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' v;. ibe Battalion Dennis Watsoi ayior defense | Vol. 66 No. 33 College Station, Texas Tuesdi Cloudy, cool, milder Wednesday — Partly cloudy to cloudy. Winds 10-15 mph. Low 44 degrees, high 67 degrees. Thursday — Cloudy to partly cloudy. Winds light and variable. Low 41 degrees, high 69 degrees. Kyle Field — Partly cloudy, easterly winds 10-15 mph. 67 de grees. Tuesday, October 27, 1970 845-2226 In Saturday march-in Major general to view cadets Scott of K-l rfinal victory •hampionship A title with ers zipped by oto by Mike Army Maj. Gen. Joseph R. Russ will take salutes of Texas A&M University’s Corps of Cadets units in their formal entry into Kyle Field Saturday for the A&M- Arkansas football game. The march-in to the 1:30 p. m. game will begin at 12:20 p. m., announced Col. Jim H. McCoy, commandant. Russ, 58, is deputy commanding general for Reserve Forces, Fourth U. S. Army, Fort Sam Houston. He will be the second two-star Army general to review the corps this fall. With the 1935 U. S. Military Academy graduate and 35-year |SAWDUST-FLOOR revival tent is school for these children who live on Coon Branch Mountain in southern West Vir ginia. Their parents are protesting against conditions of At council meeting Foreign students to TEXAS 26th St. A 2-1572 pus 1 *le tres Itation ion’s Own Service rsity I Bank GATE of Flavor 'ARY airies Texas re Co. A N itE WARE r STAL JIFTS public schools and roads. No one from the mountain has ever graduated from high school. (AP Wirephoto) Draft policy deferment changes draft constitution The International Student Council will meet Wednesday night to draft a constitution, Fer nando Giannetti, coordinator for the group, said Monday. The meeting will be at 7:30 in the Art Room of the Memorial Student Center. The setup for the organization has not been determined, but it will definitely not be constx-ucted along the lines of a hometown club, the animal science junior from Argentina said. “There are about 600 inter national students from 63 coun tries at A&M,” he said. “An organization of this type would allow international students to become acquainted with American students, and American students to become acquainted with inter national students. It should be a two-way street. “We want to reach as many people as we can—to represent the whole segment of inter national students.” The group will not be restricted to foreign students. There will be no dues for the club which has met three times this year, Giannetti said. Money will come from fund drives, fee allocations from the Exchange Store or projects, he added. The group, which was estab lished with the unanimous back ing of the Student Senate, hopes to plan an International Week, start an orientation program for international students and write a handbook. Attending conven tions and organizing athletic events were also mentioned as possibilities for the group. Skydiving plunge kills Sbisa employe WASHINGTON <A>) — Draft Director Curtis W. Tarr estab lished a policy Monday permit ting men to drop certain defer ments at will. The policy means a man with a student, occupational father hood or hardship deferment can abandon it whenever it is to his advantage, without awaiting the end of the condition under which it was granted. He could, for example, choose to enter the 1A manpower pool late in a year when it is appar ent his draft lottery number will not be reached. Exposure for even part of the year counts for the entire year and if a man ends the year in 1A status without being drafted, he is moved into less vulnerable categories in the following years. Tarr said lottery number 195 probably will be the highest called this year, and he invited men who received higher num bers in the draft lottery held De cember 1969 to take advantage of the opportunity to face their maximum exposure in a year. Men who received lottery num bers last July, however, could not use the ruling to their advantage this year. They will be the top- priority group of 1971 and drop ping a deferment now would only expose them to the draft for that entire year before they know what their chances are. They could use it later in 1971 or in future years. Tarr’s directive contained also a warning for deferred men that they must provide their draft boards with required evidence if they want their deferments re newed. Soapbox forum changes day; now to be held on Thursday The next soapbox forum will be held Thursday from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. at the review stand across from the Memorial Stu dent Center (MSG), Student Body President Kent Caperton announced Monday. It will be co-sponsored by the Great Issues Committee of the MSC and the Student Senate. The forum was originally planned for Tuesdays, but the time was changed to Thursday in attempt to find the day which would bring the best turnout, Caperton said. The forum is intended to fa cilitate open discussion and free dialogue between students, facul ty, administrators and staff, Caperton said. To speak, a per son must first present an identi fication card to prove affiliation with the university. Any topic may be discussed, but election campaigning will not be allowed. Speakers are allowed a 10-min ute time limit, with an additional five minute rebuttal period of de sired. A speaker who has not used up his allotted time may yield the floor to anyone qualify ing to speak, who may use the remainder of the time. Texas A&M University em ploye Mrs. Darlene Alban was killed Sunday in a skydiving ac cident near Millican, 16 miles south of the campus. The 20-year-old Food Service Department employe’s parachute began opening about 100 feet above the ground. She was after a 12,500-foot fall that was to have fall. included a 60-second free Members of the Texas A&M Parachute Club said her chute never fully deployed during the 3 p.m. jump. Mrs. Alban, who had made 31 jumps, was one of nine skydivers on the group jump for mid-air hookups. Club sponsor Jon Bots- ford, engineering technology in structor, said on a 60-second free fall from 12,500 feet, the para chute normally opens above 2,000 