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‘TAMU is going to town’ THE BATTALION THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1974 Page 5 SANDWICHES SUBMARINES A KESAMI ORIGINAL ... A PIZZA SUB. Add pepperoni, sausage, mushrooms, peppers in any combination to suit your individual taste. druni s l —-i!: ■ioner totoT w Catalina ^ ■f 0 " 1 a location, ’bile Home ,nt ' 1 :l 5 52^ e1 ^ ‘Tve surely enjoyed my years ere at A&M.” Thousands of people have made similar observations, but that articular statement was made Dr. M. T. Harrington, who formed his opinion over a period of more than 50 years and from varied and unparalleled per spective. Dr. Harrington has the distinc tion of being the only person in TAMU’s 98-year history to hold every academic rank—from in- tructor to president and chan cellor—and being the first gradu ate of the institution to become ,“ ome '12l witfc Call 82jc its president. weekdays, ' enuiPN cellent eonjjj cdroom, 2 k with new i t . 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Harring ton Education Center. “What pleases me so much about having this particular fa cility named after me is that over half of my mature life has in volved teaching in the classroom, which is the thing I have enjoyed most during my association with A&M,’' Dr. Harrington noted, “and this building is an educa tional center devoted to the teach ing function.” Campus Briefs Women’s ROTC A meeting of first-year women students interested in ROTC pro grams will be held Tuesday. ROTC opportunities at TAMU for women will be explained, ac cording to Col. Thomas R. Par sons. The meeting will be in Room 308 of the Rudder Tower. It be gins at 5 p.m. Col. Parsons, commandant of cadets and professor of military science, will discuss how women will fit into the program. Enroll ment procedures for the 1974 fall semester will be given. Representatives of the Air Force, Army and Naval ROTC programs will answer specific questions about each of the serv ices. The 1922 graduate joined the faculty as a chemistry instructor in 1924. After rising through the teaching ranks, he was named dean of arts and sciences in 1947 and dean of the college two years later. He was named president in 1950 and three years later was selected chancellor, the position he held until 1965 when he became coordinator of programs for the TAMU System’s Office of Inter national Programs. Upon retire ment in 1971, he was awarded president emeritus designation by the Board of Directors and also received the coveted “Distin guished Alumni Award” jointly presented by the university and the Association of Former Stu dents. Looking back oyer his half- century of TAMU service, the 72- year-old Plano native cites the coeducational policy and the de velopment of the international programs activity as being two of the major milestones, along with legislation which provided the institution crucial financial resources. He pointed out the international programs activity was particularly important be cause it provided major impetus for graduate studies at TAMU. While happy with the past. Dr. Harrington is at least equally en thusiastic about the university’s future. “I think we are just ‘going to town’ and I think the leadership Jack Williams has given is great,” he said. “With such leadership, there’s no limit to the growth of this institution.” “I’d hate to see us get up to the 40,000-student level,” he add ed, “but I think we are going to twenties and maybe the thirties.” While he thinks TAMU is “going to town,” he thinks the university is fortunate not to be in a big town. “We don’t have all the problems that a lot of big schools and big cities have,” Dr. Harrington ob served, noting TAMU has long been a conservative type of school. “But we’re becoming more lib eral all the time,” he concluded. “That goes with the bigness, I guess.” ’ ■■ " Pcsantt j§’anbiutc!{ Sl|oppe Top students The College of Business Ad ministration honored 12 students for outstanding academic achieve ment at its annual student schol arship awards program. Dean John E. Pearson and heads of the Accounting, Finance, Management and Marketing de partments presented $1,000 in scholarships to the college’s top- ranking students. Larry R. Baldwin, an account ing major, was named the col lege’s outstanding senior and re ceived a $150 award from Dean Pearson. Corbett Harkey, also an ac counting major, received a $150 check as the outstanding junior. The college’s outstanding soph omore, marketing major Mary L. Krause, also received a $150 award. The top students in each of the college’s academic departments received $50 checks from their respective department heads. Senior banquet The Association of Former Stu dents hosted the largest senior induction banquets in its history Monday and Tuesday nights at the Ramada Inn in College Sta tion. Each banquet was attended by 760 students, and another dinner is scheduled Monday night to ac commodate members of the Class of ’74 who could not attend this week’s programs. Richard “Buck” Weirus, the association’s executive director, served as master of ceremonies and introduced AFS personnel to the seniors. Association officers John Caple ’52 of Fort Worth, president elect, and Doug Flatt ’53 of Tyler, vice president for membership, shared speaking honors. Military take over Niger government LAGOS, Nigeria (AP)-Niger’s military chief of staff formally installed himself Wednesday as president of a 12-man ruling military council and promised “social justice” to the people of his impoverished country. “Many of the people are deprived of their daily needs,” Lt. Col. Seyni Kountie told his countrymen in a broadcast interview three days after he led a military coup which overthrew the civilian government of President Hamani Diori “Our principal theme is social justice,” he said. Kountie seized power because he said Diori’s regime had failed to cope with the devastation of the six-year drought that has parched West Africa below the Sahara and crippled Niger’s meager economy. Niger, a poor land of nomads and settled farmers, has suffered thousands of deaths and the loss of whole herds and crops from the disaster. Tens of thousands of people have been forced into refugee camps where their survival depends on foreign gifts of food. The Nigerian ambassador to Niger, Sanni Kantagora, returned to Lagos and said he could confirm reports that Diori’s wife Aissa had been shot to death in the coup. He termed the death “accidental,” but gave no further details. Official radio broadcasts from Niger also reported the funeral of two soldiers killed during the coup. Kountie had repeatedly asserted that not a shot was fired in the coup. Kantagora told newsman that Diori, who ruled Niger since it gained independence from France in 1960, was under house arrest and being attended by his aide de camp and two servants. Kantagora arrived with Niger’s ambassador to Nigeria, Ibrahim Loutou, to report on the coup to Nigeria’s ruler Gen. Yakubu Gowon, a close personal friend of Diori’s and chairman of the Organization of African Unity. Kantagora said Niamey, the Niger capital, was calm. Radio Niamey broadcasts said government offices were operating normally and stores were open. The radio reported that 37 political prisoners had been released. j Best quality and flavor sandwiches and subs available—anywhere, anytime. 329 University Dr. 11a. m. til 1 a. m. 846-6423 OUT-A-SITE SALADS CHEESECAKES Coleus Plant Sale!! 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