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The Inauguration Of Dolph Briscoe In Pictures... See Page 3 be Battalion College Station, Texas Wednesday, January 17, 1973 We Learn From The Past; We Live In The Future. Wednesday — Cloudy. Scatter ed showers. High 73, low 51. Thursday — Cloudy. Scattered showers, clearing towards eve ning. High of 79. 845-2226 A&M Day Care Center Ready To Open Doors i schedi the Te ie the J nd the ) NASC rious ol lanned eompl 76 (OTi AMES at Ha’ ech at MILES LADU, JR., of Austin, met his match in Texas’ tew Governor, Dolph Briscoe, Tuesday afternoon. The mall youngster was given a boost by his father to shake the ‘big’ hand during the Inaugural Parade in front of the Capitol Building. Mrs. Briscoe is at the far right. (Photo by Mike Rice) SCONA XVIII Preparations Conti nue Delegate Applications Being Accepted uston i A&M students began applying Monday for 30 delegate positions exas Afo the 18th Student Conference [m National Affairs (SCONA). Applications will be taken un- ajlm F r iday, Dean of Students ames P. Hannigan announced, hterviews will be conducted Jan. 2-26. Based on the premise that con trols are widespread in America oday, SCONA XVIII will ex amine “The Controlled Society” nth L. Patrick Gray, acting director of the FBI, one of the prominent speakers. Cong. Olin E. Teague helped SCONA XVIII acquire the FBI acting director. Gray became the acting director upon the death of Director J. Edgar Hoover. Gray has been recommended by Presi dent Nixon as full director, on" which Senate confirmation may not come until March. His SCONA topic is “The Control of Crime in a Free Society.” Among other SCONA XVIII speakers are Harvard law pro fessor Arthur R. Miller, Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Nicholas Johnson and Dr. Jack Michael, behavioral psychologist at Western Michigan University. Sessions of the Feb. 14-17 con ference will consist of plenary presentations by well-known Karate Demonstration Planned By A&M Club Next Week Texas A&M Tae Kwon Do Club lis now giving demonstrations and I registering students for karate [classes to begin next week. “Karate is not only a means of I self-defense, but it is also a great I way to get in shape and get in- Ivolved in a sport that is sweep ing the United States,” said (Steve Powell, chief instructor. Powell has a first degree black (belt and is assistant Texas State Representative for the United States Karate Association. He is also a third year management major and intends to get his 1 MBA. Sixty-seven students attended i last semester’s classes. “Korean karate is the best known and widest spread style of karate in the U.S.,” Powell continued. “Over 51 per cent of the karate practitioners in the U.S. are Korean Stylists.” Last semester several of Pow ell’s students placed in their re spective divisions of competition. Charles Senning, fourth class purple belt, placed second in Ka rate and third in kumite (free style sparring) at the TAMU Karate Championships sponsored by the club in December. Sen ning also placed first in kumi- teina at the Southwest Confer ence Karate Tournament in Waco. Leo Novak, green belt, placed third in Waco while Greg Log- winuk, seventh class yellow belt, placed second in kumite at A&M Banking is a pleasure at First Bank & Trust. Adv. and first in Waco. Powell took fourth place in the Capitol City Karate Champion ships in Austin. Demonstrations and registra tions for the classes are in Room 257 of G. Rollie White Coliseum Wednesday and Thursday at 6:30 p.m. Classes begin Jan. 22. For further information Steve Powell at 846-3536. call spokesmen and discussion round tables moderated by other out standing leaders from industry, government and education. “SCONA XVIII will address itself to an examination of the nature and extent of present con trols, the implications of in creased or decreased controls, and the alternatives to control,” com mented Chairman Chet Edwards. He said five specific areas to be given attention are: 1) the dilemma between control of crime and protection of basic freedoms; 2) big business control of govern ment policies and consumer be havior; 3) federal regulation of mass media; 4) implications of social control through behavior modifications and psychosurgery, and 5) biological control result ing from genetic engineering and asexual reproduction. Students applying for TAMU delegate slots will be interviewed by committees composed of fac ulty and students, Hannigan said. Interviews will be conducted be tween 3 and 7 p.m. Jan. 22-26. The TAMU delegation will con sist of 16 upperclassmen and graduate students, six interna tional students, four sophomores and four freshmen. Applications may be acquired and turned in at the Memorial Student Center director’s office. Applicants should have had a 2.5 or better grade point average for the fall semester and not be on academic nor conduct probation. Delegates from colleges and universities throughout the U. S. and Mexico have been invited to SCONA XVIII. By VICKIE ASHWILL Staff Writer TAMU Student Government Day Care Center will be open for operation Feb. 1 pending an ade quate number of children who have paid tuition, according to Randy Ross, vice president and treasurer of the Day Care Board. “The center is a professional operation with an educational en vironment for the children of A&M students in the two to four age bracket,” said Ross. “It is not a babysitting serv ice,” he emphasized. The state licensed agency is a non-profit organization to be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. five days a week at 305 Welbome Rd., next to the Unitarian Church for $55 per month per child. “Originally we were located in the Lutheran fellowship hall,” said Virginia Leahy, president of the board, “but we found a fa cility that offered more expan sion for the future and more equipment. Without the original help of the Lutheran Church the Day Care Center could never have opened.” “This location is convenient to the campus and offers a low cost for child day care,” said Ross. “The project will be fun, worth while and educational for the children,” said Dee Langley, teacher for the center. “It will also be a help to the students because the parents can go to class with the knowledge that their child is in a happy en vironment.” “In the beginning stages of the center it will be a place for social growth where we can get to know the children and the children can get to know each other,” Lang ley continued. “We will run the center with enrichment activities appropriate for the age level of the child.” Plans for a typical day at the center include free play and ex pression, verbal and listening de velopment, science, socialization and music as it becomes appropri ate. Outdoor play equipment is also available at the site of the center. “There are all sorts of things that a child can do in arts that are great for free expression,” said Langley. “We will offer a very reliable and secure care. Both the director of the center and I have done this before and we are both excited about the whole project.” Besides the day’s activities, the child will have a snack, hot lunch and an afternoon nap period. If interested in the program, contact Mrs. Jack Inglis, director, at 846-0779 or Dee Langley at 846-0972 to set up a personal interview with the child and par ent at the day care site. Deadline for applications is Jan. 29. Singing Cadets Tryouts Set Auditions start today to fill vacancies in the Singing Cadets, participants in Tuesday’s inauguration ceremonies for Gov. Dolph Briscoe. The all-male glee club graduated several members last month and needs at least 10 more voices, Director Robert L. Boone indicated. Auditions will be held Jan. 17-24. Interested students should report for tryouts between 2 and 4:30 p.m. in Room 119 of G. Rollie White Coliseum. The Cadets performed three numbers at the Tuesday noon inauguration. They sang the Texas state song, “Texas, Our Texas,” “The Lord’s Prayer” and “Rise Up, O Men of God.” The organization that toured part of the state between semesters makes a number of additional trips each year. The Singing Cadets also perform at on-campus meetings, short courses and conferences. Noted Chemistry Professor Named ’73 Welch Lecturer Last December Was Indeed A Dry Month For This Area December left 1972 a drier than usual year. Only 1.37 inches rainfall was averaged over Bryan and College Station last month. Obtained from 33 gauges op erated in a Texas A&M meteor ology research project, the aver age was more than two inches below the amount normally meas ured in December. Brazos County in an average year has nearly 39 inches of rain. Many observers in the TAMU project were nearly 20 per cent short. December rain was fairly con sistent over the Carter’s Creek catchment area. A 1.9 inch read ing was obtained in the 1300 block of Laurel Lane. Two less-than- an-inch measurements were re corded in the 200 block of Roberts and south of State Highway 30. Steep Hollow had 1.7, Kurten 1.34, the Department of Public Safety on Villa Maria 1.23, the TAMU weather station 1.5 and Easterwood—-where official Na tional Weather Service measure ments are made—1.34. But 10 observers in the East Yegua Creek basin west of Cald well averaged only .82 inches in December. The National Weather Service outlook for the next 30 days in cludes better than four inches rainfall and near normal tem peratures, averaging 52.3 degrees. Easterwood measured rain on 16 days in December, the TAMU station nine. December tempera tures averaged 5.4 degrees below normal, with a 78 on Dec. 3 and 22 on Dec. 17. Dr. Frederick R. Eirich, distin guished professor of chemistry at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, will be A&M’s 1973 Robert A. Welch Lecturer. Dr. Eirich will speak on “Chem istry and Mechanics of Elastom ers” at 8 p.m., Feb. 1 in Room 231 of the Chemistry Building. The lecture is open to the pub lic, noted Gen. A. R. Luedecke, TAMU executive vice president who serves as the university’s liaison officer for the Welch Foundation. Dr. Eirich has been a member of the Polytech faculty since 1947. He had previously taught and conducted research at the Uni versities of Melbourne, Cambridge and Vienna. He earned his Ph.D. from the latter in 1929. His major fields of interest are polymers, colloids, physical chem istry, biomaterials and rheology, pointed out Dr. W. O. Milligan, Robert A. Welch Foundation re search director who arranged for the TAMU lecture. Dr. Eirich has published about 135 scientific papers and articles in professional journals and has served as editor of “Rreology” and as co-editor of “Colloid and Sur face Science” and “High Speed Testing.” He is a member of the American Chemical Society, American Physical Society, So ciety of Rheology, Faraday So ciety, New York Academy of Vietnam Cease-Fire May Be Declared Soam / SAIGON (A*) — President Nix on plans to declare a unilateral Vietnam cease-fire to start on the eve of his inauguration and Saigon has no choice but to go along, South Vietnamese sources reported Tuesday. “Trust me,” Nixon was re ported to have said in a personal message to President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam. The sources said that barring a last-minute hitch Nixon in tends to order the indefinite cease-fire effective at 11 p.m. Friday Saigon time. That is 10 a.m. Friday EST. The President will be inaugu rated for a second term Saturday. The cease-fire would be de signed to convince the North Vietnamese to release American prisoners of war and take the final steps toward sealing the peace agreement under negotia tion by Henry A. Kissinger and H a n o i’s representatives, the sources said. The sources did not indicate how the unilateral cease-fire could be enforced or what the chances were for a positive response from North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops. But South Vietnamese and American forces presumably could continue defensive opera tions and would be authorized to open fire if threatened. For the longer term Nixon was reported to have advised the South Vietnamese president that an international agreement had been reached to guarantee against further hostilities by North Vietnam once the peace accord is signed. The Florida White House in Key Biscayne said it would have no comment on what the South Vietnamese sources said. In Saigon, there was no offi cial comment from the Presiden tial Palace, the U. S. Embassy or the U. S. Military Command. The reports emanated from sources with access to discus sions by Thieu and other high South Vietnamese officials on the latest draft agreement. One senior U. S. official said it was possible they were delib erately leaked by Saigon because of its objections to some condi tions it feels Nixon is imposing on Thieu. Nixon’s reported plans for a unilateral cease-fire in the South would run parallel to a bombing halt he ordered into effect across North Vietnam on Monday night because of progress in negotia tions with Hanoi and as an appar ent signal to Thieu that he now considers a settlement likely. There are other indications that a cease-fire and a settlement were near despite lack of an of ficial confirmation. Nixon’s emissary, Gen. Alex ander M. Haig Jr., conferred for 2% hours with Thieu on the lat est draft agreement before the Paris peace negotiators. The U. S. Embassy indicated further meetings between Haig and Thieu and said Haig’s sched ule was “open-ended.” This was taken to mean Haig hoped to get final agreement from Thieu be fore returning to Washington, thus laying the groundwork for Kissinger to return to Paris to okay the agreement with Tho. Other sources said the South Vietnamese president has ordered key military aides to Paris to join technical negotiators work ing on details of the prospective agreement. The latest developments gave new momentum to peace hopes and produced reports that an agreement to end the war already has been reached. These reports interpreted Nixon’s actions as an indication that Kissinger and Hanoi negotiator Le Due Tho reached a basic agreement during their six days of intensive talks in Paris last week. Some South Vietnamese gov ernment sources predicted a final agreement would be signed in Paris by the end of the month. Optimistic reports also came out of the North Vietnamese capital of Hanoi. A pro-Communist Japanese news agency, quoting informed sources in Hanoi, said North Vietnam and the United States are expected to sign an agree ment by the end of next week at the latest. The Florida White House said Kissinger will not return to the Paris peace talks before next week, and perhaps not then. Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler told newsmen Nixon will make no statement to the nation or Congress this week on the Vietnam negotiations. But Zieg ler left open the possibility that Nixon might say something about Vietnam in his televised inaug ural address. The South Vietnamese sources, who have access to exchanges be tween Washington and Saigon, said concessions had been made by both the U.S.-Saigon and Ha- noi-Viet Cong sides on essential issues blocking a final treaty. Official sources said an ac cord had been reached on the size of an international supervis ory group to enforce the final bi lateral cease-fire once the treaty is signed. Compromises have been made on withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops from South Vietnam and re-establishment of the demilitarized zone, they added. Science, New York Zoological Society and is a fellow of the Geographical Society. The annual lecture is part of an overall program of support which the Welch Foundation pro vides for TAMU, General Lue decke explained. Since 1956, the foundation has provided grants totaling more than $6 million for basic chemistry research projects. Baylor And A&M Plan Integrated Grad Programs Baylor College of Medicine and A&M University have formalized plans to cooperate in development and conduct of graduate pro grams, including cross enrollment of students. Final arrangements were ap proved by TAMU President Jack K. Williams and Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, Baylor Medical presi dent, in time for the start of both institutions’ new terms. The agreement is part of a previously announced overall en deavor for the two institutions to cooperate in fields of mutual in terest. “Purpose of this cooperative agreement is to achieve more ef fective utilization of the graduate resources of Texas A&M Uni versity and Baylor College of Medicine in meeting the needs of graduate students enrolled in either or both of the institutions,” states the basic agreement. Any student who has been granted admission to the gradu ate school of either institution has the privilege of enrolling in classes at the other institution, explained Dr. George W. Kunze, dean of TAMU’s Graduate Col lege. Dr. Joseph L. Melnick, Baylor’s associate dean for the Graduate School, noted participating stu dents will maintain their formal registration at their home insti tution. He indicated this cross enroll ment of students with a minimum of red tape opens up the resources of both graduate schools, adding that this avoids costly duplication of highly specialized resources, especially in the area of human biology and medical sciences. “The attraction of qualified graduate students into the com bined Baylor-Texas A&M Uni versity program will hasten the creation of new knowledge for the conquest of disease,” Dr. Mel nick said. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv.