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Residents of Hughes Hall roll their log, the first one for
Bonfire this year, into position in front of their hall.
Thirty-one students, including these ten, helped transport
the log from Wellborn. Putting their back into it are
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David Jacobson, Tim Moscatelli, Charles Henson, Bill
Dubel, hall president, Murray Thompson, Scott Dawson,
and Bob Heger, head resident. (Photo by David Middle-
brooke)
Caused By Excessive Care
Sully’s Hairline Is Receding
Sully’s hairline is receding.
It isn’t because the statue of
A&M’s fifth administrator, Law
rence Sullivan Ross, is surround-
d by more and more coeds and
ivilian students in daily class-
hange traffic.
Nor that grass of his pictur-
sque setting in front of the
omed Acedamic Building often
is walked on more than sidewalks
I criss-crossing the area.
Rather, it’s because the full-
ize bronze-overlayed statue of
the former Texas governor has
been subjected to more than
500 scourings by freshmen.
Governor Ross’ statue has com
manded its view of the stately
A&M west entrance for 50 years.
It was dedicated on Sunday, May
4, 1919.
metal “has gone down the Brazos
River,” as Archivist Ernest Lang
ford puts it.
“Sponges and soapy water
would be the best cleaning agents
in terms of preserving the stat
ue,” the official commented.
“Governor Ross’ statue is prob
ably hollow inside. One of these
days, the metal will very likely
wear through.”
The half-century old monu
ment was sculpted by Pompeo
Coppini, a native Italian who
turned Texan and for many years
produced great many Texas and
U.S. memorials while living in
San Antonio.
A&M is frequently “covered with
mud and cleaned by the fresh
men.”
ident of the A&M College” the
inscription on the back says.
Governor Ross, who headed
Texas government for two terms,
until 1891, and then accepted the
A&M presidency, survived much
worse incidents as an Indian
fighter. His statue also was
weathered more severe treat
ment.
Between the lines are a great
deal of history and insight to
Texas and American history, de
tailed in Henderson Shuffler’s
publication, “Son, Remember.”
Langford recalled that while
President William B. Bizzell was
in office, students dislodged the
statue and laid it on the steps
of Guion Hall or the Admini
stration Building.
A well-known Texas historian,
Shuffler described Ross as “one
of the most colorful firebrands of
a frontier state, riding hell-for-
leather through Indian wars,
Ranger battles and the War Be
tween the States, slashing right
and left in the most effective
manner of any Texan of his
time.”
Freshmen scrub the monument
to a gleaming shine for major
campus events. Over the years,
the polishing process has round
ed off the metal’s sharp comers,
smoothed out wrinkle’s in Ross’
greatcoat and thinned his hair
and beard.
It was cast in the Chicago foun
dry of the Florentine Brother
hood. Commissioned on Dec. 21,
1917, by the Texas Legislature
at a cost of $10,000, the statue
was formed in a clay mold made
in Coppini’s San Antonio studio.
The process is described in the
sculptor’s autobiography, “From
Dawn to Sunset,” two copies of
which are in the A&M library’s
Texana collection.
“Sully,” as the statuary is
known, has also been the target
of paint-throwing vandals. When
A&M was placed on athletic pro
bation by the NCAA in 1956, a
student who viewed it as back-
stabbing affixed the replica of a
knife between the shoulder blades
of the monument.
Ross conquered the great Co
manche chief, Peta Nacona, in a
close-quarter scrap on North
Texas’ rolling plains in 1860. He
resigned from the Rangers, join
ed the Confederate Army in 1861
as a private and by 1865, was a
brigadier general.
Comparison with old photo
graphs indicates a good bit of
On the fly-leaf of one book,
Coppini notes his statuary at
When A&M became coeduca
tional in 1963, the statue was
blindfolded. Ross was shown by
a graduate student’s thesis re
search, however, as not adverse
to a coed A&M in the 1890s.
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Campus Security reports a re
cord number of motor vehicle
registrations for the fall term—
up 1,300 over 1968.
Registration hit 10,030 early
this month and is still growing
at an average of 10 registrations
a day, the security office said.
The office registered 8,720 ve
hicles over the same period last
year.
A spokesman for the office
noted vehicle registration usually
trickle off in November, at which
time final tallies will be an
nounced.
Besides a rapid growth in cars.
the number of motorcycles and
scooters has skyrocketed during
the past year. In 1968, 45 stu
dent permits for motorcycles were
issued. This year, Campus secur
ity issued 212.
Included in the 1969 registra
tion are 7,026 student car per
mits, 2,775 faculty-staff. Officers
also approved 647 special permits
for working wives and students.
Through early October, 1968,
the office registered 6,328 stu
dent cars, 45 student motorcycles,
2,278 faculty-staff cars and 15
faculty-staff motorcycle permits.
