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Editor’s Note: While students
;ewhere are disrupting college
mpuses with demands for this
md that, North Texas State
University has quietly gone
jrough a revolution of its own
|ith no public display. How did
his come about?
ly Jim Barlow
ssociated Press Writer
DENTON, Tex. UD _ A tall,
dding teacher of history took
rer the president’s post at North
exas State University a year
fo and started a revolution.
Change came to this campus
thout outbursts, while disrupt-
fights and sieges came to
other schools.
The revolution took both facul
ty and student body at North
Texas into the governing pro
cess, and that’s how the new
president. Dr. John J. Kamerick
wants it.
Some of the changes:
—A faculty senate with sub
stantial policy-making authority
was created.
—A code of student conduct
was written by student mem
bers and faculty which provides
detailed and elaborate guaran
tees of due process for students.
—A new tenure statement,
containing action by the admini
stration was approved by the
regents virtually as written by
the faculty.
Dormitory regulations for wo
men were liberalized and wo
men students were allowed to
set up self-governing boards to
regulate behavior.
“We have tried to anticipate
what are dangerous complaints
and to make changes before they
become focal points of disrup
tions,” Kamerick said in an in
terview.
The changes are coming about,
Kamerick said, while the school
itself is changing.
North Texas devoted itself pri
marily to teacher education for
years. With the expanding col
lege enrollments of the 1950s
and ’60s, North Texas started
changing but the school was still
tightly controlled by the admini
stration.
For example, the year before
Dr. Kamerick was hired, mem
bers of the Student Senate, elect
ed by the student body, sub
mitted several proposed drafts
setting up a student-controlled
disciplinary board.
Each draft was turned down
by the administration with the
explanation that it was not re
sponsive to the needs of the
school. Finally, the senate sent
another draft to the administra
tion saying that no student dis
ciplinary board should be form
ed. This was accepted by the
administration.
Then, in 1968, after a long
search, the board of regents hired
Kamerick, who was vice presi
dent and provost of Kent State
University in Ohio. And the
changes began.
“We are dealing with a con
siderably Older student today,”
Kamerick said in outlining the
changes. “Some 60 per cent of
our students are 21 or older.
The enrollment at North Texas
has shifted rapidly away from
the freshmen and sophomore
years.”
Kamerick said he feels the
school has avoided campus un
rest by gradually abandoning
the principle that North Texas
should act as a parent to the
student.
“We have made it clear we
will preserve all major consti
tutional rights of free speech,
including peaceful demonstra
tions, as long as they' don’t in
terfere wtih any activity deemed
essential by the university.
“During the past year, we have
tried to review our regulations
and if there is no particular point
in a regulation, we have abolished
it,” he said.
North Texas is becoming a
graduate-oriented school he said.
Four years ago, 56 per cent of
all studetns were freshmen and
sophomores. Last spring, only
37 per cent were in the first two
years.
“Administrating higher educa
tion is essentially different in a
university than in business,” he
said.
“The limits on decision mak
ing are much greater and they
are more sharply defined . than
(See NTSU, page 5)
Cbe Battalion
Vol. 65 No. 19 College Station, Texas Wednesday, October 15, 1969 Telephone 845-2226
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Drive Short
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of Goal by
Days Left
Only 38.8 percent of the College
;ation United Chests’ $28,050
ffice todftal has been attained with four
talk abwys remaining in the drive to
ise funds for 16 charitable and
gleaf—affck agencies, announced cam-
t feels chairman Bob Evans Tues-
ny-
Evans pointed out, however,
ily 14.8 percent of the potential
intributors have submitted de
lations.
The drive began Oct. 1 and is
heduled for completion Satur-
iy-
He said 21 individual agencies,
irdson M Texas A&M, have already
weeded 100 percent of their
rwriterjloals.
-3165 I Th e 100-percent agencies, along
—1\ nl ith their campaign workers, are:
\ International Programs Office,
[atrick Hall; Development Of-
ce, Dorsey McCrory; Placement
ffice, Robert Reese; Purchasing
apartment, Mrs. Virginia Pon-
tell; Stores Department, Mrs. Ra
mona Roofe; Office of the Dean
of Engineering, C. H. Ransdell;
Electrical Engineering Depart
ment, Dr. W. B. Jones; and
Chemical Engineering Depart
ment, Dr. C. D. Holland.
