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VOLUME 64 Number 118
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1969
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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-
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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.
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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.