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^ aj [library CAL1PUS 15 COPIES erent ^ ven’tli(i » give i: ued, “tl, nee ofli lere if; ything r, Id beet! i—if II leaving. 1 'se, hat.; now 14 id drop;, ace in; •e Nafe a 3-5-1s mdoul e also g does to givtj eking rmly, 1 is a nuti :e diffk Che Battalion VOLUME 64, Number 36 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1968 Telephone 845-2226 esenti ition A.- ELAINE HANOVER Bryan Girl Named '68Football Queen Elaine Hanover, a sophomore English major from Bryan, was crowned the first Texas A&M Campus Football Queen in cere monies Wednesday night in the Assembly Room of the Memorial Student Center. Stallings Dispels ‘Shakeup’ Rumors Four reserve football players have been moved from Henderson Hall to Dorm 15 for housekeeping violations. The players were identified as freshman Mark Fulton, junior Wayne King, sophomore Lenard Millsap and sophomore Mike Tighe. Head Football Coach Gene Stallings dimissed the episode as simply a disciplinary matter re sulting from a violation of rules. “When I checked some of the rooms, I found them not as clean, neat and well-kept as we expect them to be,” Stallings explained. “It’s not a matter of being mad,” he added. “They (the four players) just violated some of the rules.” “Henderson Hall and Dorm 15 are both athletic dormitories and we move the boys between the two places quite frequently,” the coach continued. Concerning the departure of Bill Gilliam from the team, Stall ings said Gilliam, a sophomore, made the decision to quit. “This all has nothing whatso ever to do with our won-lost record or the fact that we’ve been beat a few times,” Stallings em phasized. BB &L Bryan Building & Loan Association. Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. —Adv. SanFrancisco State College Closes As Violence Flares The blonde—blue-eyed miss was selected for her beauty, person ality, school spirit and know ledge of football by a team of judges headed by Bill Carter, Student Senate president. Miss Hanover was one of seven finalists selected from a field of 29 entrants. Other finalists were Sissy Shamel, Candy Yager, Nancy Rowe, Phyllis Dittfurth, Cathy Alford and Jeannie Mah. She will represent the school at the A&M-University of Texas game Nov. 28 in Austin where the Southwestern Conference Queen will be selected from nomi nees from all the SWC schools. The conference division winners will then compete on the national level for the NCAA “College Football Centennial Queen.” The purpose of the Centennial Queen contest is to draw atten tion to the Centennial year of football, according to Carter. Chosen from the 11 conference winners, the national queen will win a $1000 scholarship to the college of her choice and the run ner-up will receive a $500 schol arship. Miss Hanover is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Han over, 305 Willow St. Judges for the contest were Carter, David Wilks, President of the Civilian Student Council; Hector Gutierrez, Corps Com mander; Bennie Sims, president of the MSC Council and Direc torate; and Bill Youngkin, senior head yell leader. SAN FRANCISCO <JP> — Clas ses have been suspended for an indefinite period for San Fran cisco State College’s 18,000 stu dents after a week of sporadic vandalism and violence stemming from a black student union strike. President Robert R. Smith or dered the suspension Wednesday night “until we can open and op erate in a more rational manner.” SMITH ACTED after about 30 members of the police Tactical Squad were summoned to the campus twice within half an hour. They were met with rocks and cans and surrounded by groups of shouting demonstrators, both Negro and white. In the resulting melee, eight persons were arrested—seven of them charged with felonious as sault on an officer and one with assault and battery. There were no reports of serious injuries. Smith said he felt the Wednes day disturbances showed “we are moving further and further to ward physical confrontation be tween people and this has demon strated that a minority can close a campus and that we can’t keep it open with the assistance of police.” A small group of faculty mem bers supporting the strike inter ceded between police and the dem onstrators Wednesday to restoi*e relative calm. Smith arranged to meet with his administration and faculty, particularly Negro members, to “define the issues and attempt to provide solutions to them.” One of the main demands made by the black student union has been for reinstatement of a con troversial part-time instructor now under 30 day suspension— Black Panther George Mason Murray. Murray described Wednesday’s disruptions as “a very historic moment. It’s the first time that barriers have been dissolved be tween classes — between black, brown, yellow and red people.” Most students at the college are white. One demand of the strikers is admission of more Negroes. Smith, looking grim and hag gard, said he suspended classes after discussing the situation with Glenn Dumke, chancellor of the 19 state colleges. Murray was suspended Nov. 1 on Dumke’s orders pending investigation of his fitness as an instructor. The 1,300 member faculty found itself involved in the controversy. A series of