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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY ,MAY 8, 1968
Number 578
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By DAVE MAYES
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Students interested in becoming
his summer’s Memorial Student
Center Directorate president
|should apply this week at the
MSC Student Programs Office,
A creative writer and research
scholar, George Williams, will
give a University Lecture here
Thursday.
Williams, who stirred Britishers
recently with his criticism of
general apathy and decline in
literature, will discuss “Britain
Descending” at 8 p.m. in the
Memorial Student Center Ball-
Dr. Haskell Monroe, assistant
Graduate College dean, said Wil
liams also will make an informal
presentation concerning scenes
and locales of many important
works in British literature at 3
p.m. in rooms 2C and 2D of the
MSC.
The public is invited to both
lectures, Monroe announced.
A native Texan who earned both
master’s and bachelor’s degrees
at Rice, Williams has taught
creative writing and English
literature there for many years.
Williams has written several
works for aspiring authors in
cluding “Creative Writing” and
“Readings for Creative Writers.”
The speaker’s experiences as a
faculty member and teacher of
undergraduates, Monroe pointed
out, are reflected in a highly read
able account of academic life:
“Some of My Best Friends Are
knocl Professors.”
rtce a: Williams and his wife have
traveled throughout Britain in
Ag recent years to understand atti-
Con tudes of average citizens, Mon-
the^ roe said.
The lecture is the last of six
during 1967-68.
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Benjamin Sims, Council and Di
rectorate president, announced
Tuesday.
Sims noted that only students
who are not on any type of proba
tion and have at least a 1.5 grade
point ratio need apply.
In other business at the Direc
torate meeting, Sims repox-ted
that plans for establishing two
new MSC committees, a Faculty-
Student Committee and an Inter
national Club, were being studied
by the Council executive commit
tee.
THE PROPOSED Faculty-Stu
dent Committee would make ar
rangements for infox-mal chats
between students and faculty or
administrative members.
“The main idea behind the new
committee is to pi-ovide a means
for increasing understanding be
tween conflicting interest groups,”
Sims explained.
As an effort to involve foreign
students in MSC programs, the
proposed International Club will
unite them under one organiza
tion.
Wayne Prescott, executive vice-
president of programs, said after
studying similar clubs in other
area student unions that “there
was no reason why such a club
would not work on the A&M
campus.”
JIM FINANE, Council vice-
president, announced the dual
functions of freshman Open
House will be separated next
year. Plans call for the usual
guided freshman tour of the MSC
September 14.
“The Directorate freshman per
sonnel drive, usually scheduled at
the same time, will be set for
two weeks later,” Finane ex
plained. “We believe that by
separating the two operations, the
freshmen will get much more out
of both.”
Color brochures, cataloging the
physical facilities and student
programs of the MSC, will be
sent to prospective freshmen dur
ing the summer, according to Mac
Spears, vice pxesident of opera
tions.
Extra brochures will also be
vailable to upperclassmen next
fall in the Student Programs
Office, Spears added.
SPEARS ALSO reported that
Directorate public relations meet
ings will be scheduled every two
weeks. He called last Thursday’s
first Directorate-level meeting an
important step in coordinating
public relations efforts for all
twelve MSC committees.
David Maddox, chaix-man of
Great Issues, announced that
Edwin Cooper, director of civilian
student activities, will discuss
next year’s plans for reorganiz
ing the civilian student body May
16 in the MSC Ballroom.
Sims told the Directorate that
four budgets—radio, leadership,
Flying Kadets and camera—have
been approved by the Council
executive committee. These and
other budgets appi'oved Thursday
will be presented to the Council
for approval Monday.
Sims reminded committee chair
men to submit requests for dates
on the 1968-69 All-University
Calendar to the Student Programs
Office as soon as possible. He
explained that all dates concern
ing MSC functions must be pre
sented at the All-University
Calendar meeting May 14.
Artist, Photographers Selected
As A&M Photo Salon Judges
Joseph Donaldson Jr., School
of Architecture artist-lecturer;
Charles F. Swenson of Fort
Worth and George Honeycutt,
the Houston Chronicle’s award
winning photography director,
will judge the 1968 Intercol
legiate Photo Salon here.
