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ttalion m Cbc Bdttdiion VOLUME 64, Number 51 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1968 Telephone 845-2226 End Silver Taps?—Senior Dispute Over Shape Of Table Sees Auto Safety As Key\ Continues To Thwart Talks rward, flips® ohn Whitmon ay night. Tilt Austin Monday ht) Texas Aggies would like to end the traditional Silver Taps for comrades killed in traffic ac cidents. In the last 13 years, Silver Taps ceremonies have honored 40 of A&M’s dead in traffic mis haps. SENIOR LARRY Graviss of San Antonio feels something can be done about road accidents claiming the lives of so many Aggies. Silver Taps is a 21-gun salute followed by Corps buglers blow ing Silver Taps in honor of a fallen comrade. It’s played dur- ;mg a complete blackout on the :ampus, with students—Corps and civilians — silently gathered in front of the Academic Building. Graviss, a tall, sincere-speak ing cadet lieutenant colonel and Corps operations officer, is be- lind a move to accomplish such jin end. NO ONE is prompting him, except the memories of those he feels have needlessly died in traf fic accidents. Three members of the Corps ise [Fruit Drive To Be At Christmas Meal Enough apples, oranges and ananas for 400 needy Bryan loys Club members is the goal the Student Senate’s Fruit rive scheduled to coincide with lie annual Christmas dinners Wednesday in Sbisa and Duncan ining Halls. | Baskets will be placed at the exits of both halls to receive fruit donated by the students. “For many of the boys, the fruit will be the only Christmas gifts they’ll receive,” David Mad ox, Senate vice president, said. LARRY GRAVISS were killed Nov. 9 in a head-on car-truck collision. The cadets^— one of them a senior and buddy of Graviss-—were part of the 3,000-man Corps mustering in Dallas for the A&M-SMU foot ball game. Graviss has been busy at work compiling records on deaths of students. WITH CHRISTMAS fast ap proaching, he has taken a close look at traffic deaths during the holidays. “Seven students have been lost in the past 13 years during the Christmas season,” he said. A total of 40 students have died since 1955. The largest number were killed in 1967 when eight died. In 1965 five students met death and four in 1963. OF THOSE KILLED, 10 died on scheduled Corps trips, seven during Christmas holidays and 23 others at various times of the year. Air Force cadets, required to post all traffic violations when tion’s Own Service :rsity il Bank Apu" Is Fall Film Finale “The World of Apu,” final fall lm presentation of the Memorial tudent Center Contemporary rts Committee, will be screened Wednesday. [The 8 p.m. film series presen- *tion will be shown in the MSC allroom, announced chairman lark Schumann of Dallas. “The porld of Apu” is a film from India, directed by Satyjit Ray with music by Ravi Shankar. Schumann said tickets for next semester’s series will be on sale at the door. Nine films scheduled for the spring festival include “Rashomon,” “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,” “Knife in the Wa ter” and “The Virgin Spring,” among other foreign and domestic movie classics. entering the program, revealed “228 of 518 violations were for speeding,” said Graviss. “This is approximately 50 per cent of the violations.” Graviss pointed out steps are being taken to reduce “any need for speeding” while at A&M. FRESHMAN and sophomore cadets, required to be back on campus by 8:30 on Sunday nights and at the first class following holidays, may now call their units if they are delayed in returning. “If he calls saying he’s going to be late, then it’s okay,” noted Graviss. It is a step to reduce speeding. Better than 50 per cent of the resident students have cars on campus, creating a greater traf fic safety problem, he noted. GRAVISS HAS several ideas to help promote a strong safety program among students, espe cially cadets since they perform a “mass exodus” on Corps trips. These include: • Passes for freshmen and sophomores would have pre-print- ed safety checks. • Designation of a safety of ficer with each unit, possibly the executive officer. • Operation orders for Corps trips could have road stops map ped, including all-night restau rants. • And, large signs on campus reminding students of number of days since the last Silver Taps. GRAVISS, son of retired Air Force Col. and Mrs. G. R. Graviss of San Antonio, is seeking more answers from the military. “You can’t beat the military,” he said. “It’s organized.” He plans trips soon to Ran dolph Air Force Base and Fort Sam Houston to discuss safety programs. At present, Graviss has suc ceeded in getting “a lot of people talking about it.” SAFETY EMPHASIS has al ready spilled over into campus activities with fewer accidents re ported during the traditional bon fire days before Thanksgiving holidays. Graviss assisted with safety procedures, working with the first aid committee. Graviss likes the administra tion’s policy to start classes at 10 a.m., Jan. 6 following the long holiday. “It will keep students from driving at night. It’s a great safety factor,” he concluded. PRESENTS CHARTER Ed Cooper, director of civilian student activities, presents Andy Scott, Walton Hall president, with the charter for the first civilian dormitory club in ceremonies at the Ramada Inn. Name of the new social club is the “Walton Warriors.” (Photo by Mike Wright) New Loans Provide UpTo$l,500Yearly A federally insured student loan program for up to $1,500 a year and $7,500 over a college career has been announced by Robert M. Logan of the student financial aid office. Loans at