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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1968
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Gibbs Episode Draws
Censure From AAUP
By MIKE PLAKE
Battalion Features Editor
Civilian students will register
in split sessions this year, ac
cording to Housing Manager Al
len M. Madeley.
Madeley said that because resi
dence hall space is anticipated to
be “critical” next fall, all stu
dents who want their present
rooms next year should complete
their reservations during the pre
scribed time.
In an announcement which in
cluded some revisions of last
year’s room reservation proced
ures, Madeley stated:
“Students now living in Hart,
Law, Puryear, Mitchell 13, 14,
15 and 16 who wish to reserve
their present rooms will report to
the Housing Office.
“THE TIMES are from 8 a.m.
today through 5 p.m. Friday,” he
said.
Madeley said memoranda per
taining to room reservation pro
cedures will be posted in each
dormitory this week.
He added that since room res
ervation cards will not be mailed
out with grade reports for this
semester, students not signing up
at the Housing Office at the
prescribed times will be required
to write to the registrar on an
individual basis for room reserva
tion cards.
A student cannot reserve a
room without first completing
this card.
Thus, to avoid competing for
rooms later on a first-come, first-
served basis, students living in
the above-mentioned dormitories
who want to reserve their rooms
for next year, should:
1. GO TO THE Housing Of
fice in the basement, YMCA
Building.
2. Fill out a room reserva
tion card, and sign up for their
rooms for next fall.
“Students who have a $20 room
deposit on file will not need to
pay any additional fees to reserve
rooms,” Madeley said. “Other
SDS Group Forms,
Plans Action Here
By BOB PALMER
Students for a Democratic So
ciety organized in the Coffee Loft
here Monday night with Jeffery
B. Daniel its leader.
Grad Assistants
May Join TRS
Texas A&M graduate assist
ants become eligible this week for
participation in the state’s Teach
er Retirement System, announced
Personnel Director Robert L. Gul
ley Jr.
Gulley said TRS enrollment
will be optional for all current
graduate assistants employed by
the university on at least a half
time basis and required for all
new assistants employed after
May 1.
He noted the TRS participation
privilege will give graduate as
sistants a “head start” on their
retirement program if they con
tinue employment in TRS-covered
public education in Texas. Par
ticipants also become eligible for
substantial death, disability and
survivor benefits.
Graduate assistants who do
not continue in TRS-covered em
ployment after completion of
their formal education, Gulley
added, will receive a full refund
of their contribution with inter
est.
The eight persons present could
not officially affiliate themselves
with the national organization due
to lack of funds and national
members.
Daniel, a junior economics ma
jor from San Antonio, described
the group’s plan of action as first
being locally oriented then broad
ening later to national and inter
national issues.
He cited' the work of the SDS
chapter of the University of Tex
as at Austin as the blueprint for
this club.
Phil Russell will present a color
slide show on Cuba in the Coffee
Loft May 10, sponsored by SDS.
Among the immediate issues,
Daniel said, the local SDS will
concern itself with are the cloth
ing regulations, American Associ
ation of University Professors’
censorship of A&M, freedom of
speech and freedom from censor
ship for the Battalion.
Other goals discussed at the
meeting were the removal of com
pulsory board and classes, the
installment of political clubs on
campus and the resignation of
President Earl Rudder and Dean
James P. Hannigan.
The possibility also was dis
cussed for a demonstration at a
Corps of Cadet review.
A pamphlet, entitled “Imperia
lism and Racism Fact Pact,” was
distributed.
students, however, must pay the
room deposit before their room
reservation will be accepted.”
Madeley said that students
who reserve a room, but later de
cide to cancel it, must do so be
fore Aug. 15, or their $20 room
deposit will be forfeited.
“THIS INCLUDES those who
are dropped before that date for
academic reasons, and those who
cancel in order to become day
students,” he said.
Students who wish to reserve
a corner room in a non-air-condi
tioned hall for next fall must pre
sent a room change slip from the
housemaster of the hall concerned
before reserving such a room,
Madeley said.
Concerning day students:
“Single undergraduate students
must live on campus unless liv
ing with their families. Such
students not living with their
families and requesting day stu
dents permits for the 1968 fall
semester should make application
to the Department of Student
Affairs at once,” the memoran
dum stated.
“Applications of students under
21 years of age must be accom
panied by a letter from their par
ents requesting this living ar
rangement.”
Madeley said the reservation
times for students now living in
Leggett, Milner, Walton, 17, 18,
19, 20, 21, and 22 will be from 8
a.m. Monday, May 6, through 5
p.m. Friday, May 10.
