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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Wednesday, August 20, 1969
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
“Before we begin the final exam to conclude this course,
could I ask that all of you go outside and kill your motors
to hold down the noise!”
Nixon
Mold
Urged To
Op
inions
Cong. Olin E. Teague in Bry
an today called on President Nix
on to marshall world opinion
against North Vietnam’s Ho Chi
Minh for the North Vietnamese
Header’s unbelievably inhumane
response to repeated requests for
information about American
prisoners of war.
“This calloused butcher who
wants the world to think of him
as kindly Uncle Ho shows, in
fact, that he hasn’t the feelings
of the lowliest curr dog in his
adamant refusal to provide the
slightest information on prison
ers except as it suits his inhu
mane purposes,” Teague stated.
“Just providing basic informa
tion would cost him nothing and
might even earn him some re
spect from other nations. It
would certainly relieve the un
bearable suffering of the wives
and families of prisoners and
those missing in action.”
Teague said the wives, chil
dren and parents who suffer the
most are not in any way or
sense, contributors to any aspects
of the war.
“President Nixon should mus
ter every resource at his com
mand including instructing all
our Ambassadors all over the
world to contact other govern
ments on this question. He
should further do alt possible to
use every resource we have to
enlist UN support to bring world
opinion to bear on this matter,”
Teague said. “The Administra
tion has taken a small step with
a statement recently by the Sec
retary of Defense on the prison
er of war question. But I feel
that these wives and families de-
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serve better — they deserve the
personal attention of the Presi
dent and they deserve his best
efforts to muster world opinion
in obtaining information in order
to relieve their terrible agony.”
Teague said the North Vietna
mese leaders have shown in the
past that they do respond to
world opinion. He said this na
tion must make its best effort
on behalf of the prisoners and
their families.
The congressman, referring to
the recent release of three pris
oners and subsequent propa
ganda statements by the paci
fists who went to Hanoi to get
them said that while the per
sonal tragedies of three families
have been lessened the callous
use of the prisoners to make all
families suffer was a despicable
act.
The North Vietnamese an
nounced over a month ago that
three prisoners would be released
but gave no names and repeat
edly refused information.
“I can imagine the terrible
suffering caused all the other
families of known prisoners and
missing Americans,” Teague
said.
“He said the North Vietna
mese have consistently refused
to even reveal the number of
prisoners or provide identifica
tion of them, and have repeat
edly ignored the internationally
sanctioned rules governing pris
oners of war.
“I believe the President can
act to cause better response — I
believe the President should act
and I believe he should act im
mediately,” the congressman said.
University of Minnesota school
officials, rather than military
personnel, will give presentations
of Selective Service System draft
and military deferment laws to
freshmen during orientation this
fall. According to the vice pres
ident of student affairs, the
change was made to “keep ob
jectivity to the satisfaction of
all,” though he added, “I was
satisfied that it was an objective
program from the start.”
One group calling for this
change to be en
acted was the
'%. ii Students Against
^ | Selective Service.
f / A member of
* or g an i za tion
^ pointed out that
the Air Force
major presenting
the information to the freshmen
last Monday gave information
that was “incomplete and incor
rect,” referring to the major’s
statement that every male has
a “military obligation.” Said the
member, “There is nothing in the
Selective Service laws that says
this. . . . Only about 40 per cent
of those aged 18 will ever serve
in the military, as many will be
exempted or disqualified.”
A dynamic duo from the U of
M are paddling up the Missis
sippi from New Orleans, La., to
Minneapolis, Minn. — 1,700 miles
— in an attempt to better the
feat of Arnold Sevareid, who
paddled up the Minnesota River
and over to Hudson Bay. The
boys have capsized twice so far,
the first time losing their new
AM-FM radio, their camera, and
some other belongings; the sec
ond time losing another new ra
dio plus everything they owned
except for a sleeping bag and
their tent.
★ ★ ★
A sociology professor at South
west Texas State University is
attempting to bring relevance in
to his class on minority groups.
