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VOLUME 64, Number 50 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1968 Telephone 845-2226
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No Peace Until Whites
Recognize Blacks: Watts
By LEWIS M. HOWARD
Battalion Special Writer
"Until white Americans look
upon black Americans as three-
dimensional human beings, we
will not have peace in America.”
Daniel Watts, wrap-up speaker
on the Black America seminar,
said this Thursday night to a
capacity crowd in the Memorial
Student Center ballroom.
“The only way to understand
why black and white America is
on a collision course is to under
stand Negro history,” Watts, a
vocal Negro intellectual, said.
“THE WHITE man put the
Negro where he is today,” he
Unity Party Sweeps All Posts
In Freshman Run-Off Election
Swanson.
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to give the Houston fm
ongest representative:
By TONY HUDDLESTON
Battalion Staff Writer
The Unity Party made a clean
sweep of four class posts at stake
in the freshmen run-off election
Thursday.
Kirby Brown defeated John
Bennett by 308 votes to 252 votes
for the office of president.
Vice presidential candidates
kYLOR—Although thfcary Newsom won over Gerald
Bratz 385 to 171.
Joe Shreiver won social secre
tary over John Briedon III by
420 votes to 136.
Joe Anderson was elected secre-
ary-treasurtr over Ivan Langford
:y 274 votes to 251.
Brown is believed to be the first
livilian ever elected freshmen
:lass president.
“The voting was lighter than
n the regular election with only
i85 freshmen voting today,” Ger-
e picked for sixth te
Id go all the way to t:
such standouts as To:
man and David Sitlii
the charge.
SXAS TECH—Once Ik
lers were consistentlytfe
ngerous cage power i
1, but those days are»
and Raiders must setti
second division.
SXAS—Things look
i with both Billy Amtii
( Overbeck, last season
scorers, graduated. T»
tower will seldom gif
: season.
aid Geistweidt, election commis
sion president, said. Geistweidt
said he thought this was due to
fewer candidates being in the elec
tion.
“A Fish Council is being formed
with representatives from both
the civilian resident halls and the
corps units,” President Brown
said. He explained that the coun
cil will consist of one member for
every 50 freshmen in every resi
dence hall and corps unit.
“Each civilian and corps organ
ization can elect its freshman rep
resentatives anyway that they
want too,” noted Brown.
The class officers, election
commissioners, Student Senate
representatives, freshmen yell
leaders and the freshmen drill
team commander will also make
up the council, he said.
(See Unity Paryt, Page 2)
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iF General Will Deliver
Commissioning Address
hone num-
>-69 Texas
Calendar,
te listings.
Air Force Lt. Gen. Arthur C.
Agan, Aerospace Defense Com
mand (ADC) commander at Ent
AFB, Colo., will be the honored
military guest at A&M’s com
missioning exercises Jan. 18,
President Earl Rudder an
nounced.
General Agan will make the
rincipal address and present
ommissions to new officers who
fill graduate that morning.
The mid-year commencement
nd commissioning will be in G.
lollie White Coliseum.
General Agan’s command ad-
ninisters, trains and equips all
U, S. Air Force aerospace de
fense resources to defend North
merica, except Alaska. The
31-year veteran has been at Ent
FB since August, 1967.
The three-star general has
rved in numerous Pentagon
nd Air Force headquarters as
signments. He was vice com-
[ mander-in-chief s of U. S. Air
Forces in Europe before going to
!nt.
Commissioned after flying
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
BB&Li —Adv.
training at Randolph and Kelly
Fields in 1937, the 53-year-old
San Antonio native served as
pilot, flight commander and
operations officer of squadrons
at Barksdale Field, La., and
Savannah Army Air Field, Ga.
After 45 combat missions and
220 combat hours as a fighter
group commander in Italy, the
general was shot down over
Weiner-Neustadt.
The 1939 University of Texas
at Austin graduate, commanded
4th and 33rd Fighter Wings, the
32nd Air Division, 58th Fighter-
Bomber Wing in Korea and, in
1957-58, the 26th Air Division.
