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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1953)
Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Residents The Battalion PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Published By A&M Students For 75 Years Number 110: Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1953 Price Five Cents Former Students Plan Chape! Here The Association of Former Stu dents council has voted unanimous ly to support the building of an All- Faith chapel here as its principal project for the year. Meeting here last weekend, the council and executive board heard plans for construction of the pro posed student chapel. The chapel will be built across from the president’s house. It will seat approximately 200 persons. The All-Faith chapel committee will recommend an architect to de sign the building. He must be ap proved by the executive board. Estimated Cost ' Construction is planned to start early in 1954. Estimated cost is $250,000. Headed by O. T. Hotchkiss ’24 of Port Arthur, the chapel committee is composed of eight former stu dents and YMCA Secretary J. Gor don Gay. The chapel will be de signed for private prayer, funerals, weddings and other religious ac tivities. Hotchkiss said the chapel is not meant to compete with other churches of College Station. Plans for the chapel started in 1951. The council voted to set aside $27,000 of Development fund for the project. By the end of 1952 the amount had risen to $46,000. J. B. (Dick) Hervey, Former Student secretary, outlined a new plan for raising money during the 1953 Development Fund campaign, part to be used for the chapel fund. Letters have been written to 620 former students asking them to spearhead collections to the Devel opment fund. They are to contact other former students in their towns. Hervey said that so far 316 have accepted. Development Fund The council voted to spend $1,000 for the 1954 operation of the col lege president’s fund and $25,000 for running the Former Student office and publications. This mon ey was set aside from the Devel opment fund. The council approved a motion to set up a committee to investi gate a pension system for associa tion employes. The council also voted to investigate revising the means of selecting its members. Bill Garrett ’47 made the motion. Garrett said he did not think the younger former students were rep resented enough in the council. The council heard reports con- concerning the association’s bud get. The association showed a bal ance of $138,454.97 on Aug. 31. Each year the group allocates it self an amount from the budget to run its office located here. At the end of August, office bud get figures show it has spent $1,371.34 more than has been made. Hervey said this shortage now is not unusual. He explained the Campus Cleaners does not pay its dividend until the end of the year. Later Dividends And s'ome of the association’s in vestments do not pay dividends un til later. These dividends will help straighten out the budget, he said. In addition to its own budget, the association handles two other funds. They are the Student Loan fund and the Development fund. The Development fund contained $179,914.93 at the end of August. The Student Loan fund totaled a balance of $282,039.27 at the same date. HalfmastFlag Is for Late Chief Justice The flag at the North Gate postoffice is a half-mast in memory of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Fred Vin son. Pi’esident Eisenhower last week declared a 30-day mourn ing period for the late chief justice, to be observed by all government buildings and per sonnel. MSC Plans Fewer 4rt Shows in ’53 1 The art gallery committee of the MSC will feature fewer exhibits this year so they can have more outstanding exhibits, said Mrs. Emalita Newton Terry, advisor to the group. Mrs. Terry is going to Houston soon to arrange for the showing of the Sti-auss collection of American artists, valued at approximately one million dollars. The committee also plans to show another exhibit of Curtis Publications’ illustrators. The Ladies Home Journal exhibit this summer and the Saturday Evening Post exhibit last spring were very popular with visitors to the Cen ter, said Miss Terry. Perry Nichols, Dallas art patron and banker, who judged the art gallery committee’s show last spring, has been invited to present an exhibit sometime this year. “We’re going to try and obtain some more Old Masters if possible, as they were also popular with Center visitors last year,” said Miss Terry. A show of good Mexican art is a possibility for this year, Miss Terry said, as is a show of Xavier Gonzalez’ work. Gonzalez taught a workshop course in art techniques here last year. Army Gives Contracts To 25 AF Cadets Approximately 25 air force ca dets have tentatively received con tracts in the ground force, Col. S. P. Myers, professor of military sci ence and tactics, said. These contracts will be affirmed if juniors in the ground force branches fail to fill the 380 con- tract quota allotted them. None of the ground force jun- iox-s who qualify for contracts will be bumped by the air force cadets,” said Col. Myers. Two air force seniors are among the cadet whose applications have been tentatively accepted. According to Col. Myers, possibly 30 air force cadets will receive contracts in the ground forces com bat arms before the end of the week. Air force cadets wishing to apply for MS III contracts may do so at the operations office on the second floor of the military science building. A display of modern furniture designs and interior decoration ideas will be shown sometime this year. CORN-EATIN’ CAT—“Squeaky takes his daily meal of corn on the cob from his owner, Mrs. Frank Pinert, who lives on a farm southwest of