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Wednesday, January 14, 1970
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HOUSTON UP) — Violence on
Americas college campuses has
already peaked and is now de
clining, most college presidents
attending the Association of
American Colleges meeting here
believe.
“The atmosphere is altogether
different at this meeting, one
college executive noted. “Last
year all we talked about was how
to counter demonstrations. This
year were back to talking about
money.
San Francisco State College
President Samuel I. Hayakawa,
whose school was hard hit by
demonstrations and student
strikes last year, said the signs
point toward quieter times.
"Its now peaked and is trailing
off, he said,” when asked the
prospects for more violence.
Improved conditions between
students, faculty and administra
tion, plus concrete action on many
student demands is credited with
the cooling off.
"There’s more talking between
the students and the administra
tion now than ever before,” said
one college president.
Asked if this communications
improvement would have happen
ed without the prairie fire of
violence which struck the cam
puses, he shook his head, “I doubt
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In addresses opening the first
general session of the association
meeting, Dr. Hayakawa, Dr. Ed
ward J. Bloustein, president of
Bennington College, Vermont, and
Dr. Samuel E. Stumpf, president
of Cornell College, Mount Vernon,
Iowa, put forth their programs to
keep the campuses tame.
Dr. Hayakawa defended the
iron-fisted approach that put
down disturbances on his campus
in December, 1968.
He said he called in police to
break up an unauthorized rally,
and 461 students were arrested.
“This is really what broke the
back” of violence, he said. “They
didn’t think I would do it. But
it happened.”
Dr. Bloustenin proposed that
students be given a direct voice
in the selection of college presi
dents.
Under a plan he proposed, stu
dents, faculty and boards of
regents would have one vote each
in the selection of a college presi
dent. This, he said, would make
the presidents more responsive to
the students. He also advocated
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Tickets for the Feb. 3 Town
Hall Special, the Harlem Globe
trotters, are now available, an
nounced Town Hall Committee
chairman Rex Stewart.
Stewart pointed out that A&M
students might prefer to obtain
tickets for the special attraction
before finals and the mid-year
break.
Witnessed by more than 60
million fans in 87 countries, the
Globetrotters will present the
44th edition with a variety of
of new innovations by the tal
ented cagers along with top-
note h pre-game and intermis
sion variety shows. Globetrot
ter opposition will be furnished
by the New Jersey Reds.
Student and date-spouse tickets
for the Feb. 3 performance are
$1.50 each. Reserved seats are
$3 and $2.50, adult general ad
mission $2 and children’s gen
eral admission $1. Tickets may
be mail-ordered or purchased at
the Student Program Office win
dow in the Memorial Student
Center, Stewart said.
He noted that admission to the
Town Hall Special is by special
attraction ticket only.
Stewart indicated tickets for
the Feb. 2 Artists Showcase pres
entation by Sabicas, celebrated
Spanish guitarist, also are on
sale, at $2 and $1 each. Holders
of Town Hall season tickets and
A&M student activity cards will
be admitted to the Sabicas con
cert at no extra charge.
allowing college presidents to
take stands on sensitive issues.
Dr. Stumpf said violence came
because a delicate consensus in
the academic world had been
tipped. Students, he said, were
demanding more quality in their
education, but found that their
teachers were “more interested
in their own careers and successes
than in the welfare of students.”
He advocated “reasoned dis
course” between students, faculty
and administration to return to
the consensus.
A student speaker, Stephen
Lieurance of San Jose State Col
lege, Califorhia, said that facul
ties and students in the American
colleges “seem to be on a col
lision course.”
He said faculty members con
tinue to be most resistant to
change and to blindly defend the
institutional faults felt by stu
dents.
Lieurance said students are
expected to refrain “from full in
volvement in the adult world”
and “accept the institution as it
is presented to them by the
learned faculty.”
“Such a position can be highly
frustrating to students,” he said.
Students, he said, have found
it easier to communicate with
the administration “via the eve
ning news than attempting to
hassle with the bureaucracy.”
Lieurance said that without ef
forts by students and faculty to
gain mutual insights and under
standing, “there will be an un
bridgeable gulf and a collision
course.”
“It is the faculty that today
sets the tone and character of
the educational environment,” he
said. “If there is to be real insti
tutional renewal, this is where
it must take place and the stu
dents know this.”
A record 931 students are ex
pected to receive mid-term de
grees Saturday, according to Reg
istrar Robert A. Lacey.
Included in the totals, Lacey
said, are 166 students expected
to receive master’s degrees and
77 for doctorates.
Graduation exercises will be
conducted Saturday at 9:30 a.m.
in G. Rollie White Coliseum, fol
lowed. by military commissioning
ceremonies at 1:30 that after
noon.
One hundred thirty-one cadets
are expected to be commissioned
into the Army, Air Force and
Marine Corps. Ninety-two will be
commissioned into the Army, 33
into the Air Force, and 6 into
the Marines.
