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VOLUME 61 Che Battalion Weather Friday & Saturday—Cloudy to partly cloudy, winds, Southerly 10-20 m.p.h. Chance for few rainshowers late Sat urday. High 86, low 72. Kyle Field 2:00 p. m. Slightly cloudy. 4° •V I j;:; 84°. Winds, Southerly 10-20 m.p.h. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1968 Number 584 CivilianOrganization Proposed By Cooper 3 Dormitories To Participate In Pilot Project By MIKE FLAKE Speaking before about 200 stu dents, Director of Civilian Student Activities Ed Cooper outlined what could be a first important step in the establishment of posi tive programs for civilian stu dents on the Texas A&M campus. Cooper told the Great Issues Audience about his recent trip to five land grant colleges outside Texas. He said the trips, personal interviews with students here, visits in the resident halls, and a three-day conference with stu dents and faculty members at Buchanan Dam were used in the formulation of a pilot residence hall program for three civilian dormitories next year. The dormitories involved in the pilot project are Dormitory 18, Walton and Leggett Halls. “The problems in student life at Texas A&M do not approach the magnitude of those found on many American campuses today. This study indicates, however, that both students and staff are deeply concerned with those prob lems which do exist, and those which may arise as a conse quence.” HE POINTED out major prob lems on the A&M campus that now exist within the civilian stu dent body of Texas A&M. “A minority of students—but one which seems to be increasing each year—is having an undesir able influence on the student body by exhibiting self-centered atti tudes, lack of respect for prop erty, lack of interest in self gov ernment, and little appreciation for traits of citizenship.” Cooper recommended that steps be taken, through the pilot pro grams next year, which have been approved by the Executive Com mittee and President Rudder. “In this project, we hope to in still the concept of a total resi dence hall program among all members of the academic com munity,” Cooper said. “To do this, we will strengthen the profes sional staff to assist in the organization and supervision of the expanded residence hall pro gram.” COOPER’S plan calls for one residence hall program advisor, equivalent of the present housemaster. To assist the ad visor, and to provide more oppor tunities for him to advise and counsel students instead of taking all his time checking students in and out of rooms, turning work orders in, and other menial tasks, assistant hall advisors will be hired. The ratio between housemaster and students is now about 1 to 185. The ratio hoped for in the new program, Cooper said, is 1 to 50 students. Another essential area Cooper expects to improve is student government. “WE HAVE suggested that the current dormitory councils of all the civilian dormitories (including those not in the pilot project) be gin immediately to revise hall constitutions to include expanded councils, well-defined activity pro grams, and a system to handle residence hall funds.” “In addition, each hall council should consider the creation of a judicial body or judicial commit tee. It would be composed entirely of students of that hall, and would not include paid staff members as voting participants,” he sug gested. “They would act only as ad visors to the committees.” “This judiciary body would serve to maintain a proper study environment and to deal fairly but firmly wtih residents who show disrespect for residence hall property and fellow students.” COOPER said that each hall could utilize some kind of system for identifying and stimulating prospective candidates for elec- (See Civilians, Page 2) CIVILIAN CONFAB Ed Cooper, left, director of civilian student activities, looks over his notes shortly before his Great Issues address Thursday with Garry Mauro, who will be a civilian yell leader next year. Cooper proposed a residence hall program to unite civilian students here. (Photo by Mike Wright) ‘International Li ring 9 Group Formed By Experimenters By DAVE MAYES A club to promote A&M stu dent interest in foreign travel through participation in the Ex periment in International Living was organized by eight charter members Thursday night. Senior Pat Rehmet, an Experi menter in