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\1 Of 33| OUtMtl inal lu Che Battalion OLUME 64 Number 85 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1969 Telephone 845-2226 Apollo 10 To Hover Over Moon; July Landing Set For Apollo 11 Senate Considers Appeals Board LUCE ELUCIDATES 'wmer Maoist Progressive Labor Party member Phillip Abbott Luce explains a point to tudents at a reception following his Great Issues speech Tuesday on the New Left. Form- r editor of “Progressive Labor” Luce later defected to the FBI. (Photo by Bob Palmer) New Left Smacks Of Nazism,’ ix-Communist Luce Charges ou W t you'll y DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE Battalion Staff Writer “Fascism is what is on too y campuses today—the New lit itself smacks of Nazism.” Phillip Abbott Luce made that bservation Tuesday night in the [emorial Student Center as he poke on “The New Left” during |D Great Issues presentation. Luce, a consultant for the oung Americans for Freedom YAF), is a former communist foo wrote articles for the com- mnist Worker and served as an i'tor for the magazine Progres- ive Labor, before defecting to le FBI. He has written three tks and numerous articles in agazines on his experiences in New Left. “Some groups refuse to listen, ie id allow you to listen, to things chant!) le y disagree with,” Luce noted s he addressed a standing room nly crowd. “Pve been speaking » over four minutes, and not nee has anyone rushed up to itin ttack me, jumped up and scream- d obscenities at me, or thrown nything at me. It’s something Ve come to expect in California. “When the Mayor of San Fran- isco can’t speak at Georgetown diversity because the SDS (Stu- ents for a Democratic Society) ittacks him, when the president f San Francisco State is attacked t the University of Colorado, Mngg are out of hand,” Luce bserved. “WHEN YAF members are hreatened, and some are at- icked, something is wrong.” “School administrations need » stop coddling student revolu- ionaries and the students need o say ‘no’ when the New Left s [_|pf r ' es to start something,” he tile. They play at being intellec tual, but they're not — they have no idea of what Marx had to say.” "The New Left is composed of a bunch of angry young people,” Luce noted. They don’t believe in freedom, or democracy; they have no love. They believe in violence. They are out to pit student against student, student against faculty, everyone against everyone. When they have de stroyed the present system, they will decide what they want to do with the remains — they have no set plans now. p by oi one mtatives ormo 1 -key. e war ;n ladei-' 1 * “The New Left thinks it has all the answers,” Luce explained. "They possess the truth, so they think, but they can’t convince anyone of this. It’s very frustrat ing to be an 18-or 19-year-old with all the answers, yet you can’t convince people of it—not even high school students. ‘ THE NEW Left believes that democracy doesn’t work,” Luce continued, "and for them, it doesn’t. Since they possess the truth, they feel justified in using (See New Left, Page 3) ★ ★ ★ YAF Founded To Counter Radicals, Jones Explains •oted. “Students need to become less imid,” Luce continued. “If two oftists come to the door of a lassroom with 30 students and nnounce that a student strike till be held tomorrow, and 30 stu nts get up and head for them, hose two will leave in a hurry. When students do go out on 'Wke, it’s great for the first reek,” Luce added. "Then, they ^gin to think: T paid money to that school, and I’m not going to ] let it back. In fact, by skipping kss, I might not get a grade, ^ith no grade, Gen. Hershey "right take a personal interest in Then the student goes back class. ‘SELF-INTEREST is a great otivating factor. It overcomes *ar, which is the way the left orks. At Berkeley a student -trike totally failed, although stu dents were beaten trying to go to class.” “Their task (the left) would be helped,” Luce observed, “if they »ouli read their pretended lead ers— Marx, Lenin, Mao. Lenin, tor instance, called the type of iction used by the left as infan- Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav- ings Center, since 1919. &B&L. —Adv. (Editor’s note: Phillip Abbott Luce, an advisor to Young Americans For Freedom, has described YAF as "the major national student organization opposing New Left activities.” The following report is based on an interview with local YAF organizer Charles Jones.) By TOM CURL The Young Americans for Freedom, started by William F. Buckley Jr. as a counterforce to left wing