The national contest, spon
sored by the Memorial Student
Center Camera Committee, will
be judged May 11 in the MSC
Assembly Room, announced
Frank Tilley of Jacksonville,
committee chairman.
Judging will be for first, sec
ond and third place winners in
nine categories and for an out
standing Salon ’68 print and
photographer.
An accomplished artist, Don
aldson has been with A&M since
1956. His work has been recog
nized through more than 100 one-
man exhibitions and displayed
with the international Ford Mo
tor Co. exhibition and by invita
tion with the Ait Institute of Chi
cago.
The A&M faculty member
studied at the School of Art In
stitute of Chicago, New Orleans
Arts and Crafts Club and in priv
ate with individual painters,
sculptors and designers in New
Orleans, New York and Chicago.
Donaldson was a New York
Photo Salon judge, has served on
numerous juries and appraised
entries of an A&M Journalism
Department contest.
Swenson, a four-star exhibitor
of the Photographic Society of
America, is a Fort Worth civil
engineer who has been making
pictures 30 yeai’S. He has judged
a number of international salons
and has been listed among PSA’s
“Top 100 Exhibitors” since 1962.
Honeycutt has been with the
Chronicle since 1963. Among
local, national and international
recognition accorded the 1954
New York School of Modern
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
Photography graduate were Na
tional and Southern Newspaper
Photographer of the Year
awards.
Tilley said the 9 a.m. juding
session of Salon ’68 will be open
to the public. Accepted photos
and winners will be displayed in
the MSC the week following the
contest.
Donaldson, Honeycutt and
Swenson will be guests of a com
mittee banquet Friday, Tilley
added.
BB&L
SPRING CLEANING
A custodian reaches toward a second-floor Petroleum Build
ing window with a telescoping cleaning brush. (Photo by
Mike Wright)
In College Elections
EG Students
To Compete
For Awards
The outstanding student in En
gineering Graphics will be deter
mined in the annual T. R. Spence
competition ending Friday, Prof.
Samuel M. Cleland, chairman, an
nounced Tuesday.
The contest is named in honor
of T. R. Spence, engineer and Ag
gie Who headed the Texas A&M
physical plant for many years.
He is now retired.
First place winner will receive'
an engraved gold watch provided
by endowment from Bovay En
gineers of Houston. Second and
third winners get suitable awards,
Cleland said.
Eligible to compete are students
presently maintaining an average
of B or above in Engineering
Graphics 106 or who took the
course during the fall semester.
Some 700 students are taking the
course, required of all engineer
ing students.
The problem for contestants
involves designing a demountable
structural frame to be attached
to a space capsule for lifting as
sembly packages and moving them
into the capsule. The sti-ucture
is to handle packages of speci
fied size and weight.
Entries will consist of a state
ment of the problem, preliminary
sketches, graphical and vector
analyses, and top and front view
drawings, as well as a working
drawing of all parts of the frame.
By MIKE PLAKE
Students will select represent
atives of the eight colleges here
Tuesday from a field of 64 can
didates, Gerald Geistweidt, vice
chairman of the election commis
sion, said Tuesday.
“Several students filed for
representative of the College of
Business Administration,” he
said. “But these elections won’t
take place until the college is
officially in existence,” which
will be sometime after Septem
ber 1.”
Two representatives are se
lected from the colleges of Engi
neering, Liberal Arts, Agricul
ture, Veterinary Medicine, Sci
ence and Geosciences.
“CANDIDATES in this elec
tion will follow the revised elec
tion rules for campaigning,”
Geistweidt said.
Copies of the revised rules are
available at the Student Pro
grams Office in the Memorial
Student Center.
Explaining the representative’s
position in the Student Senate,
Geistweidt said:
“This is, I think, the most im
portant job in the student gov
ernment. The representatives are
the lifeblood of the Student
Senate.
“They furnish the voice by
which the students may speak.
Because the position is so impor
tant, we need people to fulfill the
office who have an active inter
est in student affairs.
The vice-chairman said one im
portant way a student can realis
tically represent his college is
through practical communica
tions.
