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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1969
Telephone 845-2226
Spears Elected President
Of 1969-70 MSC Council
By DAVE MAYES
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Two Generals To Attend
Spring Military Weekend
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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
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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
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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.
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