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VOLUME 64 Number 68
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1969
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Creative political thinking is a
new science based on one of man’s
oldest disciplines.
Its adherent, Dr. William C.
Sam Hit^Gibbons, professor and chairman
f A&M’s Political Science De
partment, at 41, is a veteran of
American foreign policy decision
making, international politics,
Congress and methods of political
analysis.
“We think this is where things
are happening,” said Gibbons, who
readily predicts “if the trend con-
Sales
tinues, it looks as if we’ll be the
biggest social science department
in the university, both in quantity
and quality.”
GIBBONS also gives reasons
for his conclusions.
“Political science as it is taught
at A&M,” said the former deputy
director of the Congressional
Liaison Staff of the Agency for
International Development in the
Department of State, “is really
a fascinating area of study.” He
admits it is now taught “entirely
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COMBAT COMBO
“The Clique,” a Houston-based rock group, will provide
music for the Army cadets’ Combat Ball Feb. 28 in Sbisa
Hall. Theme of the annual ball, a highlight of Spring
Military Weekend, will be “Midnight Patrol of the DMZ.”
Application Blanks Available
For 1969 Combat Cutie Contest
By JANIE WALLACE
Battalion Staff Writer
Applications are now available
for any Army cadet desiring to
enter the name of his date in the
1969 Combat Cutie contest, ac
cording to Arthur Stites, publici
ty chairman for the Combat Ball.
A photograph must accompany
the completed application. Cadets
may pick up applications in
Room 123 of Dorm 2 or from
each company’s first sergeant.
All applications should be turn
ed into Room 123 by next Thurs-
Spring ‘Festival’
Opens Saturday
With Italian Film
“Yesterday, Today and Tomor
row,” an award-winning Italian
film, will be shown at 8 p.m.
Saturday in the Memorial Student
Center ballroom, Film Committee
chairman Carlos Almaguer an
nounced Tuesday.
“We have 10 films scheduled
for the spring series, from seven
different countries,” Almaguer
said. “Each is a recognized clas
sic, and several were recipients
of awards from the Motion Pic
ture Academy or Cannes Film
Festival.”
Tickets for the Festival can be
purchased from the MSC Student
Programs Office or the Contem
porary Arts Committee.
“As in the past, only season
tickets are available,” Almaguer
said. Student tickets are $3, with
non-student, faculty, and date
tickets going for $5. There are
no single admission tickets.
“Only 400 seats will be avail
able in the Ballroom,” Almaguer
noted. “Each season we have sold
all available tickets within the
second week.”
day.
The selection of the Combat
Cutie will highlight the Feb. 28
Combat Ball.
“All cadets are urged to enter
the names of their dates in the
contest,” said Stites.
The Combat Cutie will be se
lected from finalists chosen by a
photograph elimination commit
tee.
Starting at 9 and lasting until
1, the dance in Sbisa Dining Hall
will feature “The Clique” from
Houston. Since the theme is a
“midnight patrol of the DMZ”,
Stites suggests to dates that
they dress, if possible, in an
Oriental fashion. If not, semi-
formals or party dresses are ac
ceptable. Dress for Army cadets
and Air Force seniors is class C
with ascots.
Invitations for Army cadets
are available through each com
pany’s first sergeant. Air Force
seniors may pick up their invita
tions and tickets in Room 123 of
dorm 2 beginning Monday.
Stage Center Cast
To Give ‘Crucible’
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
BB&L
—Adv.
One of the strangest, most aw
ful chapters in American history
will be dramatized beginning Fri
day by StageCenter, the commun
ity theater group. It will present
Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible”
in the Old Bryan Country Club.
The play centers around the
17th century Salem witch hunt
and trials where hysteric teen
age girls accused Puritan towns
people of witchcraft. Miller wrote
“The Crucible” in 1952 and paral
leled the witch hunt to McCarthy’s
hunt for communists.
