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he Battalion Revenge Is A Gun That Kicks Harder Than It Shoots. Vol. 67 No. 210 College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 6, 1973 TUESDAY — Partly cloudy and mild today & tonight. Slight chance of showers. High 75, low 57. WEDNESDAY — Partly cloudy and mild. High 77. 845-2226 stent J -oT«! romj Thail UNUSUAL DISPLAYS, gifts and dances were in store or those attending President Jack K. Williams reception ;we l| for international students Friday. In the top photo, Wil- Miams unravels a water color painting on bamboo backing given him by Usman Ahmed of Bangladesh. Mrs. Aimee sai, middle photo demonstrates her expertise in the Japa- Jiese Chopsticks dance while Carol Hazelwood examines Std#Car crafts with Arabian Kahim Bugaighis, below. arty k Former Students Give *875,000 During ’72 A&M former students contrib uted $875,000 during 1972 for scholarship and academic pro grams, leaders of the 55,000-mem ber Association of Former Stu dents were told Sunday. Robert L. Walker, TAMU di rector of development, reported total gifts during the past year were a record $1,915,895.49, a 90 per cent increase over last year. Walker, former associate execu tive director of the association, called it a "fantastic year.” He said 21,868 individual gifts were recorded, with the average unrestricted gift $74. Student scholarship donations for 1972 were $563,284.39 and an additional $93,412.67 supported student and faculty activities such A&M Names 32 Delegates To Attend SCONA X Mil A&M’s 32 delegates have been named to the 18th Student Con ference on National Affairs (SCONA). They will represent the TAMU student body at the Feb. 14-17 conference on “The Controlled Society,” which will involve stu dents from throughout the U. S. Various controls on society and the effects of more stringent ones as well as fewer controls will be examined at SCONA XVIII. Prominent speakers and round tables will deal with control of crime and protection of freedoms, business pressures on government policies and consumer behavior, federal regulation of news media, social and biological controls. Among featured speakers are FBI acting director Patrick Gray, Federal Communications Com mission Nicholas Johnson and Harvard law professor Arthur Miller. TAMU delegates were selected from 136 applicants through in terviews arranged for President Jack K. Williams by Dean of Stu dents James P. Hannigan. Graduate student delegates are Raymond L. Chancellor of Col lege Station; Mark L. Edwards, Beaumont; Joseph Luther, Bry an and Richard Zepeda, College Station. International students are Paulo G. de Castro Jr., Rio de Janeiro; Shahid Hasan and Sha- riq Yosufzai, Dacca, Bangladesh; Carlos Ramirez-Cancel, Puerto Rico and Victor J. Roman, Costa Rica. Senior delegates are David A. Ater and Jerry Campbell, Hous ton; Gary Reger, College Sta tion ; C a t h 1 e e n Schnatterly, Odessa; Shannon D. Turner, Col lege Station and William V. Wade, McGregor. Representing the Class of 1974 are Marvin Bridges, San Angelo; Edna De Los Santos, Corpus Christi; Aaron L. Donatto, Lib erty; Barbara Felkins, Odessa; Steve Grayson, Humble; Randle R. Ross, San Antonio; Barbara B. Sears, Columbia, Mo.; Joseph H. Walker, College Station and Louie Zingery, Westlake Villege, Calif. Sophomore delegates are Sandy Aboud, San Antonio; Jeffery R. Hollowell and John D. Nash Jr., Houston. From the freshman class will be Jeffrey Dunn and John S. Weber, Houston; Dana L. Graves, College Station; Margaret Nagy, Lubbock and Reynaldo A. Spin- elli, Brownsville. as helping a faculty member get his book published and various student organizations’ expenses. Other funds were used in develop ment-type programs The 125 association leaders at tending the annual Winter Council Meeting were saddened to learn of the death Friday night of Don W. Garrett of San Antonio, the association’s vice president for fund raising. Garrett, president of Frost National Bank and 1950 TAMU graduate, died of a heart attack in New York City. Walker, who gave the financial report in Garrett’s absence, said, “Don Garrett is due great credit for bringing us to the point in fund raising we are at today.” President Jack K. Williams spoke at the business meeting Sunday. He said a university’s only product is its students. He said the fame of TAMU graduates shows the university has an outstanding product. Dr. Williams said one of his concerns in higher education is for a student to make friends for life. That is something TAMU has done in the past and will do in the future, he added. Melvin Maltz of Houston, 1973 association president, said efforts this year will be made to improve communications