The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, August 12, 1970, Image 1

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, August 12, 1970, Image 1

Newspaper Page TextCbe Warm, cloudy, humid Vol. 65 No. 132 College Station, Texas Wednesday, August 12, 1970 Thursday & Friday — Partly cloudy to clear. Wind South easterly 10 to 15 m.p.h. High 97, low 72. Weekend — Continued partly cloudy with afternoon cloudy chances of thundershowers Sat urday. High mid 90’s low mid 70’s. Telephone 845-2226 •• • - . . - ' V ■ ■ ■ S'X;’ * l : K* 1 Officials expect coeds for first time for camp a T 0m PS. “"W , , 0M& -^z***m : mR' ■Spa.: *■> * ■ : t£»£§- \ ~ ■ ' ■* '‘XL V : ^ .. ^ - swm*. ^ ■■ - v, .v x*. . ; r - • JHHHHHi Kyle Field’s new look complete—Workmen put the finish- green. Construction on the artificial turf began in the ing touches to the Astroturf on Kyle Field this week. Al- spring and the Aggies will play their first home game on though the photograph deceives the naked eye, the field is it on Sept. 12 against Wichita State. 125 Doctor of Vet Medicine degrees awarded at ceremony I Veterinary medicine graduates lere told Friday night it is “un fortunate the more radical ac- ■vists often choose the wrong iirgets and the wrong tactics.” ■ Dr. Willis William Armistead, dean of Michigan State’s College of Veterinary Medicine, said “at- cking the university over the ar in Vietnam makes about as rach sense as marching on Washington to protest the food the campus dining hall.” I Dean Armistead, a 1938 grad- late of A&M and former dean f A&M’s College of Veterinary ledicine, was commencement peaker. The university awarded 25 Doctor of Veterinary Medi- ine degrees, including one post- umous degree, during ceremon- fs in the Bryan Civic Audi- orium. The university, it seems to He, is an entirely appropriate lace to examine society, to de- ate its frailties and to propose emedies — just as it is an ap- iropriate place to study veteri- ary medicine. "But the two subjects are ttsically very different,” Dean Armistead stressed. "The university can actively 'remote disease eradication with out compromising academic free dom or risking loss of public support. “Government policy, on the other hand, is a debatable issue and the University, if it is to remain free, must not take sides,” he declared. Dr. Armistead cautioned the graduates that issues like Viet nam and the ghettos of Detroit should not take precedence over the pursuit for an education. “Human nature and the bu reaucratic hierarchy tend to favor the status quo. Most large organizations change only under pressure,” the dean said. “So we need protests. We need to have the young question the old, the outs challenge the ins and the minority press the ma jority.” Armistead warned, “age, of course, is no guarantee of wis dom. Even idiots grow old.” He suggested many campus en vironments have become hostile and polluted. “Presidents and deans have become, along with the whooping crane, endangered species,” Ar mistead claimed. Some self-styled intellectuals, he suggested, have attempted to draw a correlation between cam pus unrest and academic excel lence. “Such rationalizations suggest that campus violence is somehow desirable—that a relatively quiet university is a dull one,” he con tinued. Dr. Armistead pointed to Tex as A&M as a university with a reputation for academic excel lence ahead of political activism. Husband and wife receive degrees Melton and Darlene Sowell are Texas A&M University’s first husband-wife team to receive Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degrees together. But they don’t recommend what they’ve been through to other couples. “Tensions build up and it is psychologically hard,” Melton ex plained. “Everyone thinks we should do better, but actually have more pressures than most married students.” Veterinary medicine studies are gruelling. Usually a student takes 20 hours of course work a tri mester—about 40 hours of classes and labs a week. It’s almost impossible to work part-time and the study require- *05^’- fit; . Inside nuclear reactor—Dr. John Randall and Dan Feltz of the Nuclear Science Center l re shown inside the 40-foot nuclear reactor “swimming- pool” drilling- holes in the grid >iate over the reactor core. The pool was drained to about five feet of water. A pre-drilled pecial overlay steel drilling- plate was used to g-uide the electric mag-netic-based drill in frilling the 12 one and three-quarter inch holes. Dr Randall is director of the center and ? eltz is assistant director. (See story, page 4) ments are tremendous. Academic excellence is a must. Melton is from Midland and Darlene is an Alvin native. Both are 23. They met in 1966 while in the pre-veterinary medicine program and both were accepted into the professional college in 1967. They were married on April 13, 1968, following the end of the second trimester in the first of three years in the College of Veterinary Medicine. Friday night they receive the DVM degree, life-long dreams of both. The couple moves to Weath erford Saturday, where Melton takes over a practice. He will open the clinic Monday morning. “We have never known any thing but school and students,” Darlene confides. “We are looking forward to the new life with enthusiasm. “But in a way, it’s very fright ening to know you are through with classes and are about to open a practice,” she admits. “In my case, I have been as sociated with men for three years. I know all the hoys better than I know their wives. I expect a complete social change,” she adds. Melton