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COFFER COLLEGE ARCHIVIST MSC, FE 3 COPIES 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 i Number 120: Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1953 Price Five Cents • y? ,>( • • m- m COME TO DADDY—Dr. Nevin Weaver with shirt sleeves rolled up, checks a slab of honey which he is taking from a bee hive on the entomology research farm just west of the campus. “I seldom get stung,” said Weaver, but the photo grapher who snapped the picture was soon running for the car with bees trying to part his hair. Weaver is an assist ant professor in the entomology department. —Photo by Smith Students To Assist Evaluation Study Students will take part in A&M’s new self-evaluation program. Student evaluation teams will be formed by each department of the college to assist in compiling in formation on department practices.. Each school’s student council, composed of representatives of de partmental clubs or societies within that school, will also be asked* to advise their deans on an analysis of the school’s curricula. The councils will also advise thfeir dean of ways. to. make, cur ricula contribute more fully to the achievement of the college’s objec tives. Dean of the College John P. Ab- bqtt, said the executive committee, in handing down the directive on evaluation, feels a periodic, self- study is both desirable and healthy from a constructive criticism stand point. An evaluation, Abbott said, if it reveals that a job is being done well, renews confidence and strengthens moral. If an evaluation reveals that a job can be done better, it enables all who participated in the study to work together for improvement with understanding of the prob lems involved. Studies made last year are re flected in this year’s college cata logue through standardized course requirements for arts and sciences majors and lightened course loads for freshman and sophomore engi neering students. Curi-icula requirements were re duced in all schools of the college. By the end of this school year, Weather Today NO CHANGE ‘Clear, with no expected change in weather. High yes terday 98. Low this morning 65. Expected high today 97. Low tonight 64,, through this series of self-evalua tions and others, an intensive study of every operation of the college should be completed, said Abbott. Both practical and theoretical factors should be considered in the evaluation, said Abbott. The adaption of departmental programs to the aims of the col lege, the completeness of curricula, overlapping within and between de partments, and the provision a cur riculum makes- for a student’s gen eral education as a human being, are primarily theoretical factors to be considered in the evaluation. Physical items such as additional classroom space needed, what re pairs should be made, more effi cient use of existing property and better utilization of visual and sup plementary aids to education are topics which will be investigated and evaluated. Cadet Commanders Vote Plan 4 Idea! NEWS FLASHES Gov. Warren Appointed Chief Justice By ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTO N—Sub stantial Senate approval was forecast today for President Eisenhower’s appointment of Gov. Earl Warren as chief justice of the United States. When the court opens its fall term here Monday, the big, smiling California Repub lican will don the chief jus tice’s robes. • NEW YORK —East Coast longshoremen struck early to day, threatening a costly stop page complicated by threats of interunion violence. President Eisenhower ap pealed to them yesterday to keep some 60,000 longshoremen on the job from Portland, Maine, to Hampton Roads, Va. —said the Labor Department studying use of the Taft-Hart- ley injunction to nip the strike and provide an 80-day cooling- off period. • BERLIN — East Germans again are seeking Western asylum in increasing numbers. West Berlin officials say an average of 600 refugees pour ed in daily during the past week. The flow reached a climax in March of 1,600 a day but dropped to only 300 to 400 a week after the Communist re gime in June promised a bet ter life and more freedom for the East Germans. The Reds also tightened police controls after the, June 17 rebellion. • PARIS—The Soviet Union has . unconditionally accepted the Western proposal for a Big Four meeting to discuss Ger man problems, an American embassy scource said today. • The New York Yankees took a one-game lead over the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1953 World Series yesterday with a 9 - 5 win in Yankee Stadium. College Releases Figures Showing Enrollment Drop The college has released records which show that 150 of last year’s freshmen and sophomores now may be enrolled in other schools. These figures were shown last night to cadet commanders, faculty members and mil itary officials at a meeting in the Biological Sciences lecture room. A total of 197 of last year’s freshmen and sophomores, who had passing grades, did not return to A&M this semester. Fifty freshmen and 68 sophomores asked the college to send transcripts of their academic records to other schools. Thirteen fresh men asked that transcripts be sent to their homes. The col lege sent transcript's to the homes of 19 sophomores. A total of 21 freshmen and 26 sophomores, who failed to re-enroll this year, did not ask for tran scripts. Of the 197 students, 53 per cent had an academic record of C or better. Last year’s class totaled 1,520 students. This fall 901 returned to A&M. But 315 of these 1,520 stu dents had already withdrawn from school before their second semes ter. Class Has Started This year’s freshmen class has started with 1,758 students. Rec ords show that the number of transfer students has been drop ping for the last five years. A total of 509 students transferred to A&M from other colleges in 1949. This September only 219 transfer students enrolled