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Suspended Indefinitely
By DAVE MAYES
Three A&M students who were
tharged Sunday with burglariz
ing the System Administration
Building were suspended indefi
nitely from the university Tues
day by Dean of Students James
P. Hannigan.
The dean said the disciplinary
action was taken against the trio
because they had violated Univer
sity Regulation 46 which forbids
“illegal entry of any University
property. .
Campus security officers ap
prehended the trio in the admin
istration building shortly before
midnight Saturday immediately
after they had gained entry
through what was supposed to
have been a locked door.
The students were identified as
Brian S. Foye, senior economics
major from Houston; Larry C.
Gill of Lubbock, freshman psy
chology major, and William H.
Fischer of Cranston, R.I., fresh
man in industrial technology.
FOYE IS generally regarded to
head activities here for Students
Graduating Seniors Honored;
Callahan Named Class Agent
The Class of '69 was praised
Tuesday night by Association of
Former Students President Ford
D. Albritton Jr. for the manner
it has conducted itself the past
lour years and assured “the best
is yet to come.”
Albritton, who also is a mem
ber of Texas A&M’s board of
directors, was one of three speak
ers at the association’s annual
induction banquet at the Ramada
Inn. He was joined by Darrell
Summer Session
Registration Set
Registration for the first ses
sion of summer school will open
June 2, announced Registrar Rob
ert Lacey.
Lacey said registration will be
conducted in Sbisa Hall, utilizing
standard techniques which were
employed prior to the adoption
this year of an automated sys
tem for regular semesters.
The registrar noted second-
session registration is scheduled
July 14, also in Sbisa.
Lacey pointed out no pre-regis
tration is planned for either sum
mer session.
Classes for the first session
begin June 3 and conclude with
final examinations July 11. Dates
for the second session are July 15-
Aug. 22.
Chandler and Eber Peters, For
mer Students vice presidents re
spectively for membership and
fund-raising.
Albritton congratulated the
A&M seniors, both cadets and
civilians, for the leadership they
have provided.
“This (leadership) is recog
nized not only by fellow Aggies,
but also by other institutions,”
Phil Callahan, senior market
ing major and Corps supply
officer, was elected class agent
for the class of 1969 during the
Former Students Association
banquet Tuesday night.
Callahan’s duties, said Early
Davis, class president, include
acting as a link between his
class and the Association and
arranging for a class reunion
in five years.
the Bryan businessman told the
650 students.
He promised the seniors they
have a real experience ahead
when they see that Aggie ring
and meet former students as they
travel throughout the world.
Chandler noted the value of the
diplomas to be awarded the sen
iors depends to a large degree
on the caliber of the students
who came before them. He said
Texas A&M ranks high.
“To keep this reputation, Texas
A&M must continue to turn out
superior students,” the Beaumont
oil executive added.
for a Democratic Society (SDS),
Hannigan noted.
Foye and the other two stu
dents told The Battalion Tuesday
that they would appeal the sus
pension to the University Ap
peals Committee. They refused
to comment further on the case,
pending consultation with their
lawyers.
Hannigan explained that an in
definite suspension may be for a
long time, or a short time. He
noted that under Regulation 46
the minimum punishment for the
violation for which the trio was
charged is suspension for not less
than one full semester.
He said that a decision as to
the length of suspension is gen
erally made when a student re
applies for entrance into the uni
versity, and usually not until
then.
If the students were later
found innocent in a court of law,
Hannigan noted, that verdict
would not necessarily have a
bearing on the university’s deci
sion.
THE BRAZOS Civil Liberties
Union, which Monday expressed
interest in the case, declined to
comment on the suspension Tues
day.
BCLU board member James H.
Fenner said only that the sus
pension and the specific charges
against the three students had
been noted and that BCLU would
comment “in a day or two.”
Monday the BCLU board of
directors issued a statement say
ing that they were “in the process
of investigating the facts sur
rounding the case to determine
if there was a civil liberties vio
lation.”
District Attorney Brooks Gofer
said Monday that if the three
students do not request an exam
ining trial, he will present the
case at the next grand jury ses
sion, scheduled May 21.
“We’re working on the assump
tion that the door was locked,”
security chief Ed Powell said
Monday. He reported that the
door lock was not jimmied or
broken, but that it was illegal to
enter the building even if the
door were unlocked.
(See Charged, Page 2)
BRINGING IN THE ROAD BY RAIL
An R. B. Butler Construction company crane swings into
action as it unloads a railroad car of asphalt-coated gravel
parked on a siding opposite the Wofford Cain swimming
pool. The gravel is to be used in laying down the surface
of the new western bypass. (Photo by Bob Stump)
Senate Presidency
Attracts 3 Entries
By TONY HUDDLESTON
Battalion Staff Writer
Three candidates have filed for
For Military Achievement
Hochmuth Flag To Be Awarded
The Maj. Gen. Bruno A. Hoch
muth Flag for military achieve
ment will be presented for the
first time Sunday at the Parents
Day Review.
