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A 21-gun salute by A&M’s Ross
Volunteers’ Firing 1 Unit is har
monized with the bugle’s sound
of “Silver Taps” in traditional re-
jpect for the death of an Aggie.
Silver Taps is just one of the
many Ross Volunteers’ activities.
The volunteers were organized in
making it the oldest student
organization at A&M and one of
(he oldest in the state.
Originally they were called the
Scott Volunteers in honor of Col.
T, M. Scott, who at the time of
^ organization, was the business
manager of the college and spe-
tial representative to the Board
Directors.
In 1891, the name of the com-
iny was changed to Ross Vol
unteers in honor of then A&M
Lawrence Sullivan
The name of the organi-
jation changed twice after the
death of Ross in 1898, but re
turned to its original name in
at the request of A&M Pres
ident H. H. Harrington, son-in-
law of Ross.
“The company consists of three
platoons,” said Bill Walker, com
pany commander. “The tallest
members of the company belong
to the First Platoon or ‘Trees’,
the medium-height members to
the Second Platoon or ‘meatballs’
and the short members to the
“Third Platoon or ‘Squats’.”
“Corps members can apply for
a junior position in the volunteers
and are chosen by senior com
pany members,” said Walker.
“Not more than 90 juniors are
elected each year.”
“Company members are chosen
on the basis of personal charac
teristics and leadership,” contin
ued Walker. “They must also
maintain a 2.30 grade point
ratio.”
“Being a member of the firing
squad is the most sacred priv
ilege granted to a member of the
Ross Volunteers and the greatest
or highest honor one can ever
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The firing unit is named at the
spring banquet which is prior to
April 21 each year. The firing
squad is composed of 21 second
classmen and commanded by the
Company Executive Officer.
Each platoon elects seven mem
bers with one alternate for mem
bership on the team. This year
Mike Thun, executive officer, is
commander of the Firing Unit.
“Activities for the R.V. Com
pany begin each year in the fall
with the Induction Banquet for
juniors,” said Adams. At this
time juniors are sworn-in, and
receive their ribbons and cords.
The rest of the fall consists of
drilling and training the newly-
initiated juniors.
Every other year the Company
attends the January Inauguration
of the Governor of Texas and
presides as his Honor Guard for
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Are Forgotten,
Do Not Perish.
the occasion. The group will see
a new governor inaugurated in
1973.
The Ross Volunteers attend the
Mardi Gras each year where they
are the lead element in the King
Rex Parade.
The new 21-member firing
squad is named at the spring
banquet which is followed by
Parent’s Weekend later in April.
This is the company’s last pre
sentation of the year. Outstanding
junior cadets from each platoon
and the company are presented.
The year concludes for the
R.V.’s with Muster on April 21.
“On April 21, which is the
anniversary of the Battle of San
Jacinto, Aggies everywhere gath
er together to pay tribute to
departed Aggies for the previous
year,” said Adams.
“This happens wherever there
are Aggies, regardless of what
day it is,” he continued. “Two or
more Aggies are all it takes.”
TUESDAY — Continuing fog.
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zle. Partly cloudy and windy
afternoon. Chance of showers.
High 66, low 38.
WEDNESDAY
Vol. 67 No. 191
College Station, Texas Tuesday, December 5, 1972
High of 52.
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WASHINGTON <A>> — The Su
preme Court agreed Monday to
rale on higher tuition fees for
niit-of state college students—an
We that could have heavy im
pact on fees paid by all students
it state-supported colleges.
The case accepted for review
next spring comes from Con-
aecticut. There a three-judge
iourt held students who had set
ap permanent residence could not
le charged the higher fees for the
length of their academic ca
reers.
Possibly riding on the outcome
the $200 million to $400 million
tollected by the states in non-resi
dent tuition each year. If the
justices agree with the panel in
Hartford, all students in state
colleges may wind up paying high
er tuition.
The Connecticut tuition system
was challenged by two students.
One married a University of Con
necticut student and moved into
the state from California. The
second was a graduate student
who moved from Ohio.
The fees, established by the
state legislature last year, allow
local residents to attend the uni
versity at Storrs for $175 a year,
but charge out-of-state students
$975.
