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F.O. BOX 45494 B w 'B ^.WwWBff* ^uil a Welcome to Texas A&M University, Class of 1975 In the Batt today Thi» annual freshman edition of The Battalion is designed to Viva new students and their par ents some insight into the back ground. sue. tradition, facilities and extracurricular acl Texas A4M. activities of Voi. 66 No. 135 College Station, Texas Wednesday, August 4, 1971 The new stodent might find it helpful to koep this issue of the Batt and bring it with him in September to help him in the big job of getting acquainted with the university. 846-2226 Feels like showi vptece Women’s dean here By DBB1 BLACKMON BatUlioa Staff Writer “I ffuess the biggest thing is that I feel like sort of a showpiece." Texas A & M*| new dean of women said Tuesday. Mrs. Bari Schreiber began work Monday and attended a morning reception in her honor. Her appointment as the first wom an’s dean at the university wa* effective Aug 1. She will work with Pat Self, wom en's counselor at Texas ASM since January 1970 Mrs. Schreiber will be working with the women student body of the university, one which will comprise more than 10 per cent of this fall's estimated 16.000 enrollment. Mrs. Schreiber formerly was dean of women at Southwest Missouri State Col lege 9,040 enrollment in Springfield. Mo. At the time of her July appointment, she was Mrs. Toby Rives. She has since remarried. i The new dean, originally from East Texas, looked at her job carefully. *1 "I guess the biggest thing is that. I feel like sort of a showpiece, because people haven't really got used to the idea of a women's dean, yet,*’ she said. r * “I’m pleased with things that are al ready underway and the organizations that are here and functioning—like University Women and Omega Phi Alpha (National Service Sorority),"' Mrs. Schreiber said. "These things are things that I think are important to girls. *T find myself excited by my oppor tunities and tiie challenge in front of me here; I’m thinking of all the things I can find to do," she said. "There isn’t a written job description for my position,’' "she said of her job, "but I visualize it will call for a lot of working toward the overall picture of women here. I hope to lend woman’s view to the total aspect of Texas AAM University.” The new dean expressed several general opinions concerning her policies for the ^irls on campus next year. She said she foresees a semi-open house policy on cam pus, one with set visiting hours. “I don’t favor complete open house, at least now. A partial open-house policy, like on Sunday afternoons from -2 until 6 or something would be quite all right. I think it should really be left up to the residents of the halls," she said. Mrs. Schreiber said she sees no part, cular need for a dress code of any kind if the women dress like women. "Things like that I think should be de- p;J* | . • j cided by each individual professor," she ^ diplomacy practiced explained, "because he is really the only one that knows what you need to wear in his class. * i r ^ j-' "J'X El-' Mrs. Earl Schreiber (right) chats with A AM President Dr. Jack K. Williams and Pat Self at a reception Monday honoring the first dean of women. "It is a fantastic time to be on campus and to experience all the changes taking place around us,” sha added. “I haven’t accepted the terra ‘Maggie’ E et,” she emphasized.” I think we should e called Aggies, too.” Clipper due in Houston next week Students entering colleges must have 4 immunizations All ttudenU entering public or private inititutiona of higher learning in Texas must now be Humanised against four dread Dm new immunisation require ments were included in taro bills peseeii by the 62nd Legislature. Diseases for which shots are now required are polio, diphthe ria, tetanus and smallpox. Students will be allowed to en ter colleges and universities dur ing the fall term provided their immunisations against at least one of vSe diseases will have been started bj* January 1, 1972. end ell completed as soon as medically feasible. According to the State Board of Health’s rules end regulations, immunisation against diphtheria and tetanus, with a minimum of three innoculations, will be re quired. The last immunisation must have been within 10 years. At least three doses of oral polio vaccine, with one or more doses received since the fourth birthday are required. Persons 19 years of age or older, however, are not required to have the vac cine. A vaccination against smallpox is required within the pest 10 years. ^ Students may be excused from compliance with the requirements for medical or religious reasons. For exclusion, students must sub mit either an affidavit signed by a physician that the immunisa tions would be injurious to the student’s health, or an affidavit signed by the student, or if a minor, by his parent or guardian that the immunisation conflicts “with the tenets end practice of a recognised church or religious denomination of which the appli cant is an adherent or member.” GALVESTOfc- Houston will be the first home port cell for the Texas Clipper following the Texas Maritime Academy train ing ship's 10-week. 13,000-mile European summer cruise. The ship carrying 159 Texes AAM students and TMA cadets ♦will berth in Houston at 3 p.m. August IS. Following a two-fey layover, the Clipper will sail for Galves ton on the final leg of its 1971 cruise. * The Maritime Academy played the second round of ping-pong diplomacy last week during the ertiise. The setting was Las Palmas. Canary Islands, where the Texas Clipper, stopped enroute home from Europe and tied up next to a large Russian oceanographic research vessel. Many of the 159 cadets aboard the Clipper, as well as the 40- man crew, inquired about tour ing the Russian vessel and were warmly welcomed. A ping-pong match was ar ranged between Capt. Alfred Philbrick, master of the Clipper. and the captain of the Soviet ship. Philbrick lost the match— diplomatically or otherwise—by a score of 21-16. 