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VOLUME 64 Number 115
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1969
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New York Arrangements |
Made For Class Of ’70 i
By DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE
Battalion Staff Writer
Next year’s senior class will
travel to New York for the foot
ball game between the Aggies and
the United States Military Acad
emy at West Point.
Jimmy Dunham, class presi
dent, made the announcement
Tuesday night. He noted that a
chartered Delta flight, arranged
by World Airways, will leave
Houston at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3,
and return Sunday, Oct. 5. Those
making the trip, he said, will stay
in New York and travel to and
from the game by chartered bus.
Dunham noted that the trip is
primarily for the class of ’70, but
that others may place their names
on a waiting list. If the required
number of 200 is not filled by
aeniors, he added, vacancies will
be filled from the list on a first-
come, first-served basis.
“IF WE have 200 seniors, and
we also have 200 on the waiting
list,” Dunham commented, “we
will see if we can get another
plane.”
Cost of the trip is $120, he
noted, and a down payment of $30
must be paid at the Student Fi
nance Office in the Memorial
Student Center by July 21. This
also applies to those on the wait
ing list, he said. The balance of
(90 is due in September, he added.
“Deposits can be refunded until
July 21,” Dunham noted. “We
must have an exact count by
then.”
He added that the fee includes
a tround-trip flight, two nights
lodging, and transportation to and
from the game. He also noted
that those on the waiting list who
are not able to be taken will re
ceive a refund on their deposit.
JO SCANLIN, MSC assistant
building cashier, emphasized that,
in order to make a deposit, a stu
dent must have an identification
number beginning with “66.” This
does not apply, she said, to those
on the waiting list, who need only
show proof of being a student to
make their deposit.
Miss Scanlin added that trans
fer students can leave their name,
and class status will be checked.
Checks, she noted, should be made
out to “The Class of ’70.”
After the semester ends, she
noted, students may mail their de
posits to: West Point Trip, c/o
Student Finance Office, Box 6688,
College Station, Texas, 77840,
“It’s possible that the total cost
will be lowered,” Dunham re
marked. “We’ve asked the Aggie-
Exes to help us. Any money re
ceived will go to lower costs for
the entire trip.”
Polling Places To Stay Open
Until 8 Tonight For Voters
Polls will remain open in two
places until 8 tonight for students
voting to fill 22 offices in the
annual general elections, accord
ing to Gerald Geistweidt, presi
dent of the Election Commission.
Polling places are in the base
ment of the Memorial Student
Center and in the basement of
the YMCA. Voting will be done
by paper ballots and voting
machines.
“If there are still lines of
voters at either poll at 8 p.m.,
we will remain open until all in
line have voted,” he said. “We
will not, however, allow others to
get in line after the deadline.”
“Everyone who has a spring
student activity card and an
identification card is qualified to
Summer Room Reservations
To Be Made Next Week
Students may begin reserving
rooms for the first summer ses
sion next week, according to Allan
M. Madeley, university housing
manager.
Madeley noted that Leonard
(7), Harrell (8), Whiteley (9),
White (10), Utay (12), and Pur-
year (ramps 1-4) Halls will be
used for housing summer school
students. He added that Schu
macher Hall (22) will be used
for Veterinary Medicine graduate,
Gonzalez Named
1969-70 Adviser
To Drill Team
Richard G. Gonzalez of San
Antonio will be the 1969-70
senior adviser of the Freshman
Drill Team.
He will head seven other stu
dent advisers who will try out,
select, train and drill the all-new
unit next fall.
Junior advisers working under
Gonzalez will be Richard A.
Hanes of San Antonio and Rob
ert M. Patten of Houston. Soph
omore advisers include David R.
Calvert, Shreveport; Larry L.
Larsen, Dallas; James A. Lin
coln, Houston; Carl L. Olson,
Panhandle, and Louis B. Ullrich,
San Antonio.
All the juniors and sophomores
were marching members of the
1967 and 1968 national champion
Freshman Drill Teams. Gonzalez
Was the No. 2 cadet of the 1966-
67 team, which was runnerup in
the National Intercollegiate
R0TC Drill Championships at
Washington, D. C.
“Richard is most capable and
exemplifies the attributes of high
moral character and military
bearing required of the position,”
noted Malon Southerland in an
nouncing the appointments. “I
&m confident he will do an out
standing job in building toward
another champion.”
A junior adviser of this year’s
national champ and soph adviser
of the 1967-68 team that also
took a Washington Monument
trophy, Gonzalez attended Cen
tral Catholic High in San An
tonio and commanded the school's
drill team.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Jose
G. Gonzalez, 302 St. Francis, is
an electrical engineering major
and cadet technical sergeant in
Company G-2 of the Corps of
Cadets.
and international students.
Students already living in one
of the halls wishing to reserve
the rooms they now occupy, he
said, should report to the Housing
Office between May 19 and 4 p.m.
May 21. Other students wishing
to reserve rooms may do so be
tween May 22-30 on a first-come,
first-served basis, he added.
Madeley noted that reservations
begin after the deadline for can
cellation, so students should not
reserve rooms if the possibility
exists that they will not attend
the first summer session.
“Cancellation of a room reser
vation for any reason except the
convenience of the University will
result in a forfeit of the room
deposit,” he added.
Madeley also said that male
single undergraduate students
must live on campus unless living
with their families. Exceptions,
he said, will be made only in
unusual circumstances. Students
with such requests, he added,
must report to the Student Af
fairs Office and apply for a day
student permit.
Madeley urged all students
wishing to apply for permits to
do so before May 20. Otherwise,
he said, permits must be obtained
during registration June 2.
vote,” Geistweidt said. “This in
cludes graduating seniors and
graduate students.”
Geistweidt added that there
will be no run-off election follow
ing this one. “All offices will be
decided by at least a plurality of
the vote,” he said.
“Election results will be posted
in the Student Program office of
the Memorial Student Center just
as soon as they are tabulated,”
Geistweidt continued. He added
that it would most likely be quite
late before any results are an
nounced.
Since he’s a candidate himself,
Geistweidt appointed junior
Rusty Chandler, executive vice
chairman of the election, to han
dle any complaints about election
procedure or campaign violations.
Offices to be filled in the elec
tion are: Senate president, sen
ators from the Colleges of
Architecture, Agriculture, Busi
ness Administration, Engineer
ing, Geosciences, Liberal Arts
and Science; pre-veterinary rep
resentative and veterinary medi
cine representative.
Civilians will also select a new
position, second vice-president, on
the Civilian Student Council.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
Singing Cadets
Elect President
A Bryan zoology major has
been elected president of the
Singing Cadets for the 1969-70
school year.
He is senior Gordon T. Hill, a
graduate of Stephen F. Austin
High School. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Hill Sr., 208
Elm St.
Other officers elected include
Barry L. Whitehead, San An
tonio, vice president; Larry W.
Altman, New Ulm, business man
ager; John W. Roby, Houston,
publicity chairman; Teri C. Soli,
Bay City, librarian, and David
A. Kesey of Pecos, newsletter
editor.
The singing unit consists of
more than 60 students, both civil
ian and military. The group has
appeared in many Southwestern
cities and in Mexico, on numerous
broadcasts and telecasts, and on
other various entertainment pro
grams.
The group serves as the offi
cial glee club for the coast-to-
coast television program, “Miss
Teen-Age America.” Membership
is selected from the entire stu
dent body by auditions in the
fall semester.
Pre-Registration
To Close Friday
Pre-registration for the fall
semester concludes Friday, Regis
trar Robert Lacey reminded.
Lacey said only 3,500 current
students registered last week,
some 5,500 short of the 9,000 goal
which the registrar’s office estab
lished for the two-week period.
The registrar urged students
to contact their departmental ad
visers for consultations as soon
as possible this week.
“If they do not, they are pen
alizing themselves,” Lacey said,
noting the students face possible
lines and other inconveniences if
they wait until next fall.
The sooner a student registers,
the better chance he has for get
ting the course he wants, the reg
istrar observed.
After contacting their depart
mental advisers, students should
report to registration headquar
ters through the west entrance
of the Cushing Buildings. There
they will receive housing assign
ments and fee assessments and
submit registration cards.
Bills for all fees will be mailed
to students during the summer,
Lacey said.
Schedules for fall classes are
available at the registrar’s office.
Senate Responds Favorably
To Lottery Draft Reform Plan
TOP SENATE AWARD
Student Senate President Bill Carter, left receives the Outstanding- Student Award from
Kent Caperton, chairman of the Senate’s Awards Committee. Four other Senators were
recognized at the end-of-year Senate banquet.
Student Senate Gives Carter
Outstanding Senator Award
Laundry Group
To Meet Thursday
The Student Laundry Commit
tee will meet with University
officials Thursday at noon in the
Peniston Cash Cafeteria.
The purpose of the meeting
will be to discuss laundry operat
ing procedures and serve as a
link of communication between
students and University officials.
