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ounded Pfl , nni ' n ?8 Hill Af ter 1 0! , ^ le » a naj ith ^0 oil n e x t t» t uns. ov er ford, s the victi, a c oupl( ru n in tli > his otiu awless, !*“S Wi r^rJ^] OXH Cooler with clouds Friday — Partly cloudy. Winds northerly at 15-20 mph. High 61°, low 38°. Saturday — Partly cloudy to cloudy. Winds easterly 10-15 mph. High 68°, low 42°. Vol. 66 No. 96 College Station, Texas Thursday, March 18, 1971 845-2226 A Grounds Maintenance crewman improves the lanscape between Law and Puryear Halls. Students are also helping on the project. (Photo by Hayden Whitsett) Students play major roles in Law, Puryear renovation State gives colleges million: Miller By CHARLES MASTERSON Battalion Staff Writer Final plans are being laid for the major renovation of both the outside and inside of Pur year and Law halls, Don Wil liams, counselor for both dorms, said Wednesday afternoon. Terry Van Dyck and Carl Cook, presidents for Law and Puryear halls, respectively, said some of the changes will include fluorescent lighting, new tables and chairs in the rooms, complete repainting of the rooms and tiling of the showers in each ramp. The outside improvements will include asphalt walkways, land scaping and planting grass in the quad area between the dorms and the erection of a student memorial for Sam Reeves, a pre vious resident advisor from Law hall who drowned last summer trying to save a child’s life. This summer benches and in direct lighting will be added. Completion date for the im provements is scheduled for April 18, Parents’ Day at A&M. The work is being done by Ground Maintenance crews and by the students themselves. The ma terials are being supplemented by leftovers from university jobs. Williams said the original idea came from Van Dyck and Cook. They took the proposal to Asso ciate Dean of Students Don R. Stafford and a committee con sisting of Stafford, Howard Vestal, director of management services; Howard Perry, director of civilian student activities; and Allan Madley, director of hous ing, gave the okay for the im provements with money from the Grounds Maintenance Fund. University Landscape Archi tect Robert Rucker designed and has supervised the quad improve ments, Van Dyck said. “We are really pleased with the cooperation and time Mr. Rucker has given to us,” he said. Some of the costs of dorm im- By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Sharpening opposition to U. S. military operations in Indochina is rising in the churches, with special protest tactics being un dertaken by various religious groups. Among them: —A “Set the Date Now” cam paign, sponsored by top-echelon Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish leaders, demanding that President Nixon and Congress set Dec. 31 for ending all U. S. military involvement in Indo china. —A planned tour of this coun try by antiwar South Vietnamese Roman Catholic priests, possibly led by Archbishop Nguyen Van Binh of Saigon, although the plan reportedly has encountered some obstacles in Saigon. —Pastoral letters, written by Massachusetts Protestant leaders and read in pulpits of congrega- provements come under the regu lar summer hall improvement program, Stafford said. He added that no state aid is given for dorm improvements. Also included in the cost of this program was the renovation of Hotard hall which is having its interior redone. Some improve ments will also be made next year in the north quad area west of Sbisa Dining Hall in the Moore and Davis-Gary area. tions throughout the area, call ing for a speedy end of the war. —A delegation of about 50 Protestant leaders, including sev eral top denominational officials, scheduled to leave this Friday to talk with parties to the Paris peace talks and urge a settle- NEW YORK (A 1 ) _ An up heaval in New York City’s Coun cil of Churches has forced it to cancel plans to give its annual “Family of Man” award to com edian Bob Hope, it was learned Wednesday. Objections to his selection were said to have centered partly on claims that he was identified with the military establishment and the Vietnam war. The conflict over the matter Right now the amount of money going into the Legislature to ward college expenditures is just not as much as the amount being spent, Hermas L. Miller, chief examiner of the Texas Legisla tive Budget Board said Wednes day. “State supported colleges in Texas presently account for $510 million a year,” Miller said. “Tex as A&M accounts for about $26.5 million of this.” Miller spoke in a Political For um noon presentation to a large AUSTIN (A*)—Thirty colleges, junior colleges and universities have been suspended from the state’s student loan program be cause too many of their alumni are behind in their payments. The State College Coordinating Board took the action Feb. 28 but it was only revealed Wednesday. The board has a policy of sus pending any school with a delin quency rate of more than 10 per cent. These schools were suspended: Prairie View A&M, Texas South ern University, Hardin-Simmons University, Huston-Tillotson Col lege, Jarvis Christian