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Lecture Series
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Danish Gym Team lasses will highlight Friday’s Town Hall special attraction with rhyth
mical routines on staggered balance bars. The 30-member team headed by Erik Flensted-
Jensen will perform at G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Danish GymT earn W ill Perform
In G. Rollie White Friday Night
Rhythmical acrobatic artistry
flavored with ballet and folk
dancing will be offered by the
Danish Gym Team, the first
Town Hall Special Attraction
Friday at Texas A&M.
The Erik Flensted-Jensen di
rected program will be at 8 p.m.
in G. Rollie White Co’iseum, an
nounced Town Hall Chairman
Louis Adams.
Tickets for the single event ad
mission performance have been
on sale since Monday at the Me
morial Student Center Student
Program Office, he added. An
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Gibbs Hearing
Continues Into
Third Session
Testimony continued today as
the closed hearing for Dr. Leon
W. Gibbs, charged last spring
with nine counts of misconduct,
entered its third day.
Participants continued to fol
low the “no comment” policy
prescribed by the Coordinating
Board, Texas College and Uni
versity System.
A five-member faculty-elected
committee is reviewing the uni
versity’s charges against Gibbs.
The committee will return ex
plicit findings on each charge
and make recommendations to
A&M President Earl Rudder.
The president, in turn, will for
ward the findings to the uni
versity’s board of directors for
final action, in accordance with
Coordinating Board rules.
The hearing follows A&M
censure by the American Asso
ciation of University Professors
as a result of charges by Gibbs
that he was relieved of teaching
duties and transferred to a re
search assignment in 1965 with
out academic due process.
Dr. Manuel M. Davenport,
president of the local chapter
of the AAUP, explained that
the committee may make one of
two recommendations after tes
timony in the case is heard.
“The committee may either
recommend that Gibbs be re
instated to his former teaching
position or dismissed from the
university,” he said.
Davenport added that he did
not know how long the hearing
will last, how soon the commit
tee would make a recommenda
tion or when final action will
be taken.
“It may take months,” he
said.
Gibbs, professor of veterinary
anatomy and a member of the
A&M faculty since 1949, has
charged that his competency as
a teacher was not questioned,
but that he was relieved of his
classroom duties because of
“marital difficulties.”
A&M student, date or wife tick
et is $1, faculty-staff and other
adult patrons $2 and other stu
dents $1.50. No reserved seats
will be available.
The young gymnasts, selected
from the most skillful in Den
mark, also will appear at the
Mexico City Olympics as part of
their 1968-69 tour.
“Denmark advocates physical
education and seeks continually
to improve all forms,” noted
Adams. “Perfect style is more
their aim than acrobatic stunts.
Their exercises have a clear pur
pose and wholesome effect on the
participating person.”
Modern Danish gymnastic dem
onstrations will include vaulting
and tumbling by the boys’ team
with balance beam exercises
highlighting the girls’ perform
ance. Folk dances in colorful
native costumes accompanied by
two pianists playing old folk
tunes will also be presented.
Flensted-Jensen’s troupe in-
Group To Begin
3-Stage Search
For Sweetheart
A selection committee from
A&M will visit the Texas Wom
an’s University campus in Den
ton tomorrow to begin choosing
the 1968-69 Aggie Sweetheart.
The five-man group will in
clude Bill Carter, Student Senate
president; David Maddox, Senate
vice-president; Gary Martin,
sophomore class president; Early
Davis, senior class president,
and Robert Boone, Singing Ca
dets director and the group’s
advisor.
The committee will talk to
girls interested in being consid
ered. Entrants must fill out ap
plications, explaining why they
want to be Aggie Sweetheart,
and must submit photographs of
themselves. Carter said 25 to 35
semifinalists will be chosen by
the group, which will fly to Den
ton Oct. 5 to interview the girls
and select 10 to 15 finalists.
