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/ Battalion Editorials Page 2 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1951 Forgotten Men I^VERY NOW and then a die hard can still be heard voicing ^ the idea that the MSC is for the “exes” and the faculty while the students are getting it in the neck. Usually these people don’t take the time to find just what does go on at the Center. , M\ ,m If you asked them they probably wouldn’t know that the room reservations for the year were drawn from a hat which was the only equitable way that it could be done. If they ap plied for a room and weren’t lucky enough to get it, they know that some influential “ex” or “big gun” staff member got the room they should have. Another common gripe is that they can’t get meeting rooms. Of course they usually neglect to mention that each year a sign-up time is announced and they neglected to get their room application in until a couple of weeks after the deadline. If we would go over to the Center and take an interest and part in the activities instead of just talking about it, then we would really have a cracker-jack STUDENT organ ization. To keep it a STUDENT CENTER it will take effort and participation on the part of the students. If we, as students, take an active part in the committees, clubs, and activities of the Center it can’t be anything but a STUDENT CENTER. The average student takes too long to leant too little. School Papers Show Attitude On Sportsmanship to 4 Howdys’ Southern Methodist’s Campus follows through with a little com ment on the Sportsmanship award overlooked by a great number of the Southwest Conference schools. “Winning the sportsmanship tro phy for the third time would be flattering, but that shouldn’t be the reason to behave like civilized human beings Saturday night. “The manners of SMU students will be showing—and SMU has a splendid reputation to maintain.” From the Daily Texan of the University of Texas an editorial shows where a problem has final ly been solved. “University men should be heart ened by the fact that the ratio 1 between the sexes this year has taken a turn in their favor. “A year ago, there were 10,331 men and 3,370 women enrolled in the University—a ratio of 2.77. “Now, according to reports from the Registrar, the margin has nar rowed to slightly more than 5,200, with an enrollment of 8,747 men and 3,543 women. The new ratio is 2.47. “A glance at the figures (en rollment figures, that is) by date conscious males also shows that, despite an overall enrollment drop, there are more of the fairer sex in school this fall.” • “Ornery Upperclassmen” are dis cussed by the Texas Christian Skiff. “We need a Howdy Week for upperclassmen. “Freshmen, you’re swell. A friendlier bunch we’ve never seen. “But you ornery, uppity sopho mores, juniors, and seniors are strictly drags. “Things a,re in a heck’uva shape when you’ve been seeing each other around as long as we have and can’t even speak. “TCU has been tagged an un friendly campus by transfers from other schools. And no wonder. “Why those frozen faces and down at the corner mouths would scare Old Joe himself. “Sophomers, juniors, and sen iors let’s take a lesson from the freshmen. Let’s get acquainted. Come on, smile. “How about it?” Library Service Meets Demands A course in “Human Relations for Girls,” the first of its kind in the history of the college, is be ing offered at Baylor University. The Baylor Lariat said that the purpose of the course is to help the college girl take stock of herself and her problems and aid her in becoming a happy useful member of society. They hope to accomplish this by motion pictures, panel discussions, round tables, and a court of human relations in which girls can discuss personal problems. University of Arkansas students were rightly confused, bothered and bewildered at the opening of the school year. * It seems eight of the campus’ fraternities, half of the total num ber, moved to new houses. What added to the confusion, however, was that one of the clubs moved into the old building. Same thing happened to a couple of other clubs. During rush week, as one can well imagine, the water really came out of the kettle. Tell Your Troubles AN IDEA has been formulated whereby the student body will have a chance to meet the press. In the meetings the students would have a chance to not only air their grievances but pass out the few if any orchids. As the idea has been advanced, it calls for a meeting every other week. The meeting would be a question and ans wer affair with a smattering of informal debate. If the Bat talion ran an editorial or article a student disagreed with, then he would have the chance to personally tell the editor so and the reasons for his disagreement. The meetings would at the same time give the editors a chance to go into a more lengthy explanation as to why they adopted such an attitude than is possible in the paper. If you like the idea or have any suggestions to make on the proposal, then send them to the Editorial Department, The Battalion, Goodwin Hall. By WILLIAM DICKENS Battalion Feature Editor To keep pace with the growth of the college system, the Cushing Memorial Library has started an expansion program to build a col lection of 400,000 volumes, which will increase reading and refer ence facilities for students and faculty members,! according to Li brarian Robert A. Houze. The new expansion program calls for an addition of 20,000 vol umes to the library each year, fill ing back files of key periodicals, and adding new periodical subscript tions. Houze, who began the survey two years ago to determine the needs of the library, said, “With the current expansion program and increased budget, we will soon be on a par with the leading land grant college libraries of the na tion.” The need for a program for de velopment of the library was first discovered at the end of World War II, when the demands in creased for research by branches of the A&M College System and re turning veterans seeking graduate work at A&M. Boyer Stayed for Masters Now He Just Wants to Stay When a man loves a place, he bytes to leave, and that is how Chief of Housing Harry Boyer feels about A&M. As Chief of Housing this year, Boyer is starting his 22 year of being associated with the college. Fie first came to A&M as a student in 1929, and* graduated in 1931 with a degree in entomology. “After I graduated, jobs weren’t the easiest thing to get, so I stay ed at A&M and started working toward a master’s degree in soc iology,” Boyer said. With the exception of recitation, he had finished all his work to ward gaining his master’s degree when he was offered the job as housing officer of the college. In reality, it was the same position he now holds except that during the early thirties the housing was under the Commandant’s office. The school was also somewhat smaller at that time, Boyer re called. When Boyer first took the pos ition, the only dormitory space on the campus was Bizzell, Good- v i n, Foster, Gathright, Ross, Law, Mitchell, Milner, Post Graduate, Hollywood, the “Old Bachelor’s Club,” and Alpha and Beta. Civilian students were known as “casuals” at that time and lived in Hollywood Hall, which was lo cated opposite the Campus theater, Boyer said. The civilian students also lived in Post Graduate Hall and Alpha and Beta Hall, which was located where Walton is to day. Born in Blanket, Tex., Boyer at tended school in nearby Brown- wood, where he completed his high school education. He then attended John Tarleton College for three years and \borked for the College Store as assistant manager. In 1929 he entered A&M as a student and has remained in Col lege Station since he was grad uated. His official title of Chief of Housing was established from the Dean of Men’s office was formed in September, 1945. Having established College Sta tion as his home, Boyer is active in civic affairs around the com munity. He is a member of the City Council, the Building Com mittee of the Presbyterian Church, the Advisory Committee of the De- Molays, secretary of the Rotary Club of Bryan, and a rrifember of the Masonic Lodges of both Col lege Station and Bryan. Boyer was married in July, 1947 to the former Charlotte Wolff, and the couple now live at 1206 Milner St. The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texes, is published by students five times a week during the regular school year. During the summer terms, The Battalion is published four times a week, and during examination and vacation periods, twice a week. Days of publication are Monday through Friday for the regular school year, Tuesday through Friday during the summer terms, and Tuesday and Thursday during vacation and examination periods. Subscrip tion rates $6.00 per year or $.50 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Entered as second-class Matter at Post Office at College Staton, Texas, under the Act of Con gress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Advertising Service Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Los An geles, and San Francisco. Notes From Grad School On Master's degree programs not more than four hours of credit may be transferred from any other graduate school. On Ph.D. pro grams no hour limit is specified for transfer work but all other re quirements of residence, time limit and so forth automatically set rear sonable limits. In order to transfer graduate credits there must be certifica tion that the course and the grad uate were acceptable for graduate credit at the original institution and for the level of degree the candidate seeks here. Transferred credits at the grad uate level are regarded as provis ional, and are subject to cancella tion if the student’s later work in the Graduate School here proves unsatisfactory. Two outstanding librarians of