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Vol. 66 No. 113 College Station, Texas Thursday, April 22, 1971
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Williams gives
‘predictions’ for
next 10 years
A&M President Dr. Jack K. Williams speaks during Aggie Muster ceremonies Wednesday evening in G. Rollie
White Coliseum. (Photo by Hayden Whitsett)
Novelist explains his technique
By BRUCE BLACK
Battalion Staff Writer
“When you come back to Texas
A&M in ten years,” A&M Presi
dent Dr. Jack K. Williams told
students Wednesday, “you’ll find
about 22,000 students, one third
of whom will be females safely
ensconced in dormitories.”
Speaking to thousands attend
ing the annual Aggie Muster, Wil
liams said in 10 years a return
ing student will see an entirely
new campus containing buildings
stretching eight, 11 and 15 sto
ries. These and other structures
already are under construction,
he said.
Faculty,
honored
By SUE DAVIS
Battalion Women’s Editor
“You teach because you love
young people; if you don’t love
young people, you’re in the wrong
business; and if you’re in the
wrong business, you should get
out,” A&M President Dr. Jack
K. Williams told outstanding
members of the faculty and stu
dent body who received awards
Wednesday at the Faculty Awards
Luncheon sponsored by the Ci
vilian Student Council (CSC).
Receiving awards from the fac
ulty were Dr. Horace Van Cleave,
College of Agriculture; Graham
Horsley, College of Architecture;
Dr. Philip W. Ljungdahl, College
Correction
The Battalion Tuesday report
ed Texas International Airlines
is furnishing two free trips for
two as door prizes for Civilian
Week’s Casino. While basically
correct, the story could be mis
leading.
Texas International is paying
the Civilian Student Council for
promotional considerations. The
money paid will be used by the
CSC to buy tickets for the trips.
The Battalion regrets any incon
venience the story may have caus
ed TIA or the CSC.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
The school will have many types
of professional areas which the
students can move directly into,
Williams said, including schools
of law and dentistry.
“You will be able to sit in a
Kyle Field which seats 75,000 and
watch the nation’s number one
team,” he said.
A&M will possess the nation’s
number one Marine Science De
partment, Williams continued, and
it will be possible to transfer be
tween branches of the A&M sys
tem quickly, easily and without
loss of credits.
“Also,” he said, “the food will
be so good that students will have
by CSC
of Business Administration; Emil
Mamaliga, College of Education;
Dr. Balusu M. Rao, College of
Engineering; Eh*. Travis J. Park
er, College of Geosciences; Robert
L. Boone, College of Liberal Arts;
Haile D. Perry, College of Science;
and Dr. James G. Anderson, Col
lege of Veterinary Medicine.
(See Faculty, page 3)
Battalion and brigade com
manders in the 1971-72 Corps of
Cadets have been announced.
The 10 cadets will head staffs
under which the corps’ 34 com
panies and squadrons are organ
ized. They will wear the two-dia
mond insignia of cadet lieutenant
colonels.
Junior cadets selected for fall
1971 commands were recommend
ed by Thomas M. Stanley, 1971-
72 corps commander, through the
commandant’s office.
Heading the 1st, 2nd and 5th
Army ROTC Battalions under
new 1st Brigade commander Kirk
Hawkins will be Albert L. Haege-
lin of Hondo; Hal B. Sharp, Hous
ton; and James C. Brown, Alamo,
respectively.
Third, 4th and 6th Battalion
to stand in line for hours to get
it.”
There will still be the same
traditions on campus which bind
the students so close together,
Williams continued. A&M will
still try to instill the feeling of
citizenry and leadership which
have made the school famous, he
said.
“We still will hold musters and
answer the role call for those
who are no longer among us,”
he said.
“This is one of the traditions
that makes A&M known over the
entire world,” Williams noted. “It
is one of the most revered high
lights of the year, and one which
the students will remember and
honor the rest of their lives.”
“You are walking in the foot
steps of giants,” he said. “In you
and me there is a little bit of
every great author, theologian,
scientist and soldier that ever
walked! the earth.”
One of these giants whose foot
steps he is following in, he com
mented, was the late Earl Rud
der, whom he succeeded by be
coming president of Texas A&M
and the A&M University System
April 6.
Today’s students are preceded
by other giants, he said; giants
who formed traditions and shaped
A&M into what it is today.
commanders will be Terrell W.
Rowan of Killeen; Pete G. Geru-
kos, San Antonio; and Larry M.
Bragg, Talpa. Their battalions
comprise the 2nd Brigade, to be
commanded by Joe Aston III.
The 1st and 2nd Group of the
Air Force ROTC part of the
corps will be commanded by Lar
ry J. Talafusex of Falfurrias and
Warren F. Richter of Tyler. They
come under the 1st Wing, headed
by Anthony J. Best.
Third and 4th Group COs will
be Derron J. Patterson of Nav-
asota and Wayne A. Lutz of Hous
ton, respectively. Charles S. Wil
liams III commands the 2nd Wing
of which they are a part.
The 1971-72 commanders will
officially take their new posts
May 8 during Final Review.
By FRAN ZUPAN
Battalion Managing Editor
“This is a dummy class, isn’t
it?”
“If I try very hard and get
smart before the end of the term
will you put me in a regular
class? I want to be smart like
everyone else.”
