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Vol. 67 No. 320
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, November 21, 1973
WEDNESDAY—Fair and mild
today with S to SW winds at
5-12 m.p.h. The high today
should be around 69° with to
night’s low approximately 47°.
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be perfect for the Aggies win
over t.u. Partly cloudy skies
will prevail with a cool game
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TAMU’s newly approved med-
cal education program to be con-
lucted in cooperation with Baylor
bllege of Medicine was imple-
nented today with the naming of
dean of medicine and award of
$200,000 facilities contract.
Dr. Hebbel E. Hoff was con
firmed as TAMU’s Dean of Medi-
ine Pro Tern by the TAMU
System Board of Directors.
Dr. Hoff is Distinguished Serv-
ce Professor, chairman of the
department of Physiology and
ssociate dean for faculty and
linical affairs at Baylor College
>f Medicine.
Dr. Hoff will head the joint
medical degree program. This pro
ram will allow students to begin
their professional medical pro
gram at the end of their sopho
more year, said president Jack
Williams.
Students selected for the pro
gram will take a two-year basic
medical science program here and
then transfer to BCM for two
years of instruction in the clinical
phase, receiving the M.D. degree
upon successful completion.
“Dr. Hoff has been a key leader
in the development of the unique
affiliation between TAMU and
BCM,” said Dr. Williams.
Dr. Hoff is a Rhodes Scholar,
earned a Ph.D. at Oxford Uni
versity and holds a MD degree
from Harvard. In addition to
BCM, he has been on the faculties
of Yale and McGill Universities.
“He is widely known for his
contributions to cardiac physi
ology, biomedical engineering,
studies of the history of medicine
and medical education,” said Dr.
Michael E. DeBakey, BCM presi-
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The prisoner of war airlifts
shuttled more Egyptian and
Israeli POWs home Tuesday, and
he United Nations announced
plans to add Americans and
Russians to its cease-fire observer
force.
A U.N. spokesman in Cairo
also said observers had reported
three violations of the Middle
East cease-fire over the weekend.
The prisoner exchange, part of
the cease-fire agreement worked
out with the help of U.S. Secre
tary of State Henry A. Kissinger,
brought 20 more Israeli prisoners
home, making a total of 182 re
patriated so far by Israeli count.
The Egyptians say they cap
tured 247 during the October
war.
The Israeli military command
^reported it has sent back more
than 7,000 of its 8,221 captured
Egyptians.
U.N. spokesman Rudolph Staj-
duhar told a news conference that
36 Americans and 36 Russians
will be placed on observer teams.
He did not say when they would
be assigned.
Eight Americans are already
with the U.N. truce observer
organization, and several Soviet
observers are known to be in
Egypt in apparent response to
President Anwar Sadat’s appeal
last month for U.S. and Soviet
troops to assure Israeli compli
ance with the U.N. cease-fire.
The three cease-fire violations
occurred Sunday, Stajduhar said.
One was at Qantara in the north
ern sector of the Suez Canal
front, and another was at Is-
mailia near the middle of the
front, he said.
The third was some 20 miles
from Suez City at the south end
of the canal, where Israeli forces
fired machine guns and caused
Egyptian casualties, the spokes
man said.
Dr. Hebbel E. Hoff
Delayed
Rings
Available
The senior ring clerk announc
ed Tuesday that school rings or
dered by students in September or
previously have arrived.
The rings, delayed by transpor
tation problems in Houston, may
be picked up at the ring clerk’s
station in the basement of the
Coke Building.
Normally open from 8 a. m. to
noon, the station will have rings
available today for pick-up.
dent. “His leadership will be ex
tremely valuable as the joint
TAMU/BCM education programs
develop.”
The Board awarded a $201,105
contract to Sentry Construction
Co. of Bryan for modification of
facilities in the University’s
Teague Research Center to accom
modate the new program.
The board also approved the
appointment of James R. Bradley
as director of the Texas Engi
neering Extension Service and
director of the continuing educa
tion program at TAMU. Bradley
has served the past 22 years as
head of TAMU’s Industrial Eco
nomics Research Division.
Prior to joining TAMU, Brad
ley taught finance at Southern
Methodist University and was
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The System Board of Directors
Wednesday honored TAMU’s
President Emeritus, Dr. M. T.
Harrington, and the late Dr. A. P.
Beutel, former board member, by
naming new buildings in their
honor.
