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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1953)
X ON 1 1 USE lo St sp tn Te cel Se leg nei ab set wa drt leg tloi FO nev thr che din bea tree dist Sch city TOP at : BY C sere phot 3DIETJ neve i perij Page 2 THE BATTALION Thursday, April 16, 1953 'XX: 6 * ; 3 ■1 Illliil I C NOTE—Holloway Martin, A&M winner of the Texas Gulf Coast Press Association Rural Journalism Contest re ceives the $100 first prize from D. D. Burchard, head of the journalism department. What’s Cooking Thursday -Local Retail Pood In- Meeting, MSG Dining 2 p. m. dustry Room. 3-5 p. m.—Extension Service Club, MSC Rooms 2C and 2D. 6:30 p. m.—Pre-medical and Pre dental Society Dinner, MSC As sembly Room. 7-10 p. m.—Texas Public Ac countants, MSC Room 2A. 7 p. m.—FFA Club, MSC Rooms 2B and 3C. 7:15 p. m.—Fraternity of Alpha Zeta, MSC Social Room. 7:30 p. m.—Texas Academy for Science, New Science Bldg. Room 104, Film on atomic energy and plans for the Belton field trip. Aggie Wives Bridge Club, be ginners, MSC Room 2B. Aggie Wives Bridge Club, MSC Rooms 2C and 2D. Student Senate, MSC Senate Chamber. A&M Employes Dinner Dance Club, MSC Ballroom. School Sets New Curricula (Continued from Page 1) ior math majors has been changed, said Dean Abbott. Under the new set-up math majors will take 12 hours of calculus, three hours dur ing each semester of their sopho more and junior years. Physics majors will take nine hours, completing the two sopho more courses and one junior course, said the dean. Freshmen taking the basic liber al arts course next fall will take only 16 hours as opposed to the present 18 hours. They will be required to take 18 credit hours the second semester as will preparatory law majors and physical education majors, said Dean Abbott. Business administration fresh men will take two semesters of 17 hours each because of the four hour accounting course. Biologi cal and physical sciences freshmen will also have two 17 hour semes ters. Engineering Changes As reasons for cutting the fresh man engineering curriculum to 34 hours, Dean Howard W. Barlow of the School of Engineering said “We felt the freshmen would have more time to adequately prepare their work out of class than at present.” “The new student is in fresh surroundings which are alien i^o him,” said Dean Barlow, “and We’d like to lighten his load as much as possible.” As in the School of Arts and Sciences, freshman engineers will take 16 hours the first semester .and 18 the second semester. Three New Courses To cut the freshman curriculum, the School of Engineering had to create three new courses: Engi neering Drawing 105-6 and ME 108. The engineering drawing classes are both laboratory courses with no homework, said Dean Barlow. In the process of changing the drawing courses, two additional credit hours were cut from the basic engineering curriculum, he said. Mechanical Engineering 108 is the new slide rule course with two hours of theory for three hours of lab and three credits. The former slide rule courses (ME 101-2) conflicted with Math 102-3 so the_ courses were inte grated and postponed until the freshman have had college level algebra and trigonometry. Analyt Reduced Math 104, analytical geometry, was cut to a three-hour course to make it easier for transfer stu dents to enter A&M and because the course included non-essentials, said Dean Barlow. “I didn’t think the freshman curricula could be cut to 16 hours,” said Dean Barlow. “Dean Bertrand was in full agreement with us,” he said. The School of Engineering study was carried only into the sopho more year, said Dean Barlow. Surveying courses for all engi neering majors but civil engineers were cut in number of class hours, said Barlow. “We have been teach ing skills where none are needed,” he said. “We of the School of Engineer ing hope the students will do bet ter work as a result of the cur ricula cuts instead of more work,” Dean Barlow said. Ag and Vet Medicine The only change in the School of Agriculture curricula for 1953- 54 is making Basic Division courses elective in the freshman yeax - , said R. L. Hunt, professor of agricul tural economics. There will be no change in the School of Veterinary Medicine for next year, said Dr. Fred Jaggi, acting dean, except for redesignat ing numbers for some courses. NEWS BRIEFS Pre-Med Fete Tonight REPRESENTATIVES from five Texas Medical and Dental schools will attend the Pre-dental, Pre medical Banquet at 6:30 p.m. Thux-sday in the MSC. Students will attend from Baylor Dental School at Dallas, Baylor Medical School at Houston, Texas Dental