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Black Muslims
provoked fight,
mayor claims
IK CAR IS UNDOUBTEDLY the faster of the two
ithods of transportation pictured here, and the most
nfortable, but the contrast of these two forms in Peru,
Ind., Tuesday, offered many comparisons. Imagine the
cost of gas versus oats, and a mechanic versus the yearly
blacksmith shop, for starters. (AP Wirephoto)
^[ygainst Tower
HYarborough to try once again
JlSTIN, Tex. — Former
n . Ralph Yarborough said
Ul V Li |day he will try to return to
—--aBj. S. Senate to bolster the
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iking ranks of the Democratic
iority and “to preserve the
mce for the people.” The
-^-^/-awaited, and publicized, po-
' :al plans for the 68-year-old
Vy j 1 ;ran spokesman for Texas
i • n nocratic liberals, revealed
1 • ’. t to a news conference in
tin, then repeated before
smen in Houston, Dallas,
^ Worth and San Antonio.
arborough, who suffered a
Engineering
surprise defeat in 1970 at the
hands of Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-
Tex., said he had traveled the
state for four months trying to
decide if he should run for gov
ernor or senator.
“Weighing all of these things
and more these past months, I
have decided to return to the
U. S. Senate to help preserve the
balance for the people this year,”
Yarborough said.
Yarborough faces an already
declared Democratic candidate,
Barefoot Sanders, Dallas attor
ney and former state representa
tive, federal attorney and White
House aide to Former President
Lyndon B. Johnson.
The incumbent, Sen. John
Tower, R-Tex., is expected to
formally announce his re-election
plans later this month.
Sanders welcomed Yarborough
to the race saying he was “one
of our fine senior citizens. His
actions today give Texans a clear
voice in May and November, be
cause Yarborough and Tower
have one problem in common—
both are out of touch with the
majority of Texans.”
Tower had no immediate com
ment.
Yarborough quickly defended
his age when asked if he thought
that would be a campaign issue.
“No problem,” he said, “My
father lived to be over 100 and
we are a family of great lon
gevity.”
Yarborough told repoi’ters he
had no hope of regaining the
Senate seniority and important
committee connections lost when
defeated by Bentsen. But, he
said, the lost seniority, can not
compare “with what esteem you
have with your fellow senators.”
BATON ROUGE, La. <A>) — The
mayor of Baton Rouge said Tues
day that Black Muslims trying to
overthrow national Muslim lead
er Elijah Muhammad came here
and deliberately provoked the gun-
fight which cost four lives.
Two policemen and two blacks
were killed in the sudden flare of
gunfire. About 25 persons were
injured, including a television
newsman listed in critical condi
tion from a beating.
Mayor W. W. Dumas told a
news conference the shootout was
part of what he called a planned
conspiracy of revolution and said
that other cities should be on the
alert for similar violence.
The mayor said he didn’t know
why the militants precipitated the
confrontation—or how it tied in
with what he described as one
of their goals—to “get rid of”
Elijah Muhammad.
“This Elijah Muhammad, who
ever he is, better watch out for
these people,” Dumas told news
men in a partial report on the
police interrogation of 20 blacks
arrested after the battle with
officers on a city street Monday.
The mayor declined to go into
any details on his broad state
ments or to say whether he an
ticipated further violence, but he
announced that the National
Guard would be kept in the city
and a 9:30 p.m.-6 a.m. curfew
would be in effect.
“With the information we have
from our own sources and admis
sions from these men, these peo
ple are either members or a splin
ter group of Black Muslims,” Du
mas said.
Seven young Muslims in Baton
Rouge denied their organization
was involved.
Of the 20 blacks arrested dur
ing and immediately after the
gun battle in front of a movie
theater, eight were charged with
murder and placed under bonds
of $500,000 each.
At least five of the eight and
one of the blacks killed were from
out of state.
Dist. Atty. Sargent Pitcher said
police confiscated documents from
the arrested men which revealed
a travel itinerary beginning in
Washington, D.C., and ending in
Baton Rouge.
“We have information that
there were two units that travel
ed separately but united in Baton
Rouge,” Pitcher said.
Officials maintained they had
no idea why the alleged Muslim
group picked Baton Rouge for
the bloody showdown with po
lice.
Charles Granger-, a black civil
rights leader, said members of the
group did identify themselves to
him as Black Muslims.
“They were here to kick off a
campaign to die,” Granger said.
“They said they were ready to
die.”
