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(I), MD* ‘Cojj, College Station, Texas Che Battalion Tuesday, November 11, 1969 Telephone 845-2226 90 A&M Delegates To Attend SCONA AND IT’S OFF TO THE RACES ophomore tailback Steve Burks breaks ove r the weak right side of SMU’s defense Sat- Irday and rambles for 37 yards and the last Aggie touchdown. Burks, who earlier leeled off a 57-yard gainer, carried the ball four times for 100 yards and was the game’s jading rusher. He received honorable mention as SWC offensive player of the week by |he Dallas Morning News in that paper’s selection. The Cadets outscored the Mus- }ngs, 20-10. See related story, page 4. (Photos by Pat Harris) SC Council Appoints Mauro, pproves Speakers, Budgets .and J 320'j David Middlebrooke bttalion Managing Editor jThe Memorial Student Center ' Aouncil Monday night approved j^Jnew finance chairman, speaker its, and additional funds for the reat Issues committee. Council President Joe M. (Mac) )ears III told council members at he had appointed Don Mau- of Uvalde, sophomore market- k major, as MSC Directorate ■nance Chairman. The appoint- ■ent was necessary, Spears ex- ■ained, because Don Branson, the ■rmer chairman, had resigned fjr personal reasons. ■ The council gave consideration I proposed speakers lists sub- litted to it by the Great Issues Id Political Forum committees, along with one submitted by the li’ih Student Conference on Na tional Affairs. Speakers for MSC committees ust be considered by the council ecutive committee and the uncil itself before being sent Bi to the university executive mimittee. Dr. George F. Carter, A&M sography professor and faculty ipresentative on the council, need objections concerning the pproval of speakers lists. He aid that he wanted to have copy of any proposed lists at tast a week before a council eeting, as he was sure others id, so he might have time to [heck into any on the list he ad questions about. He disliked, he said, being hown a long list for the first ime and being asked to approve Robert Edgecomb, council con- ultant, reminded Carter that part f the council executive commit- ee’s function was to do the bulk >1 the screening on speakers, and nake things easier on the council iiembers. Carter maintained that lists ihould be sent out in advance, ind Spears and Jim Wiley, MSC dee president for operations, said hey would see what could be done. Names on the Great Issues list nclude; Wernher Von Braun, space scientist; Dr. Thomas O. Paine, deputy director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Isaac Asminov, author and educator; Dr. S. Fred Singer, U.S. Department of the Interior deputy assistant secreta ry; Howard S. Becker, educator and sociologist; and Donald W. Treadgold, professor of history at the University of Washington. Despite Carter’s objections, the list was approved by the council and will be forwarded to the uni versity executive committee. On the Political Forum list, Wiley noted that Ralph Nader, Washington, D.C., lawyer, was listed under the topic: “Are gov ernmental institutions responsive to the needs of the people?” He questioned whether or not Nader is qualified to speak on the topic, and suggested that he be limited to speaking only in the area of consumer affairs, where he was qualified. Another councilman objected to the wording of another topic: “What is wrong with the politics of our system?” He was told that, while the subject wasn’t a very pleasant one to think about, no better way could be found to word it. With Wiley’s change, the list was approved by the council. The SCONA XV list contained only the proposed keynote speak er, Charles R. Moore, State De partment deputy assistant secre tary for African affairs, and was approved. Because of a lower approved budget than he had been led to expect, Tom Fitzhugh, Great Is sues chairman, submitted a sup- (See MSC, page 3) Ninety A&M delegates to the 15th Student Conference on Na tional Affairs have been selected, A&M President Earl Rudder an nounced. A&M’s participants in the Dec. 10-13 conference on “Black Af rica—The Challenge of Develop ment” include, for the