movements, now claims more than 30,000 members in 400 student chapters, according to Charles Jones, student and YAF member at A&M. Jones, a freshman aerospace engineering major from Florida, is attempting to organize a chap ter at the university. He started last semester in an effort to off set plans to organize a local chap ter of the Students for a Demo cratic Society, one of the New Left organizations. “YAF began as a counterforce for what they saw was coming from the New Left,” Jones said. HE CLAIMS that the YAF wants some of the same changes called for by the New Left groups, especially the SDS, but seeks to accomplish the goals through existing channels and patterns rather than resorting to dissent or even violence. "If you don’t like a law, you change it, you don’t ignore it,” Jones emphasized. He compared student dissent to a curse word and said that both can be used to emphasize a point but if they are used too often, they become commonplace and thus ineffective. “I’ve seen enough and been through enough turkey eggs to know that you can’t win friends by resorting to violence,” he com mented. JONES ATTACKED statements by leaders of the New Left calling for destruction of “the system.” “Y'ou can’t call for destruction of everything because you would destroy the good along with the evil,” he emphasized. “It’s the responsibility of the student to go through existing channels,” he added. Jones also commented on state ments by local SDS organizers that they were mainly concerned with problems at A&M and chose to affiliate with the national or ganization of SDS to get power behind their action. "You can’t buy a piece of an organization; you’re either in or out. These groups (like the SDS) count you as a member,” he com mented. Jones also answered charges that YAF is only a mouthpiece of the federal government. He said that YAF filed suit against the U. S. State Department in 1962 for refusal to allow Moise Tshom- be, prime minister of the Congo, to enter the United States to sneak at a YAF meeting in New York. “\Ye have several more in stances to prove that we aren’t punpets of the government in this country,” he said. Jones also claimed that actions (See YAF Founded, Page 3) By PAUL RECER AP Aerospace Writer SPACE CENTER, Houston, Tex. bT) — High level space offi cials have decided to send Apollo 10 around the moon for 63 hours, but man’s first landing there will have to await the flight of Apol lo 11. A source at the Manned Space craft Center said the space agency officialsi adopted this course at a meeting Tuesday. Apollo 10 will be launched May 18, the source said, and fly into lunar orbit. Two of its crew will then fly the landing module to within 10 miles of the lunar surface, leaving the third crew man behind in the command module. The lunar module descent stage will be jettisoned at 10 miles above the moon and the ascent stage flown up to a rendezvous with "the command module. The ascent stage will be left in lunar orbit and the crew will return to earth in the command module. A successful flight by Apollo 10 will virtually assure a moon landing attempt by Apollo 11, now scheduled for a July blastoff. The reported decision appeared to end speculation that the first moon landing attempt would be made by Apollo 10, without wait ing for the Apollo 11 launch. Football Players Will Be Judges At Scout Fair Six Texas A&M football players will serve as judges for the 1969 Scout Exporama Friday and Sat urday, announced Dean of Stu dents James P. Hannigan. Dean Hannigan, chairman of the Exporama Judging Commit tee, said judges for the Friday night exhibits will be Bill Seely, Lynn Odom and Robert Cortez. Saturday night judges will be Buster Adami, Rusty Stallings and Jack Whitmore. Exporama, scheduled from 6:30 to 9 each night at the Texas Na tional Guard Armory, is similar to a county fair, Hannigan noted. The event will feature various type booths depicting different aspects of Cub, Scout and Ex plorer programs. Some 25 units will have dis plays at the armory. The dean said the Aggie grid- ders will pick the three best ex hibits each night. Nightly win ners will receive paper ribbons, while combined winners for the two nights will be awarded cloth ribbons. Exporama is open to the gen eral public, Dean Hannigan stressed. Tickets are 50 cents per person. They may be purchased from Cubs, Scouts and Explorers or at the armory door on show nights. Pre-school children will be ad mitted free. CONFERENCE AT WHITE HOUSE President Nixon conferred earlier this week with Dr. S. I. Hayakawa, acting- president of