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Vol. 66 No. 89
College Station, Texas
Friday, March 5, 1971
Saturday — Partly cloudy to
cloudy. Winds southerly 15-25
mph. High 79°, low 51°.
Sunday — Winds westerly 15-
20 mph. High 68°, low 56°.
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White man tries to alter
Indian culture: Josephy
Since the days of Jamestown
and Plymouth, the white man has
made it his goal to change the
Indian’s culture to his own, Al
vin M. Josephy said Thursday
night.
Speaking on the “American In
dian’s Fight for Self-Determina
tion” as part of Great Issues’
Ethnic Studies Series, Josephy
laid Indians are the only unique
minority group in the country.
‘The Indian stems from ances
tors who have been on this con
tinent for 25,000 years or more,”
he commented, “but to this day
we fail to understand their ideol
ogies.”
Josephy, vice-president of the
American Heritage Publishing
Company and author of “The Pa
triot Chiefs: A Chronicle of
American Indian Resistance”,
said it has always been the white
man’s will to change the Indian
to his own culture.
“Those tribes which did not
submit to this philosophy, and
most didn’t had to face the other
side of the coin . . . the only
Indian is h dead Indian,” he said.
“The Indian is a conquered
people, and they know it,” Jose
phy continued. “They have fought
for their families, their freedom,
their land, and have lost repeat
edly.”
“If there is one thing that has
unified the Indians,” he said, “it
is the common will not to break
relations with the government.”
The Indian has looked to the
United States as the protector of
their lands and hunting and fish
ing rights, Joseph explained.
The Indians were terified when
the government announced “ter
mination” from national control
and turned the reservations over
to the states in 1953, he said. By
1958 so much damage had been
done in the way of social decay,
that the act had to be repealed.
People who think about In
dians, if they think about them
at all, wonder about reserva
tions,” Josephy said. “Why do
they stay on them?”
“Most people have a sense of
identity,” he explained, “but the
Indian, as a conquered people,
have had this knocked out of
them.”
Today, Josephy said, the Bu
reau of Indian Affairs is the chief
adversary of the Indian who does
not want to become a white man.
Throughout the ’60s Indians
started going through high school
and into college, he continued and
the minority struggles seen
throughout the world began to
influence them.
“Indians are the only group in
the United States which is not
free,” Josephy said.
But recently, when given a
chance to show responsibility
when helped through government
funds, he commented, they have
shown that they are ready to
move toward freedom.
“I think the time is near,” he
said.
Alvin M. Josephy
During Military Weekend
6 vie for Combat Cutie
Sen. Frank Church talks with students Thursday at a
noon Political Forum presentation. He said he had heard
Ithat A&M was the wrong place to give his speech on “For
eign Policy and the Generation Gap” so he answered ques
tions instead. (Photo by Larry Martin)
A&M wrong
Church says;
place for speech,
instead
answers
By CHARLES MASTERSON
Battalion Staff Writer
Military Weekend begins tonight with
the Combat Ball and Air Force Ball. Satur
day’s activities include a 2:00 p.m. review on
the drill field, a noon commander’s luncheon
and a formal Military Ball Saturday night.
Both the Combat and the Air Force Balls are
casual and begin at 9:00 p.m.
The Combat Ball will be held in Duncan
dining hall with music provided by “Custer’s
Last Band,” popular in the Central Texas
area. The theme for the dance will be “R&R
at Summer Camp.”
The traditional Combat Cutie will be
selected from the six finalists. These finalists
will be introduced at a reception in their
honor immediately before the dance begins.
The winner will receive two dozen red roses
and the Combat Cutie banner.
The finalists include: Sheila Foster, a
brown-haired freshman Spanish major at
Southwest Texas; Barbara Burkhart, a blonde
senior music major at Baylor; and Barbara
Allen, a brown-haired beauty majoring in
home economics at the University of
Houston.
Also, Geri Koehler, a brown-haired
graduate of Southwest Texas now teaching
school in San Antonio; Cindy Weisinger, a
blonde Texas A&M coed majoring in pre-vet
medicine; and Linda May, a blonde freshman
math major at T.C.U.
The Air Force Ball will be in the
Memorial Student Center Ballroom with
music provided by the Chaynes from San
Antonio. The Air Force sweetheart will also
be selected.
Saturday night a formal Military Ball,
open to both civilian and corps, will be held
from 8 to 12. The Ed Sullivan Orchestra will
provide the music.
Saturday at noon a commander’s lunch
eon will host honored guests Brig. Gen. B. B.
Cassiday, Jr., commander of the Air Force
Reserve Officer Training Corps and Brig. Gen.
M. A. Goers, director of Army ROTC and
National Defense Cadet Corps both who will
be on the reviewing stand for the 2 p.m. corps
review.
By DOUGLAS GIBBS
Battalion Staff Writer
The cynicism and negativism
found on many college campuses
has something to do with the
policy the country has been fol
lowing in recent years, said Sen.
Frank Church here Thursday.
The co-author of the Cooper-
Church amendment, which limits
funds for introducing ground
combat troops in Southeast Asia
at a noon Political Forum pre
sentation in the MSC answered
questions.
