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Vol. 65 No. 1
College Station, Texas Wednesday, September 10, 1969
Telephone 845-2226
Rudder Sees Cadet Corps
As First Target of ‘Kooks’
Babes
If —
The Corps of Cadets will be the
No. 1 target of “kooks, anti-mili
tarists and just plain lousy Amer
icans this year,” President Earl
Rudder warned 1969-70 cadet
leaders Monday.
“Meeting their attack is pri
marily up to you,” the president
challenged, “but I guarantee you
won’t walk alone.”
The attack will come from
everywhere, “from within and
without,” he added. “There are
people in this nation—and on
this campus — who would wipe
ROTC off the face of the earth.”
AM’s record as a source of
officers during two world wars,
the Korean and Vietnam conflicts
is one of the reasons the univer
sity will be in the dissidents’
sights.
“A&M’s stability is known
throughout the world,” Rudder
stated, citing an article in the
London Mirror. Credit and re
sponsibility for maintaining it re
sides primarily with the corps of
cadets, he said.
Activities of dissidents, corps
responses, effects on the univer
sity and nation, summer develop
ments and goals for the school
year were discussed with 250 sen
iors and juniors. They checked in
a week ahead of the fall semester
start of classes.
About a third of the expected
1,100 new corps members reported
Sunday. Other freshmen arrive
Wednesday and upperclassmen
return Friday for the Monday,
Sept. 15, school year start.
Key corps officers headed by
Corps Commander Matthew R.
Carroll of Annandale, Va., and
Deputy Commander George I.
Mason of San Antonio were at
the Monday commanders confer
ence. (See picture, page 9.)
Commenting on the “upside
down condition of the world to
day,” Rudder told the newly com
missioned cadet officers “you are
needed this year by your univer
sity more than ever before. No
one has in his hands any more
than you the status of A&M and
the university's education this
year of 14,000 students.”
“If seed sown among us by
dissidents falls on fertile ground,
we’re going to have a sorry year,”
the president observed. “If the
dissension falls on thistles, thorns
and rocky ground, the year will
be great.”
Problems can be expected, he
added, but attitudes should par
allel that of the Apollo 11 astro
nauts when asked about a dan
gerous part of their mission.
“They said “yes, that’s going
to be an interesting situation’,”
Rudder observed. “You and I are
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First $115 Million Budget
Approved By Directors
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A record $115,474,550 operat
ing budget for the Texas A&M
University System for 1969-70
was approved today by its
board of directors, subject to
availability of funds.
The new budget represents a
13 per cent increase over the
previous year, with all major di
visions receiving operating in
creases.
Contracts totaling $377,944
were awarded for eight construc
tion projects and $212,098 was
appropriated for six additional
undertakings.
Included in the appropriations
was $24,998 to purchase 50 acres
of land for establishment of a
new research and extension cen
ter at San Angelo.
The board also confirmed ap
pointment of Dr. John C. Cal
houn Jr., as A&M vice president
for programs, giving him addi
tional responsibilities as the uni
versity’s dean of geosciences. The
position has been filled the past
year by Dr. Earl F. Coow, asso
ciate dean.
Tentative operating budgets
for various divisions within the
Texas A&M system are: Texas
A&M, 58,416,790; Prairie View,
$10,508,102; Tarleton State, $4,-
060,565, and the Texas Maritime
Academy, $805,521.
Also the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station, $14,354,208;
Texas Agricultural Extension
Service, $12,923,017; Texas Engi
neering Experiment Station (in-
New Student Week Starts
With Assembly Tonight
Beards —
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A general assembly at 7:30 to
night will begin the university’s
New Student Week Program.
Dean of Students James P.
Hannigan will preside at the G.
Rollie White Coliseum meeting
for all new students, the first
meeting of a three-day program.
President Earl Rudder will
make the welcoming address.
Other speakers include Harry
A. Snowdy, Corps chaplain; Ger
ald Geistweidt, Student Senate
president, and Robert Boone, di
rector of the Singing Cadets, will
be in charge of entertainment.
Starting at 8 a.m. Thursday,
assemblies will be held by each
college where the new students
will hear talks about their major
course of study and meet with
the college’s dean.
The schedule of assemblies in
cludes: Agriculture majors meet
in Physics Building, Room 321,
Dr. R. C. Potts presiding; archi
tecture students meet in Archi
tecture Building, Lecture Room,
James A. Foster presiding; busi
ness majors meet in Biological
Sciences Building, Lecture Room,
Prof. Dan C. Lowe presiding; ed
ucation majors meet in Memorial
Student Center Ballroom, Dr.
Frank W. R. Hubert presiding.
Also, engineering majors meet
in G. Rollie White Coliseum, Dr.
C. H. Ransdell presiding; geosci
ences majors meet in Geology
Building, Room 105, Dr. Edwin
Doran presiding; liberal arts ma
jors meet in Guion Hall, Dr.
Charles E. McCandless presiding;
science majors meet in Chemistry
Building, Lecture Room, Prof. J.
B. Backham presiding; pre-vet-
erinary medicine majors, meet in
Veterinary Medicine Building
Auditorium, Dr. E. D. McMurry
presiding; Texas Maritime Acad
emy majors meet in Physics
Building, Room 145.
Another general assembly will
be held at 1:15 p.m. Thursday
with Dean Hannigan presiding.
Topics to be presented include
“Student Life at Texas A&M
University” and “Student Activ
ity Programs.”
All civilian students will meet
with resident hall advisers in
their halls at 3 p.m.
A church assembly will start
at 7 p.m. in G. Rollie White Coli
seum, sponsored by the YMCA.
