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Spring; semester enrollment for
H graduate school has set an
UiVI record and is an increase of
nore than twenty-eight per cent
jvcr last year at this time.
Hhe announcement Wednesday,
:ami‘ from Dean of Graduate Stud- i
es Wayne C. Hall, who listed total
.'nrpllment in the graduate school
it |r>G as compared to 747 enrolled
n the spring of 19(12.
; A AM in the fall semester re- .
ferjted the greatest percentage gain
n graduate school enrollment of
my college or university in thirteen ;
Soiithern states.
Fall semester graduate enroll- ||§
neht totaled 956 students, and 68
rf khese received degrees at the
January commencement.
“Advanced degrees have been a-
Waided to 278 students during the
last 12 months,” Hall said.
“[More students are becoming in
terested in graduate education as
ihey realize the bachelor’s degree
:3 only a beginning, like the high
ichool diploma was 20 years ago,”
:he dean continued.
■ Approximately 60 per cent of
the graduate students are master’s
iBree candidates and the others
seek doctoral degrees.
HA&M’s growing reputation as
Krraduate studies center is re-
Mcted by the geographical spread
fepresented in the student body.
Graduate students come from about
three-fourths of the states and al
most 40 countries around the
World,” Hall pointed out.
IfA rapid increase in enrollment
graduate studies in the arts and
sciences has brought the school
almost equal with engineering and
feiculture in number of students
enrolled.
: |A number of new graduate pro-
Ikms have been established in re
lent months, but the older pro
grams still attract the most stu
dents. Among the new programs
are master’s degrees in English,
history, government, statistics,
computer science and laboratory
animal medicine.
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Open Sessions
To Bear Name
Discussion
Students will once again have an
opportunity to be heard on the
question of a name change for
A&M.
The Student Senate will open the
floor - at its meeting tonight to
discussion on such a change, ac
cording to student body president
Sheldon Best. He said that every
student is invited “and even en
couraged’’ to attend the meeting
and voice an opinion.
BEST SAID the open discussion
is an attempt to survey the cur-
(See editorial “Student Body Call
ed On . . .” on Page 2.)
Warm Interlude
With spring-like skies overhead yesterday is moving in, according to the weather man,
these Consolidated High School girls decided and by tomorrow this scene will be a me-
to take in a bit of tennis. But a cold front mory.
rent attitude of the student body
regarding a name change. He
said:
“The senate is interested in find
ing out if the general feeling on
campus is the same as it was last
spring.”
In an informal poll conducted
last May 9, in which 48.2 per cent
of the student body voted, a name
change was favored. In answer to
the question:
THE COLLEGE administration
called for the informal poll last
spring. Two other questions, con
cerning compulsory corps and co
education, were also voted on in
the poll.
The Thursday night session is
scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m.
rn Room 3-D of the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
AT A&M METHODIST CHURCH TONIGHT
Four-Man Panel To Close RE Week
A joint discussion panel of
speakers representing the ideas of
different religious denominations
will conclude Religious Emphasis
Week activities at the A&M Meth
odist Church at 7:15 tonight.
Wire Review
By The Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
SAIGON, South Viet Nam —
Government forces took revenge
Hednesday on a crack Commu-
nlst battalion believed to be the
ojie that mauled their troops Jan.
2|in the bloodist single battle of
tie Vietnamese war.
■In day-long blistering air strikes
ppd ground attacks, government
Ri’ces claimed 50 guerrillas were
killed near Bac Lieu, 120 miles
ipnthwest of Saigon.
Fighters and armed escort heli-
(pters caught several large con-
eentrations of Viet Cong in dry
open rice fields and pounded them
With rockets.
U. S. NEWS
I KEY WEST, Fla. — Two
B*fe jackets stenciled “Sulphur
^ueen” were found Wednesday in
he Atlantic, indicating that a
p23-foot tanker which disappear-
M Feb. 2 with 39 men aboard
nay have met disaster at sea.
The jackets and other debris
were believed to be from the
tanker Marine Sulphur Queen.
One of the jackets was located
iy a Navy torpedo retriever
vessel and the second was pick
ed up by a Coast Guard patrol
vessel.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON — President
Kennedy pledged full support to
Venezuela on Wednesday in resist
ing the “all-out campaign of inter
national Communists, aided especi
ally by their Cuban allies,” to over
throw President Romulo Betan
court's government.