“I don’t mean just a campaign
promise that is never fulfilled.”
he said. “It’s really too difficult
to communicate all of a given
student segment’s wishes. But
there are several things that may
be attempted.
“Perhaps a meeting of all the
representatives of that college —
the seniors, juniors and sopho
mores (there are no freshman
representatives). They could
even distxdbute questionnaires to
their constituents . . . any means
of communication that would help
them to know what the students
want or need,” Geistweidt noted.
A list of the candidates who
filed:
ENGINEERING:
Seniors: James W. Amyx, Don
B. McCrory, Steve Meaux, Ken
neth Nelson, Jerry Phillips,
Doyle Sanders, Clyde Westbrook.
Juniors: Larry Bowles, Gary
Kyrish, Raleigh O. Lane, T. W.
(Bill) Robbins, Roy E. Sewall,
Robert Stanzel, Clarence E.
Waida.
Sophomores: John W. Bebout,
William C. Chambeidain, Jesse
DiPietro, Randy Durham, Fred
M. Hofstetter, Charles D. Nelson,
William D. Dordhaus, James E.
Wiley Jr.
LIBERAL ARTS:
Seniors: Glenn A. Davis, Mi
chael F. Emerson, Robert L. Pen
nington, Wayne Prescott, James
H. Willbaxaks.
Juniors: Robert B. Peek, James
F. Stephenson Jr., John Winfrey.
Sophomores: Larry E. Car-
reker, Thomas S. Henderson,
John C. Simms.
AGRICULTURE:
Seniors: Glen W. Keim, Tom
W. Smith Jr., Leonard A. Swit
zer, Ronald G. Tefteller.
Juniors: Roger L. Blackwelder,
Lester B. Coalson Jr., Collier R.
Watson.
Sophomores: Randall E. Betty,
Marcus E. Hill, Robert C. Szaro.
SCIENCE:
Seniors: Roger B. Boatwright,
Mary C. Custer, William R.
Howell, James A. Mobley, Pas
chal E. Redding.
Juniors: Donald F. Birkelbach,
James L. Bolin, William F. Mage.
Sophomores: Robert A. Harms,
James R. Hawthorne, Robert P.
Hicks, Charles H. Hoffman, Sig
urd S. Kendall, Bill Shepard.
GEOSCIENCES:
Seniors: Norman L. Jenkins,
Robert S. Smith.
Juniors: Albert J. Reinert.
Sophomores: Thomas C. Fitz-
hugh, Jeffrey L. Weber.
VETERINARY MEDICINE:
Second Year (no one filed for
first year, according to Geist
weidt): John W. Allen.
Third Year: Kenneth N. Gray.
AGGIE PLAYERS LOVE SCENE
Francis Stan (T. J. Leeds) meets “his fairest true love,” island princess Anouanoa (Kath
leen Heaton) in rehearsals for “Bird of Paradise, or Anouanoa of the South Seas,” an
original musical play to be presented here Thursday through Saturday. Curtain time
is 8 p. m. in Guion Hall. (Photo by Mike Wright)
Topless Weddings Okayed
In Final Manners Program
By STEVE KORENEK
Battalion News Editor
Well, Aggies, you can now go
ahead with your plans for that
wedding you have been longing
for.
Topless, of course.
Jill Heitman gave her approval
last night at the final “Man Your
Manners” panel at the YMCA.
“I have never heard of one,”
she replied when asked her
opinion of the bare-breasted
ceremony, “but if that’s what
you want, that’s what you will
have.”
Mrs. Heitman was one member
on the panel concerned with the
subject of “Romance to Mar
riage.” The other members were
Mrs. Sandy Carroll, Laura Bell-
ville and Sharon Johnson. Mrs.
Gertrude Gibson of Texas Wom
an’s University was the panel
moderator.
EACH OF the girls took a
special area to explain prior to
the question and answer period.
Sharon explained that “drop
ping” indicates a “want to go
steady” attitude among college
students.
“Being dropped could lead to
bigger and better things, maybe,”
she added.
Laura said being pinned is
mostly a time factor—time be
tween being dropped and being
engaged and a time for planning
for the future. She said the time
to give the pin is after two to
three months of dating.
