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VOLUME 64 Number 90
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1969
Telephone 846-2226
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By DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE
Battalion Staff Writer
Improvement of the appear
ance of the A&M campus
through student use of sidewalks
rather than paths across the
grass is the goal of Lawrence
Stelly, graduate student in eco
nomics.
In a time and on a campus
where student apathy seems to
be the order of the day, Stelly
has decided to do something
about a problem he believes ex
ists. He has asked many cam
pus organizations to pass reso
lutions supporting a “keep off
the grass” campaign.
“It’s an effort to improve the
physical appearance of the Texas
A&M University campus through
encouraging students to use side
walks instead of the gras s,”
Stelly explained Monday. “Stu
dents need to be made aware of
their individual stake in a good
campus appearance.”
Stelly also noted that he had
appeared before the Executive
Committee of the Civilian Stu
dent Council Monday to present
his case, and was assured by
Council President David Wilks
that the matter will almost cer
tainly receive Council support
Thursday night when the Coun
cil meets.
“Glenn Keim will present a
resolution on the matter to the
Student Senate when it meets
after Easter,” Stelly continued.
‘Early Davis, senior class presi
dent, is also interested in the
project and will present it to the
Senior Council when it meets
later this week.”
Stelly pointed out that his
project is not without precedence
at A&M. He mentioned that four
or five years ago a similar proj
ect was undertaken which met
with great success for most of
the year “until the novelty wore
off.”
Robert H. Rucker, the univer
sity’s landscape architect, has
even taken an interest in Stelly’s
project.
“He’s admitted that more side
walks should be added in some
places,” Stelly said, “but every
year, along with new class sched
ules, new paths appear. He’s
told me that extra walks are be
ing planned, but there are limits.
“He has also mentioned that
the cost of replanting the grass
is costly in money and man
power. He is all for cooperation
from the students.
“On campuses where nothing
was done about this problem in
the early stages,” Stelly warned,
“things have gotten worse. Look
at t.u. for instance.”
Public Invited To Participate
In Tulip Time’ At Aggieland
It’s tulip time in Aggieland,
according to Robert H. Rucker,
the university’s landscape archi
tect. And the public is invited
to participate.
“We ask only that patrons leave
footprints and take pictures,” he
added, noting that steps—includ
ing a fence—have been taken to
safeguard the young plants.
Located at Houston and Russell
Streets on the south side of the
campus are 100 different varieties
of 2,500 tulips. Many have already
bloomed with the remainder ex
pected to blossom within three
weeks, Rucker said.
It is the start of a giant flower
bed to which 800 different varie
ties of annuals, or bedding plants,
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Dr. Robert Jennings Harris,
University of Virginia professor
and political science author, will
iiscuss “The Supreme Court as
an Instrument of Change” Tues
day at the final 1968-69 Uni
versity Lecture.
The admission-free 8 p.m. lec
ture will be presented in the
Memorial Student Center ball
room.
Dr. Harris is professor of gov
ernment and history at the Uni
versity of Virginia, which he
joined in 1963. Prior to this
pear, he also served as arts and
cience dean.
The Tennessee native previ-
usly taught at Louisiana State,
anderbilt and Columbia. He
also has been employed by the
Library of Congress to assist in
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tion of the United States An
notated.”
Harris holds degrees from
Vanderbilt, the University of Il
linois and Princeton.
His books include “The Judi
cial Power of the United States”
and “The Quest for Equality:
The Constitution, Congress, and
the Supreme Court.” He also
collaborated in writing “The
Continuing Crisis in American
Politics” and “Perspective in the
South: Agenda for Research.”
Dr. E. B. Doran, University
Lectures Committee chairman,
emphasized Dr. Harris’ talk is
open to the general public, as
well as to students and faculty-
staff. The program is co-spon-
sored by the Great Issues Com
mittee of the MSC Directorate.
will be added this month. These
are expected to bloom within six
weeks.
THE ANNUALS will continue
to bloom the entire summer offer
ing an “exceptional beauty spot”
on campus. Already located near
by are picnic benches and ample
parking. Other improvements for
the public’s comfort will be added
soon, Rucker said.
The tulip bed is a trial garden
and exhibition area. It will offer
A&M officials an opportunity to
discover what types of flowers
grow best on campus as well as
aid area residents in making de
cisions for their own home gar
dens, Rucker observed.
“The garden was developed for
expanding into the whole area
next year,” said Rucker. “All of
this is to introduce beauty into
the academic environment.”
“I WOULD like to make beauty
a part of the introduction to aca
demic life,” he emphasized.
Pointing out there has been a
renewed interest in beauty across
the nation, Rucker said the gar
dens will help develop an aware
ness.
“Being one of the largest agri
cultural schools in the nation, it’s
the natural place,” he continued.
“The changing pattern of world
environment is all tied together.”
“I’d rather have a clean campus
than a pretty campus,” he said,
“but I’d really rather have both.”
Shrubs and hedges are being
cut back in the beautification pro
gram.
