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(Editor’s note: Jim Cox is a
sophomore political science major
at A&M. He hitchhiked to Miami
Beach to observe the proceedings
at the Democratic National Con
vention. Jim is staying in Fla
mingo Park with 2,000-3,000
other young people. The follow
ing is taken from a letter and a
telephone conversation.)
By JAMES Q. COX
MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—It took
me about 30 rides to get here.
There was no trouble. Everybody
was real nice. I never had to wait
more than 20 minutes at any time
for a ride. About one of every
five people who picked me up of
fered me a joint.
The people here in Miami
Beach are fantastic; with just a
few exceptions. The older people
are very sympathetic. They come
to the park to talk with us and
bring us food. We seem to be a
tourist attraction. The other
night, an old woman about 82
years old was smoking pot with
some of the kids here.
The police don’t come around
in uniform at all. There are
some plainclothes policemen, but
they ignore the drug possibility.
They don’t want to be in the po
sition of a uniformed officer see
ing a violation and either having
to do something about it or lose
face, so to speak.
The press has been paying a
lot of attention to us around
here. I’ve been filmed by all the
television networks and photo
grapher by four or five news
papers. This is happening to ev
erybody. It’s ridiculous.
Some reporter came over with
a political game and asked a
bunch of us if we would sit
around it and play. He seemed
to think we were anxious for pub
licity. It surprised him when we
refused to play. It seems that
television and the press have
been trying to drive us crazy.
There are almost as many of
them as of us, and they are con
stantly taking pictures. They are
worst at night because then they
keep us awake with flashing
lights and floodlights.
I’ve participated in a few
peaceful demonstrations. I was
one of a group who formed the
line to try to keep that group
from storming the doors of the
convention center. I attended a
protest at one of the local coun
try clubs which doesn’t allow
Jews and Blacks as members.
You may have seen me in the
picket line. I was filmed by a
number of networks, I believe.
It was a good demonstration.
It had been cleared with the po
lice, and they sent only a couple
of officers and the head of the
detective squad to keep an eye
on us. It turned out very peace
fully. A lot of senior citizens
showed up and marched with us.
The greatest number of people
in Flamingo Park is definitely for
George McGovern. The rest are
for overthrowing the govern
ment. The feeling is that there
will be 10 to 20 times the number
of us here for the Republican
convention in August, because the
idea prevalent here is to dump
Nixon. Most of the young people
around me seem to be more in
terested in issues than in the men
involved. There’s always some
one discussing something, 24
hours a day.
The Yippies and the Zippies
are really getting after it. There
was a split in the Youth Inter
national Party, and the two
groups evolved. They hate each
other’s guts. The Zippies tend
to be slightly more controversial.
They have staged a number of
stunts to gain publicity, but like
virtually every other group here
(excepting the SDS — Students
for a Democratic Society) they
are dedicated to a peaceful con
vention.
The Yippies are accused of not
being serious and in this simply
for publicity and money. Most
of the people here are not affili
ated with either group to any
great extent. Both groups plan
demonstrations . . . most people
attend no matter which group ac
tually planned the demonstration.
I’ve seen a lot of well-known
people around. McGovern has
been around quite a bit. So has
Dr. (Benjamin) Spock. I’ve seen
all of the Chicago Seven. Dr.
Abernathy is camped nearby, and
Abbie Hoffman is here, too.
I don’t know who’s supporting
it or anything, but there are a
lot of signs around that say
“Farenthold for Vice President.”
I don’t think it would ever hap
pen, but I think it would be pret
ty nice if it did.
Cbe Battalion
College Station, Texas
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THURSDAY & FRIDAY —
Partly cloudy warm and humid
widely scattered thundershow
ers, wind eastern 10 to 15 m.p.h.
High 94, low 71.
warm
Wednesday, July 12, 1972
845-2226
Registration process
changed, explained
G. Rollie White Coliseum is the painting of maroon around
the basketball court, in the lanes underneath the goals and in the jump cir-
n pie in the center of the court. In the picture above, Aggie football player Clifton Thomas
jAVhs|shown applying the first coat of paint last week. (Photo by John Curylo)
By JOHN CURYLO
Editor
Registration for the second ses
sion of summer school will take
place Thursday beginning at 7
a.m. in Duncan Dining Hall and
being completed in G. Rollie
White Coliseum.
Card packets will be distributed
in the east wing of Duncan with
the announced alphabetical break
down being enforced. The academ
ic departments will be located in
the west wing, and the Housing
Office, Fiscal Office and taking
up station will be located in G.
Rollie White Coliseum.
This registration plan is the
result of suggestions submitted
by representatives of the Regis
trar’s Office, the student body
and other people involved, but
many of the changes were made
by the Academic Programs Com
mittee.
“I want it to be understood
that my office in no way endorses
this registration plan,” said Rob
ert A. Lacey, the registrar. “How
ever, we will support it one hun
dred percent and try to make it
work.”
farner says
Higher
education valuable
■Higher education has an “ex
traordinarily high” rating as an
’’investment return, the ultimate
(test of validity for spending the
Greer named
i assistant dean
fflof architecture
John O. Greer has been named
^asistant dean of the College of
(Architecture and Environmental
Design at A&M, effective Sept.
1, announced Dean Edward J.
liomieniec.
SrJfr
| Greer, currently 'assistant re
search architect and management
services director for the college’s
Architecture Research Center,
succeeds James R. Foster, who
has accepted a position with
Marmon & Mok, Architects and
Planners of San Antonio. Fos-
resignation is effective
Aug. 31.
K A 1957 A&M architecture grad-
i tiate, Greer served as an instruc
tor here from 1963 until 1965 in
conjunction with his work for
a master of architecture degree,
which he received in 1964. He
rejoined the university in 1971
i lifter five years as a partner in
| rathe Nacogdoches architectural
ijBfirm of Maynard and Greer. He
peceived his license as registered
larchitect in 1961 .
I The 38-year-old Port Arthur
Inative is secretary this year for
I the Brazos Chapter of the Amfer-
iican Institute of Architects. He
1 also serves on the Organizing
I for Practice Committee of the
I Texas Society of Architects.
tax dollar, maintains a major
university official.
“Education has always been a
good investment source, and
there is no shred of evidence that
it does not continue to be,”
stated Dr. Durwood B. Varner,
University of Nebraska chancel
lor.
But education is being forced
to adjust to changing priorities,
Varner said in the Monday key
note address of an Academic Ad
ministrators Seminar on resource
management at A&M.
Varner termed the present per
iod as one of a “crisis in confi
dence,” brought on by campus
unrest, rising taxes and no na
tional emergencies to meet.
“Enrollments are leveling, we
have a surplus of elementary and
secondary teachers for the first
time and more Ph.D.’s than we
need have been trained,” he said.
“All of these have contributed
to an increasing curiosity about
resources going into higher edu
cation.”
Continued pursuit of the funda
mental purpose of higher educa
tion — the creation, transmis
sion and application of knowl
edge for the benefit of all — will
depend on administration’s abil
ity to wisely apply resources, he
evaluated.
Education’s batting average in
this ball game is two for three,
Varner believes. The GI Bill sur
plus was handled with inade
quate facilities and depleted fac
ulties, and the technological crisis
of Sputnik was met, he con
tended. The influx of war ba
bies which doubled many univer
sity enrollments in five years
was a lost battle.
Higher education consumes 2.5
per cent of the gross national
product, compared to 1.5 per cent
in 1960. Studies project a lower
rate of expenditure increase, at
a level of 2.7 per cent of the
GNP, by 1980, the speaker re
viewed.
Other factors contribute to the
education crisis, Varner said, and
new ones will have to be consid
ered. Among those he summar
ized were:
—Enrollment increase rates
will slow down in the 1970s and
decline in the 1980s. “Some say
it will hit zero growth this dec
ade,” Varner said.
