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Photographers on campus this week
The photographers from Yearbook Associates will be in
Room 137 MSC all this week to take pictures for the 1983
Aggieland. All juniors, seniors, graduate, medical and vet
school students have until Dec. 17 to have their picture
taken. There will be no makeups after this date.
Room 137 is downstairs from the check-cashing desk at
the hotel main desk. The photographers will be there from 9
a.m. until 4 p.m. everyday next week.
Variety show applications available
Applications for the 1983 MSC Variety Show are now
available at the secretaries’ island in Room 216 MSC. This
year’s show is scheduled for April 15. Applications are due
Feb. 4 and auditions start Feb. 23.
For more information call 845-1515.
Weather education center now open
Texas A&M’s Department of Meteorology has established a
“Meteorological Education Center” on the 15 th floor of the
Oceanography and Meteorology building.
The center consists of displays of meteorological equip
ment, a remote radar scope, a slide/tape presentation on
meteorology, digital readout panel of current conditions,
weather radio, and other items.
The center will be open from 1-3 p.m. on Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday to provide an opportunity for
elementary and secondary school groups to visit during their
school hours. It will also be open from 3-5 p.m. on Tuesday
and Thursday so that scout groups, etc., can visit the Center
after school. Campus personnel and other visitors may tour
the Center during any of the above hours.
Tour guides will be present to conduct the tour and
answer questions. Special tours, such as for visiting dignitar
ies, short-cOurse conferences, TAMU classes, etc., may be
arranged by contacting Charlie Brenton in the Department
of Meteorology at 845-7671.
Post Oak Mall to host pecan show
Brazos County residents will have an opportunity to visit the
South Texas Regional Pecan Show which will be held this
year at the Post Oak Mall in College Station. The show is set
for Dec. 7-10 and features winning pecan varieties from
county shows held across South Texas.
The public is invited to come view the 400-500 pecan
entries which include improved and native varieties. Also
scheduled for the event is an exhibit by the Texas Pecan
Growers Association and a host of pecan growers, Texas
Agricultural Extension Service personnel and Texas A&M
University staff members who will be on hand to answer
questions about the pecan show and growing pecans.
The show begins at 9 a.m. Wednesday with the processing
of entries. The entries will be displayed for public viewing
until 9 p.m. Friday.
Tandy Corp. donates computer
Lee Millikin, marketing representative for Radio Shack’s
Computer Center in Parkway Square Plaza, and Jim Savoie,
Texas educational sales coordinator, recently presented a
TRS 80 computer, a printer and associated software to the
Texas A&M Biology Department.
The computer donations from the Tandy Corp. is part of
a national effort by the National Science Foundation and
industry to boost science and engineering education. Drs.
C.O. Patterson and Bob Kosinski of the Freshman Biology
Program will develop four teaching programs on the Radio
Shack computer under an NSF grant.
Professor to receive Holley Medal
Inventor Jack Kilby of Dallas, who holds the rank of Dis
tinguished Visiting Professor of Engineering here, has re
ceived the Holley Medal of the American Society of Mecha
nical Engineers.
The Holley medal, established in 1924, honors Alexander
L. Holley, a charter member of the society, and is presented
to one who has “achieved a great and unique act of engineer
ing and who has accomplished a great and timely public
benefit.”
Kilby, who has been associated with Texas A&M since
1968, was honored for his invention of the monolithic inte
grated circuit which revolutionized the electronics industry
and led to low-cost computers, calculators and watches.
A&M student places in rodeo event
Lisa Hensarling, a student at Texas A&M and Miss Rodeo
Texas, was named first runner-up in the Beauty and the
Beast Competition, which is held in conjunction with the
National Finals Rodeo each year.
Brenda Lee Bonogofsky, of Carson, N.D., was named
1983 Miss Rodeo America and will represent the sport of
profession rodeo in the coming year.
If you have an announcement or interesting item to submit
for this column, come by The Battalion office in 216 Reed
McDonald or call Tracey Taylor at 845-2611.
Cleaver discusses radical past
by Robert McGlohon
Battalion Staff
Eldridge Cleaver may be a
former leader of the radical
Black Panther Party, but he said
Monday that he has left his “left-
wing bag” behind.
