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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-