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WASHINGTON <A>> —A Ford
Foundation report bearing Nixon
administration endorsement as
serted Monday that higher educa
tion deserves a drastic shakeup
because it is irrelevant to students
and society.
“We have seen disturbing
trends toward uniformity in our
institutions, growing bureaucra
cy, over-emphasis on academic
credentials, isolation of students
and faculty from the world—a
growing rigidity and uniformity
of structure that makes higher
education reflect less and less the
interests of society,” says the
Foundation’s “Report on Higher
Education.”
Elliot L. Richardson, secretary
of health, education and welfare,
introduced the study at a news
conference terming it “as signifi
cant a statement on higher educa
tion as we have seen.”
By FRAN ZUPAN
Battalion Managing Editor
Off-campus publication, Evolu
tion, will be sold on campus next
time it comes out, Editor Eddie
Peralta said Monday.
Peralta and six Evolution staff
members, which he will choose,
were granted permits by the Con
cessions Committee, headed by
Dean of Students James P. Han-
nigan several weeks ago.
Other members of the Conces-
lions Committee are Associate
Dean of Students Don R. Staf
ford, counselors Richard Denham
snd Tom King, cadet Albert
Kinkead and civilian student
Terry Van Dycke.
The publication, written and
sold off campus by the Campus
Committee of Concern (CCOC)
for about two and a half years,
can be sold in front of Sbisa and
Duncan Dining Halls and at the
Information Desk of the Memo
rial Student Center, Hannigan
said. The permit, as all conces
sions permits are, is effective for
the remainder of the school year,
he added.
CCOC President Keith Alaniz
said the group was “really sur
prised” at the concessions com
mittee’s decision.
“I don’t know whether anyone
ever really applied for a permit
before,” he said.
Hannigan said that CCOC had
applied for a permit to sell Evolu
tion on the campus previously and
this had been denied. He stressed
that the permit was not issued
to CCOC but to individuals.
“There was no point to be
gained in barring them from sell
ing it,” Hannigan said, “so we
decided to see how they’d make
out.
Last year one CCOC member
was “detained” for selling Evo
lution on campus without a per
mit, Peralta said.
CCOC also applied for on-
campus recognition Alaniz said,
but this was denied.
Hannigan said CCOC applied
to act as a university political
action committee, which is spe
cifically prohibited by University
Regulations, Hannigan said.
Peralta said the next issue of
Evolution will be out in about two
weeks. Alaniz said the publica
tion was scheduled to come out
at an earlier date, but that more
time is needed so articles about
the Board of Directors’ decision
on women’s on-campus housing
and the recent activities at Prai
rie View could be included.
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Prairie View A&M reopens peacefully
PRAIRIE VIEW, Tex. <JP) —
Prairie View A&M College re
opened peacefully Monday after
an eight-day shutdown prompt
ed by disturbances in which one
building was burned and other
structures were damaged.
Classes resumed after a re
registration through which Dr.
[Alvin Thomas, president, said 62
[suspended students were not per
mitted to return. The predomi-
[nantly Negro, state-supported
college has about 4,000 students.
I There was no comment from
Univtnttjr National Bank
"On the aide of T«*aa A&M.”
—Adv.
Thomas but other administrators
reported two teachers also had
been suspended.
Dr. W. W. Clem, dean of arts
and sciences, said a political sci
ence teacher had been suspended.
Dr. A. J. McNeil, dean of the
college, said an assistant profes
sor of home economics also had
been suspended.
Thomas ordered the shutdown
after two nights of violence in
which a security guard build
ing was destroyed, a Reserve
Officer Training structure was
damaged by fire, and several dor
mitories and a student exchange
store received broken windows
and other damage.
There was no evidence of the
damage Monday. Windows had
been restored and the site of the
destroyed building had been
cleared.
The security guard building was
burned after a number of stu
dents marched to the off-campus
home of Thomas and demanded
in vain his resignation. Negotia
tions on student demands that
ranged from better food to a
stronger voice in campus affairs
began but Thomas abruptly or
dered the shutdown Feb. 27.
T. R. Solomon, dean of stu
dent life, said Monday a num
ber of the suspended group of
students had petitioned for hear-
Richardson agreed the report
bolsters the complaints of some
students about their colleges and
universities, adding “There is a
very substantial core of validity
in their anger.”
The immediate political signifi
cance of the recommendations by
the nine-member Ford group is
their emphasis on reform rather
than increased federal aid for
higher education.
But Richardson denied the ad
ministration is giving the report
prominence because it supports
President Nixon’s disputed posi
tion that student aid rather than
institutional aid deserves the gov
ernment’s No. 1 priority in this
field.
The study was initiated by Rob
ert H. Finch while he was HEW
secretary. But its $35,000 funding
came from the Ford Foundation.
The task force was headed by
Frank Newman, associate direc
tor of university relations at
Stanford University.
The report recommends crea
tion of new institutions that em
phasize enrollment regardless of
a student’s age; creative drop
ping-out for work experience; in
struction-including tutoral, off-
campus and televised-geared to
experience, rather than classroom
lectures; and the addition to fac
ulties of such practitioners as
lawyers, psychiatrists and poli
ticians.
Frazier moves Muhammad,
retains his championship
ings but that no hearings had
been scheduled.
Solomon said information on
the Feb. 24-25 incidents will be
referred to the March 15 session
of the Waller County grand jury
in nearby Hempstead.
The college is about 45 miles
northwest of Houston.
Some 1,500 students participat
ed in the march to the Thomas
home according to estimates
made by campus officials and
by Waller County sheriff’s depu
ties.
“You can’t identify 1,400 stu
dents in the night time but you
can identify some and you can
find out who led the march,”
Solomon said.
NEW YORK (A 1 ) — Machine
like Joe Frazier put on relentless
pressure, knocked Muhammad
Ali down in the 15th round and
pounded out a unanimous 15-
round decision to retain his world
heavyweight championship Mon
day night.
Frazier, who took control of
the fight in the 10th round, sent
Ali crashing to the canvas with
a thunderous left hook in the
15th that ballooned Ali’s right
cheek to a grotesque shape.
It was all Ali could do to last
the round as his remarkable
comeback bid ended and Frazier
gained universal recognition as
the world’s premier fighter.
Ali, going down to the first
defeat of his professional career,
had come back to take the 14th
round with a f 1 u r r y of head
punches and charged out in the
15th with a bid to end it.
Then suddenly Frazier’s hook
flashed and the sellout Madison
Square Garden crowd of more
than 19,500 on hand for the
worldwide televised fight went
into a frenzy.
Ali got up at four and took
referee Arthur Mercante’s man
datory eight count. Frazier land
ed several solid body and head
punches as Ali reeled around the
ring until the bell ended the
fight.
There was little doubt who the
winner was.
Mercante voted for the unbeat
en heavyweight king Frazier,
eight rounds to six with one even.
Artie Aidala voted for Frazier 9-
6 and Bill Recht had the winner
in front 11-4.
The Associated Press had Fra
zier the winner 9-5-1.
Frazier’s great exhibition of
endurance and his pressure
punching display was the high
point of an unbeaten 27-fight
pro career which until this fight
had always been overshadowed
by the controversial Ali.
For Ali, defeat foiled his bid
to become the second man in his
tory — Floyd Patterson was the
only one—to win back the heavy
weight championship.
Ali lost the crown outside the
ring when he was striped of it
because of his conviction for re
fusing induction into the Army.
Ali fought in the courts for his
right to fight again after a 3V6-
year exile. He came back to beat
Jerry Quarry and Oscar Bona-
vena and earned the shot at Fra
zier.
“Kill the body and the head
dies,” Frazier had said before the
fight and it was this plan he fol
lowed in handing Ali his first
loss after 31 pro victories.
Frazier suffered a bloody nose
and was badly swollen about
both eyes but he kept coming,
slamming his shots to the body
and firing to the head more often
than is his custom.
The constant pressure paid off
for Frazier who won recognition
from five states as heavyweight
king by knocking out Buster
Mathis in 11 rounds in 1968. He
won the universal recognition
from boxing’s governing bodies
by stopping Jimmy Ellis in five
rounds in February, 1970.
But he needed to beat Ali, also
known as Cassius Clay, to attain
full recognition from the public.
He did it in decisive fashion.
Senate sponsoring petition
in protest of tuition hike
The Student Senate is sponsor
ing a petition today in protest of
the tuition increase passed March
3 by the House of Representa
tives.
The petition is being circulated
in front of Sbisa and Duncan
dining halls, the library, and the
Memorial Student Center, ac
cording to Tommy Henderson
(Jr.-LA).
The petition reads in part:
“In our opinion the bill passed
by the Texas House of Repre
sentatives greatly exceeds rea
sonable rates and will result in
denying some students adequate
access to a college education,”
Henderson noted. “We further
urge that any consideration of
an increase in either resident or
nonresident tuition be carefully
weighed, taking into considera
tion all relevant factors, in that
such an increase be enacted only
if none of the sources of revenue
can be found.”
Henderson, who is president of
Texas Intercollegiate Student As
sociation, said similar petitions
are being circulated at Texas
Tech, University of Texas, Uni
versity of Houston, Sam Houston
State, and others.
In order to keep the petitions
from becoming invalidated stu
dents should sign only once, Hen
derson said.
Accounting
grant awarded
A $1,000 grant by Peat, Mar
wick, Mitchell and Company of
San Antonio has been made to
the Accounting Department of
the College of Business Admin
istration.
The award, to be used for
scholarships and other scholastic
purposes, was presented by Rus
sell H. Kyse of the firm’s San
Antonio office to accounting
head Dr. Kenneth S. Most.
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AIR FORCE SWEETHEART Laura Fitch was selected
during Friday night’s Air Force Ball. A College Station
native, the 5-foot 10-inch, 19-year-old blonde is a graduate
f of the Fashion Merchandising College in Dallas. (Photo
> by Steve Dunkelberg)
Corps is
generals
The nation’s two top ROTC
officers agreed Saturday A&M’s
Corps of Cadets is second to none
in the nation.
“I haven’t seen a parade equal
to this (the Saturday review) in
30 years,” Army Brig. Gen. Mel
vin A. Goers said.
Air Force Brig. Gen. B. B.
Cassiday Jr. added that A&M has
“the best ROTC program in the
nation.”
Cassiday said A&M produces
more Air Force officers than any
of the other 168 college ROTC
programs in the country.
Cassiday and Goers took the
salutes from the Corps during
the Military Weekend Review
Saturday afternoon and met with
cadet officers for a briefing fol
lowing the review.
Gusting winds and a chilly 56
degrees limited the audience to
about one-half of the expected,
with approximately 5,000 viewing
the parade.
Earlier Saturday Cassiday and
Goers were special guests at a
comander’s luncheon and a buffet
with President Jack K. Williams
was held Saturday evening.
“The significance of A&M is
second
say at
it supports both an academic com
munity and military studies, yet
at the same time is a dynamic and
leading university,” Goers said.
He said it is the model for the
nation.
The head of the ROTC-National
Defense Cadets Corps, Conti
nental Army Command, reported
he has visited roughly one-half
of the 797 ROTC units in the
nation.
“A&M ranks above every one
of them,” Goers said.
Cassiday is commandant of the
Air Force ROTC wtih head
quarters at Maxwell AFB, Ala.
He said the Air Force ROTC
program has never been in better
shape. Cassiday noted there is a
greater demand for Air Force
ROTC contracts than the Air
Force can supply.
‘We are not just alive, we’re
growing. And growing Tast,”
Cassiday maintained.
Corps Commander Van H. Tay
lor told the generals the emphasis
is on giving every member of the
Corps the best education. He re
ported Corps strength at 2,340
for the spring semester and said
freshman retention is the best
since non-compulsory status in
1964.
Other padet officers explained
the purpose, organization and re
cruiting programs for the Corps,
plus the emphasis placed on
academic excellence.
The Corps currently is recruit
ing in 300 state high schools, the
cadet officers announced.
University Women
to meet about
campus housing
The date of the opening of an
on-campus women’s dormitory
will be discussed at the University
Women meeting tonight at 7:30 in
the Social Room of the Memorial
Student Center.
Regulations and rules applying
to the new dormitory will also be
discussed at the meeting, said
Julie McCall, public relations of
ficer.
Also to be discussed are Sadie
Hawkins day plans and the re
sults of the bake sale.
to none,
review
COMBAT CUTIE for the Army ROTC cadets is Shelia
Foster of Eagle Pass. The 18-year-old miss, selected dur
ing the Combat Ball Friday night, is a freshman Spanish
major at Southwest Texas State University. (Photo by
Steve Dunkelberg)