Directed by Dr. Lee J. Martin,
head of the English Department,
the drama will run Friday, Sat
urday and Sunday at 8 p. m.
The cast features 20 local par
ticipants.
Tickets, $2, will be sold at the
door.
Rudder Names Panel
different” than it was a few
years ago as a branch of history,
or law.
Gibbons stressed that political
science is now “concerned with
human behavior rather than dry
institutionalism and law.”
Students are taking closer
looks at the basic political struc
ture including who gets power
and why, and how, for example,
it is maintained. Also military
aspects of foreign policy are being
evaluated.
Gibbons added that students al
so get the latest approaches to
comparative political systems, in
cluding a study of the various
political systems around the world
and are presented an interdis
ciplinary approach to political be
havior, plus using the computer.
The computer is used for election
returns, community surveys and
voting behavior studies.
THE STUDY of political is one
of the oldest of the learned dis
ciplines,” said Gibbons. “Since
ancient times men have sought to
understand how governments
have been formed, how politicians
behave, how political power is
wielded.”
“But political science is also
as new as the race for the moon,
and as relevant to life today as
the latest in scientific technolo
gy,” he continued. “To study pol
itical science is to study Plato
and Aristotle, but it is also to
study such immediately important
questions as who hold power in
a community, why men run for
office, what is involved in political
modernization in the less-devel
oped countries.”
Gibbons and his faculty, only
one-fifth of whom will be over
30 next fall, seek to combine the
old with the new, and to blend
practical and theoretical ap
proaches to the study of politics.
A&M, THROUGH GIBBONS, is
now a participating member in
the Inter-university Consortium
for Political Research at the Uni
versity of Michigan, which studies
general national elections. Re
corded on tape and made in appli
cation to the community, it “opens
a whole new field with quantita
tive approaches to politics,” Gib
bons stressed.
The department’s new curricu
lum reflects the progressive Gib
bons who once served as profes
sional staff member of the Sen
ate Democratic Policy Committee
and assistant to majority leaders
Lyndon Johnson and Mike Mans
field.
“Modern political science is di
rectly related to other social con
cepts and techniques, especially
sociology and psychology. It’s
more scientific, more behavioral
and more quantitative, and more
less legal and institutional in em
phasis,” said Gibbons.
The department, which has
jumped from 75 undergraduate
students last year when it was
separated from the history de
partment and Gibbons was named
head, to 149 currently enrolled,
attests to the changes.
TEACHING has taken on new
meaning. The old way was one
of facts and figures of how polit
ical institutes operate. The new
way at A&M is “to try to teach
how to analyze politics,” Gibbons
said.
The number of undergraduate
courses has “almost tripled” in
the brief period of time Gibbons
has been head, and the number
of graduate courses have doubled.
A senior seminar “helps seniors
capture their whole training by
giving them an opportunity to
intergrate their learning,” he
added.
PERHAPS one of the most
popular changes, Gibbons emha-
sized, is trying to give individual
attention to students. Lecture-
type sessions are on their way
out.
To Study Autoreg
THE CAMERAS ROLL
Three members of a National Broadcasting Company camera crew film the Cadet Corps’
evening formation from atop Duncan Dining Hall. The filmed report, which is expected
to appear early next week on the Huntley-Brinkley newscast, is to be part of an exam
ination of the problems of ROTC on the nation’s college campuses. Related picture, page
3. (Photo by W. R. Wright)
Civilian Committee Favors
Joining National Dorm Group
“We don’t think that is the way
to do it,” he said, calling atten
tion to the university “getting so
large and impersonal.”
Already underway are seminar
sessions in advance courses with
varying lengths and times of
sessions. Some are held at night.
“Our students are not just sit
ting in the room listening,” Gib
bons said. “They are really blos-
Three student residence hall
observers to the annual National
Association of College and Uni
versity Residence Halls confer
ence in Long Beach will recom
mend Friday that A&M apply for
membership, according to Pampa
senior David Wilks.