FDT Wins Fifth Championship
In Southern Invitational Meet
Texas A&M’s unbeaten Fish
Drill Team outpointed 11 teams
in Baton Rouge for the Southern
Invitational meet championship.
Winning the second meet since
their national championship per
formance at Washington, D. C.,
the fish scored 927 points out of
1,000 over the weekend.
Host LSU was second, Tulane
Navy third and Arkansas State
fourth. Also competing was
Texas A&I.
A&M’s fifth win in five meets
added five trophies to the 1968
collection. With the Southern
Invitational championship award
were firsts in platoon basic and
individual fancy and seconds in
squad basic and company fancy.”
THE TEAM’S right guide,
Fred M. Hofstetter of Bellaire,
won the individual fancy cham
pion. His spins, throws and
manual scored 917 points out of
1,000 possible.
The unit, commanded by Sam
my Garcia of San Antonio, took
an early point lead with the top
platoon basic performance despite
weather that forced drill indoors
temporarily and allowed LSU to
re-do its rain-interrupted drill.
A&M lost squad basic to A&I
by one point and was outscored
by LSU in the fancy phase, ac
cording to Malon Southerland,
team sponsor.
As champion, the fish marched
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adv.
SECOND TESSIE PANEL
The spring’s second “Man Your Manners” panel will be
presented tonight at 7:30 in the YMCA. The panelists,
all students at Texas Woman’s University, are (from left)
Kathy Dunn, Kathy Heldman, Georganne Fort, Brenda
Robertson and Jennifer Johnson.
Directors Promote
Freedom Violated,
Blacklisters Say
By DAVE MAYES and TOM CURL
Battalion Staff Writers
The administration of Texas A&M was unanimously
censured Friday by the American Association of University
Professors in connection with charges of “violation of ac
ademic freedom and tenure.”
The decision at the 54th annual meeting of the AAUP
in Washington, D. C. was the result of charges filed on behalf
of Dr. Leon Gibbs of the College of Veterinary Medicine.
The action added Texas A&.M to the Association’s list
of censured administrations. Censure is the AAUP’s warn
ing to higher education that conditions which led to a major viola
tion of academic freedom and tenure have not been corrected.
Dr. George Krise, president of the A&M chapter and delegate
to the Washington meeting, was directed by the local chapter to vote
in accord with the recommendation to the AAUP by its 15-member
committee on academic freedom and tenure.
“THE AAUP showed great reluctance to censure A&M, but they
were not absolutely sure that Dr. Gibbs would receive a fair hearing,”
Dr. Krise said.
Band Records
Stereo Album 91 Profs, 2 Deans
in exhibition at halftime of LSU’s
spring intrasquad football game
and received continued ovations
from a crowd of 15,000. LSU as
sistant coach Bill Bankhead, who
extended the game performance
invitation, said he had been con
tacted by 20 to 30 persons during
the year asking to have the fish
march at a regular game.
THE FDT, which added the
Baton Rouge winner’s trophy to
championships at West Texas
State, the A&M Invitational, Na
tional Intercollegiate ROTC Drill
championships at Washington and
the University of Texas, Austin,
has marched in the Southern In
vitational eight years.
A&M won it the last seven in
a row.
“The overall team perform
ance has been outstanding in
every respect during the com
petitive year,” Southerland com
mented. “It is especially note
worthy that the commander,
Sammy Garcia, only took charge
at the beginning of the second
semester.”
“He has done an outstanding
job, as evidenced by his winning
the commander’s trophy at TU
last week.”
SOUTHERLAND said Hofstet-
ter’s performance for the individ
ual fancy title was outstanding.
“Since our competition in
March, the team has improved
tremendously,” the sponsor added.
“When the fish hit the field, they
leave no question in anyone’s
mind that they are national
champions.”
Of 13 Songs
The thunder and blazes sound
of the Texas Aggie Band has
been captured electronically for
issue this spring in a 12-inch
stereophonic record album.
The 33 1/3-rpm album, record
ed and to be pressed by Austin
Custom Records, will be market
ed by the Texas Aggie Band As
sociation, organization of former
bandsmen.
Thirteen taped numbers in
clude the “National Anthem,” the
state song “Texas, Our Texas,”
“The Spirit of Aggieland,” “The
Aggie War Hymn” and eight
marches.
Lt. Col. E. V. Adams, band di
rector, TABA representative and
recording company technician,
edited the music.
“THE RECORDING caught
the band’s big, full s o u n d,”
Adams said. “It sounds like a
million dollars. The kids really
put out. They practiced hard,
tried hard and turned out excel
lent clarity, precision and in
tonation during a long recording
session.”
Acoustics were checked in two
other locations before G. Rollie
White Coliseum was selected for
ideal reverberation effects. All
album numbers were played twice
during the four-hour recording
session Friday.
March selections for the band’s
first album since 1957 include the
popular “Ballad of the Green
Beret” the band was requested to
use in the Cotton Bowl; a new
march by Ted Musang, “Moon
Shot,” which was issued last sum
mer; and an old martial number,
“Joyce’s 71st Regiment March.”
THE STRAINS of “Dixie,”
which students greet with cheers
at Aggie basketball games, is
part of “Gate City,” which will
be heard in the album. Other
marches are “The American Sol
dier,” “Sounding Brass,” “Car-
rolton March” by Hal King and
the “New Colonial March.”
Adams said except for two, all
of the marches have been in the
band’s repertoire since before the
SMU football game.
The entire band played during
the recording session, Ada ms
pointed out, to obtain full sound
and feeling. The percussion sec
tion was split and alternated on
numbers.
A pair of solid brass tympani
was added to the instrumentation
for the recording of the “Na
tional Anthem.” Freshman Gary
Martin of Houston, all-state tym
panist at Spring Branch High,
played the kettles.
The recording is the third cut
by the Aggie Band and the first
in long-play format. Previous
editions were 78 and 45 rpm al
bums.
The Texas A&M University
System Board of Directors Satur
day formally approved appoint
ment of two associate agricultural
deans and announced promotion
of 91 faculty-staff members.
New associate deans in the Col
lege of Agriculture are John E.
Hutchison, director of the Texas
Agricultural Extension Service
for more than 10 years, and Dr.
R. C. Potts, assistant dean for
agricultural instruction and pro
fessor of soil and crop sciences
for 12 years.
Hutchison will continue to di
rect the Texas Agricultural Ex
tension Service, in addition to
his new duties.
The Board confirmed advance
ment of 17 A&M faculty mem
bers to the rank of professor.
They are W. H. Thames, Jr., plant
sciences; Wayne G. McCully,
range science; Leonard R. Bur
gess and George H. Rice Jr., busi
ness management; J. A, Stricklin,
aerospace engineering; J. J. Me-
Graw, architecture; R. R. Davi
son and P. T. Eubank, chemical
engineering; D. R. Drew and
Charles Pinnell, civil engineering;
M. G. Rekoff, electrical engineer
ing; K. C. Brundidge, meteorolo
gy; Russell G. Thompson, econo
mics; Garland H. Cannon, Eng
lish; Thomas L. Miller, history;
and Igor V. Sarkissian and Will
ard Allen Tabor, biology.
PROMOTED TO associate pro
fessor status were William Kuvle-
sky, Ivan Schmedemann, Warren
Trock and Edward Uvacek in ag
ricultural economics and sociol
ogy; T. D. Tanksley Jr., animal
science; Charles C. Litchfield,
biochemistry and biophysics; J. C.
Schaffner, entomology; Robert L.
Atkinson, poultry science; D. C.
Carter, wildlife science; William
E. Eckles and John E. Sanstedt,
business management; Joseph
Donaldson Jr. and J. G. Fairey,
architecture.
ADVANCED TO assistant pro
fessor rank were Teddy L. Coe
and Carlton D. Stolle, accounting;
James W. Cole, business manage
ment; Roy Pledger, architecture;
K. A. Brewer, D. R. Knowles,
J. E. Martinez, P. T. McCoy, A.
H. Meyer and L. D. Webb, civil
engineering; R. C. Runnels, me
teorology; Alan R. Waters, eco
nomics; E. Cleve Want, English;
Zoltan J. Kosztolnyik, history;
Ramon T. Mosley, modern lan
guages; Michael E>. Tatum, veter
inary anatomy; Charles L. Hall
and Kenneth W. Knauer, veteri
nary medicine and surgery; James
E. Grimes and Donald H. Lewis,
veterinary microbiology; and
James G. Anderson, veterinary
physiology and pharmacology.
L. E. Fite was promoted to
associate research engineer in the
Activation Analysis Research
Laboratory.
PERRY J. Shepardl was elevat
ed to associate research economist
and W. M, Blake and John Miloy
were named assistant research
economists for the industrial eco
nomics division of the Texas En
gineering Experiment Station.
Texas Transportation Institute
promotions included William R.
McCasland to research engineer;
W. J. Bowmer to assistant range
scientist; E. E. Buth, James T.
Houston, M. L. Radke and Ned
E. Walton to assistant research
engineer, and Frederick S. White
to research librarian.
The Texas Agricultural Exten
sion Service named Guillermina
G. Valdez, county home demon
stration agent-at-large; Lynna M.
Hubbard, county home demonstra
tion agent; Larry L. Burleson,
personnel development officer,
and Doyle G\ Warren, associate
county agricultural agent.
James T. Lawhon was promoted
to assistant research engineer in
the Cottonseed Processing Re
search Laoratory by the Texas
Engineering Experiment Station.
An AAUP committee had rec
ommended that A&M be censured
because Dr. Gibbs had been re
moved from his classroom duties
in 1965 without due process.
The report of the investigating
committee further stated that
Dr. Gibbs “was subjected to vari
ous incivilities and provided with
increasingly inadequate research
facilities for the assignment he
had been given in place of class
room instruction.”
“I WAS actually locked out of
the building the first year when I
tried to work at night,” Dr. Gibbs
told The Battalion Monday
“I asked the associate dean to
get me a key but he was never
able to do it,” Dr. Gibbs con
tinued.
Dr. A. A. Price, dean of the
College of Veterinary Medicine,
declined to make any comment.
In an attempt to avert censure
by the AAUP, President Earl
Rudder promised that new, more
exact charges would be brought
against Dr. Gibbs.
THE OFFER by President Rud
der to clarify the charges against
Dr. Gibbs was received by the
AAUP last Thursday at the
meeting in Washington, D. C.
“If more particular charges
had been submitted Thursday, or
even early Friday morning, the
censure probably would not have
followed; as a matter of fact, I’m
sure it wouldn’t have,” Dr. Krise
said.
The Texas A&M administra
tion informed Dr. Gibbs that he
was to be dismissed as of August
31, 1968, but that he would be
allowed a hearing on nine
charges.
COMMITTEE A found these
charges “to be lacking in the rea
sonable particularity called for
in proper academic hearings! and
in the regulations which have
been adopted by the statewide
Coordinating Board of the Texas
College and University System.”
An important factor in the com
mittee’s recommendation for cen
sure was that the “delay of near
ly three years before any offer
of a hearing was made was in it
self seriously harmful to the
professor” (Gibbs).
Dr. Gibbs is requesting an open
hearing with regard to speefic
charges. Backed by the AAUP, he
has asked that the hearing be
conducted by elected faculty mem
bers and that he be entitled to
representation b y counsel, the
right to confront and cross-exa
mine witnesses, to know the name
and statement of a witness who
for extraordinary reasons does
not appear at the hearing and
to be given a copy of a complete
transcript of the hearing, includ
ing the decision of the faculty
committee.”
THE DATE FOR a hearing is
pending, according to university
officials. Dr. Krise said that if
the faculty hearing is conducted
and there is no proof of glaring
errors or injustices, the AAUP
will probably lift the A&M cen
sure at the national meeting
next spring.
President Earl Rudder was out
of town and not available for
comment Monday.
Harvard Prof
Sets Lecture
Here Tonight
Dr. Alfred S. Romer, retired
Harvard professor and the Unit
ed States' recognized authority
in zoology, will give a University
Lecture here tonight.
The presentation, announced
by Academic Vice President Dr.
Wayne C. Hall, is set for 8 p.m.
in the Memorial Student Center
Ballroom.
Dr. Romer, a past president of
the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, also is
an authority on the 500 million
years of history of the back
boned animals on earth.
His Tuesday topic is “A Pale
ontologist Looks to the Future.”
Dr. Hall noted the speaker has
received both the Mary Clark
Thompson and Daniel G. Elliott
Medals of the National Academy
of Sciences, along with the Hay
den Memorial Geological Award
of the Philadelphia Academy of
Natural Sciences.
Professor Romer, a native New
Yorker, studied at Amherst,
earning the A.B. degree. He add
ed the Ph.D. at Columbia in 1921
and taught at New York Uni
versity and Chicago before join
ing Harvard in 1934.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
BB&L
CIVILIAN SWEETHEART
Dianne Rodgers of Midland, a junior at the University of
Texas at Austin, is Texas A&M’s 1968 Civilian Sweetheart.
The 20-year-old blond is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack
P. Rodgers of Midland. (More pictures on Civilian Week
end, page3)
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