—Levels of state support are
clearly decreasing, with provi
sions only for inflation and some
new programs.
—The federal government will
become an active partner, not
just a benign source of funds as
was one time thought.
—There will be a renewed em
phasis on undergraduate teaching
with graduate programs hope
fully held static in the face of ef
forts to dismantle some existing
programs.
—More vigorous organization
for state-wide post-high school
education, with possible coordi
nation efforts on a regional basis.
—Collective bargaining will be-
Jcome part of future resource
planning.
—Movement closer to univer
sal higher education, in which
post-high school education will
be assumed for virtually every
one.
—A call for reform will be
come the most dominant theme
in higher education, with con
cepts such as the university with
out walls, three-year curriculum,
off-campus experience for cred
it and college equivalency, among
others, given priority.
The seminar, which will con
tinue into a second week at Bay
lor, seats 23 participants from
22 Texas institutions. The pro
gram features presentations by
eight college and university pres
idents, including Varner and
TAMU President Jack K. Wil
liams. Others are from Okla
homa, Kentucky, Sam Houston
State, North Texas State, Uni
versity of Texas of the Permian
Basin and Central Texas College.
Card packets will be distributed
beginning at 6:30 a.m. for those
students whose last names begin
with A-G. Those whose names
start with the letters H-0 may
pick theirs up after 9:15. The
last group, whose names start
with P-Z, will pick up their card
packets beginning at 10:45.
The finishing time for regis
tration is announced officially to
be 12 noon, but officials admit
that 3 or 4 p.m. is a more realistic
estimate.
In addition to enforcement of
times for card packet distribu
tion, a schedule has been set up
for entry into G. Rollie White
for completion of registration.
Those students whose last
names begin with A-G will be
accepted after 7:30, those whose
names begin with H-0 will begin
the second phase at 9:30, and the
last group, P-Z, start at 1 p.m.
No one will be allowed to begin
the second part of registration
from 11:30-1:00, in order that
workers in those departments may
have a lunch break, since they
will be required to work until
late in the afternoon.
According to the proponents of
the plan, it is possible that all
the card packets for one of the
three alphabetical groups will be
issued before the next group is
supposed to start, and the next
group will be issued packets
earlier than originally planned.
Also, the expressed purpose of
this registration plan is to try to
balance the disadvantage of hav
ing registration under two roofs
with the advantage of packet dis
tribution being inside.
However, it has been pointed
out that several physical limita
tions serve as disadvantages in
this case. First, the east wing of
Duncan is wide enough for only
10 tables for the issuing of card
packets. This includes space for
students to walk through after
receiving their packets.
Second, there is a problem in
regard to the lines which will be
formed to pick up card packets
and the lines which will result
from there being such a small
passageway to the west wing. In
the other plan for registration,
these lines were outside, where
the space was unlimited.
Finally, there is 1700 fewer
square feet of floor space in G.
Rollie White Coliseum than in
the east wing of Duncan, where
the second part of registration
was held in the first session.
One innovation, provided by the
Registrar’s Office, calls for a
numbering of stations in the west
wing of Duncan. The four rows
of academic departments will each
be numbered, and the information
of which departments are at what
stations will be provided to the
students before they enter the
west wing.
The academic deans will be re
ferred to as Station 5, and the
class card checkers are designated
Station 6. At the end of the Dun
can phase of registration, students
will be given an information sheet
telling what time registration in
G. Rollie White may be com
pleted. Also, precautions will be
taken to make sure each student
is checked out in the Duncan area
before leaving, so that a return
trip will not be necessary.
Late registration will begin
Friday at 8 a.m. After the lines
end Thursday, registration will
be closed. Once a student picks
up his card packet, however, he
is considered in the process of
registering, and no late charge
will be assessed.
“There is no way to avoid hav
ing lines in a fieldhouse registra
tion,” Lacey explained. “We hope
everyone involved will understand
this and do their best to make
things go as smoothly as pos
sible.”
