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VOLUME 64 Number 100
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1969
Telephone 846-2226
[Pan American Week Ends I
1 ■ i
With Films, Don key Race 1
Films, food, “football," dance
frolics—and a donkey race—are
in store for the remaining days
of festivities in Pan American
Week, according to Jaime Gon
zalez, publicity chairman.
‘‘The purpose of the week is
to provide a basis for unity and
understanding among the vari
ous Latin and South American
students attending the univer
sity,” Gonzalez said.
“To exemplify this purpose,
students have decorated the dis-
A&M’s Army ROTC program
goes under federal scrutiny Fri
day and Saturday during annual
general inspection.
Col. Jim H. McCoy, comman
dant and professor of military
science, said 4th Army inspectors
will be here to look at Army
ROTC cadets, administrative
records, military property, class
room instruction, supply, facili
ties, training areas and ranges.
The inspection team, to be
APO Sponsoring
‘Ugly’ Contest
Alpha Phi Omega is sponsor
ing an “Ugliest Man on Campus”
contest in conjunction with Civil
ian Student Week.
At stake for the civilian who
can manage to look the ugliest
is a date with APO’s sweetheart.
Pictures of all ugly men contest
ants will be taken at 8 p.m. to
night in the Memorial Student
Center.
play cases in the Memoiral Stu
dent Center with articles of
clothing, art and tools from their
native countries, and have lined
the halls with flags from 21
nations."
Continuing a week of filmed
features, “Argentina" and “Xala-
pa” will be shown at 7 p.m. to
night in the Architecture Audi
torium. Admission will be free,
Gonzalez said.
Next on the agenda is a smoi’-
gasbord scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
augmented with officers from
ROTC units of the 4th Army
area for Saturday in-rank in
spection of cadets, will consist of
eight officers and non-commis
sioned officers.
They will confer with Dean of
Students James P. Hannigan Fri
day morning and inspect adminis
trative areas and classes the same
day. A briefing of the team by
cadet commanders headed by
Corps Deputy Commander Gar
land H. Clark of Glenelg, Md., al
so is scheduled.
In-rank inspection of cadets
and weapons on the main parade
field will be at 8:20 a. m. Satur
day. Col. McCoy said only the
1,452 Army ROTC cadets of the
Corps will be involved.
An Army ROTC cadet review
also will be held on the main
drill field, beginning at 10:15
a. m. Clark will present the
Corps to reviewing officers.
An 11 a. m. critique at the
comandant’s office will conclude
activities.
Friday in the recreation hall of
the A&M Presbyterian Church,
College Station. Gonzalez said
tickets were priced at $1.75,
adults; $1, children. Tickets
are on sale at the Foreign
Student Adviser’s Office and the
MSC Student Program Office.
Students performing in an
after-dinner program include
Julio Valdez, dinner music;
Meliton Salas, Mexican dance;
Ruben Gazan, guitar; Domingo
Marte and chorus, the Pan
American Hymn and others;
Dennis Chow, pantomime and
poetry; and Andres Barona, Jr.,
master of ceremonies.
Gonzalez said that Sr. Mont-
santo, Honorary Consul of Gua
temala, will render a special
marimba number and song at
the dinner.
Saturday, climax of Pan-
American Week, will feature a
soccer game, a donkey race and
a dance.
The Association of Students
from Mexico, sponsors of the
entire festival, will host St. Ed
ward’s University in a 2 p.m.
soccer game on the field in front
of the MSC.
After the game, students will
race across the field aboard 10
donkeys. “Actually, there will be
two contestants for each ani
mal,” Gonzalez said. “One will
be riding, and other, pushing.”
Highlight of the week will be
the Pan American Dance, sched
uled for 8 p.m. in the Ramada
Inn. Tickets are $5 per couple,
Gonzalez said, and they are
available at the MSC Student
Program Office and the Foreign
Student Adviser’s Office.
Music will be by the Sonoi’a
America, a Latin band from Hous
ton.
Weekend Federal Inspection
Slated For Army ROTC Cadets
Engineering Dean Says
No. 1 Urban Problem Spiritual
A&M’s top engineering edu
cator labeled the spiritual prob
lems of people as the most im
portant factor in the current
urban crisis being scrutinized on
the campus by business leaders,
government officials and engi
neers.
“As engineers, we probably
have not given as much consid
eration to these problems as they
deserved,” declared Fred J.
Benson, dean of the College of
Engineering.
“It is my opinion that this
dimension must be added to our
thinking,” he said. “Man does
not live by bread alone is a prin
ciple in which virtually all of us
believe.”