Any student desiring to offer
suggestions about the laundry
operations and policies is invited
to contact one of the following
committee members:
Arthur P. Callahan, 5-2750;
David George, Fowler 211, 5-2108;
Michael Looney, Keathley 333,
5-5774; David Middlebrooke, Ho-
tard 411, 846-9944; John R. Oli
ver, 6-203, 5-7259; and Albert
Reinert, 2-123, 5-2050.
By JOHN W. FULLER
Battalion Editor
Student Senate President Bill
Carter was honored at the Senate
Banquet Tuesday as the outstand
ing Senator for the school year.
Vice-President David Maddox
and Senators A1 Reinert, Tommy
Henderson and Bill Harsfield
were named the top representa
tives in each class.
Senator Kent Caperton, chair
man of the Awards Committee,
praised Carter’s appeals for un
derstanding between students and
administrators.
“True recognition of his
achievements can’t be summed up
in one banquet,” Caperton said.
“It can only be seen five or ten
years from now, when it becomes
apparent that the one step he
took produced a viable, meaning
ful Student Senate.”
CAPERTON noted that this
year’s Senate has sought change
“with order and stability, in a
time of violence and disruption.”
Carter, in accepting the award,
reminded the Senators of the
goals set for the Senate at the
first of this year.
“We wanted to make the Senate
the number one organization
here,” he noted, “because it de
served that position as the recog
nized governing body of the stu
dents. That recognition was long
overdue.” He went on to recap
major Senate projects.
“WE MADE big steps forward
in communications, through talks
with President Earl Rudder, the
Executive Committee, the Board
of Directors and other adminis
trators,” he noted. “We sponsored
the Idea Exchange Conference,
worked closely with the Texas
Legislature on bills affecting stu
dents, got a Senator (Jim Steph
enson) elected to the executive
committee of the Texas Intercol
legiate Students Association, and
made recommendations on issues
such as Senate reapportionment,
Blue Book revisions and activity
fee allocations.”
Terming it “a working year”
for the Senate, Carter asserted
that the largest accomplishment
was “the change in philosophy of
the Senate from that of a service
organization to that of a group
not only of students but for stu
dents.”
Extra Invitations
Still Available
Seniors may still obtain extra
graduation announcements at the
Memorial Student Center Finance
Office, according to Jo Scanlin,
asistant building cashier.
CARTER THEN turned over
the presidential gavel to Gerald
Geistweidt, vice-president-elect, in
the absence of the 1969-70 Student
Senate president being elected
today.
“It’s important that I express
what next year’s Senate Execu
tive Committee hopes to do,”
Geistweidt said. “We have an
unprecedented endowment; this
Senate is the first one truly
Senior Banquet
To Feature
Humor Speech
“Humorist with a message”
Newt Hielscher will be the fea
tured speaker Friday for the
senior banquet at the Ramada
Inn.
The leadoff event for the last
social function of the class of
1969 will be at 8:30 p.m. an
nounced Senior Class President
Early Davis of San Antonio.
Commencement and commission
ing will come the following week
end, on May 24.
Aggie football in form of the
2:30 p.m. Maroon-White game
Saturday, May 17, will precede
the Senior Ring Dance at Duncan
Hall.
Seniors’ dates or wives will turn
the A&M ring at the 8 to 12 p.m.
dance, for which Ed Gerlach and
his 15-piece band will provide
music. Vice President Bud Welch
of Burkburnett said new rings
inside which couples stand for the
ring-turning ceremony will be
used for pictures.
He said banquet tickets are
$3.50 per person and admission
to the dance will be $3 per couple.
Hielscher is known throughout
the South as a rare dinner speak
er who combines the ability to
communicate a serious message
with a contagious patter of fresh,
laughter-provoking humor. The
1933 A&M graduate and former
professor has appeared before
conventions, sales meetings, serv
ice clubs, sports banquets, testi
monials and other groups for
more than 15 years. He is a mem
ber of the International Platform
Association.
With him at the banquet head
table will be class officers Davis,
Welch, ’69 social secretary Bruce
Baxter of Dallas; Robert J. Foley,
secretary-treasurer of Garland;
Don Bonifay, historian of Bee-
ville; Bob Buske, senior MSC
representative of Shiner, and
John Rowan, concessions manager
of Dallas.
worthy of the term Student Gov
ernment.”
Geistweidt said this year’s Sen
ate’s shoes “will be hard to fill—
but the shoes we must fill will
be even greater in proportion.
“The problems we face can be
divided into two categories —
pressing and crucial,” he added.
“Pressing problems include issues
such as course evaluation, coedu
cation, computer registration and
others. The two really crucial
problems are the nationwide stu
dent rebellion and the ever-widen
ing Corps-civilian split on this
campus.”
LIKENING student revolts to
“a communicable disease, which
spreads rapidly and can be stop
ped only through early medication
by concerned students,” Geist
weidt warned that “subversion
and violence lead only to anarchy
and end only in frustration.
“I hope Aggieland remains a
pedestal of sanity above the re
volt,” he added.
“Understanding is the solution
to the Corps-civilian problem,”
he went on, calling for “rigorous
orientation for civilian freshmen”
and “indoctrination of Corps
freshmen with the concept that
civilians are Aggies, too.”
Geistweidt briefly stated ob
jectives in the “pressing” cate
gory, calling for public-relations
programs to locate areas of stu
dents’ dissatisfaction, then added
that “without a solution to the
crucial problems, any solutions to
the pressing problems will be
futile.”
Five Aggies Place
I n Photo Salon
Five Texas A&M photogra
phers placed photos among 24
winners of the 11th Intercol
legiate Photo Salon but Sam
Houston State and Texas Tech
made off with most of the laurels.
Sam had the two best in show
prints and 10 of the 24 ribbons
awarded in eight categories. Tech
took nine awards. The two schools
combined to win all eight first
place ribbons.
Aggies placing were Bill Black,
senior pre-med major of Pratt,
Kans., and chairman of the Salon
’69-sponsoring Committee; Mike
Welsh, zoology junior, Houston;
Gregory S. Gray, wildlife science
sophomore, Houston; Ned C.
Muse, finance senior, Houston,
and Bob Stump, industrial tech
nology freshman, Bryan.
Salon-winning pHotos and more
than 90 selected for show will be
displayed this week in the Mem
orial Student Center.
WASHINGTON <A>)_The Sen
ate has responded favorably to
President Nixon’s lottery-based
draft reform plan, but the two
top Democratic leaders are split
on the issue.
Majority Leader Mike Mans
field says the Nixon plan is “a
step in a direction that will satis
fy some members,” but he will
vote against it because it doesn’t
cure enough inequities in the
draft.
Democratic Whip Edward M.
Kennedy, however, praised the
President’s proposals, saying they
“embody the reforms we most
urgently need.”
And a Republican critic of the
Vietnam War, Sen. Mark O. Hat
field of Oregon, saw the Nixon
message, issued Tuesday, as a
sign the GOP administration is
not nearing a solution to the war.
“It discourages me about what
we can expect from their war
policy,” Hatfield said in an inter
view, but he acknowledged he
would probably find few allies
in opposing the Nixon draft pro
gram.
While there was ample evidence
of support for the reform pro
posals in the Senate, the plan
could face a stiffer test in the
House where a ban on lottery
selection was written into the
draft law extension two years
ago.
Rep. L. Mendel Rivers, D-S.C.,
chairman of the House Services
Committee, said Tuesday: “I
have no strong feelings either for
or against the lottery concept.
“Therefore, if the administra
tion can show the Committee on
Armed Service how such a change
will provide more equity in the
selection process without offset
ting disabilities, I certainly would
have no objection to his proposed
legislative change in the draft
law.”
Sen. John Stennis, D-Miss.,
chairman of the Senate Armed
Services Committee, said he
would consider adoption of the
lottery plan on a trial basis, with
no commitment to make it per
manent.
Secretary of Defense Melvin
R. Laird said he cleared the
(See Senate, Page 3)
A&M To Take
Dorm Complex
Bids In Fall
A&M officials will attempt to
bid their proposed $5 million
dormitory-commons construction
project in October and let con
tracts the following month, a
university spokesman said this
week.
Howard L. Vestal said the
schedule will permit construction
to start before the end of the
year if no problems arise. Vestal
serves as director of management
services and is project coordi
nator.
Vestal revealed three days were
spent with university committee
members going “over everything
from soup to nuts” on the new
dormitories.
One of the several hundred
items decided, Vestal said, was
“to configure several rooms for
handicapped students,” especially
students restricted to wheel
chairs.
Several alterations in rooms
and their facilities are necessary
to provide adequate housing for
such students, .he pointed out.
The dormitories, to be com
pleted by Steptember, 1971, cur
rently call for two four-story
dormitories with a central court
yard and a two-story commons.
The increased facilities will
provide housing for 952 students,
with a bathroom between each
two rooms. The commons would
include television rooms, a laun
dry station, vending machines,
rest rooms, storage and post of
fice boxes. A dining area is
planned also.
The complex has been describ
ed “as a living center, not just a
place for sleep and study.”
Bryan Building & Loan
Association. Your Sav
ing Center, since 1919.
B B & L« —Adv.