The three-judge court in Hart
ford in striking down the system
last June, said that even if a
higher tuition is reasonable at the
start it is wrong to charge this
higher rate throughout the stu
dent’s academic career.
Connecticut appealed. It told
the Supreme Court the Constitu
tion gives states “a wide range
of discretion in enacting laws
which affect some of the residents
differently from others.”
Although not involved in the
Connecticut case, the new law ex
tending the vote to 18-year-olds
has deepened the problem of non
resident tuition. If a state grants
a student the right to register
and vote in his college town, many
educators see this as a prima
facie evidence of residence in the
state which would carry with it
exemption from the higher non
resident tuition.
A&M’s ‘Coach Bum’ To Share Philosophy
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America end at the University
Texas and now “brain coach”
for A&M, will share his sports
philosophy and colorful back-
fround with the Brazos County
A&M Club at the final 1972 meet
ing Wednesday.
Club president John West noted
the Wednesday evening program
includes election of 1973 officers.
Activities begin at 6:39 p.m. at
\llende Says ITT Attempting
To Start Chilean Civil War
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. UP)
-President Salvador Allende of
Chile accused International Tele
phone and Telegraph Co. on Mon-
of trying to start civil war in
country. He told other poor
countries to beware of powerful
il.S. firms.
"We are witnessing a pitched
battle between the great trans
national corporations and sover
eign states,” he declared in an
minute speech to a packed ses-
»ion of the 132-nation U.S. Gen
eral Assembly.
He recalled the thoughts of
Thomas Jefferson that merchants
claim no countries and are. inter
ested only in profits.
ITT’s chairman and president,
Harold S. Geneen, was not avail
able for comment in response to
Allende’s charges.
Allende, coming here from a
visit to Mexico, said ITT had
tried to prevent his taking office
after the 1970 election through
terrorist activities that culminat
ed in the assassination of Gen.
Rene Schneider, army comman
der-in-chief.
“Before the conscience of the
world I accuse the ITT of at
tempting to bring about civil war
in my country,” he said. “That is
what we call imperialist action.”
the Crown and Anchor Inn on
Hwy. 30, 1.7 miles east of the
Hwy. 6 bypass.
The 7 p.m. dinner includes an
8-ounce char-broiled chopped sir
loin and trimmings at $3.50 per
person. Reservations must be
made by 5 p.m. Monday at 846-
1223 or 846-7578.
West emphasized the club meet
ings are open to anyone interested
in TAMU.
Bumgardner, best known as
“Coach Bum,” is completing his
first year as academic counselor
for Aggie athletes. The Wichita
Falls native played football at
UT in 1942, then served three
years in the armed forces during
World War II before returning
to Texas in 1946. He was an All-
America end in 1947.
“Coach Bum” played corner-
back for the Detroit Lions in
1948, then started a coaching
career that included one year at
Denison and 19 years as head
coach-athletic director at San
Aneglo College.
DRUMS TOLLED Monday afternoon for naval academy
graduate Lt. Thomas S. Moore (’65) as he marched through
the Corps area quadrangle after losing his bet on the Army-
Navy game with Capt. Edward Schillo, a 1964 graduate of
the U. S. Military Academy. Moore and his lone bass drum
mer were accompanied only by the few choice words he
muttered as he circled the area.
Occult Master Speaks Wednesday
Masters of the Occult will be
the subject when Daniel Cohen
speaks to A&M students Wednes
day.
The Great Issues Committee is
sponsoring this presentation at
8 p.m. in the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom.
Editor of Science Digest and
one of America’s leading author
ities on the supernatural, bizarre
and occult is Daniel Cohen. He
examines fact and fiction, history
and legend, religion and super-
Political Forum To Host Dan Rather
CBS News White House Cor
respondent Dan Rather will speak
Wednesday at A&M in a Political
Dan Rather
Forum presentation.
“The Press vs The Administra
tion” will be the noon topic of
the nationally prominent televi
sion reporter-news analyst who
was bom in Wharton, studied
journalism at Sam Houston State
and worked in Houston.
A specialist on reporting na
tional politics, he anchors the
CBS Sunday News and has had
many prominent coverage slots,
on election night and at both na
tional conventions.