Benson believes the effects of
man’s actions on the attitudes,
the feelings and the outlook of
people are important.
WEATHER
Friday — Partly cloudy to
cloudy. Wind Northerly 10 to
15 mph. High 71, low 57.
Saturday—Partly cloudy. Wind
Easterly 5 to 10 mph. High 76,
low 58.
The three-day conference,
sponsored by the College of En
gineering in cooperation with
the PPG Industries Foundation
and students’ Great Issues Com
mittee, is enabling dialogue on
the urban revolution and its
problems in the nation’s major
cities.
BENSON was luncheon speak
er at Wednesday’s symposium
session.
“Some of the most pressing
problems in our cities today
have resulted from our failure
to recognize this fundamental
principle that man’s spiritual
well being may be more impor
tant than his physical well be
ing,” continued the dean.
Recalling an experience at the
close of World War II in the
central Philippines, Benson ex
plained his group spent week
ends exploring small outlying
islands and visiting isolated in
terior villages of the larger
islands.
“By our standards of then, or
today, the people were poor and
deprived,” he went on. “They
had no modern conveniences,
their transportation was by foot
or small boat, their diets were
probably inadequate, and they
may not have been very healthy.”
They were, Benson said,
“probably the happiest people
whom I have ever been around.
You can say to yourself, ‘Why
were they happy?’, and I leave
for each of you the answering of
this question in your own way.”
“You can also make the point
that they were making no signi
ficant contribution to advance
ment in this world of ours and I
would agree,” he continued. “But
they did have peace of mind and
this was an important factor in
the society in which they lived.”
BENSON ALSO told partici
pants the eligibility rules and
sizes of payments have created
welfare problems for many ur
ban areas.
“We are much concerned over
the inequities in the system, its
failure to eliminate hunger and
malnutrition and its great cost,”
he said.
“We pay little attention to
what it does to the spirit of those
who are caught up in it,” Ben-
(See Engineering, Page 3)
WHAT ALL THE SHOUTING WAS ABOUT
This was the reaction of four “Man Your Manners” panelists when they were greeted with
a chorus of Aggie “who-wah’s” as they were introduced to the audience. From left are
Linda Baxter, Jane Jacobs, “Miss TWU”, Carole Brennan and Kada Rule. Not pictured
was Mrs. Nancy Newton, moderator. See story, page 5. (Photo by Bob Peek)
28 File For Offices
In April 24 Vote
GREER GESTURES
A man of motion as he speaks, Dr. Scott Greer, professor of sociology and political science
at Northwestern University, explains that cities are not an evil in themselves, but pre
sent a problem that needs solving. (Photo by Bob Peek)
Sociologist Urges Realizing
Existence Of Urban Society
By TONY HUDDLESTON
Battalion Staff Writer
People must realize an urban
society exists before solutions to
this country’s urban problems can
be suggested, Dr. Scott Greer said
Wednesday night.
“Americans since the revolution
of 1776 have developed their cul
tures and social orders to fit rural
areas instead of urban areas,”
the professor of sociology and
political science at Northwestern
University told the Urban Crisis
Conference audience. “And for
the future, we must accept the
fact that the cities are not evil,
and realize that they, like the
rural areas, have a problem to
solve.”
The Sweetwater native noted
that the first step to solving the
problem is defining what urban
society means.
“THE SIMPLEST definition of
an urban society is any group of
persons not practicing agricul
ture,” the long-haired James Co
burn look-alike noted. “But the
true meaning is more complex;
it involves men free from the
bonds of a hometown society who
must use a certain amount of
power to tolerate the complexity
of the city.”
He added that these urban-
dwellers must look to a higher
horizon than the average rural
dweller because they have more
problems that need solutions now.
“They must work like execu
tives in developing their resources
for the future so that they can
find solutions as urban problems
develop” he pointed out.
Greer noted that these problems
must be solved now because the
days of agricultural America
have ended, and the majority
of this country’s population is
now living in the metropolis areas
of the country.
Applications Due
For MSC Panel
Applications for membership on
the Student-Faculty Committee
must be obtained by Friday at the
Student Program Office of the
Memorial Student Center, Kent
Caperton, MSC Council vice pres
ident-elect announced Wednesday.
The purpose of the committee
is to promote a better relationship
between students and faculty,
Caperton said.
“There is a definite interest in
creating a committee of this type,
he added. “But it requires dy
namic leadership to realize its
fullest potential.”
The only requirement for mem
bership on the committee is that
the applicant have a 1.5 GPR.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adv.
HE SUGGESTED that more
local government power be given
to these urban areas. “Each urban
area needs to learn and have the
opportunity to solve its problems
in the way it chooses. Each knows
its problems better than anyone
else.”