Kennedy’s pledge of U. S. sup
port was announced in a com
munique marking the windup of
Betancourt’s official two-day visit
to Washington.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON — The While
House looked to the Eisenhower
administration for precedent,
then made it final Wednesday:
Reporters may no longer mingle
or talk to guests at official presi
dential receptions.
TEXAS NEWS
AUSTIN — Texas senators
spent Wednesday huddled in
tense, behind-the-scenes strategy
conferences following the secret
session rejection of W. St. John
Garwood as a University of Texas
regent.
Thursday, senators go into an
other secret session where several
senators say privately that the
issue may cause one of the most
rough-and-tumble battles in years.
Garwood, former State Supreme
Court justice, was among Gov.
John Connally’s first major ap
pointments.
Participating on the panel will
be:
Dr. Samuel I. Goltermann, presi
dent of Concordia Junior College
at Austin, representing the Luther
an faith.
Dr. Das Kelly Barnett, Vicar of
St. John’s Episcopal Church at
Palacios, speaking for Methodist,
Presbyterian, Episcopalian and
Christian students.
RABBI Louis Firestein, from the
Temple Berth Israel of Austin,
sponsored by the B’nai B’rith Hil-
lel Foundation.
The M. C. Deason, Pastor of
Sacred Heart Church of Austin,
speaking for the Catholic faith.
The four men spoke before smal
ler individual groups eai’lier this
week in accordance with a new
system of presenting the religious
J emphasis program, used for the
first time this year.
LAST NIGHT, students at the
First Baptist Church heard Dr.
Robert A. Hingson speak on the
importance of an integrated at
tack by specialists in agriculture,
education and medicine in the
solution of the world’s problems.
In his talk, Hingson, professor
of anesthesia at Western Reserve
University School of Medicine,
used the theme “Be ye doers of
the Word and not hearers only.”
Barnett spoke at the A&M Meth
odist Church last night on “Rad
ical Monotheism.” He emphasized
the importance of one God who
is a God above Gods.
The ultimate tragedy of the
world is not bad breath or havin
the right kind of grease on your
hair to attract girls, he said. “The
ultimate tragedy is to lose God.”
CONCLUDING his lectures be
fore Lutheran students, Golter
mann said, “It’s time for people
to stand up on their hind legs and
say why thy’re doing what they’re
doing about their Christian way
of life.”
Catholic students attended a
special mass last night in which
the altar faced the , congregation.
The Church of Christ Bible Chair
was the scene of the next-to-last
talk by McCurrin Harwell, pastor
of the Central Church of Christ
in Temple.
Firesteifi spoke before Jewish
students last night at the Hillel
Foundation.
Levin To Discuss Cultures In Conflict
Tonight In Biological Sciences Building
Harry Levin, professor of com
parative literature at Harvard
University, will speak on “Cultui’es
in Conflict: Some Literary and
Education Implications of the
Snow-Leavis Controversy” tonight
at 8 in the Biological Sciences Lec
ture Room.
His topic comes from a debate
between a British scientist and a
Cambridge literary critic as to
whether a new culture based upon
the sciences is replacing the long-
existing culture centered upon the
humanities.
The lecturer holds honorary doc
torates from Syracuse University
and St. Andrews University, and
is a recognized critic, scholar and
teacher.
Levin has taught in California,
Paris, Salzburg and Tokyo, as well
as at Hai'vard.
He has written four books and
some 70 articles on literature and
has edited texts of such famous
authors as Shakespeare and Haw
thorne.
Ag Aviators
To Fly Here
A&M will hold its 12th annual
Agricultural Aviation Conference
early next week to show the lat
est development in the business
of aerial application of farm chemi
cals and seed.
Special attractions are flight de
monstrations of planes and equip
ment, and an air show.
PROGRAM CHAIRMAN Joe
Brusse of the Department of Aero
space Engineering said activities
will start at noon Sunday with re
gistration in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Flight demonstrations and air
show will start at 3:30 p.m. Mon
day at Easterwood Airport, wea
ther permitting.
Brusse said the air show will
feature Frank Price of Waco, presi-
ent of the American Tiger Club,
performing acrobatics in his famed
Jungmeister biplane.
A BANQUET IS set at 7 p.m.
Monday in the MSC. Guest speak
er will be humorist Bob Murphy
of Nacogdoches.
The conference is sponsoi - ed by
the A&M College System in co
operation with the Texas Aero
nautics Commission, Texas Flying
Farmers and Ranchers Association
and the Texas Aerial Applicators
Association.