not more than seven per cent interest are possible at the institution of the borrower’s choice. “APPLICATIONS may be sub mitted to any participating hometown bank, savings and loan association or credit union,” Lo gan said. The program has several dis tinct advantages, he adds. Re- At Senate’s Idea Exchange |. ' Delegates Explore Faculty-Student Gap By DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE Battalion Staff Writer GATE The relative “distance between indents and faculty” at A&M ,as a key point brought out in I nc i! 6 Senate’s second Stu- [ J. CXflS r nt Idea Exchange Conference | ere weekend, according to irC I! ^ ar ^ er ’ Senate president. On nearly all other campuses, i°int student-faculty group de- AN RE .WARE fSTAL SIFTS airies on issues that directly af- | ec I the students,” Carter said. Another major difference Car- T note d was in handling of cam- P 18 elections. At Baylor Univer- T y > ' w here “50 to 60” elections f year are run by a small group I Section commissioners, a com- ^ er system is used to tally |®tes. I m sure that we’ll be looking I® them (computers) in the future l° r slections,” Carter said. DELEGATES FROM six South- est Conference schools gathered ere Friday and Saturday for ® nieeting. Ric e University was ^ le to send a delegation be- USe °T final examinations, Car- r s aid. Delegates from the Uni- ^'ty of Texas at Austin failed atten d the conference, although Fading to Carter, Texas Stu- J 1 President Rostam Ka- i, USs ‘ had told him last week a delegation would be pre- ANOTHER POINT brought out was that at every other school, the student government leaders receive some sort of compensa tion. The compensation was either cash or a reduction in fees. “Students from the other schools were actually surprised that A&M leaders didn’t get something for their efforts,” said Tom Fitzhugh, a recorder at the conference. Arkansas also has something unusual in student-administration relations, Fitzhugh said. On a regular basis, members of the state legislature are invited to the university to visit and see what is happening. IN ADDITION, noted Fitzhugh, they also meet students and stu dent leaders specifically to hear complaints the students have. This enables the legislators to re turn to their offices with a fair knowledge of how things really are at the school. “An enormous amount of com munication took place,” said Carter. “I will be coming out with more of the ideas I received later. “I feel the conference was very successful. It accomplished just what we had hoped: an exchange of ideas,” he concluded. payment can be over a period of five to 10 years, beginning nine months after the borrower ceases to be a student on at least a half time basis. For qualified students, the fed eral government will pay interest charges during the in-school period. The qualification is an adjusted family income of less than $15,000 a year. “PRINCIPAL payments need not be made while the borrower is an armed forces member, Peace Corps or VISTA volunteer or pursuing a fulltime course of study at an eligible school,” Lo gan went on. “The nice part for a qualified student who knows he is going on active military duty is that while he’s in the service and the government is paying interest, he can be paying out the principal,” he said. A&M student eligibility re quires enrollment and good standing or acceptance for en rollment, a minimum of six semester hours or more work load and U. S. citizenship. Stu dents on conduct probation are not eligible. Federal loan applications and instructions are available at the Student Financial Aid Office in the YMCA. By LEWIS GULICK PARIS (A*) — The Saigon gov ernment’s negotiators in Paris say they will yield no further in the dispute over the shape 6f the table for the Vietnam peace talks. The South Vienamese delega tion “has gone far enough” and “cannot diverge from the formula of a two-sided conference,” dele- gatio^&fficials said. SAIGON’S VIEW on the pro cedural dispute holding up the peace parley was conveyed again to the Americans Monday night at a dinner session of the top allied negotiators: U. S. Ambas sador W. Averell Harriman and his deputy, Cyrus R. Vance; South Vienam’s Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky and Ambassador Pham Dang Lam. Earlier Monday Ky issued a sharp denial of U. S. Defense Secretary Clark M. Clifford’s im plication that Saigon was much to blame for the continuing de lay in the start of the conference. He said ever since Clifford suc ceeded Robert S. McNamara, “Secretary Clifford has shown a gift for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.” THE NEW chief of the Viet Cong delegation, Tran Buu Kiem, censured both the United States and South Vietnam equally upon his arrival from Hanoi Monday. Preparations for the meeting are “being dragged out by the de laying tactics of the United States and the Saigon administration,” he told 300 cheering welcomers at the airport. Kiem is considered the foreign minister of the Viet Cong’s National Liberation Front. The shape of the table at which the negotiators will sit is the focal issue in the quarrel over arrangements for the con ference because the shape will symbolize the status of the NLF at the talks. THE COMMUNISTS say the NLF is the authentic representa tive of the South Vietnamese people and rates a full position at a four-sided conference. Wash ington and Saigon do not recog nize the NLF except as outlaws and hence claim the parley is two-sided—between the allies and their Communist opponents. Hanoi negotiators started with a proposal for a square table. Their latest