PH HH
SANDRA ANNE BUSH
BECKY RUSSELL
KAREN ANNE CLARK
JULIE HAWKINS
ANNETTE OWENS
DIANNE RODGERS
JERI RANDOLPH
Che Battalion
VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1968
Number 571
Carter, Maddox Elected
Top Senate Offices
Civilian Vote Split
On Clothing Regs
NANCI NEUMANN
CAROLE CROSSLEY
Civilian Sweetheart
Candidates Named
By BOB PALMER
Battalion Staff Writer
Thirteen dormitory sweethearts
will be honored as finalists in the
Civilian Sweetheart contest Sat
urday night at the Civilian Ball.
The Ball is scheduled for Sbisa,
following a Mardi Gras theme,
and will begin after the Town
Hall performance of The 5th Di
mension.
Also highlighting the weekend
will be a noon barbecue at the
Grove and field day activities on
the civil engineering survey field.
“A STUDENT who does not
have a fall activity card will have
to buy dance tickets at $3 a cou
ple,” Larry Schilhab, weekend
chairman, said. “If he does not
have a spring card, the barbecue
will cost $1 per person.”
Dorm sweethearts include Mary
Elizabeth Nixon, Judy Lawton,
Sandra Anne Bush, Jeri Randolph,
Carole Crossley, Nanci Neumann
and Ronna Dale Curlee.
Finalists also include Annette
Owens, Karen Anne Clark, Di
anne Rodgers, Becky Russell, Ju
lie Hawkins and Debra Chaffin.
Miss Nixon, the Dorm 14 sweet
heart, is an insurance claims man
ager in Houston.
Miss Lawton, a Richardson sec
retary, will represent the day
students at the Ball. The Dorm 22
sweetheart, Miss Bush, is from
San Antonio and is a junior music
and elementary education major
at Southwest Texas State.
MISS RANDOLPH, of Brady,
will represent Dorm 18. She is at
tending Brady High School.
The Legett Hall Sweetheart,
Miss Crossley, is a Houston model.
Miss Neumann, a Seabrook resi
dent, will represent Puryear Hall.
She is a trainee to be an airline
stewardess.
Miss Curlee, of Victoria will
represent Law Hall. She works
as a receptionist and is a Victoria
High School graduate.
Representing Dorm 13, Miss
Owens is a Corpus Christi resi
dent and is a junior nursing ma
jor at Texas Woman’s University.
Miss Clark, Travis High School of
Austin student, is the Dorm 17
sweetheart.
A JUNIOR business major at
the University of Texas at Aus
tin, Miss Rodgers will represent
Dorm 16. Her home town is Mid
land.
A Dallas girl, Miss Russell will
represent Dorm 19. She is a soph
omore English major at the Uni
versity of Arkansas.
Miss Hawkins, Dorm, 21 sweet
heart, is a Houston resident and
is attending Lamar High there.
The Walton Hall sweetheart, Miss
Chaffin, is a Midland resident
and is attending Robert E. Lee
High School there.
1,120 May Receive
Degrees May 25
The largest A&M graduating
class in more than 20 years is
expected for May 25 commence
ment exercises.
Registrar H. L. Heaton reported
1,120 degree candidates have filed
for spring graduation.
Of the total, 779 seniors are
seeking baccalaureate degrees.
Doctoral candidates total 90, with
251 persons making applications
for master’s degrees.
Heaton noted the graduating
class will be the largest since im
mediately after World War II.
By comparison, 817 students
applied for degrees in January.
By DAVE MAYES
Battalion Staff Writer
Bill Carter and David Maddox, receiving the “mandate
from a unified student body” they were seeking, swept the
Student Senate offices of president and vice president by
five-to-one margins Wednesday.
Running unopposed for president of the Civilian Stu
dent Council was David Wilks.
In the student clothing regulations poll conducted at
the same time, 439 of 1,126 participating civilian students
favored doing away with all clothing regulations. Some 381
others said regulations were too strict and should be relaxed. Three
hundred six favor current clothing regulations.
