DIAL 4-5444
STUDENT TRI WEEKLY
NEWSPAPER OF
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion
DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
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122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. VOLUME 41 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, JAN. 29, 1942
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NUMBER 51
Senior Committee Evolves Plan for New System
Sophs Run
Rampant At
Plan Meeting
New System Main
Topic Of Discussion
When Meet Opens
Even before the senior
class as a body had a chance
to discuss the proposed new
plan for tradition changes at
A. & M. the sophomore class
took the discussion in their
own hands yesterday after
noon at a meeting in the As
sembly hall.
The meeting had originally been
called for the purpose of consider
ing plans for the coming sophomore
ball but no sooner than the house
was called to order talk of the new
plan started. Soon after Dick Her-
vey, president of the senior class,
and Roger Skidmore were called on
to explain those plans which had
been brought up at the organiza
tion commanders’ meeting earlier
in the week.
Within a short time a Seated dis
cussion arose with sophomores ar
guing pro and con, talking from
their seats and from the stage. All
wanted some kind of action.
In general, the class agreed, that
they would support any plan the
Senior class adopted, pifoviding
the new system would get the de
sired results.
President of the Sophomore class
Bob Phillips said he felt sure that
once a uniform system was adopted
every second year student would
give his full cooperation.
Imported Talent
Adds to Series Of
Spring Programs
Entertainment will be furnish
ed every Saturday night this sem
ester by various actors and organ
izations brought to the campus for
the occasion. The programs will be
gin at 7 p.m. and last for one hour,
Richard W. Jenkins, coordinator
for the programs stated.
By limiting the programs to one
hour in length, it will be possible
for those who plan to attend the
corps dances this spring and for
those who usually go to the pic
ture show to add these events to
their calendar without changing
any of their plans.
A later issue of The Battalion
will give the anticipated program
for later appearances. These pro
grams will be held in the Assembly
hall. Campus organizations will be
asked to give programs, and Jenk
ins stated that he had numerous
other groups in mind for presen
tations in the current series.
Fort Worth Paper Depicts New Regime At Rules, if Adopted, Will
A &M; No Bleeds, No Details, No Spirit Included in Blue Book
Editors note: Bess Stevenson
visited the campus last week
shortly after the new changes
were announced. She gathered
her information from students
whom she interviewed as she
toured the campus. Obviously,
some students saw the op
portunity to have some fun
so they gave Miss Stevenson
hisleading information. The
following story is reprinted
verbatim from the story which
appeared in the Sunday edition
of the Fort Worth Star Tele
gram.
By Bess Stevenson
Star-Telegram Correspondent
An unexpected blight fell on up
perclassmen at Texas A. & M. Col
lege this week, proving once again
that “War Is Hell” Sherman knew
what he was talking about.
Under new rules which go into
effect Monday, no upperclassman is
permitted to indulge in those rites
and practices by which freshmen
are traditionally brought up in
ways of righteousness and obedi
ence.
Every student (even seniors)
must make his own bed, sweep his
own floor ^nd go after his own
laundry. Every student (even sen
iors) must run his own errands
and wake himself up at reveille.
It’s the most drastic thing that’s
ever happened at A. & M. The new
rules abolished that tradition, as old
as the school, under which fresh
men serve as room orderlies for
the upperclassmen.
How it will work out, nobody
knows yet. Canny sophomores have
already proposed that freshmen be
employed on a contract basis to
perform their old duties as always.
They suggest 10 cents a semester
as fair pay.
Legal minds within the senior
class have looked carefully into
rules handed them this week and
find that such a contract plan,
though not specifically forbidden, is
unlikely to find favor. School au
thorities worded the rules this way:
“Freshmen shall render no per
sonal service in any form to upper
classmen.”
Another ancient tradition goes by
the board temporarily under the
new wartime regulations. That’s
the old Aggie practice of calling
“bleed meetings.” A “bleed meet
ing” is called at A. & M. any time
a class or a military organization
or the student body as a howling
Gone are the days when only fish flocked around the laundry windows, me iuy is of
what is now a common everyday occurrehce with seniors, juniors, sophomores, freshmen, and even
graduates going after their own laundry. In the window is Gallic Bogel looking out at Carl Bradberry,
Tom Edwards, Tom Stephens, Fish R. E. Grady, Tom Andrews, Mike Bird, and James Teddlie. In the
bottom photo Fish O. S. Wyatt realizes that Upperclassman Fred Buckland still hasn’t forgotten the
technique of room orderly service. —Star-Telegram Photos
whole has something grevious to
beef about.
Any new regulations which upset
cherished Aggie tradition is likely
to bring on a “bleed meeting.”
“Bleed” flags go up all over the
campus to set forth the complaint in
red doggeral on a background of
white. The authorities soon know—
Well sir, the new rules say “no
more bleed meetings.” No meetings
of any kind may be held except to
transact business thought vital by
the organization commander.
