Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1968)
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT EARL RUDDER President Rudder Greets Freshmen It is a sincere pleasure to welcome you to Texas A&M University, the states oldest public institution of higher learning. This institution will continue to play an increas ingly important role in the advancement of higher educa tion in Texas. You will be impressed with the environment which exists on this campus. Such an environment has been created by an outstanding faculty and staff, by an inspired student body, by fine teaching and research facilities, and by edu cational programs of the highest caliber. Your acceptance into A&M indicates that you have the capability to contri bute in a meaningful way to this environment for learning. Your attitude, your diligent effort and your every action can be of lasting benefit to yourself and will contribute also to the enhancement of the university. The difference in outstanding success, mediocrity or failure for the student is determined largely by the student. The scholastic record you achieve will be the basic standard by which success is measured. This record will begin your FIRST DAY on campus and will follow you throughout life. We hope that you will accept scholastic achievement as your primary mission while at Texas A&M. We place great confidence in the A&M Class of 1972. You have our best wishes for success and for an exceptional ly challenging educational career at Texas A&M University. We commend you for selecting Texas A&M for the attain ment of your educational objectives. Inside The 4 Batt’ This annual freshman edition of The Battalion is designed to give the new student and his parents some insight into the background, size, traditions, facilities and extra-curricular activities of Texas A&M. The new student might find it helpful to keep this issue of the “Batt” and bring it with him in September to help him in the big job of getting acquainted with the university. The first section contains the current campus news and feature stories. The second section includes information on the 1968 football team and what is in store for them in the fall. The third section centers around the history, tra ditions and extra-curricular activities available to the students of A&M. Reservations Due For Fall Semester Students who are planning to liven in residence halls during the fall semester should stop by the Housing Office and fill out a “old-returning” buff-colored room reservation card this week, ac cording to Allan M. Madeley, housing Manager. Any reservation made for the summer session was made only for the summer and does not apply to the fall semester, he said. Freshmen who have been ac cepted for the fall semester but have not submitted fall reserva tion cards should obtain them from the Registrar’s Office and University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M. —Adv. return them to the Housing Of fice at once, Madeley continued. Students who entered as trans fers in June should fill out white cards. Sophomores, juniors and seniors should fill out the buff- colored cards. Graduate students should fill out green housing cards and international students should complete the blue cards. Madeley reminded students that since the demand for resi dence halls is expected to be heavy this fall and room reser vations are handled on a date- received basis, it is important that the cards be returned as soon as. possible. Aug. 15 is the deadline for cancellations. Any cancellations after this period will cause a forfeit of the room deposit, Made- ley pointed out. Welcome Class Of 1972! Che Battalion VOLUME 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1968 Number 595 Gen. Johnson Returns As SCONA Participant Retired Army Chief of Staff Gen. Harold K. Johnson, spring commissioning speaker at Texas A&M, has accepted an invitation to address the 14th Student Con ference on National Affairs in December. The 35-year military service veteran will speak on “The Lim its and Responsibilities of U. S. Power,” SCONA theme for 1968. SCONA chairman Donald B. McCrory of College Station, a fifth-year architecture design major, also announced that Yaa- cov Hess, Israeli consul general in Houston, will serve as a Round-Table co-chairman. “The Ambassador of Israel, His Excellency Maj. Gen. Yitz hak Rabin, secured Hess’ serv ices,” McCrory added. General Johnson’s popular com missioning address touched on the SCONA theme when he said “responsibility begins whenever you find it>) and you find it when ever you begin to look for it.” Participant of the Bataan death march, General Johnson served as chief of staff four years before his recent retire ment. During his 35 years serv ice, the West Point graduate served in practically all areas of the world. He commanded 57th and 7th Infantry units, 5th and 8th Cav alry Regiments in the Far East and headed the joint war plans branch in the Pentagon G3 of fice. Johnson was commandant of the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leaven worth three years before going to the Pentagon in 1963. SCONA’s objective is to pro vide an informal atmosphere for student delegates from across the nation and nearby countries to debate, hear and discuss topics of major importance to the Unit ed States and the world. Leading politicians and states men appear before the student- planned, financed, and operated conference. Committees have al ready worked several months at tempting to raise money and at tract speakers. Other committees work at send ing invitations to other schools for delegates, arranging trans portation and lodging for SCONA delegates and speakers, and planning the agenda for the four-day conference. Student Unrest On Campus Next ‘Great Issues’ Topic Student unrest on U. S. cam puses will be the subject of a special summer Great Issues presentation next week at Texas A&M. Panel members representing the administrative, faculty, civi lian and Corps viewpoints will discuss the topic, “Revolt on American Campuses,” in the Aug. 15 presentation in the Memorial Student Center Assembly Room. Opportunity for audience dis cussion and questions will be pro vided, noted Richard L. Engel of Elm Grove, Wis., Great Issues summer committee member. “The