LISTENING INTENTLY
A segment of the estimated 3,000 students attending services in G.
Rollie White Coliseum listen to eulogies rendered to Dwight D.
Eisenhower, supreme Allied commander in World War II and 34th
President.
RUDDER REMINISCES
A&M President Earl Rudder recalls serving as a battalion comman
der under General Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II. Be
hind him are student leaders and members of the Executive Com
mittee.
SIVER TAPS
Lawrence Lippke, White Band drum major, leads the six buglers
from the Aggie Band in “Silver Taps” for former President Eisen
hower. The tribute closed memorial services in G. Rollie White
Coliseum Monday. (Photo by Bob Stump)
Rudder, Carter Eulogize Eisenhower In Ceremony
3,000 Attend
Services For
Former Chief
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
was eulogized here Monday by
the man who led the assault unit
during the World War II D-Day
invasion which Eisenhower com
manded.
Texas A&M President Earl
Rudder, a colonel in charge of
the Ranger Battalion which scaled
the cliffs at Normandy on D-Day,
said former President Eisenhower
/'exemplified what millions of
Americans would like their sons
to be.”
“Even though he was a general
of the highest order,” Rudder
noted, “he was an American first
and last.” Rudder pointed out it
was Eisenhower who warned
against a take-over by the mili
tary-industrial complex.
Rudder spoke at special me
morial ceremonies conducted by
See story on Eisenhower
funeral, page 3.
A&M students in Eisenhower’s
honor. Approximately 3,000 at
tended the services which con
cluded with a 21-member Ross
Volunteers rifle salute and the
playing of “Silver Taps” by
buglers from the Aggie Band.
Student Body President Bill
Carter, senior from Decatur, pre
sented a brief biography of the
former President.
“Ike kept his cool,” Carter re
marked. “He didn’t work to fire
up tempers, but to fire up initia
tive.”
Noting Eisenhower’s general
policy of moderation, Carter said
the five-star general can serve
as an inspiration to the leaders
of today in their struggle with
the elements of revolution and
reaction.
“Extremists, exemplified by
many of the youth today, can
also take note of the success of
moderation when guided toward
a definite goal,” the student lead
er observed. “Perhaps they can
initiate his policy of using logic
md reason before taking action,
but after doing this, then go for
ward with the decision without
hesitation.”
Rudder quoted extensively from
an article Eisenhower wrote for
the current issue of the Reader’s
Digest.
ADDRESSING himself to the
young people, Rudder recalled
that Eisenhower said he was
proud of the way many of them
involved themselves in public af
fairs, particularly in the last elec
tion.
“It will soon be your country
to run,” the former President
emphasized, “and you should be
interested and personally in
volved.”
“On the other hand,” Rudder
quoted Eisenhower, “do not be
beguiled by militants who will
tell you that the only successful
involvement is violence.”
“When you have a just and
reasonable cause, protest all you
wish, but remember that there
can and should be order and
decency in democratic protest,”
the native Texan reminded.
"Stand up and be counted when
trouble-makers try to rob you of
your right to an education. If it
becomes necessary for the forces
of law and order to move in and
quell such disturbances, give them
your support.”
“For freedom, after all, is
nothing more than the right of
self-discipline, and when self-
discipline is absent, the law must
take a hand,” Rudder said in re
citing Eisenhower’s words. “This
is the only way in which freedom
can survive.”
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VOLUME 64 Number 94
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1969
Telephone 845-2226
Reapportionment
Delayed By Panel
$9,000 Easter Drive
Planned By SCONA
Confab To Study
‘Black Africa 9
SPIT AND POLISH
Robert Lockhart, senior agricultural education major from
Tyler, gives his machine a wipe down Monday as sunshine
days seem to have arrived for good at Aggieland. (Photo
by Bob Stump)
To Communication Conference
Smith Invites A&M
By DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE
Battalion Staff Writer
The University Executive Com
mittee Monday delayed action on
the reapportionment proposal
passed by the Student Senate
two weeks ago.
Bill Carter, Senate president,
appeared before the committee
to explain both the reapportion
ment plan and the Senate’s goals
and methods.
Carter, as he pointed out dur
ing his presentation, was not
allowed to bring any of his as
sistants with him. Notably, he
remarked, Bill Holt, Civilian Stu
dent Council representative to
the Senate and originator of the
reapportionment plan, was not
allowed to be present.
