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WEDNESDAY—Partly cloudy
to cloudy. Winds southerly 5
to 10 m.p.h. High 76, low 54.
warm,
damp
THURSDAY — Cloudy, after
noon rinshowers. Winds south
erly 10 to 20 m.p.h. High 74,
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College Station, Texas
Tuesday, April 20, 1971
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Freshman Alfredo Martinez takes a close look during gan. Activities continue through Saturday. (Photo by
the car show held Monday as Civilian Week activities be- Larry Martin)
Williams says freedom ‘excellent:
AAUP continues censure of A&M
By GARY AYEN
A&M President Dr. Jack K.
Williams Monday called A&M’s
academic freedom "excellent”
after the American Association
of University Professors (AAUP)
voted last week to keep A&M on
its list of censured administra
tion.
An Associated Press story said
Monday, "Censure is the associ
ation’s method of telling the aca
demic community and the public
that unsatisfactory conditions of
academic freedom and tenure pre
vail at an institution. Professors
frequently refuse to accept posi
tions at an institution while it
remains on the censured list.”
"We have excellent academic
freedom here,” Williams said.
“The departments are not hamp
ered in what they teach or the
books they use.”
“The censure has effected our
hiring little,” Williams said. “The
By FRAN ZUPAN
Battalion Managing Editor
The Memorial Student Center
Council voted Monday night to
include $115 in Black Awareness
Committee’s (BAG) budget next
yer for the purpose of recruiting
black high school students.
The Council’s executive com
mittee took that part of the re
quest out of BAC’s budget because
they thought the proposal did not
adhere to the purposes of the
BAG, Executive Vice President A1
Bradley who presented five bud
gets to the Council, said.
After lengthy debate which
took up the majority of the almost
two-hour meeting, the council
voted to leave the original travel
expenses for recruiting at five
cents a mile in the budget with
only one weakly-stated “no” by
Vice President-Recreation Wade
Seidel.
Discussion centered around
whether the black students should
coordinate their efforts with
other efforts such as those of the
Former Students Association, and
if they did recruit what would be
> the nature of this recruiting.
Conucil Secretary-Treasurer J.
Wayne Stark said that the Senate
had tried a recruitment project
five years ago and that it hadn’t
really lasted.
“I hate for use to see a need
and fail to respond to it,” Presi
dent John Dacus said. “For us
to say that this is just not usually
done would be to take a narrow
view. I do not oppose going out
university employs only the fin
est faculty. We get the top men
across the nation and across the
disciplines we teach.”
A&M was censured in 1968
when the AAUP disagreed with
the procedure followed in firing
A&M veterinary medicine profes
sor Dr. Leon Gibbs.
“Universities are kept on the
list automatically until they sat
isfy the reinstatement require
ments,” said Dr. Horace R. Byers,
Vice President for Academic Af
fairs. “We have just postponed
this because their suggestions
have been unreasonable. It’s a
long process to get reinstated.”
“I have met with representa
tives of the AAUP,” Byers said,
“but the problem will have to be
solved by President Williams and
the Board of Directors.”
“It hasn’t effected us in em
ployment,” Byers said, “but some
members of the local chapter are
on a limb when circumstances
justify, and I think they do.”
He said that the MSC only tries
to spend student service fees so
each student gets X number of
By JANIE WALLACE
Students and parents Monday
night almost filled the A&M Con
solidated High School cafeteria
to discuss possible solutions to the
problem of Consolidated’s dress
code.
The school board decided, after
heated and varied discussion from
the audience, to refer the topic
back to the students. Therefore,
they must bring the item of
abolishing the dress code to the
agenda through proper channels.
Many students expressed dis
appointment that the topic was
not put on this month’s agenda.
“When we came last time you
(school board) said the matter
would be put under considera
tion,” Jim Cox, a senior at Con
solidated, pointed out before a
crowd of about 80 people. “You
can’t blame us for thinking that
it would be discussed tonight.”
Robert Griffin, school board
member, replied to Cox’s question
by having the minutes, which did
not put the topic on Monday
unhappy, and we are unhappy
that people don’t like us.”
“The incident, a disagreement
with the AAUP over relieving a
professor of his duties, occurred
long before I got here,” Williams
said. “It is difficult to get off
the list because the AAUP’s de
mands are too great. Some uni
versities have been on the list
as long as 15 years.”
