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his Is The Week, Saturday’s The Night: Wreck Tech! gli ill greet ; best te; recent y ( rson in i ure 37 high set he All-s i Fish, 14-4-2 > on that edule for r at Wa ( ege Stat h at Lubt is at Col yard avet top defer; yard aver put him ig and more s ■sses thro t of 700 vo is. Hixs is 695 ;i yards ga a back at column a at TCU gged the rards in r over 1 irry A1 Raiders' Texas, re f 84 ano punt re return chdown, /en punts Tech's punt re: 320 yarii ie spri' rout & SKIE (^) - ever 5 veigheil Carter, Youngkin Urge ‘Momentum’ By JOHN W. FULLER Battalion Editor President Earl Rudder Monday called a meeting- of student leaders, including senior varsity football players, to emphasize the importance of Saturday’s Texas Tech football game and to encourage the students to build up a special momentum for the game. Head Coach Gene Stal lings added his views, noting that the student body “is always behind the team” and adding that “we don’t have to ask for your support—we just appreciate it.” Also speaking were Joe Buser, special assistant to Rudder, and Edwin Cooper, director of civilian student activities. Both are A&M graduates. Among the student leaders were Bill Carter, Student Senate President, and Bill Youngkin, Head Yell Leader, whose “Beat Tech Week” messages to the student body follow: YOUNGKIN: This was one of the most impressive “spirit” meetings I’ve been to. To have President Rudder and these other administrators explain what the Aggie spirit and this game mean to them really made me think what the Spirit and the team could mean to a man. One of the things I am proudest of is the fightin’ Texas Aggie spirit; people may make jokes about the Aggies, but they never joke about the spirit. It really inspires me to see people like President Rud der, Coach Stallings, Mr. Cooper and Mr. Buser, who ceased being an active part of the Twelfth Man long ago, showing this type of interest. If the rest of the student body will show the same type of spirit and back the team the way these men are backing it, there’s no way that Tech can walk out of here Saturday but second in the conference. CARTER: As president of the student body, I want to call on the students to make a special effort to generate Twelfth Man spirit for this game, to counteract the mo mentum of Tech. As I’ve said many time before, I feel that the A&M student body is unique, and its spirit is unique. The Aggie football players know we’re behind them, but it will help them a lot during this week to let them know whenever you see one of them on the campus. With Tech having beaten Texas, their momentum is really going to be high. They’ll be down here in full force; it’s their all-school trip, so they’ll have a large part of the student body down here. They’ll be high-spirited, but once they stop on this campus, they should be hit hard and slowed down by the show of Aggie spirit. I realize it’s a real challenge for the students to sur pass the Aggie spirit of the past, but at the same time it Is quite a challenge for the football team to surpass the championship record of last year. It’s not going to be an easy thing. We are really going to have to put out a superior effort to fulfill our obligation as a student body. So, Aggies, it’s as simple as this: Let’s get to work and beat the hell out of Tech. Liberal Arts Council Creates New Office To Oppose Apathy “Typical of A&M students in their feeling of enthusiastic apatfiy,” Dean Charles E. Mc- Canqless of the College of Lib eral Arts told the Liberal Arts Student Council Monday. To lessen this feeling of apathy, the Council created the office of director of public re lations and elected John James of Houston to the new position. James will act as liaison be tween students and the Dean. Students may voice their sug gestions for the College of Lib eral Arts by writing James at Box 4982. Later this month a suggestion box will be placed in the Academic Building. Dean McCandless pointed out that only problems concerning Liberal Arts will be considered. Any other suggestions will be di rected to the proper departments. Composed of two representa tives from different departments and clubs in Liberal Arts, the council also elected Ronny Hu bert, vice president, and Shirley Nichols, secretary-treasurer. Clubs eligible for council rep resentation are Education, Eng lish, Debate, Aggie Players, Czech, Russian, Philosophy, Eco nomics, History, Pre-Law, Health and Physical Education, Journal ism, and Psychology. President Robert Peek dis cussed the main objectives of the council, noting its important goal is to act as a link between Lib eral Arts students and the office of the Dean. In the spring, the council plans to elect two outstanding profes sors from the College of Liberal Arts and the university and pre sent an appreciation plaque to each of them. To stimulate stu dent-faculty relations the Coun cil also will nominate a professor that exhibits outstanding inter est in his students. Che Battalion VOLUME 64 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1968 Number 14 19 File For Four Positions In Oct. 17 Senate Election # • t m TXT | Keynote Is On ‘Diversity’ J istweidtNames I In Oreat Issues Programs I Election Changes “Diversity” is the by-word in plans for this year’s Great Is sues presentations. Under the direction of David Maddox, a senior management major from College Station, the Great Issues Committee of the Memorial Student Center has been divided and sub-divided to insure careful scheduling and responsible leadership at all levels. Maddox has chosen two vice- chairmen to arrange the presen tation—Janet Whitehead, a sen ior marketing major from Vien na, Va., and Dick Westbrook, a senior in mechanical engineering from Annadale, Va. Miss Whitehead will handle the public relations and coordinate the advertising, graphic arts, ra dio-TV news releases and press conferences. WESTBROOK IS IN CHARGE of programming which has been divided into three sub-commit tees; seminar series, speaker se ries and the issues series. In ad dition, Political Forum has been added as a part of Great Issues under the leadership o f Ron Hinds, a senior management ma jor from Midland. The seminar series will deal with the urban crisis and minori ty problems. iMaddox noted that the series resulted from work by the Great Issues Planning Com mittee, which realized that the “complex problems facing our so ciety cannot be discussed and an alyzed in the conventional man ner. The seminar series is to serve as a forum where these vital and pressing problems can be presented and discussed.” Three seminars wil be presented this year. A five-part discussion on “The Urban Crisis: The People and the City” is scheduled for Oct. 16. A three-day “Black Amer ica Seminar” is scheduled for Dec. 10-12. It will attempt to study the efforts of the negro minority to achieve social changes. SPEAKERS WILL BE U. S. Rep. James C. Gorman of Cali fornia; Charles Eager, analyst of the Black Power movement and the Poor Peoples March; and Daniel Watts, Negro publisher- editor of The Liberator. In the spring, the Series will present the “Urban Crisis Seminar,” a systems aproach study of the problems of urban America. The Speaker Series, is headed by John Cunningham, a junior physics major from Augusta, Kan. “The Series will present out standing individuals who are par ticularly qualified to analyze the Fall Total Puts RegistrationUp Nine Per Cent Texas A&M’s final registration figures for the fall semester to taled a record 13,081, up more than one thousand students from last year, reported Registrar H. L. Heaton. Heaton said current registra tion represents an 8.76 per cent increase over the 1967 enrollment of 12,027, the previous record. He pointed out this year’s total included 979 women, an increase of 209. The A&M figures, Heaton noted, are based on 12th class-day rtalsu- lations, the date designated for reporting to the Coordinating Board, Texas College and Univer sity System. The registrar said A&M has increased its enrollment by at least a thousand students the past four years. TCU Ticket Sales Start Wednesday Graduate students may pick up their football tickets Wednesday for the Oct. 19 game with Texas Christian University. Seniors may obtain their tickets Thursday, juniors Friday, sopho mores Monday and freshmen next Tuesday. Yell Practice Set For 7:15 Tonight At Kyle Field crucial issues of the day,” Cun ningham commented. The first Speaker Series pre sentation on Oct. 22 will feature Leon Jaworski, adviser to Presi dent Lyndon Johnson, who will speak on “Does Justice Favor the Accused?”. Jaworski was chief trials counsel at the Nazi War Crimes Trials, has served on four Presidential commissions and was recently appointed to the Presi dent’s Commission on Violence. THE ISSUES SERIES IS de signed to allow spontaneous pro gramming to reflect and channel student interest in day - to - day news events, according to chair man Ron Tefteller, a senior ag ricultural economics major from Midland. Capt. Edward Warner, USAF, will speak Jan. 8 on “Soviet Mili tary Capabilities”. Warner is a member of the Policy Planning Council of the State Department, a visiting professor at the USAF War College, and a full-time In structor at the U. S. Air Force Academy. Other programs not yet scheduled will deal with heart transplants, gun control legisla tion, the