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A j victory, ather in 1 m and wi ght of Lei j whispen Five general topics to be dis cussed next month during “Opera tion Jericho,” the administration student conference on campus problems, have been annuonced by the sponsoring Memorial Stu dent Center Leadership Commit tee. Committee information chair man Otway Denny of La Porte reports the topics and specific subjects to be discussed include: —“A Voice in the Allocation of Student Money.” The four subtopics are student fees, Cam pus Security funds, Exchange Store funds and concession funds. —“Campus Apathy.” Subtopics are Memorial Student Center use, elections and Student Senate. —“Academic Excellence.” This includes the pass-fail system, quality of instructors, relevance of courses today, examination procedures and dead week. —“Intra - Student Relations.” Subtopics are Corps and civilian A&M System Faces Possible Separation Texas A&M may have to dis member its three-college system if the new chairman of the Co ordinating Board, Texas College and University System, has his way. According to a front-page story in Tuesday’s Houston Chronicle by Reid Beveridge, Manuel DeBusk of Dallas is ad vocating a breakup of the A&M and UT systems and creation in their place of separate boards of regents for all of the 27 state colleges. This would mean separate re gents or directors for A&M, (See A&M System, page 3) students, role of coeds, political minority groups and social fra ternities. —“Directors of A&M.” Speci fic topics include academic ocm- pqsition of the student body and A&M’s image. Denny pointed out the purpose of the conference is to give the students a chance to discuss cam pus problems and recommend so lutions to the administration. Before each subject is discussed, an informed administrator will review the administration’s pre sent policy and give a background briefing on the subject, Denny noted. Invitations to 120 students were mailed with the 90 delegates selected in the order they accept the invitation. Students who plan to take part in the conference are urged by Denny to contact the Memorial Student Center Student Program Office as soon as pos sible, and before the mid-semester break at the latest. Operation Jericho will be held Feb. 18-20 at the MSC and train ing sessions are scheduled Feb. 5, 10 and 16. An Ag In Need.. Editor’s Note: Letters to the editor usually belong on page two, but after reading this one, we think you’ll agree that this is the only page on which it could run: Editor: The football tradition at Texas A&M is excellent—the spirit, the color. But as exciting as the Aggie Bonfire is, when the Turkey Day game is over and the bonfire ashes grow cold, attention turns to other things. I have a gripe—and likely I could not be doing this were it not that my wife is a volunteer at St. Joseph Hospital and consequently I am aware that one of our Aggies has been in that hospital since before Thanksgiving. This young man—Gary Beckcom—is a cadet freshman in Squadron 3. He worked actively on this year’s bonfire, but suffered a severe fractured leg when a log rolled over it. To this time, Gary has undergone three major operations. Extremely painful as these operations have been, it is my opinion that Gary has suffered even more from the mental anguish of feeling cut off from his Aggie buddies. Except for family, a few intimates, and faculty visits, Gary has received little evidence that Aggies care about their classmates. We’ve seen the papers full of articles about the feelings displayed by the TU football players toward one of their own. What’s happened to our own tradition of brotherhood? Leslie M. Reid, Head Recreation and Parks Gary is in room 203 of St. Joseph’s. Visiting hours are from 24 p.m. and 7-8:30 p.m. His doctor says he thinks Gary will probably be in the hospital for another three weeks. DEGREES AND BARS Dr. Horace R. Byers, A&M academic vice president, pre- missioning exercises that afternoon, Gen. Bruce K. Hollo- sents a student with his diploma Saturday during com- way, commander of the Strategic Air Command, takes a mencement and congratulates him for earning it. At com- salute from a newly-commissioned second lieutenant. Grads Told ‘Keep the Faith’ By Commencement Speaker Texas A&M’s 902 mid-year graduates were urged Saturday to keep the faith. “We are in serious need of more faith in ourselves and in our world,” reminded Dr. David W. Mullins, University of Arkansas president. “It is a serious mistake,” the commencement speaker warned, “to allow ourselves to become so preoccupied with our problems, our weaknesses and our failures that we forget our opportunities, our strengths and our achieve ments.” Gen. Bruce K. Holloway, com mander of the Strategic Air Com mand, told 131 students commis sioned second lieutenants follow ing graduation that they “bring welcome gifts to the military— fresh knowledge and diversity.” “No other source of officers brings such a variety of schools And Why It May Be Redrawn Lottery 1970: How It Works of thought and tradition as do the ROTC universities to apply to the consideration of military problems,” the general added. Noting a new appreciation for earth following the recent lunar flights, Dr. Mullins pointed out “it behooves mankind to strive harder than ever before to solve the problems which many feel threaten existence and life in general on the planet in which we live.” In scientific and certain other fields, man has achieved more in the past decade than in all previ ous recorded history, the U of A president observed. He also wel comed the increased concern for human values and human rights. Dr. Mullins took note, however, of “grave weaknesses” that still plague the world. He said areas of particular concern include war, impact of new knowledge and new ideas, racial unrest, crime in the streets, desecration and pollution of the environment, poverty in the midst of affluence and the scientific and technical upheaval that alters the substance and quality of life. Terming today “an age of dis sent,” Dr. Mullins defended dis sent as “an essential element in our system and in our way of life.” “We would not be enjoying the benefits of many social, eco nomic and educational reforms of the past century if the voices of dissent had been silenced,” he emphasized. “One of the reasons for cam pus unrest today is that our youth is not sure that our national lead ers and our universities are ad dressing themselves to the central (See Commencement, page 3) Del aye dSpri ngR egistralion, Add-Drop Begin Next Week Delayed registration at A&M will start Monday and continue through Jan. 30, announced Reg istrar Robert A. Lacey. The course drop-add period also starts Monday. The spring semester delayed registration headquarters in the YMCA, Room 001, will be open from 8-noon and 1-4 daily. All new students, except fresh men, will secure their card pack ets in the foyer of the Richard Coke Building during this period. Returning fall semester students will secure card packets from their major department. Lacey explained once the stu dent has secured his card packet he must next get a fee data card from his housing office repre sentative and then report to the registration headquarters. Housing office representatives are located in the cadet Guard- room for Duncan area cadets, in the Legett Hall Lounge for all day students and at the registra tion headquarters for coeds. A list of civilian residence hall representatives is available at each major department. After registration is completed, the student will report the fol- (See Registration, page 4) tnriit men’s tot! know 'lOPl JBS n ial is >ns. club set' jeduled to nations of' BWg. By David Middlebrooke Battallion Managing Editor “What’s your number ? ” That question was asked fre quently around the first part of December. And you knew what the person asking the question meant—he was asking what num ber your birthday had been as signed by the draft lottery—the first of any kind to be held since World War II. Many people have been wonder ing since then just how this new system works. Others think they have it figured out—they even what their chances are of being drafted. That’s what they think. The December drawing may be invalid. It may have to be held a sec ond time. The mechanics of the system ns it now operates are fairly sim ple. In the lottery drawing, every <lay of the year, including Feb. 29, was randomly drawn and as signed a number from 1 to 366. Similarly, the letters of the al phabet were arranged randomly from 1 to 26. All men in the United States who were between the ages of 19 and 26 on Jan. 1 constitute an 850,000-man draft pool for 1970. Only those classified I-A or I-A- 0, or those with deferments ex piring in 1970 stand a chance of being drafted this year. For a moment, consider two groups: a primary group, com posed of those in the draft pool who are classified I-A or I-A-O, and those whose deferments ex- University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. pire during 1970, and the defer red group, consisting of those in the draft pool who have some kind of deferment. Each local draft board will fill its monthly quotas from those in the primary group, beginning with those whose birthday falls on the day ranked as no. 1 by the lottery drawing, then those whose birthday was ranked as no. 2, and on down the line. In cases where two or more men registered with a draft board have the same birthday, but not all of them are needed By David Middlebrooke Battalion Managing Editor Civilian students should be better informed next semester concerning the activities and problems of the civilian menu board, and their opinions should be sought with more effort. These conclusions stemmed from a meeting of the board last Thursday. Pat Wertheim, board chairman and president of Ho- tard Hall, and Marcus Hill, Stu dent Senate Grievance Commit tee chairman, hassled over what Hill charged was a failure to communicate on the part of the board. Bryan Building & Loan Association. Your Sav ing Center, since 1919. BB&Li —Adv. to fill the board’s monthly quota, the alphabetical drawing becomes important. The first letter of each man’s last name will be used to decide his order of call within his birth day group. If the last names of two men begin with the same let ter, the second letter will be looked at, and so on, through each man’s first name, if necessary, until a ranking can be obtained. For example: Robert Smith, Sam Smith, Joe Carson and Ted Johnson, all registered with the same board, all have the same Hill criticized the board for its lack of publicity. He charged that the board has not been seek ing student opinion, because it has not taken any polls or sur veys to find out what students want. Possibly board members don’t hear the complaints students do have, Hill claimed, because they are members of the menu board, and students are afraid to ap proach them. “Many people don’t even know that the menu board exists, or if it cares,” Hill asserted. Hill went on to say that he had received 12 telephone calls the night before the board meet ing, and four of them had been concerned with food services. “Why don’t you tell us when you receive complaints about the birthday. Johnson is subject to call first, because J was the first letter chosen in the alphabetical drawing. Carson, with C ranked 14, is the second man in line. Since there are two Smiths, the first names are looked at. S is ranked 19, and R 23. So, Sam Smith is third in line, subject to call before Robert Smith, who is last. Each year, a new drafting will be held, and new values assigned to the days of the year and the letters of the alphabet. From (See The Draft, page 3) More Spring dining halls?” Wertheim asked. “You could at least refer the students who complain to us. We are organized to handle this type of thing, and you’re not.” Wertheim added that advance notice of board meetings, includ ing a list of board members and how to get in touch with them, is usually published in The Bat talion. Furthermore, he said, reports of menu committee activities are included in Battalion articles on Civilian Student Council meet ings. “The fact that the cost of hir ing enough help to clean the (See Menu Panel, page 4) FIRST BANK & TRUST—Home of the Super C D - 5% interest compounded daily. Menu Panel Plans Communication for APPLICATION FOR VOTER REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE COUNTY, TEXAS Name Date , 19 Home Address S- Female A « e ^ (Applicants over 21 years old who do not wish to state exact age may fill in blank with “over 21”.) If under 21 years, give full date of birth ,19 Resident of Voting Precinct No. I certify that applicant is a citizen of the United States and has resided in Texas more than 1 year and in the county and city more than 6 months immediately preceding the date of this application, except as listed under the EXCEPTIONS below. I understand the giving of false information to procure the registration of a voter is a felony. EXCEPTIONS: Show date of arrival by month, day and year: If in Texas less than 1 year If in county less than 6 mos If in city less than 6 mos. Mail Certificate to following temporary address : if not to be mailed to home address. Signature of applicant or agent Agent’s relationship to applicant No one can act as agent except husband, wife, father, mother, son or daughter. VOTER REGISTRATION APPLICATION FORM A student who wishes to register in his home county may clip out this form and send it to the tax assessor-collector in his county. Brazos County Tax Assessor-Collector Ray mond Buchanan said students who wish to register in this county should send the form to him by mail or bring it by in person to his office in the county courthouse before Jan; 31, the deadline for registration.