The president of A&M’s AAUP
chapter, Dr. Bruno J. Zwolinski,
was out of town Monday. Dr.
Manuel Davenport, who became
president soon after the censure
in the spring of 1968, said the
whole thing is a misunderstand
ing with “just a little bit of stub-
borness on the part of the na
tional (AAUP) office.”
Referring to the firing of Gibbs,
Davenport said a hearing was
held after he became president
and the members of the hearing
committee voted 3-2 to fire the
dollars, that would mean defeat.
“If we tell them to raise the
money somewhere else, we’re just
passing it off,” Ron Clark, sopho
more class council members, said.
night’s agenda, read to him.
“Any topic of discussion has to
be put on the agenda, so that we
may have time to study and think
about it,” Griffin said.
After the motion was passed
unanimously, many students at
tempted to show the board their
feelings toward what they called
the ineffectiveness of the Student
Council.
Karl Fryxell, senior, said that
the meetings are held during class
time. Students could not present
problems to them.
Several Student Council mem
bers who were at the meeting also
presented views which reflected
student apathy toward the coun
cil.
“No one ran against me, which
might show student disinterest in
the council. However, we have
helped liberalize the dress code
to allow girls to wear pant suits,”
Mike Keese, president of the stu
dent council, said.
Lynn Reynad, resident of Col
lege Station, asked the board
professor. The A&M Board of
Directors read the manuscript and
agreed, he said.
“The AAUP says the hearing
will not be complete until both
sides have the opportunity to
present oral and written argu
ments before the (A&M) Board
of Directors,” Davenport said.
“The AAUP says a professor can
not be fired till the hearing is
complete.”
Davenport said that to get off
the censured list the A&M ad
ministration would have to ad
mit that the professor has never
been fired. Then they would have
to negotiate a settlement with
the professor on his back salary,
he said.
The national office of the
AAUP instructed the local office
to keep out of the case, Daven
port said, and the national office
is continuing negotiations with
the administration.
“(Student) Unions are dying out
that fail to change. In my
opinion, I don’t think the Student
Senate would give them $100. I
(See BAC given, page 3)
wether or not it would be brought
directly from the student council
to the school board.
Griffin replied that it had to
go through proper channels—the
principal, Fred A. Hopson, and
superintendent, W. T. Riedel.
“Remember students,” Mrs.
Reynad exclaimed, “there are two
vetoes between students and the
school board.”
Some views expressed at the
meeting were:
“We can’t let them run just
hog wild. Therefore, there has to
be a gate,” Mrs. Woody Severson
said.
“Abolishing the dress code
would remove friction between
students and teachers,” Dr. Rich
ard Ballinger, professor of Eng
lish at A&M, said.
“The young people are asking
for responsibility. Since they are
violating the rules now they can
not accept responsibility. Being
able to follow rules is very im
portant whether it is in the home,
(See Consol board, page 3)
By SUE DAVIS
Battalion Women’s Editor
Texas International Airlines
will provide two free round trip
air fares for two to Denver, Col
orado, and Monterrey, Mexico, as
door prizes at the casino sponsor
ed by Civilian Week-Weekend,
Leon Drozd, chairman of the Ci
vilian Week-Weekend Activities
Committee, announced.
Activities continue today with
the second round of intramurals
at 5 p.m. These include mud
football, volleyball, chess, spades,
push ball, frisbee and billiards.
Today is Residence Hall Day,
and activities will begin at 5:00
p.m. in the quad between Wal
ton Hall and the campus hospital,
Omel Cardenas, chairman of the
Residence Hall Day Activities
Committee, said.
A patty-cake marathon will be
gin the events at 5 p.m. A mo
lasses drop sponsored by Hart
Hall will be held at 5:30, followed
by an egg toss sponsored by
Crocker Hall and an egg roll
sponsored by Milner Hall.
“This is traditionally a day for
residence hall activities, stressing
innovative ideas in the halls,”
Drozd said. “The emphasis is on
fun for everyone.”
Representatives from civilian
halls can enter in teams of two.
Girls may also participate.
Mrs. Ruth H. Hewitt, secretary
to the Memorial Student Center
director was honored Sunday as
“Aggie Mother of the Year.”