He has invited representatives
from different factions of vari
ous minority groups to give his
predominantly white class lec
ture-discussion periods. The last
to be heard from was a group of
black militants from the Student
National Coordinating Commit
tee from San Antonio. Before
the session is ended, he hopes to
have a special sociologist to
speak on the report of the Vio
lence Commission and a San An-
Students Start
3-Week Break
Texas A&M students turn the
campus over to summer confer
ence and short course partici
pants Friday to start a three-
week break in university classes.
A&M personnel will employ
the period, however, preparing
for an expected record 14,000
students for the fall semester
starting Sept. 15.
Activity will continue after
second summer session students
complete final examinations
Thursday and Friday. Almost 400
participants will be at A&M dur
ing the class recess for confer
ences, institutes and seminars.
Among them are the Naval
Reserve Seminar Aug. 24 to
Sept. 6; Police Community Rela
tions Institute, Aug. 24-28; In
dustrial Accident Prevention Con
ference, Sept. 8-10, and the Data
Processing Management Confer
ence, Sept. 14-19.
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★ ★ ★
Incoming freshmen were treat
ed to an unexpected taste of col
lege life at Texas Tech when the
boys were placed on the second
floor of Coleman Hall, in which
the girls attending the Journal
ism Workshop were also stay
ing. No restrictions were placed
on which floors the boys or girls
could stay on and, consequently,
the young coeds many times
found themselves in “embarrass
ing situations,” according to the
University Daily. The director
of Tech housing, when informed
of the incidents said that due to
unexpected reservations, this
was the only solution and “boys
will be boys.”
★ ★ ★
The University of Texas is of
fering this fall its newly initiated
pass-fail system which makes it
possible for a student to take
courses as electives for which he
will receive credit without a
grade. According to the Daily
Texan, the main purpose of the
pass-fail arrangement is “to en
courage students to elect courses
in subjects that interest them
but in which they are uncertain
about the adequacy of their prep
aration or level of achievement.
“By removing some of the con
cern for grades and competition,
it is hoped that students will be
more venturesome in planning a
part of their studies.”
Texas A&M will host its 12th
annual Police Community Rela
tions Institute starting Sunday
on the campus.
The week-long program is
sponsored jointly by the A&M
Engineering Extension Service
Police Training Division and the
National Conference of Chris
tians and Jews.
A&M’s training chief, Ira E.
Scott, said the National Confer
ence of Christians and Jews fur
nishes scholarships to law en
forcement officers, persons whose
jobs affect law enforcement and
interested citizens.
A&M Student
Drowned Monday
Funeral services for Jose An
tonio Almanza, 22, a junior fin
ance student at Texas A&M Uni
versity, were held at 11 a.m.
Wednesday in St. Theresa Cath
olic Church, Bryan.
Almanza drowned Monday eve
ning while wading near Welsh
Park on Lake Somerville.
He is survived by his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Ascension Alman
za of Bryan; five brothers, five
sisters and paternal grand
mother.
Almanza’s 14-year-old sister,
Modesta, was revived at the
scene by members of the family.
She was wading with her brother
in less than six feet of water,
according to Somerville police.
Silver Taps for Almanza will
be held early this fall semester,
according to university officials.
“We anticipate an attendance
of about 70 from Texas, Louisi
ana, Oklahoma and Arkansas,”
Scott pointed out.
Helping with the coordination
of the institute is E. R. McWil
liams, retiring director of the
Houston regional office, NCCJ,
and Phil Libby, the new director.
McWilliams has been associated
with the institute since its begin
ning at A&M.
“We know we can’t solve all
the problems of law enforcement,
but we can assist the officers to
recognize they do have problems
involving community relations,”
Scott explained. “We even come
up with some answers.”
The institute gets speakers to
talk about community relations,
then work groups discuss what
the speaker had to say and they
later hold feedback sessions with
the speaker,” he said.
Curt Blefary, Houston’s first
baseman, would like to project
his first-half-of-August runs bat
ted in totals over a full season
sometime. At the pace of 20 RBI
in 13 games, the big lefthander
would knock in something like
240 runs over a full season!
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