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.
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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