Page 6—Sec. Ill THE BATTALION Friday, September 11, 1953
Testing and Guiding
Basic Division
Created To Aid
Unsure Studen is
The necessity of aiding' students
who are unsure of their objectives
i?i college led to the establishment
of the Basic Division at A&M.
Many faculty members have hailed
the Basic Division as the greatest
thing that has happened here since
the school was founded.
John R. Bertrand has been Dean
of the Basic Division since it was
organized in 1950. The Basic Di
vision is the fifth school of the
Firms Invest
Large Sums
In A&S School
Several firms and organiza
tions invest large sums for
work and research done by
the School of Arts and Sci
ences at A&M.
International Business Machines,
the Houston Sales Executive Club,
the Texas Daily Newspaper Asso
ciation, the U. S. Navy, the Texas
Petroleum Research Committee,
and the Air Research and Develop
ment Command of the U. S. Air
Force are among the many that
invest time, money, and equipment
for educational purposes with the
School of Arts and Sciences at
A&M.
Other special courses are offered
by the school, such as tabulating
machine methods, and work is in
tegrated with high schools
throughout the state.
Thousands of dollars are avail
able within this school for annual
scholarships and fellowships to
students.
Some unique courses offered by
the Arts and Sciences School in
clude oceanography, meteorology,
building products marketing,
Czech, Russian, and public speak
ing in Spanish.
college, on an equal standing with
the others. However, it does not
grant degrees.
Three Classifications
The division’s program is di
vided into three general classifi
cations: administration, testing and
counseling, and group guidance.
Clifford H. Ransdell, assistant
to the dean, is in charge of ad
ministration, which is the office
work of running the division.
Ransdell also- teaches.
Testing and counseling is under
the supervision of Dr. Robert Ja
cobs, director of counseling. His
department handles vocational and
aptitude tests, as well has some
of the individual counseling.
Dr. A. J. Kingston is the di
rector of guidance. Group guid
ance takes the form of classroom
work, offering courses on choos
ing a caj*er, library work, and
similar subjects. The remedial
reading program is also under
Kingston.
Other Staff Members
Other members of the Basic
staff are Auston Kerley, assistant
guidance director, A. E. Denton,
remedial reading and vocational
counselor, and W. Dee Kutach, vo
cational counselor.
The operation and function of
the Basic Division are best given
in the aims declared when it was
founded:
© To give first ^ear students
closer supervision than is ordinari
ly given.
® To assist students who have
not definitely decided on a field
of study in making this decision
during their first year of college
work.
i
® To give beginning college
students the benefit of guidance
by people professionally trained
to operate a guidance program.
• To supply the various schools
of the college with a highly se
lected group of students fully pt-e-
pared to carry on specialized train
ing necessary for a profession and
outstanding citizenship.
C. H. Ransdell
Assistant to Bertrand
Hen Lays Green Eggs
The A&M Poultry Farm has two
hens laying green eggs. These
birds are a mutant strain origi
nating from a strain of chickens
believed to come from Peru. One
of these green egg laying strains
has absolutely no color in its body
and is snow white.
These chickens are used in gene
tic experiments because they pos
sess genes which can be used as
marker genes or genetic markers.
Dr. W. E. Briles, poultry gene
ticist of the A&M College Poultry
Department, had the eggs from
which the birds were hatched ship
ped in from another breeding farm.
Senior Court Recommends
Penalty to Commandant
Senior Court members for the
first semester will be appointed
approximately one week after
classwork begins, said Col. Joe E.
Davis, commandant.
A minimum of nine senior ca
det officer's selected by the Com
mandant on the basis of at least
three from each cadet regiment
will compose the court. Member's
are appointed for one semester
only, and they may be dropped
from the court at any time by the
Co-mmandant.
The Senior Court has the power
to try any member of the Corps
of Cadets for any offense made
punishable by the Articles of the
Cadet Corps, except as specifically
noted in college regulations.
Cannot Punish
The court itself does not have
the power to punish anyone placed
before it, but recommends punish
ment to the Commandant. No sen
tence is effective until approved by
him.
The Senior Court may recom
mend nine different official forms
of punishment. These various
forms are:
• The court may recommend
that the person be given an offi
cial written reprimand by the Com-
rirandant with a copy to be for
warded to his pai'ents or guardian.
® It may recommend that the
person be restricted to the campus
or company area for a period not
exceedirrg four and one half
months. This restriction cannot
prevent the person from meeting
classes or military formations or
entering the mess hall for the pur
pose of eating meals or leaving the
campus on authorized holidays.
Restricted personnel will be re
quired to report to the Cadet Offi
cer of the Day at specified hours.
• Extra duty tours, commonly
known at A&M as “the bullring,”
may be recommended for all ca
dets brought before the court ex
cept cadet officers and noncom
missioned officers of the first four
grades. Those cadets receiving
sentences who are not subject to
extra duty tours will report hourly
to the Cadet Officer of the Day.
• Termination of a person’s
contract or the busting of cadet
officers and noncommissioned offi
cers to the rank of private or both
also may be recommended by the
court.
• The court may recommend
assessment of demerits, but may
not assess a number that woiild
cause the total against the ac
cused to exceed the maximum
which could be walked off during
the remainder of the school year.
• A person may be removed
from the Cadet Corps upon rec
ommendation of the Senior Court
and he will be required to live out
side the corps for any period the
court may direct. He will not be
permitted to enter any cadet dor
mitory until re-instated unless spe
cific permission is granted by the
Commandant.
• The court may recommend
that a cadet be placed on conduct
probation for one year or military
probation for two years.
© In case of a serious viola
tion, the court may forward to the
Dean of Men through the Com
mandant, a recommendation to
drop the accused from the rolls of
the college.
® In case of serious military
misdemeanors, a cadet may be rec
ommended to face a military panel.
Barnes Takes Job
As USO Leader j
W. S. Barnes has been named
chairman of the Bryan chapter of
the USO. Lewis Newman was
named co-chairman.
The USO chapter in Bryan is a
tri-county organization open to all
service men in this area. It is
located above Vick’s Pharmacy.
Barnes said no drives for money
have been made in the last two
years, and hopes that donations
will be sufficient to support the
organization.
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