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receivers are S: on the country, s teppond is currj nee’s second leij er paining all- cear. Tight end j and flanker >e just as devaiti . Hodge is the 'th leading rece?. msas imnning it, ,ered by Marsh I] s to the line-np e has been outd icing hurt dm orton and Jo e done most g for the Razorlt d Arkansas in rti ar with 831 ysij , for a 6.5 are is the inside t >n is the breati ■nsive line foi has John Bob Iriffin at theW and Glen Lowes Stuart Freelani ly the Ra i Kay Strain . the end spot) is and Don Ww les. 1 and Jim Rente i s are the Ai defense is headd Louis Campbel The safetys are! th and fresh) passionate Golfer Has Love For Land In Course Building hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Pro golfer Jackie Burke be lieves it takes men with love for the land to design and construct courses that challenge the player. His passion for the aesthetics of the game and A&M’s desire to meet people needs have resulted in two new degree programs which will directly benefit golf and the environment. Burke, who won both the PGA and Masters Tournaments in 1956, has volunteered his knowl edge and professional friend ships to assist TAMU in start ing the nation’s first landscape architecture option in golf course design-construction and a new turf management degree pro gram. The 18-m a j o r tournaments winner also is donating time and advice to the renovation of the 18-hole campus course, a project TAMU President Jack K. Wil liams foresees as a showpiece of related teaching and research. Members of the TAMU System Board of Directors saw a need for improved land use manage ment, ecological improvements and leisure time activities. Since golf courses are about the only large green open spaces in metro politan areas, the board, Dr. Wil liams and Burke put their heads together to develop a plan of action. Key administrators were brought in. A Golf Course Ad visory committee was formed, headed by Purchasing Director W. E. Donaldson. TAMU Land scape Architect and Floriculture Section Head Robert H. Rucker chaired the academic committee. Two master’s degree programs, both adding emphasis to aca demics currently offered, have been tailored to prepare students for professional careers. One is in landscape architecture, direct ed by department head Robert F. White, and the other is in turf management, headed by Dr. Rich ard Duble, agronomy professor. Both are interdisciplinary pro grams. Students study a mini mum of eight hours in the other field and each has a professional internship of one semester or one summer working in the field learning practical applications. In addition, Burke has pledged himself and professional golf friends to advise students on what they like and dislike about golf courses. Rucker reports the master’s program already has students en rolled. The golf course renova tion, with the first nine holes now under construction, will be completed in May. Wallace Menn, newly-hired golf course superintendent, rep resents the university as project coordinator on the renovation. A graduate of TAMU’s turf man agement program, he works daily with the course contractor. Rucker emphasized the course will become a student laboratory. “New trees, grasses, techni ques in teaching and research will be utilized,” he noted. “Peo ple will come to A&M to learn the latest in golf course con struction, design and grounds innovations.” Burke’s philosophy fits right in. The 25-year PGA tour play er thinks every hole should be a beautiful experience, not only to play, but for relaxation and rec reational beauty. The co-manager of Champions Country Club in Houston said most courses are designed “hap hazard, with a couple of pros telling the designer what they want.” He contends anyone can purchase some business cards and claim to be a golf course architect. “What we need is design with reason,” he continued. “There should be many shapes and forms, many designs. Some of the better courses were designed by men with a love for the land, not necessarily a good golfer.” Burke stressed golf course architecture “at all times should goad and challenge the player to beat the design. In 18 holes, you (the architect) hope you get him.” Che Battalion You Can Tell The Character Of A Man When You See How He Receives Praise. Vol. 67 No. 177 College Station, Texas Friday, November 3, 1972 SATURDAY — Partly cloudy, wind easterly 5 to 10 m.p.h. High 77, low 56. KICKOFF at 1:30—East winds at 5 m.p.h. 72.° 40% relative humidity. 845-2226 ctt* * edwai Station, Tens ITERNATIONALAAB BAKER ALLISON ORD PETTY AND IT HER NASCAR- ARCA STARS lent Discounl ield Tickets N w E D N E S D A Y N O V. 8 P. M. WATCHING THE REAL THING, a poster of U. S. Senator John Tower (Rep.) seems ready to tap a campaign- weary Tower on the shoulder at Thursday’s luncheon at the Ramada Inn. Not really asleep, though, he quite vocally endorsed Nixon strategies. Nixon Win Prospects Caused Hanoi Reaction, Says Tower U.S. Senator John Tower said Thursday that prospects of a landslide victory for President Richard Nixon are responsible for Hanoi’s finally agreeing to serious negotiations on peace. "The North Vietnamese can see the handwriting on the wall,” Tower said at a “Texans for Tow er’’ luncheon in the Ramada Inn Ballroom. “They know that Presi dent Nixon would keep the pres sure on them as long as neces sary to secure an honorable peace with the release of all our prison ers of war, rather than surrender to them as Senator McGovern would do.” Tower further speculated that a peace treaty will not be signed before the election. “Nixon does not want to rush negotiations.” “The terms to which Hanoi has agreed are essentially the same as those proposed by the United States nine months ago,” said Tower. “Thus, it was Hanoi, and not Washington, who determined the timing