Woodrow, in Lubbock county. After he finishes the corn, Mrs. Pinert will let him have desert—the cantalope she has in her other hand. The cat, which is of the alley variety, will strip all the kernels off the corn. Mrs. Pinert tried the corn one day when she ran out of milk to feed the cat. He likes it. Some N on-Reg Students Live Three To Room ’54. Contract Cut j Gets Blame i For Crowding Non-military students liv- The old oath was revised last year oy a committee from the class of ing' three to a room will re- New Cadet Officer's Oath Includes Anti-Hazing Clause The following is the anti-hazing oath that all commanders will take this year. A new clause inserted in the oath implies specifically that the board will not be used on underclassmen. Their revised oath was adopted exactly as they wrote it. I, John Doe, having been appointed an officer in the Corps of Cadets, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, Col lege Station, Texas, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the laws of the State of Texas, the College Regula tions of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will not participate in, condone, or tolerate physical hazing or the use of any instrument upon a cadet’s body for any rea son whatsoever; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter; So Help Me God. Leads in F's Program Consultant Of MSC Is OU Grad Miss Margaret A. Long, the new program consultant for the MSC, is a 1953 graduate of the Univer sity of Oklahoma. She came to A& M for the first time Sept 5. Miss Long replaces Miss Betty Bolander, who has been program consultant since 1950. The job of program consultant is not Miss Long’s first contact with student union work. She was stu dent assistant to the social director of the OU union before coming to A&M. As an OU student, she was president of' the student union activities board, a position - similar to that held by John Samuels, president of the MSC Council and Directorate. She also was secretary of the OU student senate and senior class during the 1953 school year and co-chairman of tha Campus Chest drive that year. A 22-year old ‘old maid’, Miss Long’s home is in Oklahoma City. She majored in social work and government at OU and received a bachelor of arts degree. Like most new-comers to A&M’s strictly male military society, Miss Long still finds it bewildering to hear so many ‘Howdy’s’ and to see so many males so completely in the majority. Former POW Returns Here From Korea Sgt. Hubert H. Hawkins of Col lege Station is one of the 428 Americans who were prisoners of war landing in San Francisco to day from a navy transport. Enlisting in the army when he was only 13 by falsifying enlist ment papers, the 21-year-old ser geant was captured during the fall of 1950. Educated at Lincoln high school, Sgt. Hawkins is one of 14 Tex ans returning to the states for the first time since their capture by the Communists. Arts and Sciences Is Hardest School By BOB HENDRY Battalion Feature Editor The glorious, carefree life of the arts or science major is no more. The college has betrayed him by making the School of Arts and Sciences the hardest division at A&M in which to pass courses. According to grade distribution ratios compiled last April by col lege officials, nine per cent of the students in the School of Arts and Sciences failed and eight per cent failed in the School of Agriculture. Six percent failed in the School of Engineering; two per cent in the School of Veterinary Medicine; and zero percent in both the Basic Division and School of Military Science. Highest F Percentage The School of Arts and Sciences racks up another victory by hav ing the department with the high est percentage of F’s, the mathe matics department with 18 per cent. Chemistry, also in that school, runs a close race with 16 per cent. Arts and Sciences captured all of the first five places as far as the percentage of D’s is concerned. Ranking first is the economics de partment with 19 per cent; second, physics and chemistry, 18; third, English, 17; fourth, math, 16; and fifth, history, 15. Least A’s Given The School of Veterinary Medi cine claims the department with the least percentage of A’s given; the veterinary anatomy depart ment with eight percent. The physics department boasts the lowest number of B’s passed out, with 27 per cent. Arts and Sciences won again with the over all low of 31 per cent. The School of Agriculture won hands down in the least C’s con test. Its over-all percentage is 24 per cent, and its agricultural edu cation department is the lowest with two per cent. This school’s bio-chemistry and nutrition de partment was second lowest with three per cent, and the plant phy siology and pathology department is third with four per cent. The Basic Division and School of Military Science have been omit ted in tabulating the following in formation. Leads in A’s The School of Agriculture leads all the others in the percentage of A’s given, with 26 per cent. This school’s plant physiology and pathology department gave the most A’s, with 60 per cent. Agriculture students also re ceived the most B’s with 42 per cent. Three departments tied for individual honors, however, with 53 per cent each. They are horti culture, journalism, and petroleum engineering departments. The School of Veterinary Medi cine leads all others in the num ber of C’s with 33 per cent. Its veterinary anatomy department won high honors with 38 per cent. main together this year, said Harry Boyer, head of the housing office. Men who were expecting contracts but didn’t get them have caused overcrowding in the non-military dormitories, he said. Boyer said another factor which entered the picture was that some seniors did not receive rank and are living together in separate