School at Houston, Texas Medical School at Galveston, and Industrial Safety Speech Set Monday Claud Pipes, assistant to the vice pi’esident of the engineering division, Texas Employex-s’ In surance Association, will speak at 7:30 p. m. Monday on industri al safety in the Biology Lecture Room. The speech will be sponsored by A&M’s industrial education de partment in conection with classes taught by Ralph Vernon and John Hill. Hill also is director of Work man’s Compensation for the A&M System. Pipes will talk on the “Responsi bility of Safety Engineers with Commercial Insui-ance Ganders.” Anyone Avho is interested in in dustrial safety is invited to at tend the lecture, Hill said. The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions “Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechan ical College of Texas, is published by students four times a week, during the regular school year*. During the summer terms, and examination and vacation periods, The Battalion is published twice a week. Days of publications are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, and Tuesday and Thursday during examination and vacation periods and the summer terms. Subscription rates $6.00 per year or $.50 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Entered as second - class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas under the Act of Con gress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Advertising is, Inc., at lity. Chi' ing New Service: York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, cisco. and San Fran- The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republi cation 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 4-7604) or at the editorial office room, 202 Goodwin Hall. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Activities Office, Room 209 Goodwin Hall. FRANK N. MANITZAS, JOEL AUSTIN Co-Editors Ed Holder, Jerry Bennett Managing Editors Harri Baker City Editor Peggy Maddox. ‘ ...Women’s News Editor Today's Issue Jerry Bennett Harri Baker. .. Bob Boriskie ..Managing Editor ... News Editor Sports News Editor Bob Hendry, Joe Hipp, Chuck Neighbors /..News Editors Cus Becker, Bob’Boriskie, Jerry Estes Sports Vernon Anderson, Frank Hines, Bob Alderdice,A1 Leroy Bruton, Guy Dawson, W. P. Franklin, R. D. Gossett, Carl Hale, Donald Kemp, Alfred McAfee, Bill Rogers, Ray Smith, Jerry Sonnier, Edward Stern, Roy Sullivan, Jon Kinslow, Dick Moore, Lionel Garcia, John Moody, Bob Palmer. Bill Shepard Staff Jerry Wizig, Jerry Neighbors, Hugh Philippus, Bill Thomas Sports Jerry Bennett, Bob Hendry John Kinslow, Dick Porter, Calvin Pigg City Conrad Strain Circulation Manager .Sports News Writers News Writers Staff er, Jewell Raymond, J. R. Shepard, Fred Her nandez, Charles F. Chick Circulation frey, Davey Davidson, Roy Wells, Keith Nickle, Melvin Longhofer, Herman Meiners Photo Engravers Gene Rydell, Perry Shepard, John Merrill Advertising Representatives Dean Kennedy File Clerk Lawrence Cashee: Bob God Southwestern Medical School at Dallas. Dr. D. Baily Calvin, dean of the University of Texas Medical School will be the guest speaker. Tickets for the banquet cost $3. DR. C. H. PATHAK of Baroda India addressed the A&M Czech Club Tuesday, April 1% in the MSC. Dr. Pat Irak spoke on “The Marriage Customs of India.” He came to the United States in Sept ember of 1949 and received his Ph. D. at the University of Min nesota. RICHARD J. BALDAUF, in structor in the biology depart ment, will speak tonight at 7:30 p. m. to the Zoological seminar in the South Solarium of the YMCA. The subject to be discussed is “Some Aspects of ,the Osteology of the Bufonid Cranium.” THE FINAL CONFERENCE on parent - child relationship being held in the educational building of A&M Presbyterian Church will be gin at 7:30 p. m. tonight. The Rev. Norman Anderson will be the speaker. All interested parents are invited to attend, said Mrs. H. S. Creswell, principal of Consolidated Elementary school. ESCORTS OF COTTON Pageant duchesses are requested to attend a meeting in the YMCAi auditorium Thursday at 7 p. m., said Clarence Watson, faculty director of the pageant. Corsages, meeting place, time, clothes and exactly what will take place at the pageant will be discussed at the meeting, he said. A&M’s AGRONOMY 417 class visited The Blackland Experiment Station at Temple Friday. Dr. Elton D. Cook, agronomist, con ducted the tour through the sta tion. Two Stages Devised For Cotton Show Students will begin setting up decorations for the Cotton Page ant, Wednesday, April 22. Two stages will be set up in DeWare Field House. One will re present a river boat and the other a southern mansion. Tickets for the Pageant and Ball can be purchased at the MSC, agronomy department, Lipscomb’s Pharmacy in College Station and W. S. D. Clothier’s in Bryan. Chest X-Ray Unit Tests 3,160 People More than 3,160 people have had chest x-rays this week in the MSC. “I would like to encourage every person to get an x-ray,” said Dean of Men W. L. Penberthy. Carl McElroy was unable to estimate the number of people ex pected to be x-rayed by the end of the mobile unit’s stay here, 8 p. m.