“Hedges and shrubs are now
oversized and in many cases ob
structing pleasant views,” Rucker
pointed out. He stressed that the
trimming program will help
“bring things back into perspec
tive.”
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Brass Sextet
To Play Here
Chamber music ranging from
Bach to contemporary classic and
popular adaptations will be offer
ed here Wednesday by the Hous-
ton Brass Ensemble.
The Artists Showcase presen
tation of Town Hall will admit
Rotary Community Series and
Town Hall season ticket folders
and students by activity card at
no additional charge.
The Houston “Young Audi
ences” programs players will take
an 8 p.m. curtain in the Memorial
Student Center Ballroom. Num
bers on the Wednesday program
include Bach’s “Contrapunctus
IH,” and “Air Pour Les Trom-
pettes,” the contemporary “Can
on” by Houston Bright, Nelson
Riddle’s “Three Quarter Suite”
and a Ken Williams arrangement
of the theme from “Zorba the
Greek.”
The sextet features Director
Ralph Liese on the trombone;
Richard Schaffer and Kenneth
Williams, trumpet; Jan Bures,
bom; Dr. John R. Hill, tuba, and
James Hyden, percussion.
Liese organized the group with
the late Kit Reid in 1955. The
director studied at Julliard, has
played radio, television and the
aters in New York and has been
solo trombonist with the Houston
Symphony since 1948.
He directs instrumental music 1
at Houston Baptist College and
holds an honorary doctorate in
music from the National Con
servatory of Music in Lima, Peru.
BB&D
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ing* Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
MRS. TEXAS A&M
Mrs. Sandy Fuchs, wife of graduate student James A.
Fuchs, is “Mrs. Texas A&M” for 1969. She was named at
the Aggie Wives Council’s annual spring dance. The couple
formerly resided at Rowena.
Thieu Says Saigon Prepared
To Talk Privately With NLF
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Centerfielder Bob Long slides safely into third base in the first conference game of the
season Friday against the SMU Mustangs. Long later scored what proved to be the only
run the Ags needed as pitcher Doug Rau shut out the Ponies 3-0. A&M went on to
sweep the three-game series for a 3-0 conference and a 7-0 season record. See story, page
4. (Photo by Mike Wright)
Sex In Human Relations
Topic Of Marriage Forumi
Dr. Henry Bowman of the
University of Texas at Austin
will deliver the second of a two-
part series on “Sex in Human
Relations” here tonight.
Bowman, an international au
thority on marriage and family
life, spoke last week on premari
tal sex in human relations. Tues
day’s session highlights sex in
human relations from the marital
viewpoint.
The sociology professor and
author is the third and final
speaker in a series of Marriage
Forums sponsored by the Pro
grams Committee of the YMCA.
Sessions are at 7:30 p.m. in room
321 of the Physics Building.
Council To Study
Cost-Sharing Idea
On Lot Lighting
The College Station City Coun
cil agreed Monday to study a
proposal that the city and A&M
equally share the cost of a new
street lighting system for park
ing areas on the west side of the
campus.
No A&M representative was
present at the meeting, however,
and the council postponed action
on the proposal until the April
2 meeting.
Two lighting plans are now
under study by the council. The
first plan would call for 26 40-
foot poles, each capable of light
ing an area of 200 feet, at a
cost of $4,613.
The second plan would call for
“several” 50-foot poles, each cap
able of lighting a 1,000 foot area,
at a cost of $6,226.
City Manager Ran Boswell said
the city could not accept the
second plan because it only has
machinery that can service equip
ment up to 40 feet in height, and
would have to rent either state
or county machinery when re
pairs were needed.
In other action, Boswell an
nounced that Lee Arthur Dunn
had been appointed City Park
Superintendent.
The city agreed to accept bids
from Hart Creosoting Company
of Conroe of $2,930 for new elec
tric utility poles for the city, and
a bid of $6,862 from T&T Com
pany of Bryan for the purchase
of a new tractor and backhole, a
tractor-pulled implement used to
dig ditches and ravines.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adv.
BOWMAN WILL discuss the
importance of sexual compatabil-
ity in the total marriage relation
ship, sexual relations in marriage
as factors affecting marital ad
justments, complex causes of sex
adjustment or maladjustment,
planned parenthood, religion and
sex and what the sexes need to
understand about each other.
One of his books, “Marriage for
Moderns,” has had several edi
tions in the U. S. and was trans
lated into other languages.
During 1963 Bowman toured
Australia and New Zealand on
assignment from the U. S. State
Department lecturing on marriage
education and counseling.
“We are very fortunate to have
Dr. Bowman,” said Ed Donnell,
special programs chairman. “He
normally accepts a minimal num
ber of speaking engagements, but
he has said that he likes and en
joys visiting A&M.”
DONNELL, a junior psychology
major from Freeport, added the
committee hopes the programs
“will help more marriages be
successful and aid students in at
tacking their pre, and post mari
tal problems.”
The YMCA cabinet officer said
Bowman, who has spoken here on
other occasions, “has given Ag
gies frank and comforting advice
for their questions. He shows in
sight into the biological and psy
chological problems of sex and
emphasis that people, not ma
chines are involved.”
