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v.-.* general , «*whai* '««««» 1,111 spring ir>' ^•nons K as t he ^ he Was lie would !;“< Vol. 65 No. 121 Battalion College Station, Texas 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.”