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Dr. Charles Allen speaks at graduation in G. Rollie White Coliseum Saturday. He told 930 graduating seniors that America needs some “new affirmations."
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Charles Allen said here Saturday.
The noted pastor of Houston’s
First United Methodist Church
was Texas A&M’s commencement
speaker at ceremonies for a rec
ord 930 mid-term graduates.
While pointing out that na
tionwide polls reveal a high per
centage of people who say they
believe in God, Allen said society
is becoming too secular.
“We are not a nation of athe
ists,” he agreed, “but we are be
coming a nation of practical
atheists.”
The graduating class included
668 students receiving baccalau
reate degrees, with 197 earning
master’s and 65 doctorates.
Allen, who in addition to his
pastorship writes a column which
appears in several large news-
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By BILL GOULD
Battalion Staff Writer
A draft counseling center staffed by Texas
A&M students recently was set up in College Station
to serve area residents.
“We’ve been here about three weeks, but we’ve
Been busy mostly in setting up and posting
handouts,” philosophy senior Don Branson, one of
the counselors at the center, said.
Dale Gravett, political science senior, and Keith
Alaniz, philosophy freshman are other staff members
at the center, located at 305 Old College Road.
Branson said they picked the off-campus loca
tion because they didn’t want to limit the service to
just college students.
“We’re trying to reach anyone who needs help
or information. That includes high school students as
well as people who are no longer in school,” Branson
explained.
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The center operates in conjunction with the
Southwestern Regional Draft Counseling Association
and works with lawyers and clergymen throughout
the state.
The center cooperates with the Selective
Service System and receives current draft information
from the National Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
and the state director in Austin, Branson added.
“We are not counseling draft evasion—that’s
illegal. But there are legal alternatives to being
inducted, and they are available to every registrant,”
Branson said.
The center is just an agency which gives out
public information, he said.
“We’re here to see that all registrants know
their rights and responsibilities regarding the draft.
There are many people who are drafted who should
not have been. There are also many who are not
drafted who should be.
“The problem is that mistakes are made on the
part of the local Selective Service boards as well as by
the registrants-neither side fully understands the law.
That’s why we urge all registrants to contact us
anytime there is a change in their draft status.
The center is open Monday through Friday
from 5-9 p.m. Its phone number is 846-3945.
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THE LAWN of the architecture building- is the sight of a
tree planted Friday in memory of Arthur W. Licht, El Paso
student killed in an auto accident Feb. 2. Planting the tree
are Doyle Borman, left, of Brenham and Bob Corgar of El
Paso. Licht was a sophomore architecture major. His
family and friends have established a scholarship program
here in his honor.
Williams to serve second term
as head of college commission
papers, urged re-emphasis of the
importance of human and spiri
tual values.
“We are more and more em
phasizing things and machines
more than people,” he observed.
“Machines do a lot for us, but
they also do a lot to us,” the
Georgia native quipped. “You
can’t beat a crisis with a Cadil
lac.”
He said that too often in the
crisis of life, people have “noth
ing inside” to carry them
through.
Allen said there is too much
criticism abroad in the land —
criticism of the nation, of insti
tutions and society in general.
“You do not build a great so
ciety on criticism,” he reminded.
“You build it on affirmations.”
“We need some new affirma
tions—things we can plant in our
hearts and believe in,” Allen
added.
He said society needs to have
said to it again the Biblical ob
servation: “Man shall not live
by bread alone.”
In commissioning ceremonies
The week of Dec. 14 has been
proclaimed Prisoner of War
Week, by D. A. Anderson, mayor
of College Station.
Anderson said that almost 1,-
600 members of the armed forces
are listed either as missing in ac
tion or as prisoners of war in
Southeast Asia, and that these
men and their relatives have suf
fered.
for 124 of the new graduates, Lt.
Gen. Richard G. Stilwell, Army
deputy chief of staff for military
operations, told the new officers
they entered “an uncertain fu
ture full of promise and full of
danger.”
The three-star general said the
United States will face its
strongest test within the next
decade.
Noting atomic weapons, com
munist goals and the problems in
the Middle East and Latin Amer
ica, Stilwell stressed the armed
forces will be expected to do the
country’s sacrificing, regardless
of the cost or the demand.
Texas A&M commissioned 88
Army officers, 33 for the Air
Force and three Marines.
Stilwell said Americans have
in the past, and will continue in
the future, to tackle its social
ills.
“America means standing up
for values when they are threat
ened,” he said. The general add
ed it is impossible to enjoy the
country without obligations, or
answers to its problems.
Because they have carried out
their duty to their country, the
American people should remem
ber these men, Anderson said.
All citizens are urged to show
their respect by joining in the
current letter writing campaign,
Anderson added, and praying for
the safety and speedy return of
the servicemen.
Texas A&M President Dr. Jack
K. Williams has been elected to
a second term as chairman of the
Southern Association of Colleges
and Schools’ Commission on Col
leges.
The Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools, one of the
nation’s six organizations re
sponsible for general accredita
tion, represents 553 colleges and
universities in 11 states, includ
ing Texas. It also includes Mexi
co and Puerto Rico.
The Commission on Colleges is
composed of 54 members chosen
from the representatives for each
of the member institutions. The
association has separate commis
sions for elementary, secondary
and technical-vocational schools.
Williams also serves on the
Executive Committee of the
Council of the Federation of Re
gional Accrediting Commissions
of Higher Education, with head
quarters at Chicago. That organ
ization develops accrediting poli
cies for all regions of the coun
try.
The Texas A&M President was
named to the additional term as
Commission on Colleges chair
man at the association’s annual
meeting in Atlanta. The one-
year term is effective Jan. 1.
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of the college course he
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courses
tell you that he sees no reason
why a high school student should
not be allowed to do college work
if he is able. As a matter of fact,
he can cite 12 good reasons why
they should.
His 12 reasons are all seniors
in high school at either A&M
Consolidated in College Station or
Stephen F. Austin in Bryan, and
all are participating in the Su
perior High School Student Pro
gram at Texas A&M.
This program, instituted by
Maxwell this year, is attempting
to make the transition from high
school to college easier.
Maxwell says there have been
too many “artificial barriers”
raised by dividing education into
sections such as high school, un
dergraduate work and graduate
work.
He maintains that these divi
sions make initiative and talent
overlap, and it is this overlapping
that presents the barrier.
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Maxwell’s program are Kathleen
Kuttler, Susan Maxwell, Diana
Weihs and Michelle Zingaro.
Stephen F. Austin High School
(SFA) participants are Barbara
Buchanan, . Mary Dane Carter,
Larry Galvin, Timothy B. McCan-
lies, Tommye Morehead, Mary
Newman, Ruth Syptak and Herb
ert Thorn.
Courses offered this semester
are Journalism 315, beginning
photography; Philosophy 341, ele
ments of logic; American History,
freshman level; third semester
Spanish; World History, fresh
man level; Sociology 205, Princi
ples of Sociology; first semester
Czech.
The high school seniors are
taking courses that range from
freshman to junior level, and they
are all making A’s or B’s, with
the exception of one C.
As their grades indicate, the
students did not seem to have too
much trouble adapting to college
work.
“There wasn’t all that much
difference,” Miss Carter, taking
Philosophy 341, commented, “at
least not as much as I was ex
pecting.”
Howard F. Filers, assistant
professor of journalism, has two
of the seniors in his photography
315 course.
“The main problems that I see,”
Eilers said, “are interpretive
problems. The difference in ma
turity might make them interpret
or see things differently than the
average college student.”
What is it like attending high
school and college at the same
time ?
“It’s kinda rough, but I really
like that college course,” McCan
dlies, taking Journalism 315, said.
“It’s kind of scary, too. Photo
graphy is just a two hour course;
I can’t imagine taking 16 hours!”
Miss Weihs, also taking Jour
nalism 315, says that even though
she didn’t get into “the college
thing first class,” she had a lot
of fun and met many people.
Most of the students participat
ing this semester plan to take an
other course next semester, Max
well said. He said no new sections
are added to allow the high school
students to attend A&M, and that
all of the professors have donated
their time with no compensation.
“This is strictly an excess ca
pacity operation,” Maxwell said.
“We are not allowed to charge
seniors? It’s done here
them (the students), and this
causes a few restrictions.”
He explained that the college
finds out how many vacancies
are available and how many stu
dents can be handled. After the
college decides how many stu
dents can be handled at certain
hours it sends a schedule to the
high schools, where the high
schools find students that have
compatible schedules.
The students receive high
school credit for their work, Max
well explained, and they can prob
ably get college credit by advance
placement tests.
How do the students feel about
the program?
“It’s great,” Miss Weihs ex
claimed. “High school gets pretty
boring.”
“I think it’s very good,” said
Miss Carter. “There are a lot of
kids in high school that are ca
pable. It’s a great experience for
getting prepared for college.”
“I think it’s too bad they didn’t
start it earlier,” Miss Zingaro of
A&M Consolidated, commented.
Dr. T. L. Miller, who has two
high school students in one of his
freshman history classes, says he
thinks it is a very good program
and it is working “very well.”
“I’d like to have more,” he
said.
What are the chances of having
more students from high school
in the future? Maxwell says that
this is a definite possibility.
“There is no reason why a thing
like this cannot be expanded,” he
said.
The college students, for the
most part, do not know that high
school students are attending the
classes.
“The professor mentioned it
once,” Miss Carter, recalled, but
I was never treated any different
ly.”
Miss Weihs said after awhile
everyone knew, but there was no
difference in the way she was
treated.
“Most of them wanted to know
how I got to take the course,”
she said.
Miss Zingaro is taking Span
ish 205. Did the people in her
class find out she was a high
school student ?
“The teacher told them one
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day,” she said. “Whoever under
stood what she said in Spanish
was surprised, but I don’t think
many understood her.”
“It’s great,’’ A&M Consoli
dated High School senior
Diana Weihs of the College
of Liberal Arts Superior
High School Student Pro
gram. “High school gets
pretty boring.” (Photos by
Lee Dunkelberg)