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i; Texas A&M, the state’s oldest
public institution of higher learn
ing, will celebrate its 93rd anni
versary Saturday and start plan
ning for the centennial in 1976.
j|l A&M President Earl Rudder
||nnounced appointment of a
three-man committee to submit
recommendations for the century
celebration. The committee in
cludes Admissions and Records
Dean H. L. Heaton, chairman;
Edward J. Romieniec, dean of the
College of Architecture and En
vironmental Design, and Dr.
J. M. Nance, head of the History
Department.
University officials also paused
briefly to review the school’s rec
ord in recent years and concluded
almost all of its centennial goals
have already been accomplished
—more than six years ahead of
schedule.
The goals were set in 1962 by
A&)M’s board of directors follow
ing recommendations by the
Century Council, composed of 100
distinguished Texans who con
ducted a thorough study of the
institution.
Objectives included develop
ment of a strong instructional
program within a “university”
structure, high-caliber graduate
and research programs, highest
possible quality instruction and
long-range programs to attract
students of high intellectual ca
pacity. Another objective called
for development of a physical
plant consistent with a program
of excellence.
Texas A&M earned “university”
status in 1963 and has strength
ened its existing instructional
programs and expanded into new
fields.
Rudder noted that since 1965,
A&M has established separate
colleges for liberal arts, science,
geosciences, business administra
tion, education and architecture
and environmental design.
University officals also pointed
out A&M is getting better stu
dents. More than half of its en-
Anniversary Saturday
tering freshmen finished in the
top quarter of their high school
graduating classes.
Graduate enrollment has ex
panded at even a faster rate than
the total student body. Approxi
mately one of every five A&M
students is now studying on the
graduate level. Last year, the in
stitution awarded a record 774
graduate degrees, including 191
doctorates.
The A&M faculty now totals
approximately 1,000, with more
than half holding doctoral de
grees.
A&M officials say the institu
tion has met the challenge to
develop a physical plant consis
tent with a program of excel
lence by undertaking building
projects which have doubled the
value of the campus since 1962.
Current value of facilities is more
than $125 million.
Te multi-million-dollar cyclo
tron and nuclear reactor are sai^l
to be without equal in the South
west. The institution also has
constructed new space technology
and science facilities, a new li
brary and expanded its veterinary
medicine complex. Construction
planned for the next five years
to tals more than $50 million
and includes a new engineering
center, auditorium, academic
building, more student accommo
dations and an oceanography-
meteorology complex—the cam
pus' first high-rise structure.
When A&M opened its doors to
students Oct. 4, 1876, it had a
two-building campus.
airvi^J SIGN OF SPIRIT
,6 - 34 45 Charles Wills, John Carlson, and Pat Schreiber, three 1-1 freshmen, work on an outfit
-"spirit sign for the A&M-Army game this Saturday. The Aggies take on the West Point
“mod cadets at 2 p. m. in New York. See related story, page 4. (Photo by Steve Bryant)
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Newsman Tells GI Crowd
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^‘Russian Way Can’t Last’
■eraity By Pat Little
^Battalion Staff Writer
u.rfn'thet The present Russian govern-
. 1969, n|ient can’t last because people
_can’t be ruled with force for-
Sorps A»ever,” said Haynes Johnson last
anizatiow
U Clubs,
tnight at the first Great Issues
ba, Horypregentation of the year in the
•ning t Ors«Memorial Student Center ball-
must file ir Johnson, a newsman who trav-
iiBER iNled in the Communist-bloc coun-
^tries during August, has received
PLAQllthe Pulitzer Prize for distin-
jce guished national reporting,
unt* He said the government in
ige, Intpower in Russia is out of tune
822.5%jth the people, and already
SUPPLIfthese people have begun to voice
.their disapproval.
' — “A government that rules by
i Cars force is the weakest type of gov-
>• ernment, and those in power fear
I ;:v m for their positions and influ-
1 1 ence,” Johnson claimed.
- Buicl Johnson said the “second Rus-
J.rfsian revolution” started initially
.in Hungary in 1956, but was
im^gcrushed with Russian tanks.
I “The United States said it was
ANGED§ n favor of countries that threw
itced their oppressors, but when
the Hungarians did revolt, the
ISSIOiwOfted States did nothing to
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help,” Johnson said.
Johnson went on to say that
last year’s Uprising in Czechos
lovakia came about because the
Czechs wanted more flexible con
trol from the Russians.
They wanted to trade with
western countries, to criticize
the government, and have a more
lenient control,” he said.
“The Russians sent in their
tanks and troops, the revolution
was crushed, and Dubcek, former
premier, was removed from pow
er,” he added.
“The last chapter of this trag
edy was written last week when
the Russians said Dubcek and
the revolution were taken from
the records,” Johnson continued.
“Dubcek, his ideas of a personal
socialism, and his followers don’t
exist.”
Johnson quoted an East Euro
pean writer as saying “the Rus
sians won’t be able to put down
the revolution of these countries
because they can’t change in 20
years what has been built in
2000 years and you can never
change ideas, never.”
“There are two things that
must be understood about the
Czechoslovakians,” Johnson said.
“They are not anti-Russian and
they are not anti-socialist.
The Russians did rescue the
country from Nazi rule and they
remember it, Johnson said. He
also said he did not think East
and West Germany will be re
united in the foreseeable future
because the Czechs fear a united
Germany since World War IL
He said all of these countries
want a socialist system, but one
in which they can go their own
way and be able to live with the
rest of the world.
“As one student said to me,
‘You have your problems in
America and you solve your
problems; let us solve ours’,”
Johnson said.
“The countries behind the
Iron Curtain are still carrying
on their revolution,” Johnson
went on, “but in a quiet way so
they won’t offend Russia.”
They will succeed in this be
cause Russia can’t afford to do
anything about it, he predicted.
He went on saying that ttie
United States is committed in
Vietnam and the Russians have
all the East European countries
along with Red China to contend
with.
SICE
Says Chief Powell
;roup
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Parking ‘Saturated’
- ^By Pat Little
:ARD Battalion Staff Writer
Campus parking facilities have
reached the saturation point this
Jie, fall in their ability to handle
student and faculty vehicles, ac
cording to Campus Security Chief
r — ,Ed Powell.
brand' Powell also said that there has
jginatibeen an increased number of
rved parking violations this fall. The
|fact that people “just don’t like
JS ! to walk,” was the reason he gave.
“There are still spaces avail-
able in lot 48 (near Kyle Field)
TO® and at the south end of lot 49
10,M (along FM 2154),” the chief said,
^ a “but people try to park in the
center of the campus.
) Cl 1 “Giving out tickets is the only
rs means of stopping students from
. 251 parking in staff areas,” Powell
plugs said. “If we let the students park
. where they wanted, they would
take over the inside parking lots
\ C K and the staff would have to park
‘ on the outside and walk in.”
“There are other ways of solv
ing the problem,” Powell con-
, tinued. “The University of Texas
at Austin, for example, has re-
tS fused to let anyone park on the
University National Bank
^ i “On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
campus. “Students and staff
members have to park on the
outside and walk in,” Powell said.
The chief added that any stu
dent who thinks that he has re
ceived a ticket which he thinks
unfair, he can take it to the Traf
fic Appeals Committee.
The committee is composed of
students, faculty, and adminis
trators and meets every Wednes
day at 5 p.m., according to J.
Malon Southerland, committee
chairman.
Southerland explained that a
person can go to Campus Security
and make an appointment to ap
pear before the committee and
he will have 10 minutes to plead
his case.
“The committee will talk it
over and make a decision,” South
erland said. “If it was an emer
gency, we take that into consid
eration.”
“Our parking problem is due
to get worse,” Powell predicted.
“The 10 diagonal parking spaces
north of the Engineering Build
ing will be eliminated when the
south wing of the Chemistry
Building is expanded.
“Then when the Memorial Stu
dent Center is expanded, the
Guion Hall parking lot will be
torn up and we’ll lose 158 parking
spaces,” Powell pointed out.
“Seventy-six parking spaces
along Hubbard and Richards
streets in front of the Academic
Building will be eliminated later
this month,” he said, “when work
begins on a mall which will ex
tend from the front of the Aca
demic Building to the west edge
of the Agriculture Building.”
Charles E. Brunt, System
Physical Plant assistant manager,
told The Battalion in December,
1968, that six new parking lots
would be ready for use this past
September.
“Lot 40 is finished and it has
a capacity of 220 cars,” Brunt
said. “The lot north of the En
gineering Building will be finish
ed soon and will hold 45 cars.
The other four lots have not been
started.”
Chief Powell said one reason
why the lots are not ready is
that the funds available for park
ing lots have been used for re
pairing the ones in existence.
“This past summer we retopped
(See Parking Saturated, page 3)
Bryan Building & Loan
Association. Your Sav
ing Center, since 1919.
B B & L —Adv.
€bt Battalion
Vol. 65 No. 13 College Station, Texas Friday, October 3, 1969 Telephone 845-2226
Newson
SCONA
To Keynote
Conference
By Tim Searson
Battalion Staff Writer
David D. Newson, assistant
secretary of state for Africa, will
be the keynote speaker for the
Fifteenth Student Conference on
National Affairs (SCONA XV),
according to Dave Mayfield, com
mittee public relations chairman.
Newson, a career diplomat and
former ambassador to Libya, will
deliver a talk based on this year’s
theme, “Black Africa—The Chal
lenge of Development.”
Letters of invitation have been
sent out by A&M President Earl
Rudder to the presidents of 142
schools for student representa
tives.
Three students from African
universities have also been invit
ed to the conference. Rex Gray,
class of ’42 and head of Inter
national Telephone and Tele
graph (Africa-Mid-East Divi
sion), has offered to pay the ex
penses of the African students,
Mayfield noted.
