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NEWSPAPER OF TEXAS A. A M. COLLEGE
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Faculty Will Decide Fate Of Dead
Week At Meeting, Says Bolton
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Wildlife Unit Is
Conducting Research
On Campus Property
The Texaa Cooperative Wildlife
Be—arch Cnit ia conducting im
portant quail management studies
oa the college property west of
the railroad tracks in the general
▼ieinity of the Pastures and fields
of the animal husbandry and the
dairy husbandry departments.
This project, ia which D. W. Wil
liams, head of the animal hus
bandry department, and C. W % .
Sh« j Hudson, head of the dairy hus
bandry departnssnt,, are cooperat
ing is being undertaken under the
personal direction of Dean Kyle.
The fiahral plan of the project
is to install headquarters areas to
control and influence food and
shelter favorable to quail.
It is essential for the purpose of
this work that the quail and other
birds, as well — the animals, on
this property be undisturbed. Stu
dents should recall that target
shooting and hunting on college
property are against the college
regulations.
H. C. Hahn, an employee of the
Texas Cboperative Wildlife Re
search Unit, is in charge of this
project and frequent checks of
progress are being made.
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ENTERTAINMENT
SERIES TO OFFER
SINGING PROGRAM
Bringing a program that is
different to anything that has
been presented on the campus be
fore, the Deep River Plantation
Singers will be presented by the
Entertainment Series Thursday
night in (iuion Hall at 8:00 p. m.
It brings j the jubilee chants, plan
tation -'ipelodies, camp-meeting
rimaw aad spirituals of the negro
•f the 014 South, and in tfMlr pre
sentation, no— of .the rhythm and
character of the colored race is
lost. u
Opeping with an original scane,
these entertainers offer a musical
production that is decidedly out
°f tbf •tdkmi y, Stage settings
and costs rues are used to advan
tage In the first part, while the
later part b devoted to negro
spirituals and plantation melodies.
Selections from “Show Boat",
“Halblu^h", “Green Pastures,”
“Emperor Jones", and other fam
ous negro productions am offered,
whib many of the old favorites
such as “Roll, Jordan, Roll - ,
“Swiqg Low, Sweet Chariot**, are
indexed. •
The Plantation Singers have
been received enthusiastically by
audiences all over the country.
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COMMITTEE FOR
COTTON BALL
IS SELECTED
The Agronomy Society has elect
ed an arrangement committee to
prepare plane for the eennnl Cot
ton Wall and Style Show which
b tp be hold here April 7, 1988.
The member^ of this computee are
E. A. Miller, social secretary, L. L.
Jacobs, busisess manager, R. L.
Gr««. if. B. Sheppard,'aad J. H.
Robinson. The election of the cot
ton ball king will*take place soon
after the Christmas holidays.
'potton Ball b one of the
outstanding serial events of the
year and b sponsored by the Agro
nomy Society. Funds derived from
the bail and pageant are used to
send tfcma k.!* M. students a-
broad each summer for the purpose
of studying production and market
ing of cotton in other countries.
These three students will be select
ed by s —ties of comparative ex
aminations whkh are to be held
next spring.
Billiard Champion
To Give Exhibition
At YMCA Wednesday
There will be no such thing as
an impossible billiard-shot in the
College Y. M. C. A. pool hall to
morrow when Chari— C. Peterson,
world's fancy shot billiard cham
pion. fives an exhibition of his
uncanny billiard skill at A. A M.
before students aad members of
the faculty.
Peterson, who b making his
seventh annual college tour under
the auspices of the A—oebtion of
College AJnions, invites anyone in
the audience, after hb lecture-de
monstration, to “Show Me A Shot
I Can’t Make”. Masters and nov
ices, alike, have failed to stump
hik to date, even when players
in a recent world’s tournament in
Chicago “framed’* a ahot they
thought was impossible.
The “ Missionary of Bii’i.ir, 1 -'
is coming here at the invitation
of the local college union, because
of the entertnininjr aspect of hi*
exhibition and began— of hb re
putation of being able to teMh
quickly the fundamentals of goo I
billiards
Within the last few years, the
rame of billiards has enjoyed wide
spread popularity in colleges,
.'lube, municipal and P—k recrea
tion center*, with the result that
Peterson, who b largely responsi
ble foe the revived interest in billi
arda, is much in demand for lec
ture-demonstrations. He teaches
the student the art of billiards with
sympathetic coaching and then
takce time to good-naturedly argue
with professors who Insist he can
not transfer "English" to the ob
(Continued on page 4)
A decision regarding Dead Week
may be expected from the faculty
at Ha first meeting following the
| h istmak holidays, Vice-President
Bolton predicted today. Dean Bol
ton —id he fe)t sure that the issue
would bo brought before the body
at its next meeting.
