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Vol. 66 NO. 137
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, August 18, 1971
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Texas A&M’s 15,000-ton training ship “Texas Clipper” 13,000-mile summer cruise. A trip from Houston to Galves-
tied up at the Galveston Mitchell Campus Sunday ending a ton was the final leg of a 10-week European tour.
Cadets visit Russians
Attitude change part of cruise
/
GALVESTON — Grassroots di
plomacy led to a change in atti
tudes about foreigners for 159
Texas Maritime Academy cadets
and Texas A&M freshmen who
have completed a 13,000-mile Eu
ropean cruise here.
Cadets said they encountered no
language barriers and found Eu
ropeans friendly, “just like Tex
ans.” Most considered a 48-hour
exchange with the crew of a large
Russian research vessel the high
light of the 10-week “Summer
School at Sea.”
The Soviet-American friendship
is credited to John Meeks of San
Marcos, TMA senior whose curi
osity built a bridge over the Iron
Curtain.
Discussing the trip shortly aft
er the Texas Clipper docked at
the Mitchell Campus here Sunday,
Meeks said the Texas A&M train
ing ship tied up in front of the
Soviet ship at Las Palmas, Ca
nary Islands.
“I took Russian in high school
and decided to walk over to ask to
see the ship,” Meeks said. “They
were about the finest people we
met on the whole trip.
Meeks said the Soviet captain
of the 183-foot vessel, the Priliv,
invited him aboard, showed him
the oceanography and meteorolo
gy equipment and invited him to a
meal of squid, shrimp, caviar and
vodka.
The Russian captain and two of
the scientists aboard spoke Eng
lish, but the rest of the ship’s 50
men and women apparently were
meeting their first American,
Meeks said.
“I returned to the Clipper with
Housing clearance
deadline 6 Friday
Texas A&M housing officials
preparing for the influx of fall
semester students have an
nounced a 6 p.m. Friday room
clearance deadline for summer
school students.
Housing Manager Allan M.
Madeley said the room clearance
applies to students who will oc
cupy other rooms this fall, move
off campus and not enrolled for
the fall semester.
The second summer session
concludes Friday.
New students and transfers ar
rive Sunday. Fall semester de
layed registration begins Mon
day. Most returning students ar
rive on Aug. 27 and classes begin
Aug. 30.
Madeley said all students ex
cept those who will remain in
their present rooms for the fall
should begin room clearance
procedures as soon as possible.
Students must obtain a room
clearance card from the hall resi
dent advisor, have the room
checked by the advisor and turn
in the card, room key and mat
tress cover by 6 p.m. Friday.
“To facilitate planning, stu
dents are urged to contact resi
dent advisors in advance and
make appointments for times to
be checked out,” Madeley said.
He pointed out that students
staying in the same room for the
fall term do not need clearances.
Students changing rooms must
complete clearance and the move
by 6 p.m. Friday.
To facilitate moves, halls not
being used for summer school
will be unlocked from 1 to 6 p.m.
Thursday and after 10 a.m. Fri
day. Keys to Duncan area halls
will be available at Lounge D.
Keys to civilian halls in the Sbisa
area can be obtained at Lounge
A-3 Thursday afternoon and aft
er 10 a.m. Friday.
Except for special authoriza
tions, civilian students will not be
allowed to occupy rooms for the
fall semester before Aug. 26. Ca
det upperclassmen may not move
into fall rooms until Aug. 27,
Madeley announced.
an appointment for Capt. (Alfred)
Philbrick (Clipper captain) to
meet with the Soviet captain,”
he explained. During the next two
days the Russians and Aggies
toured each other’s ships, ex
changed meals and movies and
held a ping-pong match between
the two captains.
Meeks said the Soviet ship had
a male and female crew, yet none
were married to each other. They
told the cadets the research ves
sel was making a South Atlantic
cruise to compile data on summer
storms.
“There was no language barrier
whatsoever,” Meeks said. “In fact,
there was no language barrier the
whole trip.”
The cadets toured the Russian
ship in groups of 25 and were
guests for a Russian meal and a
Russian movie on the 1930 revo
lution.
“The dancing was fantastic,”
Meeks declared, “even if it was a
little strange to see a revolution
put to music.”
Tony Broektrup, Houston jun
ior, speaks German and he was
able to communicate with many
of the Russian crewmen. He said
the Russians enjoyed the two
American movies, “Texas Across
the River” and “The Great Race.”
