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Cbe Battalion Cold, cold, cold! THURSDAY — Clear to partly cloudy. Wind northwesterly 5- 8 m.p.h. High 39, low 23. FRIDAY—Mostly cloudy, high of mid 40’s, low 28. College Station, Texas Wednesday, January 5, 1972 845-2226 Charles Powell chosen as new dean of men On 12 counts PRESIDENT JACK K. WILLIAMS AND EMORY BEL- LARD, A&M’s new head football coach, both seem happy- an unusual turn of events for A&M football, about Bellard and other coaches see page 5. For more Dr. Charles W. Powell has been named the new dean of men Pres ident Jack K. Williams announced Wednesday. The position was created in a realignment of activities under Dean of Students James P. Han- nigan. Dr. Powell, Dean of Women Mrs. Toby Schreiber and Howard Perry, newly appointed associate dean of students and director of the Student Affairs Department, head major divisions for Hanni- gan and will have responsibility for all students. Perry has been acting associ ate dean for the fall semester. Eugene C. Oates, now program advisor, at the same time will be come Civilian Student Activities director, replacing Perry. Currently vice president of the College of Ganado, Ganado, Ariz., Powell will supervise civilian stu dent activities, civilian and Corps of Cadets counselors, the foreign student advisor and the Corps of Cadets through the commandant for the Dean of Students. Dean Hannigan will retain academic responsibility for ROTC instructional programs. Perry’s responsibilities will in clude university police, the hous ing office, university health serv ices and the health center, the Memorial Student Center and the YMCA through the religious life coordinator. A native Texan, Dr. Powell has had public school and college teaching and administrative ex perience. The 40-year-old East Texas State graduate was the unanimous choice of a 10-mem-t ber selection committee including five student leaders. Powell, who received master’s and doctor of education degrees from North Texas State, has been Ganado College vice president two years, with responsibility for development, organization and program administration. He was principal at Pilot Point, assistant dean of men and assist ant director of extension at North Texas. For three years he man aged the Denton County Teach ers Credit Union. A former Air National Guard officer, Powell married the for mer Pauline Janet Lee of Deni son, where both graduated from high school. The Powells have four children, Gary 19, Stephen 15, Lauren 13 and Rusty 9. Perry has been with TAMU since 1940, except for several years teaching in Brenham and military service. He joined the staff in 1950 as a military coun selor, became residence hall pro gram advisor in 1968 and direc tor of civilian student activities in 1969. He is a lieutenant col onel in the Army Reserve. Oates came to A&M in 1964 after 23 years Army service. The Trinity native became residence halls program advisor in 1969. ^ —of Cadets counselors, the foreign program administration. halls program advisor i Ellsberg enters innocent plea Peace c pi aiming cut AMnPT T?C l n i j i.: x: * j ^^ LOS ANGELES UP) — Daniel llsberg pleaded innocent Tues- iy to new federal charges stem* ing from the Pentagon Papers ise. His codefendant, Anthony Russo, refused to enter a plea id a judge entered an innocent ea for him. A joint trial was set for March for the former Rand Corp. col- 'agues, but U. S. District Court Judge Matthew Byrne Jr. indi cated it probably would be post poned. Ellsberg, who has admitted leaking the documents on the origin of the Vietnam war to news media, entered innocent pleas on all counts of last week’s new indictment against him. He is accused of stealing and distrib uting Department of Defense doc- }r. Haskell Monroe is named assistant vice president l^ 1 Haskell M. Monroe has !er named an assistant vice resident for academic affairs, resident Jack K. Williams an- “unced Tuesday. Hr. Williams said Monroe, pro- ssor of history, will join Dr. >hn C. Calhoun and Dr. Richard Wainerdi in providing leader- ip in directing and expanding e university’s academic pro- atns. Calhoun is vice president r academic affairs and Wai- rdi is assistant vice president. We’re most happy to have a r son with Dr. Monroe’s back- ound work with us in coordi- k'Hg existing programs and doping new ones,” Dr. Cal- un n °ted. “We hope to utilize • Monroe’s expertise in the ' °f faculty relationships and idling methods.” Hr. Monroe joined the faculty 959. He served as assistant graduate dean from 1965 until 1968 in conjunction with his teaching assignments. He will continue to teach. In 1964, Monroe was a recipi ent of the Association oi Former Students’ Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching. An authority on ante-bellum Southern history, Dr. Monroe is the author of numerous historical papers and served as editor for “The Papers of Jefferson Davis,” a project sponsored by Rice Uni- verstiy. The papers will be pub lished in 15 volumes by the Louisiana State Universtiy Press, with the first volume just re leased. Dr. Monroe, who was born in Dallas but graduated from high school in Orange, earned B.A. and master’s degrees at Austin College and the Ph.D. at Rice. uments and Russo is accused of receiving them. Both also are accused of conspiracy. “Your honor, I am not guilty for any of the offenses charged,” Ellsberg said, standing before the judge. He then answered ‘Not guilty’ in response to 12 counts of a 15-count indictment, the oth er three counts which involve co defendant Russo. Russo’s attorney said he would file motions to have Russo re moved from the case, claiming that a previous grant of immun ity to Russo invalidates the in dictment. Russo was granted immunity by a grand jury last year if he would testify in the Ellsberg in vestigation. He refused, was jailed for contempt of court, but was later purged of all contempt charges in a federal court ruling. Russo’s attorney, Michael Ba- laban, declined to have his client enter a plea and asked the judge to do it for him. The 15-count indictment which superceded a previous one-count indictment against Ellsberg was issued by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles last Wednesday and made public Thursday. Ellsberg’s attorneys said they would try to invalidate the in dictment on grounds the govern ment broke a secrecy rule by leaking the indictment to the press while it was still under seal. in volunteers, programs Fouraker will participate as SCONA XVII speaker Dr. Lawrence E. Fouraker has accepted an A&M student invita tion to participate in the 17th Student Conference on National Affairs here Feb. 16-19. Devoted to examination of “The Impact of the University,” SCONA XVII will assemble stu dent leaders from throughout the U. S. and Mexico for major speaker presentations and round table discussions. Dr. Fouraker, dean of Harvard University’s business administra tion faculty and George Fisher Baker Professor of Administra tion, is among numerous educa tion, business-industry and gov ernment leaders including Sena tor John Tower (R.