OUTSTANDING COUNCILMAN
Ernest Godsey, chosen last night as the Civilian Student
Council’s outstanding member, enjoys the CSC awards
banquet with his date. (Photo by Bob Peek)
Walton Hall Wins
Top Civilian Award
Walton Hall Thursday was
named the outstanding civilian
residence hall for 1968-69 by the
Civilian Student Council, and
Ernest Godsey was selected as
the year’s outstanding council
man.
Awards also went to Davis-
Gary hall for outstanding hall in
academics, and to Law Hall for
outstanding intramural partici
pation.
The honors were presented
during the annual CSC awards
banquet in the Memorial Student
Center, held to honor those who
have contributed more to the
Council and to civilian students
than that demanded by their of
fice, Council President David
Wilks explained.
Godsey, in addition to being
Hughes Hall president, has been
active this year on the student
laundry committee, and was the
chairman of the Civilian Week
end committee.
JAMES HARRISON, awards
committee chairman, noted that
social activities, intramural par
ticipation, Bonfire contribution,
and Civilian Week participation
were all used as criteria in select
ing the outstanding residence
hall.
Outstanding Service awards
were presented to three council-
men by Larry Schilhab, civilian
chaplain and CSC president-elect.
He noted that the awards were
to honor those who had contrib
uted significantly to the opera
tion and success of the Council
this year.
David Middlebrooke, Council
secretary, Harrison, and Garry
Mauro, junior yell leader, were
each presented with an award.
Middlebrooke, Schilhab said, had
Salon To Display
200 Photographs
More than 200 photographs in
the 11th Intercollegiate Photo
Salon will be judged Saturday
at the Memorial Student Center.
Twenty-seven ribbons will be
awarded in nine categories and
top phonos in color and black-
and-white will be selected, an
nounced Bill Black, chairman of
the salon-sponsoring MSC Cam
era Committee.
Judging will begin at 9 a.m.
in the MSC Assembly Room and
will be open to the public, he said.
Dr. Joe Smith of Caldwell,
Photographic Society of America
two-star exhibitor; Herman Kelly,
photographer-writer of the Texas
Highway Department’s travel in
formation division, and Charles
Kaliszewski, PSA master photog
rapher of Houston, will judge
the prints.
First, second and third places
in landscape, nature, news, human
interest, sports, pictorial, portrait,
still life and fashion-advertising
categories will be awarded.
Black indicated winning and
show photos will be exhibited in
the MSC next week, with the
display to go up Saturday.
Che Battalion
VOLUME 64 Number 113
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1969
Telephone 845-2226
Senate Commends Board
For Refusing Demands
Bryan Building & Loan
Association. Your Sav
ing Center, since 1919.
B B & L —Adv.
done much for the Council in the
way of publicity through articles
in The Battalion, and in estab
lishment of a functional filing
system.
Harrison, graduate representa
tive, was honored for his work
as chairman of the Awards Com
mittee. In presenting the award,
Schilhab termed Harrison’s work
“outstanding.”
MAURO was recognized for
his work as chairman of the
CSC Bonfire Committee, Student
Forum Committee, and Civilian
Week Committee. Schilhab noted
that iMauro had done “a tremen
dous” job in all three positions.
Wilks presented a special
President’s Award to Roger
Knapp, Moore Hall president.
Knapp, Wilks explained, had
performed miracles with his hall,
and was always willing to work.
He praised Knapp for his inter
est in students and their prob
lems.
Eight awards of appreciation
were presented by Middlebrooke
(See Walton Hall, Page 3)
‘Dry Footing’
Expected For
Review Sunday
Dry footing is predicted for
the Corps of Cadets review Sun
day in connection with Parents
Day activities here.
The 2:30 p.m. main drill field
event will feature Mrs. Peter N.
Reed of San Antonio as Aggie
Mother of the Year, Medal of
Honor winner Army Spec. 4
Clarence E. Sasser and presenta
tion of top unit awards for which
Corps companies and squadrons
compete throughout the year.
Weather is expected to be co
operative for Mother’s Day ac
tivities, which include flower pin
ning ceremonies, Student Senate
parents program and individual
awards in G. Rollie White Coli
seum.