In the latter, operation con
cepts for the Semi-Automatic
Ground Environment (SAGE)
system of air defense and tran
sition plans were developed and
initiated under his leadership.
Immediately afterward, he as
sumed command of the New York
Air Defense Sector, the first
operational SAGE sector in the
nation.
The general’s decorations in
clude the Legion of Merit with
three oak leaf clusters, Distin
guished Flying Cross, Purple
Heart and Croix de Guerre with
Palm of Both Belgium and
France.
continued. “Was the Negro really
freed after the Civil War? The
Negro was freed into something
worse than slavery—dejection, re
jection, and total frustration.”
Watts also pointed out that
Lincoln, the noted father of
emancipation, was not really all
that “gung-ho” about Negros
as everyone believes.
Watts recited a quote by Lin
coln that he did not want the
Negro to be equal to the white
man in any way or rise to the
white man’s level. The Negro
should be inferior, and the white
man superior. That was Lincoln’s
position, he said.
THERE ARE many different
types of racist groups in Ameri
ca today, Watts explained. “There
are trouble makers like Rapp
Brown. Then there are the liberal
groups who give up their high
society “white”, life to come and
live with the Negros in Harlem
because they think the Negros
will realize the whites really care
about them. “The Negros don’t
care about sympathy. All the
Negros want is equal opportun
ity,” Watts explained.
“WHY DON’T you do some
thing yourselves?” is a question
asked of the Negro.
Watts’ answer to this was sim
ple: “The whites want to run the
whole show. Every time the Ne
gros try to do something, they
are called racists.”
“White racism in America is
insanity!” Watts exclaimed. “The
liberal whites give the Negro
financial aid, and tell them to go
down to Mississippi and integrate,
‘but don’t do it next door to us.!”
WATTS EXPLAINED that it
isn’t people like Rapp Brown who
are keeping blacks and whites at
each other's throats, “it’s the
white liberals in their lily white
neighborhoods and their lily white
homes, sending their children to
all-white schools, who look upon
the Negro as a stigma of Ameri
can society, and not a part of
it,” Watts said.
“CIVIL RIGHTS is the fastest
growing industry in the United
States,” Watts noted. “There are
40,000 Ph.D.’s and M.A.’s in race
relations, and 250,000 undergrad
uates in race relations.
“If the civil rights question
was solved tomorrow, they would
all be out of work,” Watts said.
The reason he gave for being
allowed to speak at predominantly
white universities “is because Ne
groes are being allowed “instan
taneous integration for this year
only.”
WEATHER
Saturday—Cloudy. Winds North
10 to 15 mph. High 57, low 28.
Sunday — Clear. Winds East
10 to 15 mph. High 58, low 24.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adv.
Civilian Council Raps
SDS-Type Groups
BILLY ON THE MOVE
Billy Bob Barnett maneuvers for position under the basket
as teammates Chuck Smith (42) and Mike Heitmann, right,
assist. Barnett scored 26 points for the Ag-gies as they
defeated Louisiana Tech Thursday 102-83. (See story,
page 4. (Photo by Mike Wright)
Viet Progress Report Given
On Senate Miss-Meal Effort
Council Opposes
A&M Recognition
By JANE WALLACE
Battalion Staff Writer
The Student Senate has recent
ly received a progress report on
the “miss-a-meal, feed-a-multi-
tude” program conducted here
last March.
Maj. Bill W. Libby, a chap
lain in Vietnam to whom the
Senate sent the $2,067 raised in
the campus-wide effort, sent the
report in letter form to David
Howard, Senate welfare commit
tee chairman.
In the letter, Libby gave rea
sons for delays in spending the
money:
“1. The tactical situation has
fluctuated in several areas where
I wanted to spend the money,
making it unwise to move too
rapidly.
“2. Government controls on
materials have to be dealt with.
For instance, we cannot make
commitments for long range per
petual care of facilities. Further,
because of the tremendous
destruction, certain materials are
available only through govern
ment allocations.
“3. The cashing of the check
and actual outlay of the money
has proven difficult due to cur
rency restrictions.”
Although Libby has run into
difficulties, he has started two
projects in the Hue area.
