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Festivities, Ceremonies, Protests Mark Nixon’s Inauguration WASHINGTON <A>) _ Three days of festivity, ceremony and protest marking President Nix on’s second inauguration were to begin Thursday with a gala re ception for Vice President and Mrs. Spiro T. Agnew. Scene of the vice president’s reception was a Smithsonian Mu seum hall, beneath the huge, tat tered Old Glory that inspired “The Star Spangled Banner.” Scheduled to follow the recep tion was a “Salute to the States” — the first of a series of shows, concerts and balls both to cele brate the 55th inauguration of a president and to raise money to pay the estimated $4-million cost of this one. The theme throughout the three days of festivities and a worship service Sunday is “Spir it of ’76,” recalling the formative years of the nation and looking forward to the celebration of its 200th anniversary in 1976. The capital is dressed up for President Nixon’s swearing-in Saturday with red, white and blue bunting and bleachers up and down the Pennsylvania Ave nue parade route. At each end of the avenue are elaborate stands, one at the Cap itol where the President will take the 35-word oath of office at noon, and the other in front of the White House where he will review the parade that will fol low him down the street. But the Inaugural Committee’s executive director, Jeb S. Ma- gruder, Thursday reiterated his concern that antiwar demonstra tions Saturday may trigger vio lence to mar the festivities. Magruder, interviewed on the CBS Morning News, said “hard core radicals” will be among the demonstrators and previously have “promulgated violence” dur ing protests in Washington and at the Republican National Con vention in Miami Beach last Aug ust. The Pentagon announced that about 2,000 Marines, Army para troopers and .military policemen’ from Ft. Bragg, N. C., and Ft. Meade, Md., were being brought to Washington Thursday to stand by in case of trouble. Undeterred by the joint U.S.- North Vietnamese announcement Thursday that secret peace talks would resume in Paris next week, sponsors of the antiwar march predicted tens of thousands would participate. Magruder called on four members of Congress sup porting the demonstration to urge that they be peaceful. One of the four, Rep. Bella S. Abzug, D-N.Y., termed it ironic that the peace call came from an administration that “dropped mil lions of tons of bombs on civil ians.” Battalion College Station, Texas Friday, January 19, 1973 Everyone Excels In Something- In Which Another Fails. FRIDAY — Increasing cloudi ness. Warmer tonight. High 77, low 47. SATURDAY—Scattered show ers & thundershowers. High of 69. 845-2226 STUDENT REVENGE wasn’t exactly the case as University Police officer Bob Per- kings watches a local wrecker serviceman prepare to tow away one of the A&M’s several police cars from the corner of Ross and Spence Sts. A broken left front suspension caused a blockage of traffic and the tow-away. (Photo by Steve Krauss) Sanders Gun Collection To Go On Display At MSG International House Proposal Tabled; New Rules Discussed Part of a collection of handguns recently donated to A&M by Dr. Sam H. Sanders of Memphis will go on display Tuesday in the Memorial Student Center. The Sam Houston Sanders Com memorative Colt Collection con sists of more than 200 firearms the 1923 Texas A&M graduate assembled. Working replicas of famous Colt guns “that won the West,” the 220 mint pieces commemorate various events and personalities of America’s rich history. The collection, appraised at The A&M enrollment increase last fall was among the top three of the 128-member National As sociation of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NAS- ULGC). Many NASULGC institutions reported actual or expected de creases. Total enrollment for all reporting institutions increased by 1.8 per cent, less than the two per cent growth for total higher education enrollment reported by the U. S. Office of Education. TAMU was third among 21 members of the state universities and land-grant colleges organiza tion with percentage increases The Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System will consider changes in residency requirements, tuition fees, and student assistance programs when it meets Saturday in Austin. Elimination of the requirement that a student from another state be “gainfully employed” in Texas for 12 months before being classi fied as a resident student has been recommended by a special Tuition Advisory Committee. The committee recommends that the student be required to reside in Texas for 12 months and estab lish “unequivocally” intent to be a Texas resident. The committee recommendation includes a listing