San Francisco State Col lege. Afterwards, Hayakawa reported that Nixon favors withdrawal of federal aid from students convicted of cam pus disorders. (AP Wirephoto) According to one source, astro naut Thomas P. Stafford, the commander of Apollo 10, had ac tively campaigned to have his mission attempt the moon land ing. But, a source said, officials judged it would be more prudent to use Apollo 10 to gather more information about the moon and make the big try later with Apollo 11. One concern is accurate track ing and orbital altitude determin ation. Engineers learned during Apollo 8 that differences in the gravitational pull of various areas of the moon cause altitude changes for orbiting spacecraft greater than had been noted on unmanned lunar arbiters. The crew for Apollo 10 will be Stafford; Navy Cmdr. Eugene Ceman and Navy Cmdr. John Young, all veterans of the Gemini space flight series. Casting Begins For‘Everyman’ Morality Play Casting for "Everyman,” a mo rality play with parts for 11 men and five women, will be conducted here Monday by the Aggie Play ers. The 7:30 p. m. tryouts will be held in Fallout Theater of Guion Hall, announced Aggie Players director C. K. Esten. "This is not a closed shop,” emphasized Bob Wenck, assistant director. “We’ll take anybody who wants to work in theatre.” The play, fourth major Aggie. Players production of 1968-69, will be staged May 5-10 and 14- 17. Casting will be to fill types, not personalities, Wenck added. In the allegory, players will repre sent death, conviviality, fellow ship, worldly goods, knowledge, beauty, good deeds, discretion and the five senses, among others. "In the man for ‘Everyman,’ we’ll be looking for an actor to represent all humanity,” Wenck explained. Written in 1498, the medieval moral allegory has a 450-year production history but “is as time ly now as it ever was,” the assist ant director observed. "We will give it an up-to-date treatment and people who think God is dead will have something to think about,” Wenck said. By DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE A Student Appeals Committee, giving students a voice in cam pus disciplinary action, will be proposed to the Student Senate Thursday by the Bill of Rights Subcommittee of the Issues Com mittee. Paschal Redding, subcommit tee chairman, explained recently that the proposed panel would be composed of both faculty and students. Its purpose would be to review disciplinary action tak en by the dean of students. In cases it deemed proper, the com mittee could reduce the punish ment of the offense, but could not reverse the decision of guilty. “The idea behind the entire bill of rights thing,” Redding ex plained, “is to spell out exactly what the student’s rights are. This makes things easier for both the student and the administra tion: the student knows where he stands and the administration knows just what it can do in a given situation. They can then act quickly and decisively.” THE SUBCOMMITTEE, Red ding noted, is a little over two weeks old. It was formed By the Senate to look into the possible implementation of a bill of rights here. Since then, the committee has been contacting other schools to learn their experi ences and suggestions. Redding noted that his sub committee was working on ideas in a number of areas which in clude: Freedom of association, in quiry and expression: This area includes the right to petition, the idea that students should be free to form any association which they believe will advance their common interests, and the right to have questions answered. Freedom of assembly: A guar antee to the right to peaceful demonstration, provided no ad vocation of violence, or destruc tion to any person or property is made. RIGHT OF PRIVACY: Pro vides for presence of two per sons in a room while a search is being conducted, and an item ized list provided of items taken from the room by searchers. Student organization: Would set up a committee on student organizations composed of fac ulty and students to determine which organizations should be allowed on campus. This com mittee would also rule on viola tions of regulations by these organizations. Student publications: Would provide for freedom of the press from censorship and copy ap proval in advance. A committee would also inquire into the hir ing and firing of newspaper edi tors. Procedural guarantees: Would provide that a person must be presented with a list of charges, persons accusing him, penalties, stating the right of appeal and would provide students the right of counsel. Panel To Discuss