“WE FEEL this new method
will help us to become more
representative of student opin
ion,” Carter said as he outlined
the proposal, “and give a more
authoritative voice to student
government.
“We have tried to come up
with a more representative plan
and still have a workable num
ber of senators,” he added.
Carter went on to explain the
new system, which would have
undergraduate representation on
a 200 - man - per - representative
basis, with allowances being
made for the College of Veter
inary Medicine and the freshman
class.
After Carter went over the
new structure, a committee mem
ber questioned Carter concerning
the freshman representatives on
the Senate: Why did they have
only six representatives when
they seem to be entitled to 17 ?
CARTER explained that the
freshman representatives them
selves had agreed to the pro
posed number, and that at schools
like Texas Technological College
and the University of Houston,
Vanity Fair
Entries Due
Deadline on entries for the
1968-69 Vanity Fair has been
extended through Wednesday,
Aggieland Editor James Creel
said Tuesday.
“We’ll keep handing out the
applications at the Student Pub
lications office (room 217, Serv
ices Building) until the holidays
start,” Creel noted.
Applications and pictures must
be returned to the office by 5 p.m.
April 10, Creel added, and all
pictures will be returned.
Twelve finalists will be chosen,
and will be presented at the Stu
dent Publications banquet May 16,
when six will be elected to appear
in the Aggieland’s Vanity Fair
section.
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freshmen are not even allowed
to hold positions within student
government.
Before bringing up reappor
tionment, Carter told the com
mittee that he believes a serious
breakdown in communications
has occurred between the Stu
dent Senate and the administra
tion.
“Our student government is
probably the most respected in
the Southwest Conference,” Car
ter told them. “Two years ago,
we were the laughing-stock.
Texas A&M nearly ran the Tex
as Intercollegiate Students As
sociation (TISA) convention in
Corpus Christi last weekend.
“MOST OF the ideas out of
committees were by A&M peo
ple, and most of the people back
ed for office by A&M people
were elected,” he added. “Peo
ple followed A&M.”
Delay of the reapportionment
proposal, “to give us time to
study it,” according to Rudder,
came after Carter had left the
meeting.
Fish To Travel
To D.C. Drill
Championships
The Fish Drill Team will com
pete April 11 in the National
Intercollegiate ROTC Drill Cham
pionships in Washington, D. C.,
A&M President Earl Rudder an
nounced.
Seeking an unprecedented sec
ond straight national title, the
38-member unit will be making
its third appearance in Washing
ton’s Cherry Blossom Festival
competition.
The fish trophy case contains
two awards shaped like the Wash
ington Monument. The 1966-67
team was runner-up for the na
tional crown. Last year’s group
won the first-place trophy.
Records show no team has ever
won the national title two years
in a row.
Senior adviser Mike Casey of
Houston said the sequence to be
used at Washington will be vir
tually the same as the exhibition
at the first Invitational Junior
Division Meet at A&M last week
end.
Commander George Barrientos
of San Antonio will send the
freshmen before judges from the
2005th Military Police Company
fairly early in the Friday compe
tition. More than 50 units are
scheduled to appear in the 8:30
a.m. to 6 p.m. event on the Rob
ert F. Kennedy Stadium parking
lot.
The fish also will march and
compete in the drill team division
of the April 12 Cherry Blossom
Festival Parade of Princesses.
The colorful pageant will pass
from 7th St. on Constitution Ave.
N.W. to 17th St. N.W.
A&M student leaders will attend
a Student and Governor Com
munication Conference April 11
and 12 at the invitation of Texas
Governor Preston Smith.
“Smith made a verbal promise
to consult with student body
presidents on all matters before
the Legislature that affects stu
dents,” explained David Maddox,
Senate vice-president Monday.
Some of the things we’ll be talk
ing about are whether to lower
the voting age to 19, to continue
the present tuition rates, and to
have students as non-voting mem
bers of university boards of di
rectors.
“At the Texas Intercollegiate
Students Association (TISA) con
ference last weekend, unanimous
approval was given the three sub
jects,” Maddox added.
In a letter to each student
government, Smith stated the con
ference was being set up “in order
to create and strengthen a higher
level of understanding.”
“It is my goal to establish a
continuous exchange of ideas with
our young people,” Smith wrote,
“and to hear your views on state
government and our society in
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general.”