of facts or ac tions which Texas colleges could consider in determining that in- $75,000, was secured for TAMU through the Association of For mer Students and efforts of its associate executive director, Rob ert L. Walker. Display of a representative tenth of the Sanders collection will be alongside the Metzger Gun Collection in the MSC, announced the Metzger collection committee chairman, Maj. Benjamin R. Schlapak. He indicated that the new dis play will be up only through March due to renovation of the Center. The entire Sanders col- greater than the nationwide in crease of 1.8 per cent. A&M’s 9.45 per cent increase was surpassed only by the Uni versity of California at San Diego and Clemson University. The dif ference was less than one per cent. UC’s Santa Cruz and Davis campuses also had percentage in creases greater than nine per cent. Primary reasons listed by NA SULGC for the slowup in enroll ment growth were self-imposed limits on enrollment and that the draft is no longer a threat to students. tent. If the Coordinating Board endorses the committee’s recom mendations, the Board would then recommend to the Governor and Legislative Budget Board that the statutory change be made. The Committee also is recom mending that the Coordinating Board endorse its recommenda tion that the minimum family in come for families whose children would be eligible for exemption of tuition under the Connally-Car- rillo Act be increased from its present $4,800 to $6,000 per year. Also, the Board will consider a recommendation that valedic torians of Texas high schools be exempt from payment of tuition and fees at Texas colleges for four years rather than just for their freshman year. Other items on the Coordinat- lection will be incorporated in MSC displays after construction is completed. “Of the 92 Colt commemorative issues, Dr. Sanders’ collection con tains all but four, which makes the collection quite rare,” com mented Maj. Schlapak, associate professor in the Military Science Department. “We have been assured that as new models become available, they will be added to the collection,” he said. While the handguns are fully operable, none has ever been fired. “As a matter of fact, none of them has ever been cocked and snapped, which reduces the value of a piece,” Schlapak remarked. Colt limited production on most of the commemorative issues to about 500. Only 25, 50 or 100 issues were produced of many of the models. Some of the individual items in the collection are ex tremely rare. “It is a very attractive collec tion,” Schlapak stated. “Various pieces are gold and silver plated, and have ivory and bone handles.” Included is an 1851 set of cap percussion firearms called the Grant and Lee pistols. The com memorative .45 caliber automatic used in World Wars I and II is displayed in a vertical case with a map of the battlefield. ing Board agenda for Jan. 20 in clude: —Requests to conduct elections to create two new community col leges—one in Brazos County (Bryan-College Station) and one whose district would be the same as the Fort Bend ISD. Fort Bend County is in the Houston metro politan area. —Consideration of grant re quests from Southwest Texas State University, The University of Texas at Austin and Texas Tech University to fund commun ity service and continuing educa tion projects. —Consideration of an amend ment to the Instructional Admin istration Formula to provide for the increased cost of administer ing nurse education programs at A proposal asking for the Stu dent Senate support for the con struction of a place on campus where international students can meet, socialize and cook their native foods was tabled 41 to 40 at the Senate meeting Thursday night. Frederick Mach, former Inter national Student chairman, asked for the Senate’s support of this proposal to help overcome the psychological barrier between the international students and Amer ican students on campus. “There is no central meeting place for the international stu dents at A&M. Other campuses such as Michigan State and San ford University do provide meet ing places for their students,” Mach said earlier. Shariq Yosufzai (Mclnnis- Schumacher) offered a friendly amendment proposing that the Senate support the concept of a facility for both international and American students which would provide an international cosmopolitan environment. He also included the suggestion that an area in the corner of the Memorial Student Center lounge be considered. The amendment was not ac cepted by Paul Turner who put the motion on the floor. “The Serpentine Lounge in the MSC is to be converted into an international lounge with the completion of the new building,” said Sam Walser, MSC Council member. “It is near the ballroom area which does have a kitchen for organizational use.” “But I do not believe this inter national lounge in the MSC will be the answer to the resolution,” continued Walser, “because at A team of environmental trou ble-shooters from A&M is help ing cities, industry, and individ uals locate and solve environmen tal problems. Supported by the Commerce De partment’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Sea Grant scientists under Project Di rector J. Martin Hughes are bringing the results of their re search and technical expertise di rectly to bear on knotty problems of coastal ecology. Representing 10 disciplines in the Environmental Engineering Division of the university, the team began operations in Sep tember. It responds to requests for help by sending out task forc es of one or more team members multiple geographical locations. Three institutions — The Univer sity of Texas Nursing School (Systemwide), Texas Woman’s University, and Prairie View A&M College—offer nurse educa tion programs at locations which require separate instructional ad ministrative offices. The Coordinating Board is not expected to take action on pend ing requests from five Texas in stitutions to offer additional pro grams in legal education. The Board’s Legal Education Advis ory Committee has been studying the question and is expected to make its final report to the Board within the next few days. How ever, Coordinating Board consid eration of the institutional re quests will be scheduled for a later meeting. this time the MSC is closed dur ing holiday periods when the international students would most need the facilities.” A petition with the signatures of ten senators will place the motion back before the approval of the Senate. Fred Campbell, rules and regu lations committee chairman and Bill Hartsfield, academic affairs chairman, presented several re visions to the Senate concerning the first half of the academic regulations in the University Rules and Regulations handbook. Substitutions for current 1 poli cies include: “Registration for 21 hours or more must be approved by the student’s department head.” “The instructor of a course shall not be informed by the Registrar’s Office that the stu dent is taking his course on a pass/fail basis.” It was also proposed that poli cies 16, 18 and 20 concerning the dropping of a student from a course be deleted from the book. “We are attempting to stream line the book for easier reading, less complications in finding in formation and to include only rules and regulations,” said Campbell. The revisions are still subject to the approval of the Senate. The Fair Housing Committee under the direction of External Affairs Chairman Barb Sears asked for the Senate support of a tenant’s rights publication and a landlord and apartment evalu ation publication. “The second publication needs financial backing from the Sen ate,” said Sears. “Production costs are unknown as yet, but will be available at the next meeting. Both publications will probably with the appropriate training and experience to analyze the prob lem and recommend action. The action recommended may be specific enough to provide a solution, or—when the problems are extremely complex—may sug gest employing commercial con sultants to design solutions, or consulting government agencies that can provide financial or tech nical assistance. For example, a problem recent ly brought to the group was posed by a shipyard that specalizes in marine repairs and barge clean ing processes. Their work in volves noxious effluents which the yard has heretofore dumped into the Houston ship channel, a practice which the yardowner fears may lead to heavy fines under new state legislation. The team study of his problem took three directions. They ad vised the yardowner of the ap propriate laws, including both technical provisions and penal ties; they made an engineering review of his treatment process; and they advised him of other facilities with similar problems, suggesting possibilities such as that several yards together put in a treatment plant that indi vidually none could afford. “As individuals, we have knowl edge and experience that can be used to zero in on specific en vironmental problems,” explains Dr. Roy W. Hann, Jr., head of the university’s Environmental Engi neering Division and member of the team. “As a team, we now have the mechanism through which our help can be sought and advice rendered. The environmen tal team has taken the long-suc cessful idea of agricultural exten sion work—so important to land be made available through regis tration.” Members of a Constitutional Evaluation Committee to examine and evaluate the present consti tution are Fred Campbell, Layne