There have been reports that
faculty demands forced this ses
sion’s registration to be held in
a shorter time. Last summer,
1,000 fewer students were regis
tered for the summer session in
a time span of six hours, 8 a.m.
to 2 p.m.
However, the plan which will
be used Thursday was endorsed
by the Academic Programs Com
mittee, which is made up of the
academic deans. Several meetings
have been held for the purpose
of explaining and promoting this
plan to the various administrative
departments involved and to some
representatives of the student
body.
“I’ve found that a vast ma
jority of the faculty is willing to
work with me,” said Roy Steele,
the assistant registrar. “This in
cludes registration and grade re
porting. But it’s the rest, who
comprise a minority, that com
plain and cause the problems.”
Hannigan recovering;
improvement is steady
A&M Dean of Students James P. Hannigan, who suffered a
mild heart attack two weeks ago, is improving steadily in The
Community Hospital in South Broward, Florida.
According to the latest reports, he is regaining his natural
color. Doctors say this is always an indication that a patient is
recovering from a heart attack.
Hannigan was moved from the intensive care ward to a private
room more than a week ago, and he may be able to return to Texas
in a few weeks.
Pass-fail offered second session
The courses available to stu
dents on a pass-fail basis for the
second session of summer school
have been announced by the Of
fice of the Vice President for
Academic Affairs.
The courses are as follows:
Agricultural Engineering 201;
Agronomy 301 and 417; Animal
Science 406, 414, 434 and 485;
Anthropology 201; Biology — all
undergraduate courses; Chemis
try — all undergraduate courses
except 485; and Economics 203,
204, 311 and 412.
Also, Educational Curriculum
and Instruction 356; Educational
Psychology 101, 105, 301 and
320; Engineering Technology
308; English 409 and 461; Fi
nance 341 (non-business majors
only), 420 and 485; Floriculture
102; and French 102.
In addition, Geophysics 485;
German 104; Health Education
231; History 310 and 412; Indus
trial Education 405; Journalism
405; Management 106, 211, 212
and 363.
Also, Mathematics — all
undergraduate courses; Meteor
ology 446, 453 and 485, provided
students have satisfied prerequi
sites for the course; Nuclear
Engineering 401; Oceanography
205; and Philosophy 251 and 331.
Also, Physical Education 213;
Physics 202, 219, 220, 350 and
405; Political Science 331, 451
and 485 (prerequisite is 206 and
207); Poultry Science 485; Psy-
cology 305 and 323; Range Sci
ence 205; and Recreation and
Parks 485.
Finally, Sociology 205, 306 and
310; Spanish 106; Statistics 201;
and Theater Arts 365.
Students are reminded that
these courses are the ones on the
updated pass-fail list which are
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
offered this summer. A much
wider range of courses are of
fered during the regular session.
The regulations governing
pass-fail courses, as quoted from
the university catalogue, are the
following:
“Undergraduate students class
ified as juniors or seniors with
a minimum overall grade point
ration of 2.40 may be permitted
to take a total of six credit hours
of electives during their academic
career at Texas A&M University
on a pass-fail basis as part of
the hours required for their de
gree. They must state their in
tentions to register on this basis
at their initial registration for
the semester. A student will not
be permitted to change the basis
on which his grade will be re
corded on his official transcript.
“The hours for which a stu
dent receives a grade of ‘Pass’
shall not be included in the com
putation of the student’s semester
or cumulative grade point ratio;
a grade of ‘Fail’ shall be included
in the computation of the stu
dent’s grade point ratio at 0.0
grade points per credit hours.
The hours taken on a pass-fail
basis will not be included in the
fifteen hours required in the
designation of ‘Distinguished Stu
dent.’
“Students who transfer to Tex
as A&M must have earned at
least thirty hours of credit at
Texas A&M before taking a
course on a pass-fail basis.
“A student must have the writ
ten approval of his academic
advisor or department head in
order to take a course on a pass-
fail basis.
“Colleges may refuse to accept
students on a pass-fail basis for
courses requiring a prior in-depth
knowledge of the subject matter.”
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