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Twelve Semifinalists Named To ’68 Vanity Fair List
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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1968
Number 567
CHOICE ’68 Ballot
For Wednesday
KATHERIN SUDELA
. . . Baylor freshman
VASHTI MERIAGE
. .. SWTSC junior
CAROL BELER
.. . Denton blonde
DIANNE WILLIS
.. . Shreveport blonde
JUDITH TAYLOR
. . . Texas student
U,M
NANCY COLEMAN
. Sam Houston freshman
GAYLA BELL
... Port Arthur brunette
SALLY ANN LINDSEY
. . . Baylor blonde
Student Poll
To Highlight
Senate Vote
By MIKE FLAKE
Battalion Feature Writer
A&M students will have the
chance to exert their political in
fluence two ways in the Student
Senate elections Wednesday.
They will elect the complete
slate of officers for the Student
Senate as well as the Civilian
Student Council. Candidates for
chairmen of the Issues, Student
Life, Public Relations, and Stu
dent Welfare Committees of the
Memorial Student Center Direc
torate will also be on the slate.
In addition to electing student
body officers, the voters also may
participate in the CHOICE ’68
National Presidential Collegiate
Primary.
Over 1,000 universities and
5,000,000 students are expected to
turn out for the primary. A sam
ple ballot which will be used is
included on Page 5.
The ballot includes a list of
presidential candidates and three
referendum questions.
CHOICE has been billed by na
tional leaders as an important in
fluence in the 1968 presidential
campaign.
President Lyndon B. Johnson
supported CHOICE with this
statement:
“I hope the public service TIME
is performing will really be one,”
he said, “because if there is one
thing disappointing to me about
young people, it is that they
don’t use all the opportunities
available to them to make their
government a better govern
ment.”
TIME Magazine is sponsoring
CHOICE.
“In 1964,” the President con
tinued, “only half the young peo
ple took the trouble to express
themselves when they had their
opportunity. It ought not be that
way. Those who are going to
live the longest and be most af
fected by the government, for a
longer period, really have more
at stake.”
Former Vice President Richard
Nixon, according to his aide, John
Whitacker, said that he (Nixon)
doesn’t stand much of a chance.
Whitacker said Nixon thought
the whole program built around
CHOICE is liberal-oriented, and
therefore excludes his way of
thinking.
LAURA LEE BELVILLE
. . . TWU sophomore
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NANCY JAMES
. . Texas freshman
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SENIOR RING LINE
Mrs. Louise Brownlee, senior ring clerk, takes down information from juniors ordering
senior rings. At left is Barney Gershen, Company A-l, and at center is Richard Eads of
the White Band. Ring orders are being taken on weekday mornings from 8 to noon. (Photo
by Mike Wright)
Top SWC Students Arrive
For Tdea Exchange’ Meeting
KERRY SKARIEN
.. . SWTSC senior
JUDI MARTIN
. . . Baylor coed
Three Chairmen
Still Needed For
MSC Committees
Chairmen are still needed for
the Radio, Chess and Recreation
Committees of the Memorial Stu
dent Center Council and Direc
torate, announced Benjamin Sims
of Kingsville, Council president
elect.
Students with a 1.4 grade point
ratio should apply at the Student
Programs Office by April 26.
In other business, Harry Snow-
dy, vice president-elect of pro
grams, announced that a film
series committee will operate on
a trial basis next fall.
Featured films, to be shown
in the MSC ballroom on Friday
nights, are Fail-Safe, Seven Days
in May, The Ipcress File and
The War Wagon.
Sims reminded committee
chairmen that the annual MSC
Awards Banquet, with a Pan-
American theme, is scheduled
April 25.
Sims also announced that an
organizational chart of the Coun
cil and Directorate, complete with
pictures and a glass case, will
be hung by the Student Programs
Office by next week.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adv.
By BOB PALMER
Battalion Staff Writer
Student leaders from South
west Conference schools arrive
today for a student idea exchange
conference which continues
through Saturday.
