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OSCAii L. Til El S RT 1 THORMDALE, TEX 76577 5-31-69- B Che Battalion COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1969 Telephone 845-2226 Spears Elected President Of 1969-70 MSC Council By DAVE MAYES I Two Generals To Attend Spring Military Weekend S: •X S I Battalion Managing Editor President-elect of the 1969-70 Memorial Student Center Council and Directorate is Joe (Mac) Spears, a junior marketing major who, in the words of outgoing president Benjamin Sims, “will bring a flare of creativity” to his new office. A LITTLE HIGHER Iggie sophomore Bill Cooksey (12) goes high to out-jump lice’s Bob Rule (45) in second-half action of Saturday’s game. Cooksey pumped in 13 points in the game as A&M ron, 90-82. The Aggies begin second round action in the SWC tonight at 8 when they take on Texas in G. Rollie •White. Story on page four. (Photo by Mike Wright) Of A&M, Law School Board Kills Merger | |B AUSTIN tff) — The College Coordinating Board Monday pliurned down a request by the Mouth Texas College of Law to ' " pnerge with Texas A&M and rec- gjAmmended doubling of state col lege tuition. || The board voted 12-1 against ■he merger of the law school and :a&m. 1 A&M President Earl Rudder was in Austin attending the meet ing and was unavailable for com ment on the decision. The University of Houston op- osed the application, citing the Coordinating Board’s policy of Inly one law school in any one HI. area * SOUTH TEXAS is a private, D 45-year-old night school which the ■Tniversity of Houston Law ■chool admits drove it out of the I"' flight law school business by njCrawing away a large number of students. local district to $7 a semester hour was also approved by the board. The board also recommended that a fee of $2.50 a semester hour be charged students attend ing state-supported junior col leges. IT ALSO gave final approval to a $401.4 million plan for col lege construction between now and 1975. Some of the estimates on con struction are $19.4 million for ex pansion of existing medical schools, $22.5 million for a new state medical school, $7.6 million for expansion of Baylor College of Medicine, $15 million for a new dental school, $4.9 million for ex pansion of the Baylor Dental School, and $150 million for jun ior colleges. Army Lt. Gen. Harry H. Critz and Air Force Maj. Gen. Leo F. Dusard Jr. will be honored guests here Feb. 28 and March 1 for annual Military Day activities, President Earl Rudder announced. The three- and two-star gener als will take a Saturday review and participate in other functions, including the Friday night Com bat Ball and Saturday evening Military Ball. The spring review will be the Cadet Corps’ first full-dress drill field appearance of the 1968-69 school year. GENERAL CRITZ, 4th Army commander, was reviewing officer at the Corps march-in for the A&M-Arkansas football game last November, noted Army Col. Jim H. McCoy, commandant. The general is a Teague native and studied civil engineering here in 1929-31. The 34-year-veteran was com missioned in the field artillery after transferring to West Point. He was a cadet corporal in Com pany “B” Engineers here. General Dusard, 53, is vice com mander of the Air Training Com mand at Randolph AFB. The Missouri native was commissioned in Texas, receiving his wings af ter flying training at Randolph and Kelly Fields. A fighter group commander in the Pacific during early World War II, he led one of the first extended long-range fighter es corts. The short-range P-38s of his group flew an unheard-of 1,600-mile flight with lumbering B-24 Liberators to bomb a Celebes Islands enemy base. GENERAL DUSARD later served with the strategic planning group of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, NATO in Europe and during 1966- 68 as director of personnel train ing and education, Air Force Headquarters. His commands in clude squadron, group, air base, officer military schools, a wing and Chanute Technical Training The board recommended to the legislature a tuition charge of $7 1 semester hour, which would ttiake a total of $105 for the stu dent taking a normal load of 15 hours. Present tuition is $50 per semester. [)A In other action, the board rec- s Igimrnended a policy requiring a ^ ■linimum of 200 acres of land be provided by five metropolitan ^ Breas that are to get new senior 1 colleges by 1973. The areas are ^ San Antonio, Midland-Odessa, Pallas-Fort Worth and Corpus hristi. One board member point- id out that it would take 40 res just for parking at a school With 8,000 students. J IT ALSO asked the legislature 0 for 16 million to contract for the (development of a uniform uni- ^Bersity building system for the Bew senior colleges. This uni- Borm planning would save $32 Bullion, the board said. I The board will also ask the leg- Bslature to establish an annual puilding use fee of $165 per full- ime student at the new senior olleges. The raising of students’ tuition ‘' fet junior colleges outside their v ■ . -mi I m \ V t* rv - * ~ 1 Date Of AF Ball Set For April 19 The Air Force Ball has been rescheduled from Feb. 28 to April 19, according to Harold T. (Bud) Welch, publicity chair man. The ball will be held in Duncan Dining Hall. The reason for the change was that the weekend conflicted with the Combat Ball, which is also scheduled for Feb. 28, Welch noted. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M. —Adv. BAND SWEETHEART Charles Eads, Combined Band Operation Officer, presents traditional roses and a kiss to Linda Day at Saturday’s Band Dance. Mrs. Day, whose husband Mike Day escorted her to the annual dance, was named sweetheart of the Ag-gie Band. (Photo by Mike Wrig-ht) Center in Illinois. General Critz was with the 1st Infantry Division for its 1943 landing and subsequent opera tions in North Africa. He later became the division’s artillery commander and has since been Army War College instructor and secretary, airborne battle group commander of the 506th Infantry, staff secretary and commander’s special assistant of Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Eu rope (SHAPE) and commanding general of the VII Corps Artil lery, the famed 101st Airborne Division and 1st Corps in Korea. His numerous decorations in clude the Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star, Legion of Merit with two oak leaf clusters, France’s Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre and the 1939 War Cross of Czechoslovakia. Also elected by the MSC Coun cil Monday were Harry Snowdy to executive vice president of programs; Jim Finane, executive vice president of operations; Tom Fitzhugh, chairman of Great Is sues; Rex Stewart, chairman of Town Hall and Harry Lesser, chairman of the Fifteenth Student Conference on National Affairs. SPEARS, a cadet sergeant in Company E-2 with a 2.63 grade point ratio, served as a director ate assistant as a sophomore and was vice president in charge of operations this year. Among numerous projects, he has organized a directorate-wide public relations organization (PRO) and is helping work up on MSC brochure for distribution to incoming freshmen. Finane, a junior history major with a 2.27 gpr, was vice presi dent of the council and director ate this year and will succeed Keller Webster. MILITARY GUESTS Army Lt. Gen. Harry H. Critz (left) and Air Force Maj. Gen. Leo F. Dusard Jr. will take salutes of the Corps of Cadets March 1 during Military Day activities. General Critz of Fort Sam Houston commands the 4th Army. Gen eral Dusard is vice commander of the Air Training Com mand at Randolph AFB at San Antonio. A pre-medicine major with a 2.80 gpr, Snowdy, this year’s vice president of programs, will suc ceed Wayne Prescott. FITZHUGH has a 2.5 gpr and is a sophomore geophysics major from Waco. Chairman this year of Great Issues’ Seminar Series, he Will succeed David Maddox. stalled at the council and direc torate awards banquet April 24. “The executive committee (council officers) that the coun cil has chosen tonight is well- suited to initiate the programs and provide the communication necessary to enlarge the place of the MSC within the campus community,” Spears said. “WE WILL be striving to make the MSC realisitically live up to its name as the ‘living room of the campus’.” In other business, the council elevated the directorate Basement committee to full committee status. Initiated in the fall, the Basement committee, chaired by Susan Wilson, operates the MSC’s “Basement,” a psychedelic coffee house open from 8 to 12 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Jeanna Fiske, chairman of the Travel Committee, announced that interviews for students need ing loans for overseas travel will be tonight at 7:30 p.m. in room 3B, MSC. J. Wayne Stark, MSC director and secretary to the council, re ported that with an estimated $3,000 gate for the Saturday ap pearance of the Baja Marimba Band, Town Hall will likely be operating at a $3,600 deficit. He noted that the committee had a $10,000 deficit last semester. Berkeley Planner To Lecture At Architecture College Here Dr. David Darwent, assistant research planner, University of California at Berkeley, will pre sent dual graduate lectures Thursday and Friday at the Col lege of Architecture and Environ mental Design. Edward J. Romieniec, chairman, Spring Cards Set For Distribution Spring student activity cards are now available and may be picked up at G. Rollie White Coliseum, according to Wally Groff, athletic business manager. Students wishing to obtain a card, Groff noted, should go by the Athletic Business Office, room 110, and present their fee slip. Groff also said students attend ing the A&M-Texas basketball game tonight can obtain cards at the door on presentation of fee slips, as was done last Saturday at the Rice game. Beginning next semester, Groff noted, students will be mailed their activity cards along with their paid fee slips from the registrar. said Darwent’s first lecture is entitled “The ‘Newtown’ as its Future” and will be presented in the college’s auditorium from 3 to 5 p.m. Darwent’s second lecture, Romieniec added, will be pre sented Friday between 3 and 5 p.m. in the auditorium and is entitled “Urban Geography and Problem Solving Techniques.” A native of England, Darwent graduated with first class honors in geography from the University of Durham, England, later re ceiving his Ph.D. from the same institution. In 1966 Darwent joined Build ing Design Partnership as an economic