Cleaver, sponsored by the
Collegiate Association for the
Research of Principles (CARP),
entertained a group of 300 in
Rudder Tower with his conser
vative remarks by poking fun at
the Democrats, evolution and
his radical past.
Cleaver said that University
officials had tried to change the
title of his program from
“America’s Future and the
World Revolution” to “Amer
ica’s Future and the World” be
cause they felt uneasy about the
word “revolution.”
“We need to understand the
world revolution, not ignore it,”
Cleaver said.
“When you take a look at the
world and decide you don’t like
what it is and decide to change it,
that’s a revolutionary outlook.”
Cleaver quoted passages from
the Declaration of Independ
ence and said that many of the
world’s past wars and revolu
tions were the result of a search
for utopia — including the
American revolution.
“People have tried everything
from A to Z and yet we have
never discovered the perfect
society,” Cleaver said.
“And so at the same time
we’ve got to recognize that we
failed to find utopia; we’ve got to
recognize that we’ve gotten bet
ter. The further back we go, the
deeper the blood gets.”
Cleaver spent most of his talk,
which lasted nearly two and a
half hours, tracing his personal
life beginning with his first
arrest in 1954.
He spent from 1954 to 1966
behind bars at San Quentin and
spent that time studying. It was
at San Quentin that Cleaver, the
son of a preacher, became an
atheist and Marxist, he said.
“I truly believe if I hadn’t
gone to prison, I’d still be run
ning around sort of empty-
headed.”
However, after his escape
from the United States to Cuba
because of a police shootout in
1968, he became disillusioned
with communism and became a
Christian again, Cleaver said.
It took him a long time to give
up communism, he said, be
cause he had a vision of people
“skipping hand-in-hand into the
happy ever after” following the
communist revolution. But after
his flight from the United States,
he searched for several years
trying to find a communist na
tion which fit that picture — and
failed, he said.
“It was a horror story,” Cleav
er said. “I began to see it was a
dictatorship of the proletariat.”
He warned of communist
efforts to weaken the United
States by sowing dissension
among American citizens by
supporting reactionary groups
such as the Ku Klux Klan. He
also said that America’s greatest
weakness, as compared to Rus
sia, is in civil defense rather than
nuclear weaponry.
Following his speech, Cleaver
answered questions from the au
dience.
In response to a question ab
out his association with Rev. Sun
Yung Moon and the Unification
church, Cleaver said, he is not a
“Moonie” but respects the
church and some of its concepts.
CARP, which sponsored the
speech, is directly associatied
with the Unification Church,
led by Moon.
Former Black Panther leader Eldridge
School’s finances improving
Allen Academy changes direction
by Shellee Bratton
Battalion Reporter
When the Allen Academy
closed its military boarding
program last spring, many
thought the 96-year-old prepa
ratory school was closing down
completely.
But Allen Headmaster Wil
liam Creeden said that is not
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to end the military boarding
program last spring because the
dormitories were not in satisfac
tory condition and the school
lacked the funds to restore
them, Creeden said.
The lack of alumni support
for the military program also
played a role in its discon
tinuance, he said.
Creeden said the academy —
which is the oldest accredited,
non-sectarian preparatory
school for boys in Texas — is
now concentrating on becoming
purely a college preparatory
school.
“It (the college preparatory
program) will attract more stu-
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them for college.”
And he said the academy is on
its way to better financial health
due to a new mineral lease with
Chaparral Minerals Company.
Royalties from production
from the lease could provide up
to $50,000 a year, which would
provide the beginnings of an en
dowment for the school. The
school also received a $25,000
donation from Houston stock
broker David Underwood who,
Creeden said, is interested in
private education.
Creeden said the donation
enabled the academy to pay off a
$100,000 short-term loan which
they made last June to pay for
renovation and operation costs.
Allen Academy originally fol
lowed a three-part program
which consisted of a college pre
paration program, an English
development program for fore
ign students and a basic pvog-
ram which prepared students
for technical or vocational
school.
At one time, the school advo
cated a “military structured dis
cipline,” Creeden said. But he
said the change to a college pre-
patory school will affect the
quality of the program.
When the academy was milit
ary, many of the students were
unruly problem children who
were sent there because they
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