1 All was not lost, however, as the seagoing Aggies came away with a Russian flag and a host of new friends. The Texans, in turn, invited the Russians aboard their 16,000- ton converted ocennliner and showed them a couple of movies. “Texas Across the River” and “The Great Race.” Philbrick said the TMA band also serenaded the 50 Russians with several pieces, including the Aggie War Hymn. The captain related the events Thursday night to a Texas AAM spokesman via a telephone patch arranged by Linton Jones, a ham radio operator in Bryan. Philbrick said the two vessels dipped their flags in a final gesture of friendship as the Clipper sailed for the Virgin Islands snroute home to Galves ton. while the Russian vessel, the "Priliv,” headed down the west coast of Africa and then on to the Philippines. Tkb goodwill visit at Housten will ‘ include Saturday public toara of the 15,000-ton training veaapl. shore leave for cadets and a reception of Clipper officers by Houston’s Propeller Club. Adm. James D. Craik (USCG- Bet.), TMA superintendent, said the Clipper will tie up at Berth 3 East at the foot of 75th Street. Saturday tours for the public and guests will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Several legislators, state offi cials and other guests are ex pected to participate and make the Houston-to-Galveston jaunt on Sunday, Aug. 16.. The Clipper i/ aehedufed to dock at Mitchell CAipus facilities on Pelican Island in Galveston between 3 and 4 p.m. She sailed from Galveston June 7 and has made stops in the Netherlands, Denmark. Ireland and Spain. The ship left Cadis. Spain, July 23. It returned via Las Palmas in the Canary Isthoda and St. Thomas, Virgin Islfrada. On board are 70 Academy cadets and 89 participants in Texas AAM's “Summer School at Sea,” a col lege-credit program highlighted by foreign port visits. Vet College will graduate 126 The College of Veterinary Med icine will graduate 126 students with Doctor of Veterinary Med icine degrees during commence ment ceremonies at 8 p. m. Friday in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Dean A. A. Price said the third-year daas includes five eds. - Congressman Graham Purcell of Wichita Fall will give the graduation address. The Rev. Larry Grubbs, campus minister for the AAM United Methodist Church, is invocation and benediction speaker. AAM Board of Directors Chairman Clyde Wells of Granbury will bring greetings from the board. The college has one graduation exerciaa each academic year. .. - ; A&M’s president believes in working with the students Texas AAM President Dr. Jack K. Williams is a man who believes fc> reasonable student representa tion la university academic af fairs, yet he is firmly committed, to strong executive leadership. “I think reasonable, effective student eeeistenes in university governance is called for,” he says. "Student membership on commit- toss should be an automatic proe- * MA 99 He was ns mad president of Tex as AAM University and the Uni versity System by the AAM Sys tem Beard of Directors on Sept. 11, 1976. Be saecssAsd the lato Bari In Mir. AAM prasldsut tor 16 years. Tim AAM Syetam lacludse Prai rie View AAM Celiacs at Hamg- stead. Tartstsa Mato College at Mari- AgikuKuial Texas Agri- atCal- “Never had anything elee but an open door in my work," he says. “Students, faculty, former students, people who have an in terest in AAM and want to talk about H should know that I’m going to listen to them. I’ll eval uate what they have to say as carefully as I can. I’ve tried to make a practice of that—largely II reqairee that you keep your mouth shut and listen. Master that listening bit and you can learn some amasing things. “I believe in strong executive leadership.” ha adds. ”1 believe without it education is in deep trouble. So while I am willing to listen, I will also try to separate the wheat from the chaff.” The 61-year-old educator was bora la Galax, Va. He earned a B~A. la history at Emory and Maury Collage and master’s and PKD. degrees la history from Em or) University. ■e alee has honorary doctors) degress from the University of Florida, Emory and Henry Col Men, and Austin Cottoge. Williams begun touching in n Virginia high schasl immediately after receiving Mb sndwgnduat* degree. Ha was namad principal a year later. Ha enlisted ia the U. A Murine Corps during World War II. He was a captain four years later, and left the service a major. His decorations include the Purple Heart for combat wounds in the South Pacific. Although he entered as s pri vate, he became s private first class when the Marines learned he had a college degree. He then was sent to officer’s training for 10 weeks. Next came It waeks of reserve officer's class. “One thing I didn’t do at all well in all my training was firing machine guns," he related. “I had difficulty with my machine gun when I fired the range. The tra versing mechanism was jerking end I was missing the target. I. squeesed off a minimum score and that was about all." His first aeelgnamat, of course, was to head a machine gun pla toon. Williams joined Clsmsen Uni versity in 1647. Ten years later he was named dean of the Clem- aon Graduate SchooL Id 1960 he became dees of facuhtoe and was promoted to rise president for sredeartr affairs in He became the sioner of the System ia IMA He directed the planning and development of long- range academic goele for. Texas’ public colleges and universities. He left the Coordinating Board in 1968 to become vice president for academic affairs for the Uni versity of Tennessee System in Knoxrfle. E^rly in 1970 he eras given the added responsibility of chancellor pro tern for the University of Tennessee's five-college Medical Unite campus in Memphis. Williams strongly supports the civilian students the majority of the student body and women stu dents. He also supports the Corps of Cadets and Texas AAM’s ROTC program. ”1 thin! ROTC is one of the basic programs at Taxaa AAM.” ha has said, "and under no conditions would | en tertain argument with people who would want to rises it out." The Taxes AAM president doesn't place much stock in thn claim of sense still ants that thair generation Is entirely different “Youth have always felt about like youug people tort today.” ha says. They have ahum changed ») \