Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Thursday, June 26, 1969 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle . . And fight!” every teasip me, Editorial I hate to be the first one to say it out loud but I believe that as athletics at Texas A&M improves, the people are beginning to forget Randy Matson! The best part about this is that it is no reflection upon Randy as an athlete or as a man. The truth of the matter is that A&M athletes are just getting better. Curtis Mills’ performance this weekend in Knoxville, Tenn., was not as unexpected to me as it was to some of the other skeptics in the sports world. I followed the track team through every meet this year and saw Mills improve method ically, along with several others whom I would mention if space allowed. Matson was, of course, the greatest trackman (my opinion) to come out of our non Ivy-covered walls. I think that if you know anything about his accomplishments, you will see that he has dominated the shot put like no other man in history. What Curtis Mills has done outshines Matson’s world record only because he did it last week and not last year or the year before. People forget easily what happened in the past, remembering only flashes of memories. Thus, Mills takes the place of Matson. . . . And so it goes. Naturally as athletes such as Matson graduate and leave the campus, they are not forgotten exactly but rather stored away in the memory with the rest of former Aggie greats. The natural reaction of the man now attending A&M is to regard the athletes in the limelight at present as the best. Curtis Mills is now the world’s champion in the 440-yard dash. He beat Tommie Smith’s previous record of 44.8 by a tenth of a second. This kind of win is especially refreshing to A&M fans because they hadn’t expected it. All along, we secretly knew that Randy was going to win that gold medal and we would have probably been disappointed if he had failed. Curtis Mills is just a sophomore and has two more years of eligibility in the Southwest Conference and will undoubt edly be the man to beat in the 440 for at least two more years. His future is full of promise and so is A&M’s. The point of the matter is that the foundation for the future is being laid by the athletes now performing and if they follow in the footsteps of Matson and Mills, the Aggies will be back for a long time. RMC Friedman Cited For Rock Study Dr. Melvin Friedman of Texas A&M received the 1969 research award of the Intersociety Com mittee on Rock Medicines for an interdisciplinary paper on analy sis of rock strain. The Tectonophysics Center re search associate was presented a gold medal and plaque he will keep a year to the recent 11th Rock Mechanics Symposium on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. Friedman’s paper, “X-ray Analysis of Residual Elastic Strain in Quartzose Rocks,” will be published in the 10th sympo sium proceedings from an Austin meeting in May. Interdisciplinary character of the work is emphasized by the award. Friedman employed me chanics, crystallography, X-ray diffraction technology, materials testing, math, chemistry and geology in making the contribu tion to understanding residual rock strains. “Residual strains are locked in crystals or grains of a rock by past geologic deformations,” he explained. “They constitute po tential energy that, when releas ed, can influence strength and failure characteristics of the rock. They can contribute to rock bursts which are one of the major dangers to mining per sonnel, failure of structures built in rock such as dams and under ground excavations and earth quakes.” CRIME (Continued From Page 1) ous Planning,” and Thursday By MONTY STANLEY Students at Southwest Texas State, in San Marcos, protested the firing of four university pro fessors with a peaceful study-in on the mall between two build ings. The protest went without incident, and a petition was cir culated stating that its 230 sign ers believed the firing of the professors was for personal opin ions and had the appearance of a political purge. ★ ★ ★ A group of students at the University of Minnesota saw a need for someone to listen when a guy got in trou ble. They formed an organization called the Youth Emergency Service (YES), and they operate from a coffeehouse near the campus. A person in jail who doesn’t want anyone to find out; a person with a medical problem who needs to know of a clinic that can help him quickly; or just someone who feels that this time his problems have really got him down and he needs someone to listen and try to help —all these people can receive the services of students their own age. These students, not profes sionals or welfare agents, will listen and make suggestions with no questions asked. THE UNIVERSITY of Minne sota has already weathered Black Power and Red Power, but a new one, Pink Power,—or Gay Power, is it is properly termed by the leaders of the movement, has now arrived in the scene. Spon sored by the school’s Free Uni versity, Gay Power is “a homo sexual movement that seeks to change the laws, attitudes and prejudices of uptight, upright heterosexual America.” One of the controversies with which the students of the U of M are presently concerned is the large number of toilet stalls with no doors. Said one student in a letter to the school paper, “This is obviously a dirty administra tion plot to expose students for what they are.” ★ ★ ★ Tu’s paper included an editor ial directed against the June 19 Batt editorial which extolled the virtues of short-hair and campus rest on the A&M campus. If you’ll recall, several jocks chose A&M for these reasons. Said the Summer Texan, the University