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--- I Peace at last Cease-fire announced WASHINGTON (UPI) - Presi- Thieu and the government of first step toward building the dent Nixon announced Tuesday South Vietnam." peace," he declared. Attacks increase night that the United States and But he warned that the terms "Let us be proud that America SAIGON (UPI) - Commumnist North Vietnam had agreed on a of the agreement "must be scru- did not settle for a peace that ;round attacks nearly doubled cease-fire. pulously adhered to." He said the would have betrayed our allies." Tuesday over the day before, Nixon said the agreement with United States will abide by the Nixon said. "Let us be proud that the South Vietnamese command North Vietnam brought an end to terms and expects North Vietnam America did not settle for a said. It was apparently the be- the Indochina War "with honor" to do the same. peace that would have abandoned ginning of a Communist on- and provided for the release of He said the agreement recog- our prisoners." slaught expected before the cease-fire goes into effect U.S. prisoners of war. nizes the Thieu government "as The President defended his re- Nixon said the agreement was the sole legitimate government fusal to discuss his war and Military sources said t."S initialed in Paris earlier Tuesday of South Vietnam." The United peace policy during the closing bombing raids on Communist States, the President declared. by Henry A. Kissinger, his chief months of the four-year-old ne- targets in South Vietnam w-r- will continue to aid that govern- Vietnam negotiator, and Hanoi's pro(-eedingm normally. They said ment militarily. gotiations. He said too much talk Le Duc Tho. He said it would go they knew (If no order to curtail into effect at 7 p.m. EST Sator- "Ending the war is only the See Peace, p. 6 operations. day. Nixon said the agreement would "end the war and bring peace with honor in Southeast Asia." In a nationwide address to the nation Nixon read a statement da which he said was being simul- i taneously issued by North Viet- 5 J namese officials which expressed No. 53 Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, Wednesday, January 24, 1973 the hope that the agreement would lead to a lasting peace throughout Indochina. Nixon's address, from the Oval Office of the White House, fol- lowed sessions earlier Tuesday Clements confirmed evening with his cabinet and with WASHINGTON (UPI) - The troops on the ground. In his new this was "so small. how, could both Democratic and Republican Senate confirmed William P. rost, Clements may make that a man benefit from f; n,orin:' congressional leaders. Clements, chairman of the SMU decision. LTV." Nixon said that "within 60 days Board of Governors, as deputy Chairman John C. Stennis of the None of this satisfid Set. iiar- from the time the cease-fire takes defense secretary Tuesday after Senate Armed Services Committee old Hughes. D-Iowa. who led the effect all Americans held as pris- the Texas millionaire defused a announced on the floor Tuesday opposition to Clements. "I might oners of war throughout Indochina controversy over his connection that Clements had agreed to sell have considered it insignificant will be released." with a major aircraft builder. all 3,420 shares-worth $170,000- if the willingness to give the in- The President recalled that he It was revealed Monday that a in the First National Bank of Dal- formation to the committee( vol. had outlined conditions for such bank in which Clements holds las. Stennis also said Clements untarily had been evident." It a cease-fire during his speech stock had extended $7.8 million in would resign all the directorships was Hughes who revealed the LBJ last May 8. credit to LTV Aerospace Corp., he holds "except on the executive bank's involvement with LTV. A flag, already mourning "All the conditions that I laid a Texas conglomerate that makes board of the Boy Scouts of Stennis and Hughes both said one ex-President, will re- down then have been met," Nixon the A7 Corsair attack plane. America." they did not know if Clements The A7 will become an even Stennis added that Clements' was aware of the bank's involve. .A; main at half mast for the said. late Lyndon B. Johnson Nixon said the agreement more profitable aircraft if the holdings amounted to only 17- ment when he had testified earlier who died Monday of a "meets the goals and has the full Pentagon chooses it as the new 1000ths of 1 per cent of the out- before the Armed Services Com- heart attack. See p. 9. support of President Nguyen Van plane to give close fire support to standing bank stock and said, mittee. Brooks Hardin names committee selected to review shared governance A Governance Evaluation Committee has been recently appointed by President Paul Hardin to conduct a thorough