The white-clad Ross Volunteers
will perform a special drill on the
review site Sunday at 1:15 p.m.
and the national champion Fish
Drill Team will exhibit its best-
in-the-nation form following the
review, at 3 p.m.
Rain may hamper opening
events of Parents Weekend, ac
cording to forecasts of the Me
teorology Department Weather
Station. An 8 p.m. Singing Cadets
concert sponsored by the Brazos
County A&M Mothers Club will
start activities Friday. The Fed
eration of A&M Mothers Clubs
convenes here Saturday.
“I don’t see any rain Sunday,
but we’ve a chance late Friday
and early Saturday for heavy
thunderstorms,” predicted Jim
Lightfoot, station meteorologist.
He said dry air is expected to
pull in and “pretty well cover
us by Sunday.”
Conditions Sunday afternoon
should be partly cloudy, with 40
per cent relative humidity and
winds easterly at 5 to 10 mph.
The predicted afternoon high
temperature is 76 degrees after
a morning low of 61, Lightfoot
added.
By JOHN W. FULLER
The Student Senate Thursday
commended the Texas A&M
University System Board of Di
rectors and President Earl Rud
der for “refusing to hear de
mands and threats from any or
ganization,” and emphasized that
the Senate “will consider no de
mands or threats from any group,
be they student, faculty or ad
ministration.”
Later, the Senators approved
another resolution urging that
black students “be actively re
cruited in all athletic activities.”
Senate Vice-President David
Maddox, who introduced the first
resolution, noted that the Sen
ate’s Grievance Committee was
created in March to conduct “in
vestigations into any actions or
policies of the administration
which affect students.”
“I’M ASKING for a resolution
to the effect that no group has
the right to make demands and
set deadlines,” he added.
The proposal originally had
mentioned last weekend’s appear
ance of 15 black students in the
off-campus Afro-American So
ciety before one of Rudder’s
assistants, at which a list of de
mands was presented. Garry
Mauro, junior yell leader, termed
the proposal “self-righteous” be
cause, he said, the Student Sen
ate had not taken any action on
black students’ problem^ during
the past year.
“We weren’t going to go out
to solicit business,” Maddox said.
“Nobody made any attemrU to
bring this before the Senate.”
Public Relations Chairman Bob
Burford charged that Mauro had
indicated interest to Maddox in
Senate action last fall apd that
Maddox “entertained the idea”
again later, when black author
Daniel Watts spoke here, but
that nothing concrete had been
done.
“THE GROUP has made the
proper approaches,” declared
Burford, the only black member
of the Senate, “but its voice has
not been heard.” He said Ken
Lewallen, head of the university-
sanctioned Black Student Affairs
Committee, had tried twice to
set up discussions with Maddox.
“This group went to see Presi
dent Rudder because, regrettably,
it considered the Student Senate
ineffective in the light of the
presidential election situation (in
which A1 Reinert was ruled in
eligible),” Burford went on.
Maddox told the Senate he
called Burford soon after the
demands were presented and that
Burford refused to define what
the group meant by stating that
if no progress on the demands
had been made by the third week
in September, “appropriate action
will be taken.”
“HE JUST repeated, ‘appropri
ate action,’ ” Maddox said.
Burford, who denied talking to
Maddox, said he did not have
“total knowledge” of the group’s
appearance and still did not
know the identity of all the 15,
who refused to identify them-
serves in Rudder’s office.
“This discussion is asinine,”
Phil Callahan, Student Life chair
man, asserted. “As a member of
the Executive Committee, you
(Burford) could have placed any
of these items on the agenda at
any time. For that matter, the
Student Life Committee would
have been happy to work on
them.”
Deputy Corps Commander
Garland Clark asked Burford to
clarify whether the group’s griev
ances were specifically “de
mands.”
“I WOULD say the item con
cerning football recruiting prac
tices would be classified as a
demand, and I would support it,”
Burford replied. “You don’t ask
or beg a man to stop discriminat
ing against you; it’s your right
as a human to demand an end
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
to that.”
President Bill Carter said he
has had trouble finding times
when both he and Lewallen were
free to discuss the committee’s
position, and that he had told Bur
ford that presenting demands
was not an easy way to achieve
their ends.
“With the trends of society
what they are today, you’re not
going to get anywhere telling
this administration what to do,”
he added.