—MSC Bridge Club, MSC Room 3D. Friday 8 a. m.—5 p. m.—Texas Public Accountants, MSC Room 2A. 9 a. m.—5:30 p. m.—T. B. X- Ray Survey, Postoffice entrance promenade area. 7 p. m.—Accounting Conference Banquet, MSC Ballroom. 7:30 p. m.—House Committee Party, MSC. Assembly Room. 7:45 p. m.—Sigma Delta Chi Dinner, MSC Rooms 2C and 2D. 8 p. m.—Sigma Delta Chi, MSC Room 3 D. LETTERS TO EDITORS ‘Old Army’ Dead ? Free Speech Here ? Editors, The Battalion: Well, “Old Army” is dead. Shall we have Silver Taps to night? When “Old Army” lived here, Aggies were known all over the wmrld as the best officers in the Army. Now, as for our reputation, we are just another military college. When “Old Army” lived here, “Ross Hall” and the upperclass men cooperated to run the best corps in the world. Now “Ross Hall” insists on dominating a corps that has been labeled as mediocre. The corps has met its Waterloo? ? Realizing that I may be added to the list already composed of Seth and Travis, I would like to know the definition of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Evidently it does not apply to the area within ten miles of this campus or is it this campus that is excluded. If I remember cor rectly, The Battalion has been giv en awards and congratulations for student interest and response. It would appear that “Ross Hall” has decided that this is an undesirable trait. Our Office of Campus Security seems to be very efficient. Their personnel are out early on Sunday mornings to put tickets on cars that are parked on an area that is already being converted to a parking lot, but Ross Hall soaks for several hours before anyone knows it. Well, as I walk to class from a non-reg dorm, remember me as Charlie Whiteside ’55 Super Charged Senior Mobile Blood Unit Returns May 12-13 The Red Cross Mobile Blood Unit wall return to the campus May 12 - 13, said Lee J. Phillips, chairman of the fund drive. The Blood Unit will come from the south-east Texas Blood De fense Center in Beaumont. The goal for the two days will be 400- 500 pints, Phillips said. Ladies from Bryan and College Station wdio helped in the last drive are: hostesses—Mrs. W. R. Horsley, Mrs. M. T. Harrington, Mrs. Armstrong Price. Bottle Lab- lers—Mrs. Mid Westbrook, Mrs. Fred Weick. Nurse’s Aides—Mrs. J. J. Wool- ket, Mrs. Adamson, Mrs. R. H. Shuffler, Mrs. C. H. Thompson, Mrs. J. W. Paxton, Mrs. C. C. Doak. Orange Juice - Mrs. Bob Andrews, Mrs. Lee Thompson. Registrars—Mrs. F. F. Bishop, Mrs. S. S. Morgan, Mrs. H. L. Gravett, Mrs. Gene Tarbutton. As sistants to Nurses—Mrs. Calvin Moore, Mrs. Henry Ross. Canteen—Mrs. R. E. Leighton, Mrs. A. D. Folweiler, Mrs. P. W. Burns, Mrs. Ray Oden, Mrs. P. W. Barker. Registered nurses—Mrs. J. D. Lindsay, Mrs. W. S. Tyner, Mrs. Reese Spence, Mrs. Bruce Morehead, Mrs. Lou Mohlam, Mrs. Richard Voorman. Personnel Class Visits Houston A personnel administration field trip to Houston April 9 included a tour of the Humble Oil Company plant and Foley’s department store. At the Humble company the class was shown a film on the growth of the company and in spected the company’s employee relations department. The class visited an employee training class at Foley’s and toured the store’s personnel divi sion. Paul Gentry Wins $500 Pearce Award Paul Edward Gentry has been named the winner of the P. T. Pearce Scholarship given by the Houston Sales Executive’s Club. Gentry, a sophomore business administration major from Hous ton, was selected by Sam R. Hay, sales manager for Great Southern Life Insurance Co. and Charles C. Workman, sales manager for In ternational Business Machines. He was selected from three sophomore marketing students who were chosen by A&M’s Business Administri: consideratj, j The ad" scholarship! his junior;l FT. WORTH 2 Hours, 30 Minutes PIDNEEH AIR LINES Timed By Baylor Phone 4-5054 for reservations FAST' Plan Now For MOTHER! UxXX 3x10 Brown tone Portrait Reprinl^ Only $2.00 ] Regular $5.00 Value — Sitting Charge for V* North Gale - College Station Official Photographer for The Aggielau 1 ol A P O G O yuP-"- ^ jv a 6Cj { mJL