Commemorating the Marine
general who died in Vietnam in
November, 1967, the predomi
nately maroon banner carrying
the A&M seal superimposed on
Cadet Corps collar emblem is
contributed by the Houston
Chamber of Commerce military
affairs committee, announced
President Earl Rudder.
Mrs. Hockmuth, who resides in
San Diego, agreed to the memor
ial flag.
It will be presented by Navy
Reserve Capt. P.R.M. Brooks,
chairman of the Houston Cham
ber committee.
“THE GENERAL Hochmuth
flag parallels the Gen. George F.
Moore flag and will go to the
top cadet unit in military achieve
ment,” noted Army Col. Jim H.
McCoy, commandant. Corps com
panies and squadrons compete
for the honor on a year-long
basis.
One of the four key awards
made at the Mother’s Day re
view, the General Hochmuth
award will be presented at the
2:30 p.m. main drill field review
with the outstanding color guard,
scholastic achievement and Gen
eral Moore (outstanding unit)
awards.
The distinctive banner was de
signed by freshman George A.
Krezinski, Company G-l cadet
and architecture major of Hous
ton. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Johnnie J. Krezinski, 418
E. Canino Rd.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association. Your Sav
ing Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
GENERAL HOCHMUTH, a
1935 A&M graduate, died in a
helicopter explosion and crash at
Hue and was the first American
general killed in South Vietnam.
Commissioned in the Army up
on graduation at A&M, where he
was a cadet major and corps staff
member, the general transferred
to the Marine Corps shortly after
ward.
He served in the Pacific during
World War II and took part in
campaigns of Saipan, Tinian and
’fflSI
Okinawa. He was in the 4th Ma
rines landing in Japan and at
tended the formal surrender
ceremonies at Yokosuka on Sept.
2, 1945.
Between World War II and
Vietnam, the officer attended the
Marine Corps Industrial College,
commanded the 2nd Marine Regi
ment, 2nd Marine Division, in
structed at the Canadian Army
staff college and served in the
Far East as G4 of the 3nd Divi
sion.
Also chief of staff at the Ma
rine Recruit Depot and deputy
chief of staff for research and
development, he was made a
brigadier general at the depot in
1959. He received his second star
in August, 1963.
General Hochmuth commanded
20,000 Marines at the time of his
death. He arrived in Vietnam in
the spring of 1967. He was a na
tive of Houston, attended Reagan
High School and met his wife,
the former Mary Stovall there.
Student Senate President in the
May 14 election, Tommy Hender
son, vice-president of the Elec
tion Commission, said Tuesday.
Henderson added that the three
would have to be “certified by
the Election Commission before
they were allowed to run in the
election.
The three candidates who filed
are Garry Mauro, Gerald Geist-
weidt and Jimmy Adams.
Mauro, a junior marketing ma
jor from Dallas, finished second
to A1 Reinert in the April 25
election for Senate president.
Reinert was later disqualified
when the University Executive
Committee ruled he did not meet
the scholastic requirements for
the office. Mauro served as jun
ior yell leader this year.
Geistweidt, a junior pre-law
major from Mason, was elected
vice-president of the Student Sen
ate in the April 25 election. He'
is currently serving as president
of the Election Commission.
“According to Election Com
mission rules, Geistweidt can run
for another position after previ
ously being elected to another
position,” Henderson said. “But
if he is elected Senate president,
he must resign the vice-presi
dency; otherwise, he will retain
the vice presidency.”
Adams, a junior chemical engi
neering major from Houston, is
a member of the A&M football
team. While at A&M, be has
lettered twice at the split end
position.
Henderson also said that the
candidates for Student Senator
would be announced today. He
added that 39 positions are to be
filled in the May 14 election.
By DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE
Battalion Staff Writer
The A&M administration was
critized for intervening in stu
dent elections in a resolution
adopted by the Texas Intercol
legiate Student Association Sun
day.
Jim Stephenson, junior College
of Liberal Arts Student Senate
representative and district coor
dinator for the TISA, said Tues
day that the resolution, adopted
in a TISA executive committee
meeting, was passed “because of
the principles involved.”
A&M President Earl Rudder,
when contacted about the resolu
tion Tuesday, expressed displeas
ure with the action, calling it
“worthless action by a foreign
body.”
The “intervention” referred to
by the resolution involves actions
taken in connection with the re
cent Student Senate presidential
race, when the candidacy of A1
Reinert was questioned.
THE APPEALS committee, up
on petition by Tommy Hender
son, Election Commission vice-
president for publicity, ruled that
“GPR” and “overall GPR” were
defined for all official purposes
as being only those hours and
grade points acquired at A&M.
The day of the election, David
Wilks, Civilian Student Council
president, filed a petition with
the committee contesting Rein
ert’s candidacy, and on April 25
it ruled that Reinert was ineli
gible to run and disqualified him
from the race. Reinert, by then,
had been elected 1969-70 Senate
President.