Total registration for the 1968
fall semester was 9,142.
Any A&M student up on his
campusology can give a concise
description of Ross’ life: “Law
rence Sullivan Ross, 1838-1898;
Soldier-Statesman and Knightly
Gentleman; Brigadier General,
C.S.A.; Governor of Texas; Pres-
After the war, he farmed, serv
ed as lusty, brawling Waco’s
sheriff two years and then en
tered politics as a constitutional
convention member in 1875. Ross
was elected U.S. senator in 1877,
state senator in 1881 and then
governor from 1886-1890.
His A&M presidency lifted
A&M out of a decline towards
ill repute. A&M’s growth in
health, size and respect during
that “Golden Age” is easily at
tributed to Ross.
DPC To Be Used
Applications for an expanded
number of A&M delegates to
the 15th Student Conference on
National Affairs (SCONA XV)
are now being accepted.
They may be submitted to the
Memorial Student Center Direc
tor’s Office through next week.
Interviews will be conducted
from Oct. 20 to Nov. 5.
SCONA XV has increased the
number of A&M delegates from
32 to 90 and also enlarged its
Round-Table structure, provid
ing a total of 10 during the
Dec. 10-13 conference, accord
ing to J. Wayne Stark, MSC
director.
He said the 90 A&M delegates
will include 10 international stu
dents and 40 upperclass students
from the U.S. who are juniors,
seniors and graduate students.
In addition SCONA XV will
invite for the first time 20 out
standing sophomores and fresh
men each, a total of 40, enabl
ing formation of the two addi
tional Round-Tables.
The two additional roundta
bles for freshmen and sopho
mores are for A&M students
only, said Dave Mayfield,
SCONA XV public relations
chairman. He added that it will
hopefully build up interest in
SCONA among freshmen and
sophomores and encourage them
to continue work in SCONA.
SCONA XV chairman Harry
Kay Lesser of Brenham noted
applicants must have an overall
grade point ratio of 2.5 or high
er, at least a 2.5 GPR for the
spring, 1969, semester and must
not be on academic or conduct
probation.
Freshmen applicants must
have a College Entrance Exam
score of 1,000 or better, Lesser
said.
Mayfield stressed that all ac
tivities of the conference are
open to all students, whether
or not they are delegates. This
is particularly true of the gen
eral sessions in the MSC Ball
room, he said, but applies also
to the Round-Table discussion
as long as there is room in the
area where the discussion is be
ing held.
SCONA XV’s discussion on
“Black Africa—The Challenge of
Development” will have as fea
tured speakers Dr. Gwendolen M.
Carter, Northwestern University
director of African studies, and
His Excellency Ebenzer M. Deb-
rah, Ghana ambassador to the
U.S.
A panel on the role and ob
jectives of capital investments in
Black Africa will include Paul
S. Slawson, investment program
director of International Tele
phone and Telegraph, Africa and
the Middle East, in London;
M.K.O. Abiola of ITT Nigeria,
and Arthur Wina, Zambia busi
nessman who was finance min
ister of the country.
Probable moderator for the
panel will be E. Jefferson Mur
phy, executive vice president of
New York’s African-American In
stitute.
Round-Table co-chairmen in
clude Air Force Maj. David Good
rich, Air Force Academy "prob
lems of the developing areas”
course director; Army Maj.
Thomas P. Gorman, economic and
international relations instructor
at the U.S. Military Academy;
Philip W. Quigg, managing edi
tor of “Foreign Affairs," Ameri
can quarterly review; Miss Mar
garet Rothwell, Secretary on Af
rican affairs in the British Em
bassy in Washington, D.C.; Ikon
E. Ekwo, director of an experi
mental international living proj
ect at Oklahoma State.
Also, Melvin A. McCaw, re
gional representative, Institute of
International Education, Nairobi,
Kenya; Clive Kileff, Ph.D. candi
date in behavioral science, Rice
University; M. O. Onanaiye, eco
nomic affairs officer, Federal Re
public of Nigeria Embassy, Wash
ington; Dr. Alan R. Waters, A&M
ecoonmics professor; Murphy
(tentative), Slawson, Abiola and
Wina.
First of Year
Corps March-in Set Oct. 25
Air Force Maj. Gen. Rene G.
DuPont will receive the Corps of
Cadets’ salutes Oct. 25 during the
march-in to the A&M-Baylor
football game, the Aggies’ first
on Kyle Field this year.
General DuPont, 49, commands
the U. S. Air Force Military Per
sonnel Center at Randolph AFB.
The command pilot with more
than 4,000 hours flying time will
share the reviewing stand with
A&M President Earl Rudder,
Army Col. Jim H. McCoy, com
mandant, and Air Force Col. K.
C. Hanna, professor of areospace
studies.
