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Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local- Residents Battalion Published By A&M Students For 75 Years PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number 28: Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1953 Price Five Cents Six Vanity F air Winners Chosen From Field of 91 Contestants tWinners Scheduled to Be Presented At Future Senior Ring Dance May 16 Money Mad? Reason for Flying Told by Cadets VANITY FAIR LOVELIES—Pictured above are the six Vanity Fair winners. Top row (left to right) are Miss Nancy Jean Chancellor, Miss Shiree Daniel, and Miss Patsy Rich. Bottom row (left to right) are Mrs. D. W. Crawford, Mrs. Joe C. Wallace, and Miss Barbara Roper. By BILL COPPAGE Battalion News Staff Opinions of AFROTC cadets showed flight pay was the main reason for taking flight training. Every student interviewed list- | ed money as one of the main rea sons for wanting to fly, as dollar signs flashed' in their eyes when asked, “Why do you want to fly?” “Money,” said Ronnie Jones, aeronautical engineering major from Sweetwater. “Flying ties in with my major, too. I can continue my education in aeronautical en gineering while I am learning to fly,” he said. Mort Konig, junior industrial Student Rating Demonstrates Faculty Failure Failure to stimulate critical and independent thinking is the biggest fault students find in A&M professors. Dean of the College David H. Morgan yesterday released the results of the faculty rating taken Jan. 7. He pointed out that seven of the nine places averaged in the number one bracket, the highest possible score. The only other big fault dis covered in the poll was that pro fessors cannot interest the stu dents. In the median of 428 which bean Morgan computed, 91 pro lessors scored a one on the stim- nlation of thinking, and 117 got first place with their ability to in terest students. The instructors’ best quality is their knowledge of the subject, ac cording to the students. Their sec ond best point is personal appear ance. The professors got 343 first places for knowledge and 339 for neatness. Scholarship also is one of the poorest attributes of some profes sors, as well as tolerance and lib- erality. Seven last places, the num ber five position, were registered for both these deficiencies. “It is gratifying to find that the faculty at A&M is considered so highly by the student body,” said Dean Morgan. Although the number receiving a low rating is not statistically significant, the rating for the in dividual is very significant, he paid. FFA to Hold Judging Contest Here April 18 •The Area III FFA Judging Contest will be held here April 18 said Henry Ross, chairman of the judging contest committee. Between 800 and 900 students, representatives of 65 high schools, will participate in the contest, Ross said. The nine highest teams will represent the area in the State FFA Judging Contest. Weather Today Two Aggies to Help Sail Research Boat Two A&M students will help sail the “Atlantic,” the A&M Re search Foundation’s new yacht to the Gulf Coast, said Dr. Dale F. Leipper, head of the oceanography department. The students, Walter Lang arid Don Wray will leave in March for Milwaukee, Wis., whex'e the ship is now located. In addition to Lang and Wray, the crew will be composed of Cap tain Homer Hadley, Henry Lovon der Hofen, ship builder and design er, and Franklin E. Dorsett, engi neer. Hadley is employed by the A&M Research Foundation and Dorsett was formerly with the fish and wildlife research ship. Marine Technician Lang has a degree in mathe matics and will act as marine tech nician in charge of observational work at sea. Wray, an oceano graphy graduate, is assistant to the executive director of the A&M Foundation. The trip will be made as soon as weather permits, Leipper said. Ports are normally open March 27, he said. The “Atlantic” will sail from Lake Michigan down the Chicago, Illinois and Mississippi rivers and enter the Gulf of Mexico at New Orleans. At present two docks are available, one at Galveston and one at Freeport. The $150,000 yacht was donated to the Research Foundation by Erwin C. and Robert A. Uihlein, president and vice president re spectively of the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co. of Milwaukee. Field Trips The “Atlantic” will be available for field trips by oceanography stu dents. Research projects will also be carried on by the Foundation for individuals, industry and gov ernment agencies. Expense for sailing is - estimated to be nearly $700 a day, with an expected 150 sailing days a year, Leipper said. Talent Show StudentsPicked From 5 Schools Professional-like talent was sought last week at five Southwestern • schools by the auditioning committee for the Second annual A&M Intercol legiate Talent Show, said Miss Betty Bolander, MSC program consultant. “The show proved successful last year and we recently have auditioned acts resembling profes sional talent,” said Miss Bolander, The show will be held March 20 in Guion Hall. The MSC Music Committee is the sponsor. Through arrangements with school officials the committee lis tened to auditions at Baylor Uni versity, TCU, North Texas State Teachers College. SMU, and TSCW. Selected entertainers will be compensated for their perform ance by an all-expense paid trip to A&M for the weekend of the show, Mrs. Bolander said. Prom Tickets To Be Sold At Dance Tickets for the Junior Prom may be purchased at the dance, said W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, bus iness manager of student activ ities. Prom