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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1968
Telephone 845-2226
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REGISTRATION BEGINS
A&M SCONA delegate Buddy Mason registers with Mrs. Carl Shafer at SCONA Head
quarters on the second floor of the Memorial Student Center. Mason beat the rush that
started at 8 a. m. today as approximately 125 delegates from 60 schools began converging
on the registration table. (Photo by W. R. Wright)
Year-Old Cyclotron Institute
Sets Open House Saturday
Texas A&M’s Cyclotron Insti
tute will celebrate the first an
niversary of operation of its
giant “atom smasher” with a
general open house Saturday.
Gilbert Witsell, associate di
rector of the Institute, said doors
to the facility will be open from
2 until 10 p.m.
“WE INVITE the entire gen
eral public out to see our facili
ties,” Witsell noted, “but we
especially hope high school sci
ence students from throughout
the area will come visit us.”
He noted the Saturday pro
gram will be the only time dur
ing the year the cyclotron will he
open to the general public.
Institute personnel, Witsell
added, will be located at stra
tegic points to explain opera
tions. Each cyclotron experi
menter will also establish a dis
play and discuss his work.
THE $6 million cyclotron in
stallation, largest in the South
west, was formally dedicated
Dec. 4, 1967, by Atomic Energy
Commission Chairman Glenn T.
Seaborg.
Operating time for the ma
chine has continually been in
creased and is now set at 24
hours per day, Monday through
Friday, Witsell said.
He pointed out several top
space aibd medical research insti
tutions have expressed interest
in utilizing the cyclotron for re
search purposes. Its first off-
campus users was a University
of Pennsylvania scientific team
engaged in cancer research. The
group, headed by Dr. James T.
Brennan, internationally recog
nized radiologist, has been here
twice and will be back for an
other experiment early next year.
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Placement Office Wants
Qualified 9 Santa For Xmas
How’s your “ho, ho, ho?”
The Student Placement Office has a job opening for
a qualified student.
“We need somebody with the right attitude, apti
tude and girth,” remarked Robert M. Logan, office
director.
The office’s job call list includes a position as a
stand-in Santa Claus requested by a Bryan department
store. The seasonal-type job requiring patience, appro
priate size and ability to get along with youngsters is
the first such opening placed with the office,
“But we have some unusual ones,” Logan added.
The typical opening available to A&M students de
siring part-time work is from architectural drafting to
auto mechanic and sales personnel. Area firms, busi
nessmen and individuals also ask for caretakers, music
lessons, baby sitters, drummers and guitar players for
musical groups and funeral home drivers. ^
“If you stay here long enough, you get all kinds,
Logan remarked, then mused, “Now let’s see, where
do we find someone to wear a size 60 belt . . • .
Government Gives
$800,000 For A&M
Engineer Center
The first grant toward con
struction of a $9 million engine
ering center to house undergrad
uate and graduate instruction and
research here has been announced
by the U. S, Office .of Education.
A&M officials received word
of the $800,000 grant under Title
II of the Higher Education Facili
ties Act of 1963 through Con
gressman Olin E. Teague.
The building, to consist Of
317,675 gross square feet in a
basement, four floors and pent
house, will be located across
Spence Street and facing the Cy
clotron Center, noted President
Earl Rudder.
Physical Plants manager Ho
ward Badgett said plans call for
taking bids at the April meeting
of the Board of Directors, start
ing construction later next year
and proposed completion by Sep
tember, 1970.
Total development cost of the
structure located next to the
Graduate Reasearch Center is
$9,314,668.
Badgett said other funds in the
form of Title I grant are ex
pected. A&M will supply an ad
ditional third.
Walt W. Rostow, scheduled
speaker at today’s opening ses
sion of the Fourteenth Student
Conference on National Affairs
and special assistant to President
Johnson, will join the University
of Texas at Austin faculty Feb. 1,
according to Associated Press
reports.
Rostow’s wife will also become
a member of the faculty at that
time, the AP reported.
Rostow will hold a joint ap
pointment' as professor of eco
nomics and history. Mrs. Rostow
will become an associate professor
of government. Texas-Austin an
nounced the appointments Tues
day.
Rostow was appointed to the
White House staff by the late
President John Kennedy in 1961
as a deputy special assistant to
the president for national security
affairs. He has been special
assistant to President Johnson
since 1966.
A FORMER professor at the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, Rostow is the author of
such books as “The Status of
Economic Growth,” and “The Dy
namics of Soviet Society.”
The 62-year-old professor also
taught at Columbia University
and worked with the Office of
Strategic Services, Division of
German-Austrian Economic af-
Architects Plan
Art Exhibition
A Ferdinand Roten Galleries
exhibition of original prints by
classic and contemporary artists
will be displayed Dec. 12 in the
Architecture Building.
Edward J. Romieniec, School of
Architecture chairman, said the
exhibition will be open for free
public viewing from 10 a.m. to
4 p.m. The exhibition will be
located in the first floor gallery.
