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Billy Bob Sheffield, 'B—Marc Harris. Che Battalion VOLUME 64 Number 118 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1969 Telephone 845-2226 5E -Leonard n, RE- B uster 1, RLB- IB—Pat !r, FS B-Corky 1966 Dominican President To Arrive For 2-Day Visit rsE } — Lynn int, RE— - Clifford Caswell, ,HB—Ed- Hoot, FS B—John- 1GS mte ourt — Little ious busi- ong some So sori ng Island t to fight ager of a r., a 42- m Vslkj 1 State So- rbitrarily, dismissec ie Orioles re of tfe By RAUL A. PINEDA Special to The Battalion Dr. Hector Garcia-Godoy, for mer president of the Dominican Republic and present amabassa- dor to the United States, will vis it Texas A&M Wednesday and Thursday in reply to an invita tion from university officials and Dominican students. Garcia-Godoy, 48, a lawyer who embraced diplomacy as a career in 1944, became president of his country when a formula was devised to seek a solution to the revolution in the Caribbean country. He was chosen by the two con tending parties in the struggle and took office in September, 1965. He established a proced ure for popular elections within nine months. CAMPOS S. DE MOYA and Francisco Rainieri, Dominican consul and vice-consul in College Station, said that, as part of the program to be held during the two-day visit to A&M, the Am bassador will have meetings with A&M President Earl Rudder and the Dominican students; cocktails in a private club and a dinner in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom. De Moya added that the work ing agreement and the technical- educational program operating between the Dominican Republic, A&M, and the Agency for Inter national Development was signed during Garcia-Godoy’s presiden tial term. Garcia-Godoy was appointed Ambassador to the States in Sep tember, 1966. He has served in several capa- ConsolOfficials Certify Results Of Bond Vote ue. ors said son, Da te leagm the chil- 8 and 12 commoi rers’ so® rsday the id is that he leag# ( such as said hai'f int thaa [, “befori uniforms, said, ‘W case, at- pers, w® Leite, so' ;ead. iristoph* 1 as problefl- told be' the ho)' was no* he direc insulted ed down" o denies The College Station School Trustees certified Monday night that all votes in Saturday’s bond election were cast by eligible vot ers. The voters of College Station approved the $3 million issue by 22 votes, with 573 for and 551 against. “We found no ballot that was not cast by an eligible voter,” said W. T. Riedel, A&M Consoli dated Independent School Dis trict superintendent. “No one challenged the eligibility of any voter, either.” He explained that certification of the votes is a normal proced ure after every bond election. The issue provides for con struction of a new high school with a projected cost of $1.6 million. Construction will begin as soon as site improvement and preparation are completed. The school is expected to be built on a site approximately 40 acres in size', located south of the presently developed area of the city on the west-by-pass, one mile from Texas Highway 6 South and one-half mile from the Wellborn Road. The site is expected to cost $160,000 including improvements, a ccpt of $1,750 an acre. cities in the foreign service. In 1956 he was appointed as coun selor minister to the Dominican Embassy in London, and per manent delegate to the Interna tional Sugar Council. BETWEEN 1959 and 1963 he served as ambassador to Belgium, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Hol land, Turkey and Lebanon. In August 1963 Garcia-Godoy was designated minister of for eign affairs by President Juan Bosch. He resigned following the ousting of the constitutional government by a military coup d’etat September 25 the same year. A few months later, he became vice-president of the “Compania Anonima Tabaca- lera,” the largest tobacco complex in the Caribbean island. Besides his native language, Garcia-Godoy speaks English and French fluently. HIS FATHER, Emilio, is a re tired career diplomat who served in Canada, France, Switzerland, Haiti and Cuba, and also as am bassador to the United States, Spain, Chile and Germany. Garcia-Godoy will seek another term as president and he has al ready been nominated as a can didate to the office by the “Movi- miento de Conciliacion Nacional,” a new party on the Dominican political scene. Editors Announced For Publications Davis G. Mayes, of Fairborn, Ohio, will be the 1969-70 editor of The Battalion, announced Jim Lindsey, Student Publications director. Other student editors next year, Lindsey said, are Douglas B. Page of Midland, Aggieland; Vancy Manning, Bryan, The Re view; Thomas L. Curl, San Juan, Agriculturist; Daniel A. Rosen- stein, Houston, Engineer; and John W. Allen, Van Horn, The Southwestern Veterinarian. The editors were announced Friday night at the Student Pub lications Banquet. Mayes has worked on The Bat talion two years and was manag ing editor for 1968-69. The journalism scholarship recipient will graduate in January but hopes to do graduate work in political science until May to en able him to serve as editor. Page, junior landscape archi tecture major, has been a mem ber of the Aggieland staff three years and currently serves as editor of the military section. Miss Manning, junior journal ism student, is managing editor of The Review this year. She has previously served as a feature writer for The Battalion. A junior agricultural journal ism major, Curl is presently man aging editor of the Agriculturist and staff writer for The Bat talion. Rosenstein, junior mechanical engineering student, previously served as an assistant editor for the Engineer. Allen, second-year veterinary editor for the Engineer, is cur rently an editorial assistant for The Southwestern Veterinarian. ‘Experiment’ Accepts 17 Ags For 13 Nations Seventeen A&M students have been accepted for Experiment in International Living travel abroad this summer. Three others are awaiting ac ceptance, announced Travel Com mittee Chairman Paul Scopel of Seguin. He indicated that an Allen Military Academy student, Allan Riggs of Bryan, also will participate. EIL makes it possible for stu dents to visit and travel overseas on a non-tourist basis. Experi menters become members of families in their respective coun tries, establishing a program of international good will at the mini-ambassador level. A previous experimenter said benefits include learning about a different way of life by living with a native family, breaking down cultural blocks to establish empathy with members of the family and other U. S. students in the country via EIL, and the educational advantages and learn ing to expect and cope with any thing. Financed largely by individual participants, the EIL program involves two weeks intensive training in language, customs, and mores in Vermont before travel begins. Participants are selected for personality, leader ship traits, scholastic ability, maturity and emotional stability. EIL normally involves seven to eight weeks overseas. An exchange program, the Experiment brings foreign stu dents to the U. S. The 1969 Experimenters from A&M will go to 13 countries. They include: Australia—Thomas C. Condry, junior agricultural economics major of Angleton; Austria — Scopel, sophomore accounting major of Seguin who has worked on the Great Issues Committee and Student Conference on Na tional Affairs, and David E. Thompson, senior, economics, Waco. Denmark — David A. Berry, sophomore, journalism of West Concord, Mass., and Travel Com mittee vice chairman for admin istration; and Riggs, Allen Academy sophomore, first ser geant and son of John K. Riggs, 307 Lee St. France—Miss Anne R. Carter, junior education ma jor of Bryan and daughter of (See Experiment In, Page 3) CLEARING THE WAY Work on the new Texas International Speedway moves along- as workers from the Hollo way Construction Company clear land for the project. The construction company has the cut and fill contract for the speedway, and has cleared about 300 acres so far. (Photo by Bob Stump) AF General To Speak At A&M Commissioning TAKING A BREAK Jim Piper, White team defensive end, pauses to cool off and quench his thirst with a drink of water supplied by trainer Billy Pickard during Saturday’s Maroon-White foot ball game. Maroon outsored the White in the contest 21-8. See story, page 4. (Photo by Bob Peek) De-emphasizing ‘Nuts and Bolts’ Journalism Department Shifts Teaching Goals NCSU Head Will Speak To ’69 Graduates Air Force Lt. Gen. Albert P. Clark of Maxwell AFB, Ala., will be commissioning speaker May 24 at Texas A&M University. A record 1,303 students have applied for graduation this se mester, with 194 scheduled to receive military commissions. The Air University commander will appear before almost 200 cadets who will be commissioned in the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy at 1:30 p.m. exercises in G. Rollie White Coliseum. On stage with General Clark for commissioning will be A&M President Earl Rudder, Army Col. Jim H. McCoy, Corps com mandant, Air Force Col. Vernon L. Head, professor of aerospace studies, university and executive committee members. General Clark will award 16 Regular Army and Air Force commissions among the 143 Army, 41 Air Force, nine Ma rine Corps and one Navy cadet to become second lieutenants and an ensign. Among recipients will be 63 Army ROTC and 10 Air Force ROTC Distinguished Mili tary Graduates. A command pilot and former Tactical Air Command vice com mander, General Clark, 55, heads all Air Force ROTC training in the U. S. as Air University com mander. He was commissioned in 1936 at the U. S. Military Academy, received flying training at Ran dolph Field and went to England as second in command of the 31st Fighter Group, the first Ameri can fighter unit in the European Theater during World War II. He was shot down over Abbe ville, France, in July, 1942, and was a prisoner of war until April, 1945. After the war, General Clark progressed through key staff as signments with TAG, Continental Air Command and Air Defense Command followed by a tour at Headquarters, U. S. Air Force. He headed the 48th Fighter Bomber Wing in France and the 313th Air Division on Okinawa before going to TAG in August, 1965. The Armed Forces Staff Col lege and National War College graduate and his wife Carolyn have two daughters and a son, Lt. Albert P. Clark Jr., of the Air Force. Dr. John T. Caldwell, chancel lor of North Carolina State Uni versity at Raleigh, will speak for commencement exercises. Caldwell joined North Carolina State as a chancellor in 1959, after serving for seven years as president of the University of Arkansas. He has also served as president of Alabama College and taught at Vanderbilt. A previous head of the Nation al Association of State Univer sities and Land Grant Colleges, Caldwell is currently chairman of the association’s International Affairs Committee. He has also served as chairman of the board of trustees for University Test ing Services. ★ ★ ★ Registrar Lists Degree Candidates Degree candidates are urged to check the list of students meet ing all academic requirements for graduation May 24, announced R. A. Lacey, registrar. The list, Lacey added, is post ed in the foyer of the Richard Coke Building, indicating eligi bility to participate in commence ment exercises Saturday at 9 a.