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Vol. 66 No. 24
College Station, Texas
Friday, October 9, 1970
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By MIKE STEPHENS
Battalion Staff Writer
“Togetherness of A&M students
is not only possible but essential
for A&M to continue being one of
the great universities,” Kent Ca
perton, student senate president,
said last night at All-University
night.
Speeches by Acting President
A. R. Luedecke, Student Senate
President Kent Caperton, Head
Yell Leader, Keith Chapman, and
Head Football Coach Gene Stall
ings preceded a yell practice. The
night began All-University Week
end.
Guests of Honor included Dean
of Students, James P. Hannigan,
Advisor to Civilian Activities,
Howard Perry, Associate Dean
of Students, Don Stafford, J. Ma-
lon Southerland, Civilian Corps
Advisor, Van Taylor, Comman
der of the Corps of Cadets, John
Sharp, Students Life Chairman
of the Student Senate, and Mark
Olson, Civilian Student Council
President.
Caperton called for together
ness of corps, civilians, and co
eds. He stressed that the purpose
Grads to hold talk
by lunar scientist
An A&M University graduate
lecture entitled “Results of Apollo
11 and 12 Quarantine Studies on
Plants” will be conducted at 4
Dr. Charles H. Walkinshaw Jr.
p.m. Wednesday in Room 112 of
the Plant Sciences Building.
Lecturer will be Dr. Charles
H. Walkinshaw Jr., principal
plant pathologist for the U. S.
Department of Agriculture For
est Service at the Lunar Receiv
ing Laboratory in NASA’s Man
ned Spacecraft Center.
Dr. Walkinshaw was appoint
ed to his present position in 1968
after serving three years as a
microbiology professor at the
University of Mississippi Medi
cal College in Jackson. He pre
viously served as a Forest Serv
ice plant pathologist at Gulfport,
Miss.
He received his undergraduate
degree from the University of
Florida and Ph.D. at the Univer
sity of Wisconsin, where he also
held a post-doctoral fellowship.
Dr. Walkinshaw’s lecture is
sponsored by Texas A&M’s
Plant Sciences Department.
of the weekend was to build unity
between all students of A&M.
Acting President Luedecke re
minded students that they are
ladies and gentlemen and that
they should represent A&M in
the best way possible, especially
on weekends when so many vis
itors are here.
“Welcome all visitors in the
best manner possible. Let people
know just how proud you are of
your school and football team,”
Luedecke said.
Gene Stallings then introduced
the senior football players to the
crowd of about 1,500 students and
visitors. Only one civilian dor
mitory was represented with only
about half of the corps present.
Civilians totaled about 300 of the
audience.
Caperton seemed disappointed
at the distribution of students as
he was telling the audience that
all students must work together
to make this the best year ever.
After introducing the four sen
iors on the football team Dave
Elmendorf, Jimmy Sheffield, Jim
Parker and Winston Beam, the
Aggie Band played the Aggie
War Hymn at Stallings request.
Using the small amount of sen
iors as examples, he told the au
dience just how tough football
was. He compared the toughness
with the toughness of getting
through Texas A&M.
“I hope it never changes ei
ther,” Stallings said.
Coach Stallings seemed proud
of the support the football team
has been receiving. He said how
important it was to have the Ag
gie Band playing for the team.
“I believe that if we played
our next game in Hong Kong,
there would be some Aggie fans
there,” he said.
“This team is playing as hard
as it can and is giving 100%. I
couldn’t ask for anything more,”
Stallings said.
27 exhibits will be displayed
to state’s high school students
Career opportunities will
featured Saturday in the 27 ex
hibits set up in DeWare Field
House for the annual Agricultur
al and Engineering Career Day.
The 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. free show
ing is designed to give informa
tion on study programs leading
to specialization within the vari
ous fields of agriculture and en
gineering, committee chairmen
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
Agricultural Associate Dean R. C.
Potts and Engineering Assistant
Dean J. G. McGuire announced.
Students, teachers, parents, and
the public are invited to attend.
High school groups from through
out the state will make field trips
to A&M for the program.
Faculty and student representa
tives will be available to talk with
the students, answer questions,
and distribute printed materials,
Potts and McGuire explained.
Tours of departmental facilities
may be arranged.
