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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