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Vol. 67 No. 210
College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 6, 1973
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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.
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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)