Running behind Carter’s 1,810 votes were Ron Tefteller with
363 and Terry Harvick, 245.
Gerald A. Linder with 350 and Philip R. Frye with 261 trailed
the 1,786 votes cast for Maddox.
ONLY TWO of the Senate com
mittee chairmanships were con
tested. Phillip Callahan, with
1,244 votes, defeated Robert
Bowling with 879 for chairman
of Student Life. The Welfare
Committee chairman’s post went
to David H. Howard, who polled
993 votes to defeat Robert L.
Nida with 889 and William D.
Hienze with 325.
Winners of other committee
chairmanships were Wayne P.
Gosnell, Issues Committee, and
Bob Burford, Public Relations
Committee.
Ronnie Adams was elected re
cording secretary and Ron Hinds
was chosen parliamentarian. Both
also ran without opposition.
ELECTED unopposed to Civil
ian Student Council offices were
William G. Holt, vice president;
David S. Middlebrooke, secretary;
and Charles J. Brunjes, treasurer.
“The large majority is the
clear mandate David (Maddox)
and I were looking for,” Carter
said upon hearing the news of
his election.
“We both believe that the elec
tion is indicative that A&M stu
dents are ready to start working
together for a strong unified
student government,” he con
tinued.
“I only hope that today’s en
thusiasm will carry over through
the May 14 College Representa
tives election. Only if good men
will get elected to these key
positions will the Student Senate
be able to carry out the desires
of the entire student body.
“FOR MYSELF, I hope I can
be the outstanding representative
of A&M that (Senate President)
Jerry Campbell has been this
year,” Carter concluded.
“Six months ago, Bill and I set
as our primary goal the unity
of the student body,” Maddox
said. “The 5-1 majority repre
sents only the first step.
DAVID WILKS said he will do
his best to strengthen the Civil
ian Student Council’s image by
“creating an organization which
takes positive action towards
major issues.”
“I will concentrate on working
closer with Food Services, re
vising clothing regulations and,
most important, increasing ci
vilian student responsibility in
university affairs.”
Results of CHOICE ’68 will not
be available for approximately
three weeks, according to Tony
Benedetto, Election Commission
chairman. Ballots have been sent
to Univac for tabulation.
MSC Banquet
For Staffers
Set Tonight
The Memorial Student Center
Council and Directorate will
honor its members and advisors
tonight with a banquet in the
MSC.
Approximately 200 persons are
expected for “An Evening South
of the Border,” beginning at 6:30
p.m. in the MSC Ballroom.
Scott H. Roberts, president of
the Council and Directorate, will
emcee the program, which in
cludes presentation of numerous
awards, headed by the Thomas H.
Rountree Award honoring the out
standing member of the council or
directorate who has made signifi
cant contributions to its recrea
tional, educational and cultural
programs.
The plaque, Roberts noted,
' commemorates Thomas H. Roun
tree, Class of ’52, whose pioneer
ing leadership as a student leader
in the MSC directorate’s develop
ment of programs in international
affairs was an important and
lasting contribution to an “inter
national awareness” at A&M.
A medal, the Lawrence Sulli
van Ross Award, recognizes
continued exemplary service to
the A&M academic community
through programs of the MSC.
YMCA VOTERS
Student lounge in a YMCA solarium as they mark their ballots for Student Senate of
ficers and indicate their opinions in “Choice ’68” during Wednesday’s general election.
Addition of the YMCA polling place was approved at a recent Senate meeting after com
plaints of congestion at the voting machines in the Memorial Student Center basement.
(Photo by Mike Wright)
Campus Radio Amateurs
Find Public Service Fun
Annual Dinner Set
For Faculty-Staff
An estimated 550 persons are
expected Friday for Texas A&M’s
annual board of directors-faculty-
staff dinner.
Festivities begin with a 6:30
p.m. reception in Sbisa Hall, fol
lowed by the dinner at 7:15, noted
Robert G. Cherry, program com
mittee chairman and assistant
to A&M President Earl Rudder.