Czech crisis and Com munism today. “The Political Forum presents eminent speakers on political is sues, processes and personalities,” said Chainnan Ron Hinds. “This year we will be presenting our major programs in the evening, and have scheduled a new noon series with more than ten speak ers.” POLITICAL FORUM programs will feature U. S. Senator Ralph Yarborough, Richard Scammon, an expert on voting behavior, and Clifton Carter, an adviser to Pres ident Johnson. The noon series will have Texas House Speaker Ben Barnes, State Senators William T. Moore and James Bates, and State Repre sentative Burke Musgrove, Gus Mutscher, and W. S. Heatly. “For the more than 100 mem bers of the Great Issues Commit tee, 1968-69 promises to be a busy, work-filled year,” Maddox said. “For the student body, Great Issues presentations should prove to be the most outstanding, di versified programming to be wit nessed at A&M to date.” By TIM SEARSON Battalion Staff Writer Election Commission President Gerald Geistweidt announced Monday that 19 students had filed for the Oct. 1'T Senate elec tion for representatives of the Colleges of Business Administra tion and Pre-Veterinary Medi cine. “All candidates should note the changes made in the election rules by the Senate,” said Geistweidt. Changes made by the Senate include: “Any student election not au thorized and sanctioned by the Student Election Commission is invalid and all students involved in such an election will not be a candidate for any office through the spring semester. “Election Commissioners will be picked from the five candi dates in each class with the high est number of votes. “IN CASE NO CANDIDATE receives a majority, a run-off will be held between the two re ceiving the highest number of votes. If a tie exists between the second place candidates, a run off will be held between them and the first place candidate. “Campaign posters may he placed on dormitory room doors but will not exceed the size of the doors. Posters will not be dis played on walls or on personal property without the owner’s con sent. “Posters will not be placed in any other buildings on campus other than dormitories and col lege apartments. “Campaign literature may be distributed as long as normal campus activities are not im peded. Only dorms and college apartments will be used as dis tribution centers. “POSTERS OR SIGNS of any size may be mounted on stakes in the area between Guion Hall and the Memorial Student Cen ter, immediately in front of Dun can Dining Hall, in the area be tween the University Hospital and Henderson Hall, and in the col lege apartment area. “All candidates may spend no more than $25 each during the campaign and must furnish ex pense accounts to the election commission in the Student Pro grams Office, MSC, the first school day after the election. “Candidates may use any type of public communications other than the public address system in the dining hall as long as the $25 campaign expenditure limit is complied with. “Parades, bands, and demon strations will be permitted be tween 5 and 7:30 p.m. as long as pedestrian and vehicle traf fic is not blocked. CAMPAIGNING WILL NOT be allowed within the election place.” The election will be held in the typing room of Francis Hall, between the library and the Chem istry Building. Anyone unable to vote Oct. 17 should contact Geist weidt in Dorm 5, Rm. 215, be fore Oct. 16 in order to vote ab sentee. Students participating in the election are reminded to bring their activity cards in order to vote. The candidates will be as fol lows: Senior B. A. representatives— Carl G. Chapman, Robert Lee Edgecomb, Arthur J. Erickson, Kim H. Forney, Kenneth W. Hess, James R. Homer, Guy W. Leflar, R. C. Tortorice. Junior B. A. representatives— Michael L. Doggett, Steve P. Little, John F. MacGillis, Richard J. Reese, Sam Tom. Sophomore B. A. representa tives—Kent A. Caperton, Thad H. Marsh. Sophomore Pre-Vet representa tives—^Tommy Henderson, Bruce W. Irving, James B. King IV, Perry Lee Reeves. WEATHER Wednesday — Cloudy to Partly Cloudy. Winds Southerly- 10 to 20 mph. Intermittent Rain and Thun dershowers All Day. High 84. Low 73. Thursday — Cloudy to Partly Cloudy. Few Afternoon Rain Showers. Winds Northerly at 10 mph. High 86. Low 68. Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. B B & L —Adv. lounds. the St ; r Latftf First Issue Recently Donated ST u* ‘Batt’ Marks 64th Year As Newspaper iloring ter 5 Lit •8071 ;r Sen 1 or da* jns nged. i temi s, car* By DALE FOSTER Battalion Staff Writer With this issue, The Battalion celebrates its 64th birthday as a newspaper and also marks its diamond anniversary under its present name. Copies of early newspaper is sues, including the first, Oct. 8, 1904, were recently presented to Texas A&M by the University of Texas at Austin Library. Weekly newspapers given to the Archives Department at Cushing Library include eight issues of the 1904-05 school year plus is sues of Jan. 27 and Nov. 13, 1907. “I DON’T SEE how they were able to save that many copies from one year,” commented Uni versity Archivist Ernest Lang ford. “We hope that we will be able to laminate all the early issues to preserve them for future reference. They are a valuable asset to the archives collection.” Although yellow and brittle from age and cracked around the edges, all the issues are complete FIRST BANK & TRUST—Home of the Super C D - 5% interest compounded daily. and clearly readable. The typical issue was made up of four pages containing advertising on all in cluding the front page. Items and services advertised in The Battalion ranged from patent medicines and livery stables to shave and bath parlors and train excursions. Published by the Corps of Cadets under the management of the Stephen F. Austin Literary Society, the first Battalion was edited by B. L. Durst and cost $1.25 yearly for a subscription. PRINTED ON a slightly small er sheet than today’s paper, the early issues were divided into five-column pages marked by one- column headlines and long stories Besides advertising, the front page of the first issue contained one article, a word-for-word ac count of the speaker’s address at commencement the previous May. Also of note on the first page was a notice asking students to submit fight songs and yells that could be used at athletic events. In asking that the paper’s readers bear with them if they “erred or blundered in their un dertakings,” the staff of the first issue quoted editorially, “Don’t view us with a critic’s eye, but pass our imperfections by.” EARLY EDITORIALS com plained of having to wade through water on rainy nights, high prices at the campus store which was privately owned, and smoking by athletes. Although the football team had won the majority of its games during the season, one of the ones they lost was on Thanks giving, and it subsequently brought about the anti-tobacco campaign. An early letter to the editor signed “Nemo” charged that the English Department was assign ing too much homework in the form of outside reading. Another letter in reply suggested that if “Nemo” didn’t like it at A&M, he “should resign and go else where.” Before A&M bought its own press. The Battalion and its pre decessors were printed in Bryan, first by the Bryan Weekly Pilot, University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M. —Adv. and later by the Pilot’s succes sor, The Bryan Eagle. THE BATTALION can trace its full history back through its years as a literary magazine. The name Battalion originally applied to a pocket-sized booklet contain ing items such as a news article in poetical form glorifying the Aggies’ victory over the Texas Longhorns. In 1 8 9 3, Lawrence Sullivan Ross, ex-governor and then A&M College president, was at his desk in the twin-towered Old Main Building when a student stepped into the room and saluted. Clad in Confederate grey, the cadet said, “Sir, I wish to pre sent you with the first copy of our new student publication. We call it The Battalion.” Vol. 1, No. 1 of the Battalion, which was presented for Ross to see, bore no resemblance to its present-day descendant. It was published monthly from October of 1893 to June of 1904 by two “literary societies,” the Austin and Calliopean. AS DEBATING AND discus sion societies, the two groups were the most important organi zations on campus. Four out of five Aggies belonged to one or the other which elected the edi torial staffs of The Battalion. The Battalion was not the first A&M publication. In 1878, two years after the opening of the college, the Austin and Calliopean societies published the first is sue of The Collegian. Little is known of this first magazine be cause all records of it were de stroyed in the Old Main fire of 1911. The name was later changed to The College Journal and is sued under that name from 1889 until 1893. After the January is sue, The Journal suspended pub lication, but was revived in the fall of that year as The Battalion. THE ONLY CHANGE THAT occurred after this was in about 1908 when the format changed to a glossy-paper, tabloid size for weekly publication. The paper later returned to today’s stan dard size when it started publish ing four times weekly. Since the line of publications (See Batt, Page 2) i THE BATTALION. p |j| §® m. iShafir; ^o*<*>* m***? fey tfe* o< c*fe«*. COU*G* STATIC)*. WXA3. *. 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