tickets are now being sold for $2 each at the Office of Stu dent Activities and in dormitories. Banquet tickets have already gone off sale. The dance will be held in Sbisa Hall, Saturday. The banquet will begin at 6:30 p. m. and the dance will follow at 9 p. m. C. K. Esten, assistant professor of English, will be principal speak er at the banquet, and the Aggie land Orchestra will provide music for the dance. Chairman for the banquet and dance are as follows: Carroll Phil lips, banquet; Roland Bahlmann, program; Clarence Woliver, dance; Bill Reed, sweetheart; Bill Young, guest and Pete Wright, tickets. POSSIBLY COLDER WEATHER TODAY: Light rains iind possibly lower temperatures late tonight or earlytomorrow. The low this morning was 39 and the high yesterday 45. Film Club to Show ‘The Bicycle Thief’ “The Bicycle Thief” will be presented by the A&M Film Soci ety all day Thursday in Guion Hall. Film club members will be ad mitted by showing their member ship cards, said Ed Holder, presi dent. Made in 1949, the Italian pro duction won the International Film Festival in Cannes, France in 1950. It also won a, special Hollywood Academy Award and the New York Film Critics Award. The movie concerns a laborer and his young son who are hunt ing the man who stole their bi cycle, their principal means of livelihood, College Station Plans Public Schools Week By HARRI BAKER Battalion City Editor An open house, radio programs, and service club programs have scheduled for the observance of Public Schools Week, March 1-7, in College Station. A&M Consolidated high and junior high schools will have an open house Thursday, March 5. Ten minute classes will be held from 5:30 to 6 that afternoon, with students and parents attend ing. A program will be held in the gymnasium at 6:30, with a supper following. A series of radio programs, written and produced by students, will be given on radio station WTAW, one every morning of that week. The school will present pro grams at the meetings of the Lions and Kiwanis clubs Monday and Tuesday. Parents will participate in an evaluation program at Consolidat ed Elementary School. Lincoln High School for Negroes will have an open house March 5 from 7 p. m. to 9 p. m. Mayor Ernest Langford has is sued a proclamation officially designating the week as Public Schools Week in the city. In the proclamation, Langford urged every citizen to visit the school “in order that all may be come personally acquainted with the programs and accomplish ments of our educational system.” technology major from Houston, said although he was not enrolled in flight operations, he might fly because the thought chances for advancement in the Air Force were better as a pilot. “You get more money and a chance to travel and see the world, too,” he said. “If I thought the war would last, I would rather fly than anything else,” said Buzz Kennedy, senior petroleum-geological engineering major from Palestine. “You get a lot more money, but I can’t see staying in for four years,” he said. Edward Bane, senior accounting major from Brownwood, was an other who said, “money.” Likes It Best Money was given as the number two reason by Don Dodson, jun ior petroleum engineering major from Brownwood. “I just think Pd like it better than anything else. I don’t like anything that’s dull,” he said, expressing one of the few original reasons for flying. One other cadet interviewed, said he thought many students were going to take flight operations be cause of “pressure from higher up.” He preferred to remain an- nonymous. New Experience Few of the students interview ed said they were going to take flight operations for patriotic reasons. Charlie Johnson, market ing major from Dallas, said, “I’m not patriotic. Don’t get that idea. But you get more money if you fly.” James Plumlee, sophomore me chanical engineering major from Dallas, said he wanted to fly for the experience. “I think it would be something new in a person’s ex perience to fly,” he said. Four Bond Issues Pass in Bryan Bryan property owners voted $2,999,000 in bonds Tuesday to fi nance expansion of the city elec tric, water and sewer facilities. All four proposals before the voters carried by wide margins. The largest proposal, $1,754,000 for the expansion of the electric distribution system, was approved 618-443. The voters passed $150,- 000 in bonds for a street light im provement program. The vote was 656 to 432. The proposed $1,015,000 water bond issue for the drilling of four new water wells and for increased pumping and distribution facilities was approved 703-389. The sani tary sewer issue for the extension of sewer lines to suburban areas passed 658 to 426. Voting was held at the Bryan Carnegie Library. Election clerks were Mrs. J. W. Batts, Jr., Mrs. Searcy Smith and Mrs. W. S. Barron. Six Vanity Fair winners and six runners-up were selected last night from 91 entries. Winners and their sponsors are as follows: Miss Shiree Daniel of Austin sponsored by Kay Graves; Miss Barbara Rober of Fort Worth, R. G. Corder; Mrs. Joe C. Wallace of San Antonio, Joe C. Wallace; Patsy Rich of TSCW, Robert Miller; Mrs. D. W. Craw ford of College Station, D. W. Crawford; and Miss Nancy Jean Chancellor of San Antonio spon sored by Charles Rawlings. Second Place The six second place winners and sponsors include Miss Carol Nan Dahnke of NTSC, B. P. New- lin; Miss Patricia Martin of TSCW, Don L. Garey; Mrs. Bob bie Lynn Sholar of College Sta tion, Willard C. Sholar; Miss D’Ann Pfeiffer of San Antonio, William K. Zimmerman; Miss Rosemary O’Brien of Dallas, Bill Walker, and Mrs. Detweiler of College Station, Gaston Detweiler. Members of the judging com mittee which selected the 12 girls were Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, Dean W. L. Penberthy, Col. Joe E. Davis, W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, Mr's. A. M. Martin, and Miss Bet ty Bolander. Winners must be present at the Senior Ring Dance May 16 where Apparent Accident Proved Planned A crowd collected around a late model car in front of Sbisa Hall yesterday as a state highway patrolman made a thorough search. c Onlookers began asking each other what happened, if anyone was hurt, and similar questions. Then someone ask ed one of the men taking notes if he knew anything about the ‘accident.’ “Sure,” he said, “this is part of the police school we’re having. We’re learning how to search stolen cars.” City Council Meeting Scheduled for Tonight College Station City Council meeting, originally set for Tues day night, has been tentatively postponed until tonight. they will be presented. They must also have a picture made for The Aggieland at the Aggieland Stud ios located at the North Gate. Sponsors of the 6 runners-up must send pictures of their candidates to The Aggieland. All students who submitted pic tures in the Vanity Fair contest may pick them up Thursday in the Office of Student Activities, said Harvey (Spider) Miller, co editor of The Aggieland. Seven Army T ; Cadets Apply For Flight Ops Seven Army ROTC stu dents have received permis sion from Col. Shelly P. My ers, PMS&T, to apply for transfer to AF flight opera tions said Col. John A. Way, RAS&T. They will be given the flight operations physical soon, he said. If the students are physically able to fly and Myers officially releases them, their names will be sent to Fourth Army Head quarters and AFROTC Headquar ters for formal transfer to Air Force, Way said. These men have only expressed the desire to fly, Myers said. Be fore they are given permission to take flight operations, the appli cant must pass a flight physical and be approved by Army and Air Force ROTC Headquarters, ho said. Myers said it would be some time before any actual transfer oculd be made. Students who are being consid ered for transfer are William A. Sterling, field artillery senior; E. D. Francis, W. O. Cowley and B. G. Hill, infantry seniors; Ansall W. Outlaw, infantry sophomore; Marshall A. Woodruff, ASA soph omore and Charles L. Hall, armor junior. Final decision on transfer of the two sophomores will be made by Way and Myers, since trans fers only of contract students must be approved by AFROTC and Fourth Army Headquarters. Irvin Help Says Coeds Get Athletes Recruiting athletes for A&M Avould be easier if the school was co-educational, Athletic Director Barlow (Bones) Irvin told the American Association of Univer sity Professors last night. Explaining the “Major Problems in the Administration of College Athletics,” Irvin said: “The young er people of today want to stay closer together now, more so than in my time.” He told the 19 members of the AAUP present that college athle- Ring Dance Favor Sale Begins Soon Seniors can order Senior Ring Dance favors beginning Tuesday said W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, bus iness manager of Student Activ ities. March 31 is the closing day. Seniors also may place their or ders for June graduation an nouncements, he said. The senior favors are a replica of the senior ring in pin form, in a favorite gift for dates, wives, or mothers, he said. The price this year is $3 and $4.25 with safety chain and numeral, he added. Abram Attends AVJ Meeting in Washington Dr. Morris Abrams, associate professor of agricultural educa tion, flew to Washington Saturday to attend a meeting of the Am erican Vocational Journal. He is in the magazine’s editorial board, BEAUTY EXPERTS—Choosing the six Vanity Fair beauties Monday night were (left to right) W. L. Penberthy, dean of men, Miss Betty Bolander, program consultant of the MSC, W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, business manager of Student Activities, Mrs. A. M. Martin, Aggieland Studios, Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, assistant commandant, and Col. Joe Davis, commandant. tics today is big business and to operate successfully, a large budg et must be maintained. The athletic director said 85 per cent of last year’s $524,009 budget was obtained through football game gate receipts. The rest was accumulated through radio and television rights, grants from the Aggie Club and other sports gate receipts. “Football supports the sports program here as it does in the other Southwest Conference schools,” he said. Basketball could be promoted to a paying proposition with completion of the new field house, Irvin continued. “A&M’s athletic department has been lucky to remain financially self-supporting,” the former Ag gie athlete added. Academic Standards Explaining the academic stan dards demanded by the conference, Irvin said A&M has remained within the limits. An instructor interrupted to say that in his 17-year stay here he had never been pressured by the department to help an athlete’s grades. The bigness of college sports was caused through the newspa pers’ sports pages, Irvin maintain ed. He said this made the nation more sports minded and brought about the terrific pressure which caused the cribbing and bribing scandals. A new proposed constitution for the chapter to replace the one which was lost was presented by Dr. A. Morgner of the economics department. Further action on the constitution was postponed until a later meeting to allow more study on the matter.