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WEDNESDAY PANELISTS—Four Texas Woman’s University students will be here
Wednesday for the first of three Man Your Manners panels. Appearing will be (left to
right) Cindy Crozier, Cokey Price, Cathy Muirhead and Annella Wright, 1968-69 Aggie
Sweetheart.
TWU Students to Present
U. S. Sen. Strom Thurmond of
South Carolina will speak here
Thursday under the sponsorship
of the Memorial Student Center
Political Forum Committee.
The Republican senator, known
for history-making predictions
and independence, is scheduled for
a noon appearance in the MSC
Ballroom.
Thurman’s topic will be con
cerned with current issues and
events. Admission to A&M stu
dents, faculty-staff and the public
is free, Charles Hoffman, forum
chairman, said.
Sen. Thurman will be accom
panied by his wife, a former Miss
South Carolina and Miss Amer
ica contestant.
They will be honored with a
special reception prior to the Poli
tical Forum address and at a
luncheon afterwards. Attendance
at the reception and luncheon will
be by special invitation, Hoffman
said.
Renowned for his adherence to
Constitutional principles, economy
in government and strong support
of military preparedness, the Aik
en, S. C., resident was the target
of a barrage of marshmallows at
a recent address at the University
of Massachusetts.
Thurmond was elected to the
U. S. Senate in 1954 in a write-
in campaign, the first person
elected to a major U. S. office
by this method. He has been re
elected twice as a Democrat and
once as a Republican.
He delivered the longest speech
(24 hours, 18 minutes) made in
the Senate in 1957. It defended
jury trials.
Thurmond coined in 1961 the
phrase “no-win” foreign policy
and warned that such a policy
is based on the fallacious notion
that Communits leaders are soft
ening.
The member of Senate Armed
Services, Judiciary and Defense
Appropriations Committee warned
in January, 1962, that Soviet mis
siles were in Cuba, nearly a year
before the administration took
action.
Thurmond warned the Senate in
1963 that Russia was developing
an anti-ballistic missile defense
system four years before the U.S.
ABM was authorized. In 1965, he
predicted that the Civil Rights
movement would be distorted by
militant extremists, causing wide
spread riots and insurrection.
SEN. THURMOND
fanners Panel Wednesday Army, AF Generals to Attend
Military Weekend Activities
Four Texas Woman’s Univer-
sty students, including the 1968-
69 Aggie Sweetheart, open the
first of three Man Your Manners
panels Wednesday.
Annella Wright, former sweet-
keart, of Mexia; Cathy Muirhead
of Denton; Cindy Crozier of Dal-
Ijs, vice president of the TWU
Campus Government Association;
Ud Cokey Price of Amarillo and
Freshman Class president will
talk on communications during
tie YMCA-sponsored event.
Ronald E. Owens, YMCA spe
cial programs chairman, suggests
that students arrive early for the
7:30 p.m. program in room 113
of the Biology Building. He said
that there were overflow crowds
at last year’s presentations.
“The idea behind Man Your
Manners programs is to give Ag
gies an unusual opportunity to
view problems in man-woman re
lations through the eyes of the
opposite sex,” Owens said.
“Wednesday’s program will
deal with communication. It in
cludes problems encountered in
letter writing, introductions,
phone calls, flowers, and blind
dates,” Owens explained.
Three panels will be presented
on consecutive Wednesdays. They
will trace the typical man-meets-
woman situation through com
munication, dating, romance and
marriage.
Man Your Manners is an an
nual program started 10 years
ago when a group of TWU stu
dents was invited to A&M to dis
cuss dating problems.
Three Aggies will visit TWU
for similar programs during
April.
University Supreme
On Student Senate
Court
Agenda
The Student Senate will hear a
proposal to establish a university
wpreme court at 7:30 p.m. Wed
nesday in the library conference
room.
The measure, to be introduced
by Jim Stephenson (sr-LA), calls
for the court to have jurisdiction
over all student disciplinary cases
and those involving student af
fairs. Appeals may come to the
eourt, according to Stephenson’s
proposal, from the Civilian Honor
Council, Dormitory Judiciary
Committee, Cadet Court, Election
Commission, Traffic Court, and
Office of the Dean of Students.
The senior senator also pro
posed that the president of the
university appoint two members
from the faculty and administra
tion one of whom would serve as
court president, and the presi
dent of the student body, appoint
two members.
The senate had considered Ste
phenson’s proposal in last Thurs
day’s meeting, but sent it back
to the constitutional revision com
mittee for rewriting.
Senate Vice President Kent
Caperton told The Battalion Mon
day that other revisions of the
senate constitution also may be
considered Wednesday.
Caperton said that Lane Ste
phenson, associate director of
university information and ad
viser to The Battalion, has been
invited to appear before the sen
ate to answer questions concern
ing news and opinion policies of
the student newspaper.
Also on the agenda, the vice
president said, will be a proposal
to allow a representative of Uni
versity Women to be an ex-officio
member of the senate.
A four-star Air Force general
and a two-star Army general who
graduated from A&M in 1941
will be the university’s distin
guished guests Saturday for the
annual Military Day.
They are Gen. James Fergu
son, commander of the Air Force
Systems Command at Andrews
AFB, Md., and Maj. Gen. William
A. Becker, chief of legislative
liaison in the Secretary of the
Army’s office.
Military weekend activities in
which they will participate begin
Friday with the Combat Ball and
continue Saturday. Highlight of
the Saturday schedule is a 2 p.m.
Corps of Cadet Review on the
Memorial Student Center parade
ground.
The corps commander’s lunch
eon in the MSC Assembly Room
will precede the review and a
coffee will follow.
A reception, president’s buffet
and the formal Military Ball con
clude events.
As AFSC commander, Gen.
Ferguson has responsibility for
providing weapons systems and
meeting technological needs of
the total Air Force mission. He
also directs the Manned Orbiting
Laboratory program.
The 56-year-old officer enlisted
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in the Air Corps in 1934 and,
among his many assignments,
commanded the 405th Fighter-
Bomber Group that made World
War II pre-invasion attacks on
enemy-held Europe. He also flew
with the 9th Fighter Command
and participated as air controller
on the night of the Normandy
invasion. The officer served in
various campaigns until the Ger
man surrender.
Gen. Ferguson served in Tur
key, the Far East and Korea. In
July, 1955, he began a series of
assignments which have kept
him in the vicinity of the nation’s
capital more than 14 years.
The officer, whose decorations
included the Distinguished Serv
ice Medal, Legion of Merit and
Distinguished Flying Cross, be
came AFSC commander in Sep
tember, 1966.
Gen. Becker was cadet colonel
of the corps his senior year at
A&M.
The Aggie general has been in-
WEATHER
Wednesday — Partly cloudy.
Wind North 10 to 15 m.p.h.
High 64, low 43.
Thursday — Clear to partly
cloudy. Wind East 10 to 15
m.p.h. High 68, low 34.
Saturday—Partly cloudy. Wind
South 10 to 15 m.p.h. (for the
eclipse.)
strumental in arrangements for
A&M’s Freshman Drill Team
visiting Washington the last two
years during the Cherry Blossom
Festival, where the unit has
won back-to-back national drill
championships.
The first four and a half years
of Gen. Becker’s 29-year military
career was with the 1st Cavalary
Division, with which he fought
during WW II and in Vietnam.
After leading an artillery bat
talion through the final phase of
the Luzon Campaign and early
occupation of Japan, he returned
to the states and was appointed
an assistant professor of military
science at A&M.
The two-star officer then
served in Venezuela, attended
Command and General Staff Col
lege, and served in the Pentagon.
He attended the Army War Col
lege at Carlisle Barracks, Pa.,
graduating with the class of 1957
in which he was the junior offi
cer in length of service.
Following Army Language
School and duties as army at
tache to Yugoslavia, he served in
various capacities at Fort Sill
and Fort Benning. He deployed
to Vietnam from Benning with a
unit redesignated the 1st Cav
alry Division Artillery (Air
mobile) in August, 1965, and was
nominated for promotion to brig
adier general four months later.
The general qualified as an
Army aviator in 1966. He later
was Army Material Command as
sistant division commander and
deputy commanding general and
chief of staff at the Army Com
bat Developments Command at
Fort Belvoir, Va.
Gen. Becker, 50, wears the Dis
tinguished Service Medal, Legion
of Merit, Bronze Star Medal with
“V” device and Vietnam Gal
lantry Cross with Palm, among
others.
MSC Plans
Spring Drive
For Personnel
The spring personnel Drive for
the Memorial Student Center
committees will be from 6 to 10
p.m. Thursday on the second floor
of the MSC, according to Mi
chael Essmyer, directorate assist
ant.
Essmyer said that the drive is
to recruit people for MSC com
mittees for next fall. He added
that they may also serve this
spring and summer.
He emphasized that off-campus
students, coeds and graduate stu
dents may be on the committees.
Committees open are Town
Hall, Chess, Great Issues and
other MSC and student-oriented
organizations on campus.
fiy Bob Robinson
Battalion Staff Writer
The largest ant hill in captivity,
and the only one anywhere that
revolves, is almost completed.
Ants, ranging from five feet
to six and a half feet tall, are al
most ready to go.
The Aggie Players are entering
their last week of rehearsal for
“Under the Sycamore Tree.”
A colony consisting of nine
“human” ants has all lines mem
orized and is polishing stage
movements and delivery.
Five offstage voices, making a
Freshmen Select Linda Watts
Sweetheart at Saturday Dance
Linda Dale Watts of Houston
H was crowned Freshman Sweet
heart at the class ball Saturday
night.
A hazel-eyed blonde beauty
who attends Sam Houston State,
Miss Watts won over four other
finalists.
The Freshman Sweetheart is a
first-year psychology major at
Sam Houston State and the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. John
Watts, 9118 Mahonining, Hous
ton. Her escort was Michael E.
Temple, freshman pre-veterinary
medicine major of Houston.
Finalists also included Kitty
Keeling, Sam Rayburn High Sen
ior of Pasadena; LaNell Kihn,
senior at Houston’s Jesse H.
Jones High; Pamela Blackman of
Houston, and Annalisa Miller,
Robert E. Lee High senior of
San Antonio.
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"On tho side of Texas A&M.”
—Adr.
cast of 14, have begun rehearsal.
The rope used to revolve thou
sands of pounds of stage has
been checked for signs of wear.
Dress rehearsal for Samuel
Spewack’s hilarious satire is less
than a week off.
“Under the Sycamore Tree” is
a spoof about a queen ant, played
by Sue Hachbold, who falls prey
to the ideas and notions of a
scientist, played by Dennis Turn
er, who always wants to know
why.
At his suggestion, she abolishes
ant language — the use of the
numbers one through ten — and
decrees that all members of the
colony will use English.
Every step the queen takes to
ward the humanizing of the col
ony is opposed by her statistician,
played by David Campbell, and
by her general, played by Mitchell
Hall.
Both are firm believers of the
age-old ant proverb of “the only
why that should be asked is —
why ask questions?”
The statistician the queen ig
nores, hut the general she kicks
upstairs to a specially created
advisory post and puts her sci
entist in charge of the colony’s
army.
The general becomes even more
upset because the scientist is a
civilian and, even worse, only a
worker ant.
In the meantime, the scientist
continues asking questions and
either finding or inventing the
answers.
He invented birth control when
one of the queen’s three hundred
eggs accidentally falls to the
ground and smashes.
He invents ambassadors and
talks rival ant colonies into ex
changing ants so they can spy
on each other.
As a matter of course, the in
ventions of photography, radio,
DDT, and gas masks come easily
to him.
The only things he has a hard
time understanding are the hu
man concepts of love and war.
Under the old system, ants ate
their victims when they won a
war. Humans immediately aid and
feed their victims so they can
become strong enough to make
war again.
In an attempt to understand
“love,” the scientist takes a boy
and girl ant and teaches them
the human terminology of love,
such as “passion,” “I love you,”
“darling,” “angel” and others.
He imitates almost perfectly
the human society. Then he dis
covers the one thing missing for
a perfect imitation. Common
sense. Ants have too much.
He corrects the situation.
He finally discovers the reason
why humans are always making
war and corrects this situation
also.
He decides that humans should
benefit from his latest discovery,
(See Players, page 3)
FENCED IN—Baylor’s David Sibley and David Croucher put the squeeze on A&M’s
Chuck Smith late in the Saturday game. The Aggies lost, 70-68, and were eliminated
from a chance at the Southwest conference title. The season ends tonight with a game
against the champion Rice Owls. See story, page 4. (Photo by Mike Wright)