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Vol. 67 No. 181
College Station, Texas Friday, Nov. 10, 1972
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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
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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.