Poland two years ago, said the EIL Supper Club, com posed of past Experimenters, would meet once a month to share travel experiences and explain the Experiment program to pros pective participants. “We hope eventually to build the A&M club to a level of par ticipation enjoyed by similar clubs in Eastern schools which send 50 Experimenters a year,” Reh met said. OF THE eight members pres ent, only Rehmet and Wayne Prescott, junior economics major who experimented in Sweden last summer, had had overseas experi ence with the EIL. The six participate other students will in the Experiment Faculty Committee Announces 25 Spring Award Scholarships Spring award scholarship win ners have been announced, by the Faculty Scholarship Committee. Recipients will receive the vari ous business and individually sponsored awards toward study expenses of the 1968-69 school year. Students who applied for schol arship assistance this year were more highly qualified academical ly than ever, noted Dr. Richard H. Davis Jr. of the College of Vet erinary Medicine, veteran com mittee member. Recipients of $750 Alcoa schol arships include Bobby J. Ulich, junior electrical engineering ma jor of Lubbock who has a 3.08 grade point ratio; Charles W. Gilleland, junior, electrical en gineering, Meridian, 3.03 GPR; Robert E. Bishop, junior mechani cal engineering, Mt. Selman, 2.84, and John C. Abshier, junior, aero space engineering, Port Arthur, 2.61. KENT M: MIZE of Huntsville sophomore in physics, 2.90, $400 Aggie Supply Co. scholarship; James F. Blanke of San An tonio, junior, chemistry, 2.93, $300 Aggie Supply Co. scholarship; Roderick D. Stonedale of Hous ton, senior, physics, 2.74, $300 Aggie Supply Co. scholarship ; Lawrence Pavlicek of West, junior, electrical engineering, 2.79, $750 Douglas Aircraft scholar ship; Daniel W. and Donald G. Valen tine of San Antonio, seniors, mar keting 3.0 and 2.89, respectively, $250 J. E. Duff awards; RAUL CANTU of McAllen, junior, accounting, 2.63, $200, Jes se Jones military award; Bruce L. Freeman of Bay City, sophomore, physics, 3.20, and Michael R. Hardin of Fort Stock- ton, sophomore, history, 3.00, $300 Mary Johnston scholarships; Charles J. Koerth Sr. scholar ships of $300 to Nancy O’Malley of Houston, first year vet medi cine, 2.87; George C. Moses of Rockdale, first year vet medicine, 2.49; Jose A. Spencer of Presidio, sophomore, biochemistry, 2.87; Roland F. Lenarduzzi of Houston, third year vet medicine, 2.81, and Jess O. Adkins of G'iddings, sen ior, entomology, 2.63. Mosher Memorial scholarships of $300 to Gary Kyrish of San Antonio, sophomore, architectural construction, 2.57, and Gary West- erfield of Crawford, sophomore, civil engineering, 2.14. Schlumberger scholarship of $400 to Jerry G. Davis of San Antonio, senior, electrical engine ering, 2.89. Vulcan scholarships to Benny L. Carnes of San Benito, senior, civil engineering, 2.2; Daniel C. Kunkel of Burton, junior, architecture, 2.76; Roger R. Gomez of Hollo man AFB, N. M., junior, civil engineering, 2.48, and William G. Hodge of Ennis, senior, architec ture, 2.88. Zachry To Speak May 25 In Commencement Exercises program in five European na tions this summer. Frank W. Tilley of Jackson ville, senior industrial engineer ing major, and Blaine S. Purcell of Wichita Falls, sophomore in veterinary medicine, are both bound for Germany; A1 Reinert of Fairfax, Va., sophomore in geology, Russia; Ronald L. Adams of Tyler, sophomore in mechanical engineering, Yugo slavia; Jeanna Chastain of Col lege Station, freshman in veteri nary medicine, Czechoslovakia; and Hector Gutierrez of Laredo, junior mathematics major, Po land. THE EXPERIMENTERS will attend two to three weeks of language school at EIL head quarters in Vermont and then spend 10 weeks overseas. The first part of the visit will be a homestay with an assigned family. Experimenters and host family members will then com bine for tours of each country during the last part of the visit. Rehmet warned the summer Experimenters to beware of “culture shock,” a phenomenon usually experienced by one who suddenly finds himself in a so ciety much different from his own. “YOU FEEL like a fish out of water,” Rehmet explained. “You experience frustration and anxi ety because you lose the little social cues that give you peace of mind. Suddenly there’s a dif ferent time to eat, a