Regular commissions will go to
eight of 16 Distinguished Mili
tary Graduates, five Regular
Army and three Regular Air
Force.
Dr. David W. Mullins, Univer
sity of Arkansas president, will
speak at the commencement ex
ercises. Mullins was named pres
ident of the university in 1960
after serving 11 years as execu
tive president at Auburn.
Gen. Bruce K. Holloway, Stra
tegic Air Command commander-
in-chief, will be the commission
ing speaker.
An Arkansas native, Mullins
earned his undergraduate degree
in 1931 from Arkansas, where he
was elected a member of Phi Beta
Kappa, national honor fraternity.
He received his master’s degree
from the University of Colorado
and his doctorate from Columbia.
He is a past president of the
Southern Association of State
Universities and Land Grant Col
leges and currently serves as a
member of the executive commit
tee of the National Association
of State Universities and Land
Grant Colleges.
The World War II Navy vet
eran also has served as a mem
ber of the National Advisory
Council of Economic Education
for the Invest-in-America Na
tional Council, Inc., the Atlantic
Council of the United States and
the International Association of
University Presidents.
Mullins last year served as
president of the Southern Uni
versity conference. Other affilia
tions include the Southern Re
gional Education Board and the
SREB Council on Graduate Edu
cation in Agricultural Sciences.
As SAC commander, Gen. Hol
loway heads the United States’
long-range strike force composed
of combat aircraft and intercon
tinental ballistic missiles. The
four-star general, who flew with
the famed “Flying Tigers” of the
American Volunteer Group in
China during World War II has
commanded SAC since August,
1968.
The Knoxville, Tenn., native
earned status as a fighter ace
during his China tour, shooting
down 13 Japanese planes. In ad-
VISTA Recruiters at A&M;
Will Remain Through Friday
The Volunteers in Service to
America (VISTA) is conducting
a recruiting drive this week on
the A&M campus.
A VISTA booth has been set
up in the post office area of the
Memorial Student Center, and
VISTA representative Martha
Donez and a VISTA volunteer
are on hand from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
daily to handle recruiting and
answer questions.
The drive will end Friday.
Two films dealing with poverty
in the United States will be shown
from 4-9 p.m. Thursday in room
3-C of the MSC. One film, titled
“Goodby and Good Luck, con
cerns itself with black power,
while “Remedy for a Riot is about
racial and economic problems that
lead to rioting.
Sponsored by local agencies,
both public and private, over
7,000 volunteers serve in 49
states, Puerto Rico, America Sa
moa, the Virgin Islands and
Guam.
VISTA seeks candidates over
20 years old who will be available
for service within one year. Se
lection is based upon skills, ex
Grievance Committee
Staying in Business
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The Texas Intercollegiate Stu
dent Association (TISA) is in the
middle of one of the largest voter
registration drives in its history.
The drive is aimed at the
more than 175,000 voter-eligible
students in the state.
The campaign, begun Dec. 15,
1969, in the colleges and univer
sities around the state, will end
Ian. 30.
“Voter registration is urgently
needed in the college community,”
Al Reinert of the University of
Texas at Austin, TISA vice
president and voter registration
drive chairman said, “because
campus activism and student rad
icalism have generated an anti-
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student blacklash which demands
a positive response.”
The drive is being concentrat
ed on campuses with large grad
uate schools, but attention is be
ing given to the state’s junior
colleges.
In 1958, according to the Texas
College Coordinating Board, ev
ery state-operated four-year col
lege had between 50 and 65 per
cent of its enrollment made up
of students 21 years of age or
over.
TISA has set as its goal the
registering of 50 per cent of the
eligible college voters in Texas.
“We feel that this is a real
istic goal,” Jim McClellan, TISA
president, said, “since an increas
ing number of students are well
over 21 years of age and have
(See TISA, page 2)
By Hayden Whitsett
Battalion Staff Writer
Despite what most people
think, there is a Student Senate
Grievance Committee and it is
functioning, Marcus Hill, commit
tee chairman, said Tuesday.
“The committee has caught on
and we stay very busy,” Hill
claimed. “Some of the things we
do we hope will improve the uni
versity.”
Hill said that for a long time
he was the only member of the
Committee and things were slow
to get done. But now, with an
expanded staff, he thinks that
complaints will be acted on much
sooner.
Members of the committee are
Tony Benedetto, Craig Bradley,
David Reynolds, Joe Komegy,
Chuck Mueller, and Russ Telghe.
Anyone wishing to make a com
plaint may call Hill at 845-5878.
Hill estimated that his commit
tee received over 50 complaints
since a few days prior to the
Christmas Holidays. He added
that some of the complaints take
8-10 hours of investigation by
members of the committee.
Hill, a junior agriculture edu
cation major, said that most of
the complaints were those com
mon to the A&M campus.
He said that a common com
plaint was about the food in
Sbisa Dining Hall.