Both sides did some trading.
One TMA cadet exchanged a
watch for a Russian-edited dic
tionary of Russian-to-English,
English-to-Russian. Each Soviet
crewman was given a TMA patch
and some received TMA wind-
breakers.
Meeks said the cadets were
given a lot of printed material on
Lenin and Russia, but all of it is
in Russian. Lenin pins were pre
sented to the cadets as gifts and
another cadet traded an American
book for a bottle of Russian vod
ka for his dad.
“We all agreed this friendship
changed our attitudes about Rus
sians,” Meeks said. “We also
think we changed their attitudes
about Americans.”
The entire Soviet ship was open
ed to the cadets, including the
inspection of a rocket launcher.
“We were told the rockets are
for meteorological research,” Hec
tor Garza of Galveston said.
“They said the rockets had a
range of 1,000 miles.”
When the Clipper left the port,
the Russians dipped their flag
and sounded a horn salute. The
Clipper returned the salute.
C. Robert Bigler Jr. of Fair
fax, Va., said 80 girls from a
school in Cork, Ireland, were
guests aboard the converted
oceanliner for a dance.
“We had a great time,” Bigler
said. “The girls all spoke English
but most of us had a hard time
understanding the Irish brogue.”
Carl Sanders of Houston, a
sophomore on his first cruise, ad
mitted he didn’t know what to ex
pect in Europe.
“In Rotterdam, two of us were
on a street corner and a couple
of little girls came up and asked
for our autographs. We gave them
each a nickel and some pennies.
“The girls told their friends and
dozens of little kids came out of
nowhere and asked for auto
graphs,” Sanders continued.
“Some of the other cadets couldn’t
understand why kids followed
them everywhere. We didn’t make
that mistake again.”
Garza contends he would not
have had a chance to visit Europe
if not for the TMA cruise.
“Everyone went out of their
way to help us,” he observed. “I
didn’t expect Europeans to treat
Americans well, but they did and
I learned a lot about sign lan
guage.
Garza said the people-to-people
relationships on the trip left him
with a good feeling about Europe.
Sanders, a tall, handsome ca
det with trim mustache, gave the
cadets’ impression of European
girls.
“Spain has fantastic girls,” he
reported. “They have blue Span
ish eyes, blonde hair, slim fig
ures and beautiful skin.
“Holland is the place to go if
you like hot pants and the girls
in Copenhagen believe in the no-
bra look,” he recounted with a
smile.
The cadets said other findings
were a “Texas Bar” in just about
every port. Texas is known every-
(Ses Attitude Change, page 8)
University begins self-study program
By DEBI BLACKMON
Battalion Staff Writer
Texas A&M’s self-study pro
gram has gotten under way this
summer session.
The essential purpose of The
Institutional Self-Study Program
is to improve educational effec
tiveness in institutions. It ex
plores ways and means by which
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
educational efficiency might be
improved, and helps accommo
date ever increasing demands
made on educational systems by
society.
Liberal Arts Associate Dean
Dr. Charles E. McCandless is
overall coordinator for the proj
ect, and Association Professor of
English Robert W. Barzack is
editor of the final report.
The institutional self - study
program is required periodically
of all member institutions of the
Southern Association of Colleges
and Schools to which TAMU be
longs. It is the process by which
accreditation is reaffirmed. For
newly accredited institutions, a
self-study must be completed
within four years after the ini
tial accreditation.
The College Delegate Assem
bly specifies in its Standards for
Colleges that in each 10-year pe
riod a member institution must
make a comprehensive self-study
which is to be evaluated at the
institution by a qualified commit
tee of educators.
The appointment of the self-
study coordinators and editors
for each of the university’s col
leges and other major divisions
has been announced by McCand
less. The college coordinators
and editors will help draft the
self-study report to be edited by
Barzak.
Those designated college co
ordinators are: T. W. Adair III,
(See Study, page 5)
Corps officers
here Saturday
to begin year
Cadet officers report Saturday to begin organ
ization of the 1971-72 Corps of Cadets for the Aug.
30 start of Fall semester classes.
More than 200 cadet leaders will check in a
week early for commander’s conference, meetings
with university officials and to greet freshmen and
transfer students who begin arriving Sunday.
Army Col. Thomas R. Parsons, commandant,
said the 1971-72 corps will consist of approximately
2,500 cadets, of which 700 to 800 will be freshmen.