He added the conference “will
bring students and young people
into a working relationship with
their state government, and es
pecially the governor’s office.”
“I am encouraged by this action
by Governor Smith,” Maddox
said. “I believe it is a good pro
gressive step. It will give stu
dents a chance to show the Legis
lature that they (the students)
have responsible leadership. I am
sure that the results of this will
be favorable.”
Applications Due
For Cities Forum
Applications must be in by
5 p.m. Wednesday for A&M
student delegates to Great Is
sues’ Urban Crisis Conference
April 15-18, according to David
Maddox, committee chairman.
“A&M will be the first major
university in the south to look
into the problem of the cities on
a conference format,” Maddox
noted. Usings, films, exhibits,
speakers and discussion ses
sions, we hope to cover every
aspect of the urban crisis.”
Students may apply at the
Student Program office in the
Memorial Student Center.
By TONY HUDDLESTON
Battalion Staff Writer
Easter fund drives are planned
in nine cities for the fifteenth
Student Conference on National
Affairs, Harry Lesser, SCONA
XV chairman, announced Monday.
“The April fund drive, running
from April 3 to 7, is when we
contact the old sponsors and tell
them of the accomplishments of
SCONA XIV,” Lesser noted. “We
also ask them for help in the
coming conference.”
Lesser said that they would
also make a drive in June to make
new contacts.
“We hope to bring in about
$9,000 of our $21,000 budget in
the April drive,” Lesser com
mented.
SCONA is the only one of the
major Memorial Student Center
conferences that depends solely
on outside funds, Dave Mayfield,
publicity chairman, noted.
LISTED as target areas are
Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth,
Tyler, Longview, Corpus Christi,
San Antonio, and for the first
time this year drives will be con
ducted in Midland and Odessa.
Lesser said that drives would
be conducted later in Bryan and
College Station.
“If anyone has any contacts,
especially among former students
who are interested in this type
of program, we would appreciate
having their names,” Lesser
noted.
“Two new projects are being
planned for next year by SCONA
for next year’s conference,” Les
ser said. “We are planning to
increase the A&M delegation
from 25 to 50 for main round
table discussions.”
He added that the main round
table would be composed of only
juniors, seniors and graduate stu
dents as usual.
Lesser noted that for next year,
freshman and sophomore round
tables composed of 25 each, were
being set up for the first time
in SCONA. “We feel that fresh
men and sophomores should have
more opportunity to participate
in SCONA activities during their
first two years in college, so that
they can be better delegates when
they are juniors and seniors.”
SCONA officers for 1969-70 are
Lesser, chairman; Bill Bradley
and Dennis Flannigan, vice chair
men: A1 Reinert, conference man
ager; and John White, arrange
ments chairman.
Other officers are Donnie An
derson, finance chairman; Tom
Washburn, transportation chair
man; John Gray, housing chair
man; and Jerry Richerson, publi
cations chairman.
Also Glenn Head, personal
chairman; Dean Eshelman, spe
cial programs chairman; May-
field and Ed Taylor, planning
committee; and Gary Westerfield,
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IRS Clarifies
Grad Students
The Internal Revenue Service
has provided university officials
clarification of tax exemptions
for students serving as graduate
assistants, announced Graduate
Dean George W. Kunze.
Dean Kunze said graduate stu
dents may obtain details of the
IRS interpretations by contacting
their major professors of research
advisors.
The dean emphasized, however,
the majority of the cases can be
ascertained by the students them
selves in light of the two follow
ing points noted by IRS District
Director R. L. Phinney:
(1) “State appropriated funds
which are earmarked for paying
salaries for teaching may be used
for no other purpose and conse
quently cannot be scholarships or
fellowships and would not be ex
cluded from income.”
(2) “Similarly, amounts paid
from state funds appropriated
for operational purposes (opera
tion of departments other than
teaching salaries), being in the
nature of payment for services,
could not be scholarships and
fellowships.” Such funds paid to
students, therefore, also are tax
able.
Dean Kunze said the first point
applies to all graduate assistant-
ships for teaching, and the second
point, graduate assistantships,
non-teaching.
In the case of assistantships
for students working for non
thesis degrees, only those study
ing under fellowships or scholar
ships qualify for exemption, the
dean added.
Any additional information,
Dean Kunze stressed, must be
obtained from major professors
or research advisers through the
individual’s department.
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