here. Figures from 1950 to the present show that the number of students enrolled in the cadet corps also has decreased. Comparison of the number of cadets to non-military students has been based on under graduate enrollment alone. This fall’s enrollment shows that out of 5,672 undergraduate stu dents, 4,191 are in the cadet corps. Last September, 4,451 out of 5,863 were cadets. A total of 4,693 out of 6,130 stu dents enrolled in the corps in 1951. Out of 6,192 undergraduates in 1950, a total of 4,235 were cadets. President David H. Morgan told the group that continued loss of students might force the college to drop more of its courses. He referred to the new state law which requires classes to have not (See ‘ENROLLMENT’, Page 2) News Briefs Bing Will At Junior Give Address College Meet ROLAND BING will talk on “The College Newspaper,” at the 10th annual junior college confer ence to be held here Oct. 5-6. On leave from the position of man ager of students publications, Bing is now a graduate student in junior college education at the Univer sity of Texas. * * * FRESHMEN will start making Campus Secretaries Will Be Oriented Stenographers and secretaries employed by the A&M system and the college will attend one of four orientation meetings scheduled Monday and Tuesday in the Me morial Student Center ballroom. The meetings are designed to acquaint office personnel with their responsibilities and especially with the public relations aspect of their positions. Sessons will begin at 10 a. m. and 3 p. m. each day. Miss Zelda Ramsey, head of secretarial training at Arlington State college, will conduct the meeting and show a film. Executive officers and heads of departments will attend a similar meeting at 3 p. m. Wednesday. application for the fish drill team Oct. 10. Sponsor of the team will be 1st Lt. Joseph Brusse. He will be assisted by a non-commissioned officer from the military science department. The assistant has not been named as yet. A&M WILL BE represented at the second annual South Texas Vegetable day, Oct. 31, by Guy W. Adriance, head of the horticulture department, and John Hutchinson and Bluford Hancock, extension horticulturists. Col. Walter Britton, A&M former student, will be of ficial auctioneer for the day. J. R. COUCH and J. R. Reed of A&M conducted tests on the value of “M. H. A.”, a poultry feed sup plement, at the Monsanto Chemical company. A 16-page booklet has been prepared on their results and on work done in the nutritional re search labs of the Merrimac Divi sion at Everett, Mass. LOCAL LADIES met at 9 a. m. Tuesday morning at the college golf course to discuss orginization of a College Station Ladies’ Golf association. Mrs. Joe Woolket was in charge of the meeting. Joe Fagan, manager of the golf course, acted as advisor to the group. “FREE TRADE” will be the sub ject of Dr. James M. Waller’s talk to the Debate club tonight. Waller, who is in the economics depart ment here, will make the talk at 7:30 p. m. in room 323 of the Academic building. Free trade is the Debate club’s topic for this year. Pre Meds Elect Quest President Officers for the Pre - Med so ciety were elected along with the group representitives to the Arts and Sciences council last Tuesday night. Don Quast, president; Bob Stout, vice - president; Paul Holladay, secretary - treasurer; and George Harper, freshman reporter, were elected. Representatives to the council are senior representative. Bill Wil liams and junior representative, George Knippel. Refreshments were served and a general meeting followed. Car Color Confuses Engineer Speed Sign Moved Because Of Violations Because a College Station resident noticed 61 cars vio lating the speed limit on Col lege road within a month, the 30 m. p. h. speed limit sign there has been moved nearer the traffic circle. The city council recommended Monday that City Manager Ran Boswell have the sign moved. The council’s action was carried out Tuesday morning. The observations of the citizen, whose name was not released, were brought before the council by Councilman Joe Sorrells. The vio lations were committed from July 27 to Aug. 28, about 8 a. m. each day. “The statistics were given to me with the idea of recommending that the sign be moved closer to the circle,” Sorrells said. “Both truck and passenger cars were noticed violating the speed limit.” The sign had been near the city limits marker at Enloe Blvd. Col lege road from Bryan to the sign is now a 40 m. p. h. zone. Cadet commanders accepted last night a proposal to evaluate the corps of cadets and to suggest “an ideal corps” based on their study. President David H. Morgan invited the commanders to make the study. He talked with them in the Biological Sciences lecture room. He told the commanders he would like to see them: • “construct the objectives of an ideal corps designed for this college, study those ’objectives in terms of the ob jectives of the college, and then show how the objectives of the corps fit into the total objectives of an educational institution,” and ® “build a structure that will help in the achievement of those objectives.” The commanders voted on the pro p.o sal following Morgan’s speech. He aked them to vote ver bally one of three ways: 1. Think it will work and are in terested in helping. 