land grant colleges in the country were called upon to analyze the college library. Robert W. Orr, di rector of the Iowa State College Library, and William H. Carlson, director of the Oregon State Sys tem libraries, spent two weeks analyzing the A&M library situa tion and three months in compiling their report. Through their analysis, the noted librarians found that the A&M library, through lack of funds, failed to keep pace with growth of the college on the graduate and research level. At that time, there were 163,GOO volumes in the library, when 400,r 000 volumes were needed to serve the field which A&M serves. Orr and Carlson recommended nine new professional positions and eight non-professional positions on the library staff. In line with the recommenda tion, four professional and three non-professional positions have been created to give expanded ser vice, Houze said. Agriculture and science reference librarians, and a gifts-and-ex- changes librarian were added to The staff. Additional catalogers, clerk typists and a bookkeeper were also employed. Today, the entire library staff has been in creased from 18 employees in 1945 to 37. At the present time, the number of volumes has been built up to 200,000, and the building program will continue several more years, Houze said. A new wing is being planned to be added to the library building to take care of the addi tional books, while new steel stacks to hold 40,000 volumes have been added as a temporary measure. In an effort to show that a col lege education is the instrument by which a student learns how to learn, Houze is planning his pro gram to teach students to use the library to keep one step ahead of their chosen field all through life. As a step in this direction, the freshman library instruction pro gram was revived last year, after a lapse of several years. As a part of the Basic Division’s orientation program, freshmen are taught how to use the library through lec tures by Houze and through tours and exercises in which freshmen use the library facilities. Library instructions for junior and seniors are now being planned by Houze in an effort to familiar ize all students of the college with library and it’s facilities. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. News contributions may be made by telephone (4-5444) or at the editorial office. Room 201, Goodwin Hall. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Activities Office, Room 209, Goodwin Hall. JOHN WHITMORE : Editor Joel Austin Managing Editor Bill Streich News Editor Frank Davis ....V City Editor Allen Pengelly Assistant News Editor Bob Selleck Sports News Editor William Dickens Feature Editor T. H. Baker, E. R. Briggs, A1 Bruton, Norman Campbell, Mickey Cannon, Monte Curry, Dan Dawson, Bob Fagley, Benny Holub, Howard Hough, Jon Kinslow, Bryan Spencer, Ide Trotter, John Robards, Carol Vance, Edgar Watkins, Berthold Weller, Jerry Wizig, Raymond York News and Feature Writers Bob Cullen, Jack Brandt Cartoonists Frank Scott ...Quarterback Club Director Jim Jenson Photographer Pat LeBlanc, Hugh Phillips, F. T. Scott, Chuck Neighbors, Gus Becker, Joe Blanchette, Ed Holder.; ' Sports News Writers John Lancaster Chief Photo Engraver Russel Hagens Advertising Manager Robert Hayme, Advertising Representative Painter (Continued from Page 1) group will travel by bus to Austin and San Antonio. Upon their ar rival in Austin, the educators will tour the University of Texas cam pus. Dr. Painter To Speak Principal speaker for the asso ciation’s luncheon in Austin will be Dr. T. N. Painter, president of the University of Texas, who will speak on “Brief History of University of Texas.” Following the luncheon, the edu cators will go to San Antonio •where they will be guests of Trin ity University for a barbecue sup per before attending the A&M- Trinity game. LETTERS Corps or Pastor Editor, The Battalion: In answer to Rev. Anderson’s letter appearing in last Wednes day’s Battalion, I ask the follow ing question: Are we, the Corps of Cadets, going to run our own affairs, or are the pastors of North Gate going to run, them for I have yet to hear anyone say that the greeting “Beat the Hell out of ” is profane language. Instead it is an honorable Aggie tradition, a custom through which we express our desire that our team will win the next Saturday’s game. Furthermore, if we were to drop that handle, we might just as well use “Howdy” all the time—since “Beat ” doesn’t carry any feel ing what so ever of school spirit in it. In closing, I suggest to those who do think the “Beat the Hell” is profane to leave this up to the Corps of Cadets to decide. As stat ed beneath that letter in Wednes day’s Battalion, the senior tradi tions committee is working on that problem right now. The word “hell” can be used in many profane ways, but the way we use it, does not speak of pro fanity at all. 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