More than 1,000 original etch
ings, lithographs and woodcuts
by such artists as Picasso, Cha
gall, Miro, Goya, Renoir, Baskin
and Kollwitz are included in the
exhibition. Also on display will
be manuscript pages of Western
and Oriental works of the 13th
to 20th centuries.
Prints will range in value from
$5 to $1,000, with most under
$100. A Roten Galleries repre
sentative, H. Westlund, will an
swer questions about graphic art
and printmaking.
fairs, the State Department and
as a special assistant on the Eco
nomic Commission for Europe.
MRS. ROSTOW has been con
ducting a graduate seminar at
American University in Washing
ton, D. C. She was the first
woman to teach at MIT, serving
on the faculty from 1952 until
1061.
Rostow, a staunch advocate of
the U.S. involvement in the Viet
nam war, has become one of
President Johnson’s closest advi
sers in recent years.
“He is the last man the Presi
dent talks to at night and the first
one he talks to in the morning,”
said J. Wayne Stark, director of
the Memorial Student Center.
“He and the President confer on
many top secret items.”
Registration
Ends Friday
Pre-registration for the
spring semester will end at 5
p.m. this Friday, according to
R. A. Lacey of the Registrar’s
office.
Students who plan to attend
Texas A&M next spring and do
not register before the Friday
deadline will be required to
register in person the week of
Jan. 27 during the delayed reg
istration period.
Lacey said Tuesday that only
about 8,800 students have reg
istered so far and the total en
rollment, including new stu
dents, should be about 11,000
for the spring semester.
Rostow spent part of the
Thanksgiving holidays with the
President at the LBJ Ranch,
west of Austin.
“He is really a very interesting
man,” Stark commented. “He is
highly intelligent and very capa
ble.”
Trial Date Pending
For SNCC Worker
The trial of an organizer for
the Student Non-violent Coordi
nating Committee (SNCC) will
be scheduled for sometime after
the first of January in Brazos
County Court, County Atty. D.
B. Gofer Jr. said Tuesday.
A county grand jury indicted
Terry Lewis Ardrey last week on
charges of carrying a prohibited
weapon on licensed premises.
Ardrey, of Austin, was arrest
ed Oct. 31 when he made a call
from a telephone booth at a U-
Tote-’M store in College Station.
Brazos County sheriff’s officers
had received a report from Hous
ton police that an armed man
was on a bus headed for College
Station.
Ardrey told authorities at the
time of his arrest that he had
come here to speak to the local
chapter of the Students for? a
Democratic Society (SDS).
Brian Foye, local SDS mem
ber, later said that Ardrey had
come to speak to the Afro-Amer
ican Society, an off-campus or
ganization.
Ardrey had a piece of paper
containing the names of Foye,
Leon Greene (a member of the
Afro-American Society) and Rev.
Wesley Seeliger, Episcopal pas
tor in College Station.
Rev. Seeliger said Tuesday
night that he has never met
Ardrey and had never heard of
him until Dean of Students
James P. Hannigan contacted
him about the note found in
Ardrey’s possession.
“My guess is that the Epis
copal chaplain at the University
of Houston told him about me,”
Seeliger said. “He (the chap
lain) has done a lot of work with
Negro groups at Texas Southern
University.”
Ardrey was held in the Brazos
County Jail overnight and re
leased on $1,000 bond the next
day.
“I understand that he went to
Austin after he was released,
but I don’t know where he is
now,” Seeliger remarked.
WEATHER
Thursday—Partly cloudy. Wind
South 10 to 15 mph. High 68,
low 42.
Friday—Partly cloudy to cloudy.
Wind South 15 to 20 mph. Be
coming cloudy in late afternoon.
High 68, low 46.
SCONA
Tonight
Panel Presentation, 8:00 p. m.
“The United States and
World Economy”
Dr. James M. Buchanan
Dr. William R. Kintner
Edward S. Marcus
HERE FRIDAY
The high-stepping Romanian Folk Ballet will set the G. Rollie White Coliseum stage trem
bling with their fast-paced dancing at 8 p. m. Friday. Admission to the Town Hall per
formance is by season ticket, student activity card or Bryan Rotary Community Series
pass.
For Committee Members
Planning For SCONA
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For delegates to Texas A&M’s
Fourteenth Student Conference
°n National Affairs, today will
mar k the beginning of four days
lively discussion and debate.
^ the A&M students who make
U P the SCONA XIV Committee,
‘t will mean the beginning of the
end of 10 months of planning and
tard work.
In addition, for the students
wh o will be on next year’s com
mittee, preliminary planning for
C 0NA XV will be just around
the corner.
THE FACT is, a meeting of
® v er 140 students from more than
0 colleges in the South and
outhwest, Mexico and Canada,
discuss topics ranging 1 from
tile American commitment abroad
the exercise of American poli-
■cal power, and featuring speech-
by top-ranking government of-
'cials and their top-ranking crit-
lcs » doesn’t just happen. It takes
^year-round schedule, including
Bryan Building & Loan
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fund drives during holiday peri
ods, to insure a well-organized
meeting of the minds.