“One is at an orphanage. Some
$800 will be spent to help furnish
the building and pay some costs
of construction,” the letter con
tinued.
“The second project in Hue
actually is not with orphans, but,
considering the military tradi
tion of A&M, I felt the money
would be well spent. In Hue
there is a regional hospital for
the Army of the Republic of
Vietnam.
“But this is unlike any hos
pital you have ever seen in the
U.S. in terms of standards. It
(See Viet Progress, Page 3)
By DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE
Battalion Staff Writer
A resolution against allowing
organizations such as the Stu
dents for a Democratic Society
(SDS) to organize on campus
was passed Thursday night by
the Civilian Student Council.
The action was not solely
against the SDS. The resolution
reads, in part, that the Council
felt that any organization
“. . . which has a reputation for
violence and chaotic activity, such
as the SDS, not be allowed to
organize on campus at Texas
A&M University.”
THE RESOLUTION came after
a lengthy discussion during which
all councilmen were given a
chance to express their views.
Virtually all felt that organiza
tions already existed on campus
whose purpose was to make the
student voice heard, and that
these organizations were doing
a good job.
Council members pointed out
that many of the SDS’s goals
were already seeing action by
existing student organizations,
such as the Student Senate and
the Council itself, and that an
other student voice was not need
ed at A&M right now.
CIVILIAN STUDENT Council
membership for the 1968-69
school year became complete to
night with the introduction of
Dudley Vickers by David Wilks,
Council president.
Vickers is the Council’s fresh
man representative for this year.
He comes from Bryan, but resides
in Law Hall. He will serve as
the Council’s main line of contact
with the fish class and will be
a voting member of the Council.
WILKS NOTED that Vickers
was selected only after the Coun
cil Executive Committee had
spent over four hours interview
ing 18 applicants for the position.
Earyl Roddy, president of
Davis-Gary Hall, said that his
hall is planning to sponsor a
needy family for Christmas, and
that the hall council was consid
ering adopting an orphan from
overseas. He also noted that
Davis-Gary will hold its Christ
mas party soon.
HOTARD HALL, in keeping
with the Christmas spirit, will
have a Christmas tree on its
roof, announced Hall President
Andy Walne. He said that the
tree would be erected and deco
rated as soon as possible.
Walton Hall President Andy
Scott told the Council that Wal
ton residents would, 'SQoh have
stationery bearing a nfewly-de-
signed Walton emblem. He also
noted that Walton will be going
“all out” for a Christmas party
this year. He said the party would
be held at the Ramada Inn.
THE COUNCIL next turned to
discussion of civilian Bonfire par
ticipation. Councilmen felt that
the turnout this year was an
improvement over previous years.
They balked, however, at award
ing any one hall an outstanding
Bonfire participation plaque.
The general feeling of the
Council on the point was that
all halls had put out for the
Bonfire, and that to award any
thing to just one would possibly
slight the other halls.
“I don’t feel it’s a good idea,”
said John Bendele, Apartment
Council vice-president. “There is
realty no way to judge who’s
best.”
THE DECISION was finally
made to rate the halls on their
participation, and then award
them varying amounts of points
toward the Outstanding Civilian
Residence Hall on Campus award
presented evefy spring.
The last iteiA of business for
the evening was h show of appre
ciation by the Council; to its
behind-the-scene h61p.
Mrs. Anne Clark atid Mrs. Bar
bara Johnson, secretaries to Ed
Cooper, civilian student activities
director, and Howard Perry, resi
dence hall programs adviser,
were recognized.
Monday Cage Tilt
Here Against SFA
Stephen F. Austin, the team
that University of Houston
Coach Guy Lewis describes as
probably “the best team in the
state,” invades College Station
Monday for an 8 p.m. clash with
the Aggies.
Large numbers of students are
expected to make the trip from
Nacogdoches, as many have al
ready purchased their tickets.
Aggies are urged to turnout for
the game to counteract the Lum
berjack fans.
A&M enters the game with a
3-1 season record while Stephen
F. Austin is 5-1 on the year.
Fish ‘Deck The Hall’ ... With
Most Anything Handy