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum, he concluded. Bryan Building & Loan Association. Your Sav ing Center, since 1919. B B &> Li —Adv. By DAVE BERRY Special to The Battalion From an initial goal of improv ing local communications to a present day goal of understanding journalism’s world position—thus has the Journalism Department of A&M developed in the past 50 years. During the department’s exis tence from 1918 to 1922 and from 1926 to 1948 its main goal was to educate students on the “meth ods of communications with local farm communities,” as stated by Dr. W. E. Garnett, the depart ment’s originator, in 1918. IN 1948 Judge Otis Miller put the department on a firmer foot ing by expanding it and again changing its goals. According to Council Approves Four MSC Budgets The Memorial Student Center Council approved four MSC Di rectorate committee budgets Monday night, with councilmen taking a close look at the need for some expenditures. The Council’s own budget of $930 was first to undergo scru tiny. Most members thought that coffee money, money spent to provide coffee at Council, execu tive committee, and committee meetings was somewhat wasteful of students’ funds. The same item was also ques tioned on the Directorate’s bud get. Mac Spears, Council presi dent, assigned both cases to a committee for study and possible revision. With that provision, both the Council and the $6,520 Directorate budgets passed. A Town Hall Rotary Com munity Series budget of $20,016, and a Town Hall budget of $58,955 were also approved. Kent Caperton, MSC vice- president, reported that the Coun cil’s nominating committee had three candidates it was consider ing for chairman of the Leader ship Committee. Caperton noted the need for obtaining a chairman as quickly as possible, and asked the Coun cil to meet soon to consider the committee’s final nomination. After discussion, 6:30 Wednes day morning was set as the time for a combined committee-Coun- cil meeting to interview the three candidates and resolve the issue. Judge Miller the department would now “strive to be of service to and prepare students for ca reers on the non-metropolitan neswpapers of Texas.” By the 1950’s then, the goal of A&M’s Department of Journalism was to serve not just the community but the state. C. J. Leabo, head of the Jour nalism Department since 1967, adds, “The department has had to keep up with the times by add ing courses dealing with visual and audio communications.” Le abo contends that, although such courses were added, by 1967 the department was still behind the times because of the emphasis upon structural or formulistic methods of learning. “What was needed,” says Leabo, “was a more realistic, functional approach. The department needed to de-emphasize the basics, 'the nuts and bolts’ of journalism and emphasize the modern world. It would then be able to produce well - rounded, p r e - professional journalists, who would have a knowledge of journalism in all of its aspects—its ethics, its so cial responsibilities, its position in today’s world. “IN ADDITION to producing a more oriented journalist, the real istic, functional, approach would produce a more properly oriented journalism course.” “To do this,” continued Leabo, “it would be necessary to adopt what I call the ‘sophomore tech nique’—giving the student all of the basics in his first two years— and then concentrating on making him a well-rounded pre-profes sional journalist.” Leabo realized that to bring about such a transformation of the department would mean mak ing changes in its curriculum. So this is what he set out to do, and this is what the Journalism Department is now doing. THESE curriculum changes, which go into effect this fall, include additions of courses, elim ination of courses and combining of courses. Of the 25 original journalism courses, only 11 have emerged unchanged, while one course has been added, one drop ped and five have been involved in some sort of combination. “In all, the department has cut out two courses,” says Leabo. “A reduction of courses such as this is virtually unheard of in the modern academic world. The courses which have been changed have been changed to content, according to Leabo, to “hook together technique and practice,” and to update the overall journalism course. THUS, news writing has been extended to cover the electronic media, as has advertising; and, to help the graduating journalist understand journalism’s modern role and social responsibilities, courses on mass communications, law and society, and on interpre tation of contemporary affairs have been changed. “What the department has done, in effect,” says Leabo, “is to ‘redesign the VW.’ The changes that have been made will give the course integration and a sounder base.” JUST as the Volkswagen has to be improved and redesigned every so often, so will the journal ism department in the future. Even now Leabo is attemtping to make A&M’s Journalism De partment more competitive with those of the other universities by lowering the graduating hour re quirement so that no more of that than 25 per cent of these hours be journalism courses. “The department hopes that the changes will have been, are being and will be made to professional ize the department and make it more competitive and will in crease the rate of growth of an already fast-growing journalism department,” says Leabo. In looking to the future Leabo cites a line which one of the de partment’s past heads applied to A&M’s Journalism Department— “The past is the prologue.” From all indications this line still ap plies to the department. V eteransReminded To Return Cards Veterans in training in college level programs are reminded to return certification of attendance cards promptly, announced Jack Coker, manager of the Veterans’ Administration regional office in Waco. Coker emphasized that veter ans should not wait until the end of the term to return the card. Failure to return, he said, will result in suspended payments and possible overpayment in a vet eran’s account. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv.