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' • . -•••• v ‘ Page 4 College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 2, 1971 THE BATTALION Campus briefs ROTC applications due Applications to enter the two- year Army ROTC program next September are being accepted in the Military Science Department. Undergraduate and graduate students and junior college trans fers with at least four semesters of study remaining can qualify for the program and an officer's commission upon graduation, said Col. Jim H. McCoy, commandant. In the two-year program, a cadet substitutes a six-week sum mer camp for the freshman and sophomore years of the four- year program. Applications should be made should students get grade slips? students ask The Liberal Arts Student Coun cil voted Monday night to send a report to Dean David W. Max well dealing with having separate grade slips sent to students in stead of parents alone. The report, given by Dean Boyd, sophomore in economics, quoted Registrar Robert Lacey as saying he could see no legiti mate reason for students wanting their own copies of their grades. If they wish to see them the stu dents can check with the Regis trar’s Office, he said. Two plans proposed by the council were vetoed by Lacey. One called for a book of the grades of each student that could be seen by presenting an I.D. card. Lacey said this would con stitute an invasion of privacy. The other plan to have copies mailed to students by either cam pus or federal mail was rejected as being too expensive—in the range of $1,500 to $2,000, Lacey said. A committee to study the De partment of Modern Languages and language requirements in the College of Liberal Arts was ap pointed by the council. Michael Hardin, senior, History, is chair man. The committee’s purpose will be to determine whether the re quired courses could be improved in teaching techniques and if the language requirements should be lowered. by April 9 for the 1971-72 school year. Requirements include an interview, 2.0 grade point ratio, officer qualifying and physical exams and four semesters aca demic work remaining. ★ ★ ★ Physics professor speaks in Louisiana Dr. Lee C. Northcliffe of the Physics Department will lecture at Northeast Louisiana Univer sity Thursday and Friday, Feb. 11-12. His visit is sponsored by the American Association of Physics Teachers and American Institute of Physics as part of a nation wide program to stimulate inter est in physics. ★ ★ ★ ROTC program rescheduled Dr. William R. Smith’s Army ROTC Enrichment Program ad dress has been rescheduled for today to avoid a conflict. Col. Jim H. McCoy said the program will begin at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom. The commandant said the original time conflicted with the A&M-SMU basketball game here. Smith, head of the Psychology Department and a Naval Reserve commander and pilot, will discuss “The Soviet Naval Threat.” ★ ★ ★ Range Science sponsors lecture The Range Science Department will sponsor a lecture by Dr. Clair Former students made the uni versity one of the nation’s leaders in three alumni gifts categories, according to a study analyzing 256 public institutions. The report, “Voluntary Support for Public Higher Education 1968-69,” is published biennially by G. A. Brakeley & Co. Inc., New York, A&M placed seventh or better in three of nine “honor rolls” tab ulated in the report. L. Kucera of the University of Missouri Thursday, Feb. 4. The biological sciences profes sor will speak on “Biomass Pro ductivity and Turnover in a Tall Grass Prairie” at 7:30 p.m. in Room 112, Plant Sciences. ★ ★ ★ Two A&M vets schedule reports Two A&M veterinarians sched uled technical reports to confer ences in Louisiana and Oklahoma. Dr. Richard J. Hidalgo, asso ciate professor of veterinary mi crobiology, will be at Oklahoma State University Wednesday and Thursday for the 7th annual Cat tle Feeders Seminar. He will report on immunity to infectious agents causing feedlot diseases. Dr. G. M. Gowing of the Small .Animal Section presented two papers at the Louisiana State Veterinary Conference in Baton Rouge Tuesday through Friday. The original research is en titled “Canine Ehrlicheasis and Auto-Immunia in the Dog.” ★ ★ ★ Glass, Weaver receive scholarships Two industrial distribution freshmen have received scholar ship checks from T. Deal Reese and Ray Sims, directors of Gulf petroleum and petrochemical sup ply firm. The recipients of the $400 scholarships are Philip H. Glass, Houston, and Stephen L. Weaver, San Angelo. Donations to the Association of Former Students numbered 19,951 to put A&M in third place, behind Michigan (30,625) and Ohio State (29,458). Only two of the 10 insti tutions with the largest number of alumni donors also made the honor roll for receiving the largest percentage response to their solicitations. These are A&M and Georgia Tech. A&M was fifth in alumni solici tation response, based on a per centage of donors to solicitation. The report showed 47,598 for mer students, of which 42,000 were solicited and 19,951 made donations, a 47.5 per cent re sponse, The national average for private and public schools is 18 per cent alumni response, the study pointed out. Association Annual Fund gifts of $815,542 placed A&M in sev enth place in that category. Colo rado led with $2,732,275. Michi gan, Ohio State, Penn State and Purdue all reported over $1 mil lion. Robert L. Walker, association associate director in charge of fund raising, pointed out statis tics for the 1970 calendar year will be an all-time record for the A&M Annual Fund. Walker reports more than 25,- 000 gifts were received during 1970 with over $1 million donated to restricted and non-restricted funds. The record year will be reflect ed in the 1970-71 Brakeley report, Walker added. Have Your Grade Points Slipped? (We’ll Insure Your Books) See Us — We Can Insure Arks to Zebras Auto—Age and Violations No Problem Life — Prudential Jim Jelt ’66 Fire — Any Type Business BRAZOS VALLEY AGENCY Room 223 Bryan Building & Loan Phone 822-3133 Alumni donations total over 19,951 In PeiiSOn! The Fabulous GLOBETROTTERS MAGICIANS OF BASKETBALL" Plus The Famous Globetrotter "-sr ■$$ ADDED attractions G. 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