Colonel McCoy noted early ar
riving game patrons will be pro
vided better opportunity to view
the corps march-in for the 7:30
p.m. game.
Cadet Colonel Matthew R. Car-
roll of Annandale, Va., will lead
the 3,000-member corps out of
the corps area at 6:20 p.m. Timing
has been arranged so that the
last unit of the corps’ 35-minute
length will clear the A&M play
ers’ ramp at about the same time
the A&M team takes the field
for its pre-game warmup.
Veteran of assignments with
a World War II bomber group in
which he made 17 missions over
Germany, the Strategic Air Com
mand’s Seventh Air Division in
England, staff secretary to Su
preme Headquarters Allied Pow
ers Europe (SHAPE) and the
Pentagon Plans Directorate, Gen
eral DuPont has 28 years of
military service.
The Los Angeles, Calif., native
entered the Army Air Corps in
1940 and was commissioned after
completing the Army Air Forces
Officer Candidate School. His
first assignment was with the
Eighth Air Force in England,
attending RAF Flying Control
School and assisting in standard
ization of U. S. and British Flying
control procedures.
Recalled to active duty in 1946,
he flew B-29s at Castle AFB,
Calif., and later was assigned to
SAC headquarters. Here General
DuPont participated in planning
and programming which led to
SAC’s strike force expansion and
conversion to B-47 jet bombers.
The Air Command and Staff
School and National War College
graduate’s decorations include
the Legion of Merit with Oak
Leaf Cluster, Air Medal with two
clusters, Army and Air Force
Commendation Medals.
He is married to the former
Jacqueline Lorene Theissen of
Los Angeles and father of three
sons.
WEATHER
Saturday — Cloudy, intermit
tent rain showers. Wind East
erly 5 to 10 m.p.h. High 71,
low 64.
Sunday — Partly cloudy to
cloudy, afternoon rain showers.
High 77, low 67.
Fort Worth — Partly cloudy.
Wind East 10 to 15 m.p.h. 58'
For Time-Sharing
A National Science Foundation-
funded program to expand remote
control use of computers between
four Texas colleges and A&M is
near the operational stage.
transmission device, remote in
stitutions must prepare magnetic
tapes from card program decks
with their own computer.
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Grads Have Until Thursday
To File in CSC Election
Graduate students have until
next Thursday to file for posi
tions in a planned special elec
tion by the Graduate Student
Council.
Albert B. Fried, GSC vice-
president, said that the election
is being held to fill vacancies
created by the formation of new
colleges, resignations, and to
fill positions alloted to first-year
graduate students.
No date has been set for the
election, Fried said.
Any graduate student seeking
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a degree, who is registered for
eight or more hours, is eligible
to file, Fried said, as long as
the student’s academic record is
satisfactory.
Offices to be filled include
representatives for the Colleges
of Architecture, Education, and
Geosciences, along with the two
first-year positions, Fried said.
To be eligible for a first-year
position, Fried noted, a student
must have less than 14 hours
of graduate credit at A&M.
Interested students who meet
the qualifications, he said, may
obtain filing forms from the
Graduate College office or any
member of the GSC.
The Texas Regional Academic
Computing Experiment (TRACE)
includes three major activities be
tween A&M and Sam Houston
State, Texas Southern, Prairie
View A&M and Tarleton State,
reports Dr. Roger W. Elliott, as
sistant professor of industrial en
gineering.
Operating under a $309,000
NSF grant, the project provides
funding for remote utilization of
the IBM S/360-65 computer sys
tem on the A&M campus. It cov
ers cost of transmission lines, ter
minals and computer time, Dr.
Elliott notes.
Texas A&M received $149,000
of the grant, which was effective
July 1 for a two-year period.
Dr. Elliott emphasized the pri
mary uses of the system will be
for academic use and research.
He said it will not be used for
administrative purposes.
The primary transmission de
vice is an NCR 315 tape-to-tape
transmitter. In order to use the
These tapes are then electroni
cally transmitted via standard
telephone lines to Texas A&M,
where they are received by an
other NCR 315.
“The programs are then run in
the normal job stream and the
output is sent back to the re
mote location via the same system
and taped. This tape is then
printed on a computer at the re
mote location,” Dr. Elliott said.
It makes all the facilities of
the Texas A&M Data Processing
Center available to users at the
remote location with approxi
mately the same turn-around time
available to users at Texas A&M.
“This system, while somewhat
cumbersome, provides transmis
sion at a much higher rate than
a typewriter terminal which is
available at about the same cost,”
Dr. Elliott noted.
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HIGH-STEPPING GALS
The Bengal Belles from A&M Consolidated High School liven up the halftime during
the A&M-Baylor freshman football game Thursday night in Kyle Field as they form a
chorus line and kick ’em high. The Fish beat the Cubs in the contest 16-6. (Photo by
Mike Wright)