The following Monday the uni
versity executive committee ruled
that new presidential elections
should be held this spring.
“The (executive) committee,
when they first learned of the
matter, wanted to send a four-
man investigating team down,”
Stephenson said. “I thought it
would be better to draft a reso
lution now, and send a team down
later if it becomes necessary.”
THE RESOLUTION states
that “the TISA considers the
right of the student community
of every university to select its
own leadership without outside
interference to be inviolate . . .
the administration of Texas A&M
University has intervened into
the student elections at that uni
versity and reversed decisions
reached by the legitimate and
recognized organs of student gov
ernment.”
Adding that such intervention
violates the joint statement of
rights and freedom of students
adopted by the TISA, the organi
zation resolved “that the TISA
wholeheartedly supports the right
of the established student gov
ernment at Texas A&M Univer
sity to solve any and all dis
putes and questions arising in
student elections.”
The organization also resolved
that “the TISA strongly disap
proves of the intervention by the
Texas A&M administration into
student elections and respectfully
requests that said administration
cease and desist from such ac
tivity.”
STEPHENSON noted that the
resolution had been adopted
unanimously by the TISA exec
utive committee, and was not as
strongly worded as an earlier
version. That version, he said,
would have read “condemns” in
stead of “strongly disapproves
of.”
“Knowing the administration
as I do, I doubt that the resolu
tion will have much effect on
them,” remarked Bill Carter,
student Senate president, when
questioned on the matter.
Stephenson also said Tuesday
that he had talked with Rudder
that morning about the action,
and that Rudder had been dis
pleased.
“I am totally displeased,”
(See Committee, Page 2)
LT. JACK MOONEY
Army Officer
To Recount
VN Experience
An Army officer decorated four
times for combat valor will speak
here Thursday on “Vietnam —
The Real Story” in a Great Is
sues presentation.
First Lt. Jack E. Mooney, a
native of Bryan, will be present
ed at 8 p.m. in the Memorial
Student Center Assembly Room,
announced Mike Van Bavel of the
Issues Committee.
Lt. Mooney, 30, is with the
Army National Speakers Pro
gram which provides audiences
with accounts of first-hand ex
periences and observations of re
cent Vietnam returnees.
A scout platoon leader of the
9th Infantry Division’s 2nd Bat
talion (Mechanized), the lieuten
ant was awarded the nation’s
third highest combat decoration,
the Silver Star. He also earned
two awards of the Bronze Star
Medal and the Army Commenda
tion Medal—all with “V” devices
for valor—during his 21-month
tour in Vietnam.
In addition, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. A. T. Mooney, 2409 Hwy.
21 East, Bryan, received two
Purple Hearts, the Air Medal and
other awards.
He attended S. F. Austin High
in Bryan, Allen Military Acad
emy and A&M where he majored
in journalism. Mooney is a for
mer member of the Texas Na
tional Guard and graduate of its
Officer Candidate School.
SAME Will Sponsor Talk
By Engineer Corps Head
NEW UNIT AWARD
To be given to the top cadet unit in military achievement for the first time Sunday at the
annual Parents Day Review is the Maj. Gen. Bruno A. Hochmuth Flag. Displaying the
new award from left are Col. Jim H. McCoy, Corps commandant; senior Jimmy Mudd,
Corps information officer, and freshman George A. Krezinski, designer of the flag. (Photo
by Bob Stump)
Gobble, Gobble
By a mechanical error, Dean
of Students James P. Hannigan
was misquoted in Tuesday’s Bat
talion story concerning the pos
sible suspension of three students
charged with burglary Sunday.
Hannigan had said Monday
that the trio would “most likely”
be suspended Tuesday, not that
they “would” be suspended, as
the story had read.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
civil works will be examined here
Thursday by Galveston District
Engineer Col. Franklin B. Moon.
His talk, “The Who, How and
why of the Army Corps of
Engineers Civil Works Program,”
will be sponsored by the A&M
chapter of the Society of Ameri
can Military Engineers.
Chapter President Dennis Fon
tana of Lompoc, Calif., said the
8 p.m. presentation will be in the
library conference room. Colonel
Moon will meet cadet officers
earlier at a barbecue supper host
ed by Lt. Col. William F. Turner.
Colonel Moon has been district
engineer of the Army Engineers’
Galveston District since July,
1967.
A native of Little Rock, Ark.,
he was commissioned in the Corps
of Engineers upon graduation
from the U. S. Military Academy
in 1944. He received the master’s
degree in civil engineering from
Harvard in 1949.
The WW II European Theater
veteran also completed studies at
the Army Command and General
Staff College and War College.
Overseas assignments included
duty in the Philippines, Germany,
Vietnam, Yugoslavia and Thai
land.
SAME Chapter Advisor Capt.
William C. Mattel said the pre
sentation is open to the public.