between the as sociation and faculty-students. He emphasized the former stu- Texas Legislature Sets Groundwork For 37-Member Constitutional Revision Group AUSTIN <A>) — House-Senate negotiators quickly agreed Mon day on a compromise resolution creating a 37-member Constitu tional Revision Commission to ad vise the legislature when it meets next year to rewrite the Texas Constitution Tuesday. Each House is expected to vote on the com promise. Senators had called for the con ference committee after rejecting House amendments last week to a resolution setting up the com mission. The amendments would have allowed 91 legislators to veto the commission appointed by top state officials and spelled out that wo men and minority groups be rep resented on it. According to the compromise, a majority of each chamber would be necessary to veto the commis sion appointments. Representation of women; ethnic, social and eco nomic groups; and all geographic regions of Texas was declared merely “legislative intent,” in stead of a mandatory requirement. The commission will be named by a selection committee consist ing of the governor, lieutenant governor, house speaker, attorney general, chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court and presiding judge of the Texas Court of Crim inal Appeals. Sen. O. H. “Ike” Harris, R- Dallas, said he believed the com mission would be broadly based, even without the statement of legislative intent. “If I was one of those six of ficials—all but one of whom are elected by all the people of Texas, for purely political reasons I would want to see to it that it was broadly based,” Harris said. “If we don’t have 51 per cent women on it, you’ll have trouble right off the bat,” said Sen. Nel son Wolff, D-San Antonio, spon sor of the original resolution. Wolff also made a speech in the Senate saying that because of the coming convention, he would vote against any proposed constitutional amendments offer ed this session. Twenty-five amendments have been introduced so far this ses sion, and it costs $60,000 to sub mit a constitutional proposal to the voters, he said. Speaker Price Daniel Jr. dis tributed a memo to all House membei’S, saying he would submit for consideration as commission appointees any names they recom mended. dents association is a group which wants to work for the develop ment of a great university. Aggie Band Sweetheart Finalists Told Finalists for the 1973 Texas Aggie Band Sweetheart to be chosen Feb. 10 have been an nounced. Vying for the honor at the annual Band Dance will be Jerri Blackwell, Stephen F. Austin Uni versity junior from Houston; Cathy Chubbuck, TAMU senior from Tyler; Kathey Hesse, Texas Woman’s University sophomore of Waco; Becky Lofton, Aggie Band secretary, and Cindy Schuel- ke, Southwest Texas State fresh man from Lockhart. Sandmen will select the sweet heart by ballot at the annual dance in the lobby of the Zachry Engineering Center. Miss Schuelke is an elementary education major at SWTU and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Schuelke, Lockhart. A 5-7 brown-eyed brunette; she will be escorted by Philip Wales of Lock hart. Mrs. Lofton is the wife of TAMU senior Larry Lofton. The Aggie Band secretary is a 5-9, brown-eyed brunette. Miss Hesse studies fashion merchandising at TWU. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rich ard J. Hesse of Waco is a 5-2, brown-eyed blonde and will be escorted by Martin Kramer of Houston. A psychology major and Krue ger Hall resident at TAMU, Miss Chubbuck is 5-5, has blue eyes and blonde hair. Lewis Evans of Tyler will escort the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Chubbuck, Tyler. A green-eyed blonde, Miss Blackwell studies speech patholo gy at SFA. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Crain, Hous ton, and escort is Ray Bennett of Lufkin. Using ‘Pitch In ’ Effort APO Facing Full Semester ‘Golden Knights 9 Parachute Team To Perform At A&M “The Golden Knights,” U. S. Army parachute team, will jump Feb. 24 at A&M in a repeat Mili tary Day spectacular. Col. Thomas R. Parsons, com mandant, said the precision sky diving unit will perform at the Saturday review for Military Weekend. More than 15,000 persons viewed the Golden Knights’ four jumps last year, in which a va riety of parachutes and the para wing, a steerable airfoil chute that gives a parachutist gliding capabilities, were displayed. Ag Developing Selective Cancer Drug An A&M biochemist is working on a new type leukemia drug which would attack only cancer- ; ous cells. Existing cancer drugs are “in discriminate” and kill all growing cells, with the rationale being that cancerous cells are the fast est growing, noted Dr. Joseph