units. Approximately 85 rooms in the non-corps dormitories are housing three persons each, while there are about 100 vacant beds in the corps dormitories, he added. Civilian students cannot b e moved into these vacant beds, be cause the empty rooms are scat tered over the area and are not concentrated, Boyer said. Corps students are not living thi'ee to a room except in isolated cases. There are only about a doz en such rooms in the new area, he added. Civilian Students A few 4th and 5th year un-mar- ried civilian students have been al lowed to move off the campus into private apartments, he said. Vets Get Apartments Every married veteran student who wanted a college apartment got one, he reported. Twenty-five new non-veteran applications for college apartments could not be filled, he said. The housing office estimated that that mor£ than 700 married stu dents have enrolled. This includes both new and returning students. A break-down by areas of mar ried students shows: College View, 466 and Project housing, 60; Boyer estimated mar ried students in non-college apart ments in College Station and Bry an at 200. No Commissions for Category III PAST Announces Changes For Juniors and Seniors COZY—Turkish dancer Nejla Ates takes time out from rehearsal for her nightclub dance in New York to hug Shep pard (Abdullah) King, Texas oil heir. King, who is now married to Egyptian belly dancer Sarnia Gamal, announced plans to get a divorce in Houston and marry Nejla. No commissions will be given Category III air force ROTC grad uates. They will receive instead certificates of completion of four years advanced ROTC. The AFROTC detachment has clarified policy changes for ad vanced contracts. Quotas in categories for juniors and definite policies on seniors have been announced by the pro fessor of air science and tactics. Category I (flight) juniors who made scores of four or more on the AFOQT examination given Sunday will receive advanced contracts. Those with a score of three will be conditionally accepted and those with below three may'be enrolled informally on an elective basis. Only 16 Category II Juniors From those juniors in Caegory II (engineering or scientific) the AFROTC will accept 16 cadets with the most of them going to aero nautical and electrical engineering majors. In addition, 16 of the next high est in this group will be condition ally accepted. Only one student not physically qualified for flight or not taking an essential course will be accepted for conditional enrollment. The Senior Outlook In the senior class this year the number of commissions tendered to graduates breaks down like this: Category I graduates—from 83 to 100 per cent will receive com missions. Category IT graduates—from 56- 85 percent will receive commis sions. These will go only to aer onautical engineers, civil engineers, mathematics majors, electrical en gineers, mechanical engineers and most science majors. No agricul tural engineers, architects, or pet roleum engineers will receive com missions. Category III Grads Category III graduates — No commissions will be tendered phy- Disaster Meeting Attracts 70 Cities Civic leaders from 70 Texas cities will meet here tomorrow and Thursday for a defense and disas ter conference. Initiated by the Civil Defense administration in Washington, the meeting is designed to help coordi nate civil defense activity in Texas and other states. President, David H. Morgan will welcome the group to the campus and Col H. R. Brayton, director of the Firemen’s Training school, will serve as general chairman for the conference. sically unqualified graduates in non-essential fields. Category IV graduates (veter ans)—All veterans will receive commissions. Certificates of Completion Advanced ROTC cadets who do not receive commissions will get certificates of completion, stating that they have completed four years of ROTC training. These men will be commissioned after two years service in the en listed ranks. They will not have to serve two more years as officers, but will be subject to call to active duty in national emergencies. May Go to OCS While serving on active duty as enlisted men. the non-commissioned ROTC graduates may have a chance to go to officers’ candidate school. Hpwever, due to the cut in air force funds, the OCS classes have been cut from 800 per year to around 150. Theoretically then, those men with a certificate of completion from A&M, could end up with one from OCS. If the OCS commis sion was in the army, then when the cadet’s two years in servic.e was up, he’d have to choose be tween the air force and army. This is necessary because no one can hold a commission in two branches of service. Dunn Stops Move To Reunite Corps Former Student association pres ident J. Harold Dunn has halted’an ex - student move to consolidate freshmen and upper-classmen in one housing area. Rod Gambrell ’47 suggested the Former Student council investigate housing all freshmen and upper classmen together. Gambrell made the request at last week’s meeting of the Former Students Council and executive board. Gambrell said he thought both groups were at a disadvantage liv ing in separate areas. He said this year’s seniors seem to be more capable than his graduating class. Dunn told the council that Gam- brell’s request was a college mat ter. He said the council had no right to interfere with college pol icies. Bids for CHS Taken Oct. 15 Bids on the new A&M Consoli dated high school building may be taken as early as October 15. “Architects have been working on the plans and we hope to begin construction late next month,” Superindent L. S. Richardson said. Weather Today CLEAR Clear this afternoon. Clear to partly cloudy tomorrow. High to day 95. Expected low tonight 68. Expected high tomorrow 95 to 98l.