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VOLUME 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1968 NUMBER 552

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‘Miss Meal, Feed Multitude’ Gets Civilian Council Support

By BOB PALMER Battalion Staff Writer

The Civilian Student Council Thursday voted unanimously to give its support to the Student Senate’s “miss a meal, feed a multitude” proposal.

Council President Griff Vena­tor said the executive committee

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Senate Invites 51SWC Schools

To ‘Idea’ MeetStudent leaders from South­

west Conference schools are in­vited to participate in an April 19- 20 idea-exchange meeting spon­sored by the Student Senate.

Bill Carter of Decatur, vice president of the A&M student body, said,' the two-day session will include a series of round­table discussions on a variety of topics, ranging from organization of student governments to stu­dent-faculty relationships.

Invitations have been extended to student body presidents, head yell or cheerleaders, editors of student newspapers, athletic rep­resentatives and other student leaders, with a goal of getting at least four delegates from each in­stitution.

“We are hoping the meeting will form the basis for a South­west Conference association which will strengthen the academic and social relationships between the member schools,” Carter noted.

"There has not been enough association between conference schools in the past,” he added, “except in athletics.”

The meeting in A&M’s Memori­al Student Center is an offshoot of the semi-annual session of the Southwest Conference Sportsman­ship Committee.

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Board-Staff Fete Set Here April 26

Texas A&M’s annual board of directors - faculty - staff dinner is scheduled April 26 in Sbisa Hall, announced President Earl Rud­der.

Rudder said the 7:15 p.m. stag dinner will be preceded by a 45- minute reception with board mem­bers in the receiving line.

A committee headed by Robert G. Cherry, assistant to the presi­dent, and Academic Vice Presi­dent Wayne C. Hall is finalizing plans for the program and pur­chase of tickets.

While listed as a stag dinner, Rudder emphasized that women faculty-staff members are invited.

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of the council will draft a letter voicing support for the issue. The letter would then be sent to the University Executive Committee.

Leon Travis, senate welfare committee head and chairman of the drive to give support to two Vietnamese orphanages, outlined future action.

“I will take this letter and one from Student Senate President Jerry Campbell back to the ex­ecutive committee and try to convince them to back the pro­posal,” he explained.

TRAVIS TOLD the council that the senate is actually proposing two possible courses of action.

“We could close down both mess halls for the evening meal of March 22 and send the result­ing savings of $2,000 to the orphanages.

“The other idea is to close Duncan, but leave a small por­tion of Sbisa open for those who registered against the idea,” Travis said. “The money spent to prepare the food for these peo­ple would be deducted from the $2,000.

Travis explained that Food

License Plates On Sale Now In MSC Booth

Automobile license plates for 1968, which must be mounted by April 1, are available in a Me­morial Student Center booth op­erated by Brazos County.

The convenient location near the MSC post office is provided through cooperation of Raymond Buchanan, Brazos tax assessor- collector, and the MSC Council and Directorate.

“Students reside here nine months of the year and may pur­chase plates here regardless of home residence,” Buchanan said. He noted that a student may procure tags as chief operator of a vehicle registered in his parent’s name.

“Many students go to extra mailing expense of having their parents purchase plates,” Bu­chanan pointed out.

Local purchase, as in normal situations, requires presentation of car title, ’67 registration re­ceipt if available and the stipu­lated state fee.

A tax office representative will operate the MSC booth on week­days from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. through March 29. Plates are available through the lunch hour. The booth closes from 1 to 2 p.m. on weekdays, Saturdays and Sun­days.

“Persons can avoid long lines and last-minute rush by taking advantage of locations like this,” Buchanan said.

Services would make available 40 cents for every board-paying stu­dent who agrees with the plan. He stressed that this is the price of the food only and that labor is being paid on the basis of a 40- hour week.

“CHANCES don’t look very good for closing completely both mess halls,” Travis commented, “but I am hoping that the Exec­utive Committee will approve the second idea.”

Travis listed as the object blocking the closing of the mess halls the 288 people who opposed the proposal when the board-pay­ing students were surveyed ear­lier in the week.

“We polled 74 percent of the board paying students,” he said. “92 per cent favored giving up the meal to feed the orphans.”

THE COUNCIL also discussed the problem of generating inter­est in student election. Propos­als ranged from advertising in the Battalion to singing in front of Sbisa Dining Hall.

One council member pointed out that University regulations forbid any candidate to demon­strate or hold a rally.

The Council agreed to bring the problem to the attention of the Senate and suggested that election regulations might be relaxed.

Larry Shilhab, Civilian Week­end chairman, reminded the dorm presidents that applications for Civilian Sweetheart must be turned in at the next meeting on March 28.

T ownHall, Junior Ball Highlight Weekend

TOWN HALL ATTRACTIONThe hit-tune producing Association, composed of Jim Yes- ter,Brian Cole, Terry Kirkman, Russ Giguere, Ted Bluechel and Larry Ramos, is scheduled for 8 p. m. Town Hall, appearance tonight. Among the group’s hits have been “Along Comes Mary,’’ “Cherish” and “Never, My Love.”