The new Sweetheart will be
presented to the student body at
the TCU game, Oct. 19.
eludes 15 boys and 15 girls, many
of which are students in their
early 20s. They have performed
in the ancient Poseidon Temple
in Athens, Greece; the Fiji Is
lands and New York’s World
Fair. Flensted - Jensen first
toured North America with gym
nasts in 1939.
The program is co-sponsored
by Phi Epsilon Kappa, honorary
men’s health and physical educa
tion fraternity.
Five presentations ranging from
“The Design of Scientific Ex
periments” to ‘‘The Supreme
Court As an Instrument of
Change” are included in Texas
A&M’s 1968-69 University Lec
ture Series.
Assistant Graduate Dean Has
kell Monroe, chairman of the
University Lectures Committee
planning the series, said the com
mittee elected to open with a fa
culty lecturer, rather than have
a complete agenda of guest lec
turers.
The honor goes to Dr. H. O.
Hartley, director of Texas A&M’s
Graduate Institute of Statistics,
who will discuss “The Design of
Scientific Experiments” Nov. 14.
Theodore Russell Weiss, first
of two Danforth visiting lectur
ers to participate in the series
this season, will lecture Jan. 9
on “Poetry Now: Tradition and
Breakthrough.” He is Professor
of Writing at Princeton and edi
tor of The Quarterly Review of
Literature.
Charles A. Siepmann, former
vice president of the British
Broadcasting Corp. and currently
consultant in communications to
the Ford Foundation, will speak
on “Freedom of Speech and Cen
sorship” Feb. 6. He also is a
Danforth visiting lecturer.
“A New Look at the Humani
ties” will be the Feb. 18 presen-
TIAA Insurance Available
Under State Board Ruling
BB &L
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
First Meeting Set
By Experimenters
The Experiment Supper Club,
an alumnus organization of stu
dents who have participated in
the Experiment in International
Living program, will meet at
5:30 p.m. tonight in the dining
room of the Memorial Student
Center.
Pat Rehmet, who spent the
summer of 1967 in Poland, will
head the organizational session
open to all interested students.
Rehmet noted that students
who cannot make the dinner
meeting may join the club when
it adjourns to the MSC Art Room
at 6:15 p.m.
Teachers Insurance and Annui
ty Association (TIAA) has been
licensed by the Texas State
Board of Insurance to operate in
Texas, Robert L. Gulley, Jr. an
nounced recently.
Gulley, director of personnel
for Texas A&M, said the non
profit service organization pro
vides retirement and insurance
benefits for college employes.
The association was founded
in 1918 by the Carnegie Corpora
tion and the Carnegie Founda
tion for the Advancement of
Teaching. TIAA’s companion as
sociation, the College Retirement
Equities Fund, (CREF), estab
lished in 1952, was the first or
ganization to issue variable an
nuities, Gulley pointed out.
“Based on investments in com
mon stocks, the variable annuity
is both a contrast and a comple
ment to the traditional, fixed-
dollar annuity issued by TIAA,”
Gulley added.
“The combined TIAA and
CREF annuities provide the par
ticipant with a retirement in
come that is more responsive to
economic change than a fixed-
dollar annuity alone and less
volatile than a variable annuity
alone,” he said.
Eligibility for TIAA - CREF
benefit plans is limited to em
ployes of colleges, universities,
independent schools and certain
other non-profit educational and
scientific institutions.
BA Senate Vote
Scheduled Oct. 17
The School of Business Admin
istration will elect a sophomore,
junior, and senior to the Student
Senate Oct. 17.
Election runoffs will be Oct.
24, Student Senate President Bill
Carter said Tuesday.
For the first time, a sophomore
pre-veterinary student will be
elected to the senate, Carter
noted.
Carter said persons interested
in filing for the office may pick
up applications in the Student
Programs Office in the Memorial
Student Center Thursday.
“Candidates may observe the
first regular Student Senate
meeting at 7:30 p.m. in rooms
3B and 3C of the MSC,” Carter
added. He reiterated that all
senate meetings are open to the
entire student body.
