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N ay, Novembers Che Battalion Character Is Not Made In A Crisis, It Is Only Exhibited. Vol. 67 No. 181 College Station, Texas Friday, Nov. 10, 1972 SATURDAY — Cloudy to part ly cloudy. Wind light and vari able. High 74, low 41. SUNDAY — Mostly cloudy. Wind easterly 5 to 10 m.p.h. High 71, low 48. 845-2226 agenq GES NATION 846-370S No.AHOOIln 'v nd , InstantDmi i |lsh -Spanish Cfe Vater Tested,^, der Tachymeieij,. otating Elapsej:-, 3. Stainless Steel,J . Luminous, aj-- Bracelet, Murderers, Repeat Offenders Shouldn’t Get ‘Good Time’ Benefits, Claims Snelson porting prices Seiko watches automation, y only for the at the time: it. ad ay and set aiko Chronc- /ith all the res iiko collecfe SEIKC PRICE ■ Xmas be ur lY 846-581S Murderers and repeat offend ers should not receive “good time” benefits the Texas Depart ment of Corrections accords all prisoners regardless of their crimes, Texas Sen. W. E. (Pete) Snelson believes. The practice returns inmates, regardless of their crime, to the streets in too brief a period of time, the third term senator from Midland said Thursday. He questioned whether too much consideration is given con victed criminals and not enough to protecting law-abiding citizens. “Texas ranks No. 1 among the states in murders, a distinction it Williams Elected Head Of A&MResearch Foundation President Jack K. Williams was elected to succeed Ford A. Al britton, Jr. as president of the Texas A&M Research Founda tion at its annual meeting in Gal veston. E. J. Mosher, chairman of Mosher Steel of Houston, was also elected to succeed Harry Moore as board chairman at the meeting last week. The Research Foundation is a nonprofit organization, incorpo rated in 1944, to serve the A&M faculty and staff in developing and administering sponsored re search. During the 1971-’72 year the volume of business increased at the Research Foundation by 11 percent to total $6,700,000. Director Fred J. Benson said most similar institutions nation wide experienced a decrease or at least no increase in their research volume. Dean of Engineering Fred J. Benson was re-elected as vice president and director and A. W. Davis, Bryan lawyer, was re elected as Attorney. Also elected were Mrs. Jo Ann Treat as associate director for fiscal affairs, comptroller and treasurer, Dr. J. M. Lewallen as associate director for program development, A. D. Rychlik as associate director of research ad ministration and secretary and Mrs. Mary Brennan as assistant secretary and treasurer. Memorial Rodeo Scheduled Sunday The Randell ‘Cowboy’ Russell Memorial Rodeo will be held in The Bryan Rodeo Arena Sunday at 2 p.m. Russell was an outstanding member of the A&M Rodeo Club, who died in October at the age of 22. Proceeds from the rodeo will go to his widow, Madeline Russell, and child. Scheduled events are bareback bronc riding, the down calf rop ing, ribbon roping, steer dog ging, barrel racing and bull rid ing. As special attraction, Ralph Fischer and his Bull-Fighting Buzzards will perform. The books open Saturday at 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. People interested should contact Larry Rice in Norman- gee, 713-396-2978. Corps Trip Rest Stop’ Set The Navarro County A&M Club (classes ’09-’71) are providing a “Corps Trip Rest Stop" in Corsi cana through 8 p.m. tonight. Free coffee and rest facilities will be provided for the A&M student body on their way to the A&M-SMU game in Dallas. Students should take Interstate Highway 45 to the Waco-Athens Hwy. 31 exit (third exit in Corsi cana). The coffee booth will be in the Stover - Enco (Exxon) parking lot. has held the last eight years," Senator Snelson informed a Po litical Forum audience at Texas A&M University. “There’s not even a close second, and the num ber increases every year.” “Most of the murders,” he stressed, “are performed by re leased convicts.” “There are many cases docu mented by the Texas Department of Corrections of ex-convicts com mitting murder who, without the good time provision, would have still been in the penitentiary,” he reported. The speaker worked on the 1970 Senate interim committee con cerned with the state penal sys tem. Sen. Grady Hazlewood’s re tirement left Snelson to pursue some of the study committee goals. Legislation he introduced to deny the good time provision to persons convicted of murder, crimes of passion and against other persons has failed twice. Snelson said his next thrust will be against the automatic nature of the sentence-shortening pro vision. “An inmate who behaves gets 20 days credit for each month served,” Snelson explained. “If he is a trustee, 30 days credit per month are given, which means the trustee prisoner will serve only half the calendar time of his sentence.” Good time is applied automati cally to all inmates as soon as they enter prison. Combined with the statutory limitation of 20 years imprison ment, the policy releases crimi nals after unbelievably short pris on terms, regardless of the crime committed, Snelson said. “Many juries have mistakenly sought to insure incarceration of prisoners by fixing 1,000 year pe nalties,” the 1960-64 representa tive and advertising agency own er commented. “It's