Prices at Northgate stores and
The Exchange Store are com
plained about quite often, Hill
said. He said that one committee
member investigated and found
that pants and shoes at one
Northgate store ran $1 higher in
price than similar items sold by
Neiman-Marcus.
Compulsory board and laundry
services are also a favorite sub
ject. Many students would prefer
to take care of their own meals
and laundry, he said.
Other complaints ranged over
a broad view of student gripes,
parking tickets, dead week tests,
vigilante committees cutting long
hair, condition of the dorms, free
on-campus phones in the lounges,
and lack of a copy of Portnoy’s
Complaint in the library were
also included.
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BB&L
dition to the pilot wings earned
at Kelly Field, San Antonio, in
1938, the U. S. Military Academy
graduate received wings from
China, Germany, Korea, Thailand
and Brazil.
Holloway, 57, has devoted 32
years to U. S. military service.
His first assignment following
flight training was a two-year
tour with the 6th Pursuit Squad
ron and 18th Pursuit Group in
Hawaii.
The general commanded the
Air Force’s first jet-equipped
fighter group in 1946, performing
pioneer service in the field of
tactical jet operations.
Following graduation from the
National War College in 1951,
Holloway progressed through key
staff assignments in operations
and development at Headquarters
U. S. Air Force, in 1961 became
deputy commander of the U. S.
Strike Command at MacDill AFB,
Fla., and assumed command of
U. S. Air Forces in Europe
(USAFE) in 1965. He was vice
chief of staff of the Air Force
a year before taking the throttle
of SAC.
Among decorations of the hus
band of the former Frances Purdy
of Scarsdale, N. Y., are the Dis
tinguished Service Medal, Silver
Star, Legion of Merit, Distin
guished Flying Cross and top
awards of China, Germany, Thai
land and Brazil.
He studied engineering two
years at Tennessee before going
to the Point and post-graduate
training at Cal Tech.
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131 A&M Cadets Nominated
For Service Commissions
Texas A&M has nominated 131
cadets for officers commissions
in the Army, Air Force and Ma
rine Corps.
The second lieutenants’ gold
bars will be pinned on during
1:30 p. m. Saturday commission
ing exercises in G. Rollie White
Coliseum. Gen. Bruce K. Hoolo-
way, Strategic Air Command
commander, will be commission
ing speaker.
Qualified for commissions are
92 Army, 33 Air Force and six
Marine Corps cadets, announced
Col. Jim H. McCoy, commandant.
He said regular commissions
will be awarded to eight of 16
Distinguished Military Graduates.
Due Regular Army commissions
are Raymond L. Armour of Bry
an; Michael P. Becket, Houston;
Fred M. Blumberg, Seguin; Gar
land H. Clark, Glenely, Md., and
George C. Magby, Corpu,s Christi.
Houston L. Cavin of Odessa;
John C. Conley, Cherry Point,
N. C., and Miles L. Sawyer, Bur
net, are to be sworn in as Regular
Air Force officers.
Ninety-two cadets will receive
reserve commissions in the Army
and Air Force.
perience, maturity, and initiative.
Although most VISTA volunteers
are still selected with general
skills, present program needs call
for those skilled in law, architec
ture, city planning, health and
business.
Volunteers are usually assign
ed to work in teams led by full
time supervisor. These teams
often include local indigenous
volunteers who are already fa
miliar with the needs and prob
lems of the community.
Each volunteer receives six
weeks of intensive training prior
to his assignment, including field
experience in the area where he
will serve. VISTAs receive no
salary—only a minimum monthly
living allowance and stipend.
Two-Year ROTC
Sign-Up Deadline
March 1: McCoy
Students who did not partici
pate in the Army ROTC program
during frosh and sophomore col
lege years can still be commis
sioned upon graduation, through
the two-year program at Texas
A&M.
Deadline for making applica
tion to the two-year program is
March 1, announced Col. Jim H.
McCoy, commandant.
He noted the two-year pro
gram enables students with four
semesters college work remain
ing — graduate or undergradu
ate — to complete the equivalent
of the four-year program and be
come a commissioned officer.
A special six-week summer
camp substitutes for the first
two years of the four-year pro
gram.
Col. McCoy said entry into the
two-year program is on a com
petitive basis. Procedure, he said,
is to make application, take the
ROTC qualifying exam and med
ical exam, attend a personal in
terview and the basic summer
camp.
A meeting for applicants and
interested students will be held
at 5 p.m. Feb. 5 in Room 102 of
the A&M Military Science De
partment annex, McCoy said.
Information and applications
may be obtained by contacting
Maj. E. S. Solymosy, Military
Science Building.
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SEEING IS BELIEVING?
All Newkirk of Raleigh, a student at North Carolina State
University, looks like a headless boy as he goes to class
well hidden from the ear-biting cold which continues to
grip the state. (AP Wirephoto)