The gunfight erupted when
sheriff’s deputies, who were at
tempting to remove two automo
biles with out-of-state license
plates from the middle of the
street, approached a line of blacks
that had short hair and were uni
formly dressed in suits and black
bow ties.
Teaching is first priority
East Germany recognizes
Bangladesh, third to do so
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caching is first on the pri-
V list at the College of Engi-
■ing.
bat was the essence of an
-ess Dean Fred J. Benson
e before instructors and pro-
ors in the college’s new Engi-
ing Center during his first
Bin the theater-style audi-
im of the newly opened cen-
| is welcome opened Tuesday’s
CIVU * on university-wide
L ;er Teaching Institute. It was
isored by the College of Engi-
0 : -ing and the American Society
rr Engineering Education.
I peaking from 30 years exper-
e, Dean Benson told faculty
ibers that teaching involves
\VV e basic objectives: Transfer-
JLlyp' information or knowledge,
h hing students to organize and
•- knowledge obtained, and
“““ji hing those processes neces-
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do a good job of the first two;
European schools do better on the
third.”
He said as the teacher trans
fers information to the student,
the instructor must also try to
motivate the youth and assist
the students with his individual
problems, being able to answer
questions.
“The learning process,” Dean
Benson continued, “depends 10
per cent on the teacher and 90
per cent on the student. That is
why you must get the student
involved. He learns the most by
being involved. Get him to the
blackboard like in the old days.
Get him to write, to do algebra,
to do basic physics. And, the stu
dent must have interest. It is un
fortunate that many students do
not have that interest. You just
keep trying to involve the stu
dent. The student must read and
put in time and stay with it.”
On teaching techniques, the
dean played down the role of the
lecturer “unless he can really
enthrall the student. Otherwise,
too many students fall asleep.”
Benson said the teacher atti
tude can be effective and, by way
of example, he rejected sarcasm
but stressed a positive note. He
said the teacher must make a
reasonable assessment on time re->
quirements, since the student has
other studies besides any one
course.
“Overloading will deprive him
of the time to do other work,” he
declared.
On the subject of grades, the
dean stressed that “grading is
a device that can be effective to
keep the student working. But,
be fair, reasonable; give every
one an equal opportunity. Advise
the students at the very outset
on what is expected. And, don’t
curve downward. If all the stu
dents make A’s, give them each
A’s. There are natural breaks.
At certain levels there is a drop.
In my philosophy and experience
I have found it desirable to give
them the benefit of the doubt.
It makes for a better student at
titude. Be willing to go over pa
pers with them. Education is a
two-way street and the major
factor is the student.”
In the long range, Benson said
engineering education will tend
to be more professional, like in
veterinary medicine, medicine and
the law.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
East Germany extended diplo
matic recognition to Bangladesh
Tuesday, spurring hopes in Dac
ca of quick endorsement of Sheik
Mujibur Rahman’s new govern
ment from other nations.
At the same time, President
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan
flew to neighboring Afghanistan
for a brief talk with King Mo
hammed Zahir Shah. Diplomats
in Rawalpindi said he may have
sought Soviet help through the
king in finding a link between
West Pakistan and Bengladesh.
East Germany is the third na-
cording to the Bulgarian news
agency BTA in a dispatch from
Sofia.
Mujib had discussions in Lon
don with Prime Minister Edward
Heath en route home from more
than nine months imprisonment
on treason charges in Pakistan.
France’s ambassador to India
and about two dozen other diplo
mats greeted him during a brief
stopover at New Delhi. Repre
sentatives from other countries,
including the United States, were
at the airport when he arrived
in Dacca.
There are no diplomats of am
bassadorial rank in Dacca, but
missions that were consulates
under the toppled Pakistani re
gime have remained open on an
unofficial basis since the sur
render of more than 90,000 Paki
stani soldiers, to the Indian army
Dec. 16.
Sources in some of the for
eign missions of Dacca have said
privately their governments were
awaiting the return of Sheik
Mujib to judge the stability of
the new government and decide
whether to open relations.
“And, we are now turning in
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are considering two levels. One
is the technician level and the
other is the professional level.
The latter will require six to sev
en years of training.”
The dean also stressed the
practical benefits which the new
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feat in w a r with India last
month. India and Bhutan ex
tended recognition earlier.
There was no immediate re
action from Pakistan, which has
diplomatic relations with West
Germany.