Also the Management Depart
ment, John Oliver; Geography
Department, Dr. Edwin Doran;
Office of the Dean of Veterinary
Medicine, Dr. A. A. Price; Hous
ing Office, Edgar Morris; Office
of Civilian Student Activities,
Howard Perry; Association of
Former Students, Mrs. Pat Mor-
ley; Forest Science Department,
Robert Rhodes; and Home Eco
nomics Department, Mrs. June
James.
Others are the Landscape Ar
chitecture Department, Robert F.
White; Finance Department, Dr.
C. A. Phillips; Military Uniform
Department, Floyd Mathis; Agri
cultural Economics and Sociology
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\Connecticut Fan
Writes to ‘Rev 9
Texas A&M’s mascot, Reveille, is truly a distinguished celebrity.
Along with being the only school mascot in the Southwest Conference
hat has never been stolen, she has drawn acclaim from Aggies in Kyle
held, beer cans and rocks from Tiger Stadium crowds in Baton Rouge,
md now she even has an admirer in Stamford, Conn.
The following letter was addressed to Reveille, Texas A&M
Jniversity, College Station, Texas:
Dear Reveille,
My father was an Aggie. When I was a little girl he told me all
about you and the other Reveilles. Yesterday we went to see you and
the Aggies play Army at West Point. You are one of the most prettiest
dogs I have seen. If you have a picture of yourself, could you please
send it to me so I could hang it on my bulletin board? We will always
cheer for you and the Aggies.
Your friend,
Shannon Gleason
P.S. Gig ’em, Aggies
The letter was forwarded to Company E-2, the outfit that guards
and cares for “Miss Reveille, Ma’am” and then to Rev’s handler, Mascot
Corporal Robert Snedden, a sophomore from Ennis.
“I was really surprised,” Snedden said, “and glad that someone
cared that much about Rev to go to that much trouble.”
“I wrote her a letter,” Snedden added, “thanking her for
expressing an interest in Rev and told her that a picture would be in the
mail soon.”
So now the Aggie mascot has a female fan to add to her large
collection of male admirers.
Company E-2 hopes Shannon enjoys the picture and invites her
down to visit Reveille anytime.
Department, Dr. James D. Pres
ton, and Agricultural Engineer
ing Department, Lambert H.
Wilkes.
Degree Forms
Due Friday
Friday is the deadline for filing
mid-year degree applications, an
nounced Registrar R. A. Lacey.
Lacey said graduation candi
dates should report initially to
the Fiscal Office for payment of
graduation fees. Undergraduates
should then report to the Regis
trar’s Office and fill out degree
application forms. Graduate stu
dents must apply through the
Graduate College.
The Graduate Record Examina
tion (GRE) is no longer required
for graduation, the registrar re
minded, but it is still required
for admission to all graduate pro
grams at A&M and most other
institutions.
Students planning to apply for
a graduate program, he added,
should contact the Counseling and
Testing Center in the Academic
Building and arrange to take the
GRE during one of the national
testing periods.
Applications Open
For MSC VP Post
Applications are now being ac
cepted for the office of Memorial
Student Center vice president.
Applicants, said Jim Finane,
MSC executive vice president for
operations, must be academically
classified as juniors, must have
an overall grade point ratio
(GPR) of 2.5, and must have
posted a 2.5 GPR last spring or
during the two summer semesters.
Applications must be turned
in to the Student Program office
in the MSC by 5 p.m. Tuesday,
Finane said, adding that applica
tions are available in the office.
The post is vacant, he said,
because of the resignation of
Kent Caperton, the former offi
cer, at an MSC Council meeting
Monday night.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Controversy flared as the
stroke of midnight ushered in
Texas’ observance of Moratorium
Day. By midmorning, evidence of
observances were small. But the
peak of the observances was ex
pected later in the day.
And the counter-demonstra
tion—the turning on of automo
bile and porch lights—seemed to
obtain equally limited early sup
port.
Moratorium Day is the national
movement variously interpreted—
for peace generally, for a quick
withdrawal of troops from Viet
nam and for a progressive with
drawal of troops.
Persons opposing the observ
ance say it undermines the U.S.’
foreign position and could pro
long the war.
The earliest morning contro
versy was at Houston Baptist
College (1,086 students). The Stu
dent Senate voted 2-1 in favor of
student involvement in the ob
servance. Another vote on the
issue failed by two votes after
Dean of Students James Massey
said the school would not condone
the statement or moratorium ob
servance. In a final vote early to
day, the senate approved a state
ment urging students “to be
aware of the purposes of the mo
ratorium.”
Here were some early Texas
happenings:
Fifteen or 20 pickets appeared
at the University of Texas (34,-
000 students) with signs reading,
“Bring GI Joe home” and “pull
out now.” Anti-war leaflets were
distributed.
David L. Stein of San Antonio,
state chief of staff for the Vet
erans of Foreign Wars, issued a
statement calling the demonstra
tions “communist inspired,” and
saying, “These demonstrations
will undermine the bargaining of
the President, give aid and com
fort to North Vietnam and Hanoi
. . . and further endanger the lives
of . . . men in Vietnam.”
Campuses at Rice (3,000 stu
dents) and the University of
Houston (24,000 students) were
quiet.
At Bellaire High School in
Houston, about 50 pupils wore
black arm bands to mark the day.
About 200 students gathered
early for Moratorium Day ob
servances at Trinity University
in San Antonio (2,600 students).
Officials of a Roman Catholic
girls’ school, Providence High
School in San Antonio, cancelled
earlier plans for two of its classes
to attend Moratorium Day ob
servances at Trinity University.
Trinity asked that high school
pupils not attend the rally.
In Washington, an all-night
House session planned by a group
of congressmen in support of the
protest ended short of its target
when adjournment was voted
shortly after 11 p.m., after about
three hours of debate.
Meanwhile, in Vietnam there
was a small echo of the U. S.
demonstrations. Half the 30
troops in a combat platoon in
the U. S. Americal Division went
out on a mission today wearing
black armbands to protest the
“I’m wearing it to show that I
sypathize with the antiwar dem
onstration back home,” said the
platoon leader, 1st Lt. Jesse
Rosen of New York City.
Moratorium opponents—led by
President Nixon — planned their
own observances in support of
administration policy.
One group—calling itself the
Citizens Committee for Peace
with Security—took a full page
advertisement in the New York
Times declaring: “Everyone who
wants peace in Vietnam should:
Tell it to Hanoi.”
University Women To Serve
Coffee, Cookies For Bonfire
By Pam Troboy
Battalion Staff Writer
University Women will serve
coffee and cookies to Bonfire
workers this year, according to
Gloria Shone, coordinator.
The girls will serve ’round the
clock and will also staff the first
aid tent, Mrs. Shone said, noting
that this is the second year that
University Women has sponsored
the coffee program.
The club held its organizational
meeting Tuesday night and ac
cepted two intracampus invita
tions. Hughes Hall is sponsoring
a friendship dance Oct. 31 in the
Memorial Student Center for the
coeds, said Bill Dubel, hall presi
dent. This is the first joint dance
ever held on campus, he said.
The Sailing Club also invited
the girls to an all-day picnic
Nov. 1 at the municipal lake to
build a clubhouse.
In other business the coeds dis
cussed projects for the year,
including an intramural athletic
league with a powder-puff foot
ball game, wrapping Christmas
packages, writing letters of con
dolence to families of dead Ag
gies and selling “Beat the hell
out of t.u.” tags.
“A lot of activities are open
to girls, if there is enough in
terest,” said Judy Gough, com
munications chairman.
Other projects suggested by
the executive committee were re-
cruting coeds’ mothers for A&M’s
Mothers Clubs, sponsoring a
“Dear Maggie” column in The
Battalion and holding a tea for
presidents of Mothers Clubs and
wives of board members and
deans.
Other members of the execu
tive committee are Mary Han-
nak, old programs chairman;
Diana Hanna, new programs
chairman; and Nancy Stone, sec
retary-treasurer. Mrs. Nat Kief-
fer is the sponsor.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association. Your Sav
ing Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
BB&L
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SPRING FEVER
It’s sprintime in Australia, and Merryl Sullivan takes in be the briefest on record for the bikini. It also appears
the sun on a Perth beach while getting ready for the warm that the season will not be long enough, at least for the
summer months ahead. By the looks of it, the season will male population of the country. (AP Wirephoto)