feet. He said most of the other eight jumpers had their parachutes open at 3,000 feet. Services are pending at the Lindley-Robertson Funeral Home in Navasota. Mrs. Alban was formerly from La Porte. She was employed at Sbisa Hall last De cember. Club members at the Millican drop zone said there was no equipment malfunction, Rotsford reported. He said Mrs. Alban made contact with at least one skydiver on the way down. “The conjecture is she hit some turbulence above another sky- diver and fell into someone, pos- s i b 1 y becoming disoriented,” Botsford added. There is no rea son to suspect that she lost con sciousness, he said. New university directory on sale tomorrow for $1.50 A&M’s new directory goes on sale Wednesday, announced University Information Director Jim Lindsey Friday. The 238-page directory contains complete faculty-staff and stu dent listings, Lindsey noted. He said the faculty-staff section in cludes titles, departments and home addresses and telephone numbers. Student listings include classifications, majors and home town addresses. The directory will sell for $1.50. In addition to the individual listings, the directory has a sep arate section listing key officials and all the major offices on cam pus, Lindsey pointed out. Student Senate representatives, as well as Civilian Student Council of ficers and Corps of Cadets com manders and scholastic officers, also are listed separately. Other features include the uni versity calendar, athletic sched ule and campus map. A full-color' aerial photograph of the heart of the campus is on the cover this year. Lindsey said the directory will be available at the Student Pub lications Office in the Services Building, the Exchange Store, the Memorial Student Center Gift Shop, Shaffer’s University Book Store and all banks in Bryan- College Station. Coeds with meal tickets say Sbisa pretty good mge Aggies" [LDING® ICIATION Yvonne Nelson “Generally, everything is pret ty good.” That is not the usual comment expressed about the food served in Sbisa Dining Hall, but it is the attitude of Yvonne Nelson, one of two coeds eating in Sbisa Din ing Hall this semester. “I don’t have a roommate,” she said, “and I can’t cook a large meal for just one person, so I eat here.” “I got tired of eating at the Memorial Student Center,” said the graduate student in biology, citing lousy hamburgers as one of her reasons for switching, “So I eat here, at least they (Sbisa) try for variety.” Susan Gordon, the other, said that her reason for eating in Sbisa was that her apartment didn’t have kitchen privileges. Her opinion of the food is that it is “not too bad for the amount of people served.” “You get exactly your money’s worth—no more,” the junior en tomology major said. “I could cook better myself but I wouldn’t cook as balanced a meal,” she said. “The food is better than it is at other univer sities.”. Both of the girls said that a women’s dorm would be a good thing for A&M. Miss Nelson said that she was for the dorm because “girls will get more comfortable on cam pus.” Susan Gordon (Photos by Mel Miller) military veteran on the reviewing stand will be Acting A&M Pres ident A. R. Luedecke, McCoy and Col. Keith C. Hanna, professor of aerospace studies. Like Maj. Gen. Charles W. Ry der Jr., who was distinguished visiting dignitary for the A&M- TCU march-in, General Russ is in his second duty tour in Texas. The first was as a new second lieutenant with the 23rd Infantry at Fort Sam Houston in 1935-38. The Philadelphia native was deputy commanding general of the I Field Force in Vietnam be fore taking his second Fort Sam assignment last June. Russ has been assigned to Europe three times, was in Korea with the 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Division, and 187th Airborne Infantry Regimental Combat Team, was in the Far East Com mand. and Panama with the U. S. Army Caribbean, concluding his 1955-58 tour as chief of staff. The flag officer was West Point superintendent from 1947- 50 and in the Department of the Army’s office of research and de velopment. He also was executive officer of the National War Col lege, from which he graduated in 1955, and served in the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Wash ington. Among his citations and decora tions are the Distinguished Serv ice Cross, Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star, Legion of Mer it with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Combat Infantryman Badge with Star and Master Parachutist Badge. He is married to the Former Frances Stanton of Atlanta, Ga., and has two sons and a daughter. Four ministers to hold forum on Wednesday A Comparative Religious Doc trines Forum, sponsored by the Student Y Association, will be held Wednesday at 8 p.m. in All Faiths Chapel. A panel of four local ministers will discuss several aspects of their respective religions. Pastor Ron Birk, minister of Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, will discuss concern for doctrine, Lutheran background, worship, and concern for the Bible. The Rev. Bruce Fisher of A&M Pres byterian Church will speak on social concern, representative gov ernment, and the province of God. History of the Catholic church, the characteristics of worship, and the Bible and the Catholic church will be the topics of The Rev. Elmer Holtman of St. Mary’s Chapel. Mr. Jack Sparling, A&M Meth odist Church, will discuss doc trines and the worship form of the Methodist faith, pastor- congregation relationships, and church history and development. All students and guests are in vited to the program. Davis scientist to talk on plants Dr. Emanuel Epstein of the University of California at Davis will be guest speaker today for the second lecture in a series sponsored by A&M’s Plant Sci ences Department. Epstein, a plant nutrition pro fessor, will discuss “Mineral Nu trition of Plants: Physiological and Ecological Aspects” at 4 p.m. in Room 112 of the Plant Sciences Building. Prior to joining the University of California faculty in 1958, he was a plant physiologist nine years for the U. S. Department of Agriculture. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv.