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Vol. 67 No. 223
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, February 28, 1973
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U.S. Presses Demand
For Prisoner Release
SAIGON — The United
States pressed its demand Wed
nesday for the immediate release
of more American prisoners of
war and told North Vietnam to
dismantle missile sites below the
demilitarized zone or face action
Washington “deems appropriate.”
Maj. Gen. Gilbert H. Wood
ward, the senior U.S. delegate to
the four-party Joint Military
Commission, called on the Com
munist side in a stormy commis
sion meeting for “clarification of
an urgent basis” of the POW dis
pute, in which Hanoi has stalled
release of a group of prisoners
expected to be freed early this
week.
He said failure of North Viet
nam and the Viet Cong to release
POWs at the time indicated by
the Jan. 27 Paris peace agree
ment “is a clear violation of the
agreement and all that the agree
ment is about.”
Woodward also said the instal
lation of missiles in northern
South Vietnam by Hanoi was a
“clear and direct violation of the
agreement.”
“We consider the construction
of the missile base at Khe Sanh
since Jan. 28 not only a violation
of the agreement but a provoca
tion to the U.S. government,” he
said.
He warned the Communists that
if they refuse to withdraw the
missiles and dismantle the base,
“my g-ovemment reserves the
right with its allies to take such
actions as it deems appropriate.”
It was the first time Wood
ward assailed the Communist side
for installation of the Soviet-
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ALL EYES ARE RIGHT as a loose basketball squirts
out of a pile-up during the A&M-SMU basketball game here
Tuesday night. The Aggies put it all together behind solid
performances by seniors Gobin, Brown and Overhouse to
trounce the Mustangs, 78-75. See story, page 7. (Photo by
Steve Krauss)
Reed Named As New Dean
For College Of Architecture
Prof. Raymond D. Reed of Iowa
State University has been named
dean of A&M’s College of Archi
tecture and Environmental De
sign.
TAMU President Jack K. Wil
liams said the appointment is
effective June 1.
“We are delighted to have Prof.
Reed join our faculty,” Dr. Wil
liams noted. “His broad experi
ence in teeaching and adminis
tration will be invaluable in our
efforts to move continually ahead
in architecture and environmental
design.”
Reed will succeed Edward J.
Romieniec who has requested to
return to full-time teaching.
A member of the Iowa State
faculty since 1964, Reed served
as head of the Department of
Architecture until 1970 when he
assumed new responsibilities as
coordinator of graduate research
and design. He was previously
chairman of architecture and in
terior design at the University of
Southwestern Louisiana.
The 42-year-old California na
tive earned his undergraduate
degree in architecture at Tulane
Universtiy and master’s at Har
vard.
Earlier in his career, Reed was
a partner in a Lafayette, La.
architectural firm and had lim
ited practice while in Iowa. He
also has been an architectural
and urban design consultant for
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
Adv.
Sioux City and Charles City and
is a former national chairman of
the American Institute of Archi
tect’s Committee on Architectural
Education and Research.
He was chairman from 1966
until 1969 of the Iowa Arts Coun
cil, a statewide organization de
signed to encourage active pro
grams in the arts for small com
munities.
Prof. Reed is married and has
four children.
built surface-to-air missiles,
which had been reported by U.S.
sources and the Saigon govern
ment.
The POW issue flared up Tues
day in Saigon and also in Paris,
where Secretary of State William
P. Rogers suspended his partici
pation in the current 12-nation
Vietnam peace conference pending
action on the matter.
As Wednesday’s meeting of the
four-party Joint Military Com
mission got under way, Western
diplomats reported that Col. Ho
ang Hoa, a top deputy in the
North Vietnamese delegation, was
en route back from Hanoi to
Saigon with “new instructions”
and possibly a list of American
POWs to be released in the next
group.
The chief spokesman for the
North Vietnamese delegation said
Hoa “certainly will have new in
structions for us and perhaps he
will have the list.”
At the same time the chiefs of
the American, North Vietnamese,
South Vietnamese and Viet Cong
delegations were meeting, anoth
er full-scale conference of the
subcommission on captured per
sons was under way in a separate
room at the Joint Military Com
mission compound on Saigon’s
Tan Son Nhut Air Base.
