College Station, Texas Thursday, August 25, 1960 1 Bj 'S Itainj gridiroi tion a: Tigers tion fo tion. Head aistant have tl year a 11 lett 11 pos: Eleven “B” sc due to Coac impiw behind of Bel race, at A compil 3-1 lo MiS! will b ing 1 cludin Mills, Smith Smith Lea seaso) tackle to a Ar te, ’{ sistai Tran U. S inal John Lt Apri tion Bust CADET SLOUCH THE BATTALION by Jim Ear Ip . fm. “That’s one tradition that’s new to me! He said that it’s a tradition for freshmen to have at least two brooms!” ./ 8,657 Acres on Campus, Adjacent Area Most of A&M’s Campus Unknown to Students By H. L. CARTER Freshmen arriving at A&M may not realize the vastness of the col lege campus, as there are 8,657 acres in the campus and adjacent agricultural areas. Of the total acreage, 4,392 acres are on the west side of the campus across the railroad tracks. The rest is the 3,192-acre college plan tation, 10 miles southwest of Col lege Station in the Brazos River bottomland. The upland near the campus is assigned to. various agricultural departments, which includes the only School of Veterinary Medi cine in Texas. Animal Husbandry The Department of Animal Hus- iandry has 1,200 acres which is divided among the swine, sheep, beef cattle and horse centers. Ap proximately 300 pure bred cattle, 1,000 hogs, 250 sheep and 50 horses help carry out the depart ment’s main purpose of teaching and research. Hereford, Angus and Brahma cattle; Rambouillet, Southdown, Hampshire -and Suffolk sheep; Berkshire, Duroc, Hampshire, Chester White and Poland China hogs are some of the 'different breeds of livestock found at the centers. Joining the swine center is the For the largest selection of styles in shoes COURT’S North Gate 154-acre poultry farm. The latest equipment and techniques in poul try industry are used here. There are about 15,000 laying hens and 800 turkeys on the farm. Every year 75,000 to 100,000 chicks are hatched for replace ments and broilers. Horticulture Directly north of the poultry farm is the Department of Horti culture’s testing plots. Pecan, fig, peach, plum and pear trees, along with vegetables, cover most of the 105 acres. Horticulture students receive experience in grafting, pruning, disease control and producing. ' . Dairy Farm The dairy farm is located about two miles west of the campus. With approximately 400 cows, the farm furnishes testing and re search for the students. Milk, ice cream and many other dairy products for the mess halls and Memorial Student Center are produced by the A&M Creamery from milk received from the dairy farm. The milking process can be ob served daily at 3 p.m. through a large window at the modern milk parlor. Easterwood Field Easterwood Field, two miles southwest on FM 60, is the largest college-owned airport in the na tion. The airport is used for pas senger service and flight training for ROTC seniors. An atomic Nuclear Science Cen ter is now being constructed near the airport. Range and Forestry Joining the airport is 1130 acres assigned to the Department of Range and Forestry and 176 acres for the Military Reservation. The Department of Military Sci ence and Tactics trains junior and SCONA Group Goes to Mexico Five A&M SCONA delegates will leave College Station for Monterrey, Mexico, Sunday, to raise funds for the sixth annual Student Conference on National Affairs. The Aggies going to Monterrey are Tod Reid, chairman of SCONA VI; Dan Deupree, vice chairman; THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax-supported, non profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and op erated by students as a community newspaper and is under Ihe supervision of the director of Student Publications at Texas A&M College. senior advanced Army ROTC ca dets on the military reservation. School of Veterinary Medicine The School of Veterinary Medi cine is the only one in Texas and is one of the top veterinary medi cine schools in the nation. Admission is obtained only after completion of the program in pre- veterinary medicine and selection is based on a quota which will be admitted for the session under con sideration. Entomology Near the School of Veterinary Medicine is the Entomology Re search Laboratory. The Depart ment of Entomology is in contin ual research on the biological de velopment, habits and control of insect pests attacking farm crops and livestock. College Plantation The college plantation’s 3,192 acres are located about eight miles from the campus in the fertile Brazos River bottomland. The farm begins on the south side of the road immediately to the west of the bridge and south of FM 60. There are 26 tractors, 3 bulldozers and a number of trucks and other farm equipment