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 ★ ★ ★ “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 ' . - - . What . g 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. THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student vjriters onht. The Battalion is a non tax-supported non profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community neiuspaper. titled exclusively to the use for edited to it or not The Associated Press is entitled exch republication of all new dispatches cri otherwise credited in the paper and local news_ origin published herein. 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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 Page 2 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. 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