is interested in a mixed practice, both large and small animals. Darlene’s main interest is small animals, household pets. She plans to help Melton with his Weatherford practice and also do relief work in a Fort Worth small animal clinic. They estimate the total cost for both educations at over $20,000. Both have worked part- time jobs and they have borrowed over $8,000. “Our parents made tremendous sacrifices,” Darlene said. “They have given us over $8,000. We could not have made it without our parents.” University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. University officials expect more than 400 freshmen including 75 coeds for the YMCA-sponsored Freshman Camp Aug. 21-25 at Lakeview Methodist Assembly near Palestine. YMCA Coordinator Logan E. Weston noted this is the first time in the camp’s 17-year his tory girls have attended the camp, held the week before the fall semester begins. Assisting with the five-day program will be 23 professors and ministers from the Bryan- College Station area. Seventy- seven male and 17 female upper classmen will serve as counselors. The addition of female campers has created some interesting problems. “There are some frustrations involved,” Weston admits. He had placed two girls in all-boy cabins because their first names were the same as those normally as sociated with males. Weston said the purpose of the camp is to give the new freshmen the opportunity to become ac quainted with professors, minis ters, upperclassmen and fellow freshmen. “They all will advise the new freshmen in making the transi- Red Cross makes plea The American Red Cross has sent out an appeal for funds designated to help with the Celia Disaster relief. The National quota is six million dollars. Texas has a quota of one million dollars. Brazos County’s quota is set at $3,044. All contributions to this wor thy cause should be sent to American Red Cross, 207 West 29th Street, Bryan, Texas. Make checks payable to Red Cross Celia Disaster Fund. The need is urgent. Who knows ? We may need help some day. tion from home and high school into college and the dormitory atmosphere,” he explained. Invitations have been sent to 1,460 freshmen. Selection was based on an overall high school record of 85 or better, partici pation in sports or school politics and completion of the on-campus summer orientation program. Weston personally checked each record to determine the top stu dents. There will be four camps for boys and one for the girls. Weston estimated each coun selor will have a maximum of six new students to guide through the camp program. Coeds will be split evenly for attendance at the mixed lectures and panel discussions. Ronnie Owens of Wichita Falls, Student Y Association president, will direct the camp. John Vogel sang of Houston is overall camp supervisor. Supervisors of the five differ ent camps are Caren Sue Conlee of Bryan, Camp Thompson; War ren Gillespie of Friendswood, Camp Wesley; Robert Connell of Corpus Christi, Camp Windham; Steve Grainger of Marshall, Camp Ranger, and Alvin Stewart of Houston, Camp Asbury. Weston said old camp files have been researched and the more im portant materials have been pro vided to instructors. The 1970-71 Freshman Hand book, a Y Association project, will be off the press by camp time and will also be used in the camp program. Weston added that the hand book is completely researched and all information documented and checked several times. He believes it is the best reference book ever produced by the university for new freshmen. Interior Secretary addresses confab Assistant Secretary of Interior Leslie L. Glasgow told right of way experts attending a confer ence here Wednesday “you have a big job to see to it that the public interests are indeed served.” Dr. Glasgow, who heads the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife and the National Park Service, said the Interior De partment and other agencies are taking measures to safeguard the public land. Noting the electric utilities, Dr. Glasgow pointed out the 3,600 U. S. companies operate more than 300,000 miles of over head electric transmission lines which pre-empt nearly four mil lion acres of land right of way. “With the demands for elec tric power escalating, it is esti mated that approximately 100,- 000 miles of new transmission lines must be constructed on 1% million acres of right of way each decade for the balance of this century,” Glasgow declared. “The industry certainly knows it faces an environmentally aroused general public.” He contended “the trend in the industry obviously is toward making peace with the environ ment.” Glasgow was keynote speaker for a panel discussion on envi ronmental considerations. The conference is presented by Re gion 2 of the American Right of Way Association and is spon sored by A&M’s Texas Trans portation Institute. The program continues through Friday noon. “In the right of way battles in the future, the applicants won’t necessarily be cast as the deserving folk in Exodus,” Dr. Glasgow added. “There is a growing tendency to cast them instead as Pharaoh.” Husband - wife vet team—Melton and Darlene Sowell examine a seven-month-old Saint Bernard following- orthopedic surgery at the small Animal Clinic. The couple received the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degrees last week. The puppy weight over 100 pounds and had surgery to correct an elbow bone problem.

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, August 12, 1970, Image 1

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