Since the cease-fire agreement,
North Vietnam and the Viet Cong
have released 163 American pris
oners, and the United States had
anticipated that about 140 more
would be freed early this week.
By Communist count, 422 remain
to be freed.
The North Vietnamese said the
second regular turnover of POWs
will be postponed until resolution
of Hanoi’s complaints of cease
fire violations.
Prairie View
Head Backed
By A&M Board
The board of directors of the
Texas A&M University. System
voiced formal support Tuesday
for embattled Prairie View A&M
President A. I. Thomas.
The action came in response to
recent criticism of Dr. Thomas
and a legislative proposal to in
vestigate the predominantly black
school.
Thomas recently “emphatically
and categorically” denied accusa
tions that he accepted kickbacks
from faculty members, one of
several charges stemming from a
recent Texas House hearing.
“This board is backing Dr.
Thomas unanimously in the type
of program he is carrying on,”
Clyde H. Wells, board president,
said Tuesday. “We wish to com
mend him for the fine job he is
doing.”
Thomas has been president of
the school since 1966.
Wells, of Granbury and Dallas,
was re-elected head of the govern
ing body for the statewide Edu
cational, Research and Extension
System which includes Texas
A&M University, Prairie View
and Tarleton State College.
S. B. Whittenburg of Amarillo
was elected vice president.
FALLING INTO HOLES will be hard to do in the area and buildings. Gary Baldasari snapped this illuminating
in front of the Academic Bldg, since construction workers photo late at night from the roof of Bizzell Hall,
have completed the new lighting system for the grounds
Crisis Center Opens In Bryan
By JAMES BREEDLOVE
Every now and then people feel
the pressures of everyday life
becoming too much for them.
Crisis Intervention is a service
that can help.
Crisis Intervention is a service
of the Brazos Valley Mental
Health Center and offers advice
and consultation for almost any
type of personal problem or emer
gency. Located at 405 W. 28th
St. in Bryan, or by phone at
822-1111, it is not now fully or
ganized. It maintains a 24-hour
telephone service as well as other
basic services.
The purpose of Crisis Inter
vention is to provide five services
to a seven-county area. These
are: impatient services such as
therapy sessions; outpatient serv
ices such as visiting the homes of
persons who are referred to the
center for help.
Other services include consulta
tion and education of various civic
groups and schools, partial hos
pitalization, emergency telephone
service and research into the
problems of mental health.
Crisis Intervention was begun
with a federal grant which pays
90 ' per cent of the staff mem
bers’ salaries. The staff includes
only trained persons in the fields
of mental health. Employed are
several mental health workers,
social workers and psychiatrists.
The service also receives funds
from contracts for outpatient
work in prisons and state schools.
In addition to these sources of
income, the service does charge a
fee which is based on the patient’s
ability to pay. It was added how
ever, by Ruby Davis, a mental
health worker at the center, “No
one is refused services because
they don’t have the money.”
The life of a mental health
worker with Crisis Intervention
is not an easy one. “Your day
could start at 1 o’clock and end
at 10,” Davis said in speaking of
her working hours. She added
however that some days are short
er than others, depending upon
the need for her services. About
her work Davis said, “I go into
the community to find out the
need of the people who are re
ferred to us for help.”
Talking about the kinds of
problems people bring to the cen
ter, Davis said, “They’re the
everyday kind of problem just
like you or I might have. There
is no one particular problem that
people have.” She added that the
people who seek help come from
all walks of life.
Crisis Intervention is a service
which can help. If it is found
that the center cannot give the
proper help, patients are referred
to someone who can.
Book Exchange Proves Valuable Student Aid
The student book exchange pro
gram, sponsored by the Student
Government, is estimated to have
handled over 1,000 books during
its two-week operation, says Fred
Campbell, program coordinator.
The service was a pilot pro
gram allowing students to buy
and sell books among themselves.
“We would have done better
but the telephones on which the
students contacted us were not
operating correctly. Even under
these conditions m e m be r s of
Omega Phi Alpha and Cwens did
an outstanding job as phone
operators.”
“Since a book store pays only
50 per cent of the retail price of
a book and sells it again for 75
per cent, cutting out the middle
man is better for both buyer and
seller,” explained Campbell.
“The seller gets a better price
for his book and the buyer pays
less than he would at a book
store. I think $1,000 is a con
servative estimate of the amount
we saved students.”
Campbell stressed efforts to
modify and expand the program
were underway and he hoped the
program would continue to oper
ate at the beginning of each new
semester.
Abortion Reformer To Speak
Rationale of the U. S. Supreme
Court ruling on unconstitution
ality of the Texas abortion law
Sarah Weddington
will be presented Thursday at
A&M by Rep. Sarah Wedington.
The Texas legislator argued
the case before the Supreme
Court.
A public-free event, the Politi
cal Forum talk will be at 12 noon
in the Memorial Student Center
Ballroom, Chairman Mike Lind
sey announced.
Mrs. Weddington is the first
woman elected from Travis Coun
ty to the Texas House of Repre
sentatives. She served on Appro
priations, Insurance and Criminal
Jurisprudence committees.
Active in formation of the
Texas Women’s Political Caucus,
she also is associated with the
Women’s Equity Action League,
the National Organ izatioiv of
Women, American Association of
University Women, Zero Popula
tion Growth and serves on the
editorial advisory board of the
Family Planning/Population Re
porter.
Coming from an academic back
ground, her father has a Ph.D.
and her mother a master’s, she
graduated magna cum laude from
McMurry College at age 19. After
a brief fling at teaching, she en
tered the University of Texas
Law School and received her J.D.
degree in 1967.
She became interested in the
womens’ rights movement during
her senior year in law school and,
with classmate Linda Coffey, be
gan studying the unconstitution
ality of Texas’ abortion law.
She and Coffey first argued
their case before a three-judge
federal panel in May, 1970. Wed
dington argued the case before
the Supreme Court in Dec., 1971
and in Oct., 1972 and on Jan. 22
both the Texas law and a more
liberal Georgia statute were de
clared unconstitutional.
What Is Slouch Really Like?
By KEVIN COFFEY
Staff Writer
What is ‘Cadet Slouch’ really
like?
“He’s an average type guy,”
says his creator, Dr. James Earle.
Earle, head of A&M’s depart
ment of Engineering Design
Graphics, has been drawing his
“friend” Slouch for nearly 20
years. It amounts to almost 2,900
cartoons.
“Slouch really has become my
friend since I put so much of my
self into him,” said Earle. “He
is really a straightman most of
the time, expressive and inno
cent.”
Earle, A&M class of ’54, began
drawing the famous cartoon char
acter in Octooer ol ivb6. i ny
to be incognito about it,” Earle
said, “I’ve had people in class
for a whole year and they never
knew I drew Slouch.”
Earle said he has never had a
complaint about his character be
cause Slouch doesn’t crusade. “I
try to present timely happenings
in a humorous way. Slouch never
takes a real stand on anything,”
Earle said.
There have been very few
changes in the comic over the
years with the only major one
coming eight years ago. Earle
added Squirt, the helmeted midg
et as a regular member of the
cast.
With coeds now playing a
prominent role at A&M the stage
is now set for another addition
to me comic. x am trying to
come up with a girl I feel com
fortable with and one that will
have enough individual character
istics to be different from just
any other girl,” said Earle. “I
need to come up with one that
the coed can identify with as an
alter-ego, like Slouch is to the
males.”
Earle receives no payment for
his efforts which he considers
“more of a job than a hobby but
I wouldn’t draw it if I didn’t en
joy doing it,” Earle said.
“Finding good, timely ideas is
the hardest part about drawing
the cartoon,” Earle said. “I have
to keep my eyes and ears open
and keep Slouch in the back of
my mind all day in order to come
up with a good cartoon,” he
added.
“I try to place Slouch in situ
ations aimed at the whole stu
dent body not just the corps.
There are a lot of humorous
things that happen on this cam
pus that are unique,” the balding
Earle said.
The duties of heading the En
gineering Design Graphics de
partment, teaching and being a
family man with two daughters
keep Earle busy. “There are so
many things to do,” said Earle.
“I would enjoy drawing Slouch
more if I had more time.”
All engineering students pass
through Earle’s department,
about 900 each semester, which
forces him to draw Slouch as
the 5 p.m. traffic disperses from
campus. “That is about the only
time I have lext tu aruv,
Earle said.