Kruse, Randy Ross, Joe Arre dondo, Ron Kranavek, Bill Harts field, Sam Walser and Mark Blakemore. A Reapportionment Committee was also formed to evaluate the Retired Army Maj. Gen. Wil liam A. Harris of San Antonio Tuesday will present the Legion of Valor Society’s Bronze Cross for Achievement to two A&M cadets. The award consisting of a medal and citation recognizes demonstrated academic and lead ership excellence. The ceremony will take place at the Memorial Plaza in the Corps of Cadets area prior to an evening meal passby and the A&M-Texas basketball game. Congressional Medal of Honor holder Dr. Eli L. Whiteley of the TAMU faculty, among others, grant colleges—and applied it in a modern context in a Sea Grant college.” The Secretary of Commerce designated Texas A&M Univer sity as one of the nation’s first four Sea Grant Colleges on Sept. 7, 1971. In another trouble - shooting project, the team was approached by a small Texas city with a mal functioning waste treatment (See Ags Work, page 3) A&M may add a new program to its academic curriculum next fall if a recommendation by the Academic Programs Committee is approved in Tuesday’s Aca demic Council meeting. The committee has outlined a proposed degree program for a Bachelor of Science in Marine Sciences. The proposed program is not offered anywhere within the state of Texas. It will be one of the first, if not the first, of its kind in the nation. The degree is needed to fill an increasing demand in Marine Sci ences which was previously lim ited to graduate training. The program is new to A&M and is not an extension of a minor field. The curriculum is environ mentally oriented and structured to expose the student to a multi tude of scientific disciplines spe cifically concerned with the coast al and marine environments. The degree in Marine Sciences will strengthen the total academ ic program at A&M in several ways: (a) it will provide a focus representation system of the leg islative part of the Senate. Mem bers are Randy Ross, Chris Law- son, Steve Robinson, Pam Faulk ner, Chris St. John and Shariq Yosufzai. Layne Kruse, president, ap pointed the following senators to fill vacancies: Robert White (grad-engineering), Ron Miori (grad-business) and Jackie Hey- man (grad-off campus). will participate. The soil and crop sciences professor is a mem ber of the Legion of Valor So ciety, composed of personnel who have received the nation’s two highest valor awards, the Medal of Honor or Distinguished Serv ice Cross. Col. Thomas R. Parsons, com mandant, noted this will be the first time two Texas A&M cadets —to be identified at the ceremony —have been selected for the award since Gen. Earl Rudder was A&M president. One award is authorized per 1,000 cadets under Army ROTC contract in Army area. TAMU’s Army ROTC recipient was select ed from among nominees in the 5th Army area. One Air Force ROTC recipient is selected per Air Force area, in this case from among nominees by 22 colleges and universities in Air Force Area G. A U. S. Military Academy grad uate, Gen. Harris also wears the Distinguished Flying Cross, Sil ver Star and Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster, among other decorations. Gen. Rudder was a life member of the Legion of Va lor Society, founded as a Medal of Honor legion and chartered by Congress in 1955. for marine education in a coastal zone location where practically oriented field trips will be a re quirement; (b) the three-fold commitment by Texas A&M to teaching, research and extension under the national Sea Grant Program will be better served; (c) the dissemination of knowl edge particularly oriented toward marine sciences and resources will result in a better informed citi zenry. An enrollment of 90 students is expected by 1978, 50 per cent of these will be transfer students from universities and colleges within the state, particularly from junior and community col leges outside the Galveston com muting radius. These would be people who are, or were, attrac ted to a marine oriented pro gram which was previously not available in the state of Texas. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. A&M Enrollment Rise In Top 3 CB To Review Residency Law Ags Work On Environment Lincoln Union Debaters To Discuss Coeds At A&M Issue The Lincoln Union Debating Society will conduct the first debate of the semester Monday at 7:30 p. m. The debate, entitled “Should A&M Ban The Broad,” will be presented in the English debating style which is unique among Texas debating societies. A special prize drawing will be held before the debate. Admission is free and all students are invited. Army Gen. Harris To Present Legion Cross To Two Cadets B.S. In Marine Sciences Recommended By Committee