Gulley pointed out, however,
that until the State Board of In
surance grants authority for the
issuance of variable annuities,
neither CREF nor other compa
nies are permitted to issue an
nuities in Texas. CREF report
edly expects to receive this au
thority in the near future.
Employes interested in making
application to TIAA have been
requested to contact the person
nel office.
200 Fish Appear
At Drill Tryouts
About 200 freshmen who turned
out for Fish Drill Team tryouts
Tuesday on the drill field be
hind Duncan Dining Hall were
described by Senior Adviser Mike
Casey as “having a great amount
of desire.”
Casey added that about 250
are expected for tryouts today
with the final team being selected
by next Tuesday. Search for a
freshman commanding officer will
also begin today.
The all-freshman team, which
won the national championship
last year in Washington, D. C.,
at the Cherry Blossom Festival,
has no special requirements for
membership. Most of its members
have little or no previous march
ing experience.
The unit’s first performance
will come in November in Kyle
Field during the halftime acti
vities of the A&M Fish—Univer
sity of Texas Shorthorn game.
Also scheduled for the fall and
spring are drill competitions at
Houston, Baton Rouge, and La
fayette, Ind.
tation of Hans Rosenwald, author,
educator and president of the
Albert Schweitzer Foundation of
Charity and Education in Swit
zerland.
Robert Jennings Harris, poli
tical scientist, author, - teacher
and university administrator, con
cludes the series March 25 with
a discussion of “The Supreme
Court As an Instrument of
Change.” He is currently James
Hart Professor of Government
and professor of history at the
University of Virginia.
The University Lecture Series,
Dr. Monroe noted, is designed to
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give the faculty, students and
general public the opportunity
to hear renowned authorities dis
cuss subjects on broad social, poli
tical and intellectual interest. The
admission-free series was initiat
ed in 1963.
All lectures begin at 8 p.m.
in the Memorial Student Center
ballroom, except for the Rosen
wald presentation, which will be
heard in the Architecture Build
ing auditorium.
Monroe said the Great Issues
Committee of the MSC Director
ate will co-sponsor the Siepmann
and Harris lectures.
Bryan Parliamentarian Gives
MSC Directorate Meeting Tips
Mrs. Madge Wallace of Bryan
told members of the Memorial
Student Center Directorate Tues
day how to “gain, obtain and
maintain order” i n committee
meetings.
A registered parliamentarian,
she explained some of the intri
cate rules of parliamentary pro
cedure but warned students not
to let adhering strictly to rules
become an end in itself.
“Keep in mind that your main
purpose for meeting is to arrive
at decisions, and to reach them
by the simplest, most objective
means,” she said.
In other directorate business,
Louis Adams, Town Hall chair
man, announced that Jon David
son would replace the Oct. 18
performance of Brenda Lee.
Mac Spears, executive vice
president of operations, explained
the function of the Directorate’s
new Public Relations Organiza
tion (PRO), as an advisory staff
for committees with advertising
or publicity problems.
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‘Open House’ Set
At Highway Office
A highway highlight of Na
tional Highway Week Sept. 22-28
will be an open house at the
district office of the Texas High
way Department, Bryan, from
3 to 7:30 p.m. today.
Facilities of special interest
are highway design offices, ma
terials laboratory, traffic sign
manufacturing and shop and
warehouse sections.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. —Adv.
DIRECTORATE DISCUSSION
Ray Armour of Houston gives a committee report at the
Tuesday meeting of the Memorial Student Center Direc
torate, a 500-member organization with activities that
range from inviting prominent speakers to the A&M
campus to arranging summer jaunts that take students
halfway round the world. Council and Directorate Pres
ident Benny Sims of Kingsville looks on in the background.
(Photo by Michael Welsh)
Geyer Will Head Lab Directors
Dr. Richard A. Geyer of Texas
A&M has been elected 1968-69
chairman of the Council of Ocean
ographic Laboratory Directors.