used on the farm. The farm’s primary purpose is to assist with research work car ried on by the college. The Departments of Agricul tural Engineering, Agronomy, Animal Husbandry, Range and Forestry, Entomology and Plant Pathology use the farm for direct application, testing and research on farm machinery, insecticides and crops. Many crops are grown on the farm, the primary crops being cot ton, corn and maize. Other crops grown are seasme, oats, alfalfa, castor beans, sunflowers, vetch and grain sorghums. The plantation headquarters is two miles southeast of the river bridge. Several roads lead across the plantation. Visitors are welcome to tour the farm to see the various crops grown and the modern farming method and machinery used. Publications Include ‘Bait’, Four Magazines An important part of the col lege at A&M is the information and entertainment provided by the six publications of the Depart ment of Student Publications. Included in the list of publica tions are The Battalion, the col lege newspaper serving both the campus and the city of College Station; the A&M Review, a mag azine for students in the School of Arts and Sciences; the Engi neer, a magazine for students in the School of Engineering; the Agriculturist, a magazine for stu dents in the School of Agriculture; the Southwestern Veterinarian, a journal for students in the School of Veterinary Medicine and pro fessional veterinarians; and The Aggieland, the yearbook. Bill Hicklin, senior journalism major from Corpus Christi, will edit the 1960-61 Battalion. The Battalion' is published four times a week during the fall and spring semesters. The staff is made up of students and membership on the staff is open to all interested students. Freshmen are especially urged to become a member of the staff during their freshman year. Jim Gibson, senior journalism major from San Antonio, is editor of the quarterly A&M Review. All students from the School of Arts and Sciences are invited to submit articles for publication. Editing the monthly Engineer this fall will be Paul York, senior electrical engineering major from Marshall. The Engineer contains technical writings written by stu dents. Walter Willms, senior agricul ture major from Columbus, will edit the quarterly Agriculturist. Students write the articles for this publication. The Southwestern Veterinarian is published quarterly and con tains technical articles dealing with the problems, involved in vet erinary medicine. Joseph Smith, senior veterinary medicine major from Justin, will be editor this year. Richard McGaughy, senior land scape architecture major from Houston, is editor of The Aggie land, the college’s yearbook. L. A. Duewall is director of the Department of Student Publica tions. The offices of all the publica tions are located in the basement of the YMCA. Any interested stu dents are invited to come by these offices and apply for staff mem bership. Ags in Service Army Reserve 1st Lt. James N. Bower, ’57, a former co-editor of The Battalion, has completed two weeks on annual active duty train ing at Ft. Benning, Ga. Lt. Bower is assigned as supply officer of Company A in the 307th Infantry in White Plains, N. Y. ★ ★ ★ Army 2nd Lt. Stanley J. Wil liams, ’59, has completed the sev en-week Ranger course at The Infantry School at Ft, Benning, Ga. John McMullen, co-chairman; Clyde Whitwell, conference man ager; and Charles Moore, member of the finance committee. While in Monterrey, the Aggies will call on American and Mexican businessmen in the area to get support for SCONA VI and pre sent each of last year’s members with brochures of last year’s con ference. One of the former Mexican dele gates to SCONA will deliver a speech to the Monterrey Rotary Club in behalf of the A&M dele gates. The speech will explain the purpose of SCONA and how it benefits American and Mexican students and improves relations between the two countries. Also, during the five-day visit, the Aggies will meet former dele gates to SCONA from the Uni versity of Nuevo Leon and Mon : terrey Institute of Technology. The money donated by the spon sors in Mqnterrey will be used to pay travel expenses for SCONA VI delegates from various Mex ican universities. Sam W. Clark, ’ll, independent consulting engineer in Monterrey, will help the Aggies make con tacts while in Monterrey and help arrange the trip to Mexico. The SCONA conference will be held on the campus in the MSC in December. During the four-day conference, student from colleges and universities all over the United States, Canada and Mexico will hear speeches by leaders in the various phaSes of national and in ternational relations. Money for the SCONA