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Warm,
cloudy,
humid
Wednesday, May 27, 1970
Thursday and Friday — Cloudy
in the morning, partly cloudy in
the afternoon. Southeasterly
winds 10-12 mph. High 86 de
grees, low 68 degrees.
Weekend — Rain showers in
afternoon Saturday and Sunday.
High near 88 degrees.
Telephone 845-2226
Senator introduces
anti-dove measure
HUDDER COMMEMORATIVE AWARD — John R. Drewien (back to camera), 1969-70
Dorps adjutant, receives the first Gen. James Earl Rudder Commemorative Award from
jlcting A&M President A. R. Luedecke during rain-marred Final Review Saturday. Look
ing on are (from left) Gen. William C. Westmoreland, Army chief of staff and commis-
lioning speaker; Cong. Graham B. Purcell; A&M Commandant J. H. McCoy; Col. Keith
1 Hanna, professor of aerospace studies; and Cadet Col. Matt Carroll.
New officers advised.
Master many skills’
Gen. William C. Westmoreland
Mlenged newly commissioned
ifficers at Texas A&M University
( Saturday to see that “our serv-
emen are led by the best.”
The Army Chief of Staff cited
) Ihe growing responsibilities of to-
lay’s military officer in his ad-
Iress to a record ROTC commis-
. i ' ()n ’ n g exercises crowd.
“The leader in the Armed
Forces today is not just a man-
; iger of violence,” the recent com-
siander of U. S. Forces in Viet
nam declared. “He must also be
master of numerous skills.”
“He must be an expert in trans
portation, logistics, personnel ad
ministration, communications and
engineering. He must be able to
look to our nation’s future needs
in research and development and
te prepared to administer these
important and complex pro
grams.”
Gen. Westmoreland reminded
le new officers that “certain
falues cannot be comprised, and
tee are fundamentals to any
society or any organization with
in a society.”
He listed the values as respect
for lawful authority, discipline
including self-discipline, sacrifice
of personal goals for the goals
of the group, and absolute hon
esty and integrity.
Westmoreland’s 30-minute ad
dress was interrupted nine times
by applause.
The general referred to the
June 16
for GRE
Texas A&M University will ad
minister the Graduate Record
Examinations (GRE) Saturday,
July 11, on campus.
Registration forms must be re
ceived by Educational Testing
Service, Berkeley, Calif., by June
16. A $3 late registration penalty
fee can be paid if the registra
tion forms are received between
June 16 and the closing date on
June 23.
SCONA to canvass Houston,
sets $4,000 goal for drive
Texas A&M students begin a
liighly-organized canvass of Hous
ton Thursday to obtain additional
support for the 16th Student
Conference on National Affairs.
SC0NA XVI chairman Dave
Men to establish
Rudder memorial
Top Texas A&M University of
ficials will participate in the ded
ication of the Earl Rudder Me
morial Park at 11 a.m. Saturday
in Eden, the late A&M president’s
With place.
Acting A&M President Alvin
A Luedecke will give the dedica
tion address. Clyde H. Wells of
Granbury, president of the Texas
A&M University System Board
Directors, will unveil the me
morial marker, located in the
Wntown square.
Memorial crosses honoring all
Concho County veterans will be
erected in Earl Rudder Memorial
Park and their names will be in-
eluded in the roll call of the hon
ied dead, according to L. N.
Kirkpatrick, general chairman of
tile Earl Rudder Memorial Com
mittee.
Concho County and West Texas
leaders, university officials, state
leaders and former military
Mends are expected to attend the
memorial services in the late
major general’s hometown.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
-Adv.
Mayfield of Waco said 10 two-
man teams have been organized
to contact 600 individuals Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday.
“A tentative goal of $4,000 has
been set for this drive,” Mayfield
said. “This is in addition to the
usual financial backing SCONA
receives from Houston businesses
and individuals.”
He cited rising costs and the
current economic “tight” as rea
sons for the extra canvass. Most
large contributors write SCONA
donations into their budgets at
fixed levels, which does not cover
increasing costs of labor, housing
and transportation for SCONA
delegates.
Through the conference, stu
dents from throughout the U. S.,
Canada and Mexico meet for a
week at A&M for discussion, in- v
vestigation and exchange of ideas
on topics of major significance.
“Student Responsibilities in the
70s” will be the topic of SCONA
XVI, tentatively set for next Feb
ruary. Mayfield said inherent
dangers of the topic are recog
nized, but that the committee
believes students can have con
structive analysis and discussion
of the subject.
Mayfield will head the Houston
contingent, which will include
Harry K. Lesser, 1969 SCONA
chairman of Brenham, and Dennis
Flannigan, architectural construc
tion major of Bryan.
Mayfield noted that the 20
A&M students will be giving up
their weekend holidays to make
the drive.
late Texas A&M president, Maj.
Gen. Earl Rudder, as exemplify
ing the career of the citizen sol
dier.