different language to speak and hundreds of different customs to observe.” “Culture shock usually begins the second week after you arrive in a foreign country and lasts until you begin to understand and follow the nation’s establish ed social patterns,” Rehmet said. H. B. Zachry of San Antonio, founder of a world-wide con struction firm and head of Hem- isFair, will be commencement speaker at graduation ceremonies here May 25, announced Presi dent Earl Rudder. Zachry is a 1922 civil engineer ing graduate of Texas A&M and was presented the institution’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 1964. He also is a former board president of the Texas A&M Uni versity System. Shortly after graduation from A&M, Zachry organized the H. B. Zachry Company and built it into one of the leading construc tion firms in the nation. He now serves as board chairman. Within recent years, the firm completed such projects as mis sile sites, dams, power plants and highways. Its scope of opera tion has broadened to include the South Pacific, South America, Spain, Thailand, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. ZACHRY, who earlier this year was named “Mr. South Texas” by the Washington’s Birthday Celebration Association in La redo, has been a leader in devel opment of the first world’s fair in the Southwest. Earlier this week, he was named HemisFair’s chief executive officer, along with his previous position as chairman of the board. The Uvalde native has demon strated a keen interest in Texas education. He was appointed by Gov. John Connally in 1963 to head the 25-member “Committee Mothers Club Gives $500 To Library Fund A $500 Houston A&M Mothers Club gift to Cushing Library will purchase books for the new li brary, Dr. James P. Dyke, direc tor, said Thursday. Mrs. Gerald D. Scott, Houston club president, and Mrs. Bill Koenig, president-elect, presented the check to the library official. Dyke, who noted the average price per volume of the library’s present acquisitions is about $8, said the Houston Mothers Club donation will be distributed among acquisitions for the vari ous A&M colleges. Cushing’s collection currently numbers around 500,000 volumes. A library expansion to be ready for occupancy this fall will shelve one million books. The Houston club officials dis tributed other gifts Wednesday. Mdmes. Scott and Koenig pre sented $760 to Robert M. Logan for Opportunity Award Scholar ships, $500 to Singing Cadets di rector Robert L. (Bob) Boone and other donations to the Fresh man Drill Team, Aggie Band, All-Faiths Chapel and university hospital. Mrs. Scott said $1,840 in total gifts was raised through only one project, the annual Singing Cadets concert at Jones Hall. The Houstonians also visited their sons, Robert J. Scott, his tory major, and Bill Koenig, aerospace engineering. The junior Air Force cadets are members of Squadron 11. on Education Beyond the High School” which recommended establishment of the Texas Col lege and University System Co- s ordinating Board. He is a mem ber of that board. IN ADDITION to eight years on the Texas A&M board, Zachry also has served on the State Board for Special Schools and Hospitals and the Alamo Heights Independent School District Board. He is a member of the board of governors for the Southwest Research Institute and a direc tor of the Texas Research League and the Texas Good Roads Asso ciation. He also is a past presi dent of the Associated General Contractors of America and a former board member of the Fed eral Reserve Bank of Dallas. Commencement exercises begin at 9 a.m. in G. Rollie White Coli- ZACHRY Registrar H. 1,120 students graduation, the two decades. L. Heaton said have filed for largest class in Publications Fete Set Here Tonight By BOB PALMER The Student Publications Ban quet tonight will honor the 1967- 68 editors of student publications in the ballroom of the Memorial Student Center. The affair will begin at 7 p.m. with a smorgasbord dinner and run through the presentation of watches to the outgoing editors. A highlight of the banquet will be selection of six Vanity Fair finalists from a field of 12 semi finalists. The six finalists will be pictured in the Aggieland, in stead of one senior sweetheart. At past banquets the editors for the coming year have been named. This year’s slate of pros pective editors, however, has