Cbe Battalion ’S WEAK mare, fePAIR pair. Vol. 66 No. 58 Cloudy, cold days College Station, Texas Tuesday, December, 15, 1970 * • ' , M m : -' ~ * * w^-* ' w-- ,, v 4 \vi - 4 * '*v V "*V L;7 ‘ ( 4** r mi ^ -* ^ 'w' W' * W . 'V ' . w -V r ' '%rr^ w « ' HO’ - W : , * “■ . ' W 'Lir^-r * , - W_ w V --'.V -• ' \ / m \ ^ — Jlfe V . V ; ^ j3* ^ ^ vV f / fi j -tW' ft., jifc. Jtr %i' «. ••*• .«• ■ - WtiL&& ■ f J Wednesday — Cloudy to partly cloudy. Winds northerly 10-15 mph. High 48°, low 34°. Thursday — Cloudy. High 58°, low 31°, 845-2226 4 - W " M. "“m- • . —- * «. ^ ' • . *** M ** - * ' W . V u ^ V m ’A ria m'J A ^ \ •* •'. . ^ ' < , v w . ^ w r-'-. - ‘ - ^ **<■ t t m ** ft y ^ ..w ^ M W Dr. Charles Allen speaks at graduation in G. Rollie White Coliseum Saturday. He told 930 graduating seniors that America needs some “new affirmations." r oreign i liter 828 U.S. becoming Allen tells fall Cl r> S BEER” America is becoming a nation of “practical atheists,” D r. 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- >AY 5 - 9:15 P.M Center for draft advice opened here by Aggies rURYFOX «ms 'I DAL'S ■RA LIDGE i @ [AL 5 P. M. jcials Frolic" 3 FURE U) GUYS” 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. 6:15 P. BE 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. atheistic, graduates 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. tSTY S” n. NGE0N” 6:15 P.M- Y BEAR” *G BAG” College Jy lee dunkelberg Battalion Staff Writer Dean of the College of Liberal rts, Dr. W. David Maxwell, will Photography is just a two f° u . r course; I can’t imagine jMung 10 hours,’’ Stephen • Austin High School sen- Timothy McCandlies of the college course he 8 taking this semester. 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. Seniors from A&M Consolidat ed High School participating in GREAT SAVINGS PLAN made even better by new legal rates at FIRST BANK & TRUST. Adv. for high school 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 University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. 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)