Che Battalion
windy,
Rainy,
hot
Vol. 66 No. 10
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, September 16, 1970
Thursday — Partly cloudy to
cloudy, afternoon rainshowers.
Wind Southerly 10 to 15 m.p.h.
High 84, low 71.
Friday — Partly cloudy. Wind
South 8 to 10 m.p.h. High 91
low 68.
Baton Rouge — Partly cloudy.
Wind Southeast 5 to 8 m.p.h.
80°, relative humidity 75%.
Telephone 845-2226
5 student positions
added by university
By LEE DUNKELBERG
Battalion Staff Writer
University standing committees
had their student membership
bolstered this year with the addi
tion of five new student positions,
according to Kent A. Caperton,
Student Senate President. The
new seats were the result of the
formation of three new commit
tees and the addition of a stu
dent member to the Student Pub
lications Board.
Students on these and other
university committees hold voting
privileges.
The new committees include an
Educational Television Commit
tee, a Golf Course Advisory Com
mittee, and a EHsciplinary Ap
peals Panel.
The Disciplinary Appeals Panel
was formed out of the former
Appeals Panel, which had no
students on it, according to Ca
perton. The Appeals Panel heard
both academic and disciplinary
appeals. The Disciplinary Appeals
Panel was designed to hear ap
peals for disciplinary action only.
“It is a committee designed to
offer an appeals mechanism for
students booted out of the uni
versity for a violation of the
rules,” Caperton explained.
“The Dean of Students’ repre
sentative, a member of the fac
ulty, will not vote. He will be
bringing the charges. That was
Dean Hannigan’s idea,” he added.
The Academic Panel, which
does not have student represen
tation, was formed to take care of
all academic appeals.
The names of the two student
members to the Disciplinary Ap
peals' Panel have not been an
nounced, but Caperton said Act
ing President A. R. Luedecke
will announce them in a few
days.
Student representatives to the
new Educational Television Com
mittee are David Smallwood,
Morris K. Patterson, and John K.
Hulse.
Michael D. McMeans will serve
on the Golf Course Advisory
Board. Both of these committees
were set up as administrative and
advisory groups.
Roger Miller was named as the
first student representative to
the Student Publications Board.
In addition to the five new
positions created this year, there
were also 32 previously held stu
dent posts that were filled.
Appointed to the Exchange
Store Advisory Board were Thom
as C. Bain, Kent A. Caperton,
Thomas C. Fitzhugh and Donald
M. Olson.
The Rules and Regulations
(See students, page 4)
NSF gives Economics
3-year, $458,000 grant
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to be taking a shortcut down from the 12th floor of a
The awarding by the National
Science Foundation (NSF) of a
$458,000 departmental science de
velopment grant to the Economics
Department at Texas A&M Uni
versity was announced Tuesday
in Washington by Cong. Olin E.
Teague and Sen. John G. Tower.
The three-year award will be
used for improving the quality
of research and education at un
dergraduate and graduate levels
through activities to be approved
by the NSF, explained Dr. John
W. Allen, economics department
head.
The original proposal requested
aid in financing development of
the department over a broad
front, he said.
“It is anticipated the grant
money will be used for such things
as hiring new faculty members,
bringing visiting lecturers to the
campus, setting up summer short
courses instructed by visiting
scholars, support for graduate
student assistantships and pro
viding support to the faculty for
research,” Allen added
Buyers must
for ecology’s
change ways
sake: Hatfield
By HAYDEN WHITSETT
Battalion News Editor
Ecology will be the United
States’ greatest problem in the
seventies Senator Mark O. Hat
field (R-Oreg.) told a Political
Forum audience Tuesday noon in
the ballroom of the Memorial
Student Center.
“The real crisis we face today
is a crisis in values,” the sponsor
of the recently defeated amend
ment to end the war in Vietnam
told an overflow crowd.
“We should look at ourselves
as consumers and examine our
present behavior,” he said. Ac
cording to Hatfield, population,
noise and other forms of ecologi
cal pollution are expected to be
come paramount in the next few
years.
The United States consumes
forty per cent of the world’s re
sources and produces fifty per
cent of the world’s pollution, he
said.
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Much of the fault lies with the
average individual or consumer.
“It is easy to point the finger
at someone else and fail to real
ize that we have an individual
role,” he said.
Although there are over 1,000
bills on pollution before con
gress and thirty committees deal
ing with it, Hatfield emphasized
that laws do little to change
things, it is the individual who
can and must work to stop pol
lution.
“We cannot consume in our
present manner and control our
ecological interests,” he said. “It
is our life styles, not laws that
will ultimately protect our envi
ronment and ourselves.”
“Each must act, not expecting
others to do it for us.”
Noise pollution, he said, is an
area being overlooked in the pres
ent ecological stew.
“Noise is an established part
of American life,” he said. “We
are the noisiest nation in the
world. Noise costs American in
dustry 4 billion dollars a year in
production and efficiency losses.”
Approximately ten to twenty
million Americans have impaired
hearing and many more have
some trouble but don’t know it,
he said.
Many experts, he added, expect
the “rock generation” to be par
tially deaf.
“The grant will furnish addi
tional resources allowing us to
improve all levels of instruction
and research, to expand the num
ber of fields of specialization at
the graduate level as well as add
new undergraduate courses.”
Allen said a significant aspect
of the NSF grant is that it rec
ognizes previous development of
economics at Texas A&M under
university and state support.
“These awards are made only
after a department has devel
oped its expertise to a fairly high
level,” Allen noted.
Dr. W. David Maxwell, dean of
the College of Liberal Arts of
which economics is a part, re
gards the department as the fin
est in the South and Southwest.
Potential is indicated for its de
velopment into an internationally
prominent one.
Economics at Texas A&M en
rolls 85 undergraduate and 70
graduate students in courses in
structed by 23 faculty members.
Dr. Allen became the head last
summer, succeeding Dr. M. L.
Greenhut after a year as acting
head of the department.
HIGH FLYING SKIER appears
Vancouver (B. C.) apartment. Actually Brian Thompson, under tow by a motor boat on
English Bay, ventured too close to civilization before landing.
Rain Texas
in wake of
weather
tropical
fare
storm
HIGH ISLAND, Tex. (A>> —
Tropical Storm Felice hit the
Texas coast near here Tuesday
night without ever attaining hur
ricane force, and torrential rains
fell in its wake.
As much as 6.25 inches of rain
descended at Galveston, and
streets in that island resort filled
with water.
The Weather Bureau said Fe
lice, with peak winds estimated
at 70 miles per hour, began to
break up shortly after its ill-de
fined center crossed the coast
about 25 miles northeast of Gal
veston. In Galveston the top ve
locity was 55 m.p.h.
While official observers report
ed the storm was dying fast, they
said concentrated rains up to six
inches could be expected along a
narrow path as the storm moved
northwestward through East Tex
as during the night and today.
Storm warnings were lowered
along the Upper Texas and West
Louisiana Coast at 11 p.m. Winds,
tides and seas were expected to
diminish during the night.
The Department of Public Safe
ty said one of its patrol cars
traveled from High Island north
east to Sabine Pass over Texas
87 as soon as the storm’s eye
passed and reported the road
was never under water, as had
been expected.
Radio program to feature
pop music, Aggie
news
Sen. Mark Hatfield talks
with students Tuesday.
“Aggie Monitor,” a two-hour Thursday
night radio show featuring popular music,
A&M news items and interviews, goes on the
air Sept. 24 on KORA in Bryan.
KORA president and general manager
Mike Mistovich said the 10-12 presentation
will be conducted by A&M students and
sponsored by local businesses.
Deejays will be sophomore Harold
Johnstone and Tommy Parker of Lake
Jackson. “Aggie Monitor” executive editor is
Larry Bowles, senior of LaGrange.
“The program will be of interest to all
Aggies,” commented Johnstone and Parker.
“Students will be polled for music prefer
ences. This will serve as a guide, along with
station policy.”
They said announcements of organiza
tional activities, campus events and interviews
with faculty and administration members will
be presented.
Early evacuation from Sabine
Pass over Texas 87 had been
urged, since the road was the
only escape route after a bridge
had been knocked out on another
highway north to Port Arthur in
a barge accident Sunday night.
By 5 a.m. today the Weather
Bureau placed the center of de
caying Felice about 30 miles
southeast of College Station and
moving toward the northwest at
15 m.p.h. Top winds were down
to an estimated 30 m.p.h. except
in a few squalls.
Of Galveston’s 6.25-inch rain,
observers said 4.35 inches fell in
the six hours before midnight.
The rain belt covered South
east and much of Central Texas,
coming down in moderate to
heavy amounts as it spread past
the Dallas-Fort Worth area to
the north and around Junction
and Throckmorton to the west.
Thunderstorms were mixed
with showers in North Texas, and
lighter showers pattered down in
the Texas Panhadle from Ama
rillo and Dalhart westward into
New Mexico.
A stationary cool front stretch
ed across the Panhandle-Plains
sector near Lubbock and a shal
low layer of cool air was blamed
for fog which limited visibility
north of the front.
Skies were at least partly
cloudy nearly everywhere except
in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
Senior finds memorial banner in math department trash
WORLD WAR I memorial flag as it was unfurled for a photographer last week in the
Duncan area. James Jones who found the flag is third from the right. (Photo by Art
Chad well)
By MIKE STEPHENS
Battalion Staff Writer
A 52-year-old memorial flag
found in a trash can in the Aca
demic Building? Sounds impos
sible, especially at A&M, but it
has happened.
James B'. Jones, senior math
major of Squadron 7, found a
tradition rich flag, lost and for
gotten, during the summer while
cleaning was taking place.
The 15 by 26 foot flag honor
ing the Aggies who served in
World War I had hung from the
rotunda of the Academic Build
ing for more than 20 years, he
later found.
The giant flag has 2,000 ma
roon stars representing those Ag
gies who fought in World War I,
with 50 white stars in the center
honoring the Aggies who died
during the war.
How can such a memorial be
completely forgotten at a school
such as A&M which has so many
traditions, Jones wondered.
Jones is working hard at find
ing the answer, but he hasn’t
been able to find many records
of the flag.
Only three photographs have
been found.
One is inside an old issue of
The Battalion dated March 4,
1941, which was found laying
with the flag. Another is an old
Guion Hall photograph, where the
flag first hung. And there is one
in the movie “We’ve Never Been
Licked.”
Jones has found the following
facts about the flag:
The flag was created by an
official act of Congress in 1918.
During the renovation of Guion
Hall, it was moved to the Aca
demic Building until 1943 when
it fell. It was to be repaired, but
delays held it up, and soon it
was stored. It has obviously been
completely forgotten until now.
Jones plans to return the flag
when he finds out its history and
records it. He also wants to make
sure the flag will be kept in an
appropriate manner. He is con
sidering giving it to the Former
Student Association.
Anyone who has any knowl
edge of the flag is requested to
send the information to James B.
Jones, P.O. Box 4657, College
Station or see the Former Stu
dents Association in the Memo
rial Student Center.
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FLAG HANGS from third floor of the Academic Building
rotunda, in picture printed in the March 4, 1941 issue of
The Battalion. The picture was taken by Life photographer
Francis (Nig) Miller.