unusual general meetings brought debates on pro posed resolutions calling for censure of Chancellor Dumke, demanding his resignation and Murray’s reinstatement. Gov. Ronald Reagan told news men that college faculty mem bers who want to oust Dumke are “carrying the academic free dom to the point of the ridicu lous.” Contribution Deadline Nears In Campus Chest Competition Teague, AF Reserve Chief To Review Corps March-In WEATHER Friday — Cloudy. Intermittent rain. Winds southerly 10 to 20 mph. High 78. Low 66. Saturday — Cloudy to partly cloudy. Scattered afternoon rain- showers. Winds southerly 10 to 20 mph. High 77. Low 66. Cong. Olin E. Teague of College Station and Air Force Maj. Gen. Tom E. Marchbanks, both Texas Aggies, will be honored guests Saturday at the Cadet Corps march-in to the A&M-Rice foot ball game. The Kyle Field Corps parade begins at 12:20 p.m., announced Army Col. Jim H. McCoy, com mandant. Kickoff of the Aggies’ final home game of 1968 will be at 1:30 p.m. With Teague and Gen. March- banks, chief of Air Force Reserve, on the reviewing stand will be President Earl Rudder, McCoy and Air Force Col. Vernon L. Head, professor of aerospace studies. Cong. Teague is scheduled to be at A&M for an Association of Former Students meeting. The 1932 graduate commanded Company “G” Infantry in the Corps and was a Ross Volunteer. An infantry battalion commander in World War II, he was elected to the 79th Congress after dis charge as a colonel. Cong. Teague chairs the U. S. House of Representatives Sub committee on Manned Space Flight and is ranking majority member of the Committee on Science and Astronautics. He also chairs the Committee on Veterans Affairs and the Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight. Gen. Marchbanks received his second star last February after presidential nomination as the first chief of Air Force Reserve. The San Benito native attended A&M from 1939 to 1942, leaving at the outbreak of World War II to enter pilot training at Lack- land AFB. He was commissioned in 1943 and subsequently had commands in the U. S., England and Korea. In the early 1960s, he commanded the 433rd Troop Carrier Wing at Kelly AFB. While with the Eigth Air Force’s 601st Bomb Squadron in England during WW II, March- banks compiled 252 combat hours on 35 B-17 missions. During the Korean conflict, the general flew 100 combat missions as an RF-80 and RF-51 pilot. As operations officer at the Randolph AFB instructor’s school in the mid-1940s, the 46-year-old officer developed and published a landing planning system cur rently in use by the Air Force. Among the Arlington, Va., resident’s numerous decorations are the Legion of Merit and Dis- tiguished Flying Cross. Unirersity National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M. —Adv. By DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE Battalion Staff Writer The Campus Chest Sweetheart contest is drawing to a close, an nounced David Howard, Student Senate Welfare Committee chair man. Friday will mark the end of the competition. “Money that outfits or dorms wish to credit towards their con test totals must be turned in by 4 p.m. Friday,” Howard said. “Money will be accepted for an other week, until Nov. 22, but it will not be used; to determine the Campus Chest Sweetheart.” “THE GIRL WHOSE sponsor ing corps unit or dorm has the highest percentage of returns this Friday will become Campus Chest Sweetheart. She and her escort will have reserved seats on the front row of the middle section for the Sam and Dave show at Town Hall,” Howard noted. “In addition,” said Howard, “she and her escort will receive tickets for the first row in the upper deck on the 50-yard line, for the Rice game. She will also receive a ticket to the All-Uni versity dance that night and will be presented to the student body there.” SO FAR, HOWARD noted, col lections total $2,149.76: $1,226.39 has come from collections at football games, and $923.37 has come from the residence hall and outfit drive. Twenty-two out of 51 outfits and dorms have reported collec tions so far. On the civilian side, 6 out of 19 residence halls have reported. For the Corps, 16 out of 32 outfits have turned in mon ey.” “The total so far is very short of our goal of $7,500,” comment ed Howard, “but returns have been up so far this week. We’re still hoping to reach our goal.” “I’M PLEASED with the turn out so far,” said Bill Carter, Stu dent Senate president, “but it’s not up to par as far as Aggie tradition is concemed. “The purpose of the drive is to help other Ags. You never know when someone will need help of some kind. The drive may benefit you or one of your friends. “While the turnout has been fair,” Carter went on, “I’m really disappointed in the amount that has been collected.” “I’M AWFULLY disappointed with the civilian turnout so far,” said David Wilks, Civilian Stu dent Council president. “It has been the responsibility of the residence hall presidents to make collections, and they seem to have fallen down on the job. “I hope everyone will really put out in the last few days.” Money collected is put into a fund controlled by the Student Senate Welfare Committee. They use it to help Aggies who, through some accident or other circum stance, are faced with burdening expenses. It also helps some to stay in school when they might not be able to otherwise. THIS FUND, Howard noted, also supports the orphan, Carla Remer, adopted by the student body. Company F-l is currently in first place, with 113% of their goal reached. Company G-l is second with 100%, and squadron 9 is third with 95%. Money for the drive may be turned in at either the Student Finance office or the Alpha Phi Omega office, both in the Me morial Student Center. The last football game collection will be made this Saturday at the Rice game. “TO ME, THIS is one of the most worthwhile projects that can be undertaken on this campus,” said Carter. “I think David How ard has really put in a lot of work on this project, and really deserves a great deal of credit. I can’t thank him enough for all he has done.” “The Campus Chest can bene fit everyone here at A&M,” said Wilks, “and I strongly urge everyone to help make this pro ject a success.” News Media Benefits vs. Evils An Unsettled Question: Hobby By TIM SEARSON Battalion Staff Writer “There is an unsettled question as to whether the benefits of the news media outweigh the evils,” said William P. Hobby, Jr., editor of The Houston Post. Hobby spoke to an audience of 120 Wednesday night in the Me morial Student Center in the fourth presentation of the Great Issues program “The People and the Cities.” THE NEGRO revolution, said Hobby, caught America unpre pared. Detroit, for example, had the nation’s largest middle-class Negro population and was one of the most unlikely sites of dis order. “A minor police incident start ed the unrest in the Negro sec tion of town,” Hobby said. “The turmoil broke loose and national guardsmen and federal troops had to be called in.” HOBBY SAID a major prob lem in communicating the events stems from the difference in meanings of some words to the different racial groups. Such words as “Negro,” “black” and “Afro-American” caused mixed response from the public. “The press is slowly develop ing a belated sophistication in the area of representing the whole Negro community,” said Hobby. “We are finally realizing that a slur to the black communi ty is a manifestation of second class status.” HOBBY DISCUSSED the use of the media to educate the nation on racial matters. A back lash of fear and hate hits the press as all sides of the problem are expressed in the media. Grounds for criticism do exist, he said, when “instant journal ism” emphasizes the sensational side of an event. Inaccuracy often occurs when the media tries to report the news as it happens. “THE NEWS media properly mirror the society on which they report and in which they func tion,” said Hobby. “Some group activities — protest marches, for example — are designed to arouse the community; when reported, they achieve that purpose and, at times, violence can result.” Hobby agreed that reporting of crime or rioting in another city can incite disturbance and pro voke disorder. “HOWEVER, the failure to re port an event can promote rumors,” said Hobby. “Naturally, the problem of presenting such news is more of a dilemma to the broadcast managers than to the editors of the slower and me chanically, less-sensational print ed word.” Hobby cited as an example the immediate telecasting of an un edited film by one of the broad casting companies in which Stoke- ly Carmichael called for rioting and shooting after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King. “THE FACT remains, though, that the reporting accurately de picted a facet of a rebellion against a system seen through black eyes,” said Hobby. To help the media report in a more sophisticated manner, Hobby advocates the hiring of more Negroes in the field of re porting the news. “Talk of a review board to control and review press cover age has arisen lately,” said Hob by. “It is easy to talk of a high- level group of journalists and leading citizens to ride daily herd on the media. But it must be accepted that such a board would be only as good as its staff.” The Inquiring Battman ate e & J‘ v mil)'; •entf' jbuL cetf e: will 1 ' Computerized Registration Begins: DONALD BRADDOCK Tulia senior I think automated registration will prove a workable system if the working students can get the schedules they want without any conflict. CRAIG BRADLEY Baytown freshman I’m for the old way, but that is based only on what I’ve heard and the way the new system has treated me. DAVID H. SPARKMAN Beeville senior Registration in Sbisa was satis factory as for getting courses was concemed. I had very little trouble there. JAMES A. BROWN La Grange junior The new method is 100 per cent better. I can at least get the courses I wish to take even though not at the desired period. What's Your Opinion? T. H. MORRIS LaVemia junior I feel that if the majority bene fit, the new system will be a good thing. I believe I wnll bene fit. EDWARD L. ZWEIFEL Bryan junior The computerized system is different from the old way and we can only hope for the best. It takes much less time. KENNETH FORSWALL Georgetown sophomore I think that the administration should improve the auto-registra- tion system to enable the student to pick the time and professor desired.