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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 2, 1972)
Schorr WASHINGTON <A>) _ CBS newsman Daniel Schorr, subject of a White House-ordered FBI in vestigation, testified Tuesday the Nixon administration has made a great many people believe “it is no longer an honorable thing to be a newsman.” White House officials refused Engineering College given contract A&M’s College of Engineering has been awarded a contract of $108,077 from the U. S. Naval Engineering Facilities Command (NAVFAC) to study the mechan ics of cable docking systems, Dr. Richard F. Dominguez announced. Dr. Dominguez, director of the project and a member of the coastal and ocean engineering fa cility, said the contract is the first to be awarded to an academic in stitution by the NAVFAC. “The broad objectives of this project are to develop an infor mation base and an improved analytic ability needed to predict the static and dynamic behavior of extremely large, deep ocean docking systems,” he continued. “Part of this study will involve the development of a design ref erence dealing with the three di mensional effects of hydrodynam ic loads on cables.” TTFs Young wins award Ronald D. Young of A&M’s Texas Transportation Institute is co-winner of the Fred Burggraf Award for the outstanding tech nical paper presented at the 50th annual meeting of the Highway Research Board. Young, an engineering research associate, presented a paper en titled “A Three-Dimensional Mathematical Model to Predict the Dynamic Response of an Au tomobile Occupant.” The mathematical model pro vides the highway safety; engineer a means of applying- available biomechanics data on human tol erance limits to the problem of modifying roadside structures so that injuries experienced during single-vehicle accidents can be reduced. Additionally, the model provides the automotive safety en gineer with a tool for designing safer vehicle interiors and re straint systems. Young’s portion of the award, which honors the late HRB direc tor, included a $300 cash prize. A native of Church Point, La., Young earned his B.S. degree at the University of Southern Loui siana and master’s and Ph.D. at A&M. Peirce story one of best in 1972 A Frank Peirce short story, “The Total Portrait,” has been selected one of the best mystery stories of the year. The A&M English professor’s story will be anthologized in “The Best Detective Stories of 1972,” to be published by E. P. Dutton and Co. Inc. in June. “The Total Portrait” by Peirce appeared in the April, 1971, “El lery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. It is his third mystery story to be anthologized. “The Man Who Was A Station Wagon” appeared in the 19th “Ellery Queen Anni versary Annual.” Peirce and Fred Rodewald co-authored it. Selected as one of the best mys tery stories of the year by the late Anthony Boucher was Peirce’s “The Lonely Ones.” It was listed in the honor roll of best stories in “The Best Detective Stories of 1965.” Peirce, a 26-year TAMU faculty member and assistant professor of English, was recently invited to active membership of the Mystery Writers of America. The organi zation is open by invitation only to published mystery writers. He instructs English 325, a cre ative writing course that covers short stories, poetry, plays and feature articles. to appear before the constitutional rights subcommittee of Sen. Sam D. Ervin, D-N.C., but repeated in a letter disputed statements that Schorr was being considered for a government job when the FBI investigation began last Aug. 20. Remarking that letters “can conceal more than they reveal,” Ervin said that although the ad ministration has invoked execu tive privilege in declining to tes tify, he does not believe an ap pearance “would cause the White House to fall in ruins.” Schorr said the investigation was ordered after his reporting brought a series of complaints from President Nixon; Sen. Rob ert Dole, the Republican national chairman, and White House staff members. If the White House actually had been considering him for a job under those circumstances, Schorr said, “it would have been an extraordinary open-minded thing for them to have done.” He said reports printed in The Washington Post that he was be ing considered for an executive position on the Council on Envi ronmental Quality were “news to me,” and that no one in the gov ernment has ever told him direct ly he was being considered for a job. In a letter to Ervin, FBI Di rector J. Edgar Hoover said his agents, acting on White House orders, made a routine check on Schorr, interviewing 25 persons in eVk hours before being called off. “The incomplete investigation of Mr. Schorr was entirely favor able concerning him, and the re sults were furnished to the White House,” Hoover said. “Job or no job, the launching of such an investigation without consent demonstrates an insensi tivity to personal rights,” Schorr said. “Most of my colleagues believe that I was subjected to harass ment,’’ he said. He expressed belief Americans would be more com fortable if legal safeguards ex isted to bar what he called “an arbitrary intrusion into their lives.” Schorr said he found himself in a “no-win” situation, because to publicize his own problems with the administration could only tar nish his neutrality as a journal ist. He said he had to avoid be coming emotional because “If the administration could push met 3AF*' the role of its open antagotj hrar - *. that would serve its purpose ■ 01- : well, or better, than intimidac red me into pulling my punches; Schorr said: “I’ve never before felt tint a great number of people no longer an honorable thing be a newsman. “For if you can discredit! press, it doesn’t make muchi ference anymore what they | or write.” AL.LEN Oldsmobile Cadillac SALES - SERVICE “Where satisfaction is standard equipment” 2401 Texas Ave. 823-8002 sn ^ fs 100 SKAGGS ^ (ALBERTSONS V V n V DRUGS & FOODS y B\C U fREGUVARJii, B\C PEN EACH fcSSOR'ft 0 roV-OPjL ■h ALL METAL FILES m‘To C «r„ WORKBOOK ~ largest GU '°e SERvIce CED CHECK PERSONAL FILE SIZE gee-gie COMES WITH LOCK & KEY FOR INCOME TAX & PERSONAL RECORDS. JUMBO PACKAGE OF 6 REPORT C0VERSI ,, FOR vencvls cr V TO^tc. 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