Cherry said those attending
the dinner should enter Sbisa
Hall through the South center
door.
The stag dinner will feature
talks by Board President L. F.
Peterson of Fort Worth and Presi
dent Rudder.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
By MIKE PLAKE
Battalion Features Editor
Try tuning radio station W5AC
in on your radio dial.
You can’t. It isn’t there.
W5AC are the call letters of
A&M’s amateur radio station,
located above the bowling alley
in the Memorial Student Center.
What’s its purpose?
“It’s to provide radio amateurs
on campus a club to operate and
to offer public service to students
or communities,” according to
Chairman Ted Wittliff, a sopho
more electrical engineering major
from Taylor.
The club has fulfilled its public
service function in many ways.
“ONE OF the most outstanding
things we’ve done and received
recognition for happened last
year,” Wittliff said.
“We ran phone patches as a
public service from American
citizens stranded in a hotel in
Nicaragua during an insurrection
there. They were separated from
the American Embassy, and their
only lines of communication were
through amateur radio operators
in that area who volunteered their
services.
“We were the strongest station
on the air that night, so we re
layed the messages from the hotel
in Nicaragua to those citizens’
relatives stateside, to let them
know everyone was all right.”
THE CLUB has been active this
year in the same way. During the
first semester, members received
a public service award when they
relayed phone messages from
naval personnel stationed at the
South Pole. The calls went to
various places in the U.S.
The club maintains this mess-
age-relaying service for students
and citizens of this area.
“A person with a message
should drop by the Radio Room
in the MSC around 6 p.m. any
afternoon,” Wittliff said.
“These messages are handled
by traffic-handling networks com
posed of amateurs scattered all
over the country. “We send a mes
sage here, and it is relayed by
other amateurs until it reaches
its destination. Generally, a mes
sage reaches the final destination
in 24 hours,” he noted.
HOWEVER, the club is not all
work and no play, or all public
service and nothing else, accord
ing to Wittliff.
“Membership in the club can
also be used as a steppingstone
by which people with no previous
amateur radio experience can gain
it. If they wish to, they may ac
quire their beginner’s license.
“Most people in a club like this
are in it for the personal fulfill
ment and enjoyment it offers,”
he said.
Vidal Play To Open Friday
“The Best Man,” a political
drama by Gore Vidal, will open
Friday at StageCenter’s new home
in the Municipal Country Club on
South College Road.
Curtain time is 8 p.m. for
evening performances on Friday
and Saturday and May 3 and 4.
Matinees are set at 3 p.m. Sun
day and May 5.
Harry Gooding is directing the
production, which was one of the
“Ten Best” of 1960. Sets were
designed by Charles Heame.
The action takes place at a
political convention in Phila
delphia in 1960 and reveals the
strategy of two skillful politicians
who are struggling for their
party’s nomination for the presi
dency of the United States.
Lead roles will be played by
Dr. A. G. McGill, Jim Austin, Dr.
William H. Andrew, Frank Chme-
lik, Jayne Lansford, Betty Joe
Smith and Florence May Farr.
Also in the cast are Lee J.
Martin, Dr. J. F. Cooper, Harry
Kroiter, Jim Ross, Michele Bon-
delle, and others.
Tickets are available from
StageCenter members and at the
door. Adult tickets are $2, and
student and student wives tickets
are $1.50.
‘Mother Of Year’
Applications Due
Applications for Aggie “Mother
of the Year” may be turned in to
the Student Program Office, Don
McLeroy, student life chairman,
said Wednesday.
McLeroy said that all applica
tions must be turned in by 5 p.im.
May 2.
Applications should be filled
out in letter form, with each stu
dent giving reasons why he thinks
his mother is qualified for the
honor of being named “Mother
of the Year.”
McLeroy said the new “Mother
of the Year” will be presented
to the student body in ceremonies
at G. Rollie White Coliseum on
the morning of May 12. The A&M
mother will then review the Corps
that afternoon.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adv.