The new student health center
will be named the A. P. Beutel
Health Center, and the eight-story
office-classroom building four-
story annex will be named the
M. T. Harrington Education Cen
ter.
Dr. Beutel, who served on the
board for nine years, was vice-
president of the board at the
time of his death Nov. 27, 1972.
He retired from Dow Chemical
Company shortly before his death,
leaving the position of vice presi
dent and a director of the firm.
The 80-year-old graduate of
Case Institute of Technology was
serving his second two-year term
as vice president of the board at
the time of his death.
He was honored 10 days before
his death when Dow’s Texas Di
vision Administration Center in
Freeport was dedicated in his
name.
previously a marketing specialist
for Mobil Oil Company. He holds
BS and MS degrees from TAMU.
Spaw-Glass Inc. of Houston re
ceived a $1,189,150 contract for
an addition to G. Rollie White
Coliseum. Mar-Cal Inc. of Bryan
won a $410,770 contract to con
vert Henderson Hall, the present
athletic dormitory, for use by the
Texas Engineering Extension
Service. Sentry Construction re
ceived a second contract, $387,802,
to renovate Nagle Hall, an office
and classroom building. Bryan
Electric was awarded a $122,468
contract for installation of dormi-
tary area lighting.
The board sold tuition-backed
revenue bonds totaling $3 million.
Proceeds will be used for con
struction of a 250-student dormi
tory, a dining hall, a classroom-
laboratory and related facilities
Rudder Center
Dedication Set
at TAMU’s new Mitchell Campus
at Galveston.
Bonds of $300,000 were sold to
finance construction of a new
maintenance building at Tarleton
State University in Stephenville.
Appropriations cover the Gal
veston projects, detailed design of
a student health center at Prairie
View A&M University and pre
liminary design of new agricul
tural and architecture facilities
on TAMU’s College Station
campus.
In other action, the board
authorized TAMU to seek Coordi
nating Board approval for a BS
degree in bio-environmental sci
ences and a master’s degree in
mechanized agriculture.
The J. Earl Rudder Center will
be dedicated at 9:30 a. m. on
Thanksgiving Day.
Cong. Olin E. Teague and dis
tinguished alumnus H. B. Zachry
will speak about Rudder’s accom
plishments in the Rudder auditor
ium.
Following the ceremony the
public is invited to tour the con
ference tower and auditorium.
“There will be plenty of time to
attend the ceremony, see the facil
ities, have lunch and still get to
the game on time,” said Dean Ed
win H. Cooper, chairman of the
committee coordinating the fall
series of programs designed to
show TAMU’S service to the state
and nation.
The Singing Cadets will per
form at the dedication ceremony
where Clyde Wells, president of
TAMU’S Board of Directors, will
present the new $10 million com
plex to the University and Dr.
Jack K. Williams will officially
accept it.
In addition to honoring Rudder,
displays will be on exhibit in the
center depicting the programs of
TAMU’s academic colleges, along
with those of the Texas Real Es
tate Research Center, Texas Vet
erinary Medical Diagnostic Lab
oratory, Community Education
Program, Center for Marine Re
sources, Texas Agricultural Ex
tension Service, Texas Engineer
ing Experiment Station, Texas
Engineering Extension Service,
Texas Water Resources Institute,
Texas Rodent Control Service and
Texas Transportation Institute.
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By KENNETH STROEBEL
In Thursday’s Battalion Dr.
Jim Syler, 1957 A&M graduate,
defined an Aggie as a “soldier,
statesman and knightly gentle
man” who “rides hard, shoots
straight and lives his life in such
a way that he can look any man
in the eye and tell him to go to
hell, if need be!”
The popularity or accuracy of
that definition is uncertain but
it might be interesting to note
what others have said about Ag
gies and A&M, barring normal
censorship.
When I decided to become an
Aggie, my brother suggested my
parents change their name and
move to another city. He wrote
them, “Got your last letter and
the sad news that the world has
gained another Aggie.” And to
me he wrote, “Glad to hear you’ve
finally found a place that de
serves you,” whatever that
means. That’s okay; he still
thinks AMU stands for atomic
mass unit.
Those who saw Patton in the
new “C” last weekend should re
member Gen. Omar Bradley,
played by Karl Malden. The real
Gen. Bradley once said, “The men
of Texas A&M can stand up to
any men in the world and com
pare favorably their education
and training and leadership —
leadership in the pursuits of
peace, and if it comes to war,
leadership in battle.”
A century ago then-Governor
Richard Coke said, “An Aggie
does not lie, cheat or steal nor
will he tolerate those who do; an
Aggie’s word is his bond.”
Robert Mitchum once told
Johnny Carson the worst movie
he ever made was about some
two-bit cow college in Texas in
the ’40s.
And from the 1946 Daedalian,
the yearbook for Texas State
College for Women at Denton:
There’s a college down near the
Brazos strictly for men; it’s a
military college where young
hoys fresh from high school en
ter and graduate as men . . .it’s
called Texas A&M.” Whoop
fWhoop.
More recently, like a couple of
bonfires ago, John Denver hailed
College Station as “the culture
capital of the South” and “gate
way to Snook.” For a minute I
thought he was being sarcastic.
But it seems entertainers gen
erally like the reception they get
here.
During a performance that
rocked G. Rollie White about a
month ago, the Nitty Gritty Dirt
Band’s Jeff Hanna admitted,
“It’s always a shot in the arm
to come down here to play for
you wierdos ’cause you’re all
crazy.” John McEuen, who has
probably done more plucking
than Col. Sanders and Churches’
put together, reaffirmed this
backstage as he picked away at
Opus 36, Clementi on the banjo.
“We always look forward to
playing in College Station,” he
said, smiling through his beard.
He added the Band would rather
play for a crazy crowd like the Ag
gies than a screaming bunch of
“teeny hoppers.”
And Henry Mancini’s com
ments last weekend were also
flattering. “We’ve had audiences
before but this is one of the best
we’ve ever had,” he said. “This
is quite a group you have here.”
Funny, I was just going to say
the same thing about him.
Last spring Rod Serling un
leashed his nationally famous
glower through bushy eyebrows
on an innocent G. Rollie White
audience and said, “When I was
a kid, A&M was a power to be
reckoned with.” Considering his
image, that gives A&M quiet a
distinction.
Flattery from the outside, from
civilized people, is great but it’s
even better from a former stu
dent who saw the error of his
ways and tried to do something
worthwhile.
After his freshman year in the
Corps, Dan Jordan transferred to
the Air Force Academy for “a
more professional atmosphere.”
He returned to the scene of the
crime about a year ago to re
port, “I still consider Texas A&M
to be the best military school in
the country.” Compared to A&M,
he said, the Academy “damned
sure doesn’t have class spirit.”
Two Apollo 17 astronauts were
awakened on the moon last year
with the strains of the Aggie
War Hymn. Eugene A. Cernan
and Harrison H. Schmitt had
discovered orange dust on the
lunar surface earlier that week
and flight director Jerry Griffin,
class of 1956, made that particu
lar music selection.
“He said that if you could find
some maroon dirt today, instead
of orange,” explained capsule
communicator Gordon Fullerton,
“you’d probably get a lot more
cooperation out of him.”
One of the better definitions
of an Aggie was one of those
things which mysteriously turned
up in a quiz file. It was titled
“What is an Aggie?” and sadly
sported no authorship. It read
in part as follows:
“After the security of child
hood and during the insecurity of
second childhood, we find a bunch
of ‘good Joes’ whom we call Ag
gies.
“They can be found anywhere:
at drill, on leave, in love and al
ways in debt. Girls love them.
Bryan tolerates them, and the
state supports them. He dislikes
Answering letters, wearing his
uniform, upperclassmen and the
Corps. This guy likes to spend
most of his money on girls, some
on beer, some goes back into the
game, and the rest goes foolishly.
“An Aggie is a magical crea
ture. You can lock him out of
your liquor cabinet but not out
of your heart; you can get him
off your mailing list but not off
your mind.”
At All University Night early
this semester, yell leader Grif
Lasley said, “If he’s an Aggie,
you’re behind him. That’s what
an Aggie is.” And yell leader
Mark McLean added, “Deep in
the heart of every Aggie is a
spirit that can never be beat.”
Dr. Jack K. Williams couldn’t
define A&M that night but said
it was “identified by the friend
ship which pervades this cam
pus.” And Coach Emory Bellard
defined his Aggies as “a fightin’
bunch of devils.”