The questioner was a young
boy in a high school class for the
slightly mentally retarded, those
with an IQ of about 80.
His teacher was Daniel Keyes,
then a freelance short story writ
er.
The event had emotional impact
on Keyes. That night he couldn't
sleep. He made notes on the boy
Thirteen semifinalists for the
Vanity Fair contest have been
named by the preliminary judging
committee.
The 13 will be narrowed down
to six at the Student Publications
Banquet April 30, when those at
tending vote on the most beauti
ful.
The Senior Class selects no
sweetheart as such. Instead, the
Vanity Fair contest is held, with
entry open only to wives or sweet
hearts of seniors.
On the selection committee this
and his situation as an idea for
a possible story.
He filed the notes with others
about possible characters and
plots.
Much later he was asked to do
an additional story for a science
fiction magazine.
Looking through his files, he
came across the notation on the
boy in the “dummy class.” He put
this with another note for a plot
about an ordinary man becoming
a genius through surgery. The
result after much development
and fictionalization became
“Flowers for Algernon.”
Keyes—who won a Hugo Award
for “Flowers for Algernon” as the
year were Jim Lindsey, head of
University Information, Connie
Eckard, editor of the Texas Ag
gie, August W. Smith, manage
ment professor, and Delia Han
cock and Rosemarie Crowder, sec
retaries in the Student Publica
tions office.
Selected were:
Jacqueline Ellington, escorted
by Jerry Wheaton; Phyllis Hil
lard, escorted by Joey Jungman;
Sandy Sheats, escorted by Jerry
Sheats; Cheryl Spruce, escorted
best science fiction short story
of 1958, and a Nebula Award for
best science fiction novel after
he expanded the story in 1965—
spoke to a small Contemporary
Arts Committee audience here
Wednesday night.
The story later was made into
the movie “Charly” which won
a best actor oscar for Cliff Rob
ertson who played the mentally
retarded man who becomes a
genius before he loses his intel
ligence once again.
Keyes said that every success
ful short story, in his opinion, has
four necessary elements—an idea
or plot, a character, a message
and a special way of telling it.
by Charlie Korbell; Vivian Cul
bertson, escorted by Joe Culbert
son, Jr.; Sharon Harrison, escort
ed by Roger Johnson and Shirley
Arizpe, escorted by Robert C.
Arizpe.
Also, Carole Cunningham, es
corted by Van H. Taylor; Lynn
Marie Stephan, escorted by Al
bert Kinkead; Gwen Browder, es
corted by Jesse Richardson; Lynn
McKemie, escorted by John Mc-
Kemie; Carol Rabon, escorted by
Albert Reese and Barbara Allen,
escorted by Gregory Hale.
“I don’t think it matters which
of these comes to you first as
long as you fill out the other
three,” he said. “The moment you
commit yourself as a writer ev
erything is grist for the mill. The
bombardment of ideas can destroy
you.”
Because of this, Keyes said he
has developed a system for de
termining whether he will devel
op an idea into a story or novel.
First an idea must have emo
tional impact, he said, and this
emotional impact must stay with
him to the point of haunting him.
Second, he said, he must as
certain that the idea is original.
“I’m not about to write a story
about a young fellow and a girl
and the girl dies,” he explained.
Third, he must decide whether
the story is important enough to
him and the reader for him to
spend several years of his life on.
Last of all, Keyes said he tries
not to write the story.
“If it insists, if it haunts me, I
say it’s got me and I can’t refuse,”
he said. “Only then will I have the
guts to stick it out.”
After Keyes had his idea for
the plot of “Flowers for Alger
non”—but before he had “found”
his character he wrote 30 or 40
drafts of the plot, some of which
he read Wednesday night which
he admitted were “really bad
writing.”
(See Novelist explains, page 5)
students
Battalion, brigade
commanders named
Vanity Fair selections told
The inquiring Battman
What is your opinion
Katy Schulte
freshman
“I think that any effort is
worth the expense, but there have
been several other delegations to
Paris that haven’t really done
much good.”
Rebecca Kirby
senior
“I think it’s absolutely ridic
ulous! The money could be used
in some more useful way. Be
sides, who releases prisoners be
fore the “war” is over?”
Jay Rassin
graduate
“Of the approximately 23 pri
vate delegations to the Paris
talks, only one—an American pac
ifist group—met the Hanoi dele
gates. A group from Texas A&M,
with its well-known militaristic
affiliations, would undoubtedly be
snubbed. I believe the $5,000
could be donated to the Interna
tional Red Cross.”
of the 6 On to Paris’ project?
Jim Mendl
senior
“I think the project is very
worthwhile. • The rulers in Peking
and Hanoi do listen to public
opinion in the U. S. and this
project definitely is an expression
of public opinion.”
Robert H. Taylor
sophomore
“I think the project is worth
while, because if we keep telling
the Vietnamese that we do care
about the POW’s that will make
one of their psychological weap
ons against the prisoners useless.”
Mike Krause
freshman
“I think it is an honorable
idea, but it is a waste of time
and money.”
Debbi Kennedy
freshman
“Yes. I feel if Americans show
how they feel towards the treat
ment of POWs, the Vietnam gov
ernment will be more likely to
respond to talks of peace.”
(Photos by Alan-Jon Zupan)