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Vol. 66 No. 68
College Station, Texas
Thursday, January 28, 1971
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WHAT LOOKS LIKE beach fun is really serious business dumped when two Standard Oil Co. tankers collided last
as volunteers attempt to clean up the beaches and rocks week has moved out the Golden Gate into the Pacific Ocean,
in San Francisco Bay. Most of the 840,000 gallons of oil (AP Wirephoto)
I Goode! 1 will ‘roundup’ SCONA
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Former U. S. Sen. Charles E.
Goodell will be round-up speaker
for the 16th Student Conference
on National Affairs (SCONA)
here Feb. 17-20.
The conference involving stu
dents from across the U. S., Mex
ico and Canada will deal with
“Student Responsibilities in the
’70s.”
Goodell will be jointly sponsor
ed for the Texas A&M appear
ance by Great Issues, Political
Forum and SCONA, normally un
related committees of the Me
morial Student Center Director
ate.
“It is the first time the com
mittees have cooperated on a
speaker,” commented Dave May-
field of Waco, SCONA XVI chair
man. James W. Russell III of An-
nandale, Va., chairs Great Issues.
Charles R. Hoffman of Greenbelt,
Md., heads Political Forum.
Goodell broke with the Nixon
Adm(inistration during his two
years in the Senate. He made a
fighting speech asking for enact
ment of his anti-war amendment,
among other Senate work not
aligned with White House think
ing.
“Mr. Goodell, New York Mayor
John Lindsay and former Interior
Secretary Walter Hickel wear the
Republican label without buying
Washington programs,” Mayfield
Schools research
artificial arms, legs
An inter-institutional research
program for improving artificial
legs and arms and other devices
for physically handicapped per
sons, recently funded by the Vet
erans Administration in the
amount of $53,851 for the first
8-month period, involves research
ers and consultants from Texas
A&M, Baylor College of Medicine,
Texas Institute for Rehabilitation
and Research, and the Veterans
Hospital at Houston.
The principal investigator is
Dr. Paul H. Newell, director of
Texas A&M’s Biomedical Engi
neering Program. Dr. Lewis A.
Leavitt, chairman of the Depart
ment of Physical Medicine at
Baylor and the Texas Institute
for Rehabilitation and Research,
is co-principal investigator.
Newell said the research effort
will be directed toward meeting
needs of handicapped individuals
in attaining rapid and more com
plete rehabilitation. The methods
of analysis, design, clinical test
ing and team evaluation will be
employed by integrating the tal
ents and knowledge of engineers,
physicians, and medical scientists
from the cooperating institutions.
Prosthetic and orthotic appli
ances presently in use are bulky
and in many cases severely over
restrain the patient’s residual
functions, Newell said.
The research team believes the
technology exists to design light
er, stronger composite structures
which are more functional and
have improved cosmetic qualities,
he continued.
Other Texas A&M personnel
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
Adv.
participating in the work are Dr.
Douglas Bynum, assistant re
search engineer; Dr. H. R. Thorn
ton, associate professor of me
chanical engineering; J. F. Ev-
ertson and Harvey O. Fleisher,
research assistants; and George
Hancock, technician.
Consultants are Dr. William P.
Blocker, Veterans Administration,
Dr. William A. Spencer and Thor-
kild J. Engen, Texas Institute of
Rehabilitation and Research, Dr.
Leslie A. Geddes, Baylor College
of Medicine, Dr. James D. Mc-
Crady, Texas A&M College of
Veterinary Medicine, and Alvin
L. Muilenberg, Prosthetist.
commented.
Because of the New York Re
publican’s Senate stand and re-
election defeat by the so-called
“establishment,” students have
rallied to Goodell.
A Phi Beta Kappa and cum
laude graduate of Williams Col
lege, he holds a law degree from
Yale and a master’s from the Yale
Graduate School of Government.
Goodell is a Navy veteran of
World War II and an Air Force
veteran of the Korean conflict.
The New York native served
nine years in the U. S. House of
Representatives before Senate
appointment in September, 1968.
In becoming the No. 1 target of
Vice President Agnew and the
administration, Goodell lost the
Senate seat race to third party
candidate James Buckley.
Goodell left an imprint on “ma
jor domestic and international is
sues of a man whose positions
were clear cut, deeply and sin
cerely held and expressive of the
progressive spirit which has char
acterized all the best Senators of
either party in modern times,”
stated New York’s senior Sena
tor Jacob Javits.
Javits pointed out that Goodell
departed from usual freshman
Senator custom of political pur
suits and fence-mending, putting
his time instead to facing “the
most troubling issues of our
time.”