of Texas also . . . “has strong traditions (one of which happens to be walloping the Aggies). Fortunately, though, our tradi tions do not include one which makes a person with long hair or leftist ideals a campus reject. “IT IS PATHETIC that such an attitude exists on the Bryan campus. If having freedom at the University means the loss of a few high school ‘jocks,’ the University can do without ‘prize’ athletes.” Amen. ★ ★ ★ East Texas State University has a Campus Complaint center, an area for griping, making sug gestions, asking questions, and commenting on campus proce dures, policies, and facilities. Think of what it would be like if we had one here at A&M. It would have the only line longer than the one you wait in to get your packets at summer regis tration. LAST YEAR, due to the ef forts of the University of Hous ton’s Afro-Americans for Black Liberation, a task force was formed to investigate the treat ment of minorities and the pos sibility of a minority studies program. This summer, the new Afro-American studies program is already under way, under the direction of a history professor. Some of the courses to be taught include Black Identity, Swahili and Afro-American Literature. morning there will be a panel from the Law Enforcement As sistance Administration. A panel discussion will kick off Tuesday’s program. Charles Freil, director of re search at Sam Houston State University, will be moderator for the 8 a.m. program “Information Gathering.” Other members of the panel are Dougles Williams, director of data processing. City of Houston, Dr. Hazel Kerper and District Judge Thomas Stovall of Harris County. Judge Stovall’s appearance is tentative. After a 10 a.m. coffee break, the conference will break into three concurrent sessions. Wil liams will head the law 'enforce ment group, Judge Stovall will head the prosecution and courts and Dr. Kerper will moderate the corrections and rehabilitation group. Jim Wilson of the Texas Re search League will be the guest speaker at the Tuesday luncheon. Tuesday afternoon sessions will be led by Bill Partridge of Sys tems Science Corp., California, and Williams. They will give case studies of state and local plan ning processes. “Continuous Planning” will be the subject of Wednesday’s ses sions. Giles Garmon, operational proj ect director of Travis County, will be heard at 8:30 a.m. on “Texas Adult Probation Project.” Garmon’s talk will be followed by a program by Bill Walsh of the Section of Criminal Law, American Bar Association. Walsh’s appearance is tenta tive. The subject of his talk is “Minimum Standards Implemen tation Program of the American Bar Association.” Charles Freil, director of re search for the Sam Houston State University Graduate School, will speak at 10:30 on “Research and Development, in the Planning Process.” Homer Reed, executive director of the Texas Research League, will be the luncheon speaker Wednesday. Wednesday afternoon sessions will be on “Maintenance of the On-Going Planning Process,” and “An Overview of Criminal Justice Planning.” Guest speakers include a ten tative schedule for George Tru- bon, director of the Governor’s Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice, State of Maryland, to speak on the first subject and Terrell Blodgett of Peat, Marwick, Mitcli. ell and Co., a law firm, to speak on the criminal justice planning, Members of the Law Enforce, ment Assistance Administration panel include Cornelia Cooper, chief, West Regional Desk; Da. vid Austem, Organized Crime Programs; W. F. Caldwell, act ing chief, Academic Assistance; Lawrence Carpenter, Corrections Programs; Paul Eastover, Riots and Civil Disorders Programs; Larry Giddings, Law Enforce ment Specialist; Mark Jennings, fiscal officer, LEAA; Charles Lauer, Law Enforcement Special ist, and Sydney Rocker, director of Police Operations. The conference wilh end will the noon luncheon Friday. perma-crease Westbury Slacks 3im Stnrnco umbersitp men’# tow 329 University Drive 7 1 3 / 846-27# College Station, Texas 77840 U E Coop< tween T ographe the las A&M L Durir R, Hasl product her firs Gulf of uate oc The 1 of the Sunday country A&M voyage’ ENGINEERING (Continued From Page 1) institute wil involve A&M’s Col leges of Engineering, Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine. The board agreed to purchase a privately owned men’s dormi tory in Stephenvile, near the Tarleton State campus. Terms of the agreement call for payment of $320,000 in six per cent revenue bonds to RM and DY, Inc. of Odessa, present owner of the 150- student, three-year-old facility. Included in the total cost is con struction by the present owner of a cafeteria addition and in stallation of related equipment. Board members approved a $1 increase in the fee for identifica tion cards for Texas A&M stu dents and an adjustment in pen alty for late payment of room and board, beginning this fall. University officials explained the current $1 fee for identifica tion cards is insufficient to cover expenses for the new lamination process and color photography now being employed. Maximum penalty for delin quent room and board payment will be increased from $5 to $10, on the basis of $1 per day. Where as delinquent students can now be dropped from the university rolls after five days, officials pointed out students will have 10 days under the new policy. The board also voted to renew Texas A&M’s student health serv ice and insurance plan. The uni versity cooperates with the Stu dent Senate in making the plan available on a voluntary basis. The insurance is underwritten by Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co. 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