VOLUME 64, Number 38
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1968
Telephone 845-2226
jA&M’s Guidance Counseling!
| More ‘Involved, Complex’ |
Typical vocational guidance is
not the scene usually portrayed
of a counselor sitting at a desk
with the back of a student visible.
Rather, it’s much more involved
and complex, with counselors pro
viding guidelines for students to
either accept or reject, notes
Auston Kerley, director of A&M’s
counseling and testing center.
“WE FEEL we’re doing all
right if he (student) agrees with
75 per cent of what we tell him,”
added psychologist Dr. James P.
Hope.
The center offers a free service
to students providing testing,
counseling, and guidance help
with related consultative services
to faculty and staff members.
During summer months, fresh
men meet Kerley, Hope and Ul
rich Crow, education assistant
professor, for the first time.
Future meetings are at the “re
quest of the student,” Kerley said.
IT IS IN the summer that
freshmen and often “as many as
2000 parents” meet center person
nel during required testing, he
pointed out.
The key to 90 per cent of the
students seeking assistance in
vocational guidance at the center
is “usually his roommate, or
another student who has been
here,” Kerley said.
“We see some 1,500 students
during the year seeking guide
lines as to what life career they
should pursue,” Hope added.
NO TESTING is performed
without an intial interview, Crow
stressed. Previous test scores are
scanned by the interviewer, and
“we explore the real reason he
got into the field,” he said.
“We formulate ideas on how to
test him and what vocational
guidelines to give him,” Hope
continued.
ALL THREE counselors agreed
“some take the tests while other
students turn them down.”
Majority of students counseled
are freshmen, but, Hope noted,
a “high percentage are sopho
mores and we’re getting more
of a sprinkling of juniors and
seniors.”
“A certain amount of support,
or confidence, reassures a student
when we interpret a test, and he
says ‘that’s the way I am’,” Ker
ley recounted.
IT IS STILL necessary for the
student to make up his own mind,
Kerley said.
“We don’t say you go change.
The student is free tp use this
information as he wants,” he em
phasized.
Hope finds “50 per cent of stu
dents will change their major at
least one time.”
“AND THREE times as many
students as we see change their
major without seeing us,” he went
on.
“Our role at the center is to
give leadership. We try to help
the student understand his whole
self,” Kerley concluded.
Walton Hall Names
JudicialCommittee
Walton Hall has elected its hall
judicial committee for the 1968-
69 school year, announced Andy
Scott, hall president.
The election makes Walton the
second hall on campus to form
such a committee, behind Hughes,
and the first in the pilot program.
“The committee,” said Scott,
“will take care of all violations
of university rules within the
hall. Each man will be tried by
his peers. In many respects the
committee is like a regular court.”
Those elected were Randy Shep
ard, chairman, Mike Dewey,
Charles Berger, John Schaffer,
James Roberson, Brown Collins,
Rocky Terry, and Loy Sneary.
Phil Kabrich is the investigator
and Paul Patison is the reporter.
Political Forum Will Present
Analysis Of Nov. 5 Elections
Political, social, economic and
ethnic issues which produced the
results of Nov. 5 will be dis
cussed here Wednesday by Rich
ard M. Scammon in a Political
Forum presentation, “Election
Analysis.”
The 8 p.m. talk will be in the
Memorial Student Center Ball
room, announced Political For
um chairman Ron Hinds of Mid
land.
Scammon is director of the
Elections Research Center of the
Governmental Affairs Institute
and research consultant to the
National Advisory Committee on
Civil Disorders.
CBS Washington commenta-
RICHARD M. SCAMMON
tor Eric Sevareid says Scammon
has a “fly-paper memory. He
startles you by coming up with
the vote in some borough in Eng
land in 1872. However, his knowl
edge of American statistics is
even more complete.”
“That he is a top notch politi
cal scientist is shown by the fact
that in 1948, Scammon picked
Harry Truman to either win or
come very, very close,” Sevareid
added.
A former director of the cen
sus, Scammon has been in gov
ernment service 27 years, includ
ing five with the Army in West
ern Europe. He has observed
elections in the USSR, headed a
Department of State research di
vision, chaired in 1963 the Presi
dent’s Commission on Registra
tion and Voting Participation.
Scammon has degrees from the
Universities of Minnesota, Lon
don (London School of Eco
nomics) and Michigan. He lec
tures professionally at Howard,
Johns Hopkins and George
Washington Universities.