of the break-through on negotiations. “And it was Hanoi that an nounced the fact first. President Nixon would have much preferred to wait until all the details had been worked out and a final agreement reached. We must let Hanoi know we are solidly be hind our president.” But no agreement on honorable terms would have been possible had McGovern been responsible for negotiations, said Tower. “He admits that he woudl crawl to Hanoi and beg for peace.” “I think the voters of Texas have serious reservations about any candidate for the U.S. Senate who believes a man with those views would make a better presi dent than Richard Nixon,” said Tower. “Since my opponent is supporting McGovern, he either believes that or else he is putting his political ambitions ahead of the best interests of our coun try.” Tower emphasized that his vic tory by a large margin would strengthen Texas’ voice in the Senate. “We can do greater things by reaffirming our repre sentatives in Washington.” Tower also mentioned the fact that in his visits to South Viet nam, he has asked for evalua tions of all officers who received their training at Texas A&M. Results were 100% “Superb,” he said. Ags Donate Record Amount Of Blood In Two-Day Drive AO Closed The Aggie Blood Drive collect ed 946 units of blood in the two day drive. “Thursday afternoon, we were collecting over a pint a minute,” said David Russell, president of Alpha Phi Omega national serv ice fraternity. The drive by A&M students, faculty-staff and others easily eclipsed the former record of 803 units, established in 2% days last spring. Wadley Blood Bank personnel assisted by TAMU service organi zations were inundated with con tributors at mid-afternoon Thurs day. The Student Senate, APO and Omega Phi Alpha, national service sorority, cooperated in the drive. The final tabulation “should be well over 900 credits, perhaps higher,” Russell said. The drive was to have concluded at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, but large num bers of donors were waiting. Residence halls and Corps of Cadets units competed for awards in the drive, based on percentage participation. Yell Leader Policy Unchanged Senate Unable To Make Rules Changes By VICKIE ASHWILL After two and a half hours of repetitious debate and two roll call votes, the A&M Student Sen ate still failed to make any changes in the student yell leader election policy. Approximately 45 minutes were spent in discussion of alternatives pertaining to the amount of bi cycle registration fee and how many bike racks different regis tration fees will buy. The last roll call vote on the adoption of the revised yell lead er election procedures failed a two-thirds majority vote by one with the count being 55 for and 29 against. Fifty-six were need ed for a two-thirds majority. Only one of the five major re visions suggested by the Senate rules and regulations committee will be placed on a student refer endum. This revision concerns who can vote on yell leaders. The two revisions dropped along with the revised policy in cluded the deletion of the word ‘male,’ the omission of the initial screening of candidates by the yell leader committee, the chang ing of the yell leader committee to consist of three university staff members and four members of the Student Government, and that the committee with two- thirds approval of the Senate could remove yell leaders. The yell leader debate was init iated with a talk by Dr. Jack Woods of the A&M Political Science Dept, on the constitu tionality of the word ‘male’ in the requirements. “From the conservative point of view,” said Woods, “if you really believe somebody is about to test you and there is a fairly good chance you’ll end up in court, then there is a fairly good chance you’ll lose.” He then said that from a prob ability point of view, a female would have the odds against her in the courts unless she could show substantial evidence for her being a yell leader and a reason why a female could do the same job as a male. “What we’re trying to do is allow the student body to vote on a decision,” said Fred Campbell, chairman of the Rules and Regu lations Committee. “Deleting the word ‘male’ is in no way suggest ing we have female yell leaders.” Curt Marsh (Soph.-Bus.) sug gested the addition of an amend ment to the revisions saying that it was the purpose and intent of the student body to keep the unique tradition of all male yell pleaders. This suggestion was put to a vote and defeated. After further discussion from both sides on the deletion of the word ‘male,’ a roll call vote was taken, defeating the proposal 51 to 33. Late in the discussion Camp bell moved to put the deletion of the word ‘male’ to a student ref erendum. “To reverse the vote of the Senate would be a vote of no con fidence for the Senate and a de cision concerning a referendum should have been made before the Senate vote,” said Barb Sears, chairman of external affairs. The three bicycle registration plans put before the Senate by Layne Kruse, Student Govern ment president and Steve Wake field, Student Services chairman (See Senate, page 2) ‘DIT-DIT-DIT-DA,’ could have been the phrase used by A&M political science instructor Jack Woods when he ad vised student senators of possible legal recourse which could be used in the fight over the word ‘male’ used in the Aggie yell leader qualifications. Former Joint Chiefs Of Staff Chairman A&M Bound Retired Army Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor will discuss “Intelligence and Presidential Decision-Mak ing” Wednesday in a Political Forum presentation at Texas A&M. The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and special consultant to President Nixon will speak in Political Forum’s noon series in the Memorial Stu dent Center Ballroom. Admission will be 25 cents per student and $1 for