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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, June 26, 1969
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
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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.
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ENGINEERING
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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.
The board authorized the uni
versity to make a study of the
nuclear-powered agro-industrial
complex and identify areas where
federal and industrial groups
might be receptive to research
proposals. A report on the pre
liminary study wil be made at
the next board meeting.
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