CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Sound Off
Editor,
The Battalion:
Class of ’70 Engineers:
I, Raleigh Lane, am a candidate
for the Class of ’70 Student Sen
ate Representative from the Col
lege of Engineering. I feel the
student body must be united. I
fully support the program pro
posed by Bill Carter and David
Maddox, the President-elect and
Vice President-elect, respectively.
But to initiate the program
that the student body wishes,
capable hard working Senators
must be elected May 14. If elected
I would accept the challenge and
work as hard as possible so that
Texas A&M might have a unified
student government with the
power to represent the student
body.
Only through a united student
body can we progress.
Raleigh Lane
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“What do you make of a student making failing grades
who says he’s not being challenged?”
SWC Committee
Organization Poor
Editor,
The Battalion:
Two months ago, an organiza
tion (The Stars & Bars) was
formed for the purpose of ac
quainting the A&M student with
the various officer programs and
career opportunities available to
the college graduate in the U. S.
Navy and Navy Reserve. Its
membership is composed of those
members of the corps, civilian,
and graduate students who are
interested in the naval officer
programs, or are now under naval
officer contracts.
This next Tuesday night (May
‘vote of confidence for A&M
Gene Stallings called it a
and its football program.”
Howard Grubbs, executive secretary of the Southwest
Athletic Conference, said the SWC reprimand of the Aggies
“involved only prospective football players.”
Dr. Monroe S. Carroll of Baylor, SWC faculty commit
tee president, said “A&M has been very co-operative. No
faculty member (Dr. O. D. Butler) has ever worked more
diligently to obtain the facts.”
But no matter how you look at the reprimand levied
on the Texas A&M athletic program, specifically football,
A&M was lucky to get off the hook as lightly as it did.
The information released to the press after the meet
ing was a mumble-jumble statement that, in effect, said
the Aggies were guilty of wrong-doing, but not to such an
extent as to warrant probation or the administration of
sanctions.
Seventeen charges were placed in the hands of the
Conference fathers, but only four were adjudged to be
valid. Six were dismissed as non-violations while the other
seven charges were “received and filed.” This means that
guilt or innocence has not been determined and that no
future investigation is planned by the SWC.
What it all boils down to is whether the SWC is going
to enforce its rules for all members or allow one or two
schools to determine the tempo of athletics in Texas and
Arkansas.
The question now is not whether A&M was guilty of
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Senate Says
Army, Marines
Understrength
WASHINGTON 0P)_The Sen
ate Preparedness Investigating
subcommittee reports three of six
Army and Marine divisions sta
tioned in the United States have
serious personnel and equipment
shortages.
The panel previously said U.S.-
based military units—counted on
for emergency defense—were be
ing hamstrung by the calling of
their troops and equipment for
Vietnam War duty.
recruiting violations; that is an unalterable fact,
deemed questionable is the administration and membership
on as important a body as the Southwest Athletic Confer
ence faculty committee.
Each SWC school has one faculty representative on the
committee. This person, in the case of A&M, Dr. Butler, is
chairman of the A&M faculty athletic committee. This com
mittee is charged with making an effort to assure the
compliance of athletic teams with SWC rules.
Such a committee, to be effective, should be free to
spend as much time as necessary to assure complete com
pliance with the rules. Such unfortunately is not the case.
Butler was commended by Grubbs and Dr. Carroll for
his hard work and complete cooperation with the investi
gators.
“Dr. Butler and the entire A&M organization is very
interested and we have no doubt that they will take care
in assuring that these requests are carried out,” Dr. Carroll
explained.
This is all well and good and all Aggies should be thank
ful that someone is willing and interested enough in the
athletic program of Texas A&M to spend extra time and
assume extra duties.
But this is not the best solution to a problem that in
the past has been a thorn in the side of SWC schools and
promises to continue in the future as SWC schools, limited
in visitation rights, fight for the best high school athletes
with schools outside the Conference, unrestrained and un
ethical in recruiting tactics.
Either the makeup of the Southwest Faculty Athletic
Committee must be altered or the present members should
be trained and instructed as to how to improve adherence
to the rules, become an integral part of the athletic pro
gram and be schooled in the problems facing recruiters.
The former suggestion would seem to be the most
logical. In addition to the faculty representative, the in
clusion of a former student or athlete from each school
could only improve the situation.
As it now stands, the faculty representative cannot
forget his other responsibilities to concentrate on the athletic
program. Butler is head of A&M’s Animal Sciences Depart
ment and, as such, has numerous responsibilities in this
capacity. He has done an admirable job under trying cir
cumstances, as have the other schools’ faculty members, in
all probability.
These men are in a difficult position and are coping
with problems to the best of their ability. They deserve
some help.
In its heavily censored report
Sunday, the committee headed by
Sen. John Stennis, D-Miss., indi
cated serious shortages were un
covered in the 1st and 2nd Armor
ed Division at Ft. Hood, Tex., and
the 5th Division mechanized of
Ft. Carson, Colo.
REPORTED in a far better
shape were the 2nd Marine Di
vision at Camp Lejeune, N. C.;
the 5th Marine Division at Camp
Pendleton, Calif., and the 82nd
Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg,
N. C.
The report said the 82nd Air
borne’s equipment situation “was
the best ever seen by the sub
committee staff for any army
division,” but said even it lacked
sufficient helicopters.
The subcommittee said of the
2nd Armored Division that
“heavy personnel turbulence re
sulting from levies for high pri
orities, expirations of terms of
service, transfers into and out of
the division, and other personnel
turnovers had adversely affected
training, resulted in over-all per
sonnel shortages” and in officer
shortages.
IT SAID the 2nd Armored “is
also beset with significant equip
ment deficiencies” including heli
copters, radios, radar and tracked
and wheeled vehicles.
The 1st Armored Division was
said to suffer from many of the
same shortages. A It h o u g h it
would appear to have an adequate
number of officers, said the re
port, many are newly commission
ed graduates of officer candidate
schools and the reserves.
Although these officers have
had little experience, they’re
usually sent to Vietnam within
six months, said the subcommit
tee.
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7) at 7:30 p.m.. The Stars & Bars
Society will have a meeting in
Room 2A of the Memorial Student
Center for everyone who is in
terested in joining The Stars &
Bars, or just interested in what
the Navy has to offer college
students. Some Navy flics will
be shown, future field trips, pro
grams, and lectures will be dis
cussed, and the Society’s sponsor,
Commander Fox, will give a brief
address.
An organization like The Stars
& Bars Society has been long in
coming to A&M. And since its
existence is now a reality, we
extend an invitation to those
students who are interested in
joining The Stars & Bars to be
present at our next meeting. We
will be looking forward to your
being there!
Randy Leonard,
Representative, The Stars
& Bars Society of A&M
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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Tuesday, Mayl,
.
Nobody Knows
When Will State
Legislature Meet?
AUSTIN (A*) — The speaker of
the House and the lieutenant
governor of Texas—men whose
power surpasses the governor’s—
said Monday Gov. John Connally
hasn’t let them in on when he
will call this year's special legis
lature.
Connally must call the session
soon to appropriate funds and
vote taxes to run the state gov
ernment over the fiscal year
starting Sept. 1.
Lt. Gov. Preston Smith startled
the Legislative Budget Board by
saying, “I heard May 13, have
y’all heard anything?”
Later, Smith said, the May 13
date “was just street talk in
Lubbock,” his home, where he
went over the weekend to vote
and await election returns.
Smith and Speaker Ben Barnes
said Connally hasn’t told them
anything.
“One of the things we had
better assume is it could be any
where between now and the mid
dle of June,” Barnes said.
Smith said “It would help me,”
in his governor’s race with Don
Yarborough to have the special
session before the run-off. Smith
would get a lot of news coverage
as lieutenant governor presiding
over the Senate during the ses
sion.
The special session will be look
ing for taxes that will raise up
wards of $126 million during the
coming fiscal year — that’s the
amount the Budget Board’s rec-
commended spending would re
quire. Gov. John Connally’s bud
get is expected to require even
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