Goodell’s work and voting rec
ord on urban areas aid, education,
poverty programs and foreign,
economic and environment-natur
al resources policy as well as his
anti-war stand won him support
of the young, and Agnew’s attack.
He has been quoted by United
Press International as saying that
President Nixon’s actions are
goading Republican liberals into
battling him for the 1972 nomina
tion, an idea with which Goodell
himself is flirting.
The former Senator’s confer
ence speech Saturday, Feb. 10,
will provide a consensus state
ment of what SCONA XVI has
said about student responsibilities
and input on national and inter
national issues through political,
educational, economic and social
systems.
Mayfield said the MSC ball
room event will be open to the
public. Other key SCONA speak
ers, including Ross Perot and
U. S. Senator Birch Bayh, may
also be heard by all interested
persons.
Ethnic seminar
opens Monday
The first two speakers in the
Ethnic Studies Seminar of the
Great Issues Committee — Dr.
Carlos E. Cortes and Dr. Kenneth
G. Goode — will be presented
Monday and Wednesday at Texas
A&M.
Cortes, chairman of Latin
American studies at the Univer
sity of California at Riverside,
will speak Monday on “Unrest in
Aztlan: The Chicano Movement
in Historical Perspective.”
“Blacks in American History”
will be the topic of Goode’s Wed
nesday address. Each presenta
tion in the ethnic studies series
will be at 8 p.m. in the Memorial
Student Center ballroom, an
nounced seminar chairman Patri
cia Lucey of Bryan.
Future topics will include the
blacks’ changing status, American
Indians’ self-determination, black
militant movement origins and
progress and where the movement
is heading. The seminar continues
through April 26.
“The program has been de
signed to explore cultural and
political problems of our minori
ties, in light of their history, with
emphasis on the Black American,”
Miss Lucey said. “The program’s
purpose is to ‘bring home’ the
significance of these problems to
Texas A&M students and people
of the Bryan-College Station com
munity.”
In addition to chairing Latin
American studies at Riverside,
Dr. Cortes also is contributing
editor for “Aztlan: Chicano Jour
nal of the Social Sciences and
Arts.” He has authored numerous
books, among them “Black,”
“Mexican Americans,” “Indians,”
“Puerto Ricans” and “History of
Mexican American Resistance and
Revolution.”
Goode is vice chancellor for
special projects at the Univesity
of California at Berkeley. He also
is vice-chairman of the Urban
Redevelopment Agency at Berke
ley.
His memberships include the
American Academy of Social and
Political Science and the Associa
tion of the Study of Negro Life
and Culture. Goode’s byline ap
pears on books titled “From Afri
ca to the United States and Then”
and “Current Afro-American Po
litical and Social Thought.”
He was a Political Forum
speaker here last spring.
Miss Lucey noted that admis
sion to the six Ethnic Studies
Seminar presentations is free to
all interested individuals. Great
Issues programs are supported
through patronage subscriptions.
CBS recompense
‘hearsay’: Boone
“It’s all hearsay,” says Robert Boone, director of the Singing
Cadets, of the rumors that Ed Sullivan and CBS would compensate the
group for its missed solo performance Sunday night.
Boone admitted that something may be done, but that he had no
way of knowing how or when such action may be taken.
He said that a story in the Wednesday issue of The Daily Eagle,
which quoted him as saying that Sullivan and CBS claimed they would
make adjustments, was “completely wrong, completely misleading.”
The Daily Eagle also said that the originally planned solo spot was
cut out because the jazz group preceding them ran two minutes and 10
seconds overtime. CBS officials did not cut the jazz group short because
they were afraid of a reaction on the part of “partisians” in the
audience, the article said.
Girls 9 dorm board topic
Women’s housing at A&M will be a major topic
during the upcoming Board of Directors meeting
February 23, announced President Dr. Jack K.
Williams Wednesday.
Commenting that it is still too early to know
what topics would be discussed by board members,
Williams said that suitable housing for women on
A&M’s campus would be given much thought.
“I understand that the general feelings of the
board members is favorable toward women’s
housing,” Williams said.
He said that much planning will go into it
before something is decided upon.
“They only want the highest quality and only
first class housing for the young ladies,” he added.
He mentioned the possibility of using the new
dormitory or at least part of it which is now under
construction just east of the corps dormitory area.
“Many plans will be looked at and studied.
There are many factors to be studied before deciding
to use the new dormitory for women students,” he
said.
