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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1980
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By BOBBY SWANSON
Battalion Reporter
For the first time since 1973 the
Texas A&M University Student
Government is publishing a newslet
ter to inform students in hopes of
stimulating more responses from
them.
“One of the major changes we’re
dealing with is providing students
with more information about the
projects and issues that afiect them,”
student body President Brad Smith
said. “One of the ways we hope to
make this information available is the
Student Government newsletter.
“Although the ‘Senator’ will only
include a small portion of the Stu
dent Government activities, it will
cover current issues that student
opinion can strongly influence.”
Jim Pratt, director of information
for SG, said 7,500 newsletters have
been printed for November and
most of them have already been
placed under doors in all the dormi
tories on campus.
The newsletter will be printed
monthly and plans are being made to
distribute them off campus, Pratt
said.
The November issue contains in
formation about SG members and
how they can be contacted, along
with current events, future projects
and the October Aggie Blood Drive.
Pratt said the main reason for a
newsletter was the need to increase
student comment about SG actions.
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“It took a lot of time to put the
newsletter together and I think we
will be getting a staff to help do this
in the future,” Pratt said.
The SG newsletter will be distri
buted in the Memorial Student Cen
ter again next month. Copies are still
available in the SG offices in Room
206 of the MSG.
By TRACY L. FENTON
Battalion Reporter
For A.J. “Niley” Smith, life at Texas A&M was
simpler than it is for students today, perhaps because
Smith graduated 72 years ago.
Smith, 94, lives at Grestview Retirement Community
in Bryan. He is still class agent for the Class of ’08.
Smith said a student had to be 18 to get into the
school, then the Agricultural and Mechanical College of
Texas. The new student was then given a month to prove
his grades would be good enough for him to stay in
school.
The entrance exam alone nearly ended Smith’s col
lege career. He said he had made good grades in high
school in Cameron, but drew a blank on the college
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“When I realized that, well, I just got up and left. ”
Smith talked to two professors and they convinced
him to try again. He graduated four years later with a
degree in agriculture. He said that at that time there
were no specialized majors such as agriculture econo
mics or civil engineering. He said people got degrees in
agriculture, business or engineering.
Smith said that when he was in school there were
never more than 500 students in the College and that
there were only four companies in the Corps of Cadets,
companies A, B, C and D.
There was one building for classes, five dormitories, a
farm for all the livestock and a church on the campus,
Smith said.
After graduation, Smith went back to Branchville to
farm with his father.
The year after he graduated, Texas A&M and the
University of Texas played two games, he said.
“They (the players from U.T.) came out with brooms
and started fighting,” Smith said. The cadets and former
students got in the fight and the police finally had to
break it up. He said Texas A&M and U.T. didn’t play
each other again for four years.
When World War I broke out, Smith went to the
recruiting office to volunteer. He said there was a board
of three men that decided who went. One of the men
told him:
‘“Now listen, young man, you go on back home,’ he
said. ‘Those boys over yonder got to be fed and they’ve
got to have clothes to wear and you’re gonna help make
that difference.’”
Smith went home and lived on the farm in Branchville
until about two years ago, when he moved to Grestview.
He is still director and vice president of the Citizen’s
National Bank in Cameron. His son takes him to Camer
on once a month for the bank meeting, Mason’s meet
ings and the Rotary Club because he doesn’t drive any-
; rings.
“When I got to be 90 years old, the doctor just said, ‘If
I were you, I wouldn’t,’ ” Smith said.
Smith said although Texas A&M has changed quite a
bit, he’s still proud of it.
“There’s not one building, not one plank, brick or
anything that was there when I was,” he said. But he
added: “Of course I’m proud of it. I’m still an Aggie.”
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United Press International
LUBBOCK — Prospects for locat
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system along the Texas-New Mexico
line have dimmed, but the Air Force
plans to contract almost $14 million
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lion, commercial architecture and
engineering firms will do the plan
ning for MX support bases at Beryle
and Milford, Utah; Clovis, N.M.,
and Coyote Springs, Nev., in early
1981.
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of ’08. Although he says everything has changed since lie
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warhead locations. Total project cost
estimates range from $33 billion to
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Proponents say the MX is neces
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ABILENE — Oil producer Jack Grimm, the money man behind a
two-summer expedition to locate the sunken Titanic, said Thursday he
plans to premiere a feature-length film next month documenting phase
one of the project.
The 90-minute movie, which is already edited and lacks only the
narration of Orson Welles and music, will probably open in Houston
“or some other Texas city” in December, the West Texas millionaire
said.
The man who has underwritten projects to find “Bigfoof and the
Loch Ness monster said a crew will return to the North Atlantic next
summer and resume work to prove the sunken ocean liner was found.
Some scientists on board the research vessel believed last August
the Titanic had been located in 12,000-foot waters in a box canyon380
miles off the Newfoundland coast.
Grimm said a crew aboard the Texas A&M University research
vessel “R-V Gyre” will return to the site June 15 for two weeks.
“We’re goingfonvard with the Titanic quest. We're definitely going
forward with it to complete our survey.
“We now have some 13 sonar targets that we are going back to map in
detail and run the magnetometer over them and find which one is the
Titantic and then film it. So we re proceeding to phase two and we re
on schedule,” Grimm said.
Grimm is still uncertain whether a 50-foot submarine, the Alumi-
naut, or a vehicle still being tested called a “sea-copter” will be leased
as the principal vessel for retrieving artifacts from the Titanic.
The fabled British liner was struck by an iceberg on April 15,1912,
killing more than 1,500 people.
The sea-copter, designed by Miami inventor Fred Koehler, “hasa
special fuel cell battery in it that makes it self-propelling, ” Grimm said.
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