futile, because of the stat utory limit on imprisonment,” he pointed out. “And this can be reduced to 10 years.” He noted that the penalty limit for murder without malice, which includes most murders, is two to five years. Reduced for good be havior or service as a trustee, such a sentence becomes “unbe lievably small for taking another human life,” Snelson declared. “The prisoner is out almost be fore being processed in,” he stat ed “and this has the effect of causing people to think our laws, law enforcement agencies and courts are doing a poor job of protecting the lives of citizens.” “I don’t want to take away the system of good time credits,” he added. “It’s a vital part of the system and workable form of prison discipline, through the threat of revoking good time for misconduct.” “But does the fact that Texas has an excellent discipline system mean the prisoner is being re habilitated for returning to the streets?” Snelson questioned. He said legislation he intro duced to provide for a distinction in application of time for good behavior has twice passed the Senate, but been shunted aside by the House of Representatives. Snelson said the death penalty is not likely to be reinstated, but he believes it would serve as a deterrent to crime. “We can’t line criminals up against the wall and shoot them,” he remarked, “but there should be laws that protect the public.” Rhyne Is Named 6 Young Engineer Of The Year 9 Dr. V. Thomas Rhyne, associ ate professor of electrical engi neering at A&M was named Thursday night as “Young Engi neer of the Year” by the Brazos Chaptex* of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers. The announcement came at the regular meeting of the chapter. Dr. Rhyne holds professional engineering licenses in Texas and Mississippi. A member of several professional, technical and honor societies, he has served each with distinction, especially the Profes sional Engineers Society. He is chapter director of the society. Last spring Dr. Rhyne received the General Dynamics Award for Excellence in Engineering Teach ing. Numerous publications, re ports and presentations attest to his technical competence. Dr. Rhyne and his wife, Glen da, reside at 3609 Oak Ridge * Drive in Bryan. IT’S UP! And so work can begin on the 1972 bonfire for the A&M-Texas game. The 90-foot pole was put up Thursday in two 60-foot sections with 15 feet buried underground and 15 feet used for splicing. Juniors and seniors will be able to do preliminary woodcut ting next week. (Photo by Robert Franklin) Denver Olympic Committee Withdraws City From Consideration For ’76 Winter Games DENVER UP) _ The Denver Olympic Organizing Committee voted Thursday to formally with draw Denver from consideration as the site for the 1976 Winter Olympics, but was restrained by a court order from informing the International Olympic Committee of its decision. The restraining order was ob tained by attorneys for three private citizens who said the passage of a state constitutional amendment to cut off further spending for the Games could not be interpreted as a vote against the Games themselves. The anti-Olympics proposal on Tuesday’s state ballot passed by a 520,000-345,000 vote, and a proposal banning the city from providing any more money was also approved by a wide margin. Attorney Harry L. Arkin said the injunction was sought to give the newly-formed Colorado Com mittee to Save the Winter Games a chance to go before the IOC executive committee Monday in Lausanne, Switzerland and plead its cause. “All we’ll ask is 30 days,” said Arkin, “and I think it’s possible to come up with the money.” The DOOC resolution expressed a belief, however, that the Olym pics could not be conducted with out financial aid from Colorado and Denver. “If we could hold the Games in Colorado, I’d be all for it,” said DOOC Chairman W. R. Goodwin, “but I just don’t think it’s possible. Colorado’s passage of the anti- Olympics amendment already has spurred the hopes of at least two other U.S. cities, and a half- dozen foreign cities, which would like a chance to host the 1976 Olympics. They include Lake Placid, N. Y.; Salt Lake City, Utah; Van couver, B.C.; Innsbruck, Austria; Grenoble, France; Oslo, Norway, and St. Moritz, Switzerland. Noted Evolutionist To Speak Monday Rutger’s University’s ‘Looking Glass’ will be the featured attraction next Friday as a continuation of the Memorial Student Center’s Town Hall Series. The program will be free to students with activity cards. Town Hall To Present ‘Looking Glass’ Looking Glass and the Corne lius Brothers and Rose will be the Town Hall attractions for Friday, Nov. 17. Looking Glass, starting out as a club band at Rutgers Univer sity, came out of nowhere in the summer of 1971 to sign with Epic. The group consists of guitarist Elliot Lurie, bassist Pieter Swe- val, keyboard man Larry Gonsky, and drummer Jeff Grob. Lurie and Sweval write all of the band’s material. They have played together, with Gonsky, for five years. Grob has been with them for two years. Looking Glass began to attract interest even before the release of Unmmuty Notional Bank “On th« Bida of Texas AAML” —Adv. their first album. Van Morrison is recording “Brandy,” written by