Wilks, president of the Civilian
Student Council, attended NAC-
URH with Earyl Roddy of Lan
caster, president of Davis-Gary
Hall, and Andy Scott, Childress,
president of Walton Hall. They
were accompanied by Ed Cooper,
civilian student activities direc
tor.
“We will present a resolution
to council members asking that
we proceed towards becoming
members of the national organi
zation,” said Wilks, who added
that “the program was real good
for us.” Sessions were held at
California State College.
Wilks added that the group, at
tending for the first time, was
“able to see other residence hall
programs at work.”
ALTHOUGH the A&M resi
dence hall program is a new one,
having started September, 1968,
in three of 18 civilian dormitories,
Wilks said the students agree,
“We can’t think of anyone ahead
of us.”
The three halls—Walton, Davis-
Gary and Leggett—have been in
volved in the special pilot pro
gram. The halls are operating
as “clubs” with their own elected
officers including disciplinary
committees for minor offenses.
Similar programs are expected
to start soon in other halls, Coop
er said.
Reflecting on their trip, Wilks
said it was evident that Texas
universities are “very conserva
tive” in relation to hall visita
tion and student influence on
campus as well as in the selec
tion of curriculums.
“STUDENTS in the east and
west are much more influential,”
added Wilks, “but their schools
have more problems.” By com
parison, A&M has relatively few
problems, he noted.
Wilks said the group also
agreed that A&M has “more of
a general philosophy of what a
residence hall can do, which has
resulted in a sound, livable en
vironmental program.”
“I’m really happy with the uni
versity we have,” emphasized
Wilks.
Wilks, while not critical, took
opportunity to point out, too, that
students in the East and West
apparently “change for change
sake,” looking only at immediate
goals and not long-range pro
grams.
One thing that impressed Wilks
at NACURH was the stand its
officers took on several issues.
Citing an example, he recalled
a proposal to support a motion
calling for lowering the voting
age to 18. Wilks said it “was
soundly voted down” as not be
ing relevant to residence hall ac
tivities.
“We feel NACURH is a very
responsible student organization,”
he said.
Does he predict Civilian Stu
dent Council officers will approve
a proposal to join the ranks of
NACURH?
“I don’t know. It’s up to all of
the guys to decide,” Wilks said.
6 Dormitories
Renamed For
Medal Winners
JOE BUSH
1966 Yell Leader
Killed In Vietnam
WEATHER
“No professor ever uses the
same notes a second year,” noted
Gibbons, who feels most depart
ments should follow the example.
Friday — Cloudy. Rainshowers.
Winds Southerly 10 to 20 mph.
High 71, low 62.
Saturday — Cloudy, afternoon
rainshowers. Winds Southerly
10 to 20 mph. High 73, low 62.
Capt. Joseph Bush, Jr. of Tem
ple, 1965-66 head yell leader, was
killed in Vietnam Monday from
hostile enemy fire, The Battalion
learned this week.
Funeral arrangements pend at
the Harper-Talasek Funeral
Home in Temple.
A distinguished military stu
dent, Bush was a first lieutenant
in Company H-2 of the Cadet
Corps. Before he married. Bush
belonged to Company A-l. He was
an accounting major and gradu
ated in 1966 with an Army Re
serve commission in artillery.
Survivors include the widow; a
son, Robin, and the parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph K. Bush, all of
Temple.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adv.
By TOM CURL
Battalion Staff Writer
A university committee to
study the problems of automated
registration has been created by
A&M President Earl Rudder.
The committee will consist of
two students each from the
Civilian Student Council, Student
Senate and Corps of Cadets, the
assistant deal and a faculty mem
ber from each college.
Chairman will be Albert Rein
ert, a junior who has been in
charge of a study of the new reg
istration system for the Student
Senate.