not yet been approved by President Earl Rudder. THE 12 SEMI-FINALISTS in clude Vashti Louise Meriage, Katherine Sudela, Carol Beler, Dianne Carol Willis, Judi Martin, Kerry Lent Skarien, Sally Ann Lindsey, Nancy James, Laura Lee Belville, Judith Diane Tay lor, Gayla Bell and Nancy Cole man. Retiring editors will be Steve Korenek, Manuel Pina, Carl Feducia, Ed Sommers, Douglas M. Matthews and Charles H. Rowton. Matthews, editor of the South western Veterinarian, is a mem ber of Phi Eta Sigma, Student Senate and is listed in “Who’s Who in American Universities.” He is a distinguished student, president of the American Vet erinary Medical Society and was outstanding sophomore of Com pany A-3. ROWTON, a distinguished stu dent, served as editor of the Bat talion this year. He is president elect of Sigma Delta Chi, a $400 Minneapolis Star scholarship winner and was outstanding freshman of Company A-l. Korenek, executive officer of the White Band and Battalion news editor, has worked this year as editor of the Review. A Dis tinguished Military Student and a four-year Opportunity Award scholarship winner, he marches on the bugle rank of the Aggie Band. Editor of the Agriculturist, Pina is a member of the Society of A&M Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, Alpha Zeta, Collegiate FFA and a Clayton Fund Scholarship recipient. He has a double ma jor in agricultural education and agricultural journalism. A MEMBER of the Aggieland staff for four years, Sommers has worked as editor this year. He is a member of the Polaris Council, Ross Volunteers and Ross Volunteer Firing Squad. Sommers also is a Distinguished Military Student. Feducia, commander of the Second Brigade, was editor of the Engineer this year after having previously served three years on the publication’s staff. A Ross Volunteer platoon leader and member of the RV Firing Squad, he is on the Cadet Honor Coun cil and Town Hall staff. Reservations Due Next Week For Summer Session Students living in Dorms 17, 19, 20, 21, and 22 and in ramps 1 through 5 of Puryear Hass who will attend the first summer ses sion may reserve their present rooms at the Housing Office Monday through Wednesday. Students presently enrolled who will attend the first summer ses sion and wish to reserve a room other than the one they now occupy may sign up for rooms on a first-come-first-serve basis, beginning Thursday. Allan M. Madeley, housing manager, pointed out that stu dents who reserved rooms for fall before May 20 will have priority for those rooms in the fall. This means that although a student may live in the same room both summer sessions he may not be able to retain that room in the fall. Day student permits may be secured at the Housing Office un til June 1. Madeley said, how ever, that all male, single under graduate students must live on campus unless living with their families. Exceptions will be made only for very unusual cir cumstances, he said. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M. —Adv. Drill Team To March At Spring Game LIBRARY DONATION Books for the expanded Cushing Library will be realized from a Houston A&M Mothers Club donation. Mrs. Gerald D. Scott, club president, presents the $500 check to Dr. James P. Dyke, Cushing Library director, against a backdrop of empty shelves in the new build ing where the basic undergraduate collection will be housed. The new library will be oc cupied later this year. The national champion Fresh man Drill Team will march at halftime of the Aggies’ spring football game Saturday at Kyle Field. The appearance, second in less than five hours, will be the team’s last as a unit. The Fish will participate in the Houston Armed Forces Day Parade at 10 a.m. Saturday and immediately return to the campus to provide the halftime show of the 2 p.m. football game. Winner of every meet in which it marched this season, the team won the national championship at the National Intercollegiate RO- TC drill competition at Washing ton, D. C., in April. A modified version of the FDT winning drill will be used in Houston. Aggie football specta tors will see the performance that won the national title. The 20-cadet unit, commanded by Sammy Garcia of San An tonio, also won championship trophies at West Texas State, A&M, Texas and LSU competi tions. Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. —Adv. BB&L