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By FRAN ZUPAN
Battalion Managing Editor
President Nixon and Congress
are responsible for much of the
disenchantment that Americans
feel, Democratic Sen. Birch Bayh
of Indiana told a standing-room-
only crowd in the Memorial Stu
dent Center Ballroom Thursday.
“There is an erosion of faith
that individuals have in the na
tion, in institutions and in them
selves to use their abilities to
bring about change,’' Bayh, who
a potential candidate for the
presidency in 1972, told the six
teenth Student Conference on Na
tional Affairs audience.
“I wonder if the president un
derstands how much he has add
ed to this disenchantment?” he
said. “The number one problem
is how we are going to stop the
war and secure peace in South
Vietnam.
Nixon disenchanted the young
the most when last April 23, he
withdrew 150,000 troops, and then
10 days later without the counsel
of Congress invaded Cambodia.
This disenchanted the older people
Bayh, in his second term in the
senate, serves on the Subcommit
tee on Air and Water Pollution
of the Committee on Public Works
and the. Select Committee on
Equal Educational Opportunity.
“I’m not sure what is happen
ing in Laos, but it is disenchant
ing to have the President say one
thing and newsmen on the scene
say something else. The people
have a right to demand utmost
honesty in government.”
Bayh mentioned other instances
by which, he said, Nixon has de
stroyed the people’s faith.
He said that Nixon had prom
ised much money for pollution
control in his State of the Union
speech this year, but before that
week was over the president had
threatened not to spend over one
half of the money Congress had
allotted to build sewers in cities
and towns.
However, Bayh did not blame
all of the disenchantment on Nix
on.
“I am well aware that the cause
for the lack of faith is not all
deposited at 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue,” he said. “Congi-ess has
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SCONA XVI
Tonight
Fifth Roundtable Session—4-6 p.m.
Minority Report—8-10 p.m.; An Alternative Point of View
Saturday
Sixth Roundtable Session—8:30-9:45 a.m.
Sixth Plenary Session—10:15 a.m.-12 noon; former N.Y.
Sen. Charles Goodell
to share the responsibility.”
He said one example of this
was his efforts to abolish the elec
toral college and elect the Presi
dent directly.
“I don’t think it’s a measure of
faith that after the House passed
it, the Senate couldn’t even get
it put to a vote,” he said. “I can’t
rationalize a democratic society
that denies one vote to one man.”
Bayh said a third discreditor of
faith is erosion in the minds of
many older citizens that think
that young Americans can’t live
up to the responsibility they have.
The young “perked the con
science of the nation” in relation
to the Vietnam War and ecology,
and because they showed this con
cern, they have a “sober obliga
tion” to accept the responsibilities
of their concern, he said.
“Revolution is a magic word,
but the way revolution really
works, it loses a little luster,”
Bayh continued. “After a revo
lution, you don’t immediately
have a rebirth of social progress.
What usually happens is that a
long period of status quo follows
while leaders establish a power
base. We have to have action. We
can’t afford the luxury or a period
of business as usual.”
Bayh said that in order to re
store lost faith Americans were
going to have to say that they
are not afraid to dream and in
vest personal interest to make
these dreams come true.
“Healthy bodies, clean air and
water, strong minds, and that
fleeting eternal dream of peace—
peace in the world, peace in the
nation and perhaps, most impor
tant of all, peace in our neigh
borhoods,” he said were worth
dreaming about and working for.
“We can move along higher
roads if not for ourselves then
for our children or their children,”
he said.
In a question and answer pe
riod, Bayh was asked how these
dreams could be implemented.
He said until the war gets
stopped, America would not have
the resources or the “together
ness” to realize them.
He said once the war is stopped,
money would have to be spent in
different ways than it is being
spent now—funds would have to
go to education, health and envi
ronment.
“Vice President Agnew has said
that we should land on Mars by
1980,” he said, “but I’d rather
cleanup my own back alley or a
ghetto in Indianapolis than wor
ry about what’s going on on
Mars.”
The audience applauded.
A cadet asked Bayh if he had
any solutions to getting out of
Vietnam that would be better
than Nixon’s Vietnamization.
Bayh said he thought that a
programmed withdrawal should
(See Disenchantment, page 3)
Sen. Birch Bayh speaks to SCONA delegates and A&M students Wednesday afternoon.
