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Civilians, cadets are closer than most people realize
The tendency to view Texas
A&M’s military and civilian stu
dent elements as dissimilar, with
no common meeting grounds, may
not be as logical as it seems.
Selected incidents can be made
to show a rift between civilians
and Corps of Cadets members.
Other situations, such as civil
ian backing of cadets during a
1968 NBC-TV news filming of
ROTC status here, depreciate
such a division.
Officials of Dean of Students
James P. Hannigan’s office re
vealed today, new information
that tends to close the alleged
gap.
Associate Dean Don R. Stafford
said civilian students were housed
last fall with cadets in the 12-
dorm corps area. It was the first
“mixing” since the fall semester
of 1966.
The 100 students quartered on
the top two floors of Utay Hall
(Dorm 12). Company G-2, com
manded by John E. Richardson,
part of Company F-2, command
ed by Richai’d T. Miller and the
4th Battalion staff, under Rob
ert A. Harms, lived on the first
two floors.
Since A&M enrollment tradi
tionally drops about eight per
cent from fall to spring semes
ters, plans for closing Utay and
moving civilians to the west side
of the campus with other civilian
students were announced in late
fall.
Utay residents indicated they
liked things the way things were.
“One civilian said he and sev
eral others would rather move
off-campus than to the west
area,” commented J. Malon South
erland, civilian advisor in the
commandant’s office.
“Agreement has been reached
to leave the situation as it was
last fall,” Stafford said, “so they
can have more interaction and
learn to get along better.”
Stafford noted that civilians
and cadets cooperate in student
government, Memorial Student
Center activities and student pub
lications, but none provide the
same contact as residing in the
same building.
Unless corps strength requires
the space, the mixing probably
will remain in effect indefinitely,
Stafford said.
“Corps size probably will in
crease, but with the draft lot
tery ball rolling the way it is,
nobody knows for sure,” he ob
served.
Southerland said another corps
dorm, possibly Spence (1) or
Briggs (3), can just as easily be
closed. Construction of the new
1,000-resident hall near those
dorms makes one of them a more
appropriate choice.
Civilian students outnumbered
cadets three to one at Texas A&M
last fall. Even discounting mar
ried and graduate students, coeds
(for whom no on-campus housing
exists) and international stu
dents, unmarried male students
residing on campus make the
corps a minority group.
Stafford, Southerland, Housing
Manager Allan Madeley and Rob
ert L. Melcher of the dean of stu
dents’ administrative office said
a number of factors contribute to
the civilian-cadet affability.
“Most of the civilians in the
corps area are transfer students,”
Madeley said. “They are older,
more mature and have no pre
conceived opinions about corps-
civilians relations.”
Family-style dining in Duncan
Hall is another plus, Melcher
said. Utay civilians have indicat
ed corps call-to-quarters policy
on weekday evenings is more con
ducive to study than probably any
other place they could find.
Cadets also like the arrange
ment. They shared intramural
athletic fields, ate in separate
areas of Duncan and ironed out
minor problems with car park
ing.
“On one occasion, civilian wait
ers didn’t show,” Stafford relat
ed. “The civilians just grinned,
moved over and ate with the
corps—^without any problems.”
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Mjjtg Bundled up and ready to go, trees south of the MSC await transplanting crews. They
|g|| were moved last week to allow MSC expansion work to continue.
Trees transplanted as part
S of MSC expansion work
Trees in the way of proposed Memorial Student
Center expansion at Texas A&M were transplanted
last week.
In all, 13 trees on the south side of the MSC
and near Guion Hall were removed and relocated, said
Robert H. Rucker, physical plant landscape architect.
He said the transplants were worked out with
members of the Environmental Awareness Committee
of the Student Senate. Robert I. (Bob) Thompson,
^^vljunior landscape architecture major of Houston,
\yv\A"| heads the committee.
Reduced traffic loads during the A&M inter-
session and pending razing of Guion Hall dictated
timing Rucker said, adding this is the time of year to
transplant.
Involved in the shift were six Shumard oaks,
three cedar elm and four Deodar cedar. Seven trees
on the MSC plot were simply moved from the south
to the north side of the building. Rucker said four or
five trees around Guion were moved.
“We felt w r e could salvage these trees and have a
better than 50-50 chance of saving them,” the soil
and crop sciences professor said. “Actually they are
quite valuable. The lowest valued tree would cost
$1,000 if we had to buy it, and could find it.”
Trees were replanted at the All Faiths Chapel,
YMCA and Sbisa Hall. Two will be placed east of the
System Building.
Rucker said the very symmetrical Deodar cedar
next to Joe Routt Boulevard at the MSC south
entrance was transplanted to a spot on the terrace
near the north side main entrance. He said the tree’s
shape will lend itself to decoration for Christmas.
Other trees transplanted to the north side of
the Center will be randomly spaced.
“It’s like threading a needle,” Rucker said.”
The plants must be located out of the way of a
service tunnel to be installed in April and also miss
other utilities lines and the MSC lawn underground
irrigation system.
“It couldn’t have been done with the regular
vehicle and pedestrian traffic patterns around the
MSC,” Rucker said.
Low bid contractor for the work was Charles
W. Scott and Son of San Antonio. The firm moved in
300 trees for HemisFair.
Pollution a social ailment,
presidential adviser says
One of President Nixon’s ad
visers on environment said here
Tuesday that pollution in this
country involves much more than
just a people problem.
Dr. Gordon MacDonald, a mem
ber of the President’s Council on
Environmental Quality, said pol
lution is a symptom of an over
all social and economic ailment—
of how a society has failed to con
sider the cost of its progress and
growth.
MacDonald spoke to about 400
persons attending the Texas Agri
cultural Experiment Station An
nual Conference.
He said the pollution puzzle
won’t be helped by the current
U. S. population growth rate of
5,600 per day, or an annual rate
of one percent.
However, MacDonald said, the
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high growth of population will
not hold up in the next 70 years
because of such influences as
more education and family plan
ning services, population control
promotion by organizations and
institutions, and the effect of the
women’s liberation movement.
One of the major problems
associated with population, Mac
Donald said, is that nearly half
the overall populace will be liv
ing in the suburbs and one-
fourth in the cities in the near
future. The trend already is
evident in such cities as Wash
ington, D. C.
MacDonald said the time has
come when the nation’s popula
tion must soften its fascination
with material goods and consider
the fact that air, water and land
no longer can be freely exploited.
The idea that the cost of pollu
tion should go into the cost of
the product should be built into
the economy.
The cost of pollution in the cost
of product philosophy also was
echoed by another speaker, W.
Leslie Glasgow of Louisiana State
University, who discussed posi
tive environmental approaches.
He suggested environmental
development should be institu
tional, industrial, private and
governmental.
From the institutions, such as
universities and foundations,
should come more education pro
grams aimed at environment, he
said.
Industry, especially new r indus
try, should strive to produce free
of pollution Glasgow said. All
established industries should be
given deadlines to stop pollution
practices, and leaders should
move to include pollution costs
with production costs, he added.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
Texas A&M’s board
gets new members
Two new members of the Texas
A&M University Board of Di
rectors were sworn in Monday by
the Secretary of State in Austin.
Appointed by Gov. Preston
Smith Friday were William H.
(Skip) Lewie Jr. of Waco and
H. C. (Dulie) Bell Jr. of Austin,
both A&M graduates. The gov
ernor also reappointed S. B.
Whittenburg of Amarillo.
Smith’s appointments were ef
fective Sunday and expire Jan.
10, 1977.
Swearing-in ceremonies where
held Monday in the office of
Secretary of State Martin Dies
Jr.
Lewie replaced R. Wofford Cain
of Dallas and Bell succeeds
Sterling Evans of Houston.
The nine-member A&M board
has three appointments every two
years.
Lewie, 42, is president of Waco
Ready Mix Concrete Co., Inc.,
and Neeley Sand-Gravel, Inc., of
Waco.
The 1950 civil engineering
graduate is a native of Gaines
ville. He was commissioned in
the U. S. Air Force at Texas
A&M, serving in the Korean War
from 1951 to 1953.
He is director of the National
City Bank of Waco and the Ro
tary Club. He is a member of
the City Planning Commission
and the Episcopal Church of the
Holy Spirit.
Lewie and his wife, Jackie,
have two children: Kyle, 11, and
Patricia, 14.
Bell, 53, has been president of
Central Texas Equipment Co.
since the company was founded
in 1946. He also is president of
and a member of the Austin Na
tional Bank Board of Directors.
(See Texas A&M Board, page 6)
S. R. Whittenburg
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William H. Lewie
Red Cross after student protest
WASHINGTON — Students at
1,700 U.S. colleges and univer
sities are being asked to support
the widespread “Letter to Hanoi”
protest campaign of the American
Red Cross.
The campaign’s goal, according
to ARC President George M.
Elsey, is to convince the govern
ment of North Vietnam that it
should adhere to its Geneva Con
vention pledge in the treatment
of U.S. war prisoners, some of
whom have been held in captivity
for as long as six years.
Since the campaign’s beginning
in November 1969, hundreds of
thousands of letters have poured
into Hanoi asking that the North
Vietnamese president promptly
identify all prisoners, allow pris-
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oner camp inspection by teams
from the all-Swiss International
Committee of the Red Cross, and
the release of the seriously sick
and wounded, Elsey said.
There has been a noticeable
change in the North Vietnamese
stand on the prisoner issue since
the letter-writing campaign got
under way, he claimed. The num
ber of U.S. prisoners identified
by North Vietnam more than
tripled, there has been an increase
in the number of captives allowed
to communicate with their fam
ilies, and identified prisoners now
are allowed to receive comfort
parcels every other month, Elsey
explained.
While college students have
participated in past “Write Ha
noi” campaigns, Elsey said, the
current effort marks the first
time that the “protest” has fo
cused primarily on the campus.
A specially designed public
service advertisement has gone
to daily and weekly publications
at each of the 1,700 schools. The
Red Cross also has provided cam
pus radio and television stations
with spot announcements concern
ing the “Write Hanoi” effort. In
addition, special exhibits have
gone to some 500 colleges and
universities for display in campus
buildings.
The campus campaign got un
der at the season-end football
bowl classics where over one-half
million “Write Hanoi” leaflets
were distributed to fans urging
their participation in the protest.
The Red Cross, which has vowed
to “pursue without interruption”
its effort to gain humane treat
ment for war prisoners, sees the
issue as one on which hinges the
the “continued confidence of
the world in the integrity and
solidarity of the Red Cross as an
instrument committed to the
cause of humanity.”
“Hanoi has repeatedly shown
its awareness of public opinion in
this country,” Elsey said. “The
‘Write Hanoi’ campaign is one
more means of mustering world
public opinion and thus convincing
the North Vietnamese they have
more to gain by honoring their
Geneva Convention pledge than
by continuing their intransigent
attitude.”
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