College, Paul Quinn College, Texas Col lege, Texas Lutheran College, Uni versity of Corpus Christi, Wiley rising in ment. —Newly issued statements by leaders of interdenominational bodies, both in this country and abroad, sharply critical of ex panded U.S. bombing in South east Asia, including Cambodia and Laos. emerged Monday night at the council’s assembly, its representa tive governing body. “There was a long debate, and it finally was decided that even with all the embarrassment it might cause, the choice should be withdrawn,” said the council’s executive director, the Rev. Dr. Dan Potter. The assembly directed that the award go instead, posthumously, to the late civil rights leader crowd in the Memorial Student Center in place of Thomas Keel, the director of the Budget Board, who could not speak due to ill ness. There are several tuition bills in the legislature presently, Mil ler said. “It is the out-of-state tuition bill which has passed the House of Representatives,” Miller said, “and which would raise the out- of-state tuition to $700 per se mester. Foreign students would also be included in this proposal.” “The House has also just passed a bill which would raise the in state tuition to $105 per semes ter,” he added. Neither bill has passed in the Senate, he said. It is the feeling that out-of- state students should pay a larg er part of the cost of their educa tions, Miller explained. “But there is a genuine feeling to prevent anyone from not going to school,” he continued. “I might add that there is a provision in this bill that if the He said the colleges should not be suspended. If this practice continues, the Hinson-Hazlewood Act which established the loan program may as well be repealed because the students who need help most are primarily congregated in colleges that are presently suspended; consequently, loans are not avail able to them,” Graves said. Graves said the attorney gen eral “has not exercised” his au thority to file suits against for mer students who are six months or more behind in their loan pay ments. But the attorney general’s de partment said 77 suits against such ex-students have been filed in the past three months. groups mounted. Dr. Cynthia Wedel, president of the National Council of Churches, voiced waning confi dence in U. S. actions in Indo china, charged a coverup of the widened, increased bombing and called for a “full explanation.” Intensified military measures “will inevitably prolong the war and frustrate rather than further peaceful actions,” said the state ment, also signed by the coun cil’s general secretary, Dr. R. H. Edwin Espy, and its international affairs officers, Ernest A. Gross and the Rev. Dr. Robert S. Bil- heimer. In Geneva, Switzerland, the in ternational affairs commission of the World Council of Churches also deplored escalation of the war into Laos, and called contin uance of the war a “flagrant vio lation of human rights.” student has 60 semester hours, he does not have to pay the added tuition,” he said. “Public education is the largest expense the state has,” Miller continued. Any time you talk about a faculty salary increase or any other increase in govern ment spending in higher educa tion, you’re talking about a huge expenditure.” The Legislative Budget Board now has recommended appropri ations totaling $6.9 billion from various state agencies, with agen cy requests in the senate and house totaling $8.3 billion, Mil ler said. “The legislature needs to raise a minimum of $640 million,” he said, “and these lead to hikes in state taxes and tuitions.” “Texas’ constitution makes the state’s budgeting process legis lature-oriented,” Miller explained. “This is quite different from most states, where appropriations rec ommendations originate with the executive branch.” “This is a typical budget re quest,” Miller said. “The board gets one from each of 200 state agencies and the state-supported colleges and universities every two years.” He said the two-year board cy- cycle includes typical three-day trips to each institution and agen cy to hear and familiarize them selves with budget requests. “After these hearings, we go in the office, shut the door and hold staff conferences in which all these requests are discussed, sifted and combined into one doc ument,” Miller continued. The House and Senate each seat mem bers on the 10-member board chaired by the lieutenant gover nor. Tax bills, of which 13 were tried last session before a com promise was reached, are derived from the document. Miller said one staff member each from Keel’s office works full time with the two legislative finance committees. Year’s mother contest signup now at MSC Application forms for the Ag gie Mother of the Year award are now available in the Me morial Student Center Student Programs office, according to John Sharp. Applications will be accepted to March 26, Sharp said. Any Aggie can make the nomination, he added. For more information call Sharp at 5-6167. Bob Hope won’t get ‘Family of Man’ award State student loan plan stopped at 30 colleges College, Angelina Junior College, Central Texas Junior College, Cisco