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Filing opened today for the
March 20 election of class of
ficers, announced Tommy Hen-
ierson, vice-chairman of the Elec
tion Commission.
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Henderson said that applica
tions for class and yell leader
positions may be picked up at
the Student Program Office in
the Memorial Student Center.
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146-823
All applications, he noted, must
be returned to the Program Office
by 5 p.m. March 7. He also point
ed out that only sophomores and
juniors may apply for yell leader
ositions.
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“LOLLY POP”
GREAT MOMENT IN SPORTS
“Joltin’ Jocks” cheerleader Mertle (Bill Seely) get a boost
from Tom Sooy as she—he—leads athletes in a yell for
the Joltin’ Jocks, Aggie footballers who challenged the
Fish basketball team Tuesday and went down to ignomin
ious defeat, 89-71. The game preceded the varsity’s win
over Arkansas, which helped clinch the SWC championship.
(Photo by Mike Wright)
Senate Committee Okays Bill
To Lower Voting Age To 18
AUSTIN (IP) — Three young
people insisted Tuesday that by
and large their age group is in
formed enough to vote wisely in
elections.
They all favored lowering the
voting age from 21 to 18.
The Senate Constitutional
Amendments Committee advanced
the proposal to the floor on a
7-4 vote.
If approved by the legislature,
it would be submitted to the
voters at a statewide election in
November 1970.
Also approved by the commit
tee were proposed constitutional
amendments repealing annual
voter registration and giving per
sons 65 or older a $3,000 exemp
tion from all property taxes.
THEY ALSO are set for a vote
in November 1970.
Sen. Joe Bernal of San Antonio
sponsored the measure dropping
the voting age to 18. He said the
state Democratic and Republican
platforms had endorsed a lower
voting age and that a national
poll showed 64 per cent of the
people in this country in favor
of it.
“We no longer want to go
three years after high school or
through three years of college
accepting the role of token citi
zenship,” said Rosie Castro, rep
resenting Our Lady of the Lake
College’s Young Democrats.
ALSO supporting Bernal’s pro
posal were Dan S. Boyd of Den
ton, representing the Young Dem
ocratic Clubs of Texas, and Court
Crow of Fort Worth, represent
ing the Texas Student Education
al Association.
Sen. Roy Harrington of Port
Arthur sponsored the proposed
tax exemption for the elderly.
“I would rather pay more taxes
when I’m earning money than
when I’m not,” he said.
Faculty Total Nears 900;
58 Percent Hold Ph.D. ’s
Texas A&M has increased the size of its faculty
almost 50 percent within the past five years and nearly
doubled the number of instructional personnel holding
doctoral degrees, a university study shows.
A&M President Earl Rudder said the study shows
the university now has a general faculty of nearly
900, with 523, or 58 percent, holding doctoral degrees.
During the 1963-64 school year, the university
employed 623 teachers, but only 271, or 43.5 percent,
had earned a Ph.D. or similar degree.
The study did not list graduate assistants, whose
inclusion would raise the number of current faculty
members to approximately 1,000.
Rudder noted the sharp increase in professors,
as well as the marked improvement in professional
competence as reflected in percentage of doctorates,
is an integral part of A&M’s avowed program of
excellence.
The faculty, he said, has kept pace with mush
rooming enrollment and expanded instructional and
research programs.
Current enrollment is 12,053, compared to ap
proximately 8,000 five years ago.
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Jrs. & Soph’s A-J this week, Feb. 24-28. Your
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J|-|g BATTALION Wednesday, February 26, 1969 College Station, Texas Page 3
NTSU Prof Will Open Series
Of YMCA Marriage Forums
By DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE
Battalion Staff Writelr
The 17th annual YMCA Mar
riage Forums will begin Tuesday
with Dr. Sidney Hamilton, pro
fessor at North Texas State
University, speaking on “How
Can You Tell It’s Love?”
Ed Donnell, YMCA Special
Programs committee chairman,
noted that this year the 7:30 p.m.
forums will be in room 321 of
the Physics Building. He said the
forums consist of five programs
on consecutive Tuesdays.
“I would urge everyone to come
early and be assured of a good
seat,” Donnell commented Tues
day. “In the last few years we’ve
had standing room only.”
HAMILTON HAS written a
number of books, including “Work
Book in Marital Psychology,” and
teaches courses in clinical and
marital psychology at NTSU. He
is also a member of the American
Association of Marriage Coun
selors, one of five people in Texas
with full membership in the asso
ciation.
Among the topics Hamilton will
discuss are whether time and
distance interfere with true love,
personality factors, whether sex
drive has influenced the choice
of a mate, and how to be sure of
marrying the right person.
“All of our speakers are re
nowned in their fields, and we
feel privileged to have them
here,” Donnell said. “They have
ACS Meeting Off
A Wednesday meeting of the
Texas A&M section of the Amer
ican Chemical Society has been
cancelled due to illness of the
scheduled speaker.
Dr. Donald J. Lyman, head of
biomedical polymer research at
Stanford Research Institute, will
be unable to speak.
always proven popular here at
A&M.”
PURPOSE OF the forums,
Donnell noted, is to give adequate
information to young people who
are interested in the problems of
marriage. He said the forums
present factual information which
serves as a basis for solving prob
lems before and after marriage.
Others scheduled to speak on
following Tuesdays are Dr. Rob
ert Ledbetter, marriage counselor
at the University of Texas at
Austin discussing making mar
riage meaningful, and Dr. Henry
Bowman, professor of sociology
at UT, speaking on premarital
sex one week and marital sex
the following week.
Final speaker of the series will
be Dr. Bardin H. Nelson, profes
sor of sociology here, speaking
on marriage outside one’s faith.
A&M Students Lead Donors
In Wadley Blood Bank Drives
Texas A&M has won yet an
other Southwest Conference
championship — besides the one
in basketball.
Aggies contribute more blood
each year to the Wadley Blood
Center than all other center-con
tacted colleges and universities
combined, according to Dudley
Rouse, development director of
the Dallas blood bank.
He said the 1968 donations by
A&M students amounted to over
600 pints, about a 17 percent in
crease over the previous year.
The Wadley Foundation bank
supports leukemia research and
enables donors to receive blood
during the year of contribution.
The annual April campus drive
is sponsored by the Student Sen
ate and Alpha Phi Omega, na
tional service fraternity.
A December blood drive was
arranged by the Student Senate
so A&M students could show
their support for American sol
diers.
The U. S. Department of De
fense, which was to fly the blood
to Vietnam, informed student
body leaders the blood was not
needed. Blood Services of Hous
ton, which handled technical as
pects of the drive, offered $2,562
to settle the account. A&M stu
dents then turned the funds over
to the USO office in Dallas for
use in Vietnam.
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