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Thursday, December 4, 1969
Telephone 845-2226
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SWC School Leaders Gather for Idea Conference
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A Zambian businessman and
e republic’s former minister of
lance, Arthur N. L. Wina, will
featured in a panel on indus-
ial development in Black Africa
A&M’s 15th Student Confer-
e on National Affairs.
The Dec. 10-13 conference in
volving selected student partici-
(jfcnts from throughout the U. S.,
10-Oz. v«exico and Africa has the theme
“Mack Africa — The Challenge
Development.”
Wina, who serves on the boards
numerous organizations of the
)uth Central Africa republic,
ill sit on the 1:30 p.m. Dec. 11
nel with Paul S. Slawson, in-
istment program director of In-
irnational Telephone and Tele-
raph, Africa and the Middle
ast.
I Moderator will be E. Jefferson
urphy, executive vice president
irad Students
Jegin Survey
)n Parking
A survey to determine what
iay students think about the
iampus parking situation is be-
ng conducted by a group of four
raduate students in the Depart-
taent of Urban and Regional
Planning.
John Brewer, spokesman for
the group, said that question
naires would be placed at random
on the windshields of cars parked
in day student lots today and
Monday.
He urged students to fill out
forirxs as completely as possible
and to return them by mail to
the Urban and Regional Planning
Department no later than Dec.
10. Postage on the questionnaires,
Brewer said, has already been
Paid.
The survey will try to deter
mine which parking lots are more
desirable to day students, which
are least used, and whether fu
ture lots should be built.
Also included in the question
naires are questions on the fair
ness of the present $10 parking
fee and the average length of
time it takes a day student to
find a parking place.
Brewer said the team hopes
to get responses from 450 stu
dents, about a tenth of the day
students holding parking permits.
Results of the survey should be
complete in January, he added.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association. Your Sav-
of the African-American Insti
tute in New York.
Wina will speak from the
viewpoint of the nation in which
the investment is to be made,
with Slawson handling the inves
tor’s viewpoint.
Active in the Zambian govern
ment several years, Wina was
Zambian representative at the
United Nations, appearing be
fore the U. N. with President
Kenneth D. Kaunda as petition
ers in 1962.
He was a member of the Zam
bia parliament six years and as
minister of finance from 1963 to
1967, Wina helped guide the
former British Protectorate of
Northern Rhodesia to becoming
internally self-governed.
Zambia became an independent
republic within the Common
wealth Oct. 24, 1964. Kaunda
was its first prime minister and
was afterward elected president.
Wina headed the mineral-rich
republic’s Trade and Mines Dele
gations to such places as Tokyo,
Moscow and China. He became
minister of education and held
the post until last year.
He is on the boards of the
First Permanent Building So
ciety, Zambia Sugar Co., Conti
nental Ore, National Council for
Scientific Research and Atlas
Corp. (Zambia) Ltd., among
others, and is chairman of the
National and Grindlays Bank.
A 1954 graduate of Makerere
University College in Uganda,
Wina studied at the University
of London where hew as presi
dent of the student union and
obtained two masters degrees at
UCLA.
By Hayden Whitsett
Battalion Staff Writer
Thirty student leaders from
Southwest Conference schools will
be attending the third annual
Texas A&M Idea Exchange Con
ference in the Memorial Student
Center today through Saturday.
The conference will involve all
Southwest Conference schools and
Texas Woman’s University.
According to Ronnie Adams,
one of the planners of this year’s
conference and an A&M repre
sentative, the conference was de
signed to allow student govern
ment representatives from SWC
schools a chance to exchange
ideas and discuss needed improve
ments in student governments.
“There will be set topic at our
meetings, so the representatives
will be able to discuss whatever
they please,” Adams said. “We
are trying to avoid having them
feel they must speak on a certain
subject. We believe there will
be more useful communication
if they choose their subject.”
“This year changes have been
made to make the conference
more interesting,” c o n t i n u ed
Adams, “we have added two
speakers. State Representative
James R. Nowlin and Dr. Manuel
Davenport, head of the A&M De
partment of Philosophy.”
