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Number 147: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1953
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Dianetics Advisor
re
Specialists Board
W. S. McCulley, A&M dianetics
advisor, may be called to explain
the merits of dianetics before a
group of local specialists in psy
chology and medicine.
McCulley, of the mathematics
department, has been teaching stu
dents how to use dianetics, a
thought process which is supposed
to cure mental or physical ills.
The group’s decision could deter
mine whether or not the' college
continues to support dianetics on
the campus.
Yesterday Dean of Men W. L.
Penberthy told a three-man com
mittee investigating dianetics for
the Memorial Student Center
council he did not know enough
New Cafeteria
Counter Due
For MSC
A cafeteria style counter
will be installed at the south
end of the soda fountain in
the fountain room of the Me
morial Student Center.
A ventilator hood and modern
pot washing sink will be installed
in the kitchen. The fountain room
kitchen will also receive a lower-
ator for holding serving trays and
seven portable sugar and flour
iins.
Two floor polishers and two
^acums will be bought for care of
She floor-
The new counter is an eight-
foot stainless steel structure cost
ing $1500. It will display three
kinds of meats, three vegetables
and thi'ee salads. The counter will
be installed during the Christmas
holidays.
The ventilator hood has a string
of lights down the middle of the
ceiling for better lighting. It also
has filters on the sides to draw
smoke and out of the kitchen. The
ventilator is 26 feet long and four
and one half feet wide. It will
cost $3,000.
A modern three - compartment
pot washing sink will be installed
to replace the old two-compart
ment sink. The new sink will cost
$1,000.
The new portable lowerator,
which holds the serving trays, will
cost $375. The seven portable
stainless steel sugar and flour bins
Will be added, costing $135 each.
Fifteen six-foot and 10 eight-
foot collapsible tables will be
bought for the Social Education
department.
about the subject to say whether it
was good or bad.
Dean Recommends Study
He thought the matter should
be studied by recognized people in
the fields of psychology and medi
cine.
He said that a group of five
college specialists might be formed
to hear McCulley explain his views.
Penberthy said he thought the
dianetics group desexved a fair
hearing.
If this group does not feel quali
fied to reach a decision, Penberthy
said the case might be presented to
groups such as the State Medical
association.
Penberthy named the follow-
ng men who might be asked to
hear McCulley and decide if
dianetics is worthy of college sup
port. They would meet Thursday.
Members Proposed
They are M. S. Kavanaugh and
Walter A. Varvel of the education
and psychology department; Al
beit J. Kingston of the Basic
Division staff; Dr. J. E. Marsh of
the college hospital and Dr. George
Potter of the biology department.
The MSC committee includes
Jerry Moseley, chairman, Sam B.
Southwell of the English depazt-
ment and Don Friend. Friend re
placed Battalion Co-editor Jerry
Bennett who resigned Saturday.
Bennett said he resigned because
his views as Battalion co-editor
might conflict with the committee's
decision.
SATURDAY NIGHT?—The statue of Lawrence Sullivan
Ross gets a paint-removing scrubbing early this week from
freshmen in B company infantry. “Sully” was splashed
with orange paint sometime over the weekend and the
freshmen are doing their best to get it off. They weren’t
entirely successful.
Corps Evaluation
Results Released
No Leads ) V7 On
Mitchell Theft
Fred Hickman, chief of campus
security, said today that no new
leads on the Mitchell hall robbei’y
have been discovered.
The robbery was the night of
Nov. 3.
Seven students, who were asleep,
were robbed of more than $70 by
the thief.
Consolidation of freshmen with
upperclassmen was voted the main
objective in improving A&M’s
corps of Cadets.
This was voted the most im
portant according to the result of
the cadet corps evaluation survey
recently conducted by cadet of
ficers at the request of Dr. David
H. Moigan, president of the col
lege.
Evaluation results are to be
used in planning an “ideal corps”
for A&M, Morgan said.
Thirty-one point nine per cent
voted consolidation as the most
important thing to accomplish.
More definite corps policies and
definite duties for cadets holding
rank was voted second most im
portant.
Unit spirit and “sticking-to-
gether” attitude are considered an
individual unit’s greatest asset by
22.6 per cent of those voting.
Twenty - two point two per cent
said cooperation and hairnony
among cadets.
Aggie spirit and sticking - to
gether attitude are also considered
to be the corps greatest asset by
21.1 per cent. Development of lead
ership and responsibility is se
cond with 15 per cent.
Lack of pride, bad attitude and
poor participation by some in
dividuals is said to be the most
undersirable in an organization by
17.1 per cent of those voting. Lack
of quick effective methods of
punishment was named second.
The two most undersirable
things in the corps as a whole is
considered sepai’ate areas for
freshmen and uppei’classmen, and
too much domination by admini
stration and military officials. v
Definite policies and definite
duties for cadets holding rank, and
more freedom for officers in run
ning their outfit wefe voted the
two things that would improve in
dividual units.
Survey blanks were filled out
by 141 cadet officers and first
sergeants.
Journalists Plan
Coffee for Exes
The Journalism club will hold an
informal coffee Nov. 26 from 9:30
to 11:30 a. m. in the Journalism
building.
The coffee is for former students
who have been connected with the
department. Anyone now connected
with the Journalism department is
also invited, said D. D. Burchai’d,
head of the department.
Will Students
Get Holiday
If A&M Wins?
Will the students get a holi
day after the game with Texas
University if the Aggies win?
In past years, it has been a
tradition for the students to
get an extension on their
Thanksgiving holidays if A&M
wins over Texas.
President David Morgan was
asked by The Battalion if he
wmuld give the students this
, holiday if A&M won. His
reply:
“Let’s win the game.”
Vandalism Hits MSC
Second, Third Floors
Undetermined Amount
Of Damage Caused
Aggie Win
Worth Prize
To Coaches
If A&M beats the University
of Texas, the A&M coaching
staff will get gold footballs.
According to the Lariat,
Baylor university student
newspaper, Isip Fi’ed of L.
Fz-ed and Son jewelers sent a
letter to Mike Michalske, line
coach here, making the offer.
Fred didn’t make the offer
because he loves A&M; he
just wants someone to beat the
team that knocked Bayloi' out
of the championship.
Fred made the same offer to
Dutch Meyer of TCU, but
TCU lost to Texas Satui’day,
13-3.
Michalske said he hadn’t yet
received the letter from Fred.
Center Pole Raised
Trucks Needed
The 60-foot center pole of the
bonfire went up this morning,
starting bonfire building activities
into high gear.
The first load of wood was
brought in yesterday.
Transportation is still the major
obstacle to bonfire progress, ac
cording to Jimmy Tyree, senior
yell leader.
Some trucks have been obtained,
but more or needed, he said. Dick
Gotlieb, president of the Houston
former student club, has been ask
ed to get more trucks.
Singing Cadets Set
New London Trip
The Singing Cadets will go to
New London Dec. 5 for their first
out of town concert of the year.
The glee club’s 55 members will
leave the campus by bus Dec. 5
and return the next day. The con
cent, sponsored by the Rusk coun
ty A&M Mothers club, will be held
in the high school auditorium in
New London.
Vandalism has caused an undetermined amount of
damag-e in the Memorial Student Center, it was learned to
day.
Occurring at intervals in the last few weeks, vandalism
has damaged fixtures on the second and third floors of the
building.
The most extensive damage occurred during the week
end of the A&M-SMU football game.
Drapes on the south wall of the Metzger gun room on
the third floor had several slashes through them about 12
inches long.
A fire extinguisher had been taken off its hook and
-♦■emptied. No trace of the fluid
could be found, and it is un
known if t h e extinguisher
was emptied in the building
or not, said J. Wayne Stark,
MSC director.
Obscene words had been carved
into the woodwork on both doors
leading into the men’s toilet on the
third floor and into one of the
toilet stalls. The carving was so
deep all three surfaces had to be
refinished, Stark said.
The circular couch in the ser
pentine lounge on the second floor
had holes punched into its uphol
stery as if someone had jabbed it
with a knife, Stark said. The furni
ture was damaged in two places.
The soap dispenser in the third
floor mens’ toilet had been emptied
and thrown into a toilet. The week
end before, it had been emptied
and thrown out the window into the
shrubs below.
The copper screening on two of
the third floor windows also had
been slashed.
Vandalism occurred again Satur
day night between midnight and
Sunday morning. Only slight
damage was done, Stark said.
