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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
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| 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.
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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
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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
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FIRST ISSUE
Clothing ads and the full text of speech given five months
before vie for attention on the front page of the first Bat
talion, published Oct. 8, 1904. (Photo by Mike Wright)