Representative Nowlin of San
Antonio will speak on “Govern
ment, Youth, and Responsibility”
at 8 p.m. tonight in the MSC
Assembly Room. During his two
terms as representative of Bexar
County, he has served on numer
ous House committees. He now
serves as vice chairman of the
newly created Committee on
Youth.
Dr. Davenport will speak on
“Students’ Rights and Responsi
bilities in the Academic Com
munity.” Davenport is active in
many on-campus and off-campus
activities and has had numerous
articles printed in magazines. He
has been an active college lec
turer and professor since 1956.
He has headed the Philosophy
Department since 1967.
Davenport will speak in the
MSC Assembly room at 1 p.m.
Saturday.
Each school was asked to send
the president of the student body,
the editor of their paper, the
chairman of their election com
mission, and two representatives
from the junior, sophomore or
freshman classes.
A&M’s own representatives will
be Gerry Geistweidt, Student
Senate President, Kent Caperton,
Student Senate Vice-President,
Jim Stevenson, TISA District Co
ordinator, Kirby Brown, recording
secretary, Dave Mayes, Battalion
editor, Butch Jackson, chairman
of the Election Committee, Tom
my Henderson, a junior senator,
David Moore, sophomore repre
sentative, and Adams.
The conference is financed by
the registration fees and the Stu
dent Senate.
Adams said that if any student
is interested in listening in on
a panel discussion he may do so.
The discussions will be at 10 a.m.
Friday in the MSC Assembly
room and at 9 a.m. Saturday in
the same place.
Students will not be allowed to
participate in the discussions but
they may listen. After each of the
speeches there will be a question-
and-answer period in which any
one may participate, Adams
added.
Federal Officials Hindering
Drugs Research, Prof Says
By George Scott
Battalion Staff Writer
“Government officials ai’e
hampering research into the ef
fects of marijuana,” a consult
ant to the California attorney
general on drug abuse problems
said Wednesday night.
“We have to do research into
drugs and the laws of the land
have got to stop lying,” Dr. J.
Thomas Ungerleider, associate
professor of psychiatry at
UCLA, said at the Great Issues’
“Man, Morality and Society Sem
inar.”
Ungerleider said he knew of a
doctor in Texas who got permis
sion from several state authori
ties to grow, use, and research
the effects of marijuana. He add
ed that when the doctor did, he
was arrested by local police and
eventually kicked out of the Tex
as Medical Society.
There have been three basic
eras of drug use in this country,
according to the UCLA professor,
and he blamed two of them on
the mass media.
In 1965, the mas media began
to “seductively publicize the drug
proselyters,” he said.
People began to take drugs like
LSD frequently because of the
publicity.
“I’ve seen cases where people
were walking down the freeway
thinking they could merge with
the traffic,” Ungerleider contin
ued.
Slamming the mass media
again, Ungerleider said that the
second era started when the media
developed guilty feelings about
their actions and began to “pic
ture LSD as the source of world
evils.”
“Because of this, we are in an
era of disrespect for LSD, and
this is bad from a scientific point
of view,” he added.
Ungerleider said that the pres
ent era is one of young people
taking anything and everything
they can get. He added that the
average age of drug users has
dropped from 21 in 1965 to 14
today.
“People in the lower economic
groups have been using drugs
for a long time,” Ungerleider
commented, “but now that ‘nice’
kids are using them, people say
we have a problem.”
Ungerleider gave four basic
reasons for the increase of drug
use in the United States: Amer
ica is drug oriented; the afflu
ent culture; the pressures on
young people; and rebellion.
“Eighty million people in
America drink alcohol,” he said,
“and eight million are alcoholics.
There are cigarettes, tranquiliz
ers, and other medical drugs and
it is no wonder why children be
come curious about drugs.”
Teens are bored, have a lot of
money, and have nothing to do,
he said.
“With affluence increasing,
permissiveness has grown and
parents no longer feel they can
say no to their children,” Unger
leider continued.
He said that teens feel the
use of drugs is a great way to
frighten their parents in a way
that use of alcohol cannot.