offer is an undivided round table. U. S. negotiators have gone from a long rectangu lar table to a divided doughnut shape, their most recent com promise proposal. Duncan, Sbisa, Dorms To Close For Christmas Residence halls and dining halls will be secured Friday for the Christmas holidays, Alan Madeley, housing manager, an nounced. Dormitories will close at 6 p.m. and dining halls, after the dinner meal. Residence halls will open at 1 p.m. Jan. 5; and Duncan and Sbisa will reopen Jan. 6, Madeley noted. Only Schumacher and Hotard Halls will remain open, Madeley said. Students remaining on campus should contact a resident of Hotard for permission to use his room. Schumacher will be available only for students who are residents of the hall. Students who wish to live in Hotard must turn in to the hous ing office written permission from all room occupants by Fri day, Madeley noted. Students who are residents of the two halls and wish to remain on campus for the holidays must register with the housing office by 5 p.m. Friday. Nothing will be charged to those who remain. Delegates Praise Coordination, Deplore Subjectivity Of SCONA Delegates to A&M’s recent Fourteenth Student Conference on National Affairs praised the forum’s smooth coordination and efficiency but criticized its lack of objectivity, according to Don McCrory, SCONA XIV chairman. “Some students were disap pointed that the conference speakers all seemed to support the (Johnson) administration’s point of view,” McCrory told the Memorial Student Center Coun cil and Directorate. He noted that it was not SCONA’s intention to present but one side of its topic, “The Limits and Responsibilities of U. S. Power,” but that some speakers tended to emphasize pro-admin istration points and not others. In other business. Council Pres ident Benjamin Sims reported that the Town Hall committee was still losing $3,924 despite the response for Sam and Dave and [LDING* iCIATI 0> new idea discussed. ^ Another er said, was one being con- ^ University °T Ar- Peopie there are thinking of lb ;> var sity senate’ composed of ; a[ JUt ° ne -third each students, [j ^ t . y ’ an 4 administration,” he rained. “This would be the uni- 81 y s main governing body.” Pro fessor’s Wi fe Becomes Only Female B-CS Lawyer the Union Gap which drew a combined audience of 10,000 people. Sims also noted that the Travel committee is still accepting ap plications for four student ex change programs: the Experi- Paul Eggers, a 1968 Repub lican gubernatorial candidate scheduled to speak here at noon today, was forced to can cel his visit here, announced Ronald Hinds, chairman of A&M’s Political Forum. Hinds said the Political For um will attempt to reschedule Eggers next semester. His topic was to have been “The Future of the Republican Par ty in Texas.” ment in International Living, Operations Crossroads Africa, the International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience and Jobs International. Travel will also begin inter viewing students in January for loans to finance summer over seas trips, Sims noted. THE GREAT SEARCH The game between A&M and Stephen F. ^ f u f coaches^joined in a search up several minutes rnttes^ondh^oHimmsp^ ^ Underw0 od won the searclfbut^SFA won'the ganrn^T5^4^ Story on page 4. <rhoto by Mike Wright, AUSTIN — Mrs. Thelma van Overbeek, wife of Dr. Johannes van Overbeek of Texas A&M, was sworn in as an attorney at law Monday before the Texas Su preme Court. The mother of six children plans to practice law in Bryan- College Station, giving her the distinction of being the only wom an attorney currently practicing in the area. Mrs. van Overbeek, a native of San Francisco, was awarded a Juris Doctor degree last year from the McGeorge School of Law at University of the Pacific in Sacramento, Calif. She received her B.S. degree from the Univer sity of California. WEATHER Tuesday—Cloudy. Winds Nort Tuesday — Cloudy. W T i n d s North 10 to 15 mph. High 57, low 38. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M. —Adv. She began studying for her law degree after the last of her chil dren started school. The three youngest children now attend La mar Junior High and Stephen F. Austin High School in Bryan. The van Overbeeks came to Texas last year when Dr. van Overbeek was appointed director of the Institute of Life Science and head of the Biology Depart ment at Texas A&M. He was formerly chief plant physiologist for Shell Development Company at Modesto, Calif. The family resides at 3615 Sun- nybrook Lane in Bryan. A. W. Davis, president of the Brazos County Bar Association, said he only knows of two other women ever practicing law in Bryan-College Station. One of them was Mrs. lola Barron Wil cox, daughter of former Judge W. S. Barron. Mrs. Wilcox and her husband recently moved from the city. The other woman attor ney was the wife of a Texas A&M doctoral candidate, who also moved when her husband received his degree last year. Laundry Group To Meet Thursday The Student Laundry Commit tee will discuss laundry operat ing procedures with university officials at noon Thursday in the Sbisa Cash Cafeteria. Any student desiring to offer suggestions about the laundry operations and policies is invited to contact one of the following committee members: Arthur P. Callahan, dorm 2, room 118, 5-2750; David George, Fowler Hall, room 211, 5-2108; Ernest Godsey, Hughes Hall, room 422, 5-3809. David Middlebrooke, Hotard Hall, room 411, 846-9944; John R. Oliver, dorm 6, room 203, 5- 7259; and Albert Reinert, dorm 2, room 123, 5-2050. Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. B B & L —Adv.