“The people in Harlem, for
example, have different problems
from those in Long Island, and
a different approach is needed to
solve problems in each area.
Another aspect that giving
power to these urban societies
would accomplish is that it would
create in the community area a
general purpose and provide a
public dignity for each individual
living in the urban area, some
thing which is lacking today in
the city, the author of “The
Emerging City” said.
The Baylor graduate pointed
out that he didn’t think that
locally-controlled government was
right in every situation that came
before its jurisdiction. “A locally-
controlled government is not al
ways right in every judgement
that it makes. Some form of sys
tem should be set up by the gen
eral public to make sure that the
local government makes the right
decisions.”
HE ADDED that three possible
solutions for such a purpose could
be the setting up of review
boards, staffs that define the
problems of the public and the
employment of public defenders
to suggest and present solutions
to problems.
“All areas with large popula
tions are not necessarily urban
areas,” the constantly-pacing pro
fessor noted. “And every person
who lives in a rural area is not
always concerned primarily with
just his area.”
He pointed to Java, which has
an area as large as Rhode Island
and a population the size of the
city of Los Angeles, but still has
primitive tribal cultures. He
pointed out that in rural Kansas,
however, farmers had airplanes
to fly to the larger cities each
week to check on the stock
market.
WHOOSH!
As a 30-foot rainshower settles over a part of the parking
lot between Nagle Hall and the Physics Building, students
from Hart Hall check out the gusher that apparently
spurted from a broken water pipe late Wednesday night.
(Photo by Bob Stump)
Reinert OK’d
To Run For
Senate Chief
By DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE
Battalion Staff Writer
Twenty-eight people have filed
for 14 offices to be voted on in
the April 24 general elections,
Tommy Henderson, Election Com
mission vice-president for pub
licity announced Thursday.
In Election Commission action
early Thursday morning it was
decided that Albert Reinert, can
didate for Student Senate presi
dent, will be allowed to remain in
the race for the Senate post.
The action, climaxing much
stormy debate, allows Reinert to
count grades earned at West
Point in with his overall grade
point ratio, which is used to de
termine eligibility to run for the
Senate office.
“ACCORDING to the Blue Book
it is necessary that candidates for
Senate offices have a 1.5 overall
GPR,” Henderson said as he pre
sented the case against Reinert.
“I checked the grades today, and
Reinert has a 1.23 GPR, which I
think disqualifies him.
“I also found that Larry Shil-
hab, candidate for Civilian Stu
dent Council president; Bill Holt,
candidate for Senate vice-presi
dent; and Mark Satterwhite, can
didate for Election Commission
president; all have deficient
GPR’s,” Henderson continued.
“I have a note from Dean of
Students James P. Hannigan,
dated March 31, stating that my
West Point grades should be in
cluded in my GPR,” Reinert told
the commission, “and that I
should be allowed to run. I have
been operating all this time on
the assumption that I could run.”
“ON PAGE SIX of the Blue
Book,” Henderson noted, “GPR is
defined as GPR for courses and
work done at A&M. We have to
assume as a commission that the
definition is the one applicable
throughout the book.”
“The only precedent we have
for allowing transfer of grades to
determine eligibility is one time
when a man ran in an election one
semester after he came here. A1
has been here for three semesters.
It is doubtful that we could in
clude his other grades,” Hender
son added.
“The note from Dean Hannigan
is his opinion, and can be over
ruled by the Commission, as he
told me today,” Henderson said.
“WE ASK Dean Hannigan’s
opinion where no clear alterna
tives exist,” said Gerry Geist-
weidt, commission president. “The
commission has never ruled on a
transfer case, so I turned to Dean
Hannigan when A1 first asked me
about it.”
“Dean Hannigan said that the
GPR does not include work from
other schools until graduation,” he
added. “The question is whether
to limit the GPR to A&M work
only for election purposes, or to
allow transfer work to count for
election purposes.”
“Since he’s running for A&M
student body president,” spoke up
a commissioner, “I think he should
have an A&M GPR.”
AFTER FURTHER heated dis
cussion, Jimmy Dunham, Junior
Class president, moved to accept
Reinert as a candidate for Senate
president. The motion passed
20-10, with 13 members absent
from the meeting.
Debate next commenced on the
(See Reinert, Page 2)
Installment Due
The third installment of
board payment for the spring
semester is now being accepted
at the Fiscal Office in the
Coke Building. Payment of
$74 for seven-day plans and
$67 for five-day plans must be
made by Wednesday to avoid
penalty.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association. Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
BB&L