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cmlariner photos rewriting
eories about planet Mars
, ASADENA, Calif. OP)—Mari-
' ; 9 is rewriting the textbooks
Mars.
is is the assessment of sci-
sts studying the latest pic-
is sent to earth by the tiny
ecraft from its orbit around
intriguing planet,
he Mars emerging from the
YVV riner data is a planet that,
, logically speaking, quite re-
jk tly was a living, breathing,
.,' Iving body.
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|/|n almost five billion years
^ en Q u i c kly died in a fiery
3TAMPs|ieaval, Mars had a long life,
intists have decided.
1IIT Clearly, Mars has presently
ive surface process . . . where-
yVfc before we weren’t sure wheth-
we were looking at a fossil
q ,:face like the moon,” said Dr.
j; ice Murray of the California
i Ititute of Technology.
We could see geologic epi
cs on Mars but we couldn’t
tinguish if the episodes were
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taking place right now or hap
pened millions of years ago. Now
I can’t imagine Mars as a fossil
surface.”
Mariner 9 scientists at Cal
tech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
here where the spacecraft is be
ing controlled don’t agree on the
interpretation of every photo
graph Mariner’s two television
cameras return.
But the consensus is that:
—Fiery volcanoes once burned
over the planet, belching smoke
and gas and playing a prominent
role in shaping Mars. The fires,
perhaps heavily banked by time,
still may burn deep within Mars.
—Strong erosional forces have
been at work, shaping some re
gions in manners strikingly simi
lar to earth. There are strong
indications of erosion by gas,
such as winds, and erosion by
liquid, such as flowing water.
But scientists hasten to add they
have little data about what
caused the erosion.
—Permanent dust storms may
rage over certain regions of
Mars and the entire planet may
be dustier than a half-century of
careful telescope observation
from earth indicated.
The scientists are unanimous
on one point: The most exciting
aspect of the Mariner 9 mission
isn’t what the photographs are
confirming about Mars, but the
new mysteries that are being
opened. Mars, they are finding,
is much more diverse than ex
pected.
“The photographs are showing
us a fantastic range of brand-
new phenomena that no one ever
suspected existed on Mars,” said
Dr. Carl Sagan, a Cornell Uni
versity astronomer.
More such photographs were
released Tuesday by JPL offi
cials. More and more revealing
photographs are being obtained
now that a haze that has ob
scured the planet since Mariner
9 went into orbit Nov. 13 is lift
ing.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
Engineering Center provides —
the flexibility for expansion (ad
dition of two more floors) and
the ease with which new classes
can be created or altered for
teaching, research or other stu
dent needs. He said the new
structure embodies the best fea
tures viewed in engineering
buildings all over the nation. He
said the building was first con
sidered 13 years ago, that the
costs are cheapest and nowhere
was the functional aspect im
paired.
Talk in Dacca’s official circles
was that the homecoming Mon
day of Sheik Mujib, the presi
dent, is likely to speed diplomatic
recognition, not only by Soviet-
bloc governments like East Ger
many but by such non-Commu-
nist countries as Britain and
France.
Shortly after East Germany’s
move, Communist Bulgaria said
it considers Bangladesh an in
dependent and sovereign state
and expressed a willingness to
establish diplomatic relations, ac-
Add-drop period, delayed
registration now in progress
Delayed registration and the “add-drop” period has begun.
New freshmen, new graduate students, new transfer students and
returning students who did not register during the preregistration
period last fall sign during the delayed registration period.
The registration process begins with students reporting to their
major department to secure card packets and register for courses.
When the student’s assignment card has been approved, he reports
to the Housing Office representative for fee data cards. Members of the
Corps of Cadets living on campus report to Lounge D in the Duncan
area, all coeds, athletes and civilians living in residence halls report to
YMCA Room 101 and all male civilians and cadets living off campus go
to the Hart Hall Lounge.
After the registration process is completed, the student turns in
the registration card packet and fee data card to YMCA Room 001 to
complete preregistration.
Fees will be collected and the class schedule should be ready the
following day.
Late registration begins Jan. 17. Friday, Jan. 21 is the last day for
enrolling or adding courses. Feb. 1 is the deadline for dropping courses
with no grade.
INTO A PLASTIC BAG is packed grayish-green confetti
which was once $825,000 in bills. The money is shredded
at the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas as part of a recycling
program. The program is looking into possible uses for
the ground up money. At present it is being sold to a waste
paper supplier. (AP Wirephoto)