consultant. The firm serves as consultant planners to the City of Belfast and the Minis try of Development of Northern Ireland. He joined the University of California in March, 1968. His present research is sponsored by the Economic Development Ad ministration of the Department of Commerce. The work centers on a large scale theoretical and empirical inquiry into regional planning problems in the U. S., utilizing a systems approach, Romieniec said. Succeeding Louis Adams, Stew art has a 1.5 gpr and is a senior finance major from San Antonio. Lesser, vice chairman of SCO- NA XIV, is a junior physics ma jor with a 2.1 gpr. He replaces Don McCrofy. All new council officers and directorate chairmen will be in- Brazos County Jail Escapees Still At Large Wounded Druggist Now Reported In Good Condition Joe Shaffer, the pharmacist wounded when the Redmond Pharmacy was robbed Tuesday, was reported in good condition Monday by Methodist Hospital spokesmen in Houston. Shaffer was transferred from the intensive care unit into a priv ate room Friday, according to hospital spokesmen. He was re ported to be recovering faster than expected. Six persons are currently be ing held in Brazos County Jail on charges of armed robbery and ac cessory to armed robbery. Ac cording to District Attorney Brooks Gofer Jr., two members of the gang were cited on charges of attempted murder, and two oth ers were filed on for being acces sory to murder. The statewide search for the four prisoners who escaped Fri day morning from th© Brazos County Jail had turned up no thing Monday afternoon. Law enforcement agencies throughout Texas and surround ing states are currently on the alert for the quartet of escapees. The men were identified by Sheriff J. W. Hamilton Friday as David Wayne McEndorffer, being held on a charge of murder; Del Monte Whitehurst, jailed in May on charges of accessory to murder and accessory to forgery; Michael Chafa, 26, arrested Jan. 29 and charged with burglary; and Gene Bryan, arrested with Chafa and also charged with burglary. The quartet escaped by cutting a hole in the roof of the fourth floor jail with a hacksaw blade, according to Hamilton. After crawling onto the roof of the house, they lowered them selves to the ground with a rope made of bedsheets and mattress covers taken from their cells. It is believed that the men made their get-away in one or both of two cars reported stolen shortly after the jailbreak. The jailbreak was the third es cape from the Brazos County Jail since the summer of 1965, according to Hamilton. At Campus Security Parking Control Takes Time By MIKE WRIGHT Contrary to what may be pop ular student opinion, Campus Security officers are not paid a commission for the amount of parking tickets they hand out. The officers receive a set salary just like all other university em ployees. “Controlling the campus park ing lots is the most time-consum ing of our duties,” explained Assistant Security Chief Morris Maddox. As duly-sworn peace officers, the Campus Security is also re sponsible for the lives and prop erty of the students as well as all university property. “We try to patrol the campus at all times, not using one par ticular route to follow,” com mented Criminal Investigator J. D. Gossett. “THIS IDEA keeps someone from establishing patrol routes to aid in a crime,” he added. As the police force for the grounds, Campus Security is on duty around the clock. After 5 p.m., incoming calls are re-routed from the YMCA basement head quarters to the Building and Utilities complex on campus, where a dispatcher is stationed. However, the constant worry of the force stems from the parking ticket. A student has 72 hours after receiving a ticket in which to pay the reinstatement fee of $2, or appeal the citation. AFTER THIS, the fee goes to $5, and the plot thickens for the force. “There is a group of violators who will not pay their fees. They just forget the ticket and think that we will too,” said Gossett. If the issue is not settled or in the process of being settled with in a couple of weeks, the violator is filed upon by Campus Security in a justice of the peace court. “We do not like to file on stu dents because it is very time- consuming and usually costly to them,” explained Gossett. “But in a case when the stu dent has several delinquent over due tickets, the JP court is usually cheaper than paying the rein statement fee for each ticket. “IF A student is short of money, but will come in and check on the ticket during the 72 hour period. Campus Security officials will work something out for him. We realize that most students are short of money, and we will help him,” said Maddox. Students also have the right to appeal the ticket to the appeals panel. There are no Campus Se curity men on this panel. It is comprised of two staff members and six students, appointed by the Student Senate, according to Ben nie Zinn, student affairs director. The student makes an appoint ment to appear before the panel at its regular Thursday afternoon meeting and pleads his case. The panel then votes and decides the issue. “We will work with a student and try to give him every possible break,” added Gossett. BB&L Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. —Adv. m