Issues Lecturer Foresees University ‘Confederation9

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FOUR, PLEASEGraduate student Gerald Evers buys tickets to Monday’s Buck Owens country music show from Gary Sherer, mem­ber of Sigma Delta Chi, which is sponsoring the show to raise money for journalism scholarships. Advance tickets continue on sale in the Memorial Student Center from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m. Saturday and Monday. (Photo by Mike Wright)

By JOHN JAMESBattalion Special Writer

“Nothing to me seems more cer­tain than the future confedera­tion of higher education,” a noted authority on universities told a Great Issues audience here last night.

Dr. William Arrowsmith, form­er University of Texas professor of arts and letters, said he en­visions the formation of an edu­cational corporation as an econo­my measure.

“The time is right for reform,” he said, “our supply of qualified teachers is hopelessly inadequate. Only by raiding the high schools of their teachers can the new col­leges and universities get the teachers they need.

“WE WILL have 500 new in­stitutions of higher learning in the next decade,” he continued. “Opening at a rate of one per week, it would be unfair to ask them to imitate models such as Harvard and Yale.”

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AF Colonel Gets Oak Leaf Cluster To Commendation

Air Force Col. Walter M. Coble, assistant professor of aerospace studies, has been awarded the First Oak Leaf Cluster to his Commendation Medal.

He is the second ranking of­ficer in A&M’s AFROTC detach­ment to Col. Vernon L. Head, professor of aerospace studies.

The decoration recognizes Coble’s performance as a C-133 squadron commander at Dover AFB.

A command pilot with 6,000 hours flying the KC-135, B-52 and C-133, Colonel Coble served with air materiel, military air­lift, tactical and strategic air commands in his 26 years in the Air Force.

The 46-year-old officer had duty assignments in Morocco, Newfoundland and Southwest Pa­cific. He also wears the Air Medal and Air Force Outstand­ing Unit Award.

Coble’s son Ross, 21, is a junior in the A&M Corps of Cadets.

The colonel is a 1957 graduate of the University of Maryland, where he studied military sci­ence. His family resides at 1207 Glade.

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colleges, “which 40 per cent or more of our students of the fu­ture will attend,” will be unable to compete with the large and es­tablished universities, he said..

“I don’t think it would matter if 15 universities banded together to oppose the Vietnam war. I do think, however, it would matter a great deal if 15 universities banded together to form an edu­cational corporation,” Dr. Arrow- smith continued.

Dr. Arrowsmith said he feels the need to establish a “common market of the mind” as an econo­my measure.

“THE COLLEGES and univer­sities should pool their resources to take on larger tasks,” he said.

Some of the larger tasks envi­sioned by Dr. Arrowsmith include study, by institutions of higher learning, of “the problem of mak­ing world resources available to 100 per cent of the earth’s popu­lation, rather than the 43 per cent now served.”

Dr. Arrowsmith also suggested the establishment of a national newspaper.

“There are only two newspa­pers in the country today that come close to being what could grow into a national newspaper,” he said. “They are the Washing­ton Post and the New York Times.

I feel that a confederation of uni­versities could establish a nation­al newspaper.”

DR. ARROWSMITH revealed that six or seven proposals for federations are already being dis­cussed.

“Higher education should get back into business of producing leaders,” Dr. Arrowsmith contin­ued. “The universities need to produce the type of man our fu­ture society may require.

He asserted that universities should be prepared to compete with commercial institutions and enter any and every educational context.”

“The student is the only gener­alist left on the university cam­pus,” Dr. Arrowsmith said, “and the students can, and often times do, teach other.”

DR. ARROWSMITH said he wants to see the institutions of higher learning “get back into the service of men.”

“The purpose of education is to provide an idea of self-realiza­tion in a time when we do not know the direction we are head­ed,” he said.

Dr. Arrowsmith has authored 30 major books and articles since 1960. His name has appeared in six editions of “Who’s Who in America.”

FISH PREP FOR MEETRick Gonzales, sophomore advisor to the Fish Drill Team, gives some friendly advice to drill team members prepar­ing for the Texas A&M Invitational Drill Meet here Satur­day. Some 14 teams from Texas and surrounding states will compete in the tournament- (Photo by Mike Wright)

‘Association ’Show Begins At 8p.m.

Sixteen organizations, ranging from precision drill teams to the Junior class to a sextet appropri­ately named The Associations, will take charge of this weekend’s campus activities.

Kicking off the weekend, The Association will bring their hits, including “Cherish,” “Windy,” and “Never My Love,” to G. Rollie White Coliseum 8 p.m. Friday.

Houston Judge Raps ‘Coddling Of Criminals’

By JOHN FULLERBattalion Managing Editor

Recent Supreme Court rulings on criminal arrest and trial pro­cedures have produced “a gov­ernment of men, not of laws,” a Texas civil appeals court judge said here Thursday.

