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Love for and loyal support of
one’s country is the keystone of
military service, the Air Force
Chief of Staff emphasized at
TAMU’s commissioning: exercises
Saturday afternoon.
“The uniform we wear is, in
itself, a symbol of our patriot
ism,” Gen. Georgre S. Brown re
minded 161 newly commissioned
second lieutenants in the Army,
Air Force and Marine Corps.
“Each American who wears his
country’s uniform provides insur
ance that his fellow Americans
can live in freedom,” the com
mand pilot continued.
“The Aggies who have gone
before you have established a tra
dition of excellence and dedica
tion that is unexcelled,” General
Brown, a 33-year military veter
an, pointed out. “I am confident
that this tradition will be
strengthened by the officers who
represent the Class of 1974.”
General Brown administered
the oath of office and handed
commissions to the new officers.
Invocation was voiced by James
E. Whitworth, Corps chaplain,
and the Aggie Band played the
“Star Spangled Banner.”
The Final Review followed the
commissioning program with
General Brown in the reviewing
line with TAMU officials. Several
thousand persons watched the
two passbys marking the Final
Review.
Che Battalion
Ford tags grads as
‘doers, not booers’
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BROWN PAINT AND SPURS camouflage the leg cast of
■Boozing B2” Commander Randy Hagler during Final Re-
(tiew Saturday. (Photo by Steve Krauss)
Vice President Gerald Ford
faced a cheering, whooping, par
tisan crowd Saturday at A&M’s
commencement.
A winking, nodding and smil
ing Ford opened and closed his
address to the 1,961 graduates
with standing ovations.
Calling the graduating class
“doers and not booers,” he told
how he had been booed at the Uni
versity of Michigan because, he
read in news stories, that I was
“defending the President . . . for
exercising his right to take his
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case to the people/’ and cheered,
he also read, at Eastern Illinois
University because the press “said
I was making my sharpest attack
to date on the President . . . and
trying to line myself up with
those who are trying to jump off
his Ship of State . . .”
“. . . I thought maybe they
weren’t listening to my speech,”
Ford said smiling.
“Well,” he continued, “I told
the President that I’ve been tell
ing as many members of the
Class of 1974 as I can reach that
the government in Washington
isn’t about to sink.”
Honor graduates accounted for
27.2 percent of the record 1,961
students receiving degrees Satur
day, announced President Jack K.
Williams.
“This is an unusually high per
centage of honor graduates and
reflects well on both our students
and our faculty,” Dr. Williams
Noted. “It clearly indicates that
not only is TAMU growing in en
rollment but is progressing even
more rapidly in academic stat
ure.”
The honor graduates include
91 summa cum laude, 142 magna
cum laude and 209 cum laude.
Honor graduates must have a
minimum 3.25 grade point ratio
on a four-point system.
Ford visited with President
Nixon Friday before coming to
Texas.
“I also told the President I was
going to try again today at Tex
as A&M where I’m confident there
are more doers than booers,” he
reiterated.
Ford then went on to discuss
two subjects dear to the heart of
the Nixon Administration, the de
fense budget and “a balance be
tween discipline and dedication
and individuality.”
“In the present mood of the
Congress, there is great pressure
to trim the defense budget in or
der to find funds for other pur
poses,” Ford declared. “Many of
these purposes are worthy and
much needed. It is tempting to
vote for them in an election year.
As for defense, the Vietnam war
is over for Americans. We are
moving toward more normal rela
tionships with the Soviet Union
and China.
“This being so, why worry
about national security,” he ask
ed. “Who needs 86 billion dollars
for defense? We do, the United
States. Freedom and security for
ours and future generations can
only be won from a negotiating
position of known strength and
scientific superiority.
(See FORD BACKS, p. 3)
Vice President Ford
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College Station’s City Council
appointed itself as a Board of
Adjustment last night while de
bating a city property variance
request.
Councilman Jim Gardner said he
didn’t feel the council could act
variance requests and that
only an adjustment board could
legally do so. The council then
quickly voted to make itself the
adjustment board, with only
Gardner and Larry Bravenec
dissenting and James Dozier
abstaining.
The issue arose while the coun
cil was considering a variance
request by Mr. and Mrs. Bob
Rice.
The Rices wanted to construct
a separate building behind their
home for Mrs. Rice’s mother.
However, under Rice’s building
proposal, a variance from city
property line regulations would
be necessary. The request failed
4-2, with F. R. Brison and Homer
Adams supporting the change and
Gardner abstaining.
Councilman Don R. Dale heat
edly objected to the recommenda
tions of the Steering Committee
on the Urban Transportation
Plan.
“I’m just not too interested in
everything going to Bryan. This
committee is heavily weighted to
Bryan. Why don’t they finish the
highways and roads they start?
I’m sick and tired of it, and I
object to this entirely,” Dale said.
The council tabled the issue
until further studies could be
made of the proposals.
After an hour-long executive
session discussing appointments
the council moved to reappoint
Phillip Goode municipal judge
and Mrs. Florence Neeley city
secretary. It also appointed
Neeley C. Lewis city attorney and
Dr. T. O. Walton Jr. city health
officer.
John B. Longley and George
Boyett were reappointed to the
Planning and Zoining Commission
with Barney Stevenson the only
new appointee. Their appoint
ments are for 2-year terms and
were approved by a 4-2 vote with
Gardner and Bravenec opposing
and J ames Dozier abstaining.
Mayor O. M. Holt and councilmen
Adams, Brison and Dale voted
for the appointments.
In other action the council—
—voted to allow City Manager
North Bardell to negotiate for
the best bid for renovation of the
Mimosa Room of the old City
Hall.
—voted to purchase two high-
band mobile radio units for a
patrol car and humane officer’s
vehicle wtih a federal grant pro
viding 75 per cent of the funding.
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High Wednesday 88°.
Low tonight in the mid
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Does college create learning yearn?
Student, faculty, administration views on education aired
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By CLIFF LEWIS
“It’s simple. You read books—
to learn the facts—to get the
grades—to pass the course—to
get a degree. That’s all—it has
nothing to do with thoughts.’’
Lorraine Hansberry,
“A Raisin in the Sun.”
‘'I dunno, college is supposed
to be an experience,” said Mike, a
freshman mechanical engineering
major, and he went on about how
something was missing, that may
be there is just not enough girls
around. . .
College is often described as
being the high mark of one’s edu
cation. That makes many college
students wonder what education
is. The following question was
asked by a psychology graduate
and was used by the Battalion to
generate discussion from students
and faculty on the meaning of col
lege and education:
“Does college create a yearn
for learning or does it put off
the discoveries while your head
is pumped full of facts? Does it
teach us about life or does it try
to hide us behind an academic
screen?”
Webster’s Dictionary and most
students and teachers agree that
there are two main types of edu
cation. There is the formal train
ing to get a job and there is the
general, broadening expansion of
Regulations include
appeal procedures
Appeals procedures for stu
dents comprise four appendices
to the new University Rules and
Regulations.
The Academic Appeals Com
mittee, University Disciplinary
Appeals Panel, Review Boards
A&B and Traffic Appeals Panel
will all be explained in the book.
The membership will be given as
well as procedures for any appeal
to come before the group.
The committee also revised
regulations dealing with dining
hall policies. The committee voted
to uphold the regulation against
announcements of club meetings
in the dining halls. They also
passed a regulation stating that
visitors and non-paying students
must get permission from the
proper dining hall authorities
before entering the dining hall.
The Rules and Regulations
Committee decided to ask the
Library Council to write up the
information they would like in
cluded in the University Regu
lations about the Library.
The next meeting of the Uni
versity Rules and Regulations
Committee will be 3 p.m. Thurs
day in the Olin E. Teague
Building.
knowledge to learn how to handle
life situations.
“Education is gaining knowl
edge from any experience and
making it a part of the individ
ual,” said a TAMU administrator.
He pointed out that formal edu
cation is just one of those expe
riences. In obtaining a formal
education, he said, one must ob
tain a balance between preparing
for a livelihood and doing what
he wants. There is enough edu
cational material and extra-cur
ricular activities at TAMU to pro
vide for a broad education, he
said.
A professor of English explain
ed the purpose of the first two
years of mostly general courses
in undergraduate programs as be
ing to provide for a broad span
of interests. To those who com
plained of course materials be
ing irrelevant, he answers that
one should acquire knowledge of
material outside his experience by
the very nature of education.