Originally scheduled to speak
on “Foreign Policy and the Gen
eration Gap,” the democrat from
Idaho offered instead a question
and answer open forum.
He said concern over student
attitudes prompted him to draft
the speech, but that he had heard
A&M was the wrong place to give
the talk.
; “I have heard A&M described
as the West Point of the South,”
he said, “and there might not
even be a generation gap here.”
The introduction of the senator
as being a man “noted for his
foreign affairs” brought quick
laughter to the crowded ballroom,
as did his reply:
“Senators are too old to have
affairs.—but I claim relations.”
| The topic of American involve
ment in Southeast Asia came up
early during the session, and Sen.
Church said he favors a policy of
Vietnamization.
“Vietnam has the most dubious
strategic value, plus no historic
responsibility for us,” he said.
“The time has come to turn the
burden of the war to them.”
Church said he believes the big
problem in Vietnam is not one of
communism, but of colonialism.
“A local government that as
sociates with a white western
power and depends on it cannot
convincingly portray itself to its
people,” he said.
Attacking our “dressing up” of
the South Vietnamese government
as a “sham,” Church said, “Even
the U. S. can’t bring in instant
democracy.”
Two reasons were given by the
senator for getting into “presi
dential wars” like Vietnam.
First, Congress traditionally
has been reluctant to interfer
with the president during a war,
Church said. Second, the presi
dent’s use of public opinion can
sometimes make it hard for a con
gressman to stand up to him
knowing he must face re-election
the next year.
Church cited such wars as not
only contrary to the constitution,
but dangerous. He said Congress
should participate in the decision
of war or peace.
On the draft. Church said that
when a government uses its pow
er to make young people fight in
a war they don’t believe in, it
“sows the seeds of sedition, and
history has proved this.”
He added that since the draft
situation has improved, so have
3 raided, charged
with holding drugs
UniTenity National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
Three A&M students have been
charged on drug counts following
raids in campus dormitories
Wednesday night and early
Thursday.
University police charged Rich
ard N. Mathis, 20, of Jacksonville,
Ark., and George C. Reeser, 19,
of Beaumont with possession of
marijuana. August William
Lentz, 18, of Houston is charged
with possession and sale of dan
gerous drugs.
Justice of the Peace B. H.
Dewey Jr. of Bryan set bond at
$1,000 each. Lentz was released
on bond from the Brazos County
Jail Thursday morning. Mathis
and Reeser were expected to post
bond Thursday afternoon.
University Police Lt. Walter
O. Walker and Sgt. J. D. Gossett
coordinated the raids on the
youths’ rooms in three separate
dorms.
Asst. Chief Morris A. Maddox
said the arrests followed a lengthy
investigation. No additional ar
rests are expected on this case,
Maddox reported.
Lentz, son of Mr. and Mrs.
August W. Lentz III, 13627
Indian Creek, Houston, is a fresh
man liberal arts major.
Mathis, son of Maj. and Mrs.
Glenn M. Mathis of 171 Alabama,
Jacksonville, Ark., is a member
of the Corps of Cadets attending
A&M with an Air Force ROTC
scholarship. The Squadron 12
sophomore is a chemical engineer
ing major.
Reeser, son of Capt. and Mrs.
George C. Reeser of Rt. 2, Box
K255, Beaumont, is a freshman
marine engineering major.
campus attitudes.
He offered praise to the presi
dent and the secretary of state
for trying to act as “peacemaker”
in ending the Middle East conflict,
a position which he said is never
appreciated.
Will there be an amendment
similar to the Cooper-Church one
for N. Vietnam?
“I anticipate it, and favor it
strongly,” he said. “Perhaps it
will take on a more extended
form banning American partici
pation in an invasion,” he added.
Diplomatic recognition of Red
China must occur, according to
Church, if we are to have peace
in the Western Pacific. He said
in the past America has done all
it could to isolate itself from Chi
na, “and its been easy with their
help.”
“This has never been a sen
sible policy for the U.S.—I’d like
to see us explore the possibility
of normalizing our relations with
them,” he said.
Spying by the army on civilians
drew quick criticism from Church.
“The army has no business spy
ing on civilians, he said,” “This
is a free country, and letting the
military run loose on this is the
quickest way to lend it.”
Looking to Latin America, he
says America must pursue a pol
icy that will keep Latin Ameri
cans friendly and favorably dis-
(See A&M wrong, page 2)
Barbara Allen
Barbara Burkhart
Sheila Foster
Army program scholarships
available now through April 1
Applications for the Army’s
3-year scholarship program are
being accepted in the Military
Science Department.
The program, on its second year
at the university, provides finan
cial assistance to highly qualified
and motivated cadets who want to
pursue careers as commissioned
officers in the Regular Army,
explained Col. Jim H. McCoy,
commandant.
Applications for the 1971-72
school year are due by April 1.
To be eligible, cadets must be
in the sophomore year of aca
demic study with at least one
but not more than 1% years of
military science.
Interested cadets should con
tact Maj. W. C. Mattei, 306 Mili
tary Science Building.
Geri Koehler
Linda May
Cindy Weisinger