To me an Aggie is the culmi
nation of a parent’s greatest
hopes or worst fears. He is the
guy who walks across campus in
the rain to make sure his P. O.
box is still empty. But defining
“Aggie” is comparable to defin-
No one seems to know why the
Brazos Valley Family Planning
Center has been refused a volun
teer clinic on the TAMU campus.
Crazy’
ing “animal in the zoo”—more
comparable than I care to think
about. So until Funk & Wag-
nalls gets the word or until they
consider trying to take us seri
ously, you’d best decide for your
self what an Aggie is.
Mrs. Elaine Clark, director of
the local clinic, said the staff had
in the past offered their services
free to the University on a once
a month basis with the campus
providing the general practition
er.
“The Family Planning Staff
would do this work on its own
time to be done on an evening
or a Saturday,” said Clark. “The
offer still stands but I think the
doctor problem stilted the sug
gestion.”
Clark said that the director of
the University Health Center, Dr.
W. R. Powe, had declined the
Center’s offer.
Dr. Powe, on the other hand,
said the offer had not come to
him and he did not know why
the University turned it down. He
continued, saying that the possi
bility of a gynecologist’s services
on the campus looked “glum” at
the present.
“The money is just not there,”
said Powe. “Maybe in a year or
so the situation will change, but
right now it’s a matter of dollars
and cents.”
Vice President for Student
Services Dr. John J. Koldus also
knew nothing about the clinic’s
offer. Koldus is directly over
Powe.
According to an Oct. 31 issue
of the Battalion, Clark has of
fered to staff a Saturday clinic
with volunteers from her pro
gram and provide birth control
materials at low governmental
prices.
“They don’t want to get involv
ed—they want us to provide the
doctor and the space, too. We feel
the physicians at the college
should be involved,” said Clark
earlier.
The regular clinic does not see
students, although the program
is funded by the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare.
The clinic, serving a seven-county
area, is funded at less than half
of its original proposal.
Bonfire No Harm
To Area Ecology
Johnny Rivers Caps Blaze
Tonight in G. Rollie White
Town Hall will present Johnny Rivers tonight in G. Rollie White
at 8:45.
Reserved tickets are $4 for non-student patrons and $3 for
student and date tickets. General admission is $3 and $2.
Rivers is best known for his songs, “Memphis,” “The Poor Side of
Town,” and “Rockin’ Pneumonia and Boogie Woogie Flu.”
By WILL ANDERSON
The bonfire’s effects on the area
ecology are negligible, said Mark
McClean, senior yell leader.
“Besides building the Aggie
spirit, the bonfire serves another
perpose,” said McClean. “First,
the fire is ignited with industrial
wastes donated to the Fireman
Training School of Southern Pa
cific Railways.
“These wastes have no other
uses and would be burned by the
FTS anyway.”
“Igniting the fire this way
makes it burn faster and hopeful
ly cleaner,” said Griff Lasley,
head yell leader.
The wood is cut on local farms
and ranches said McClean.
“Clearing land is normally ex
pensive but we do it free. The
brush and waste lumber is stacked
to be burned later and we police
the area in the evening to pick
up any paper or cans.
“We’re on Bennie Allen’s land
this year. If we do a thorough
and neat job, he said we can use
it next year.”
“We do more than remove
trees,” said Mike Phillips, com
bined band commander. “The thick
brush that grows in the lowland
chokes the grass and we clear it
out to get to the trees.”
Phillips said once the brush is
removed the land becomes grazing
for domestic and wild animals.
If the landowner pays for a
bulldozer to do the job the wood
is piled in wood rows, said Mc
Clean. “Some of it is sold for fire
wood and the rest of it is burned
there.
“The bonfire’s smoke is mostly
ash which settles out and returns
to the soil. Anyone concerned
with pollution should look in Hous
ton or Pasadena because the bon
fire is over in a few hours with
out a trace.”
McClean indicated the fire’s
safety is handled by the Fireman
Training School. “Once the stack
is up they’re the ones that apply
the fuel and they use every pre
caution.
“The school sets up safety lines
until the torches are applied and
the firemen who do this wear
asbestos suits. The bonfire is well
planned.”
Fire engines from the school
and College Station will be patrol-
ing in case sparks start a fire,
said McClean. “I don’t know of
any fires starting like that be
fore.”
A goal of 77 feet height was set
by the freshman class. A yell prac
tice will accompany the bonfire
which will be set ablaze at 7:30
p.m.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas AAM.”
Adv.