The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, January 18, 1972, Image 1

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College Station, Texas
Warmer
and
cloudy
Tuesday, January 18, 1972
Wednesday — Cloudy, intermit
tent light rain. Southerly winds
15-20 mph, becoming northerly
late afternoon 15-20 mph. High
73°, low 61°.
Thursday — Mostly cloudy.
Northerly winds 10-12 mph. High
47°, low 35°.
845-2226
Death penalty
under attack
before court
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PLAYMAKING GUARD MARIO BROWN (13) tries to
move past DeWayne Brewer (31) of Athletes in Action in
Monday night’s exhibition basketball game. Brown scored
11 points and gathered in 12 rebounds in the contest. The
junior college transfer is the third leading scorer for the
Aggies with a 12.1 season average. A&M lost to AIA,
82-74. For more on the basketball team, see page 3. (Photo
by Mike Rice)
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Ex-leaders
Grads
A&M’s 1970-71 student body
president and one of its recent
student center leaders have re
turned to their alma mater to
join the administration.
Dr. Jack K. Williams, A&M
president, said Kent Caperton of
Caldwell and Dave Mayfield of
Waco will serve as “academic
interns.”
Caperton, former student body
president, has been assigned to
the president’s office. Mayfield
will work in the office of the
vice president for academic af
fairs.
“I think it’s to the credit of
our system and our student body
that we make these positions
available to former student lead-
ers — and that they accepted
them,” Dr. Williams noted.
( “These are two exceptionally
j capable young men, and we are
privileged to have them join our
return to school
staff.”
Caperton, who was graduated
last spring, has been studying
under a fellowship at the LBJ
School of Public Affairs at the
University of Texas at Austin.
He elected to return to A&M for
the internship and will enter law
school next fall. He studied
finance as an undergraduate.
Mayfield, just released from
a three-month active duty obli
gation as a second lieutenant in
the Army Corps of Engineers,
was active throughout his A&M
career in the Memorial Student
Center, which is responsible for
most of the institution’s extra
curricular programs. He was
chairman last year of the Stu
dent Conference on National Af
fairs and recipient of the cen
ter’s top award, the Thomas H.
Roundtree Award. He received
his undergraduate degree in
architecture in 1970 and spent
last year studying for a master’s
degree in business administra-<
tion.
Caperton will be working di
rectly with Edwin H. Cooper, as
sistant to the president. Cooper’s
responsibilities include close liai
son with students.
“I consider this job a rare
combination of an opportunity
to learn and a challenge to make
some contribution,” Caperton
said. “It promises to be an inter
esting experience.”
Mayfield will assist Dr. John
C. Calhoun Jr., vice president for
academic affairs, Dr. Richard E.
Wainerdi and Dr. Haskell M.
Monroe Jr., assistant vice presi
dents, whose activities include
organization and coordination of
a variety of new and on-going
programs.
“This is not only a stimulating
challenge,” Mayfield observed,
“but it also is a learning experi
ence that I feel will be extremely
beneficial in years to come.”
Applications being accepted
for SCONA 17 positions
Formal degree applicants
near filing cut-off date
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February 11 is the deadline for
formal degree applications by
A&M graduate and undergradu
ate students who expect to com
plete degree requirements dur
ing the spring semester, an
nounced Registrar Robert A.
Lacey.
Formal degree application be
gins with payment of the $5
graduation fee in the Fiscal Of
fice, Richard Coke Building.
Graduate students then make
application in the Graduate Col-
lo ge office, 209 Coke Building.
| Undergraduate student applica-
; Lons should be made in Room 7
j °f the Registrar’s Office.
Lacey emphasized that formal
degree application is the respon-
sibility of the graduating stu
dent. The requirement should be
kept in mind by students who
may be off-campus during the
semester for practice teaching,
etc.
Announcement of the Feb. 11
degree application deadline also
will be made through notices to
TAMU department heads.
All students should report to
the Registrar’s Office for a de
gree program check at least a
semester before the semester de
gree requirements will be com
pleted, Lacey reminded.
A&M students have begun ap
plying for 32 delegate positions
to the 17th Student Conference
on National Affairs.
Applications will be taken un
til Jan. 26, Dean of Students
James P. Hannigan announced.
Interviews will be conducted Jan.
24-31.
SCONA XVII will examine
“The Impact of the University”
during Feb. 16-19. Delegates from
throughout the U. S. and Mexico
will participate. Keynote speakers
will include Senator John Tower
and Dr. Lawrence E. Fouraker,
dean of Harvard University’s
business administration faculty.
TAMU delegates will include
16 upperclassmen and graduate
students, four freshmen, four
sophomores and eight internation
al students, Hannigan said.
They will be selected from ap
plications by two four-member
interview committees. Each will
include three faculty members
and a student, the dean said. In
terviews will be from 3 to 7 p.m.
daily Jan. 24-31.
Applications should be picked
up and turned in at the Memorial
Student Center director’s office
no later than Wednesday, Jan. 26.
WASHINGTON UP) — The
evolving national conscience must
govern the meaning of the Eighth
Amendment in condemning capi
tal punishment, lawyers contend
ed Monday in asking the Su
preme Court to declare the death
penalty unconstitutional.