Faculty To Suggest
Educational Helps
Badgett Warns
Students Risk Sudden Death
In Campus Steam Tunnels
Chances of sudden death in the
campus steam tunnels were de
scribed yesterday at a meeting^of
the Accident Prevention Commit
tee.
W. B. Badgett, of the Office of
Physical Plants, warned the com
mittee that students are risking
their lives everytime they enter
the steam tunnels.
Sometimes student pranksters
have entered the tunnels to cut off
the electricity and heat in the
donnitories. “I’m scared to death
that someone is going to get
electrocuted,” Badgett said.
Chaizman Bennie Zinn agreed.
“Someone is going to get killed
some night,” he said.
Recent Explosions
Corps Commander Fred Mitchell
explained the cause of some of the
recent explosions on the campus.
Mitchell said that students had
been putting sodium in a wrapping
and flushing it down the toilets.
When the water soaked through
the wz-apping, it exploded the
sodium.
Mitchell believed the explosion
Thursday night, which lighted the
sky, was probably caused by a field
aztillez'y firecracker. He explained
the firecrackers were used at
ROTC summer camp and are con
sidered dangerous.
Mitchell did not think it wise to
“pull a shake down” of the dormi-
toz-ies. He said there was always
the chance that no explosives
w T ould be found. He believed if
this happened, the committee would
lose respect.
Hov/ever, the cadet colonel warn
ed that if students started throw
ing tear gas as they did last year,
“Then it would be time to pull a
shakedown.”
Herman B. Segrest of the
athletic depaz'tment said there were
too many students being injured
playing “Flag football.” This game
is similar to football except that
no tackling is allowed.
Begzest said he did not think
the injuries wez’e happening in the
intz-amural games. He believed
they happened in unsupervised
games in the dormitory areas,
Segrest, who substituted yesterday
for C. E. Landiss, said that several
students had broken bones playing
the game.
Mitchell said the committee
should ask the hospital for more
first aid equipment for bonfire
workers. He said the bonfire com
mittee did not have enough first
aid equipment. “I’m scared to
death somebody’s going to get hurt
there,” he said.
Zinn said that some of the
committee’s last safety recom
mendations had already gone into
effect.
Many of the low hanging
branches on the campus have been
cut. Some of the low places which
become filled with water after rain
have been filled. The open gas pipe
ditch between Goodwin and Biz-
zell hails has been filled, Zinn re
ported.
Letters asking for suggestions to
improve higher education in state
supported schools have been mail
ed to college department heads for
distribution among the faculty.
This step was taken by the Col
lege Classroom Teachez-s Associa
tion here to help the Texas Com
mission on Higher Education plan
a more coordinated educational
system among tax-supported col
leges in Texas.
The 46 - man commission was
started by Gov. Allan Shivei’s.
Faculty members have been ask
ed to send their suggestions to
Wesley W. Smith of the mechanical
engineering department. They will
then be tuz-ned over to two com
mittees recently foraaed by the
local CCTA.
These committees will select the
suggestions to be sent to the state
CCTA’s policy committee. The
policy committee will make the
final recommendations to the Com
mission on Higher Education.
This pi-oject is being carried on
by other state supported colleges.
The two .committees recently
formed here to handle the work
are Professional Standards com
mittee and the Legislative commit
tee. Another group, the research
committee also was formed to as
sist the other two.
Members of the Legislative com
mittee are Charles D. Holland, S.
Auston Kerley, Thomas E. McAfee,
Walter J. Saucier and Ezmest V.
Walton, chairman.
The professional standards com
mittee includes Chari .rs K. Han
cock, H. O. Kunkel, John H. Milliff,
Roy M. Wingren and D. E. Carl
son. Wingren is chairman.
Wesley W. Smith is chairman of
the Research committee, w r hich izi-
cludes Bill C. Moore and Albez't
V. Moore.
Chest Extends
Fund Drive
To Dee. 5
An extension to Dec. 4 was
made yesterday for the A&M
College-College Station Com
munity Chest-Red Cross fund
raising drive.
The chest committee approved
the extension because only $9,940
was collected in the two week
drive. The goal of the drive, which
closed Friday, w r as $13,070.
“I was not too disappointed with
the drive,” said Fred J. Benson,
chairman. “However, I think we
will come close to our goal by Dec.