“The responsibility of students
in SCONA is an almost frighten
ing one,” commented J. Wayne
Stark, director of the Memorial
Student Center and foremost
SCONA adviser.
“The job is so big that it takes
a part-time professional steno
grapher 12 months a year to
support the correspondence and
the paperwork.”
OF THE FIVE such conferen
ces sponsored by American col
leges, Stark pointed out, SCONA
is the only one in which students
raise the entire amount of operat
ing funds, which this year totals
over $20,000. A&M students also
secure speakers, panelists and
chairmen for “Round-Table” dis
cussion groups, with help from
Congressman Olin E. Teague of
the Bryan-College Station dis-
Teague, whom Stark has called
“the godfather of SCONA, sug
gests names of possible speakers
on conference topics and encour
ages Washington authorities to
accept SCONA invitations. For
several conferences, he has com
piled research from the Library
of Congress as guides to con
ference discussion. For this year’s
topic, “The Limits and Responsi
bilities of U. S. Power,” he had
an 80 page background paper
drawn up by members of the li
brary staff.
A&M STUDENTS began plan
ning for this year’s conference
in February, when the SCONA
Committee met to evaluate SCO
NA XIII and offer suggestions
for improvement. At that point,
SCONA XIV chairman-elect Don
McCrory of College Station, took
over leadership of the committee,
organizing a new membership
drive and calling for suggested
themes and topics for SCONA
XIV. This planning continued
through March, when the Easter
Finance Drive was organized.
“The Easter Drive is a major
operation in itself,” McCrory not
ed. “Students have to be trained
in proper interviewing proced
ures, and of course they must be
throughly familiar with the top-
Is Year
ics to be covered in the confer
ence.”
THE SCONA Finance Commit
tee sends out letters early in
March to past sponsors and pro
spective sponsors in Texas met
ropolitan areas, requesting ap
pointments for SCONA workers.
Training sessions begin soon
after for the students, who will
give up Easter holidays to con
tact the potential donors on their
area, armed with packets of
SCONA information.
The drive is organized by cities,
with temporary headquarters In
each city to keep the interviews
running smoothly. Each two-man
SCONA team files a complete
report form on its contacts for
future reference. Once the pledge
contributions are totaled up the
SCONA Finance Chairman is able
to report a tentative budget for
the conference.
BUT AS complex an operation
as the drive U, it isn’t the only
activity for SCONA leaders dur
ing March. Interviews for SCONA
members are conducted, and a list
of new committee members is
Round Student Project
announced before the drive starts.
Executive positions are filled by
late March, and orientation ses
sions for new members begin al
most immediately.
Basic planning for the confer
ence itself begins at this point.
Meeting rooms in the Memorial
Student Center must be reserved
for the discussion and lecture
sessions, dates must be placed on
the official University calendar,
and a list of schools to be invited
must be drawn up. Letters are
then sent to the chief adminis
trators of each school, explaining
the conference and asking that a
given number of delegates be
selected.
NEXT BEGINS the big job of
inviting speakers. The Program
chairman contacts experts in the
conference topic by mail, tele
gram, and sometimes by long
distance telephone calls, asking
some to speak to the assembled
delegates and others to lead the
smaller Round-Table groups. This
year’s list of Round-Table co-
chairmen is typically varied, in
cluding embassy representatives
from Southeast Asian nations,
a leading American military fig
ure, and representatives from
the White House and the Agency
for International Development.
The second major step toward
financing the conference begins as
soon as the spring semester ends.
SCONA volunteers give up a week
of summer vacation to make calls
on potential sponsors who were
not contacted during the Easter
drive.
IN RECENT YEARS, these
have included American and Mex
ican businessmen in Monterrey
and other major cities in Mexico,
where Mexican college students
who had been SCONA delegates
in past years returned with en
thusiastic reports on the confer
ence.
For students who attend sum
mer sessions at A&M, work con
tinues through July and August
as correspondence with prospec
tive speakers increases and plan
ning for pre-conference publica
tions begins. For the remainder
of the 80 to 100 committee mem
bers, back-to-school becomes back-
to-SCONA.
PLANNING of every detail,
from menus for meal events to
the contents of delegates’ regis
tration packets begin in Septem
ber. In the following weeks, stu
dent recorders must be selected to
take notes on Round-Table ses
sions, state newsmen 1 must be in
vited to cover the conference, and
conference guides and programs
must be printed.
“It’s amazing how many little
things you’ve got to cover to
avoid problems,” McCrory re
marked. “Most people never rea
lize how much work goes into a
conference until they get involved
with it.
“The tasks are exhausting and
time-consuming, but the SCONA
workers’ efforts are paid back
with interest.
“I think we’re helping to make
this a generation of enlightened
people. It’s one of the greatest
ways I know for students to use
their abilities toward really ’valu
able goals,” McCrory concluded.
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