“The death penalty is virtually
unanimously repudiated by the
conscience of contemporary soci-<
ety,” argued Stanford University
law professor Anthony G. Am
sterdam.
The high court sets up the his
toric confrontation over the Con-
Stevedores
strike again
on Pacific
SAN FRANCISCO <A>) — West
Coast longshoremen resumed a
strike Monday on the order of
Harry Bridges, their leader. The
White House quickly announced
it would ask Congress to stop the
walkout.
Pickets started marching again
in the Pacific Coast ports closed
down last year in a 100-day strike
halted Oct. 6 by a Taft-Hartley
injunction.
Marathon weekend negotiations,
with J. Curtis Counts, the Nixon
administration’s chief mediator,
taking part, broke off at the
8 a.m. strike deadline in the face
of threatened federal interven
tion.
In Washington, Labor Under
secretary Laurence Silberman
said Congressional action is “the
only remedy we have left” to halt
the strike. Ronald L. Ziegler,
presidential press secretary, said
chances of settlement were slim.
Silberman has said the admin
istration would ask Congress ei
ther to extend the time period of
a Taft-Hartley injunction or to
submit the dispute to a so-called
final offer selection board.
The board could impose a set
tlement after selecting what it
deems the most reasonable offer
extended by the union or man
agement. It could not piece to
gether fragments of both offers.
stitution by accepting the appeals
of four cases — two for murder
and two for rape — in which the
defendants were condemned to
death.
A ruling on the issue is ex
pected before the court term ends
in June. It will directly affect
nearly 700 condemned men and
women on death rows in 34 states.
Prior to Monday, 41 states and
the federal government still had
the death penalty. However, the
New Jersey Supreme Court ruled
Monday its law subjects an ac
cused murder to death only if
he pleads innocent, thereby co
ercing him to plead no defense
and face a maximum sentence of
life in prison.
Under the New Jersey ruling,
all 20 men on Death Row in
Trenton State Prison will have
their sentences reduced to life in
prison, with eventual eligibility
for parole. Moreover, the max
imum penalty in pending and fu
ture murder cases will be life in
prison.
The U.S. Supreme Court often
has considered capital cases but
only on individual, procedural
grounds.
The sole question before the
court now is whether the death
penalty constitutes the “cruel
and unusual punishment” which
is prohibited by the Eighth
Amendment.
Amsterdam, arguing for the
two murder defendants, suggest
ed that the test is whether the
punishment would be acceptable
to the general conscience and
standards of decency if applied
generally.
His own answer was no.
The death penalty, he said, is
rarely applied and then only to
minority members, the power
less, “The personally ugly and
socially unacceptable.”
Amsterdam appeared for Ern
est James Aikens Jr., who was
convicted of murder in Califor
nia and for William Henry Fur
man, convicted of murder in
Georgia.
There have been no executions
in the United States since 1967,
when Colorado and California
each carried out one.
Arguing the Aikens case, Cal
ifornia Asst. Atty. Gen. Ronald
M. George maintained judicial
action to stay execution pending
a resolution of the issue was
what reduced and finally stopped
executions.
He told the court the test under
the Eighth Amendment is not
the contemporary conscience but
rather determination of “unnec
essary cruelty.”
2 students killed
in Saturday wreck
Two A&M students and a Nav-
asota man were killed Saturday
night in a two-car head-on col
lision four miles east of Nava-
sota on Hwy. 105.
The A&M students were Dale
L. Hjornevik, 23, of Dickinson
and Sharon A. Dabney, 24, of
Conroe, both chemistry graduate
students.
A Department of Fublic Safety
spokesman said Miss Dabney and
Hjornevik, the car driver, were
headed west on Hwy. 105 and
Roosevelt Arrington, alone in the
second car, was headed east.
Arrington’s vehicle was on the
TV leads to violence
in aggressive children
WASHINGTON <A>) — Televi
sion viewing may lead to violent
acts by some children already
prone to aggressiveness, a U. S.
Surgeon General’s report con
cluded Monday.
“The accumulated evidence,
however, does not warrant the
conclusion that televised vio-
Russia claims congressmen
—urnty 01 tne graduating stu- /» I • 1 •
Students audition violated rules of hospitality
for memberships
mi Ringing Cadets
A&M students interested in be
coming members of the Singing
adets will be auditioned this
week.
Students should report to Room
J 19 of G. Rollie White Coliseum
between 2 and 4:30 p.m.
Director Robert L. Boone said
6 group is most interested in
au ditioning tenors where its ranks
^e thinnest. Prospective mem-
ers ni ust have a minimum of 2.0
^overall grade point ratio.
^University National Bank
“°n the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
MOSCOW UP) — The govern
ment newspaper Izvestia accused
two U.S. Republican congress
men Monday of violating the
rules of Soviet hospitality while
on a tour to study Soviet educa
tion in Moscow.
A third member of the touring
group, Rep. James H. Scheuer,
a New York Democrat, was
ordered expelled from the So
viet Union last week after meet
ing with Soviet Jews seeking to
leave for Israel.
of
the
In an article on the tour
seven-member House sub
committee on education, Izvestm
charged that Rep. Alphonzo Bell
of California met privately with
critics of the Soviet government.