Ceremonies formally naming six
dormitories in honor of the uni
versity’s World War II Medal of
Honor winners will be held dur
ing Military Weekend activities
March 1, announced A&M Presi
dent Earl Rudder.
Rudder said Dr. Eli L. White-
ley, A&M’s sole surviving Medal
of Honor winner, and families
of the other recipients have been
invited to visit the newly de
signated dormitories and view new
bronze plaques placed on the ex
terior walls.
Earlier in the day, the honorees
will be special guests for a lunch
eon with student leaders and a
Corps of Cadets review.
Dr. Whiteley, a native of
Georgetown, is associate profes
sor of agronomy. The 1942 A&M
graduate won his medal in a
battle with German SS troops
for the fortress city of Sigols-
heim, France, Dec. 26, 1944.
Four of the awards to A&M
students were made posthumous
ly. Receiving the medal in this
manner were Lloyd H. Hughes, a
1943 graduate from Corpus Chris-
ti; George D. Keathley, Olney,
1937; Turney W. Leonard, Dallas,
1942; and Thomas W. Fowler,
Wichita Falls, 9143.
William G. Harrell, a 1943 grad
uate from Mercedes, survived the
war but died in 1963.
Three of the dormitories named
for the Medal of Honor winners
are located in the Corps area
and three are civilian. Honorees
will be escorted to their respec
tive dormitories by the ranking
cadet or the student holding the
top elective post in each of the
facilities, Rudder noted. Student
leaders in each of the dormitories
will host informal receptions for
the guests.
“I LOOK for some broad im
provements in the (automated
registration) system,” Reinert
said Wednesday night.
Reinert has been chairman of a
Senate subcommittee that polled
students and discussed the regis
tration problems with representa
tives of the registrar’s office and
the computer programmers.
Reinert said his conferences
with Elliot Bray, one of the
computer programmers, has
shown that many of the difficul
ties encountered with the initial
registration last fall will be
solved before the next pre-regis
tration this spring.
“The computer will give prefer
ence to those students who turn
in their pre-registration forms
early,” Reinert commented.
HE EXPLAINED that last se
mester, the student was put in
the section that had the least en
rollment at the time the schedule
was run through the computer.
He added that the add-drop pro
cedure that drew so much criti
cism will be started earlier next
time.
Reinert reported that there
were more than 11,000 forms
processed in the initial pre-regis
tration last fall; of these there
were 890 rejects. However, 364
were “lunch-hour” conflicts.
“The computer was program
med to reject any schedule where
the student would have to miss
his lunch on any day,” he said.
MANY STUDENTS complained
that their whole schedule was re
arranged when they went through
the add-drop procedure even
though the courses retained
should not have been affected.
Reinert explained that it costs
about one-fourth as much to
completely reschedule the student
as it does to block out the courses
already being taken.
He remarked that many people
blame the computer for mistakes
that it had no control over.
Reinert said he thought the
committee results would show
that most of the blame for mis
takes should be placed on the de
partmental level rather than on
the automated registration sys
tem.
“If the committee can impress
upon the administration that the
departments must work more
closely with the computer people,
the problems can be solved pretty
easily,” he said.
“I think the people in the de
partments were poorly educated
on the whole system,” he said.
“We’ll be able to utilize the
results (of the study) to see
which departments had the least
problems; and pattern future pro
cedure after them,” he concluded.
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Senator Names 4
Committee Heads
Chairmen of four subcommit
tees of the Student Senate Com
mittee on Educational Procedure
and Excellence have been ap
pointed by Vice President David
Maddox.
The subcommittees, each with
a specific field of study, are open
to any student who is interested
in the particular subject. The
subcommittees, chairmen, and
their telephone numbers are;
1. Pass-Fail, Garry Mauro,
845-5780.
2. Professor and Course Eval
uation, John Allen, 846-3968.
3. Curriculum Reforms, A1
Reinert, 845-1050.
4. Experimental Teaching
Methods, Phil Morley, 846-8348.