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Vol. 65 No. 61
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, January 21, 1970
Telephone 845-2226
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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)
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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.
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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)
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Menu Panel Plans
Communication for
APPLICATION FOR VOTER REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE
COUNTY, TEXAS
Name Date , 19
Home Address
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(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.