Company and squadron commanders, executive
officers, supply officers and first sergeants will
compose the vanguard of the corps. Corps Com
mander Thomas M. Stanley of Mt. Pleasant, the corps
staff and other commanders will participate in school
year preparations.
Freshmen who did not participate in new
student conferences during the summer will check in
Sunday. New student conference participants report
Aug. 25, and most upperclassmen will return to the
campus Aug. 27-29.
A&M President Dr. Jack K. Williams and Dean
of Students James P. Hannigan will address cadets at
a Monday conference. It also will be the cadets’ first
meeting with the new commandant and deputy
commandant, Col. Robert F. Crossland, professor of
aerospace studies and ranking Air Force officer here.
Parsons succeeded Col. Jim H. McCoy this
summer as commandant and professor of military
science.
The commandant will swear in the corps
commander, Deputy Corps Commander Jack Carey
of Carrizo Springs and other major unit commanders.
Stanley will then administer the oath to other cadet
officers.
A command in-briefing Monday afternoon will
set the stage for the week’s activities, including a
Monday evening commandant’s reception at which
cadet leaders can meet new military personnel
assigned to Texas A&M.
Disciplinary action procedures, housemaster
responsibilities, university property accountability
and policies and procedures briefings and reviews will
fill the rest of the week. A drug abuse seminar for
commanders, first sergeants and sergeants major will
be held Wednesday.
Parsons said organization of the corps will be
completed by Aug. 28.
Oceanography given yacht
for use in Gulf research
GALVESTON—Mrs. Banks G.
Moreland of Houston Tuesday do
nated a 39-foot yacht to the
Oceanography Department for
use in Gulf of Mexico research
projects.
Mrs. Moreland’s late husband
was a 1917 graduate of Texas
A&M.
Presentation of keys to the
twin-diesel craft was made to
Dr. Richard A. Geyer, Oceano
graphy Department head, by Mrs.
R. J. Blair, representing Mrs.
Moreland. The brief ceremonies
were conducted at the Bob Smith
Yacht Basin here, where the
yacht is berthed.
“This vessel will be an impor
tant addition to the expanding
oceanographic fleet operated by
the Oceanography Department of
Texas A&M’s College of Geosci
ences,” Geyer said. “It is well
suited for the diversified teach
ing and research activities plan
ned for the new College of Ma
rine Sciences and Maritime Re
sources being established by the
university in Galveston and will
be made available to the new col
lege by the Oceanography De
partment when needed.”
The craft, the La Mare II, was
built in England in 1962. It will
accommodate six persons and has
a 400-mile range.
Texas A&M, the state’s only
institution of higher learning
Tickets
Over-the-counter ticket sales
for Texas A&M’s 1971 football
games began Wednesday.
Tickets are available for nine
of A&M’s 11 games. The Texas
Tech and Nebraska games are
already sold out.
Ticket window No. 7 in front
of G. Rollie White Coliseum will
be open f r o m 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday through Friday.
Tickets for all games except
LSU are $6 each. LSU tickets
are $7 each.
The 1971 Aggie schedule: Sept.
11—Wichita State, 7:30 p.m.,
with sea-going capabilities, op
erates seven vessels and is sched
uled to receive another through a
ship-building program conducted
by the Navy.
The La Mare II will be moved
to the docks at the Mitchell Cam
pus on Galveston’s Pelican Is
land.
on sale
Kyle Field; Sept. 18—LSU, 7:30
p.m., Baton Rouge, La.; Sept. 25
—Nebraska, 1:30 p.m., Lincoln,
Nebr.; Oct. 2—Cincinnati, 7:30
p.m., Kyle Field;
Oct. 9—Texas Tech, 7:30 p.m.,
Lubbock, Tex.; Oct. 16—TCU, 2
p.m., Fort Worth, Tex.; Oct. 23
—Baylor, 1:30 p.m., Kyle Field;
Oct. 30—Arkansas, 7:30 p.m., Lit
tle Rock;
Nov. 6—SMU, 1:30 p.m., Kyle
Field; Nov. 13—Rice, 2 p.m.,
Houston; Nov. 25—Texas, 1:30
p.m., Kyle Field.
BACK THE AGGIES!!
WELCOME BACK, Aggie football players. This sign is being used by B-CS merchants
and area chambers of commerce to promote TAMU and support the team this fall.