first time this year, outstanding sophomore and freshman students. The Aggie delegation consists of eight international students, 42 graduate students, seniors and juniors, and 20 sophomores and 20 freshmen. Selection was by faculty-student committees chair ed by Eugene C. Oates Jr., Wil liam B. Lancaster, Capt Frank Muller and Dr. T. W. Adair III. A mini-SCONA with orienta tion sessions for A&M delegates will be conducted Nov. 18-20, an nounced SCONA XV chairman Harry K. Lesser of Brenham. He said the 7:30 p.m. sessions in the Memorial Student Center will feature Dr. and Mrs. Alan R. Waters, A&M international stu dents from Africa and films on the conference topic. The Waters resided in Africa several years. He is a member of A&M’s economics faculty and a SCONA roundtable chairman. SCONA vice chairman Dave Mayfield said all delegates should attend the orientation sessions. The 1969 conference graduate students, senior and junior dele gates are Gary L. Anderson, Alan 9 Seats Left On Ski Trip Suspended Pair Flight in Jan. Reinstated by A&M Two Texas A&M freshmen suspended for their involvement in the Oct. 6 explosion, in the Cadet Corps dormitory area have been reinstated, The Battalion has learned. The pair, who claimed they had no part in the blast, are James D. Huntington, 18, electrical en gineering major from Snyder, and William K. Chambles.s, 19, aerospace engineering major from Hobbs, N. M. A&M President Earl Rudder, in a interview with The Battalion, said simply that the faculty-staff Appeals Committee “had rein stated” the two students. The students appealed to the panel Oct. 10 after they had been suspended by Dean of Students James P. Hannigan Oct. 8. The Appeals Committee re ferred its decision to Rudder for final consideration. Huntington and Chambless in the meantime have remained in school. Two other students who signed statements concerning' their in volvement in the explosion remain suspended. They are Christopher R. Tully, 18, of Canyon, and Stephen D. Cervantes, 18, of Port Isabel. The early morning blast, set off by an plastic type explosive tied to the base of a tree between Dormitories 1 and 2, shattered 31 windows in four dorms and caused an estimated $2,325 dam age. Only nine seats remain of the 150 alloted to A&M for the ski trip between semesters to Cour chevel, France, announced Dave Mayfield, chairman of the “Ski to the Alps ’70” committee. A&M was given 150 of the 250 seats on an airplane chartered jointly by A&M and the Univer sity of Houston. Interested persons should con tact Mayfield or the Student Finance office in the Memorial Student Center Mayfield said, noting the deadline for the $50 down payment is next Monday. Mayfield said two color filras of the area around Courchevel will be shown at a meeting Wed nesday at 7:30 p. m. in the As sembly Room of the MSC. UH officials who are co-ordi nating the Houston part of the trip said sales are going good, Mayfield said after talking with them Monday. Wrong Answer Problem Solutions Being Sought in Pills University National Bank ‘‘On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. Solutions for distressing ex periences too often are being sought in pill bottles, and medical practitioners are partly to blame, declares a prominent psychoanal yst. “Too many physicians are pass ing out pills for tension, anxiety and so forth,” suggested Dr. Rob ert D. White in a health educa tion seminar at Texas A&M. White said the “treatment” could have far-reaching psycho logical effects. “In denying people opportunity to come to mental grips with a distressing experience, the phy sician may be robbing them of something that could be very important in their lives,” ex plained the psycriatry professor at the University of Texas Medi cal Branch in Galveston. “.Surviving a later life experi ence could very likely depend on an individual’s psychological ad justment to previous distressing situations,” White observed. A 1941 A&M graduate who re ceived his M.D. at Texas in 1944, White is one of a series of speak ers brought to A&M by the Health and Physical Education Department for the health educa tion seminars. He