He related the story of a young
girl who had drunk six double
scotches and when her mother
found her stumbling up the stairs
of her home, laughed and said,
“It’s only alcohol.”
He said the reaction of the
mother would probably have been
(See Officials Hamper, page 3)
WEATHER
Friday — Cloudy, light inter
mittent rain showers. Easterly
winds 5-10 m.p.h. High 74 de
grees, low 51 degrees.
Saturday — Cloudy. Southerly
winds 10-15 m.p.h. High 76 de
grees, low 55 degrees.
Fayetteville — Cloudy, light
rain. Southerly winds 10-12
m.p.h. 66 degrees.
Hawkins, I.Ed. Professor,
Is Part-Time Trashman
Leslie V. Hawkins, holder of
a doctoral degree, is a volunteer
part-time trashman.
What’s more, Dr. Hawkins is
working hard at enlisting the
help of friends and associates,
beginning with the mayor and
other folks in high places. To
make their job easier, he freely
passes out back-saving equip
ment.
In more genteel terms, Hawk
ins is a litter-picker. He also is
an industrial education professor
at Texas A&M, a physical fitness-
enthusiast and chairman of Col
lege Station’s Beautification
Committee.
While taking early morning
walks, he picks up various bits
of trash—paper cups, old news
papers, candy wrappers, milk
cartons, soft drink cans and nu
merous other items.
Those bits of trash add up in
a hurry, Hawkins testifies. One
day this week, for example, he
speared 15 gallons of litter in a
30-minute period. During a re
cent five-day period, he collected
50 gallons.
The area in which Hawkins re
trieved the rubbish is a substan
tial middle-class neighborhood.
The litter-conscious professor
figures his neighborhood is as
clean and attractive as any
around.
“You don’t really ‘see’ litter
until you start ‘looking’ for it,”
Hawkins points out. “It’s there,
but you must be conscious of it
to notice.”
Dr. Hawkins became conscious
of litter in late October, shortly
after Daylight Saving Time gave
way to Central Standard Time.
“I leave for my walk about 6
a.m.,” he explains. “Under DST,
I left in the dark and returned
in the dark. When the time
changed, it was light when I
started back home and I could
see all this trash.”
He used to walk about two
miles each morning.
“I’m doing good now to cover
a mile,” Hawkins notes. “I walk
a lot back and forth across the
street.”
“Picking up litter can become
an obsession,” he confesses. “It’s
about like eating peanuts—but a
lot less fattening.”
He started out trying to carry
all the trash in his hands. He
soon started toting a sack and
later made himself a litter sack.
The three-foot pole with a nail
embedded in one end costs about
15 cents.
Hawkins is now making lots
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Dr. J. Thomas Ungerleider, UCLA psychiatrist, tells a
Great Issues audience Wednesday night some facts on
the misuse and abuse of drugs. (Photo by David Middle-
brooke)
‘Comic Strip Sound’ Art on Display in MSC
ing Center, since 1919.
BB&L.
—Adv.
Art forms on display . .
An art form by Eugenio Carmi interpreting sound as
purely visual symbols is on display in the Memorial Student
Center.
The MSC Contemporary Arts Committee and Kiko
Galleries of Houston is sponsoring the exhibit, which will
remain on display through Dec. 19, announced Chairman
Tom Ellis.
The Carmi series deals with comic strip sounds such as
“bzzzzz,” “fssssst,” “swarrssh” and so forth depicted
graphically.
Avant’garde American vocalist Cathy Berberiam con
ceived the idea. Her three-octave vocal range was particularly
well suited to interpret multiple variation of sound, familiar
to comic strip readers as visual symbols, Ellis said.
She asked Carmi to make the graphic interpretation. It
appeared in early 1967 in a publication of the Arco d’Alibert
Edizioni and Kiko Galleries. It met with immediate success.
The art form was described by “Time” magazine (June
2, 1967) and received a cover story in the popular Swedish
magazine, “Form.”
“David Kung of Kiko Gallery has been kind enough to
allow us to sell these prints,” Ellis said.
Prices are $35 to students and $45 to non-students.
Purchases may be made through Mrs. Dorothy Keese at the
MSC Social Office.
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