Lurie. Returning the favor, Morrison wrote a song for Looking Glass called “Redwood Tree.” So far, the dramatic upturn in the group’s career has not affect ed the group. They keep their music at arm’s length by spend ing most of their time on their 82-acre farm in New Jersey. Lurie, chief musical idea man for the group, wrote “Brandy,” “Don’t It Make You Feel Good,” “Golden Rainbow,” and “From Stanton Station” on the album. Lurie and Sweval share lead vocals. Sweval occasionally solos on the harp. He wrote “Jenny- Lynne” and “One by One” on the album. Sweval also wrote “Dealin’ With The Devil” and “Catherine Street.” Gonsky, who plays piano, or gan, and electric piano, sings background vocals and arranges most of the string and horn parts on the album. Grob, who went to Rider Col lege, while his bandmates were at Rutgers, plays drums and as sorted percussion instruments. Reserved seats for the 8 p.m. performance are $2.75 and $3.00 each for A&M student and date. All other reserved seats are $4.50 and $5.00 for non-students. A&M student with activity card are admitted free. Student dates are $2.50. General Admis sion is $3.00. Town Hall Series season tickets are honored. For tickets and in formation call the Student Pro gram Office, 845-1515. Robert Ardrey, author, lecturer and playwright whose recent books on the evolutionary nature of man rocked the intellectual and scientific world, will speak Monday at Texas A&M. Ardrey’s 8 p.m. Great Issues lecture will be in G. Rollie White Coliseum. It will be his only ap pearance in Texas this year. “Order and Disorder,” an in spection of the problem of social balance and imbalance, will be his topic. Ardrey’s books, “African Gene sis,” “The Territorial Imperative” and “The Social Contract” have stirred world-wide controversy in the vein of Immanuel Velikov- sky’s “Worlds in Collision,” “Ages in Chaos” and “Earth in Upheaval” during the 1950s. “The most important book since Darwin” and “wildly wrong” greeted “African Gene sis” when it was published in 1961. The Wide World Lecture Bureau, through which Great Is sues acquired the speaker, main tains the book’s thesis has been largely confirmed. “Ardrey assaults the most ven erated notions of 20th Century psychology and anthropology,” reviewed the Los Angeles Times. “. . . This is a disturbing book— no idol, not Freud, not Watson, is untargeted in this examina tion.” Edmund Fuller wrote in the Wall Street Journal that it “will outrage some who have intellec tual territory to defend . . . will chafe the liberal syndrome more than any other. It is devastating to the Communist theory.” Ardrey, who also lectures on population control, biology of be- prosperity, comes to TAMU in conjunction with the L.S.B. Leak ey Foundation. Great Issues chairman T. C. Cone said admission will be 25 havior and man’s survival amidst cents per student with activity card and $1 for others. A native Chicagoan in his 60s, Ardrey majored in the natural and social sciences at the Uni versity of Chicago. For some (See Noted, page 3) Monroe To Speak On Birth Of Confederacy In Lecture Series Presentation Tuesday Night Dr. Haskell M. Monroe Jr., Texas A&M’s 1972-73 University Lecturer, will speak on “The Birth of the Confederate States of America” at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Zachry Engineering Cen ter auditoi'ium. Monroe’s talk will be the sec ond in the 1972-73 University Lecture Series. The University Lecturer is selected each year by members of the University Lec tures Committee and is the only TAMU faculty member to speak during the series. A member of the TAMU facul ty since 1959, Dr. Monroe was named assistant vice president for academic affairs earlier this year. He also is professor of history. Widely considered an authority on the development of the Con federacy, Dr. Monroe’s Univer sity Lecture will cover the period from November I860 to May 1861 —from the election of Lincoln to the Confederate government’s move from Montgomery to Rich mond, “Within this six-month period, a nation w r as created and all the basic decisions made which led to its defeat,” Dr. Monroe noted. In addition to providing insight into many of these decisions, Monroe will discuss some activi ties which indicate that secession Dr. Haskell Monroe of the Confederate states was well coordinated behind the scenes, rather than being spon taneous on the part of each state, as is popularly believed. Dr. Monroe, who holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Austin College and Ph.D. from Rice, is the author of several books, in cluding the first volume of “The Papers of Jefferson Davis 1807- 1840,” published last year by the Louisiana State University Press. The University Lecture Series, open to the general public free of charge, was initiated in 1963 to give faculty, staff, students and other persons the opportunity to hear authorities speak on sub jects of broad social, political and intellectual interest. Other University Lecturers have been Drs. H. O. Hartley, di rector of the Institute of Statis tics; George Carter, distinguished professor of geography; T. J. Hirsch, professor of civil engi neering, and Bruno J. Zwolinski, director of the Thermodynamics Research Center.