Sophomores have their own
quaint version of a “bleed meeting”
with freshmen. They gang up in
a room (sophomores and fresh
men) and turn the session into a
critical forum. Sophs tell the fish
whats’ wrong with them. Feigning
politeness, they invite the fish to
reciprocate. So the fish tell the
sophomores what’s wrong with
them.
Such meetings adjourn in various
forms of confusion, though usually
on a basis of thorough understand
ing between the two classes. The
only certain thing is that the soph
omores seldom lose the decision.
Well sir, again—these sophomore
(See FORT WORTH, Page 4)
Long-horn Deadline
Set for Individual RV
And T-Club Pictures
Several new deadlines have been
set for Longhorn pictures. Ross
Volunteer individual pictures must
be in by February 15. T-Club pic
tures are also to be in by February
15. T-Club pictures are to be made
in letter sweaters and jackets. The
deadline for military pictures is
January 31.
250 ROTC Quartermaster Contracts
Open at Harvard School of Business
A Quartermaster Corps unit in
the ROTC has been announced by
the Harvard university School of
Business. The unit is an advanced
ROTC, but students who have com
pleted basic training in any branch
of ROTC are eligible.
Youth and Age to Attend Proxy’s
Benefit Dances Tomorrow Night
By Clyde C. Franklin
Two dances will be held in Bry
an Friday night to celebrate
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s
diamond jubilee anniversary. A
dance for the younger couples and
young married couples will be held
at the Parker Dining Room be
ginning at 8 p.m. The cadet corps
has been extended a special invi
tation to attend this dance. Admis
sion will be 30 cents for stags and
35 cents for couples.
Another dance will be held at the
Bryan Country Club beginning at
9 p.m. Music at the country club
will be furnished by the Aggieland
Sextet orchestra. Tickets for this
dance may be obtained at the Stu
dent Activities office, Room 126,
Administration building.
Funds received from both dances
will go for the furtherance of the
infantile paralysis campaign which
was started by President Roose
velt earlier in his life. Because of
his own affliction, he wanted the
benefits of the cure provided at
Warm Springs, Georgia, to be
Franklin D. Roosevelt
available to all. Many of those
connected with the drive have
pointed out that at this time the
people of the United States can
show their appreciation for the
President’s acts by supporting this
cause.
First sergeants and company
commanders are asked to let fresh
men and sophomores attend the
dances so that the contribution r,o
the infantile paralysis fund for
Brazos county can be as large as
possible. The committee in charge
of the young people’s dance said
that all of the most popular record
ings by the most popular dance
bands would be on the nickleodian
that night.
Students have also been asked
to attend the dance at the country
club if they wish. This dance was
announced several weeks ago so
that any students wanting to bring
dates down for the occasion might
do so.
Other requirements consist of
having completed three or more
years of college work, having a
good scholastic average, and pass
ing a physical examination. This
examination, however, will proba
bly not be as rigid as that for
other units. Students will also en
roll in the Harvard School of Bus
iness for two courses. They will
get a commission in the army and
a degree of Master of Business Ad
ministration after graduation.
.Students here who are eligible
are those taking economics, mar
keting, finance, accounting, and
statistics. These men have had the
necessary lower courses to enroll
in the Harvard School of Business
said Professor J. W. Barger, head
(See Q.M.C., Page 4)
Four I E Students
Pass Technical Test
Four students of the industrial
education department of A. & M.
have passed civil service comp
etition for the Army and Naval
Technical School at Chanute Field,
Rantoul, Illinois.
Lawrence Waidhofer, of Arcadia,
George W. Castleberry of Long
view; James A. Price, of Fort
Worth, and R. C. Syptak, of Cald
well, were called during January
to enter a three months training
period in ground school mechanics
of aeronatuical engineering and
repair. They then will become ins
tructors in the training school with
selective service deferment.
Save This Paper!
Uncle Sam Can Use
It to Lick the Axis
Working in cooperation with the
City of College Station, the newly
organized College Station Boy
Scout troop is aiding the defense
effort by collecting old newspa
pers, magazines, boxes, and other
articles vital to the present emerg
ency.
At the end of each week the
scouts will canvass the resident
ial additions of the city to pick up
any contributions that the local res
idents care to make. It has been re
quested that each family save old
daily newspapers and tie them in
a neat bundle to be placed on their
front door steps to be collected Sat
urday.
City trucks will pick up waste
paper on the first day of each
month except when that day falls
on Sunday, in which case the truck
will make its trip on the second
of the month. City officials urged
that citizens place their waste pa
per in a conspicuous place before
noon on the day the truck makes
its call.
Michigan U Offers
Courses in Japanese
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—(AGP)—
An intensive course in beginning
Japanese is being given at Michi
gan university during the second
semester to meet the demand for
competent translators of that lang
uage needed in government service.
Organization Commanders Meeting
Results Go Before Executives Today
New duties along- a military pattern for the freshman
class were presented to a meeting of the organization com
manders at a meeting last night in the C. E. lecture room for
approval. These plans are the result of an organization com
manders’ meeting last Monday night at which time the
seniors decided to stay and reconstruct certain phases of
Aggie life which were changed by the new set of resolu
tions adopted by the Executive committee.