Concealing a plan for allowing
final oxhminations ten days in-
stead of' the five or six regularly
allowed, < Dean Bolton —id, “Just
as was pointed ou( in a Battalion
editorial, we most meet .yequire-
ments on the number of days spent
in classroom work. In view of this,
I do not see how the plan of ex
tending the exam period could be
put into operation. The plan was
submitted through the Student
Forum section of The Battalion by
Cadet Oolond David Thrift
Dean fckdton said he believed the
period nAw allowed for finals is
enough because students with “nor
mal” courses have only one ex
amination a day under the preseat
arrangements. He pointed out.
however, that moat students have
slightly irregular courses.
The Battalion and large num
bers of students have been asking
for Dead Week, construing Dead
Week to be the week before final
examinations with major quixz.c
term reports and other similar
teaching techniques barred by the
faculty during the period.
Those interested in securing
Dead Week have not voiced <-b
jections to compulsory classroom
attendance and daily assignment
during the week.
pri
RNOON, DECE!
IS. 1988
TELEPH01
28
December 1
Grades Show
Many Flunks
IN Per Cent of Total
Enrollment JPassing r
Less Than 10 Hours
Eight—n per cent of the total
enrollment of A. A M. is passing
*res ting ;ten houm of study, al
most two per cetti |r—tot
ybrnr. —cording to statistics
revealed by the Registrar's office
this week. Last year only slightly
■“ore than sixteen per cent at the
total enrollment was on the ten
tour hst, indicating that the per-
rentage of defiebnt students b on
tbs increa—T -
Of the 987 deficient students in
the college, 88% are included in
the Engineering departments, 28%
“» the School of Agriculture and
11% in the School of Arts ard
Soisnks. The School of Veterinary
Medicine has the smallest per
centage of failing students with
only 1% of the total deficients
of the college in that department.
In the number of failing students
withia a department the Engineer
ing department has the highest
nuiubtr, having 623 students out of
• total enrollment of 2320 on the
list or in other words, one out of
every five students in the Ei«i-
n. cring department b passing le—
than ten hours. Second in number
of ddficient students but third in
perreiiUigii b the School of Ag’-*-
culture with 280 failing students
out of a total enrollment of 1814
or about one out of every sight
students. Third b the School of
Arts and Sciences with 108 failures
in the department; whib bat b
the School of Veterinary Medicine
with only SI out of Its SM students
failing or one out of every eleven
students.
Ml- MEN TO
ATTEND MEETING ]
IN RICHMOND T M
Ifc-anj R P. Mars teller. Head of
the School of Veterinary Ms«ri*i;
Dr. S. }V. Bilsing, Head of the En
tomology Department; and Dr. Guy
Adriance, Head of the Horticul
ture Department, make up the par
ty tha^ will represent A. A M.
at the annual convention of the
American Association for the Ad4
vancentent of Science in Richmond,
Va n during the Christinas holiday*
Dr. Mafng is attending — the
delegate of the Tex— Acad, my of
Science. All three men will take
an important part in the iasuunt'
Won, which will consist of 22 ses
sions. . (
They are 1—ring on Jan. 28.
going by car to Jacksonville, Flori
da, thence to Richmond. They will
return by way uf Nashville, Ten
nesaee, and will be back at College
on Jaa. 8.
On their trip the patty will
make Inspection visits ef Alabama
Polytechnic Institute at {JUHRb
Alabama; the University of Flon
da at Gainesville, Florida; Louisi
ana State University at the Lout
siana ’capital. Baton Rouge; and
possibly other institutions. f
IHL < HRISTMAS ISSUE OF
The ’ Battalion Magasine will be
distributed in the basement of the
Administration Building Wednes
day afternoon at 4:30 p. ss., it was
announced today. '
NO POSSIBILITY i
OF AN EPIDEMIC i
WALTON SAYS
There b no reason to fear the
possibility of aa infantile paraly-
sb epidemic,” President Walton
—id today.
“Four .i.Ktom have said that
the case which resulted in the itre
fortunate death of Jack'Puckett
W— only a sporadic outbreak —d
that we need have ao tear of aa
epidemic,* he —id.
Rumors that the school is to be
P need under quarantine are false.