Laura explained how the pin
can be used in devious ways.
“THE PIN can be used as a
substitute for an engagement
ring when future in-laws don’t
approve of an engagement. And
a pin is a lot easier to give back
than an engagement ring,” she
added.
Mrs. Carroll pointed out that
an engagement should follow a
long period of acquaintance but
in itself should never be more
than a year long.
The engagement pexdod should
be at least four months long and
should serve to pull the family
into the couple’s relationship.
“You have to get along with
your in-laws sooner or later,”
Mrs. Carroll said.
AAUP Censure ‘Unfortunate,’
Tech President Tells Initiates
By BOB PALMER
Battalion Staff Writer
Dr. Grover E. Murray, presi
dent of Texas Tech, Tuesday
termed the American Association
of University Professors’ recent
censure of A&M “unfortunate.”
Murray’s remark came after the
initiation banquet of Phi Kappa
Phi, national honor society, at
which he was the featured
speaker.
Tech had been under a censure
similar to A&M’s for eight years
when Murray became president in
1966.
“The vice-presidents and I
worked with the AAUP for more
than a year after I became presi
dent to remedy the action that
caused Tech to be censored,”
Murray said.
MURRAY went further to say
that he hoped A&M will be able
to get off censorship soon.
During the initiation ceremony
215 initiates were recognized as
new members of the chapter.
The new members of Phi Kappa
Phi included 15 members of the
faculty, 39 from the Graduate
College, 18 from the College of
Agriculture, 49 from the College
of Engineering, 39 from the Col
lege of Liberal Arts, 22 from the
College of Science, 29 from the
College of Veterinary Medicine
and 4 from the Maritime Acad
emy.
The broad membership of the
society was stressed by chapter
President Sidney O. Brown. He
pointed out that Phi Kappa Phi
promotes scholarship in all fields.
“PHI KAPPA PHI members
are seekers for and disseminators
of the truth,” Brown said.
In his address, Murray chal
lenged the initiates to be creative.
He explained that there are
different types of creativity: The
type exemplified by writers and
another led by scientists such as
Einstein.
A third type of creativity, ac
cording to Murray, transcends
both fields. He placed architec
ture in this area.
He declared that creative minds
are not bound by what is, but by
what is possible.
Murray also commented on the
use of creativity in a person’s
later years.
“Creativity may not keep you
alive longer, but it will keep you
living while you are alive,” he
noted.
ENGAGEMENTS are broken
but Mrs. Carroll cautioned against
this serious action, especially just
before the wedding.
“Don’t break it (the engage
ment) off just because of a fight,
everybody gets nervous just be
fore the wedding,” she said.
Mrs. Heitman opened her topic
or marriage with a question.
“How many of you are en
gaged?” she asked.
The several hands that were
raised in response were met with
wholesale hissing and cries of
“Sucker.”
MRS. HEITMAN pointed out
that in the past, weddings have
been bound rather strictly by
tradition. Currently, however, a
wedding can be as formal or in
formal as the participants want
it.
The panel, in a three-to-two
vote, indicated its preference to
being surprised with an engage
ment ring rather than actually
being a party to choosing it.
Mrs. Heitman cast the lone vote
for being a party to choosing the
ring.
Laura, in answer to a “pinning”
question, said that a pin carries
one important obligation.
“Don’t date others even though
great distances may separate
you,” she said.
“How do you retrieve your
pin?” one Aggie asked.
“Well,” Laura said, “you have
a long talk.”
THE PANEL agreed on the
question of whether a wife should
work.
“Maybe (she should work), but
she should be able to support
herself if the need arises,” Mrs.
Gibson said, speaking for the
panel, as she frequently did.
Some of the questions evidently
got rather personal.
“I got my tan in the sun, I
cannot surf and I am not the
“Coppertone Girl,” Mrs. Carroll
replied to one such question.
Methodist Group
To Present Play
The play “Christ in the Con
crete City’” will be presented by
the Wesley Foundation at 8 p.m.
tonight in the A&M Methodist
Church.
Written by P. W. Turner, the
play will be directed by Travis
Miller, president of the Wesley
Foundation.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adv.