J. Nagyvary, who already has one cancer drug development to his credit. His plan for the new drug is to synthesize DNA or take DNA directly from cancer cells and modify it so that it would repress the diseased cells or kill them University National Bank "On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. only. DNA determines the genetic make-up of all living organisms. Dr. Nagyvary, a Hungarian native who joined the TAMU fac ulty in 1968, gained much of his knowledge about DNA while serv ing in a post-doctoral capacity at Cambridge University under Lord A. R. Todd, the Nobel Prize win ner who initiated DNA research. The TAMU professor had pre viously studied for his Ph.D. un der another Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Paul Karrer, at the University of Zurich. Dr. Karrer discovered vitamins A and K. “We are zeroing in on leukemia because the chances seem to be best for curing that disease in the foreseeable future,” Dr. Nagy vary explained. The “foreseeable future,” how ever, could be a decade away. “It wouldn’t surprise me if our study goes on for 10 years—pro vided our initial research is suc cessful,” Dr. Nagyvary pointed out. The National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health is supporting the project with a three-year grant totaling $138,183. Dr. Nagyvary began his cancer drug research in 1968 with a $20,- 000 grant from TAMU’s Fund for Organized Research provided by the state. That project, in which Nagyvary was joined by William J. Broussard and John H. Focke, led to development of a new class of anti-leukemic agents called cyclocytidines. Dr. Nagyvary is currently com pleting formation of an inter disciplinary team for the new program. Mrs. Cecelia Kirchner and Martin Terry, two cell biol ogists, recently joined the project, coming from the University of Texas Medical School at San An tonio and Harvard University, re spectively. He also plans to col laborate with Drs. Colleen Moore and Robert Hurlbert at the Uni versity of Texas M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute and with Dr. Ferenc Gyorkey at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Houston. Alpha Phi Omega has more projects than weekends in A&M’s spring semester. Xi Delta Chapter of the na tional service fraternity will pitch in effort and enthusiasm to con ducting campus tours for visiting A&M Mothers Clubs, planting trees, painting a house through the Community Development Or ganization and scout jamborees, in addition to its regular proj ects. Chapter president Dale Foster of Bryan said 50 actives have been regular participants so far. “We’ll make it,” he said, “though there isn’t a free week end before the May 5 commence ment.” That is one of APO’s projects, providing ushers for TAMU grad- graduation exercises. Members also assist the university and community in a variety of other ways. They distributed 10,000 campus spring events calendars and free spiral notebooks to stu dents and assisted the Memorial Student Center Open House in setting up and cleaning up. The College Station Cleanup will be joined by APO, Foster said, along with the Cancer Drive and Bryan City Mission site development. Members also will contribute to the Elephant Bowl, a March 1 benefit football game, and join APO brothers on other state campuses in a Feb. 24-25 bathtub pull for the Heart Fund. Additional campus locator signs are in planning with Rob ert H. Rucker, campus landscape architect. The chapter will also participate in a Texas Forest Service tree-planting program, through Rucker. A district scout camporee and regional jamboree are due APO assistance, like the Aggie Blood Drive on April 3-4, the YMCA’s “Miles for Mankind” walk March 24 and campus elections! March 29. APO also plans to continue op erating Military Weekend and dance concessions, corsage sales and participation in the APO Re gional Conference at Nacog doches April 13-15. All chapter efforts are coordi nated by Milton Nielsen, vice president-projects, and organized by project chairmen. They in clude Mike Holley, Mac Walling, John Mazzurana, Syd Verinder, Mike Bunch and Bud Beene, among others. APO stresses leadership, friendship and service, and pro vides the means of extending the tenets of scouting into college life. Xi Delta Chapter was found ed at TAMU in 1962, with assist ance of Dean of Students James P. Hannigan. The chapter welcomed 25 pros pective members at its smoker last week, SLOPPY COOKING might be someone’s joking judg ment of the fire that occurred at Plantation Oaks Monday night, but that’s what it was. A pan of grease brought local firement and gendarmes running to the easily ex- tinguishable fire. (Photo by Steve Ueckert)