“IF WE’RE going to vote this
kind of condemnation,” Senator
Kent Caperton remarked, “then
I would propose that we condemn
the Senate as well, for not having
taken action all year.”
The resolution was subsequent
ly reworded to delete references
to the Afro-American Society,
and the motion passed 32-6.
Senator Buzz Redding then
proposed a resolution stating that
because “the concensus of the
Student Senate is that no phase
whatsoever of Texas A&M Uni
versity activities should exclude
one particular etchnic group,”
black students should “be active
ly recruited in all athletic activi
ties ... if they meet present
standards.” The resolution pass-
(See Senate, Page 3)
100 Students File
For Senate Posts
Appeals Committee To Hear
Case Of 3 Suspensions Today
By DAVE MAYES
Battalion Managing Editor
The Appeals Committee was
scheduled to consider the case of
the three A&M students suspend
ed indefinitely from the univer
sity earlier this week at 9 this
morning.
Larry C. Gill, one of the three
suspended Tuesday, told The Bat
talion that committee chairman
Dr. R. C. Potts had indicated
that the panel, after hearing each
student separately, would inform
him and the others of its decision
a short time later.
Gill, a freshman, along with
senior Brian Foye and freshman
William Fischer, were suspended
for “illegal entry of University
property” after they were appre
hended by campas security offi
cers late Saturday night in the
System Administration building.
The three were charged with
burglary for entering the build
ing through what university offi
cials believed to be a locked door.
Explaining the procedure of
the appeals session, Potts said
“we will listen to what each of
the students has to say. Upon
approval of the committee, each
student will be allowed to bring
in others to testify in his be
half.”
Potts said that the committee
will not have any say on the
punishments of the three, but
will only be concerned with the
interpretation of the university
regulations that have a bearing
on the case.
Potts added that he did not
know if the committee’s decision
would be considered final by the
university.
“That will be up to (A&M)
President Earl Rudder or the
Board of Directors to decide,” he
said. 1 lir tVlO ***-W»VVrYl if
has had the final say in these
matters, but I can’t predict what
will happen in the future.”
Dean James P. Hannigan, who
had assessed the suspensions, said
Thursday that if the committee
upholds his decision, the students
would have 24 hours to leave the
campus.
By JANIE WALLACE
Battalion Staff Writer
One hundred applicants were
declared eligible to run for Senate
positions in the May 14 election,
according to Tommy Henderson,
Election Commission vice-presi
dent.
“The polling places will be in
the YMCA and the Memorial
Student Center. The polls will be
open from 7:30 a.m. until 8 p.m.,”
Henderson said.
The 100 running for 41 Senate
seats are:
For Student Senate president—
Jimmy D. Adams, Gerald Geist-
weidt and Garry Mauro.
FOR A NEW position, second
vice-president on the Civilian
Student Council—Tommy H. Hen
derson and William McLaughlin.
For the College of Agriculture,
class of ’70—Roger L. Blackwel-
der, Robert A. Easter, Charles
Thomas Head and Robert B. Ma
son; class of ’71—Randall E. Bet
ty, Billy Frank Craddock, Marcus
E. Hill, Edwin A. Smith and
Gerald V. Witkowski; and class
of ’72—Ray C. Geistweidt and
Kenny R. Hensley.
For the College of Architecture,
class of ’70—Raleigh O. Lane, Joe
McCall, John Russell and Don
Swofford; class of ’71—Melvin C.
Hamilton, and class of ’72—Wil
liam Hartsfield.
ministration, class of ’70—Ken
neth H. Fenoglio, John Maline,
Leonard Mosesman, Leonard
Odom, William Reed, Daniel
Swords, Edward Taylor and
Aubrey Thompson; class of ’71—
Kent Caperton, Jack W. Fergu
son, Robert Haggard, Gary J.
Martin, James O’Jibway and Paul
Scopel; and class of ’72—Craig
Bradley, Dale W. Foster, Don B.
Mauro, David Moore and William
O. Springer.
FOR THE College of Engineer
ing, class of ’70—Bob Chancey,
Allen Janacek, Frank McDuff,
Carl Payne, Jess Rhoden, Robert
Stanzel, Edward Turley and Mi
chael Willett; class of '71—James
Hackedorn, Fred Hofstetter, Dav
id Reynolds, Karl Stoermer,
Gregg Weaver and James Wiley,
and class of ’72—Daniel Beckett,
John D. Bennett, William Curtis,
Robert Hobbs, Charles Jones,
Dwain King, Raymond Kopecky,
Joe Nix, Freddie Powers, Samuel
Tucker and Michael Van Bavel.
For the College of Geosciences,
Michael Essmeyer, Thomas Fitz-
hugh and William Read.
For the College of Liberal Arts,
class of ’70—David P. Bailey,
William J. Finane, John L. Grum
bles, Raymond W. Jordan, Thomas
Kincy, Marco Lugo and James F.
Stephenson; class of '71—Larry
Carrecker, Charles Hoffman and
Jon C. Simms; and class of ’72—
Stephen Bryant, Robert Burns,
Roger Miller, Ronald Roberts and
Jimmy Weaver.
For pre-veterinary medicine
representative, Lyndsay Phillips
and Joe Kornegay.
For the veterinary medicine
representatiye* Robert Hase and
For the College of Science, class
of ’70— David Cardwell, John D.
Cunningham, Neal Ely, Richard
Legler and Gerald Perryman;
class of ’71—James Hawthorne,
Morris Patteson and James Rus
sell, and class of ’72—Robert
Clayton, George Hester, Gary
Rosin, and Joe Schriever.
‘Toughest, Most Resourceful, Dedicated >
U.S. Fighting Man Described
By TONY HUDDLESTON
Battalion Staff Writer
The American fighting man in
Vietnam is the toughest, most
resourceful and dedicated soldier
in history, Capt. Jack Mooney of
the United States Army told a
Great Issues audience Thursday
night.
“The courage and determina
tion that our soldiers show daily
in Vietnam to preserve that
country’s freedom is a tribute
that every American should be
proud of,” Capt. Mooney, a sil
ver star winner added. “It is for
this reason that I am proud to
wear the uniform of my country.”
Mooney illustrated his discus
sion of the American fighting
men in Vietnam by using slides
and tapes made in Vietnam. He
also displayed an assortment of
Viet Cong and North Vietnamese
propaganda devices and weapons
captured in Vietnam.
“THE COURAGE and per
formance my men displayed daily
against all types of danger im
pressed me most while I was in
Vietnam,” Mooney, a platoon
leader of the 9th Infantry said.
“It proved to me that the popu
lar saying in this country that
our soldiers were individualists
who did not believe in what they
were fighting for was a bunch
of hogwash.”
“The men in my platoon never
learned the; meaning of the word
‘quit,’ ” Mooney noted. “No mat
ter how tough the going got,
or what type of fighting we were
in, I knew that the men in my
platoon were with me.”
He noted that he believed the
war in Vietnam would be over
shortly because the enemy was
beginning to feel a manpower
shortage. He explained that the
North Vietnamese regulars had
begun to take the place of the
Viet Cong in the cities.
MOONEY, a former student,
opinted out that war was not all
fighting. “The army also has to
plan for the soldiers’ recreational
and other needs.”
“Life in Vietnam is no bed of
roses for the soldier,” Mooney
noted, “because he doesn’t have
his sweetheart next door with
him or the various forms of en
tertainment and other privileges
that he’s enjoyed in the states.”
Mooney added that he was
proud of the various comforts
that the government had set up
in Vietnam for the soldier.
“Never before has a soldier had
it so good in a war zone. The
helicopter and other modern con
veniences of the United States
have made it possible to bring
hot meals to the front lines, and
provide regular mail service to
the soldier. These are conveni
ences that the soldier of World
War II didn’t get.”
MOONEY noted that the war
had caused numerous terms to
be started to describe things.
“The soldier refers to the United
States as the land of ‘the big
PX’ and he has nicknamed the
airplane that carries the soldiers
home from the war, ‘the freedom
bird.’ He has named the enemy
‘Charlie or Ho’s Boys’ and every
time that he shoots at an enemy
he shouts, ‘Sorry about that.’ ”
CAPTAIN TELLS IT LIKE IT WAS
A picture of a medic giving- aid to a wounded comrade Mooney had high praise for the American soldier and
flashes on the screen to help Army Capt. Jack Mooney called charges that Americans lacked the will to fight
tell a Great Issues audience how it was in Vietnam, “hogwash”. (Photo by Bob Peek)