Logan Weston, coordinator of re
ligious life and YMCA general
secretary, will preside with open
houses at local churches to fol
low the assembly.
Cadet Corps unit meetings and
residence hall meetings begin at
9:30 a.m. Friday.
Open house at the Memorial
Student Center will begin at 6:30
p.m. Friday.
President and Mrs. Rudder,
university officials and MSC stu
dent leaders will meet the new
students, their parents and
friends.
Organization of the Corps of
Cadets will be held from 8 a.m.
until noon Saturday.
An orientation for all coeds
will be held from 10 a.m. until
noon in the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom.
eluding the Texas Transporta
tion Institute), $6,895,058; Texas
Engineering Extension Service,
$1,348,023; Texas Forest Service,
$2,701,884 and the Rodent and
Predatory Animal Control Serv
ice, $570,708. System offices and
departments, the only category
showing a decrease, received the
remaining $2,890,674.
The Marley Co. of Kansas City
received a $95,090 contract to
provide cooling towers for the
central utilities plant addition at
A&M.
A Houston firm, Ingersoll-
Rand Co., was awarded two con
tracts totaling $92,108 for chilled
water and boiler feed pumps with
drivers for the utilities plant
addition.
Sentry Construction Co. of
Bryan won a $70,057 contract to
build a poultry disease research
laboratory at A&M. Another
Bryan firm, S&H Plumbing Co.,
was the successful! bidder for a
$50,974 addition to the universi
ty’s sanitary sewer system.
Other awards included $27,588
to Walter Droemer General Con
tractors of Giddings for construc
tion of an agronomy field crop
laboratory at A&M; $24,910 to
Scientific Systems Corp. of Bat
on Rouge for bioassay and sol
vent storage cool rooms at
A&M’s Biological Sciences Build
ing, and $18,216 to TUSHA
Buildings, Inc. of Lubock, new
greenhouse for the Agricultural
Research and Extension Center
at Lubbock.
Appropriations included $50,-
000 for preliminary design of a
new office and classroom build
ing at Texas A&M, and $4,000
for design of a staging area for
oceanographic research vessels at
A&M’s Mitchell campus in Gal
veston.
The board approved the uni
versity’s request to seek state
authorization to offer new under
graduate degree programs in
technical education and envir
onmental design.
Off Campus Housing Need Said
‘Urgent’ by University Officials
The university has “an urgent
need” for off-campus housing for
single and married students.
Housing Manager Allan M.
Madeley reports current needs
are about 100 rooms for single
students and 200 apartments or
houses for married students.
“The housing office urges any
one with any type of rooms,
apartments or houses to call us
the listing,” Madeley stressed.
However, he emphasized that
the dwellings must be in good
condition and suitable for living.
“The university will be able
to provide on-campus housing
for most single undergraduates,”
Madeley said. “Our main con
cern is finding suitable housing
for graduate students and mar
ried students.”
Madeley also asks that persons
who have had listings with the
office, and rented, to please call
so his office can take that listing
off the list.
“There is no need to re-list
housing that was listed during
August,” Madeley said. “We still
have current listings on file.”
Changing the Rules on Student Radicals
College Presidents Getting Tougher
Billiards.
Back to Books
(Front Page Photos by Bob Stump)
WASHINGTON UP) —Radicals
warming up for a new round of
student upheavals can expect to
find tougher ground rules on cam
pus this fall.
A nationwide Associated Press
survey shows that university and
college administrators, once help
lessly baffled by violence behind
ivy-covered walls, now are de
termined to deal decisively and
firmly with forces seeking to ob
struct the normal life of the aca
demic community.
At the same time, the survey
discloses that administrators have
taken steps to accommodate con
structive student demands for
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
more involvement in the day-to-
day conduct of college and uni
versity affairs.
Other survey findings:
—Across the country there’s
been a loosening of restrictive
campus regulations, such as rules
forbidding men students from
visiting coeds in dormitories.
—An increasing number of in
stitutions are moving to offer
more opportunities to minority
groups, and to widen the field of
black students.
—Campus security forces have
been beefed up at many schools.
Administrators say they will rely
more on court orders, such as in
junctions, to curb radical activ
ists. And many say they won’t
hesitate to call police onto cam
pus when necessary.
On a majority of the campuses,
students this fall will be filling
places on faculty and adminis
trative councils previously off
limits to them, according to a
poll by the American Association
of State Colleges and Univer
sities.
No administrator will predict,
however, that these and other
changes already put into effect
are enough to head off disruption.
What emerges most strongly in
the AP survey is the determina
tion of administrators to avoid
the image of the university presi
dent powerless in his own domain
when violence strikes.
The stiffening attitude is re
flected in beefed up security
forces at many institutions.
The University of Maryland,
for example, has installed a se
curity supervisor with a back
ground of work in police. He has
a campus force of 47 officers and
says he would like to add 10 more.
The University of Texas has
increased its security force “part
ly because of our growth and
partly because we want to be
ready for anything,” says a uni
versity spokesman. The force in
cludes some 50 officers trained
in FBI-sponsored schools for
peace officers.
Temple University in Philadel
phia, which once relied on retired
men hired through a detective
agency, has formed its own 125-
man security staff.
A bombing incident led officials
at Claremont Colleges—a cluster
of six private institutions 40 miles
from Los Angeles—to increase
campus security patrols by two
men bringing the total to 16.
Reflecting public impatience
with recurring waves of campus
turmoil is a series of bills passed
in 20 state legislatures in the
past four months.
Most of these measures prohib
it blocking buildings, interfering
with classes and intimidating
members of the university com
munity.
Illustrative of the tougher poli
cies laid down by university
administrators is a new set of
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