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Welcome to Texas A&M University, Class of 1975
In the Batt today
Thi» annual freshman edition
of The Battalion is designed to
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ents some insight into the back
ground. sue. tradition, facilities
and extracurricular acl
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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.
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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.
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The new dean, originally from East
Texas, looked at her job carefully.
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"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.
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“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.
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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.
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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-
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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-
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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
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