Cbfc Battalion i finan- lier you and the have a day. Or worry. I SON \IT JFE Breezy? cloudy? warmer Thursday — Cloudy to partly cloudy aftemoom, rainshowers. Winds southerly 10-20 mph. High 76°, low 66°. Friday •— Cloudy and rain. Winds southerly 15-20 mph be coming northerly 15-20 mph. High 76°, low 64°. y 0 l. 66 No. 55 College Station, Texas Wednesday, December 9, 1970 845-2226 Birch Bayh to address SCONA, public Feb. 18 Sen. Birch Bayh, who has been 5 . right? L n tioned as a possible Demo- ay, ana fjtjc contender for the presi- t them jncy in 1972 will be a featured nough' peaker Feb. 18 at Texas A&M likely to | r the 16th Student Conference at point a National Affairs. Jo your The Indiana Democrat who has ivolved himself in domestic ^snnnci. -’a 15 legislation during his eight ars in the U. S. Congress will alrl! :P® on the SCONA XVI pro- rjde (h ram avdth Dallas philanthropist 6 Ross Perot and tentatively, r, S. I. Hayakawa, president of Francisco State. Bayh (pronounced bye), 42, ill speak on “The Role of Stu- pts in Politics” at SCONA VI, which will be concerned t’s talk jjh "Student Responsibilities in nething. B 70’s.” “The senator is a youthful, dy- imic and intelligent public ser- mt,” Dave Mayfield, SCONA airman of Waco, said. Mayfield and SCONA commit- member Ben Thurman of imp Lejeune, N. C., met with jyh recently in Washington. “He is sincerely interested in h role of young people in the ilitical process and is genuine :his efforts to involve them in hernment,” the chairman add- L "He also expressed concern for what is happening today among the student generation and their attitude toward the ‘es tablishment’ and the institution of this country.” The author and guide to pas sage of the 25th Amendment dealing with presidential inabili ty and vice presidential succes sion tells the story of its incep tion and passage in his book, “One Heartbeat Away.” Bayh is currently working on what he hopes will be the 26th Sen. Birch Bayh Constitutional Amendment. It would give people the right to vote directly for president and vice president, abolishing the Electoral College. He is a leader in women’s equal rights legislation, was Sen ate leader in seeking extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and currently serves on the Dem ocratic Party’s Commission on Party Structure to revise dele gate selection procedures for the national convention. Bayh has been one of the prime forces behind the movement to lower the voting age to 18. He has called for re-ordering of U. S. priorities and mobiliza tion of resources to deal with pol lution control, poverty, poor schools and inadequate health care. Member of the Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution of the Senate Committee on Public Works, the solon has been in volved in all major legislation on environmental improvement since 1963. He also is known for ef forts to improve federal relief for major disaster victims and insistence on careful management of foreign aid funds. After returning from Vietnam in January, 1968, Bayh urged that the South Vietnamese take more responsibility in the con flict and, at that time, asked for U. S. troop reductions. The SCONA speaker served eight years in the Indiana House —four as Democratic leader and two as Speaker—after election to the Indiana House of Repre sentatives in 1953 at age 25. He upset 18-year incumbent Senator Homer Capehart for election to the Senate in 1962. The three-year Indiana Easter Seals campaign chairman and Jaycees’ Outstanding Ten Young Men in the Nation in 1963 is mar ried and has one son. The Indi ana University law degree recip ient owns and operates a 340- acre family farm in his native Vigo County, Indiana. 1,166 to graduate at 9:30 Saturday O SHIRT ess oear MSC Ballroom ’esticide talk Monday _ Dr. Emil M. Mrak, chancellor leritus of the University of ilifornia at Davis, will present lecture entitled “Pesticides in e Modern World” here Monday. The 7:30 p.m. talk in the Me- •irial Student Center Ballroom part of the Range Science De- utment’s Distinguished Lecture togram. Mrak served as chancellor of e University of California’s svis campus from 1959 until it year. He joined the Univer- iy of California at Berkeley in 87 and was named chairman the Food Science and Tech- tlogy Department in 1948. The department was moved to the Davis campus in 1951. He earned B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at Berkeley. As a food scientist, Dr. Mrak has become increasingly con cerned with food problems, par ticularly in the developing na tions. Last year he received the De partment of the Army’s Out standing Civilian Service Award for his contributions in the de velopment of rations which could stand climatic extremes and the rigors of military handling. He also was appointed chair man last year for the Health, Education and Welfare Depart ment’s Commission on Pesticides and Their Relationship to Envir onmental Health. Mrak currently serves as chair man of the HEW secretary’s Pesticide Advisory Committee. Earlier this year he was elect ed a fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists and holds all three awards presented by that organization. Texas A&M’s mid-term gradu-. ation ceremonies will be conduct ed at 9:30 a.m. Saturday in G. Rollie White Coliseum. A record 1,166 students applied for winter graduation, with 129 scheduled to receive military commissions in separate cere monies at 1:30 p.m., also in the coliseum. Commencement speaker will be Dr. Charles L. Allen, pastor of the First Methodist Church of Houston. Featured speaker at the com missioning ceremonies will be Lt. Gen. Richard G. Stilwell, the Army’s deputy chief of staff for military operations. Dr. Jack K. Williams, Texas A&M president, will preside at both events. Allen’s address will be preced ed by brief remarks by Clyde Wells, president of the univer sity’s board of directors. Among the students applying for graduation were 694 seeking undergraduate degrees, 333 for master’s and 139 for doctorates. The Army is expected to ac count for 92 of the commissions, with the Air Force having 34 and the Marine Corps three. There will be no limitations on the number of guests students can invite to the Saturday exer cises, university officials noted. A limit of four guests was im posed for spring commencement because of seating. The ceremonies, however, will again be transmitted via closed circuit television to the Memorial Student Center ballroom for the benefit of any guests who might be unable to find seats in the coliseum. DO THEY COME WITH THE TREE ? Things are different up north and unseasonally high 70 degrees temperatures forced Betty Schepman (foreground) and Charlotte Conant, freshmen at Butler University in Indianapolis, Ind. to shop for their Christmas tree in bathing suits. The PI Beta Phi pledges said it was warm enough except for the still cold ground under their bare feet. (AP Wirephoto) Nelson says Naturalist community hero By BRUCE BLACK Battalion Staff Writer “Many times the naturalist is so needed that he becomes a hero ■''Slat "9 M'. Design students to plant tree in memory of dead comrade Williams to be on KTRK-TV Texas A&M President Jack K. ams will be the guest on TRK-TV’s Issues and Answers ' ai 't 1) program at noon Sun- announced John Gehbauer, *s director for the Houston ation. Gehbauer said the program will be repeated following the Dick Cavett Show Monday night. Dr. Williams will be inter viewed by Dave W^ard and one other member of Channel 13 s “Eye Witness News” staff, Geh bauer noted. Students in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design will plant a tree Friday in memory of Arthur W. Licht, who was killed in an auto acci dent Feb. 2. Licht, in whose honor a schol arship program has been estab lished here by family and friends, was a sophomore architecture major from El Paso. Doyle Borman, junior environ mental design student coordinat ing the memorial ceremony, said the tree will be planted at 10 a.m. on the Architecture Building lawn. Licht, son of Mrs. Richard H. Licht of El Paso, was killed when his car hit a bridge and plunged into a deep ditch on State High way 21 eight miles west of Bryan. Christian Nelson Conservation Council Merit Award, said Tuesday. Speaking on the topic of “Teaching Environmental Val ues” to a group in the Parks and Recreation Department, Nelson said that education still plays the key role in becoming a- naturalist. The naturalist not only has to know the names of the wildlife forms in his area, but he must also know how to express himself in his nature talks, Nelson said. Many people, particularly chil dren, he said, can’t comprehend the forest. They’ve never seen a tree bigger than the one in their back yard, and they think the woods are full of bears. The most you can hope to accomplish in this case is to convey a feeling. On the other hand, the natural ist is also expected to help Boy Scouts with their merit badges, biology majors with problems in ecology and church groups with lectures on God and nature, he said. This involves such courses as public relations and public speaking as well as the basics in nature studies. “You have to become totally in the community,” Christian Nelson, winner of the California involved,” he explained. “There is no such thing in park service as working eight-to-five.” On the other hand, he said, there is nothing worse than working in a “green prison” where the naturalist has to go through the same routine day in and day out with no chance to be creative. As chief of the East Bay Re gional Park District Interpretive Department in Oakland, Calif., Nelson said he is doing every thing in his power to prevent this from happening in park service. But he says he needs the com munity’s help. “The community can see a need for a new swimming pool, but not for a new nature center or a cou ple of natux-alists,” he contended. Changes are coming about, however, he added. “Two park bills have been passed in California in the last year,” he said. “Someone’s been reaching the people; we like to think it’s the naturalists.” Umveirsifcy- National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. The inquiring Battman Do you like ending the semester before Christmas? * — — ■ JBEMk !L * V > / James H. Jones about time A&M has come Un