WRECK TECH car bash conducted Thursday night in the area between Walton Hall and
the University Hospital was a success, as viewing students observe. Legett Hall held a
bash earlier in the day, then a combined Walton-Legett bash began at 4 p. m. The halls
again are cosponsoring a bash today, and Walton will hold its own Saturday. Price is six
swings for 25 cents. See related photos, page 3. (Photo by Bob Cox)
Ags open SWC play
with Tech Saturday
KEITH SYKES, national coffee house circuit performer,
does his thing Thursday night at the MSC’s Basement. The
singer-player performs tonight from 8 p. m. - 12 midnight,
Saturday from 2-5 p. m., and from 10 p. m. - 1 a. m. after
the Tech game. (Photo by Bob Cox)
By CLIFFORD BROYLES
Battalion Sports Editor
The Texas Tech Red Raiders,
with one loss on the records and
a second loss meaning virtually
no chance for the Southwest Con
ference championship, visit Kyle
Field Saturday night at 7:30 in
the opening game of the confer
ence schedule for the Texas Ag
gies.
Tech lost its league opener to
the University of Texas at Aus
tin, 35-13, after holding the sec
ond ranked Longhorns to a 14-13
margin at the half.
A&M will be opening its con
ference race with the battle after
splitting four non-league games,
with wins over Wichita State and
• LSU, and losses to Ohio State
and Michigan.
It will be the 29th meeting be
tween the two schools with the
Aggies holding a 17-10-1 edge in
the series despite losing by five
points in 1968 and by four in
1969.
Those contests were not decid
ed until late stages of the game,
which is nearly an institution
when the pair gets together.
Since 1960, seven of the 10
games were decided by a touch
down or less, and one of the other
games had only a 10 point mar
gin.
A&M won the only two wide-
open battles, 38-7 in 1961 and
35-14 in 1968.
Tech owns three wins to go
with the conference setback.
The Red Raiders have defeat
ed Tulane 21-14, Kansas 23-0 and
the University of California at
Santa Barbara 63-21, with the
wins of Kansas and UCSB being
most impressive.
The Raiders mopped up favored
Kansas with over 600 yards total
offense and last week played their
subs a good deal of the time as
they bombed UCSB.
Coach Gene Stallings is ex
pected to have only one major
(See Tech first, page 5)
Gardens ready
for weekenders
A&M’s Floral Test Garden will
be blooming with a variety of
later summer and fall flowers
this weekend for the A&M-Texas
Tech football game visitors, re
ports William L. Vitopil, A&M
grounds superintendent.
Vitopil said there are “many
flowers in beautiful colors” ready
for the fans, parents and dates.
However, only 50 per cent of the
garden is blooming since most
of the chrysanthemums will not
flower for about two more weeks.
The Z-shaped garden is located
east of Kyle Field.
Among plants ready this week
are many varieties of alyssum,
verbena, vinca, snapdragons and
several summer flowers in the
All America part of the garden.
Vitopil said Christmas peppers,
candlestick trees behind the gar
den and a bed of altemanthera
sheared for visual effects are
also ready.
A selection of Hardy chrysan
themums are blooming, Vitopil
pointed out, but the majority of
the chrysanthemums will not be
ready until the Arkansas game
Oct. 31.
Picnic tables have been placed
throughout the area for use prior
to the evening football game,
Vitopil added.
GREAT SAVINGS PLAN made
even better by new legal rates at
FIRST BANK & TRUST. Adv.
The inquiring Battman
Would you be in favor of changing the
abortion laws?
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James T. Engelder
(( Graduate
‘The right of an individual to
. ve an abortion if she so chooses
ls equivalent to the right of free
speech. Abortion—Yes!”
Steve Fullbright
Graduate
“Women wanting abortions will
seek them—legal or not. They
should be legalized. Unwanted
children so often grow up to be
misfits, and what about rape
victims who became pregnant.
Pat Kavanagh
Senior
“No, I don’t feel abortion should
be legalized, because only God
can give life and only He can take
it away.”
James A. Neikirk
Senior
“Legalized abortion is a must;
it offers a possible solution to
the population explosion, plus it
will protect many women from
death at the hands of an unskilled
practitioner.”
J!
Dave Higdon
Freshman
“Abortion’s murder! No one
has the right to deprive another
human being of the right to live,
regardless of the situation. How
can we rationalize abortion and
not murder?”
Craig Bird
Senior
“Sexual morality should not be
legislated. We shouldn’t be pun
ished so severely for mistakes
made during the heat of passion.”
Sonny House
Junior
“Legalized abortion be depen
dent on the circumstances. In
stances such as rape or possible
birth defects should certainly be
considered. A “too wild” party or
a regrettable good time wouldn’t
be substantial grounds.”