others. Gen. Taylor recently recom mended that any future president should think long and hard be fore taking on a new fighting commitment. He classified three errors in U. S. strategic thinking about Vietnam as “failure to consider the competence of South Viet nam; failure to know the North Vietnamese enemy, and failure to know ourselves, the greatest sur prise of all.” The 37-year military veteran who led the 101st Airborne Divi sion in the World War II D-Day (June 6, 1944) assault has said formal war may be out of vogue, but the U. S. has learned that other nations can inflict harm through propaganda, economic squeezes and localized conflicts such as Vietnam. Military representative of President Kennedy in 1961, Tay lor and national security adviser Walt Rostow visited South Viet nam and later recommended an expanded U. S. commitment. The North Vietnamese turned out to be far “tougher than any Communist force we had ever encountered,” the five-star gen eral noted in a September ad dress in Houston. Gen. Taylor went into Italy 24 hours ahead of a planned invasion in 1943 to confer with Italian au thorities for information to be us ed by the Allied commander. He received the Silver Star for the Rome trip, and also wore the Dis tinguished Service Cross, Distin guished Service Medal, Legion of Merit and Purple Heart among numerous U. S. and foreign dec orations. His military service included the superintendency of the U. S. Military Academy, the first U. S. commander in Berlin and com manding general of the Eighth Army in Korea. Gen. Taylor was the American ambassador to South Vietnam in 1964-65 and presidential consul tant during 1965-69. New A&M Student Directory Available On And Off Campus The new TAMU telephone directory is now available at the Student Publications Department and several other locations on and off campus, announced University Information Director Jim Lindsey. The 256-page directory, which features a night color photograph of the Zachry Engineering Center, includes office and individual faculty, staff and student listings. The faculty-staff section includes titles and both office and home addresses and telephone numbers. The student section includes campus telephone numbers and addresses, post office box numbers, academic classifications, majors and hometown addresses. Other features of the directory are the university calendar, athletic schedules and listings of leaders in Student Government, Civilian Student Council and the Corps of Cadets. A new section this year notes the appropriate Student Government representative to contact for information regarding specific phases of campus activities. The directories may be purchased at the Exchange Store, the Memorial Student Center Gift Shop, University Book Store and all local banks, as well as the Student Publications Department in the Services Building. University Should Be Like Computer, Says Calhoun In Machinery Lecture “A university should operate as a large computer, with in-puts, processing and out-puts,” said Dr. John C. Calhoun Jr., vice-presi dent of A&M for academic affairs. Calhoun spoke on academic ad ministration and faculty manage ment in the “University Machin ery” series sponsored by Great Issues and the Student Senate. At the sparsely attended meeting, held Thursday night at the Zachry Engineering Center, more faculty members were in the audience than students. “What is the business of a uni versity ?” Calhoun questioned. “Many people will be surprised. The student will be surprised when he finds out that it is not him, and the faculty will be hor rified when they find out it’s not them, either.” Calhoun said the real business of a university is knowledge or information. Calhoun said that A&M was roughly divided into thirds, one third for research, one third for traditional classroom education and the final third for public service. The academic administration is divided into four areas, according to Calhoun, an instructional pro gram (classroom activities), a re search program, a program for continuing education and several university-wide programs that in clude the community area. Calhoun listed two areas of main concern for the academic hierarchy as planning and anal ysis of present and future pro grams and external relations with other colleges and universities. “We are always on the lookout for what somebody else is doing that’s good,” said Calhoun. Touching on the subject of stu dent evaluations of teachers, Cal houn quoted another scientist as saying, “Often the teachers who were rated highest by students were the ones that taught them the least.” Calhoun said that there are two student questionnaires at use at A&M and some teachers volun tarily distribute them. “In the future,” Calhoun said, “I believe that the students will be better advised about the work ings of the university.” The next University Machinery presentation will be made by President Jack Williams in his speech, ‘TAMU: 2001!’ Williams’ programs will be made at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Assembly Room of the MSC. Prizes, Fun Slated For ‘Casino’ Casino, a popular feature of vilian Student Council-sponsored Civilian Student Week for the last two years, will reappear Sat urday at A&M. Students use issued play-money in a variety of games in the Ci- Unlversity National Bank “On the side of Tore* A&JML*’ —Adv. activity. After the games, prizes are auctioned. Action starts at 8 p.m. in the Zachry Engineering Center lobby. Games include blackjack, poker, roulette and dice. Admission is $2 per student, $3.50 per couple in advance or $4 per couple at the door. PULLING TOGETHER for the Arkansas-A&M game, varsity Aggie footballers joined in humping it at a yell practice held at Kyle Field Thursday afternoon. The Saturday af ternoon grid contest will begin at 1:30. (Photo by Steve Ueckert)