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• - • ' • ■ ..... . • .".V Che Battalion Vol. 65 No. 59 College Station, Texas Wednesday, January 14, 1970 Telephone 845-2226 n . (> ' ayers ai' n by ttif es to the he Long- :oi on hasher, ir-nevetlac; Texas dit -re bornls! sophomof process i teammli wn to tl Ibow sms shing tolls defend ai should 1 900 Expected to Get Degrees Saturday SHORE SILHOUETTE A young couple holds hands on a chilly off-season day at Ocean Beach Park in New Lon don, Conn. (AP Wirephoto) College Presidents Say Violence on Decline will not he passap let and k al bundle pointed ai jve ol’Toi this typee s not fair! F Southwii ough top because in ever, it su ll By Paul Recer Associated Press Writer 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 it.” - 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 Globetr otterT ickets Are Now Available ■0961 ■3773 ft 53 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 TISA Staging Voter Drive sub- "on- ion. vid- } of ion. ion. ire ard 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- University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. 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. Bryan Building & Loan Association. Your Sav ing Center, since 1919. —Adv. 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. ★ ★ ★ 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. FIRST BANK & TRUST—Home of the Super C D - 5% interest compounded daily. 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