Dr. Walton said. “We anticipate
following the regular college cal-
ewfeter," he stated.
TBhBe - College hospital attend
ants expressed the belief that f
any more cases were going to de
velop they would pi bably already
be Obvious, they aaked that all
students who develop —re throats
come to the hospital for treat-
KIRK BREAKS
OUT IN HART
SUNDAY
• ’ ,'-j. . |
Sunday night from 7:30 to 8:80
a f|re waa the eau— of eonskier-
gna . excitment in Hart Had.
Though Hart b a Ore-proof struc
ture, a fire of undetermined origin
broke out between the walb of “I*
ind “J” ramps, causing billow* ef
poigent smoke to pour from the
about a yard wide between
tifo wills.
water-pouring by the
soon got the fire under cen-
However, the College Fire
Department waa called to make
subs It was completely put out.
Th# fire trucked arrived in a few
minutes, and put an end to what
waa left of the bla—.
A & Af REPRESENTATIVE
$1
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Mi- Fsy Randolph Wibon, above, will be the A. ft
live to the Sugar Bowl Ball and Festivities to be held uunag sorar
Bowl Week. Mi— Wilaon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.lCook Wilson
of Beaumont, was selected by the A-edatiou of Former Students -
the A. A M. repr. v. n? «11 \ r.
represents
Sngar
Marvin Smith Awarded Professional
Degree At [Testimonial Dinner
Former A. & M. Student
Conferred Degree Fori
Outstanding Work in E* |
A. 4 M. honored Marvin Smith,
cla— of ’li, by conferrirfe upon
him the professional degree of
Electrical Engineering at a teuti-
monial dinner held last Thursday
night in Shi— Hall. Smith 'is nttn-
ager of engineering, Westingho—c
Electric 4 Manufacturing Co..
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Smith was horn and educated
through high school at Overton ind
entered the study of electrical en
gineering at A. 4 M., graduating
— valedictorian of his el*ss with
the degree of Bachelor of Scieice.
Immediately after his' grpduation
from college he entered the Ant-
ploy of the Westinghquse C4m-
puny — student ebgMMrflg^llMk
association with that company ba
be— continuoum.
His first uoik for Westlnghcniv
was in generator engineering op
erations, first as a design engineer
and letor — section engineer. Later
he was promoted to engineer, in
barge of design of the larger, al
ternating current machine* of the
generation division. His next ad
vancement w— to the position he
now holds with rhutgu sf all en-
*. • 'mg activities af dm —tite'
P*njr-
Conferring uof the professional
degree came aa a surprise at the
banquet which had been planned
only to honor a soecemfu) ex- stu-
d«rt of the college. Dean Bolton,
C. C. Hudspeth, of Ft. Worth E.
C. Rack of New York and Vfeeo,
and J, H. Bplfrua%
technical employment. Westing
house Co, each honored Smitji in
talks during the dlmter.
"'ben ‘‘resident \V*lton arose to
end the program the professional
degree was conferee*. • Dr. Walton
explained that the degree b con
ferred on the basis| of approved
professional work shire graduation
(Continued on page 4)
REPRESENTATIVE
FOR A.» M. AT
BOWL AHNOURCED;
Mbs Fay Wibon of Beaumont,
attractive daughter of Mr. and
Mr*, it Co4ke Wilsoa of that city,
has accepted the invitation of
Fresldsid t. O. Walton amd of
Association of Fortneri Students
of Texas A 4 M. Jo attend the
Sugar Bowl events ia New Orleans
from Dee. 3ft through Jan. 2 — the
representative of A. 4 M. College.
She will attend- the A 0 * 0 *!
Sugar Bowl Ball ont Dee. 80, aad
will also represent the college at
all the Other events put oa by the
New Orleans Mid-Winter Sports
Association, including the Sugar
Bowl football game petwee^ Texas
Chistian University ;«nd Carnegie
Tech. ‘ If i\
J. Cooke Wilson i» president ef
the Wibon-Broach Oil Company,
president ef Hotel B iumont, and
active in other burifte** and civic
affairs of the city. [
Mi—‘WOson’s escort to th* var
ious events will be bderud by the
New Orleans Mid-Winter Sports
Association which is i managing the
Sugar Bowl progra 1
#Dies
At 'College j
Infantile* Paralysis
Pauses Death Of
Junior I ditor of Bat
saver ftp," mas played Sun
day night in! memnry of Jack Puck-
mtt > pa » [Junior editor of The
Battalion, vjho died at IOJ30 p. m.
