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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1968
Number 583
Summer Conferences Set \ Deaths Reach ReCOrd
In Highlands Battles
For Incoming Freshmen
By JAN MOULDEN
Summer conferences for begin
ning college freshmen will begin
June 10, Auston Kerley, director
of counseling and testing, has
announced.
The conferences will be two-day
affairs running each Monday-
Tuesday and Thursday-Friday
through July 2 and again from
July 22 through August 20.
Wednesdays will be reserved for
testing those students who want
to gain college credits by exami
nation.
The conferences are designed
to bridge the gap between high
school and college by acquainting
new students with programs and
facilities at Texas A&M. Each
conference is limited to 125 stu
dents to assure individual atten
tion and couseling.
“WE WANT the new student
to feel he is known and knows
others when he returns in the
fall,” Kerley said. “The program
has had great success in past
years.”
During the conference a stu
dent will take placement tests,
plan courses, and receive a dormi
tory assignment.
Students who elect to join the
Leadership Meet
Invitations Sent
By DAVE MAYES
A select group of 50 outstand
ing A&M students is being in
vited to the 16th annual Leader
ship Conference set for the first
week in September near Palestine,
according to Leadership Commit
tee Chairman Paul Mebane.
“This year's conference at
Lakeview Methodist Assembly has
been completely revamped to pro
vide A&M students leadership and
group development training by
concentrating on human relation
ships,” Mebane said.
He explained that the confer
ence will not be a leadership tech
niques workshop, as in years past,
but rather an “experiment in
human behavior and interpersonal
relationships.”
“THE THEORY behind the con
ference has been used extensively
and with rewarding results by
student unions in the Southwest,
the Army and industry for lead
ership training,” Mebane con
tinued.
Dr. Earl Koile, professor of
education psychology at the Uni
versity of Texas at Austin, will
act as consultant for the confer
ence.
Mebane said Dr. Koile is recog
nized throughout the nation for
Anti-Pollution
Study Grant
Given To A&M
By BOB PALMER
The federal Water Pollution
Control Administration has
awarded a $95,790 training grant
to the Environmental Engineer
ing Department here, Senator
Ralph Yarborough’s office an
nounced Wednesday.
William B. Davis, Environmen
tal Engineering head, explained
that the grant will benefit gradu
ate students from the Biology,
Wildlife Science, Civil Engineer
ing and Computer Science De
partments.
“The money will be used for
graduate student environmental
research, with emphasis on petro
chemical waste abatement as it
applies to water pollution,” Davis
said.
Davis said the grant will pro
vide money for basic research
from which “we hope to get some
of the answers for industry.
“We are looking for useable
products that can be derived from
waste, more efficient ways to
treat waste and ways to remove
oily substances from waste.
“One area we are looking into
is the removal of oil from the
water that ships dump into the
harbor,” Davis commented.
Davis explained that the re
search will deal with the instru
mentation of waste abatement
and the finding of mechanisms in
the abatement process.
“A large portion of the funds
will go to the general training
of waste scientists,” Davis com
mented.
Davis said about $50,000 will
go for stipends to the graduate
students involved in the research.
The rest would be used for in
creasing the staff, travel ex
penses, capital equipment and
useable supplies.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
his teaching, research writing and
consultation abilities in the fields
of psychology and human rela
tions.
Mebane added that only 50 stu
dents will be allowed to attend,
due to the special nature of this
year’s conference.
“ALTHOUGH the list of names
is not complete,” he said, “plans
call for inviting the top seven
Corps commanders, the 12 Memo
rial Student Center Directorate
committee chairmen, various civil
ian leaders and from 10 to 15
girls.”
A fee of $30 will be charged
per delegate for the four-day
workshop, but an organization
sponsoring a delegate may pay
all or part of the fee for the stu
dent, he said.
Mebane pointed out that the fee
is only a portion of the total cost
per delegate. Much of the finan
cial burden will be borne by
special fund drives by the Leader
ship Committee and MSC Council
appropriations.
Cadet Corps will choose Army or
Air Force ROTC and be assigned
to an organization. They also
will be measured for uniforms.
No fee payment will be required
during the conferences, but stu
dents must pay a $30 room de
posit before taking part in a con
ference. An itemized statement
will be mailed to the student at
a later date.
FOLLOWING remittance of fee
payment, the student will be
mailed a receipt and his schedule
of classes.
Air-conditioned dormitory
rooms will be available for con
ference participants at $3.50 a
night. A cafeteria will also be
open to serve students who want
to eat on campus.
Parents of new students are
also urged to attend these con
ferences.
“Last year we had more than
2,000 parents to attend confer
ences,” Kerley noted. “We are
very pleased to have parents visit
the campus, with or without their
college-bound children.
“AND ATTENDANCE is not
limited to new students and par
ents,” Kerley continued. “We
would be most pleased to have
current students attend any seg
ment of a conference and meet
the new enrollees.”
Out-of-state students are not
asked to attend a summer con
ference. Their orientation will be
gin a few days before the start
of the fall semester.
“We will hold a special confer
ence Sept. 9 and 10 for students
who are from out of state or who
were unable to attend one of the
regularly-scheduled conferences,”
Kerley explained.
Recreation activities are also
offered to conference participants.
The university swimming pool
and golf course will be open.
There are also facilities for bowl
ing, table tennis and movies.
i*H'
AN OUTING ON THE LAKE
President Johnson (wearing cap) at the wheel of an amphibious car drives up to the stern
of the family cruiser during an outing at Lake Lyndon B. Johnson. Mrs. Johnson is in
front with him. Grandson Patrick Lyndon is being held by a man in the big boat. All
others are unidentified. (AP Wirephoto)
TwoDegreeCandidatesChosen
Distinguished Grad Students
Gary Chester Smith and Glen
Wayne Ivie, who will receive
Ph.D. and master’s degrees here
May 25, have been selected for
Distinguished Graduate Student
Awards by the Association of
Former Students.
The awards, based on scholas
tic and research achievements,
will be presented Friday morning
by Richard Weirus, the associa
tion’s executive secretary.
Smith, 30, will receive his doc
torate in animal science. He
earned a B.S. degree from Fresno
(California) State College in 1960
and M.S. from Washington State
in 1962.
HE IS married, has four chil
dren and is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. William C. Smith of Visalia,
Calif.
Ivie, 23, will receive his mas
ter’s in entomology. He earned
‘Real Eyesore To A&M’
College View Changes Proposed
By TOM CURL
The older campus dormitories
were recently improved, but there
is yet another area of campus
housing that needs work: College
View.
Don Burleson, a fourth-year
architecture student from Pasa
dena, has made his spring semes
ter project a study of College
View and the possibility of reno
vating this section of married-
students’ housing.
“It’s something I got interested
in because I’m going to be living
there for a couple of years and
I don’t like the way they (College
View buildings) look,” he re
marked.
Burleson plans to be married
in August.
THE COLLEGE View buildings
originally were barracks at Fos
ter Air Force Base in Victoria.
They were moved to their present
location after World War II and
each of the 58 buildings was then |
divided into eight apartments.
These 464 apartments units are
usually rented at all times.
“The original structure is pret
ty good,” Burleson said. “It’s what
was added that is in bad shape.”
Burleson has encountered sever
al problems in his work on the
project.
When he started, Burleson
found that A&M does not have
any floor plans of the College
View buildings.
“I tried to locate a set of plans
and they (the university) just
don’t have one,” he noted.
THE INTERIOR work done af
ter the war was done by the fed
eral government.
“I’m sure the government has
a set of plans, but it might take
two or three months to locate
them,” Burleson remarked;.
The student has partially solved
this problem by taking measure
ments himself. But there is still
the problem of how the interior
walls and floors are constructed.
However, the major problem
facing Burleson is a plan that
will allow renovation without a
prohibitive rise in rent costs.
Units presently rent for $40
per month unfurnished and $48
per month furnished.
“I’D HAVE to plan something
that won’t put them out of the
price range they’re in now,” he
said.
Burleson suggested that pei v -
haps any extra rent income be
used as far as it could go. With
eight apartments in each build
ing, perhaps a portion of the
$320-384 monthly income could
be used for renovation.
“The changes I have in mind
would be relatively inexpensive,”
Burleson noted.
He said he would like to make
improvements such as outside
stairways to reduce noise and in
crease the size of the units. He
also suggested saving floor space
with built-in furniture like in the
new dormitories in the Sbisa
area.
AS TO HOW to institute his
plan after he finishes the project,
he said he would like to renovate
one apartment himself, at a mini
mum cost to the university and
using his own labor. He would
then present it to the administra
tion for inspection and possible
consideration.
Last semester, the class project
of Burleson’s fourth-year design
course was to draw up a plan for
a new Bryan high school. The
Bryan school board and several
professional architects inspected
the students’ projects.
“College View is a real eyesore
to A&M,” Burleson said.
“LOTS OF people come down
that highway on football week-
ends and the first thing they see
is a group of old Army barracks.”
Burleson emphasized that the
project has no official sanction
from the administration and is
simply a class project. However,
when the project is completed,
he would like to present the plan
to the administration or perhaps
to the Married Students’ Council.
“College View just needs some
work to bring it up to the stand
ards of the rest of the univer
sity,” he concluded.
his undergraduate degree from
Texas A&M in 1966 and plans to
study for a Ph.D. at the Univer
sity of California at Berkeley.
He is married and the son of
W. D. Ivie, Route 1, Purdon.
Gi’aduate Dean Wayne C. Hall
noted that both men have already
had several scientific articles
published.