(Photo by Hayden Whitsett)
Mass action dead, delegate says
By DOUGLAS GIBBS
Battalion Staff Writer
“Cop out,” was the advice given
to students by a Rhodes Scholar
from Vanderbilt University at a
SCONA panel discussion Monday
in the Memorial Student Center.
The panel, comprised of John
Gaventa, student body president
of Vanderbilt University, David
If shin, president of the National
Student Association, and Kent
Caperton, student body president
of A&M, was moderated by Dr.
Frank E. Vandiver, former Rice
University president, who stated
the topic as the role of the stu
dent in the 70’s.
Gaventa said people have come
to think of political protest as
the only way to bring about
changes, and describes his meth
od as one of resistance.
He said students must accept
the challenge of bringing about
social change without destroying
the fabric of society.
A member of the Presidential
Commission on Campus Unrest,
Gaventa urged students not to
become involved in such activ
ities, explaining they have no
purpose.
“During the ’60’s, we beat our
heads against the wall,” he said,
“but we didn’t make any funda
mental changes. We gained an
identity out of protesting the old
and we haven’t done anything but
affirm it,” said Gaventa.
“Massive political movements
are no longer the way,” Gaventa
said. “Mass movements attract
violence, and destroy our goals.”
Decrying Gaventa’s remarks,
Ishfin called for students to build
up a mass movement.
“It is my experience that people
who get involved in decadence
usually die at 30,” he said.
SCONA delegates give opinions of A&M
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By BRUCE BLACK
Battalion Staff Writer
When asked what they found
most impressive about Texas
A&M, SCONA delegates visiting
the campus for the first time gave
a wide variation of answers.
A group of three black students
— Wilbert Watson and Lercy
James of Grambling and Robert
Blackwell of Southern University
—gave their views:
“The students I’ve talked to
have mostly been blacks,” Watson
said; “They all say its pretty
rough. It seems that most people
here sit down and listen to the
black problem, but action stops
there.”
“The first night we were here,”
James said, “a lot of people kept
referring to us as ‘boy’ . . . things
like that kind of put you on your
guard.”
“There just aren’t enough
blacks in high positions such as
on your senate or the football
team,” Blackwell said. “Why
don’t you try to recruit blacks?”
(Texas A&M has signed four
black students in the current foot
ball recruiting drive.)
To Don Gunther of the U.S.
Naval Academy, A&M’s most out
standing trait is its unity.
“It amazes me how you have
the military group and the civil
ians working so close together,”
he commented.
“I was very impressed by Silver
Taps,” he continued. “I’m going
to discuss the possible adoption
of such a tradition back at the
academy.”
Gunther said he found the
SCONA conference well organ
ized, and that he was getting a
wide view from both civilian and
military schools.
Things here are quite differ
ent from the University of Mexi
co, visiting SCONA delegate
Eduardo Reyes said.
“Students here are very open-
minded,” he said; “you can ex
press your views and know that
they will be listened to.”
“Everyone is very friendly and
helpful,” Reyes continued. “When
we arrived, we had no place to
stay, and you found us one right
away.”
Bill Mayfield, of Davidson Col
lege in North Carolina, said he
was very impressed by the
amount of spirit at A&M, which
could be seen from the corps re
view Thursday afternoon.
“The student body is definitely
more conservative than at David
son,” Mayfield commented, “but
I believe that comes from drawing
the students from a different lo
cale. A&M is much more unified
than most schools.”
“Any school that’s bigger than
4,000 students is impressive to
me,” Dave Kurz of Del Mar Jun
ior College said.
“The people here are so friend
ly they just overwhelm you,” he
continued, “but I never realized
that the school was so conserva
tive.”
John Lawrence spent two se
mesters at A&M before going to
work for Cong. Olin E. Teague.
He presently is visiting A&M as
a delegate from American Uni
versity in Washington, D.C.
“About the only difference be
tween A&M and American Uni
versity is their locations,” Law
rence said. “Academically, how
ever, I think A&M excells in many
respects.”
Lawrence went bn to say he
thinks that when A&M gets a
large number of girls, it will tend
to have a snowballing effect,
making the school much more
open minded.
“When I first came here, I ex
pected A&M to be more of a mili
tant, radical school than it is,”
Pam Wright of Auburn Univer
sity said.
“But I was surprised to see that
there was so much bigotry here,”
she continued.
“A Auburn we are working on
she said, “but from what I can
see here, they seem to be working
against blacks.”
“We as a people have a re
sponsibility,” he said. “Too many
students are interested only with
student problems.”
He gave the war in Vietnam
top priority, calling it the “U.S.
war of aggression.”
“Ending the war will end other
problems such as poverty and
racial strife,” Ishfin added.
Caperton, commenting on the
recent lull in campus activity, ex
pressed optimism over the inac
tivity.
“Just because things are quiet,”
he said, “does not mean they are
healthy.”
Caperton said the student must
be “society’s conscience” because
no one else will do it.
He sees the 18-year-old vote
as a chance for students making
talking with them “politically at
tractive” to politicians.
Caperton said people have a
tendency to talk with others of
the same viewpoint. He said stu
dents have an appalling ignor
ance about one another that must
be bridged if they are to become
aware of their problems and do
something about them.
Vandiver described his remarks
as the “view from the foxhole.”
“I represent the most besieged
group in America—the college
presidents.”
He said the function of the
president should be to act as aca
demic director, but he is so busy
playing “academic roulette” that
he doesn’t have time.
He said the students’ role must
be to communicate with officials
and elimninate misinformation.
He said he was surprised by
the lack of authority given to
the president.
“The president has no power,”
he said, “decisions are made by
circumstances.”
His role makes him the “nat
ural enemy of the students and
faculty,” he said.
Vandiver said he believes re
search must go hand in hand with
teaching, but large universities
with many departments mean
non-identity.
“We must make the university
a place of the mind and spirit
that concentrates on thought,” he
said.
Restricting enrollment is need
ed, Vandiver said, to stop univer
sities from becoming “cities in
themself.”
Vandiver warned against al
lowing the university officials too
much power.
“Given its (power’s) head, it
will destroy the university,” he
said.
MSC applications
due Monday
Applications for chairmanships
of 12 Memorial Student Center
committees, including SCONA
XVII, are being accepted at the
Student Program Office.
Prospective chairmen of Aggie
Cinema, Basement, Black Aware
ness, Radio, Recreation, SCONA
and Travel Committees will be
interviewed Wednesday, accord
ing to directorate assistant Mickey
Wiesinger.
Minimum grade requirements
for chairmen include an overall
2.4 grade point ratio or 2.65 for
the two previous semesters. Ap
plicants cannot be on any proba
tion.
Deadline for applications is 5
p. m. Monday.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
Freshman Sweetheart will be selected at formal ball
Five semi-finalists for fresh
man sweetheart will contend for
the title at the Freshman Ball
Saturday night, the highlight of
Freshman Weekend.
The formal ball at 8:30 p.m. in
Duncan Dining Hall will feature
“Heritage,” rock group from
Houston, and the selection of
the sweetheart by a committee,
Freshman Social Secretary Rich
ard Chaplin said.
Tonight in DeWare Field House
there will be a sock dance with
the “Cornerston Blues.”
Saturday at 11 a.m. a catered
barbecue—all you can eat—will
be held in Hensel Park.
A reception for the five sweet
heart finalists, their escorts, class
officers and judges will be held
in the Birch Room of the Memo
rial Student Center at 3:30 p. m.
Saturday.
The finalists are:
Cynthia Sue Berger, a fresh
man elementary education major
at Sam Houston State University.
Cynthia, of Houston, is 19 and has
blonde hair and blue eyes.
Andrea Clark, a junior at Hill-
crest High School in Dallas, is 16
and has brown hair and brown
eyes.
Susan Lyn Hagler, a freshman
speech and hearing therapy ma
jor at Hardin-Simmons Univer
sity. Miss Hagler, of Midland, is
18 with blonde hair and brown
eyes.
Karen Lois Pekar, a freshman
at Temple Junior College. Miss
Pekar, of Granger, is 19 and has
blonde hair and green eyes.
Karen Dale Seibert, a senior at
David W. Carter High School in
Dallas. Miss Seibert is 17 with
brown hair and green eyes.
Tickets for the entire weekend
will cost $8.00 and can be obtained
at each of the three main events
of the weekend, though there will
be no reduction in price regard
less of which event the tickets
are purchased at.
“We need people to start deco
rating at 5 a.m. Saturday,”
Maness said, “anyone who can
help in any way.”
To sign up for work crews,
freshmen should call Manness at
5-6686 or Chaplin at 5-4540.
Karen Pekar
Karen Seiber
Andrea Clark
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