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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1946)
Texas A&M The B College aliov Volume 45 College Station, Texas, Monday Afternoon, February 4, 1946 Number 18 Battalion Returns to Tri-Weekly Schedule Enrollment Expected to Exceed 4,000 Veterans Outnumber Cadets This Spring * 1 A registration of over 4,000 stu dents for the 1946 spring semester was declared a certainty this morn- ing by H. L. Heaton, registrar at Texas A. & M. College. Registra tion will be completed today except for late entrants, and classes are scheduled to begin tomorrow. The trend of registration thus far would indicate that approxi mately 65 per cent of this semes ter's enrollment will be returning veterans, Heaton reported, with about 900 men enrolling who have never attended A. & T M. before. Of these new men, the registrar es timated that between 700 and 800 would be ex-servicemen, while the remainder are mid-year school graduates. He also estimated that about 500 of these men new to A. & M. would be classified as fresh men. Registrations thus far have been in about the volume expected, Hea ton stated. No special problem oth er than housing for married stu dents has thus far been encounter ed, although new enrollment rec ords will be set in the fall, possi bly this summer, if ex-servicemen continue to apply for admission at the present rate, Heaton said. Steps taken by the college to provide for former servicemen in clude converting Walton and Hart Halls and 15 project houses into apartments, permitting wives to reside in Dorms 14 and 17, and providing a cafeteria and a spe cial lounge in Sbisa Hall. Guion Hall Offers Two for One On Tuesday, Thursday Guion Hall Theater will continue its Tuesday night practice of ad mitting wives of Ex-Servicemen "students upon p. ment of tax only when accompaniea py one paid adult admission, it has been an nounced by Tom Puddy, manager. In addition Guion Hall will have a “Two-for-one” day on Thursdays when any two individuals can be admitted on payment of one ad mission and one extra tax, Puddy stated. Now in full time operation, Guion Hall Theater will have new programs on Sundays and Mon days, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, Thursdays, and double features Friday and Saturday. Dahlberg Named to Head Faculty Luncheon Club F. I. Dahlberg, acting head of A. & M.’s Animal Husbandry De partment, was elected chairman of the Faculty-Fellowship Lunch eon Club at Texas A. & M. College. He succeeds Tad Moses, whose term expired Thursday. 1946 Longhorn Arrives After Delay of Months The 1946 Longhorn, Texas A. & M. yearbook which has been de layed for almost a year by war time difficulties, was released last week in a ceremony which saw Editor Marc Smith receive the first book to leave the press. The 1946 annual is dedicated in a full-page four-color spread to “The Spirit of Aggieland”. This theme has been carried out throughout the book by the portrayal in pic ture and in print of the time- honored customs and traditions of the Aggie Corps, with an explana tion and illustration of each tra dition appearing at the beginning of each section. A special “In Memoriam” section commemorates the Aggies killed in World War II through May of last year, and a full page is dedicated to the passing of Reveille, famous Aggie mascot. The book is bound in cowhide embossed with the statue of “Sully’ with the word “Longhorn” embossed across the lower front cover. Subscribers for the 1946 Long horn can receive their books by presenting their Student Activi ties receipts at the Activities office in the basement of the Adminis tration Building. NOTICE A1 students who were not en rolled in A. & M. last semester wll meet in Assembly Hall at 5:00 P. M. tomorrow afternoon to hear an important discus sion by the office of the Dean of Men. Courses Offered For GI Wives Veterans’ wives who are inter ested in undertaking college work at A. & M. by group extension class es were invited by Dean T. D. Brooks to attend a meeting in the Sbisa Hall lounge at 7:30 p.m. Friday, February 8. Mindful of the desire of many ex-servicemen’s wives to take fur ther college work, Dean Brooks has made arrangements to serve these young women through "extension courses provided that there is suf- ficent demand to justify the pro ject. Tentative arrangements for ex tension courses have been worked out with the departments of Eng lish, History, Rural Sociology, Edu cation and Psychology, Modern Language and Landscape Art, and there is a possibility that others may be added. Dean Brooks has been in corres pondence with other colleges, in cluding the University of Texas, Texas State College for Women and Southern Methodist Univer sity, and is assured that they will be willing to allow credit toward degrees for the courses taken at A & M. Credit cannot be allowed at Texas A & M since the school does not offer degrees to women. The standards and requirements in all courses will be essentially the same as in regular resident work, it was stated. Fees will be $5.00 per semester hour. The purpose of Tuesday’s meet ing is to survey the demand for extension courses and to deter mine which courses will be justified by the enrollment of veteran’s wives. Paper Shortage Restricts Size to Tabloid; Staff Members Are Needed Today’s edition of The Battalion j heralds the return to publication of the Aggies’ own newspaper on a tri-weekly basis with issues scheduled for Monday, Wednesday and Friday each week, it has been announced by Sam Nixon, editor. Serious paper shortage coupled with an increase in the subscrip tion list from 3500 to 5600 has necessitated reducing the size of the Battalion to a tabloid size. When the paper situation has im- McLarty Case Is Filed In Austin The suit of Captain Eugene F. McLarty to compel his admission into the ranks of Texas Aggieland despite his rejection by the college executive committee because of a previous poor scholastic record in the University of Texas, which last week was unceremoniously kicked out of the state supreme court, has been refiled in the 94th Dis trict Court of Travis County. College authorities had no com ment to make on the case other than a statement that the college was in no wise upset that court action has been taken. It has long been the right of educational in stitutions to establish certain standards of admission. These are required as a matter of fact by the association to which all first class colleges belong. McLarty’s application was pro cessed in the same way as any sim ilar case in the past. No discrimi nation and no favoritism was used in rejecting his application. Hearing on the latest petition in the Austin court will likely be held the latter part of this week. proved the staff will return to the normal newspaper size, it was stated. Delivery of the paper will be made to all students living on the campus. Off campus students will receive the paper through the mails, it was announced. Each serviceman attending A. & M. under the GI Bill is entitled to receive a copy of the paper and should notify the Battalion office, Room 3, Administration Building if it is desired to have the paper mailed instead of delivered in his dormitory. An invitation to both cadets and “non-reg” students to join The Bat talion staff was issued today by the editor. “There are several op portunities open on the staff,” Nix on stated, “and experience in news paper writing is not requisite. Those who are interested are re quested to report at either Room 3 or Room 5 in the basement of th€ Administration Building. Second Cafeteria to be Opened in Duncan Hall; Sbisa Is Feeding 15 to 20 Per Minute Establishment of a cafeteria infmance at the Fiscal Office or at the Duncan Hall to accommodate non military students living in the new area has been announced by the Dean of Men, J. W. Rollins, who stated the opening of cafeteria feeding in the New Area would be delayed some six weeks pending completion of the necessary fix tures and equipment. Until the cafeteria can be com pleted students quartered in the New Area, including dormitories 1 to 12 inclusive, will take meals in the east wing of Duncan on the following basis: 1. Pay-as-you-go at 35tf for each meal. Coupon books for this pur pose may be obtained yithout dis count at the Duncan Dining Hall. 2. Payment of monthly mainte- Mess Hall. Those using this op tion will be furnished identifica tion cards. This group of students will enter the dining room from the south and east doors and the hours an nounced by Jay Peniston, subsis tence director, are: Breakfast from 7:00 to 7:30 A. M.; Lunch 11:45 to 12:15 P. M.; Dinner 6:00 to 6:30 P. M. The new cafeteria recently open ed in Sbisa Hall is for the use of non-military students in the North Gate area, including dormitories 15, 16, 17, and the wives of non military students residing in Dorms 14 and 17. Non-military students residing in Milner, Legett, Mitchell and Bizzell in the central dormitory ■farea will also take their meals in the Sbisa cafeteria. Three feeding lines have been provided in the new Sbisa enter prise. At capacity some 15 to 20 persons per minute can be fed, it was estimated. The hours announced for the Sbisa Cafeteria are breakfast from 7:00 to 9:00 A. M., lunch from 11:00 to 1:00 and supper from 5:00 to 7:00. Feeding can be expedited in Sbisa if students who do not have 8:00 classes wait until after 8:00 to have breakfast and if stu dents who do not have a 11:00 class arrange to have lunch at that time, it was stated. The cafeteria will not be open for college employees, staff and faculty until facilities have been ex panded, it was announced. Student Affairs Issues Bulletin On Classification To correct erroneous impres sions of returning Aggies as to their classification, the Office of the Dean of Men has issued this bulletin: “During the past few semesters the erroneous impression has grown up in the Cadet Corps that any student that returns to A. & M. College after an absence of one or more semesters will be entitled to the same class distinctions as those students who originally en rolled with him regardless of the length of his absence and of his academic classification. In some cases we have had students who entered college in the fall of ’43 but failed to complete the first semester of Freshman work who now expect to return and enjoy the distinction of being a Senior on the campus. If this is permitted then these students would have spent six weeks on the campus as a Freshman and then seven and one-half semesters as a Senior. Down through the years one of the finer traditions of A. & M. College has been that a man earns his own way in the Cadet Corps— both academically and as an Ag gie—first as a Freshman, a Soph omore, then as a Junior and finally as a Senior. In orde£ to preserve this fine tradition and to correct the erroneous impression of some members of the student body the (See AFFAIRS, Page 4)