These new Fish duties are aim-^. -
ed at two objectives: first, to make
A. & M. a more military institu
tion; and second, to provide more
time for freshmen to study. This
includes the establishment of many
customs in use at other large mil
itary schools throughout the coun
try.
Results of the organization com
manders’ action at last night’s
meeting will be presented to the
Executive Committee at once. These
points brought forward by the sen
iors and approved by the committee
will be written into the official
college regulations and will go into
effect immediately. The next issue
of the Battalion will carry a copy
of the resolutions which are adopt
ed.
Proposed plans were formulated
by the following committee which
was appointed by Cadet Colonel
Tom Gillis, Pat Briggs, C. B.
Marsh, Luke Moore, R. G'. Skid
more, and Dick Hervey.
Local Red Cross
Displays Its Work
In Academic Bldg
A display was set up in the
trophy case in the rotunda of the
Academic building this week by
the local Red Cross unit to show
the cadet corps what the unit was
doing. Members of the Senior class
contributed enough money to the
Red Cross for it to buy labels to
go in the necks of the garments
to identify the garments as coming
from College Station.
The labels read “Home of the
Texas Aggies, Brazos County
Chapter, College Station, Texas.”
These labels were put in the gar
ments so that any ex-Aggies in
the Army who got one of the
sweaters would know their origin.
So far the College Station unit has
knitted 100 sleeveless sweaters for
the use of the Army and the Navy,
and 50 turtleneck sweaters for the
North Atlantic patrol. They are
now knitting 100 pairs of socks.
Junior Editor Weds;
Joins Air Corps and
Flies for Galveston
Cecil L. Reavis, Jr., junior editor
of The Battalion magazine, has re
signed his position and gone into
the Army Air Corps. He will be
stationed at Ellington Field, Tex
as.
Before going into the Air Corps,
Reavis married Miss Irlene Cook.
They were married at 6:15 p.m.
Saturday night at the Central
Presbyterian Church in Houston.
They flew to Galveston Saturday
night and back Sunday night.
Late Registration
Hikes Second Term
Enrollment to 5338
' Present Figures Still Under
Spring Semester Record Of
1940-41; War Is Responsible
Enrollment since Tuesday has
risen to 5338, an increase of 307
in the last three days. However,
the total still lags behind second
semester enrollment for last year
by 397 students. At the end of reg
istration for the second semester
of the 1940-41 school year 5735
students had signed for classes.
Officials announced yesterday
that possibly a hundred more stu
dents would register before the
deadline on February 9. This date,
incidentally, is the last day that
courses may be dropped or chang
ed without receiving a grade of
F.
Cadets, new and old, numbered
6690 at the beginning of the first
semester, but this number has
dropped to 5940, a decline of 750
students who left school because
of failures and other reasons.
Part of the decline in enrollment
may be attributed to the fact that
some cadets have left college to
join the air corps and other branch
es of the armed forces. The reg
istrar stated that the decrease is
not alarming since there is an an
nual decrease in the number of
students who return to school the
second semester.
New First Aid
Courses To Begin
W. L. Penberthy of the athletic
department has requsted that stu
dents planning to take the Red
Cross first aid course register this
week in Room D-12 hart. Each
organization commander and house
master should select one interested
man from his organization to take
the course.
Carl Tishler will be the instruc
tor in the course. No plans will be
made for a time or place of meet
ing until all applications are in. In
this way it will be possible to sat
isfy all who desire to take the
course. All classes will be held at
night.
Upon completion of the basic
course of twenty hours, a standard
Red Cross certificate will be is
sued. An additional fifteen hours
of adnvanced training will entitle
those who qualify to an instructor’s
certificate.
Campus Theatre Offers^ Local
Clubs Proceeds of Benefit Show
By Ken Bresnen
In compliance with past requests,
the Campus theater has set aside
every Thursday for benefit shows.
Any organization or club on the
campus which desires to obtain the
facilities of the Campus for such
shows may do so by contacting
Charley Tigner, the manager.
Plans are to make every effort
to secure first class pictures. Tig
ner stated that this policy has been
inaugurated in order to provide an
income for those organizations
which do not receive subsidies from
the college. Each club will sell tick
ets for both the afternoon and
evening performances and receive
a percentage of all receipts for the
day, including the box office re
turns. By pursuing this new policy
of benefit shows, the theatre hopes
“to do the most good for the most
boys.”
“We are ready to talk business
with any and all clubs,” said Tig
ner.
Clubs which reserve the show far
enough in advance will be able to
make their own selection of pic
tures. If the club desires a close
booking, it may have to take what
ever picture is available on the date
of the show. However, as a gen
eral rule, personal selection will
be possible.
Thursday, February 12, will be
the first date that the Campus may
be used for a benefit show. Every
Thursday after the twelfth, the
theatre will be available.