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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, June 12, 1969
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
ON OTHER CAMPUSES
“Frankly, I’d never guess that you were your outfit’s out
standing sophomore!”
Editorial
The impossible has finally happened! Heavens above,
Texas A&M University in all its glory has finally adopted the
four-point grading system.
Those of you who have attended a major university,
especially one on the archaic three-point system, for any
length of time already know the pros and cons of the new
step.
Most of you Aggies have all watched grade points slip
under the bridge because you managed to miss a letter grade
by a stirring three-tenths of a point. The cutoff point for
your successors will be a 60 to pass where it was a 70 when
you tightroped through.
Certainly this step can only improve the outdated
grading scale by making it easier for those students who miss
the next letter grade by a measly point or two. However,
most things are relative and, more than likely, the 60 will
seem like 70 did in a few more years. Anyway, when you tell
someone you have a 1.945 overall, it beats the hell out of
having a .945, at least in name if nothing else.
R.M.C.
61 Die In Viet War
Sixty-one former Texas A&M
students have died in the Vietnam
war and seven are listed as
missing in action.
The Association of Former Stu
dents office reported the death
count from correspondence it has
received from families and friends
of the servicemen.
The casualty list include^ 57
officers and four enlisted men—
from a Marine Corps major gen
eral to an Army private first
class.
Marine Maj. Gen. Bruno A.
Hochmuth, 1935 graduate, was
commander of the 3rd Marine
Division when he was killed in a
helicopter crash north of Hue
on Nov. 13, 1967.
Hochmuth, a native of Houston,
was the second U. S. general to
die in the war. He was one of
A&M’s mqst distinguished mili
tary leaders.
Air Force Capt. Condon H.
Terry Jr. of Dallas, Class of
1956, was the first A&M former
student to die in Vietnam. Terry,
a T-28 pilot, was shot down and
died in June, 1963.
Former student files show two
ex-students died in 1963, three
died in 1964, 14 died in 1965, two
died in 1966, 13 died in 1967, 17
died in 1968 and 10 had died
through! June 4 of this year.
The Class of 1966 has lost the
most students in the war — eight.
Six former students have been
killed from the Classes of 1964
and 1965, according to the records.
Deaths by other classes follow:
Four from the Classes of 1960,
1958, 1956 and 1955; three from
the Classes of 1963, 1962, 1961
and 1959; two from the Classes
of 1969, 1967, 1957 and 1952, and
one from the Classes of 1954,
1950, 1948, 1942 and 1935.
By MONTY STANLEY
In Austin there is a park near
tu (or The University as it is
called by you warped-minded in
dividuals who attend it the rest
of the year but for some reason
consider it to your advantage to
attend A&M during the sum
mer). It has lately become pop
ular to sunbathe and drink beer
on a hill in that park, something
which approaches inevitability,
considering the proximity of
over 20,000 sun-worshipping,
beer-drinking young people. How
ever, in a story in the campus
paper, the Summer Texan, Aus
tin’s director of parks and recre
ation stated that he “objected to
groups of young adults drinking
beer and sunbathing on the hill
side.” The director further com
mented, “I think it’s fine if a
man brings his family for a pic
nic and has some beer, but just a
bunch of kids — that’s a differ
ent thing. We’re just going to
tell them to move on.” When
questioned further concerning the
legality of this action, he said
he believes he has the authority
to move young adults away from
the hillside because, even if they
are quietly sunbathing, it is “a
disruption of the parks pro
gram” which he says, is “family
picnicking.”
★ ★ ★
Two students
at W ashington
State University
have been serv
ing jail sentences
for assault con- ; T***
victions during 5 ' ^
this last semes
ter. They serve
the sentences on weekends so
that they may attend classes
during the week as usual. Both
varsity football players, they
recently came very close to los
ing this privilege when they were
somehow “wrongly informed that
they did not have to report be
cause of a Saturday football
scrimmage.”
WSU has an interesting divi
sion called the Institutional Re
search Department which, accord
ing to the WSU Evergreen, plays
a large part in the life of the
university. They find deficiencies
and weak spots in both and de
termine solutions to them. For
example, the department is pres
ently studying such things as
“student environment, student
performance in relation to edu
cational objectives, interaction of
students and educators, outside
influences on academic achieve
ment, and assessing academic
Dr. Ray Awarded
Research Grant
Dr. Sammy M. Ray, director of
the Texas A&M Marine Labora
tory in Galveston, has been
awarded a $43,616 research grant
from the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare.
The three-year grant is for the
laboratory study of toxic dino-
flagellates and becomes effective
July 1.
Dr. Richard A. Geyer, heade
of the Oceanography Department
at A&M, said dinoflagellates are
the small marine organisms that
cause the “red tide.”
The dinoflagellates move in
close to shore, using up all the
oxygen, and this leads to large
fish kills, Dr. Geyer noted.
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potential,” all areas in which
A&M could easily stand improve
ment, if only there were some
realistic prescribed way set up
to change the present methods
of operation.
From WSU’s Daily Evergreen
comes this eloquent description
of the KK’s: the “pistol packing
protectors of the parking lots.”
★ ★ ★
An end of the year tradition at
TCU, as at many other colleges,
is a massive panty raid of all the
girls’ dorms. This time, the 200
yelling males involved managed
to attract the attention of the
campus police who arrived
promptly on the scene to bad-eye
the “revolutionaries” for a while,
as only the campus police can
do, thus becoming the unwitting
center of attraction to the whole
mess. Dorm counselors requested
that they leave, in hopes that
then the residents might return
to their dorms. One policeman,
however, refused to leave until
the Assistant Dean of Men ar
rived and asked him to. By this
time eight “shotgun and billy-club
carrying Fort Worth patrolmen”
had arrived, shifting the atten
tion to them, and the enthusiastic
raiders continued with new fer
vor. At this time, however, the
police sergeant in charge had the
sense to realize there was noth
ing happening which warranted
police action. Amid cheers from
students, he waved as he and his
group drove off. Sort of remi
niscent of the KK here at A&M
who came over to the dorm area
to check out a water fight. Need
less to say, within five minutes
he was soaked from head to foot.
He was not to be denied immedi
ate retribution, however. Some
one handed him a wastecan full
of water, which he utilized, and
law and order was thus main
tained.
Calhoun Heads
Oil Hazard Study
A Presidential panel headed by
Dr. John C. Calhoun Jr., Texas
A&M vice president, has recom
mended oil development be con
tinued on the off-shore lease near
Santa Barbara, Calif., where a
well blowout occurred earlier this
year.
The panel concluded it is less
hazardous to proceed with devel
opment of the lease than to at
tempt to seal the structure with
its oil content intact.
Interior Secretary Walter J.
Hickel, who requested the (Study,
said this week he was adopting
the panel’s suggestions.
In addition to continued oil re
moval, the group recommended
that underwater receptacles or
other suitable methods be em
ployed to trap crude still seeping
from the Union Oil Co. lease site.
It also recommended cement be
inserted through the leaking fis
sures to seal them.
Calhoun, who heads Texas
A&M’s programs, also serves as
chairman for an earlier Presi
dential panel asked to recommend
means to avoid such mishaps as
the Santa Barbara incident. The
January accident unleased tons
of crude oil on California beaches.
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