review of the as provost governance structure. This evaluation was a condition of its original adoption three years ago. James E. Brooks, a principal leader in SMU academic planning for According to Dr. James Wroten, vice-president for student affairs. the past decade was named University Provost Dec. 22, 1972, by Presi- Hardin has requested a two-year extension of the experimental dent Paul Hardin. structure. The request was presumably made since Hardin has Formerly associate provost and Dean of the School of Humanities only had a few months since his arrival to acquaint himself with and Sciences, Brooks replaced Vice-President and Provost H. Neill governance boards and proceedures. MacFarland. THE committee, made up of students, faculty and administrators. Wroten described as an "ongoing" committee. Even McFarland announced his decision to resign his post as provost in will be what two years the com- mid-October in order to return to full-time teaching in the Perkins though a final evaluation is being planned in recommendations and certain changes will be School of Theology. mittee will make Hardin solicited reactions to a group of candidates for the post made. from SMU trustees, administrators. faculty, and students. "In con- Each of the twelve members were selected from formal recom- and the suilting with a siseable number of people on this campus about the mendations from the Student Caucus, the Faculty Senate candidates being co Miered for this crucial appointment," Hardin Administrative Coordinating Committee. Goodwin, said, "I learned that Jim Brooks Is widely respected by his colleagues STUDENT members of the committee are Mis. Diane for his years of sound, forward-looking service as an educator, residential advisor; Ms. JoAnn Harris, student body president: scadentist, and academic leader." Ms. Kay Vinson, editor-in-chief. Daily Campus. and Brad W As associate provost, Brooks coordinated the programs of University Scharf, assembyperson from engineering. College and the graduate and undergraduate faculties of the School Faculty members include Dr. James Melsa,. last year's CA chair- of Humanities and Sciences and administering the H&S budget and person; Dr. Ruth Morgan, chairperson of the Faculty Senate; Dr. staff. Laurence Perrine, member of the original drafting committee; and Mr. Charles J. Morris. former law school assemblyperson. A member of SMU's faculty for 20 years. Brooks first assumed are Mr. Irving Baker, assistant to the a role in University academic planninab as a member of the Faculty Administration appointees Senate's Executive Cmnittee in I61. T folloing year be became president; Dr. James Brooks, provost; Wroten and Dr. Charles Faculty- Vail. vice-pri nt of the University. Dr. Vail is the chairperson chairperson or iebe en of eo r=ad served on the of the comm.ttee Planning committee forS Ns bMaster Pun. in 1362. I ,, allln~rlJI~P"P L - s face bleak jPh.D.'job picture o' sr:.. By PETE PETERS the Office of Telecommunications we've been an is!land here." he said. For the aspiring Ph.D., not only Research and private foundations. is the job market bleak, but pros- Cooper says that 70 to 80 per cent H&S graduated 22 Ph D : pects of financial aid for graduate of these grants goes directly to 1971 and 26 in 1972. studies is worsening as a result the financial support of graduate of drastic federal cutbacks ac- students. cording to the National Board of The Dean of the Institute of Graduate Education. Nationally, Technology, Thomas L. Martin Bm federal support for graduate stu- Jr. said the job depression for D a i US dents declined from 51,446 persons Ph.D.s is not being felt in engi- in 1969 to an estimated 22,121 per- neering. "All of our Ph.D.s are announces sons for 1972. getting very good jobs .. at Thirty fellowships and trainee- around $20,000 a year," he said. taff c an es ships available to SMU graduate "There has not been a reductionch n e students in 1971-72 dropped to 17 in the demand for these people." in 1972-73. The National Aeronau- Offering both a doctor of phi- The Daily Campus resumes tics and Space Administration, losophy and doctor of engineering publication for the spring se- The Department of Health, Educa- degree, the Institute of Technology mester with this issue. Kay tion and Welfare (HEW), and the graduated "about 40 Ph.D.s last Vinson, editorial page editor National Science Foundation year and expect as many this dring the fall semester, has (NSF) were the donors. year." assumed the position of editor- Likewise, the three major Glenister Hoskins, associate in-chief. Vinson was appointed sources of SMU's Federal re- dean of Humanities and Sciences, to the position by the SMU search grants, HEW, NSF, and said "the kinds of jobs that a Student's Publishing Board the Department of Defense, to- man with a Ph.D.