confer ences is raised entirely through the students’ efforts. Funds and support come from business firms, foundations and individuals throughout Texas and Mexico. Dining Halls On Campus World’s Largest The two college dining halls are the largest combined eating places on any campus in the world. Sbisa Hall was built in 1912 and can feed 4,000 people at one time. Both Corps and Civilian students eat here. It is also the headquar ters of the A&M food staff. Duncan Hall was built in 1939 and will feed 3,000 people at one time. It feeds only Corps students. It takes about 200 full-time em ployes and about 200 student wait ers to prepare and serve the meals. Even with this cost of labor food and equipment it is the cheapest cost for board of any college in the U. S. today. It only costs a student $1.50 per day for three meals, which is paid at registration time for each se mester. This money buys the food, pays the labor, and covers depre ciation for the dining halls. The dining halls are self sup porting. The money paid by each student is all it receives. There is no state or federal aid given to them. The dining halls buy all their food from government-in spected companies. Preparation for breakfast and lunch begins at 5:30 a.m. each day. On an average each student re ceives two eggs or more for break fast and an average of three- fourths' of a pound of meat per day. This is why the food manager spends 45 percent of the money, for food on meat only. This may vary, but no one leaves hungry. 1 Examining James H. Marsh III, who teaches structures courses in the Division of Architecture and is a researcher in the Architectural Re search Division of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, demonstrates how the Invention steel reinforcing rods are arched to the de sired shape with the use of steel cables in the second stage of construction of his new process. ARCHITECTURE (Continued from Page 1) Further enclosing cap be done as necessary and desired. The process has four major ad vantages : 1. The concrete is applied with out the necessity for conventional construction forms which results in substantial savings in materials Space Lecture Set Tonight At 8 in MSC “The Support of Man in Space Flight,” will be the subject of a lecture tonight by a Boeing Air plane Co. scientist. The speaker is Dr. Samuel P. Johnson, formerly a faculty mem ber of the Department of Plant Physiology and now with the Space Medicine Section, Aero- Space Division of the Boeing firm at Seattle, Wash. His talk will be at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center Assemb ly Room. The lecture will be of special interest to members of Sigma Xi, the sponsoring organization, and to faculty members and graduate students, according to Joe Sorrels, professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and a Sigma Xi member. He said the public is invited to hear Samuels. The scientist left A&M in 1959 to join the Boeing Company. At present, he is senior plant. phys iologist in the space medicine sec tion. Johnson attended the Univer sity of California before receiving his B.S. degree in 1950 at East Texas State College. He joined the faculty of the Department of Plant Physiology in 1953, where he received his M.S. and doctorate degrees in 1954. He is a member of the Botanical Society of America, the American Society for Horticultural Science, the Agronomy Society, the Amer ican Society of Plant Physiologists and Sigma Xi. and labor and hence, cost. 2. The speed with which this shell can be formed, for exceeds the time necessary for. conven tional systems of construction. 3. The major portion of all work is performed on the ground sur face, including the placing of elec trical conduits and wiring togeth er of steel and mesh. This pro vides for a considerably safer op eration and allows top efficiency of workers. 4. The architectural shapes and forms which can be developed with this system are numerous and varied. In development of the process Marsh has had encouragement and assistance from personnel of A&M and partial sponsorship from the Texas Bureau for Lathing and Plastering, Inc. WELCOME TO AGGIELAND FRESHMEN! And when you get that yen to eat out, come to HOTARD’S. We are well known in the Bryan-College Station area for our DELICIOUS FOOD, QUICK and COURTEOUS SERVICE and our PLEASANT ATMOS PHERE. We are conveniently located in the TOWNSHIRE SHOPPING CENTER between Bryan and College Station. HOTARDS CAFETERIA “Where the Art of Cooking is not lost” :.f Member Certified Associated Restaurants The average freight train load in the United States is 1,430 tons. 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