-Tex.) invited as SCONA speakers, according to Chairman Ben Thurman of Dallas. Fouraker specializes in interna tional business and is a pioneer in development of experimental economics. His SCONA address will probe the impact of the uni versity on business and the economy, Thurman said. WASHINGTON (AP) _ The money-short Peace Corps began shaping plans Tuesday to reduce its 8,000-member volunteer force by half and to cancel programs in as many as 15 countries. Joseph H. Blatchford, director of the ACTION agency which oversees the Peace Corps, ordered a halt in signing up volunteers, at least until July 1, although applications will continue to be accepted. Blatchford instructed Kevin O'Donnell, associate director of ACTION for international af fairs, to prepare plans for termi nation of about 4,000 volunteers now on duty in 55 foreign coun tries. Blatchford wants the plans implemented by mid-February so the volunteers can be returned to the United States by the end of March. There now are about 7,100 volunteers on active assignment overseas and some 800 to 900 in training, most of them in host countries. The present corps force is slightly more than half of what it was during the peak years of the middle 1970s. Blatchford took Tuesday’s ac tion, it is understood, because Congress not only refused to appropriate the $82 million re quested by the Nixon adminis tration but cut funds to a level that one agency source described as “just one step above putting us out of business altogether.” In the last hour before it ad journed Dec. 17, Congress passed a continuing resolution that would give the Peace Corps a budget of $72 million. The resolution, which expires Feb. 22, was necessary because the Senate did not act on the appi*opriation bill passed by the House. Both houses passed an authorization bill to give the corps $77.2 million, but the House appropriated only $68 million. The corps hopes that when Congress reconvenes in two weeks the Senate will approve the full $77.2 million, and that a confer ence committee will accept that figure. A&M’s economic influence worth $78,800,000 to area A&M’s economic impact on the Bryan-College Station area to taled $78,800,000 for 1971, re vealed a survey conducted by the institution. President Jack K. Williams said the total represented an increase of more than $6 million over the previous year. The figures included a payroll of $50 million for more than 5,000 permanent Texas A&M Univer sity System employes residing in Bryan-College Station. The 1970 payroll totaled $45 million. Approximately 130 additional staff, research and support per sonnel joined the university dur ing 1971. Students contributed more than $22.5 million to the local economy, up approximately $500,000. Food and housing accounted for the major expenditures, along with clothing, school supplies and recreation. The university spent about $3 million locally for utilities, serv ices and supplies. Expenditures in this category rose about $300,- 000. Visitors attending athletic events, conferences and short courses at the university ac counted for approximately $3.3 million, an increase of about $300,000. Most expenditures in this category were food, lodging and entertainment. Vs a unique business, treating a social good W YORK OP) — Soon to be ^ined by the Securities and c a nge Commission is a cor-* prospectus that in all prob- ! 1 y W 'R contain the warning: ese securities involves the : hest degree of risk.” nv estors in risky enterprises ^ally are enticed by the pros- °f profits or dividends. But, ' than distributing its prof- ’ 's company intends to plow m right back into product de- opment. financial dividends will be mod- Th ere w j]j no ex j. rag 0 f ^ i n d. In fact, the greatest Var d for those who risk their ooy will be satisfaction, be- ISa tlle company’s product is ^ good. r ever theless, the founders are f'oerned that demand for the | c could cause its price to F, bringing it to be labeled, I passingly, a glamor stock, fr. Wou ld be a serious image P 6 *.” they say. poking i s a p] easure Firgt ** & Trust. A traditional assessment of such a company would have to be negative. Its proponents would be considered naive, its future would be deemed almost without hope. And that is just what many people thought at first. Now that The Public Equity Corp. is about to enter registra tion, the attitudes are changing. Rather than being visionaries, as first thought, the founders are seen to be men of knowledge, bus iness acumen and level-headed ness. If the company does succeed in going public, and selling 2.5 mil lion shares at $10 each, it will mark a milestone in the develop ment of capitalism — a public corporation that lives off correct ing the sins of capitalism. It assumes that the abuses of the system — the faulty prod ucts, fraud, pollution, human mis- er y — are best corrected by legai challenges from an equally pow erful corporate counterforce that would file class action, triple damage suits. Thomas Mechling, former Dem* ocratic senatorial nominee from Nevada, public affairs consultant, public relations man — for the National Association of Manufac turers — is largely responsible for bringing the idea to its pres ent stage. It will be the public, however, which determines the future, and so the most critical time for the embryo corporation will occur in late spring or summer, when shares likely will go on sale. Nobody can really say at this time how strongly or weakly the public will support the offering. Investors generally have man aged in the past to separate their moral convictions from their in vestment goals. Oldtime Wall Streeters say any hot new issue is fueled by hopes if not greed for profit. A new corporation offering only public good will not satisfy private yearnings. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. THE WEATHER WAS ICY Tuesday at A&M, as exhibited the next few days as south Texas settles in for some real by this view of a window decal seen through the ice cover- winter weather. (Photo by Hayden Whitsett) ing the windshield. More of the same is the prediction for