It said Rep. Earl Landgrebe of
Indiana distributed religious ma
terials.
It is believed that a Soviet
Foreign Ministry official com
plained about Bell and Land-
grebe last Friday when Scheuer
was ordered expelled.
Scheuer was accused of “im
proper activities,” a blanket
charge connected with his meet
ing with the Jews.
“We cannot tolerate Scheuer
and those like him in our house,”
Izvestia said in declaring that
the entire committee tour was
“on balance, frankly speaking,
negative.”
It is thought to have been the
first time the Soviets had ex
pelled an elected American offi
cial, and the pursuit of the mat
ter in public Monday, with the
airing of Bell’s and Landgrebe’s
names seemed intended to spoil
the honeymoon atmosphere dip
lomats had hoped would develop
for President Nixon’s Moscow
trip in May.
There was one theory that the
atmosphere was being deliber
ately allowed to deteriorate to
gain approval of Nixon’s trip to
Peking next month and that the
rabid anti-Americans were being
given their head.
For the record, U.S. diplomats
have been unwilling to comment
on the long-range effects of the
“Scheuer affair” on Soviet-
American relations.
lence has a uniformly adverse ef
fect, nor the conclusion that it
has an adverse effect on the ma
jority of children,” said the 12
behavioral scientists who studied
the problem for 2% years.
Even before its public release,
the 279-page report was criti
cized by Federal Communica
tions Commissioner Nicholas
Johnson, a Democrat.
“The trouble with this report
is that like so much of what the
administration has done on these
things, the cynicism of anybody
being interested in the truth is
apparent from the beginning,”
he said.
Johnson criticized the decision
of former Surgeon General Wil
liam H. Stewart allowing the
television industry to veto 7 of
the 40 persons originally consid
ered for the study committee.
The 12 scientists, in the fields
of psychology, child develop
ment, sociology, psychiatry, po
litical science and anthropology,
said they feel there was a seri
ous error in the selection process.
“This study is not a white
wash,” Surgeon General Jesse
L. Steinfeld told a news confer
ence. “The study shows for the
first time a causal connection
between violence shown on tele
vision and subsequent aggres
sive behavior by children.”
The study’s primary benefit,
he said, should be to stimulate
more research on the effects of
television violence.
“I do believe the data . . .
should provide the basis for in
telligent action by the networks,
the FCC and Congress,” he said.
The study was requested March
5, 1969, by Sen. John O. Pastore,
D-R-L, who said he was “exceed
ingly troubled by the lack of any
definitive information which
would help resolve the question
of whether there is a causal con
nection between televised crime
and violence and antisocial be
havior by individuals, especially
children.”
The committee said the ques
tion is a “very complex issue, for
which there are no simple an
swers.”
There is a need for more study
in this area, the panel said. It
followed orders to avoid making
policy recommendations, and said
solutions would be difficult any
way.
“If broadcasters simply
changed the quantity balance be
tween violent and other kinds of
shows, it is not clear what the
net effect would be,” the study
said.
“More drastic changes, such
as general censorship, would
clearly have wide effects, but of
many kinds, and some of them
distinctly undesirable.”
wrong side of the road at a
curve and the two cars hit head-
on, the DPS reported.
Hjornevik and Arrington were
dead at the scene of the 9:30 p.m.
accident. Miss Dabney died at
10:15 p.m. in Grimes County Me
morial Hospital.
Services for Miss Dabney were
scheduled at 4 p.m. Monday in
the Metcalf Funeral Home Chap
el, Conroe. Burial followed in
Conroe Memorial Cemetery.
Miss Dabney is survived by her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. George
Dabney of 917 Cable, Conroe;
one brother, David Dabney of
Conroe; one sister Judith Dian
Dabney of Conroe; maternal
grandmother, Mrs. John G. Simp
son of Conroe, and paternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. S. H.
Dabney of Shepherd.
Miss Dabney was completing
Ph.D. requirements at A&M. She
was a 1969 honor graduate of
Austin College.
Rites for Hjornevik will be held
at 10 a.m. Thursday in Faith
Lutheran Church, Dickinson. Bur-
(See Two Students, Page 2)
Clayton named
as temporary
Maritime head
Dr. William H. Clayton will
serve as acting superintendent of
the Texas Maritime Academy un
til a permanent successor has
been found for Adm. James D.
Craik, announced A&M President
Jack K. Williams.
Clayton is dean of TAMU’s
Galveston-based College of Ma
rine Sciences and Maritime Re
sources, of which the academy is
a part.
Admiral Craik, who joined TMA
in 1967 after a 38-year career in
the Coast Guard, announced last
fall he planned to “re-retire,” ef
fective Jan. 31.
Dr. Clayton joined the TAMU
faculty in 1954 and was serving
as associate dean of the College
of Geosciences when he was
named dean of the new college
last fall. He also is professor of
oceanography and meteorology.
He has offices in the new ad
ministration building at TAMU’s
Mitchell Campus on Pelican Is
land.