“Gen. Rudder was a dedicated,
fearless soldier,” Westmoreland
said. “But he also was a repu
table scholar and an inspirational
leader, as well. His career dem-
deadline
Signup
Texas A&M is one of several
hundred test centers throughout
the country.
Registration forms are avail
able at the Academic Building
Counseling and Testing Center,
which conducts the testing on the
A&M campus.
Test fees are $8 for the apti
tude test and $9 for one advanced
test. Only one advanced test is
given on each test date.
Each test takes three hours.
The Aptitude test is scheduled in
the morning and advanced tests
are set three hours in the after
noon.
Educational Testing Service
will send an admission ticket to
the applicant. The admission
ticket is presented to the test
director for admittance.
GRE tests will not be given
again until this fall.
WASHINGTON (A 5 ) _ The
Senate voted 82 to 11 Tuesday to
put into conciliatory language an
amendment to cut off funds for
future U.S. military operations in
Cambodia. But action on the basic
issue seems far off.
Instead, administration sup
porters launched the first in a
series of moves to dilute or bar
enforcement of the pending
Cooper-Church amendment.
Sen. Robert J. Dole, R-Kan.,
introduced a rider to make the
proposed amendment inoperative
while U.S. citizens or nationals
are held as prisoners of war in
Cambodia by the North Vietnam
ese or Viet Cong.
Dole said this would add real
meaning to the amendment by
Sens. John Sherman Cooper, R-
Ky., and Frank Church, D-Ida-
ho, to bar funds after June 30
for retaining U.S. forces in Cam
bodia. It also would restrict U.S.
aid and use of air power in Cam
bodia.
Dole said of his proposal “I
wouldn’t think we would vote on
Summer room
reservations
due Friday
Texas A&M students have un
til Friday, May 29, to make room
reservations for the summer ses
sion, Housing Manager Allan M.
Madeley announced.
Students who want their cur
rent rooms for summer school
should have signed up previously,
he said.
Male single undergraduate stu
dents must reside on campus un
less they are living with their
parents, Madeley noted.
“Exceptions will not be made
except for very unusual circum
stances,” he emphasized.
Civilian students living in resi
dence halls who want to be day
students for the summer should
initiate their application with
their residence hall adviser, As
sociate Dean of Students Don R.
Stafford said.
Cadets living on campus who
desire day student status this
summer should apply at the
Housing Office, he added.
All students now living off
campus must also renew their
permits.
If day student permits are not
obtained before Friday, they must
be obtained Monday at registra
tion in Sbisa Hall.
Stafford said summer school^
students must sign for long dis
tance toll service as they register
Monday at Sbisa Dining Hall. All
students not signing Monday will
need to report to the telephone
company business office if they
want the service.
this this week.” Asked if oppo
nents of the Cooper-Church
amendment are stalling, he re
plied “We are not trying to rush
it.”
All but a handful of hard-line
opponents of any Senate curb on
presidential war-making powers
voted for the conciliatory lan
guage, offered by Church and
Cooper in hopes of opening the
way toward an) accommodation.
But the White House says the
^revised amendment still is un
acceptable, and the vote was
considered meaningless by both
sides.
Cooper-Church forces claim
they already have a majority of
votes, but in order to put their
amendment into pending military
sales legislation they will have to
beat off a variety of watering
down proposals—and then force a
vote which some administration
backers have threatened to delay
until June 30—the date Presi
dent Nixon pledged U.S. troops
would leave Cambodia.
Democratic Leader Mike Mans
field of Montana said he doesn’t
know when the basic amendment
will be voted on. And Republican
Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylva
nia said there may be two or
three days on each alternative
amendment.
Meanwhile a White House
spokesman described as inaccu
rate a published report that all
U.S. forces might be out of Cam
bodia as much as a week before
the June 30 deadline.
“We’ve announced our sched
ule. We are on schedule. Things
are proceeding well,” said press
secretary Ronald L. Ziegler.
In response to a question, Zie
gler reiterated there are no plans
to reintroduce American troops
into Cambodia but said the United
States is reserving an option to
assist South Vietnamese forces
with air operations in Cambodia
after July 1 if that seems nec
essary to the security of U.S.
troops in South Vietnam.
Earlier it was disclosed that
the United States is giving $7.5
million worth of small arms to
the Communist-beleaguered Cam
bodian government.
Board wants $100,000
for Easterwood needs
Texas A&M University has re
newed its appeal to city and
county officials for financial
assistance in maintenance and
repair of Easterwood Airport,
which the institution operates for
the community.
Gen. A. R. Luedecke, acting
university president, released a
board of directors resolution Mon
day requesting a $100,000 grant
“at the earliest possible time.”
The grant would be used for
“alleviating conditions now caus
ing two violations of Federal Avi
ation Administration regulations”
and to provide matching funds for
an FAA grant to maintain and
improve needed facilities, the reso
lution stated.