8a9B»dar i« the College hospital
of infantile paraljrsb. Funeral —r-
beld at Weed Funeral
Home ia Austin Monday afternoon,
with burial in ah Austin frmstmj.
Pueksti, only Aild of Mr and
M, Puckett, Sr, became
ill Wedneat ay afternoon and went
to the hos] ital. His condition was
not thougl t —noos, however,'un
til late Si turday afternoon.
L *• Marsh and other phy
sicians a Ued into consoltation
—idvthtit because the diaea- b not
•jiong students of college
Jly ocean late in
imer, little fear b
cases here. *
of the diaea— hi
w— not apparent
hours before his death.
a ward by himeetf
the time of his eonfino-
•priag
felt for
lie
Puckett's
VII. IU.I to I
er are
relatives.
•®y*d as pallbearers
or guard of 28 Aggba
in for the funeral. Has
highway engineer,
A. 4 M, aad hb moth-
only surviving do—
STUDENT OPINION
SURVEY IS MADE
ON REFUGEES
BY JOB
- ndentl
America,
The Bat
BDITOR
Surveys ef
kt, 1988, fer f
AUSTIN, Tegaa, Dee. 18 Jew-
ixk Fefugbea ftuai Central Europe
-nouM not be allowed to come
into the i Unite* States in great
number*, a large majority of eol-
le^u you4 of this country belbvea,
the first naUoiml poll of the Stu
dent Opieion Surveys of America
ruveab.
In lightly more than a month
Germany fh— tamed ita Jewa Into
a: World
have to £
tnorro
of today.
Tr m
J4WS?
should
room'r a
-•pp<.s<<!
of Ellis
These
nounced
ion Su
one that may
leaden of to
rn and women
the United States
to the persecuted
many think some
id if other nations
seven out of ton are
< per mg wide the doors
are the first an-
the new Student Opbt-
f% organised with The
Battalion; — one of the cooperat-
among college newt-
tike nation. The Sur-
organixa-
editora, will pub-
reporta baaed on nat-
■knilar to tho— of
recently have been
reliable. The Sur-
on page 4)
Aggies Turn Out For First Christmas
As Guion Hail Is Filled By A Singing
BY BILL MURRAY
Sunday afternoon at <4 in
Guion Hall waa inaugurated a new
precedent at A. 4 M.—the Cadet
Torpe * Community Sing to greet
the Christmas aeaaon. A large au
dience of Aggies and raeipus res-
identa was present and puriici-
puted heartily ia the siugiag.
Guion Hall was almost completely
filled.
Before the program the Guion
Hall organ p ayed a musical re
minder which was broadcast over
the campus — that all might hear
and remember to attead| tbJ sing.
At the door students presented
the people entering with attiwetive
four-page souvenir leaflet giving
the program to be followed and
the worda of the songs to be song.
First on the program was Senior
President Bob Adams, who gave
the welcome, declaring that it waa
tlte purpose of the Urogram to in-
atiU the true Christmaa spirit of
joy and fellowship. { j ! ^
Dr. J. J. Woolket, Glee Club Di
rector, who— idea tbe Community
Sing was and whq planned the
program, led the sfcging. He ex
pressed his wish ihmt the Sing
might become an anneal custom,
observed even more wtitlp. The
entire audience joined in- singing
to j the ac«ompani|nent of the
mighty organ, s dumber of the
best-known Christmas carols and
larmma—*yoy to tlf. World", “O
Little Tp am of Bythlehura", "O
Come, All Ye Failhfal" “Hark!
The. Herald Ange s^ing", and
“Jingle Belb”. Cadkt Colonel Da
vid Thrift gave i he Christmas
<*—ttaga, giving briefly the his
tory of the Christinas season and
spirit He stated that hb pro-
gram waa to allow tt* Aggies to
r.
future
The
H : FM ■ ■
'j|'! j: •]' ip
4* th « tr «wu Christ-
also that he hoped
be coatinue<i in nil
all
Concert Band play-
A Christmas
in triage —lection
blended strains from
end the
rus” from “Tana-
Club sang “We
Orient Are" and
Song", and aang
fine harmonv without
r I—-r sure Be
U«fto Yiu".|4|ii
•*> the memory of Cadet Jack
Fw^kett, who had rfud tbs night
b^ore.
The pfograa w— concluded with
rv«* r yb<q y ringing tho- familiar
song, “frib^jlllght*, Vpmit at
Aggbluter, .ml •Home Sweet
Hog—*. i \ 1