directs post graduate edu cation in psychiatry in the Gal veston institution’s Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, is training analyst for the New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute and has done work at Galveston in rehabilitating drug addicts. White said LSD, once thought a possible tool in treating mental disorders, has been abandoned because of lack of therapeutic usefulness. The M.D. indicated he is con vinced, from clinical experiences with young people who have used it, that marijuana is dangerous if used promiscuously. Depend ency can lead to use of other drugs, such as LSD, only minor use of which can lead to long- range mental damage, he said. “There have been cases,” he reported, “in which only one time users later became disori ented and confused like they were on another trip. It has happened weeks, even months later.” White said coping with fa tigue, tension and frustration depend on the individual’s will ingness to be honest withimself. The psyche is affected by two types of stimuli — external and internal, he noted. The latter in cludes two basic, primitive drives, sexuality and aggressiveness. In dividuals who go too far satisfy ing these drives and those who try to completely stifle them will have problems, he said. “People find it more comfort able to decide their problems are external and try to come up with a geographic cure by moving,” White added. “But usually they have misjudged the problem, take it with them and find they have the same problem anywhere they go.” Correction The Battalion erroneously re ported last Wednesday that John G. Anderson Jr. of College Sta tion, an A&M student, would appear in the 1970 edition of “Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Col leges.” Donald C. Anderson of Texas City, a senior electrical engineer ing major, should have been list ed. As far as can be determined, there is not a John G. Anderson Jr. enrolled at A&M. W. Backof, Jonathan M. Beall, Gerald A. Bramlett, Jonathan D. Chancellor, James A. Collier, J. Rick Dornhoefer, Sylvia A. Fish er, Thomas C. Fitzhugh, James D. Gleason, Tito Guerrero, Joseph D. Hartman, Charles T. Head, Ron nie D. Hubert. Also, Raymond W. Jordan, Charles L. Kroll, William S. Left- wich, Thomas A. McAlister, James G. McKnight, Gary J. Mar tin, Dorothy C. Mitchell, Martin G. Peters, Douglas J. Piper, John R. Ramsey, William D. Reed, Wil liam H. Seele, Ronald G. Tefteller, Roberta C. Van Ness. In addition, Gregg K. Weaver, Steven L. Bourn, Robert A. Eas ter, William J. Finane, Karen E. French, Laurence A. Frisk, David E. Gay, Marilyn E. Jarchow, Richard B. Loftin, Garry P. Mauro, Alvin E. Nieder, Patrick M. Rogers, Lawrence C. Schil- hab and Harry A. Snowdy. International d e 1 e g a t es are Raghu Agarwal of India; Benson M. Woie, Nairobi; Tholam R. Djavadi, Iran; Gibril O. Fedika, Sierra Leone; Pedro J. Jimenez, Dominican Republic; Syed S. Mustafa, Pakistan; Kusum A. Luther, Kenya, and Wajeda J. Rab, Pakistan. Sophomore delegates are A1 L. Bi’adley, Charles P. Boerger, John F. Brunjes, Ernest R. Els- bury, Michael M. Essmyer, Rich ard D. Felder, Lawrence R. Ffrench, Scotty G. Griffin, Doug las D. Gullickson, Mary L. Hanak, Arthur D. Kelly, Daniel C. Gar ner, David L. Moore, William D. Scherle, Richard T. Shankle, Laura C. Sorenson, Frank P. Stolpman, Michael G. van Bavel, Jimmy R. Weaver and Abdur Rezzaque. Freshmen selected for the an nual conference are George S. Adcock, Michael R. Abrameit, Joe R. Arredondo, Darryl Baker, Ralph W. Bradshaw, Paulo G. deCastro, Wayne E. DeVaughn, Gabriel O. Ede, John E. Franklin, Carol S. Gathings, Deborah A. Harrison, David F. Jones, Layne E. Kruse, Michael K. Lindsey, Julia A. McCall, Walter N. Me- bane, David F. Okerlund, David H. Ready, Cathleen L. Schnat- terly and Gerald W. Smith. Alternates include Jean Mah, Donald A. Swofford, Carlos J. De La Torre, Thomas M. King, Gary M. Kyrish, Paul Scopel, Douglas L. Barnett, Richard B. Hall, Ruth E. Russell, Sylvia E. King, Joe F. Nix and Carl L. Olson. Mayfield said applications of students from other colleges and universities are being received and that response from East and West Coast institutions is better than expected. Memorial Dedication at A&M Tears Mark Occasion By Hayden Whitsett Battalion Staff Writer “ . . . . Lt. John B. Price ’68 .... Capt. Thomas H. Ralph Jr. ’62 .... Lt. Harlow Rawls ’64 .... Lt. James E. Reed ’62 .... Lt. John E. Russell ’67 .... Lt. Jose C. Santos ’65 . . . .” Back in the crowd, half hidden by two men standing in front of her, a small, graying woman quickly pulled a handkerchief out of her purse and dabbed at her reddened eyes. A little later, a muffled sob came through the cloth. Standing near the front, the chin of a young man dressed in a blue double-breasted suit be gan to quiver as the bugles start ed to play Silver Taps. The Ross Volunteers fired the salute and a small tow-headed boy pulled on his mother’s hand and began crying; his young mother tried to shush him quiet. A tall, gray-haired man in a black suit that bespoke success stood beside his weeping wife and stared straight ahead with wet, salty eyes. They and about 1,000 others were gathered Saturday morning around a small concrete monu ment. Inscribed in bronze on the monument, between the two wings of Duncan Dining Hall, were the names of 326 men. “ . . . . Lt. Frederick Peter Forste ’48 .... Lt. Autrey W. Fredrick ’51 ... . Lt. Weldon I). Gardener ’51 .... Capt. James L. Garrison Jr. ’48 .... Lt. Edgar Byron Gray ’47 .... Lt. George G. Greenwell ’48 .... Lt. John F. Helm ’48 . . . .” One of the names was the son of the little old lady who was crying, another was the son of the man. The young man with the quiv ering chin was a brother to one. The small child, a nephew. In his dedication speech Air Force Gen. Bernard A. Schriever (ret.) spoke of the monument and told why it was special. “We’re gathered here this morning to dedicate a memorial in honor of the Texas Aggies who have given their lives in service of their country,” he said. “On some campuses our dedi cation ceremonies would most likely be the cause for pickets and demonstrations,” said Schrie ver, “This is all the more reason that we show through this me morial our great appreciation for the men who have given their lives in two wars.” Applause, part of it muffled by the gloves the members of the corps were wearing, followed Schriever’s speech. In a statement Lt. Governor (See TEARS, page 3) Review Today Will Honor Over 600 Veterans at A&M More than 600 veterans who are students at A&M will be hon ored today in a Veterans Day re view, according to Raymond W. Jordan, Corps of Cadets public relations officer. Space around the reviewing stand has been reserved for Ag gie veterans for the 5:15 p.m. review, announced Col. Jim H. McCoy, commandant. “We in the Corps of Cadets wish to express our apprecia tion to A&M’s veteran students for their service to our country in the proud tradition of our fore fathers,” Corps Commander Mat thew R. Carroll commented in in dividual invitations to the stu dents to be honored. ‘'Men like you are the ones who have made our country strong,” added the senior cadet. Dr. Eli L. Whiteley, A&M pro fessor who earned the Congres sional medal of Honor during World War II, and Clarence E. Sasser of Rosharon, chemistry major who received the nation’s top award for valor in Vietnam, have been invited to be in the reviewing party along - with Col. Keith C. Hanna, professor of aer ospace studies, and McCoy. At noon today, Jordan said, taps was to be played over the Memorial Student Center speaker system and the campus was to have observed a minute of si lence. Then officers of the Corps placed wreaths on the campus memorials at West Gate, Medita tion Garden and the MSC. Bryan Building & Loan Association. Your Sav ing Center, since 1919. BB &L -Adv. " " ’ ' - - • ' ON HIS WAY Peter Reason, in a Lola-Chevy, scoots along during the Canadian-American Challenge Cup race Sunday afternoon at the new Texas International Speedway. Reuson was forced to drop out of the race after 65 laps because of a dropped valve. Bruce McLaren won the race and the Can-Am series, a feat which netted him $65,000. See related items, pages 2 and 4. (Photo by Bob Peek)