Junior College, Clarendon Junior College, El Centro College, Henderson County Junior Col lege, Howard County Junior Col lege, Navarro Junior College, Odessa Junior College, Panola County Junior College, San Ja cinto Junior College, South Plains Junior College, Temple Junior College, Texarkana Junior Col lege, Weatherford Junior College, Wharton County Junior College, Butler College, South Texas Jun ior College, Southwestern Chris tian College and Texas State Technical Institute. Rep. Curtis Graves of Hous ton complained that the list in cludes every predominantly Ne gro college in the state. religious On the opposite of the issue the Rev. Carl Mclntire, a widely heard radio preacher, has called for ‘Rallies for Victory” this Sat urday at state capitols across the country. Among leaders of the major churches, however, criticism Whitney M. Young, Jr., who died last Thursday in Africa. The council’s board of directors had decided six weeks ago that the award should go to Hope, and he already had been notified of it. Following reversal of the de cision, Dr. Potter said: “We’ve been in touch with his office again and he understands and has no hard feelings. That in it self marks him as a pretty great guy.” War opposition Broken By MIKE STEPHENS Battalion Staff Writer Discussing the difficult transi tions from a single life to a married life, which every married couple has to make, and then end ing his talk by telling the audi ence that he had delivered his wife to the maternity ward and that he needed to get over there, Dr. William R. Smith opened the three-part Marriage Forum Se ries Wednesday night. Smith, head of the Phychology Department at Texas A&M and a marriage counselor for 22 years, gave his views to a small Memo rial Student Center ballroom audience on how important a proper transition from single to married life is to a couple. “The transition is necessary and if it doesn’t occur, a broken marriage can take place,” Smith said. Smith, father of six children, gave his talk and then answered questions before telling the audi ence of his wife’s condition. He cited economics as the main reason the transition is impor tant. He also added that the Banking is a pleasure at First Bank & Trust. marriage possible if no transition, forum told transition is more difficult today than in the past, as proved by two factors. The divorce rate is growing and the number of mar riage counselors is going up. “I observed and have observed over the past decade that dif ferent sets of values are a great cause of marriage troubles,” he said. “A set of similar values is very important in the transition from single to married life. A differ ence in the meanings of a couple of words like honesty and dis honesty can lead to problems,” he said. He then warned: “These value systems do not always show up in the courtship period. The first five years is the most dificult part of the transi tional period and which, actually occurs all through life. It never ends.” Another problem during the transitional period is habits such as a lack of neatness on the part of one mate, Smith said. Also, a need for achievement motivation can also cause a few problems, he said. “When the female believes that the couple will never stop socially or economically progressing or when one individual is too far ahead of the other, trouble is ahead.” He then went into the factors which make a good transition happen which in turn causes hap py marriages. “A respect for other persons’ points of view and a persistent curiosity of the other person is very important if a good transi tion is to take place,” Smtih said. “An ability to problem solve is also very helpful,” he listed. “The sooner the couple learns how to solve problems together, the sooner the marriage will work right.” “But when one person always solves the problems, indepen dently, marriage is in trouble,” Smith warned. He then discussed the issue of how important sexual compati bility is during the transition period. He said that a problem of sex is not as dificult now as it used to be. “There are fewer people who now have misgivings of sex than University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. before, and I believe that educa tion or knowledge of sex has de creased that formidable problem which was there before,” he said. “Actually, homosexuality is more a problem than actual sex ual incompatibility.” Smith then summed up the dis cussion by saying that the real porblem in the transition period is not sexual, as most people be lieve, but small, incidental prob lems such as individual habits, values and interests. He added that views and values can shift and offered the advice of a long courtship. He said that a courtship which is open and honest could expose problems be fore marriage. The next Marriage Forum will be Wednesday and will feature the Rev. Gaspen Foote of the First United Methodist Church of Fort Worth. He will talk on “Moral and Spiritual Implications of a Marriage.” Psychology Department Head Dr. William R. Smith addresses Marriage Forum morial Student Center. (Photo by Bob Cox) Wednesday night at the Me-