Copies of the resolution have
been presented to the Brazos
County Commissioners Court,
Bryan City Commission, College
Station City Council and the
Bryan-College Station Chamber
of Commerce.
In addition to providing $100,-
000 to meet immediate needs,
Texas A&M’s board of directors
called on the community to fi
nance a seven-point airport im
provement program which would
require expenditure of approxi
mately $750,000 during the next
10 years.
The board expressed its will
ingness to continue operating
Easterwood as a community air
port if such an improvement pro
gram were adopted.
As an alternative, the board
offered to lease the airport to
“any duly constituted authority”
for a period of 10 years at a rate
of $7 per year, provided the lessee
agrees to make the stipulated im
provements and provide normal
operations and maintenance.
“The need to maintain and im
prove the facilities at Easterwood
Airport is urgent and delays may
jeopardize airport operations,”
the resolution said.
The board said the March 21
election, while failing to establish
a county airport authority, “ap
pears to have created among the
citizens of Brazos County an
awareness of the need for a mod
ern community airport.”
Board members were cool to a
proposal to convert the Texas
A&M Research Annex, formerly
Bryan Air Force Base, into a
municipal airport.
They said the university “can
not reasonably be expected to
offer the facilities of the Texas
A&M Research Annex, since that
facility provides space for re
search programs involving ex
penditures in the amount of
approximately $2,000,000 a year.”
Additionally, the resolution
stated, the cost of converting the
research annex to a modern air
port would require the community
to provide funds “in excess of
(See Officers Advised, page 4)
6 Universities should reject
political involvement’-Varner
If American universities are to
remain “the greatest hope” of
mankind, they must reject insti
tutional participation in politics,
University of Nebraska Chancel
lor D. B. Varner declared Satur
day at Texas A&M University.
Varner, a 1940 Texas A&M
graduate, spoke at his alma ma
ter’s spring commencement exer
cises for a record 1,356 students.
The U. S. decision to enter
Cambodia, he said, has given im
petus to the new and dangerous
involvement of colleges and uni-
AWARD FOR DISTINCTION—Acting president A. R. Luedecke presents a distinguished
alumni award to Mrs. Earl Rudder, who received the award for her late husband, Presi
dent Rudder. The award was one of five presented to former students at commencement
Saturday. Rudder was the first to receive the award posthumously.
versities, as institutions, in polit
ical activities.
“For the first time in American
history, our major universities
are being utilized as political
weapons,” Varner observed.
“When universities, through their
established governing bodies, have
voted to endorse student strikes,
when they have voted wittingly
and willingly to abandon their
fundamental purposes as a form
of protest, then we have entered
a totally new era.”
He said there is an important
distinction between the action of
an individual member of the uni
versity community and the action
of a university as an institution.
Chancellor Varner said he be
lieves the land-grant universities
can, and should, continue to ful
fill their special commitment to
assist with the “solution of the
major problems of our society”
without being involved institu
tionally “in the political affairs of
the day.”
He emphasized it is important
that individual members of the
university community engage in
political activities.
“As members of the student
body, as members of the faculty,
or as employes of the university,”
the Cottonwood, Texa§, native
said, “there must be every free
dom, every encouragement for
responsible action.”
“It is imperative,” Varner con
tinued, “that those who are a part
of the university community con
tribute meaningfully to the po
litical process. But the university
as an institution must remain
faithful to its primary purpose
of disseminating established
knowledge, seeking new knowl
edge and transmitting it for the
ultimate benefit of all.”
“Dilution of these basic pur
poses with repeated on-stage po
litical performances, no matter
how dramatic or how significant,
will take us from our greatest
hope for advancement of man
kind.
“It is my fervent plea that
these fundamental purposes of
the university may not be so com
promised in the new wave of
emotionalism that its prime func
tion in our society is destroyed.”
Varner said in the development
of the new era of political par
ticipation by institutions, the ar
gument has been advanced that
the problems in Indo-China are
a crisis of such gravity that insti
tutions must do something to
draw public attention to the situ
ation.
Crisis, he reasoned, is mainly
a matter of personal definition:
Cambodia for some, poverty for
others, racial problems for still
others.
“If the university is to permit
itself to be utilized as a political
vehicle, as has been the case
during recent months, then who
among us can predict when the
next such crisis will be defined
and by whom?” the chancellor
asked.
“And what will be the univer
sities’ reaction at that time?” he
continued. “How long should the
strike be? How long should the
university be closed ? And if these
measures are not satisfactory,
what other extreme measures can
be utilized by the institution to
drive home the point that an
unpopular decision has been made
or that an unpopular action has
been taken?”
Varner said the threat to
American universities is so grave
that “it could be that in the years
ahead, we will look back to the
spring of this year and identify
it as the period in which the
universities ceased to perform
their historic function in a free
society.”
“It is my great hope, my fer
vent hope,” he concluded, “that
this will not be the case.”