Autoreg System At Issues Meet "The Student Body vs. Auto mated Registration” is the "main event” scheduled for panel dis cussion at 8 tonight in the Mem orial Student Center ballroom, according to Ron Tefteller, Is sues committee chainnan of the Great Issues committee. Questions posed to the panel will include: Does the student have the right to select profes sors for his courses? Can such a right be realized under A&M’s present automated registration system ? The 7-member panel will be composed of Dr. Charles Pinnell, automated registration program coordinator; R. A. Lacey, regis trar; Elliott Bray, program de signer; Drahn Jones, civil engi neering professor; Albert Rein ert, Student Senate committee chairman; David Maddox, Senate vice president and Ron Tefteller, moderator. Tefteller noted that each pan elist will be given five to seven minutes to present his views concerning automated registra tion. A question and answer session and reception will follow the panel discussion. ‘Not Even Hugh Hefner Knows’ ^Sex Revolution 9 Doubted By DAVE BERRY Battalion Staff Writer Is there really a sexual revolu tion in America? “Concerning American sexual behavior, no one knows anything for sure, not even Hugh Hefner. So how can we talk of a sexual revolution?” So questioned Dr. Henry Bow man of the University of Texas at Austin last night during the third in the series of five YMCA marriage forums. "This is a question which should be of importance to all sexually mature people,” the so ciology professor and nationally recognized authority on mar riage and family life said. “If there is such a revolution, then everyone might as well get on the bandwagon and enjoy the ‘new’ sexual freedom. If not, then it is up to the individual to decide how much freedom he wishes to enjoy; he does not have to feel that he has to fol low any tide-like movement. “STATISTICS on pre-marital sexual intercourse disproves any tide-like movement,” he added. "The last 40 years’ statistics are impossible to fit into a trend — there is just too much variation. “In addition, statistics are too unreliable. Their method of re search is often haphazard and their results are cumulative. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M. —Adv. This means that by the time the statistics become available they no longer indicate the current trend. “In short, we know very little about pre-marital sexual rela tions.” The question, then, according to Dr. Bowman, is whether the “revolution” is one of behavior, attitude or discussion. "Kids today talk more freely on their first date than did our grandparents after their first baby. But this indicates to me a revolution in attitudes or dis cussion rather than in behavior,” Dr. Bowman said. “THERE ARE as many points of view relative to sex as there are people and this is the way it has always been. SucK varia tion is not indicative of a trend.” March Review Now Available The March issue of The Review is now available for students in the Colleges of Liberal Arts, Geosciences, Science and Business Administration, according to Rich ard Campbell, editor. It may be picked up in the Memorial Student Center, Academic Building, Fran cis Hall, and the Geology Build ing. This month’s cover was pro vided by Mort Walker, the car toonist who draws the Beetle Bailey comic strip, Campbell noted. Dr. Bowman, having disproved the existence of a sexual revolu tion, explained his views on pre marital sex relations. “You come to A&M for one reason — to leave,” Dr. Bowman said. “This is your goal; and to attain this goal you must behave accordingly. You must read and study for your lessons and tests to get your degree. “So too must you behave ac cordingly before marriage so that your behavior won’t harm a desired happy marriage.” There are several arguments for pre-marital sex, Dr. Bowman said. “One common argument for pre-marital sex,” he said, “is the male’s need for sexual inter course. Contrary to popular be lief though, college men are not three-letter men — they do not need sex in order to live. “MAN CAN live with sexual frustration. This is the case with the man whose pregnant v^ife has been told that she cannot have sexual intercourse after her pregnancy; or with the man who is in Vietnam and who loves his wife enough not to shack out with some prostitute. “If a man really loves a wom an,” Dr. Bowman concluded, “he should be willing to stand up and assume the other responsibilities of marriage; only then can he have all the sex he desires.” FIRST BANK & TRUST—Home of the Super CD- 5% interest compounded daily.