Texas A&M
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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)