Dr. O. D. Butler, head of the
Animal Science Department,
praised Smith’s research ability.
“Results of his research,” But
ler predicted in a letter nominat
ing Smith for the award, “will
bring about a complete revision
of the current U. S. Department
of Agriculture lamb carcass qual
ity grading system.”
“THE POSSIBLE changes are
likely to result in several million
dollars annual increase in pro
duction marketing efficiencies for
the producers and feeders of lamb
in the Southwest,” Butler con
tinued.
The straight-A student also
ranked high in his teaching duties
as a graduate assistant.
Smith is a member of Sigma
Xi, national honorary society for
researchers; American Society of
Animal Science; American Meat
Science Association and the In
stitute of Food Technologists.
DR. PERRY L. Adkisson, En
tomology Department head, cited
Ivie’s publication success in his
nominating letter.
“He has shown extraordinary
creativity and productivity for a
graduate student at the master’s
level,” Adkisson noted. “He has
presented papers describing re
sults of his research at national
meetings of the Entomological
Society of America and the South
western branch meetings of the
society.”
The department head said Ivie,
a distinguished student as an
undergraduate, has authored or
co-authored five scholarly papers
and is presently completing a
sixth.
PROPOSED COLLEGE VIEW RENOVATION
Don Burleson, (right), explains a model of his renovation project for the College View
apartments to another fourth-year architectural design major, Tom Wittenback. Bur
leson hopes to adapt one of the married students’ apartments along these plans and thus
start a project to renovate the entire complex. (Photo by Mike Wright)
’65 Grad Killed
In DMZ Action
Army 1st Lt. John C. Dougherty
of Houston, a 1965 Texas A&M
graduate, died in action in Viet-
name May 9.
A platoon leader of the 1st
Cavalry Division, he was in South
east Asia just over a month when
killed near the Demilitarized
Zone.
Dougherty studied marketing
here and was operations officer
of 5th Battalion Staff.
He is survived by his wife, the
former Linda Albers of Houston;
his father, a retired Army lieu
tenant colonel; two brothers and
a sister of Terre Haute, Ind.
The lieutenant had planned a
military career, following his
father in service.
Paris Talks
Continue As
Casualties Rise
SAIGON <A>) — North Viet
namese troops launched strong
attacks today north of Saigon
and in the Central Highlands as
the U. S. Command announced
that more American soldiers were
killed in combat last week than
in any week of the Vietnam war.
U. S. Command said 562 Amer
icans were killed, 19 more than
the previous record in the week
of Feb. 11-17. The U. S. Com
mand reported 5,552 enemy killed
last week, no record, while South
Vietnamese headquarters said 675
government troops were killed,
their third highest weekly toll of
the war.
A U. S. spokesman said much
of the American death toll re
sulted from heavy action in the
northernmost provinces, where
U. S. Marines fought several bat
tles last week around Dong Ha,
11 miles south of the demilitar
ized zone. The week also saw
hard fighting in and around Sai
gon as American and South Viet
namese forces crushed the second
enemy offensive within four
months against the capital.
Allied forces reported nearly
400 more Viet Cong and North
Vietnamese killed Wednesday in
clashes from the canal-laced
Mekong Delta to the demilitarized
zone. And today there were re
ports of more fighting in the
Central Highlands on three sides
of Kontum, a key provincial capi
tal, and near Khe Sanh, in the
northwest corner of the country.
The Communist command ap
peared to be trying to keep up
the military pressure to strength
en its bargaining position at the
Paris peace talks. It sent troops
storming at American and Aus
tralian positions and South Viet
namese outposts.
Near Khe Sanh, North Viet
namese troops fought U. S. Ma
rines from bunkers for 7(4 hours.
The heaviest fighting was
around Kontum City where an al
lied force reported 147 North
Vietnamese killed in five hours
of action Wednesday dm*ing which
not an allied soldier was killed.
That battle was seven miles
northeast of Kontum City. To
day, in the darkness before dawn,
North Vietnamese troops about 20
miles west of the city opened up
with mortars, rocket-propelled
grenades, flamethrowers and
small arms on a patrol base and
an outpost of the U. S. 4th In
fantry Division within 400 yards
of each other.
The defenders of the outpost
were forced back to the patrol
base, which retaliated with mor
tars and artillery while Air Force
twin-engine AC47s armed with
rapid-firing guns sprayed thou
sands of rounds into the enemy
positions under the light of flares.
B-CS Teen-agers
To Form Summer
Performing Group
Teen-agers in Bryan - College
Station have been invited' to form
a theater company, Premiere
Players, for summer productions
at Texas A&M.
C. K. Esten, director of the Ag
gie Players, said the company will
be formed at 7:30 p.m. June 4 in
the Fallout Theater Workshop of
A&M’s Guion Hall.
A professional director will
head the company, Esten noted.
Good theater practice of working,
learning and having fun will be
observed, he added.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adv.
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