At the 1968 Democratic Con
vention in Chicago, Rather took
a nationally televised punch to
the mid-section, thrown by a se
curity guard who had been evict
ing a Georgia delegate from the
hall.
He has had other run-ins and
tum-offs. Rather kept a camera
crew on the White House lawn
past 10 p.m. on the night of a
crucial U.N. Security Council de
bate on the Israeli-Arab conflict,
in hopes of getting a post-debate
statement.
As Time magazine reported it:
“Enter, lawn left, President Lyn
don Johnson and Lady Bird, hand
in hand. Double take by Rather.
Then: ‘Good evening, Mr. Presi
dent.’ Pleasantries. The Presi
dent and First Lady stroll on,
then return to Rather. Cameras
on by now, taping. Almost ca
sually, the President tells Rather
that developments had kept the
U.S.-Russia detente intact, had
helped save the U.N.”
Among other things, Rather,
learned there had been “some
exchanges” with the U.S.S.R., the
first hard news on the use of
the hot line; that the Israeli were
not going to give up easily what
they had won and that the Presi
dent did not feel that anything
would stop the Israeli in pursuit
of admitted goals: Jerusalem, the
west bank of the Jordan, the Sy
rian heights, Aqaba, the Suez.
But it was a stifled scoop.
President Johnson didn’t know the
cameras were on, the press secre
tary passed to Rather through a
CBS executive. The material can
be used as the basis of a news
report, “but as for use of the
taped interview itself, the Presi
dent would Rather not,” Time
stated.
Rather’s talk will be at 12 noon
in the Memorial Student Center
Ballroom, Political Forum Chair
man Mike Lindsey said. Admis
sion will be 25 cents per student
and $1 for others.
Textbook Swap
Begins Wednesday
The A&M Student Government’s
Textbook Exchange Service be
gins Wednesday and will run from
noon until 6 p.m. through Dec. 12.
The project is a means for stu
dents wishing to sell or purchase
books to contact other people with
books or in need. Students should
call in and give their name, num
ber and book.
When someone calls in interest
ed in that book, they will be given
a number to call.
The number to call to register
is 845-5111. The project will be
continued January 15 through 19.
stition through the centuries.
He is the author of such books
as “The Modern Look at Mon
sters,” “Monsters of the Occult,”
“A Natural History of Unnatural
Things,” and “Voodoo, Devils and
the New Invisible World.”
Cohen has an outgoing interest
in the supernatural and refers to
himself as a skeptical observer
of the occult and bizarre. His
predilection for fantasy has al
ways been coupled with a science
writer’s desire to know the facts
behind the legends.
“I have, over the past few
years,” he writes, “crossed verbal
swords with many of the leading
lights in the field. My involve
ment in the occult has led me
to a number of televised debates
with such figures as the late
Bishop Pike, the medium Arthur
Fod, and a host of assorted as
trologers, palm readers, flying
saucer ‘contactees’, and the like.”
He recently spoke at the inter
national parapsychology confer
ence in France, and taught a
course at the New School for
Social Research in New York
City on strange beliefs of modern
times.
Born in Chicago, Cohen attend
ed public schools there, and then
went on to the Chicago branch of
the University of Illinois. Losing
interest in biology, he switched
to writing, and eventually became
editor of the college paper.
He graduated from the school
of journalism at Illinois in 1959.
After a job with Time, Inc., and
10 years on the staff of Science
Digest magazine, he took the
plunge — “with my heart in my
University National Bank
‘On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
mouth” — and turned to free
lance writing.
Cohen’s research and writing
have left him little time for his
hobbies — hiking and animals.
However, having been a city boy
all his life, he finds that he enjoys
the isolation of his farmhouse in
the country. He and his wife,
Susan, and their two-year-old
daughter, Theodora, live with two
dogs and two cats in Monticello,
New York.
Admission to Cohen’s lecture
will be 25 cents for students and
$1 for non-students.
MILNER SPIRITS took a turn for the better Saturday
as a group of dorm residents matched efforts to put up a
two-piece Christmas tree on the Ross St. porch roof, com
plete with lights and tinsel. Gary Anderson, (on top of lad
der) spearheaded the Yuletide adventure.