Geyer who heads the Oceanog
raphy Department here, was elect-
te at a recent meeting at Woods
Hole, Mass.
The council consists of the 10
top labs in the nation, organized
to help give direction to research
programs. COLD meets four
time annually.
Member institutions are Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institute,
Scripps Institution of Oceanog-
graphy, Lament Geological Ob
servatory of Columbia Urtiversity,
Johns Hopkins University, Texas
A&M, Oregon State and Universi
ties of Miami, Washington, Rhode
Island and Hawaii.
Dr. Geyer is vice chairman of
the President’s Commission on
Marine Science, Engineering and
Resources, a two-year commission
for study and recommendations
for a national marine science pro
gram. The commission’s recom
mendations are at present being
incorporated into its final report.
Work Pledged
By Civilians,
Corps, Senate
By DALE FOSTER
Battalion Staff Writer
Student members of the Wes
ley Foundation and dozens of vol
unteers will comb the campus
Thursday to collect donations for
the Iranian Earthquake Relief
Fund.
Sponsored locally by the Bry-
an-College Station Minister’s As
sociation, the fund is a coordi
nated effort with Church World
Service.
“The quakes in the northeast
ern part of Iran hit 1,300 square
miles, killing more than 20,000
persons, leaving 100,000 home
less, and destroying sources of
work for thousands,” reported
Andy Djavadi, one of a group of
Iranian students at A&M con
cerned about the crisis.
DJAVADI, A GRADUATE
student in biology, said most of
the people affected were farm
ers.
“They lost all of their posses
sions—homes, crops, and live
stock,” he noted.
Tables for donations will be
outside Sbisa and Duncan Dining
Halls and will be staffed during
all meal servings. In addition,
an all-day booth will be in the
Memorial Student Center by the
post office.
“I'll be there when they open
the booth,” commented Corps
Commander Hector Gutierrez, Jr.
Student Senate President Bill
Carter said, “The fund drive is
a very worthwhile project. It de
serves the students’ support.”
Civilian Student Council Presi
dent David Wilks agreed, “I will
give my full support to the fund
drive.”
FULL SUPPORT of the proj
ect was also given by Dean of
Students James P. Hannigan,
MSC Director J. Wayne Stark
and Food Services Director Fred
Dollar.
The local fund is part of a
world effort to aid the displaced
Iranians. Individual organiza
tions are taking on particular re
sponsibilities. Church World
Service, an interdenominational
aid group, is engaged in building
three medical clinics.
Efforts of all groups are being
coordinated to be most effective.
Church World Service, cooperat
ing with International Red Cross,
has already made available sev
eral thousand blankets and need
ed drugs and clothing.
Area churches have be e n
asked to give a special offering
for the earthquake victims and
to encourage their members to
give directly to the fund on an
individual basis. An account has
been established at the Univer
sity National Bank for the fund.
“WE FEEL THAT people in
our communities should have a
feeling of concern and compas
sion for those Iranians who are
victims of earthquakes in their
country,” said the Rev. Carl
R u c h , Minister’s Association
president.
Contributions may be mailed
locally to Church World Service,
Iranian Earthquake Relief Fund,
c/o University National Bank,
College Station, Texas 77840. If
they so desire, churches can send
money directly to Church World
Service, Box 220, Elkhart, In
diana 46514, the Rev. Ruch noted.
The relief fund is a project of
the association’s Social Action
Group, headed by Chairman
Hume Reeves, and is sponsored
on campus by the Wesley Foun
dation.
WEATHER
Thurs.—partly cloudy to cloudy,
few afternoon rain showers—
easterly 5-10; high 84, low 68.
Friday—cloudy, southerly 10-
15; light rain; high 86, low 71.
Tulane — cloudy, scattered rain
showers; southerly 10-15; high
81.
UniTeraity National Bank
“On the aide of Texas A&M.
—Adv.
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