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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
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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.
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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)