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bah« em 'eople, press, police react to youth at Demo meeting n l! to head t’. cnee DepaJi n I R 9TA.g:i 1 £»!! . STAg;, (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 Clear and 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.” Banking is a pleasure at First Bank & Trust.