James, a psychology major,
doesn’t feel his courses have been
irrelevant. He does question the
educational purpose of some of
his courses, fearing that students
often accept technology as the
final goal. “Technology should be
a tool of mankind, not the other
way around,” he said.
Randell, a meteorology major,
wonders if it is time that by en
rollment in an academic institu
tion he has prescribed himself to
the goals of that institution. He
recalls a joke he heard the first
day he was on campus at TAMU.
“ ‘What do you call an Aggie ten
years after he graduates,’ the
guy asked; then he answered,
‘Boss!’ Shows you where his head
was at, and it makes me wonder
where mine is.”
Bob, an economics major, is dis
satisfied with what he claims is
a lack of creativity and aesthetic
values in formal education. “A
friend of mine saw TAMU for the
first time and said, ‘Hey, what
do they make at that factory over
there?’ It’s that way here. I’m
here because I want to be here,
but this school is not a part of
me.”
Many students reflected disil
lusionment of formal education
because the competitiveness be
tween students does not allow
each individual to realize his per
sonal learning capacity. Three
students applying for the College
of Veterinary Science felt that
the intense competition accepted
there destroys the educational
value of college.
Randell is optimistic about his
college years. “I’ve learned so
much here, and I’m capable of
putting all the knowledge to my
own personal use. But that’s my
personal response; I don’t think
many teachers have recognized
that response. I don’t think the
university inspires much individ
ual response.”
“Cowboy,” an animAl science
graduate, agrees that education
depends on individual response.
He admitted that though college
has held great potential for him it
had not inspired his thinking.
“I guess I feel narrowed,” said
Cowboys. “I just know how to
raise pigs better.”
At the end of the semester one
really needs to ask no thought-
provoking questions on education.
Comments on school are floating
(See ELECTION VIEWS, p. 4)
SAWING VARSITY’S HORNS OFF, these seniors join in
their last song together at Final Review Saturday. (Photo
by Steve Krauss)
Centennial celebrations get
$25,000 boost from Board
By KATHY YOUNG
Preparations for TAMU’s cen
tennial celebration in 1976 have
been aided by the recent appro
priation of $25,000 by the Board
of Directors.
“This money is to be used for
the planning, development and
presentation of all activities,”
said Robert G. Cherry, assistant
to the president.
Roger Miller, assistant to the
president, has been put in charge
of coordinating centennial activi
ties and a secretary will be hired
to assist him.
To coincide with activities
planned in 1976, a history of
TAMU’s 100 years will be pub
lished. Members of the original
long range centennial planning
committee appointed by President
Earl Rudder decided a history
should be written and contacted
Dr. Henry C. Dethloff, associate
professor of history, to write it.
Dethloff has spent the last
three years writing the history.
It is completed and is being
edited by the new director of the
A&M Press, Frank Wardlaw.
The history will consist of two
volumes, one an objective scholar
ly version and the other a sche
matic narrative, 90 per cent
pictorial.
Dethloff said he has been
“steeped in 100 years of Aggie
lore in three years.” The book
tells the story of TAMU from
the beginning of the land grants
and traces its first years as a
classical school teaching ancient
history and Latin. Then came a
change to a practical program
of agricultural and mechanical
training.
Military role, depression and
post-WW II reconstruction are
all “fascinating stories of Ag
gies,” he said. “You can look at
A&M and see national changes,”
Dethloff added.
Dethloff was chosen to write
the history of TAMU because he
is somewhat of an “outsider”
from Louisiana. He received his
B.A. from Texas, M.A. from
Northwestern State College and
Ph.D. from the University of
Missouri.
Dethloff has written several
textbooks and his specialty is
agriculture economic history. Uni
versity archivists in the library
manuscript collection helped him
a great deal. Dethloff also has
several hours of interviews on
tape.
The Association of Former Stu
dents is funding the boo)c and will
use all proceeds for centennial
activities, said Richard “Buck”
Weirus, executive director.
Weirus also heads the Centen
nial Art Committee which has
commissioned an artist to do
sketches of campus scenes which
will be reproduced and sold dur
ing the centennial year. Weirus
said former students would re
ceive information on both the
book and artist sketches in the
mail prior to public sales.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
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