Approximately 25 students will
attend the meet in the Memorial
Student Center to help “open
communication between the
schools,” said Student Senate
Ag Convocation
Set Tonight
At 7 In MSC
By JOHN MOORES
Battalion Special Writer
Reagan V. Brown, sociologist
with the Agricultural Extension
Service, will give a slide presen
tation, “High on the Totem Pole”
at the 12th annual Agricultural
Convocation in the Memorial Stu
dent Center ballroom at 7 tonight.
This year’s theme is centered
around being prepared for the
dynamic future of agriculture,
Dr. R. C. Potts, associate dean of
agriculture for instruction, said.
Another program feature is the
recognition of an honor professor
and several outstanding graduat
ing seniors in the College of Ag
riculture.
The Agricultural Convocation
is the only annual meeting of all
students and faculty in the Col
lege of Agriculture. The Convo
cation is sponsored by the Stu
dent Agricultural Council com
posed of student representatives
from each of the technical clubs
on campus. Dr. Potts said.
Brown has promoted Texas ag
riculture through his leadership
in the Texas Community Improve
ment Program. In addition, he
has served as county agricultural
agent in three Texas counties.
His “down to earth” philosophy
has made him a widely known
speaker throughout the South
west.
An attendance will be present
ed to the departmental club with
the most members present. The
gavel is made of wood from a
bannister in Gathright Hall, the
first building on the campus. The
Entomology Club currently holds
the attendance gavel.
This year a special effort is be
ing made to encourage wives of
students and faculty members to
attend the Convocation, according
to Dr. Potts.
Vice-President Bill Carter who
has ramrodded the conference.
"We hope to develop better
student relations between the
Southwest Conference schools and
to exchange ideas to improve our
student governments,” Carter
noted.
DELEGATES to the conference
will be made up of student body
presidents, head yell leaders or
cheerleaders, editors of school
newspapers, athletes and other
student leaders.
Sid Spain, Southern Methodist
student body president, will be
the first speaker for the confer
ence. Spain is expected to pro
vide the liberal student viewpoint
of student government.
William P. Kuvlesky, assistant
professor of sociology, will pre
sent the socialist look at student
government to the conference.
Carter said he hopes to get
ideas from the roundtable dis
cussions which will help solve
some of the problems A&M stu
dents face.
“WE WILL be discussing prob
lems in the rights and roles of
student governments and student
publications,” Carter said. “We
will also look into Conference
sportsmanship.”
Carter said that discussion
might also bring recommenda
tions on how to organize civilian
students and in conduct of elec
tions and campaigns.
He also pointed out that ways
to enhance student power might
arise from the conference.
Another program that Carter
will be pushing at the meeting is
a SWC Student Association to
coordinate student activities in
the conference.
“The major problem will be
funds,” Carter remarked. “I
think this is something we need
and all the schools can profit by
it.”
Carter first presented the idea
of the idea exchange conference
at the SWC fall sportsmanship
meeting.
Six Finalists
To Be Chosen
Next Month
By DAVE MAYES
Battalion Staff Writer
Six of 12 semi-finalists will
be announced as the court of
A&M’s Vanity Fair at the May
18 Senior Ring Dance, according
to Gordon E. Sommers of San
Antonio, Aggieland editor.
Vashti Louise Meriage of San
Marcos, escorted by John T. Cor
coran of Tyler, is a junior eco
nomics major at Southwest Texas
State College. A former high
school homecoming queen, she
is 20 and has brown hair and
brown eyes.
Escorted by Carl H. Neumann
of Houston, Katherin Sudela, 18,
is a brown-haired, blue-eyed
freshman nursing major, attend
ing Baylor University.
A 20-YEAR-OLD blonde, Carol
Beler of Denton, will be escorted
by Ron McLeroy of Dallas.
Dianne Carol Willis, 21, has
blonde hair and hazel eyes. The
Shreveport, La., contestant will
be escorted by Carl Feducia, also
of Shreveport.
Clarence Daugherty of San An
tonio will escort a Baylor coed,
Judi Martin, 18. She has brown
eyes and brown hair.
Kerry Lent Skarien, 21, is a
senior majoring in elementary
education at Southwest Texas
State College. The San Antonio
native has brown eyes and auburn
hair and will be escorted by Leon
E. Travis III of San Antonio.
BLONDE, blue-eyed Sally Ann
Lindsey, 21, wil be escorted by
Steve Melzer of Midland. Miss
Lindsey is a student at Baylor
University.
Escorting Nancy James of Wes
laco is Mike Shaw, also of Wes
laco. A student at the University
of Texas, Miss James has blonde
hair and blue eyes. She was
named “Combat Cutie” here last
month.
Laura Lee Belville, 19, is a
sophomore sociology major at
tending Texas Woman’s Univer
sity. The brown-haired, green-
eyed Texas City native will be
escorted by John B. Drury of
Garland.
A University of Texas coed,
Judith Diane Taylor, 20, will be
escorted by Robert B. Boldt of
Tyler. She has brown hair and
brown eyes.
MARK DAVIS of San Antonio
will escort Gayla Bell, 20, brown
haired, blue-eyed contestant from
Port Arthur.
A freshman at Sam Houston
State College, Nancy Coleman,
19, has black hair and brown
eyes. Her escort will be Don
Cumbie of Rockdale.
The six Vanity Fair winners
will be chosen by the A&M Press
Club at a banquet May 17.
Sommers noted that candidates’
pictures may be picked up at
the Student Publications Office.
Economist Stresses Need
For Federal Intervention
By TOM CURL
Battalion Special Writer
Problems cannot always be
solved by existing means and the
solving of these problems re
quires expanding our methods.
This premise was used to ex
plain the increasing role of gov
ernment in our society by Dr. Os
kar Morgenstern to a Great Is
sues audience Wednesday night.
The Princeton professor spoke
on “Individual Decisions and So
cial Welfare.”
“New problems are generated
much faster than we can deal
with them,” the Polish political
scientist said.
Dr. Morgenstern said that
every problem must be defined
and specifications made as to
which means will be allowed to
solve this problem.
AN EXAMPLE used was the
problem faced by the explorer,
Columbus, who could not bal
ance an egg on end. The prob
lem was solved when Columbus
expanded the means and broke
the end off the shell.
The educator remarked that
without at least some government
intervention, people may create
problems that have no solution.
Such a problem is the pollu
tion of Lake Erie. Ihdustry and
agriculture waste disposal have
caused the once-clean lake to
become septic.
Dr. Morgenstern referred to a
report that said if the lake were
left undisturbed, it would lose its
pollution in about 500 years. But
with government sanitation pro
grams, it might clear up in about
200 years.
ANOTHER NATIONAL prob
lem that seems to have no solu
tion except for federal interven
tion is air pollution. He said that
each year 60 per cent of the air
pollution in America is due to
automobiles. These engines add
66 million tons of carbon di
oxide and 190,000 tons of lead
to the air per year.
A problem that will undoubt
edly grow in the future is dis
posal of excess heat from nu
clear reactors. Presently, much
of this heat is disposed of in
river water. But this causes an
increase in water temperature
and may adversely affect river
life.
“Government is, whether we
like it or not, more and more
present in our society,” Dr. Mor
genstern concluded.
MORAL AS well as legal re
straints may help solve the prob
lems of our society.
“It’s impossible for a law to
spell out all situations to which
it may apply,” he said.
“Distance” may serve as a fac
tor in the moral solution to a so
cial problem. An example used
by Dr. Morgenstern was that a
person would not sit down to a
full meal if another man were
starving outside. Yet that same
person does sit down to that same
meal while people are starving in
Calcutta.
“The mere distance of some
thing helps determine if it is mor
ally acceptable,” he remarked.
ACCORDING TO Dr. Morgen
stern, lack of knowledge caused
many of our modern social prob
lems.
“The people who contributed to
present problems are very pos
sibly dead long ago,” he said.
He said that with the knowledge
we have today, there is no excuse
for many of the problems that
are now being caused.
Dr. Morgenstern also discussed
(See Economist, Page 2)
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