Yeteran . Members
Want ‘University"
In A&M’s Name
BY ALAN PAYNE
Four of the six hold-over members of the A&M System
Board of Directors told The Battalion this week that they
favor a College name-change to incorporate the word “univer
sity.”
In telephone interviews with the six veteran directors,
the other two declined to comment. All three of the newly-
appointed members said they were not familiar enough with
the issue to have a definite opinion.
Meanwhile Chancellor M. T. Harrington confirmed that
the name-change question will definitely be discussed at a
regular meeting of the directors here this weekend.
Harrington indicated that nothing more than a discus
sion of the question is planned and that no particular new
name has been decided upon by the directors. He added that
no faculty or administration recommendation on a name-
change has been received since last fall when the Century
Council advocated a change to make A&M a university.
Directors saying they are in favor of a change were
Sterling C. Evans of Houston. H. C. Heldenfels of Corpus
Christi, Clyde Thompson of Diboll and John C. Newton of
Beaumont. Newspaper publisher S. B. Whittenburg of Am
arillo refused to make any comment on the question, while
Clyde H. Wells of Granbury said he would prefer that the
directors show their feelings as a group.
All six of these men were members of the board that
asked the legislature in 1961 to change the college’s name to
Texas State University and Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege.
Haines Expects Request From Board
Rep. David Haines of Bryan told The Battalion last week
he expects another name-change reouest from the board this
year. The freshman legislator added that he believes the
directors will favor the name Texas A&M University, with
A&M standing as a word and not as initials for “Agricultural
and Mechanical.”
Haines made his comments after a “joke” effort to
enact a name-change was over-ruled in the House last week.
The proposed amendment, which Haines called “a simple
attempt to needle me,” would have changed the school’s name
to The University of Texas Agricultural and Mechanical
Branch at College Station.
Most outspoken of the six hold-over directors was Thomp
son, a lumber executive from Diholl who favors Texas State
University and Agricultural and Mechanical College as a new
name.
“We know' that A&M is a university and are going to
have to get the word “university” into the name,” Thomp
son said. “We have seen several cases where the name “col
lege” was a hindrance, especially in the hiring of prospective
new professors who don’t want to leave a university to join
a coPege.”
Thompson emphasized the 1961 board decision to seek a
new name and said he would favor similar action again this
year.
“We already have plenty of colleges in the A&M System,
why not have a university?” he quipped.
Newton Favors Texas State University
Newton, who served as vice president of the board dur
ing the last two years, said he did not want an “exaggerated
name,” but favored Texas State University and the Agricul
tural and Mechanical College.
He pointed out that LSU and several other land-grant
schools have similar names. Newton is one of five former
A&M students serving on the board.
Evans, a rancher and another former student, said he
favored a change and “the board has reached a definite
agreement on a name-change.” He referred questions on the
“agreement” to Harrington, who said he knew of no such
board action.
Heldenfels, a Corpus Christi contractor and former stu
dent, said he favored a change because the Century Council
had advocated such a move.
“The Century Council recommended a change and I’m
sure the board will try to follow the council’s recommenda
tion,” he said.
Each of the three newly-appointed directors said the
name-change issues had been discussed during Senate con
firmation hearings, but that was the only contact they had
had with the question.
Symonds Like Fish-Seen, Not Heard
One new director, Gardiner Symonds of Houston, said
he w*as so unfamiliar with the problem that “I just had to tell
the senators that I wasn’t familiar enough with the question
to have any ideas at all.”
Symonds, chairman of the board of Tennessee Gas Trans
mission Co., added, “I’m just like a freshman—to be seen and
not heard. I’ll have to do a lot of studying before I can ex
press myself on the question.”
Probably most familiar with the issue was L. F. Peter
son. from Fort Worth who also serves as president of the
Association of Former Students.
Peterson did not wish to relate any personal feelings
but said he felt former students would accept a change
“graciously.”
“I haven’t heard a word of objection from a former
student.” he said. He added that he hadn’t heard any opinion
of any kind from Aggie-exes.
The third new appointee. Dr. A. P. Beutel of Lake Jack-
son, also said he wasn’t familiar enough with the issue to
have an opinion.
“Even though the question came up during my session
with the Senate, no one else has said anything to me about
a name-change.” Beutel said. “I’m afraid I’d have to defer
my answer right now. I will have to give the problem a lot
of study before I form an opinion.”
Beutel, an official for Dow Chemical Co., added that he
knew every little about any phase of A&M and “will have a
lot to learn in the next few months.”