The Afro-American Institute of
New York, a non-profit organi
zation, is cooperating in the se
lection of the three students. In
stitute Executive Vice President
E. Jefferson Murphy recommend
ed that invitations be sent to the
University of Nairobi, Nairobi,
Kenya; the University of Zambi,
Lusaka, Zambi; and the Univer
sity of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria.
According to Congressman Olin
E. Teague a Library of Congress
Report, which is the source paper
for the conference, will soon be
completed and copies will be sent
to delegates.
“A new concept in SCONA par
ticipation will be introduced this
year,” Mayfield said. “We hope
to involve younger members of
the A&M student body in the con
ference by holding a roundtable
discussion for any interested
freshman and sophomore.”
Mayfield also emphasized that
the conference is open to anyone
attending the uinversity, not just
delegates.
Roundtable co-chairmen who
have been named include Mur
phy; Paul S. Slawson, director of
investments programs for ITT;
Maj. David Goodrich, course di
rector at the U.S. Air Force
Academy; and Maj. Thomas P.
Gorman, an instructor in econom
ics and international relations at
the U.S. Military Academy.
Other co-chairmen are Philip
W. Quigg, managing editor of
“Foreign Affairs”; M.K.O. Abio-
la, ITT; and Miss Margaret Roth-
well, serving the British Embas
sy as First Secretary on African
Affairs in Washington, D.C.
Two A&M faculty members,
who are yet to be announced, will
also be co-chairmen. Joining them
will be two representatives from
the U.S. Department of State,
also unannounced.
A budgetary goal of $21,000
was set for the program, of
which $17,000 has been raised,
Mayfield said. The funds will be
used to bring student leaders to
the conference. SCONA is the
only student-sponsored confer
ence that seeks outside funds for
support.
During the summer, seven stu
dents spent two weeks in Mexico
City and Monterrey, Mexico con
tacting industrial and business
leaders. Approximately $1,000
WEATHER
Saturday — Partly cloudy to
cloudy. Wind Southerly 10 to
15 m.p.h. High 84, low 68.
Sunday — Cloudy, afternoon
rainshowers and thundershow
ers. Wind Southerly 10 to 20
m.p.h. High 84, low 71.
was raised to bring Mexican stu
dents to the A&M campus for
the conference.
Sammy Garcia, San Antonio
junior, headed the drive in Mex
ico. He was assisted by Robert
M. Haggard and Arthur Harms,
Houston; Roberto Lozano, Gua-
By Steve Forman
Battalion Staff Writer
Eight A&M students grabbed
two of Texas Christian Univer
sity’s female cheerleaders, lifted
them up and tried to carry them
away Thursday night during a
freshman football game in Kyle
Field.
The girls, kicking and scream
ing, were released by the stu
dents, all clad in Cadet Corps
uniforms, after about 15 more
cadets ran from their seats in the
stands and ordered the group to
put the cheerleaders down.
At nearly the same time, about
15 other students wearing purple
shirts with Greek letters, ran
from their seats in a TCU stu
dent section and joined the cadets
gathering around the group with
the cheerleaders.
Campus security officer Mike
Lacey told The Battalion that the
girls were apparently unhurt, just
scared. After the incident, which
occurred in the third quarter of
the A&M Fish-TCU Wog game,
the girls continued to cheer their
team.
Lacey said no arrests were
made because he and other offi
cers could not find out the names
of the people involved.
“At first I thought it was a
dalajara, Mexico; Melvin C. Ham
ilton, Lamesa; and Guillermo Cis
neros and Arthur Saldana, Dallas.
While in Mexico, the students
participated in the Experiment in
International Living and stayed
at the homes of Mexican fami
lies.
fight,” he said, describing what
happened, “and then I saw that
the fish (A&M freshmen) were
carrying them (the cheerleaders)
off. We were about 75 yards away
and ran at full speed to get
there.”
“By the time we arrived, the
Corps seniors had the fish back
up in the stands and the girls
were on the ground,” Lacy re
ported. “The seniors acted quick
ly and had things under control.
“Some TCU fraternity boys
were down there milling around,
some punches may have been
thrown, but no one reported get
ting hurt. Everyone was back up
in the stands in a couple of min
utes and it was all over,” Lacy
said.
“It was the cheapest thing you
could do,” Sam Tom, head yell
leader, said of the incident.
Torn was at the game and was
one of seniors that ran from the
stands.
“Every effort will be made to
find out who did it,” Torn prom
ised. “I apologized to the cheer
leaders. Jim Stephenson, student
(See TCU, page 3)
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TCU Cheerleaders
Grabbed By 8 Ags
SEA OF CARS
The view Thursday morning - from a second-floor window Ed Powell said this week that conditions have reached the
in the Services Building shows the crowded condition of “saturation point.” (Photo by Mike Wright)
parking facilities on the campus. Campus Security Chief