Admired and depended upon by
students and former students she
has worked with through various
MSC programs, Mrs. Hewett is
the mother of junior marketing
major Thomas E. Hewitt and the
wife of a 1937 Texas A&M grad
uate.
Mrs. Hewitt was introduced at
a Sunday Student Senate Par
ents’ Day program and viewed
a Corps of Cadets review from
an honor post at the head of the
reviewing line.
She succeeds Mrs. J. Kelly Neal,
San Antonio minister’s wife, as
mother of the year.
Her presentation, which nor
mally would coincide with Moth
er’s Day, was made early this
year due to changes in A&M’s
school year schedule.
“I’m not surprised about Ruth’s
receiving the honor,” commented
J. Wayne Stark, MSC director
for whom the Aggie Mother of
the Year has been secretary since
1964.
“Many student leaders Mrs.
Hewitt knows, from organizations
of the MSC, the Civilian Student
Council, Senate, Council and Di
rectorate and Corps visit the fam
ily and bring their girl friends and
parents to eat and stay at the
Hewitts,” Stark added. “The
Hewitt home looks like the Braz
os County Hilton many weekends
of the year.”
Mrs. Hewitt was in the Parents
Day reviewing line with Presi
dent Jack Williams, Col. Jim H.
McCoy, commandant, and Col.
Keith C. Hanna, professor of aer
ospace studies.
Her son Tommy is first ser
geant of Company A-l in the
corps. An older daughter Nancy
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
Awards will be given to the win
ners of the events.
The Faculty Awards Luncheon
and Academic Excellence Day Ac
tivities will be held Wednesday.
“The Civilian Student Council
urges all students to attend Ag
gie Muster Wednesday,” Drozd
said.
The movie, “How the West
Was Won,” will be shown in the
Grove Thursday night.
Everyone who attends the casi
no, which will be held Friday,
from 8 p.m. until midnight, on the
second floor of the Memorial Stu
dent Center, will be eligible to
win one of the door prizes, Drozd
said. The trips will be aboard
Texas International’s pamper jets,
he added. Winners need not be
present to win.
“The emphasis is on atmos
phere,” Drozd said, with girls
and dealers dressed in Gay ’90’s
costumes.
Featured games will be rou
lette, dice, chuck-a-luck, black
jack, and beat the dealer. Play
money, called “Aggie Loot,” will
be used.
Music will be provided by the
Houstonian Dixieland Band from
Sam Houston State University.
An ice cream parlor and sing-
along will be held in the Ball
room.
The seventeen Civilian Sweet
heart nominees will be introduced
Carol is a 1969 UT-Austin grad
uate and married and residing in
Italy.
Mrs. Hewitt’s husband Clarence
is fiscal and management affairs
officer of the Texas Agricultural
Extension Service headquartered
at Texas A&M.
“She’s a mother to me and a
sometime during the activities
that night.
After the casino closes, an auc
tion will be held using the Aggie
Loot won by gambling. Gifts have
been donated by Bryan-College
Station merchants.
John Shepherd, president of
Keathley Hall, has done a com
mendable job putting this casino
together, Drozd said. In addition
to training the dealers, Shepherd
has written a gambling guide
which will be available at the
casino, he added.
Saturday’s events begin with
a go-cart race in the new parking
lot across from the Engineering
Center. The annual rugby game
with the University of Texas will
be held at 3 p.m.
Three Dog Night, a nationally-
known rock group, will be pre
sented in concert at G. Rollie
White Coliseum Saturday night.
The Civilian Sweetheart nomi
nees will be introduced to the au
dience before the program be
gins.
The Sweetheart Dance will be
held in the Sbisa Annex after the
concert. The Ghetto Sounds from
Houston will provide the music.
Intramural awards will be pre
sented during the first intermis
sion by Terry Van Dyck, presi
dent of Law Hall, and the 1971
Civilian Sweetheart will be
crowned.
lot of other A&M students,” Tom
my said in making the nomina
tion. “Through her work in the
MSC, Mom has come to be de
pended on by many students,
who’ve been helped with problems,
making arrangements for dates
and a lot of other things. I’m very
proud of my Mother.”
1971 Aggie Mother of the Year Ruth Hewitt gets a
corsage from Student Life Committee Chairman John S.
Sharp. (Photo by Bill Mclntire)
BAC given recruitment funds
Consol board sends code
back to students for action
MSC secretary becomes
1971 Aggie Mother of year