Noting that the YMCA is a
Christian organization, Donnell
Purcell To Crown
King Cotton Here
U. S. Congressman Graham
Purcell of Wichita Falls will
crown King Cotton during A&M’s
35th annual Cotton Pageant and
Ball Saturday.
King Cotton is Mike Deike of
Winters, a senior agronomy ma
jor. He was chosen by Agron
omy Society members in recogni
tion of his active record of serv
ice to the organization.
The pageant, which starts at 7
p.m. in the Bryan Civic Audi
torium, honors cotton as the
state’s main cash crop. The pag
eant will be followed by the ball
at 9 p.m. in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
A pageant highlight will be
selection of Queen Cotton and
eight members of her court from
among more than 120 young la
dies representing colleges, uni
versities, clubs, and other organ
izations.
emphasized that its programs
place “great values on marriage
as an institution, and wants to
provide adequate information to
young people in a Christian con
tent.”
RALPH WAYNE
Rep To Describe
State Campaigning
Texas-style campaigning will
be described here Wednesday
by State Representative Ralph
Wayne of Plainview.
The Political Forum presenta
tion will be in the informal noon
series, announced Ron Hinds of
Midland, chairman. Sack lunches
will be available for the meeting
in Rooms 2A and B of the Me
morial Student Center.
Wayne, 36, was first elected to
the House of Representatives in
1964. He earned designation as
one of three “Outstanding Fresh
man” legislators for the 59th ses
sion, chaired the House Adminis
tration Committee and has served
on the House Rules, Conservation
and Reclamation and Legislative
Council Committees, among
others.
The representative of Hale,
Swisher and Floyd Counties is
a restaurant owner and was an
Amarillo Television station news
director and operations manager
before moving to Plainview in
1962.
Governor Connally named the
secondary teachers certificate
holder a delegate to the Southern
Regional Education Conference
on Quality in Higher Education.
Wayne ay so was a member of
the Economic Development Con
ference of the Council of South
ern States Government, on ap
pointment last session by Speaker
Ben Barnes.
SAIGON — President
Nguyen Van Thieu said today his
government is prepared to hold
private meetings with the Nation
al Liberation Front.
The South Vietnamese presi
dent imposed no conditions on
such meetings and added that he
felt the Front, the political arm
of the Viet Cong, would agree
to such talks.
He told a news conference such
talks could be part of private dis
cussion in Paris among the dele
gations to the peace talks there
from South Vietnam, North Viet
nam, the NLF and the United
States.
Thieu told questioners:
He remains hopeful of success
at the Paris talks.
This is not the time to talk of
withdrawing any of the 540,500
American troops in South Viet
nam.
His government does not be
lieve a resumption of the bomb
ing of North Vietnam at this
time would he proper response
to the current Viet Cong offen
sive.
THIEU expressed satisfaction
with the lines of communication
established with the new admin
istration of President Nixon. He
emphasized that the govemment-
to-government relations during
President Johnson’s tenure had
been equally satisfactory, but he
added that relations were better
in Paris with Henry Cabot
Lodge than with W. Averell
Harriman, the former chief U.S.
representative at the peace talks.
The president revealed his
willingness to talk with the Viet
Cong directly when he was asked
about reports that private talks
had already taken place in
Paris.
“I can’t say they have start
ed,” Thieu said, “but we are
working on it and we are hope
ful.”
Would these talks involve the
Front, he was asked.
“WE are ready to have private
talks with the National Libera
tion Front if they like,” he re
plied. “There are many things
we cannot decide at the confer
ence table which we can discuss
quite frankly in private.”
“In private talks anybody
could raise any question,” Thieu
said.
“There are many alternatives.
We could talk with Hanoi as
well as the front. We could talk
with two people or three people.”
He said his government’s of
fer had been conveyed to the
NLF delegation in Paris but de
clined to say how or by whom.
He said there has not yet been
any response but expressed con
fidence a favorable reply would
be received.
He also expressed sympathy
for the political problems of the
NFL, which he has always termed
atool of the North Vietnamese
regime. He recalled previous
trips back to Hanoi by North
Vietnamese delegates “with
stopovers in Moscow and Peking.
With the front, they have an
other stopover in Hanoi.”
Psychology Talk
Slated Wednesday
Dr. Heinze Ansbacher, head of
the Psychology Department of the
University of Vermont, will speak
on “Was Freud Wrong?” Thurs
day at 8 p.m. in the Memorial
Student Center ballroom, accord
ing to John Small, Contemporary
Arts Public Relations representa
tive.
The lecture explaining the con
cepts of Alderian psychology, the
reverse of the Freudian concept,
is presented by the Contemporary
Arts Committee and the Graduate
Lecture Series.
“Alderian psychology deals
with the determining factors of
human destiny,” Small said.
Admission is free.
WEATHER
Wednesday — Clear to partly
cloudy. Light & variable winds.
High 68, low 46.
Thursday — Partly cloudy.
Wind Southerly 10 to 20 mph.
High 72, low 54.
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