“The framers of the Constitu­tion set down basic limits to Fed­eral power,” Judge John M. Bar­ron told an Apollo Club meeting. “In 1868, Congress forced the 14th Amendment down the throats of the states. Its vague, almost unidentifiable wording let the Federal government take the place of the states in basic areas.”

Barron, judge on Houston’s 14th Court of Civil Appeals, as­serted that this trend opened the door to Supreme Court “usur­pation” of state and local rights in administration of justice.

THE NOW-FAMOUS Esco­bedo and Miranda cases, in which the Court ruled that suspects must be warned of their rights to legal counsel before being asked any questions by police, are ex­amples of this action, he added.

“In the suddenness of a street encounter, the arresting officer has little or no opportunity to avoid the charge of failing to meet standards demanded by the Miranda ruling,” Barron said. “This effectively precludes in­terrogation, the single most im­portant procedure in law en­forcement.”

The result, he said, is the po­lice, and not the suspects, are really being put on trial.

“I am concerned that the Mir­anda precedent will proscribe the use of all confessions in criminal proceedings,” he continued.

BARRON attributed the gen­eral increase in crime to a “na­tion guilt complex” which has emphasized “the plight of the hijacker instead of the plight of the hijacked.”

“It is fundamental that rights should be protected,” he con­tinued, “but there are grounds for serious concern that rights, as they are now being inter­preted, are not well-balanced be­tween the individual and society as a whole.”

TO REMEDY the situation, Barron proposed amendments to the Constitution to make the term “due Process of law” more specific. He called for guaran­tees of the following procedures:

• Adequate opportunity for interrogation of suspects.

• Legitimate opportunity fox- use of fairly-obtained confes­sions.

• Ability of the prosecution to comment in court on the refusal of a defendant to take the wit­ness stand.

“T h e Constitution contem­plates change by amendment, not by court action,” he continued. “If an amendment is needed to assure these safeguards, then the public should produce one for its own good.”

Barron, former Bryan attorney and court magistrate, attended A&M and completed University of Texas law school in 1938. He was 85th district judge here six years before going to Houston.

Saturday, after 14 regional drill teams compete in the day­long A&M Invitational Drill Meet, juniors will name their class sweetheart at the Junior Ball beginning at 8 p.m. in Sbisa Dining Hall.

COMPOSED of six musician- performers who mold their style in the crucible of five months’ isolation for daily rehearsal, the Association brings to A&M a sound that has drawn accolades in concert, nightclub and thea­tre engagements from Shea Sta­dium to Buckingham Palace.

Aggies with student activity cards will be admitted free to the performance, sponsored by Town Hall of the Memorial Student

Applications for next year’s town Hall staff junior posi­tions are now available in the Student Programs Office, Town Hall Chairman-Elect Lewis Adams announced.

The forms are to be re­turned to the office by March 22, he noted.

Center. Tickets for A&M stu­dent date or wife are $1.50, pub­lic school student $2 and gen­eral admission $3 per person.

“San Franciscan Night” is the theme and The Countdown 5 will be the band for the Junior Ball.

AT THE BALL, an expected 300-400 juniors and their dates will be treated to a stroll across a bridge complete with swirling mists, according to Bill Young- kin, class secretaxy-treasurer.

“The ‘mists’ will be provided by appx-oximately 200 lb. of dry ice hidden beneath the bridge,” he said.

He added that any juniors who wish to help decoi-ate should meet in front of Sbisa at 8 a.m. Satur­day.

Thx-ee-phase drill competition will be held on A&M’s main pa­rade ground in front of the MSC and on the Trigon parking lot.

Inspection will begin at 8 a.m. followed by precision competi­tion in the aftex-noon. Presenta­tion of awards at 4:30 p.m. will be by Col. Jim H. McCoy, com­mandant.

A special performance by the Wainwright Debutantes, a girls’ drill team from Tarleton State College, will begin at 1:15 p.m.

Film Classics To Be Shown Here Monday

Two early movie classics, “Potemkin” and “Cabinet of Dr. Calgari,” will be screened Mon­day in the Memorial Student Cen­ter Ballroom.

Mark Schumann of Dallas, MSC Spring Festival Film Series chairman, said the silent films will be presented at 8 p.m.

“These are two of the most important works in movie his­tory,” Schumann added. “They are valued as classics and were recognized by the National Stu­dent Film Festival in New York.”

Russian-made “Potemkin” deals with the 1905 battelship mutiny and treatment of the uprising. Made in 1925, it was directed by the late Sergei Eisenstein, pio­neer movie-maker.

The second presentation is de­scribed as the first attempt at creativity through the medium of film. “Calgari” was made in Gei-many in 1919.

Season tickets are available at $2.50 per student and $4 for facul­ty or patron, Schumann said. Single admissions will be 50 cents per student and 75 cents faculty.

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