Student finds, returns $4,200
Charles E. Goodell
Everybody makes mistakes, but
sophomore Mike Patillo of Alpine
was honest about one that saved a
College Station merchant $4,200.
Mike went to Loupot’s Trading
Post to purchase a textbook.
When he got home he found a
money bag in his little brown bag,
but no book.
“I don’t see that kind of money
very often,” Patillo admitted.
“And I was afraid to touch it.”
He did find a deposit slip
among the cash and checks.
When he entered Lou’s store
to return the bag the place was
full of police, he reported.
“What type of cool thing can a
guy say holding a bag full of
money?” Mike asked.
One of the female clerks rushed
to him and hugged the Company
H-2 cadet joyfully.
“It sure made me feel good to
see the look on that girl’s face.
She was really relieved.”
The clerk either gave Mike the
brown sack with the bank deposit
bag inside or he picked it up by
accident. Mike admits he can’t re
member what happened.
Police officers thought the
whole affair was funny and J. E.
Loupot, the store owner, figures
Patillo is a hero.
Mike disagrees.
“It was something any good
Aggie would do,” he said.
Youth poll picks
Kennedy in 9 72
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The top social concerns troubl
ing American youths are the war
in Vietnam, environmental pollu
tion, drug abuse and racial in-
justic, according to a survey re-
Group actions lab goal
Dr. Paul P. Van Riper
By BRUCE BLACK
Plans are under way for a lab
oratory which would study group
reactions, Dr. Paul P. Van Riper,
head of the Political Science De
partment, said Wednesday.
“We need a laboratory where
it would be possible to hold simu
lation and small group experi
mentation, including individual
work with the computer through
a remote terminal,” he said.
“There are half a dozen such
laboratories already in existence,”
he continued, “including facilities
at the University of Minnesota
and at Wayne State University
in Detroit.”
Van Riper was named depart
ment head in July, 1970, after
coming to A&M from Cornell
University, where he was secre
tary and chief administrative of
ficer of the Cornell Constituent
Assembly concerned with the re
organization of the university.
At present, the Political Science
Department lacks the space for
such a laboratory, he said, but
plans are underway to move the
department into Bolton Hall,
along with the Sociology Depart
ment, as soon as the new En
gineering Building is completed.
Political science and sociology
have a lot in common as far as
lab work goes,” Van Riper said.
“I’d like to see the two depart
ments get together on the lab
project.”
The main problem is in finding
a person who has had direct ex
perience with such a laboratory
who could act as a lab designer
and manager. While many of the
faculty know the principles be
hind the lab, no one has had any
direct contact with such facilities,
he said.
Another problem in the Politi
cal Science Department is that
at present, a master’s is the high
est degree offered in the subject
at A&M, Van Riper said.
“I hope that we can obtain
Ph.D. status within the next few
years,” he said, “but at present
the supply is much greater than
the demand for Ph.D.’s in the
academic world, and we cannot
be granted such a status at this
time.”
He commented that he believes
the department is now ready to
fulfill all requirements for the
Ph.D.
Since Van Riper’s arrival in
July, he has made advances in
other areas as well. He recently
revised the policy in teaching Po
litical Science 266 and 207, re
quired courses for most students.
“We have eliminated all grad
uate students from teaching the
courses,” he said, “and now every
body on the faculty handles at
least one section of 206 or 207,
so the students will have access
to as much of the staff as pos
sible.”
Van Riper says he would like
to develop courses in civil-mil
itary relations, as well as in
science and government policy.
leased Wednesday by Seventeen
magazine.
The poll said young people’s
choice for president in 1972 would
be Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-
Mass., with 20 per cent of those
interviewed, followed by Presi
dent Nixon and former Sen. Eu
gene J. McCarthy, D-Wis.
Interviews with 2,000 boys and
girls aged 14 to 22 reported that
most describe themselves as “hap
py” and “active,” and consider
personal freedom to be the na
tion’s top asset. But three out of
four believe there is really some
thing basically wrong with Amer
ican society.
Almost all said the government
was not spending enough to curb
pollution; most fault the govern
ment for lack of funds to help
combat poverty, urban problems
and educational needs.
More than half feel “somewhat
hopeful” about the nation’s fu
ture. Nearly eight out of 10 inter
viewed do not agree that “vio
lence may be the only way to
achieve needed changes in so
ciety.”
On other issues, the high school
and college-age youth opted for
more liberal abortion laws, strict
er gun control legislation, lower
ing the voting age to 18 and es
tablishing an all-volunteer army.
They opposed the legalization of
marijuana and most said they did
not think the Black Panthers were
being persecuted in this country.