“Mr. Scammon is the nation’s
leading expert on voting be
havior and can provide A&M stu
dents and faculty with a unique
insight into the whys of the past
election,” Hinds added.
Admission for A&M students
with activity cards is free. Other
single admissions are $1.50 for
an adult and 75 cents for high
school students.
In Aggie Players Production
‘Arms’ Stage To Revolve
“Arms and the Man/’ the Aggie
Players’ Dec. 9-14 production, will
appear “in the round.”
The production directed by
Robert W. Wenck will utilize a
revolving stage, a 20-foot turn
table on which the three scenes
of “Arms” are being constructed.
Succeeding acts will require
only that the structure be rotated
to bring the next scene to face
the front.
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Placed at stage center in Guion
Hall, the 1,500-pound structure
occupies about one-third the plat
form. Crew members will furnish
force to turn the stage, construct
ed of three-quarter inch plywood
and two-by-fours. It revolves on
28 three-inch ball bearing casters.
The completed stage will include
a roof, wainscotting, carpet and
stencilled wallpaper.
Aggie Players’ director C. K.
Esten noted the revolving stage
has never been used before at
A&M.
Mike Link, of Houston, stage
manager and set crew head, and
10 crew members are building the
device. It will become part of the
Aggie Players’ permanent equip
ment and can be dismantled into
eight sections for storage.
Play director Bob Wenck noted
the revolving stage is particularly
useful in Guion.
“Multiple scenes are difficult
to do on the regular Guion stage
because there is no storage space.
We can’t ‘fly’ scenery overhead
either. With the revolving stage,
we’ll actually store scenery right
in front of the audience,” he said.
The revolving stage plans were
obtained from Van Phillips, pro
fessional designer. He is a gradu
ate student at the University of
Texas at Austin and has designed
sets at Santa Monica, Calif., and
the Dallas Theater Center.
WEATHER
Wednesday — Cloudy, intermit
ten rain. Wind Southerly 10 to
15 mph. High 63, low 46.
Thursday — Partly cloudy.
Winds Northerly 10 to 20 mph.
High 61, low 38.
Kyle Field Kickoff — Partly
mph. 58°.
Kyle Field Kickoff — Partly
ROLL ’EM
The movie industry’s term will take on new meaning
when the Aggie Players open “Arms and the Man” Dec.
9 at Guion Hall. Scenery will be left in place on a revolving
stage and turned into position for succeeding acts. Director
Bob Wenck checks “walls” to be covered with canvas with
stage manager Mike Link and Darwin Link, house-publicity.
Mike and the stage crew are building the device.
Bonfire Chief Asks Donations
To Buy Cutting Area Leases
Student Senate President Bill Carter officially presents
Elaine Hanover, recently named A&M Campus Football
Queen, to the student body at the Rice football game. At
left is Marvin Tate, associate athletic director. (Photo by
Mike Wright)
Minority Problems
A'
Talk Set
The mayor’s research assistant
who helped originate a Houston
program combating minority
problems will speak here tonight
on factors of unrest.
Dr. Blair Justice’s 8 p.m. pre
sentation in the Memorial Stu
dent Center Assembly Room will
be the last session of the five-
part “People and the Cities” Sem
inar.
Oriented on Houston and its
approach to the minority situa
tion, the series has presented
background information on prob
lems of the urban minority. Earl
ier topics included community
responsibility, police - community
relations, minority housing and
media responsibility, noted series
chairman Tom Fitzhugh of Waco.
A certified psychologist, Jus
tice is research assistant for race
relations to Mayor Louis Welch.
He has headed the mayor’s of
fice human relations division two
years.
The Dallas-born social psycho
logist initiated Houston’s Job
Fair for Disadvantaged Youth,
worked in formulating other pro-
‘Hud 9 Author
To Talk Here
Texas novelist Larry McMur-
try, author of “Hud,” will speak
Thursday at the first Literary
Arts presentation.
McMurtry’s lecture on “Con
temporary Texas Literature” will
be an 8 p.m., public-free program
in the Memorial Student Center
Assembly Room, announced Clint
Machann of Chriesman, chair
man.
Literary Arts is a subcommittee
of the MSC Contemporary Arts
Committee.
“Hud,” the popular motion pic
ture starring Paul Newman, was
adapted from McMurtry’s “Horse
man, Pass By.” Other books by
the lecturer include “Leaving
Cheyenne,” “The Last Picture
Show” and recently published “In
A Narrow Grave.”
McMurtry grew up in North
Central Texas ranching country,
near Archer City. He is a gradu
ate of North Texas State and a
Guggenheim Fellowship recipient.
A faculty member and artist in
residence at Rice University, Mc
Murtry is known as a literary
critic and writer on contemporary
Texas life.
He twice won the Jesse Jones
Fiction Award given by the Texas
Institute of Letters.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
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Tonight
grams such as “Project Partner”
and “Block Watcher” and pro
posed the police-community rela
tions program adopted by Hous
ton.
Justice, 41, has written for the
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, New
York Daily News and Houston
Post as science - medical writer
and editor. He was police reporter
three years at Fort Worth.
The Rice University lecturer
did undergraduate work at Tex
as, studied journalism and Rus
sian at Columbia for an M.S.,
acquired an M.A. in psychology
at TCU’s Institute of Behavioral
Science and received the Ph.D.
at Rice in social psychology.
Author of numerous scholarly
publications, Justice was one of
the state’s five outstanding young
men in 1961 and Public Official
of the Month for Houston in
March, 1968.
Campus Chest
Tops $3,300;
Time Extended
The Campus Chest campaign
sponsored by the Student Senate
has collected $3,328.12 from
campus donations and contribu
tions at the four home football
games, David Howard, Senate
Welfare chairman, reported Mon
day.
Howard said the campaign
will be extended one week be
cause three civilian residence
halls and eight Corps units re
quested more time.
Howard added that at present
he thought the Campus Chest ef
fort would have to lower its goal
from $7,500 to $4,500. He noted
that the campaign workers were
disappointed at the low turnout
by the Aggies, considering the
many services the chest rendered.
“If more money isn’t raised be
fore this deadline, the Chest will
have to limit future activities,”
Howard said. “This quota of $7,-
500 could be reached if every
Aggie would donate as little as a
quarter apiece,” he said.
Mrs. Darlene Webster, spon
sored by company F-l, was se
lected as Campus Chest Sweet
heart. Mrs. Webster, wife of
cadet second lieutenant R. D.
Webster, won on the basis of F-
1’s campus-leading total of per
capita donations.
Howard said company G-l was
second in per capita donations
and Walton Hall led civilian resi
dence halls.
By DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE
Battalion Staff Writer
Plans for the bonfire are go
ing well, with one slight hitch:
there may be a financial bind,
said Bill Youngkin, Head Yell
Leader Monday night.
“The only way we can use our
cutting area is to buy up the
hunters’ lease on the land we
are to cut on,” he said. “The
bonfire has insufficent funds to
absorb the cost.
“THE COST OF buying the
lease amounts to $800. If 1,600
Ags will contribute 50 cents
apiece, we will be back in busi
ness.”
Contributions may be made to
unit commanders or hall presi
dents, Youngkin added. They may
also be turned in at the student
finance center in the Memorial
Student Center.
Youngkin stressed the fact that
a check for the $800 must be
Mrs. James Amyx, supervis
or of nurses, requests that
students with hospital-owned
crutches, canes, armslings,
splints, heating pads, and ice
bags return them to the hos
pital. With the beginning of
Bonfire work, the hospital
desperately needs these sup
plies, she said.
written by Wednesday night.
Hence, he added, a quick response
by all Ags is needed. Any ex
cess will be turned over to Cam
pus Chest.
CONSTRUCTION on the bon
fire began Monday. Light poles
were set up, and the centerpole
was brought in. Today the cen
terpole, 93 feet long, will be
erected by company D-l. Lights
will also be installed. Getting
the core logs in place and bailing
will occupy most of Tuesday,
Wednesday, and Thursday.
Juniors and seniors who do not
have afternoon classes may work
in the cutting area Thursday and
Friday, according to James P.
Hannigan, dean of students. Full-
scale work will begin Saturday
and continue through Tuesday.
All undergraduate classes will be
dismissed on Monday, but gradu
ate classes will meet.
“CIVILIAN STUDENTS have
really been getting organized to
work on the bonfire,” said Young
kin. “It’s going to mean a lot to
Services, Dinner
To Be Highlights
Of Thanksgiving
Texas A&M students will eat
their turkey Thursday, but will
not attend annual Thanksgiving
worship services until next Mon
day.
Noting that students are served
the traditional meal from 4:30
p.m. to 8 p.m., depending on hall,
Food Service Director Fred W.
Dollar said he felt a conflict
would develop if both events were
held on the same day.
The traditional Thanksgiving
meal will be served by Food
Service Department personnel in
both the Cadet Corps family-style
dining hall and the board cafe
teria in Sbisa and Duncan, Dollar
added.
The Thanksgiving worship
service, an annual event since the
opening of All-Faiths Chapel in
1957, will start at 8 p.m., said
Logan Weston, religious life co
ordinator.
Civilian Chaplain Larry Schil-
hab, Conroe junior, and Corps
Chaplain Ray Dillon, a Kilgore
senior, will voice the invocation
and benediction, respectively.
Special music will be by the
Singing Cadets.
Services are open to the public,
Weston emphasized.
the effort. I expect we'll have a
work force of about 4,000 in the
cutting area alone. Barney Daw
son, senior yell leader, will head
the work there.”
Walton Hall has the first bon
fire log on campus, according to
hall president Andy Scott. Steve
Smith, Carl Kinney, and Dale
Odum, Walton residents, cut the
log near Liberty. An Aggie-ex
donated the truck needed to haul
the log to A&M.
“WE WERE GOING to put
the log in front of Henderson
Hall,” said Scott, “but the truck
couldn’t fit.”
Walton residents hope to find a
way to move the log to the stack
ing area. There, it will become
part of the bonfire.
Civilian day students will also
be working on bonfire this year,
said Joe Tijerina, day student
representative on the Civilian
Student Council. They are having
their final organizational meet
ing this Wednesday night at 7:30
p.m. in room 113 of the Biological
Sciences Building.
“WE REALLY NEED 150-300
people,” said Garry Mauro, civi
lian yell leader. “Bonfire cannot
be built without help from all
segments of the student body.”
Coeds at A&M are also plan
ning to pitch in. They will work
through the YMCA to serve cof
fee on a round-the-clock basis in
the stacking area. They will serve
in the cutting area first-aid tent.
ACTUAL STACKING will be
done by companies A-2, C-2, and
F-2. The operation will begin
(See Bonfire, Page 2)
A&M, TU Plan
Turkey Day
Sportsmanship
Meeting Monday with student
body leaders at the University of
Texas at Austin, four A&M stu
dents and a staff representative
agreed on a plan to facilitate
movement of A&M students at
Memorial Stadium in Austin Nov.
28 at the annual Turkey Day
clash between Texas A&M and
Texas.
“We got together to establish
a coordinated plan for the day’s
activities,” said Student Senate
President Bill Carter. “It was
more or less a sportsmanship con
ference at which we decided
through which exits to leave the
stadium and where students will
sit.”
“All seating for A&M students
will be in reserved seats, unlike
previous out-of-town games this
year,” he emphasized, “although
I believe this is the same pro
cedure that was followed in Aus
tin two years ago.”
Carter also noted that precau
tions will be taken to insure that
everyone find his correct seat.
Student tickets and ID cards will
need to be presented at the sta
dium gates, and A&M students
will serve as ushers at the en
trance to each section. An Officer
of the Day and a representative
of the Civilian Student Council
will be at each ramp.
Carter, Youngkin, Corps Com
mander Hector Gutierrez, Bat
talion Editor John Fuller, and
Civilian Corps Adviser Malon J.
Southerland met with their Texas
counterparts and also ate with
the Texas football team in the
athletic dormitory.
Wednesday at 5 p.m. is the
deadline for students to still be
able to purchase tickets. Today
is reserved for freshmen although
graduate students and upper
classmen may still pick up re
served seats. Prices are $2.50 for
A&M students and $5 for dates.
Fish Filing Deadline Nears
Candidates must file for fresh
men offices between 8 a.m. and
5 p.m. by Wednesday in the Stu
dent Programs Office of the
Memorial Student Center, accord
ing to Tommy Henderson, elec
tion commissioner.
Henderson said the offices of
president, vice president, secre
tary-treasurer, social secretary,
four student senators, and five
election commissioners will be at
stake in the Dec. 4 election.
Freshmen running for Senate
positions must have a 1.5 grade
point ratio, and freshmen seek
ing other positions must have a
1.0 GPR.
Candidates may get a copy of
the election rules and procedures
from Jerry Geisweidt, election
commission president or Hender
son.
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