discussion will be kept on a general level and will not be allowed to center on A&M,” En gel added. The panel will include Dean of Students James P. Hannigan; Dr. William C. Gibbons, Political Science Department head; Grif fin L. Venator of Dallas, former Civilian Student Council presi dent, and Engel. Moderator will be the Rev. Wesley Seeliger of the St. Thomas' Episcopal Chapel. Engel was 2nd Wing com mander in the Corps of Cadets last year. Small Student Vote Puts Wallace Ahead Centrex Telephone System Causes Directory Changes Centrex is coming to Texas A&M Aug. 18 and Howard Ves tal, the university’s management services director, is making- sure everyone is prepared. Vestal explained Centrex is a complete telephone central office designed to serve the specific needs of the university with its own exchange. Next week, he noted, all uni versity offices will receive a memorandum detailing instruc tions for proper use of Centrex and a supply of post cards to notify off-campus callers of new numbers. All campus phones operating on the Centrex system will have complete new numbers with an 845 prefix. The post cards, furnished by General Telephone Company of the Southwest, are printed in ma roon ink and include Texas A&M’s 1968 football schedule, in addition to providing space for Work Progresses On Grad Center Construction work is virtually complete on the first part of a $3.25 million Graduate Center for Matei-ials and Structural Me chanics at Texas A&M. Physical Plants Manager How ard Badgett said a preliminary inspection of the two-story and basement building on Spence Street was made last week. “The formal inspection on which acceptance hinges will come in about a week or two,” he said. Installation of a quarter-mil lion dollars worth of equipment will follow. The Phase I building will house photoelasticity, strain gauge, instrumentation, cement and concrete technology and oth er labs. Engineers with specialties from road building to aerody namics will investigate a variety of materials and structures in the new quarters, which have a gross floor space of 23,334 square feet. The facility provides for pre cise control of temperature and humidity in some rooms. Phase II and III buildings are planned for later construction. One wing will face on Spence Street and the second will be set on the east side of the present structure, forming a “T” shaped building, Badgett said. a personal message and the new telephone number. Vestal pointed out that all the new telephone numbers will be published in a temporary campus directory to be distributed about Aug. 15. Brazos county customers of General Telephone Company of the Southwest will also begin this week receiving a new telephone directory according to B. A. Er win, Division Manager. This second 1968 directory is being published for several rea sons: The advent of the new- Centrex telephone system at Texas A&M will cause most num bers on the campus to change August 18, 1968. In getting ready for Expanded Direct Distance Dialing (EDDD) which will come to Bryan-College Station August 1969, some Bryan numbers must be changed. Two hundred and fifty of these changes will be effective August 18, 1968, and the new number will be in this month’s new direc tory. If a customer has not received his new telephone directory by August 26, 1968, he should con tact his telephone company’s business office, Erwin concluded. Tug-Of-War Set For Tuesday A second tug-of-war contest has been set for Tuesday at 5:30 p.m., Jack Abbott, Action Com mittee chairman of the Memorial Student Center’s Summer Direc torate, announced. The teams will be made up of 20 men (or women), says Abbott. Site for the tug-of-war is just east of the Cyclotron. Third-party presidential hope ful George C. Wallace won a close decision over Republican candi date Richard M. Nixon in a Me morial Student Center-sponsored election Tuesday. The former Alabama governor, representing the American party, got more than 25 percent of the student votes cast in the base ment of the MSC, Jack Abbott, Action Committee chairman of the Student Directorate, said. Only 227 students showed up at the polling booth to vote for the 11 candidates on the slate, according to the chairman. “The voter turn-out here re flects on the national picture the indecision that many people face this election year,” he continued. Many of those who did show up for the election were undecided about their preference for the president of the United States. “A little less than half of those who did vote were undecided at the time they closed the curtain behind them. A remark often heard after they were in the booth was ‘now who do I vote for?’—clearly showing the in decision,” Abbott said. Wallace won over Nixon by receiving 64 votes, while Nixon was given 56. California Govern or Ronald Reagan was accorded 29 votes by the A&M students. New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller was close behind Reagan with 26. Both Vice Presi dent Hubert H. Humphrey and Minnesota Senator Eugene J. Mc Carthy were given 17 votes each. “Non-candidate” Lyndon B. Johnson won 11. Texas Govemor John Connally and New York Mayor John Lindsey both receiv ed three votes, and Illinois Sena tor Charles Percy was given one. Michigan Governor George Rom ney was also included on the slate of presidential candidates and “non-candidates,” but did not tally any student votes. Two AF Officers Added To Staff Air Force 1950 Texas Capt. Louis completed Texas A&I assigned to detachment Maj. Ray H. Copus, a A&M graduate, and D. Sassman Jr., who graduate studies at in 1962, have been the aerospace studies at A&M. The Texans will serve under Col. Vernon L. Head, professor of aerospace studies, in instruc tional capacities. Major Copus is an associate professor, Captain Sassman assistant. Bryan Building & Loan Association, Yolir Sav ings Center, since 1919. —Adv. BB&L “COUNTDOWN 5” The last dance of the summer has been set for 8 p. m. Tues- “Coundown 5” performed for the Junior Ball and also were day in the Memorial Student Center ballroom. The versa- on the same program with “The 5 Demension” during tile “Countdown 5” will be the featured band, according to Civilian Weekend last spring. Summer Directorate Dance Chairman James Fletcher. The - V - • -vv ^