecture to night at the Memorial Student Center Ballroom. The former adviser at the White House during President Eisenhower’s administration is to speak at 8 p.m. under sponsorship of the Graduate Lecture Series and the MSC Great Issues Com mittee. “Individual Decisions and So cial Welfare” is the topic of the public-free lecture. Morgenstern, a Princeton Uni versity professor, has served on numerous committees assisting the United Nations and the League of Nations. A native of Goerlitz, Silesia, in a Polish province, Morgenstern earned a doctor’s degree in politi cal science in 1925 at the Univer sity of Vienna. He also has hon orary doctorates from Mannheim and Basel. After nine years on the Vienna University faculty, Morgenstern joined Princeton. He became a naturalized American citizen in 1944. The 66-year old political scien tist is co-editor of a national eco nomics publication in Vienna. Before coming to the United States, he served 10 years as the publication’s managing editor. Dr. Morgenstern is board chair man of Mathematics in Princeton, N. J., and a trustee of the Insti tute of Advanced Studies in Vienna. Silver Taps Held For Stockhoff Silver Taps ceremonies were held Tuesday for John Alvin Stockhoff, freshman pre-medi cal student from Greenville, whose body was found in his Dormitory 20 room last Tues day. The 19-year-old freshman had last been seen April 4. He was a Distinguished Student during his first semester here. Justice of the Peace Alton P. Boyett, Jr. returned a ver dict of suicide last week follow ing an autopsy. AF Unit Sets One-Day Tour Of Bergstrom Squadron 2 of the Cadet Corps will tour Bergstrom AFB Friday, announced Col. Vernon L. Head, professor of aerospace studies. About 60 Air Force ROTC ca dets will make the one-day tour. Squadron 2’s visit was arranged by Air Force Maj. Duane E. Van- denberg, a 1952 A&M graduate who was stationed at Bergstrom before reassignment to Southeast Asia. Major Vandenberg presented the unit a saber worn by a 1935 A&M graduate. The squadron, commanded by Cadet Maj. Brian E. Heckman of Humble, installed the saber as the James Randolph Oppenheim Memorial. Oppenheim, who died in a World War II prison camp, and two Aggie flight commanders have worn the saber, which will be carried by the Squadron 2 com mander each year at Final Re view. Air Force Capt. Samuel J. Boles of the Aerospace Studies Department said cadets and other guests will view radar, weather, photo and base operations facili ties at Bergstrom. The cadets will receive a mission briefing, observe a static display of F4Cs and other aircraft, watch a fly-by of F4s and have lunch at an offi cers club. Boles, the unit advisor, will be escort officer. He said the tour will depart A&M at 6 a.m. and leave Austin on the return trip around 3 p.m. “We also want to examine our military programs around the world, our alliances and the cost of our military commitment ver sus American interests at home.” The conference will look into the country’s stake in the world’s economy and the limits on the power of the dollar. McCrory said the question “How much can we spend in both money and men’s lives?” will be put to the conference. The ques tion of cost of our commitments to the country will be one of the main issues of the meeting. “In the end we hope to come up with some sort of projection of America’s foreign diplomacy in the coming decade,” McCrory said. Ross Volunteers To Be Featured In Fiesta Parade The Ross Volunteers will serve as honor guard for San Antonio’s “Battle of Flowers” queen in the Fiesta Flambeau parade April 27. The night-time parade is one of the most popular events of the annual San Antonio celebration. Francis J. Bourgeois, RV com mander, of New Braunfels, said the entire 105-cadet company will march. “The RVs will be split into pla toons and the staff to precede each of four floats carrying the queen and her court,” Bourgeois said. The long, downtown San Antonio parade usually concludes after midnight. Ross Volunteer platoon leaders are James R. Thompson of Alice; Carl V. Feducia, Shreveport, and John R. Baldridge, Bossier City, La. The Alamo City appearance will be the RV’s second of the school year. The company’s dis tinctive white uniforms also were seen in the King Rex parade in New Orleans’ Mardi Gras. Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav ings Cofttef, since 1919. —Adv. I I BQ &L