2. Aren’t sure it will work but ai’e willing to help. 3. Don’t think it will work. The majority voted yes on the first idea, and the remainder voted yes on the second point. No one answered the call for votes on the third point. Fred Mitchell, cadet colonel of the corps, told The Battalion fol lowing the meeting, “This is a gold en opportunity to help in the crea tion of a greater A&M. It is a challenge to our ability and we en thusiastically accept it.” Morgan told the group in his speech, which proceeded the voting, that this move “is a part of a gen eral, not only college-wide but also system-wide, study — something which I feel should be done period ically.” He said he has asked the admin istrative office of the college “to study the various curricula, the functions of the different offices, the staff in these offices and the entire operation of the particular academic program or office under their jurisdiction.” Has Appointed Committee In addition, he said, he has ap pointed a planning, or advisory, committee, to assist in conducting a similar study on student activi ties which will include the corps of cadets. This committee of the whole has been broken down into two separ ate committees. The pai’ticular one concerned with the corps is com posed of the commandant, the col onel of the corps and Dean W. W. Armistead of the Executive com mittee of the college. The dean of men, president of the student senate, chairman of the student life committee and Dean Walter Delaplane of the Executive committee will constitute the other committee. Morgan will serve as chairman of the committee of the whole. “I am asking you to forget tem porarily many of the points of contention and friction which we still have present in the corps,” said Morgan. “In your original study and (See COMMANDERS, Page 2) Because all Texas state cars are the same model and the same color, one of the engi neers here for the highway short course got a bit confused yesterday. , An engineer reported that his state car, a black Chevro let, had been stolen from in front of the Memorial Student Center. When a Bryan patrolman stopped the car later, the driver, another engineer, swore it was his. The second engineer, whose car is also a black Chevrolet, had come out of the MSC and driven away in the first black Chevrolet he saw. He was able to start it be cause the two-way ignition switch was not in the “lock’ position. 2 New Stop Signs Will Be Erected Two more stop signs will be erected at the corner of Jersey and Dexter streets in College Station. The city planned last year to move the traffic light at North Gate to the Jersey-Dexter corner. A new light would have been placed at North Gate. “We decided that a light at Jersey and Dexter would create a greater hazard than already exists,” said Ran Boswell, city manager. The stop signs will be put on Jersey St. In reference to the light at North Gate, Boswell said it is ade quate since it is ‘working all right.’ It seems to be doing the job, he said. Consolidated Band Sponsors Local Calendar The A&M Consolidated school Band Boosters will sponsor a community calendar as its fund - raising project this year. The club will sell ads on the calendar. In addition, birthdays, an niversaries, and meeting dates will be placed on the calendar at a cost of 25 cents each. The calendars will sell for 50 cents. Money raised by the calendars will go toward the purchase of uni forms and instruments for the 43- piece band. Mrs. Walter Varvel is president of the Band Boosters. Chairman of the advertisements committee is Mrs. Maude Courim and teachers’ committee chairman is Mrs. E. W. Fleming. The names on the calendars will be handled through the school classes. “However,” Mrs. Varvel added, “if anyone who does not have a contact through the school wants his name on the calendar, please get in touch with me.” One hundred and forty Texas high school bands have used a similar money - raising project. Robert L. Boone is band director. Foreign Student j Enrollment Rises There are more foreign students at A&M than ever before, said Bennie Zinn, foreign students counselor. Usually between 75 and 90 every year, the enrollment has jumped to a new peak of 130 students. Not only are there more foreign stu dents, but they represent 31 dif ferent foreign countries. This, Zinn said, is a record in it self. England, Denmark and Hawaii have students here for the first time. Holland has had only one stu dent here before this year. Mexico, as usual, had the largest number of students with 34 enrolled. Countries with only one student represented include India, Para guay, Korea, England, China, Syria, Canada, Denmark, Hawaii, Columbia, British East Africa, El Salvador, Ii-aq, Holland and Cen tral America. Thirteen students from Turkey came here because their govern ment recommended A&M as the best agricultural college in the U. S. Train Tickets Put On Sale for Game Two hundred train tickets to the Texas Tech game at Lubbock have been bought, tax free, by the A&M band. The band will use only 180 tickets. The surplus was put on sale last week. The price is $10.75, round ti-ip. Only four tickets have been sold so far. Tickets are on sale at the Stu dent Activities office, second floor, Goodwin hall. The train will leave from Cald well Saturday morning. New Aggie Sweetheart To Be Chosen Saturday Members of the Aggie Sweet heart Selection committee will travel to Texas State College for Women this afternoon to choose the 1953-54 sweetheart. Voting for the sweetheart will take place Saturday morning. The committee selected 15 can didates Monday night from 60 pictures sent hei'e by TSCW. Members will meet and get ac quainted with the girls Thursday and Friday. “Judging from the pictures we received,” said Gilbert (Gil) Stribling, senior class social secre tary, “We have some good looking girls to chose from.” “We are judging on looks, not poise or personality,” he said. Members of the selection com mittee are Jerry Bennett, Battalion co-editor; Bob Hendry, Battalion feature editor; Stribling; Fred Mitchell, cadet colonel of the corps. Pat Wood, senior class president; Ide Trotter, student senate presi dent; Kert Goode, corps executive officer; Allan (Bootsie) Hohlt, Ag- gieland ’54 co-editor; Bill Roland, senior class vice president. V. M. (Monty) Montgomery, head yell leader; Jimmy Tyree, senior yell leader; Bill Reed, first wing commander; B. K. Boyd, first regiment commander; Vic Ken nedy, first composite commander; and Dick Porter, consolidated band commander.