5.”
Benson said about 25 per cent of
the people in this area did not
contribute to the drive this year.
Some departments of the college
gave almost nothing, he said.
“The amount contz’ibuted so far
is about the same as we got last
year,” said Bennie Zinn, chairman
of the drive last year.
The members of the chest com
mittee .agreed that the contribut
ions thus far indicated the goal
would be met if an extension were
given to the drive.
“We do not want the people to
think we are railroading them into
giving,” Benson said. “We feel
that some of the people didn’t get
a chance to give, so we are hold
ing the drive open for them.”
The committee planned an ex
tensive publicity campaign for the
extension. The committee wants to
make sure everyone knows about
the drive and about the functions
of the chest, Benson said.
Reports from some of the area
chaiz’men were still being received
yesterday by C. H. Ransdell, trea
surer. Benson indicated there wez’e
still some reports to come in.
500 Date Tickets
Awaiting Seniors
Five hundred date tickets for
the University of Texas game have
been reserved for seniozs, Hugh
Philippus reported today.
Philippus was a member of a
committee appointed to try and get
seniors first choice of date tickets.
The committee met with Barlow
“Bones” Irvin yesterday morn
ing.
These tickets will be reserved
until 5 p. m. Thursday Philippus
said. They will be sold at a ticket
box near the Athletic department
office. The box will have a sign
saying “Senior’s Date Tickets Only.
Mayo Gives Talks
At Two Colleges
Dr. T. F. Mayo, foz - mer head of
the A&M English department, re
cently delivered talks at Oklahoma
A&M college and Prairie View col
lege.
Monday Dz\ Mayo pz-esented the
opening address for the English
week exercises now in progress at
Prairie View. His talk was entitled
“Power and Quality,” which he
identified as an interpretation of
the aims of education.
Friday he spoke before the an
nual meeting of the South Cen-
tzal section of the Modern Langu
ages association, which met last
week at Oklahoma A&M. His talk,
“The Great Pendulum,” was direct
ed to the comparative Literature
division of the association’s meet
ing.
Dz\ Mayo resigned his position as
head of the A&M English depart
ment last year in order to devote
all his time to teaching and writ
ing.
MSC to Auction
Lost Articles
Articles in the Memorial Stu
dent Center lost and found office
will be auctioned in the fountain
z'oom after the bozifiz-e Wednesday
night.
The collection contains items left
in the Center by students and
guests, some since it was opened
in 1950. The articles will displayed
in a meeting room on the second
flooz 1 , beginning Monday.
Among the articles to be sold az - e
a watch, a radio, hats, clothes, sun
glasses, fountain pens and many
other items.
Silman Gets $300
Borden Award
Michael R. Sliman was awarded
the annual Borden Scholarship
Award of $300 Tuesday at a meet
ing of the Kream and Kow Klub.
Bi'yan Blalock, public relations
specialist of the Borden company’s
southern division, presented the
award.
Sliman is a senior Daiz-y Hus
bandry znajor from Leesville,
He has a 2.81 grade point ratio and
is a member .of Alpha Zeta, Phi
Eta Sigma and Kream and Kow
Klub.
“This award is presented an
nually to an outstanding senior in
4griculture, who ranks highest in
his class and who has completed
two or more Dairy Husbandry
courses,” said Blalock.
Sliman has twice previously been
awarded the Heep Award of $200
for being an outstanding student
in the school of Agriculture.
Weather Today
m
Russell’s Deer May
Be Season’s First
Dr. Dan Russell, professor of
rural sociology, can probably boast
the first deer of this season.
He killed an eight point buck
Nov. 16, at 6:47 a. m. approximate
ly one minute after the season
opened.
Russell attz-ibutes his success to
a year of planning. That is how
long he has been watching tracks
along the trail where he made the
kill.
He used a stand in a tz-ee near
the trail to wait for the big buck.
C. G. (Spike) White, Joe Fagan
an Baz-ney Welch were hunting in
the same pasture.
Russell is a pioneer at hunting
and fishing. He doesn’t enjoy being
a game hog but he likes to get a
buck each season, he said.
Last year was his fiz-st year to
fail. He also hunts ducks and
tuz-keys and does deep sea fishing.
OCCASIONAL RAIN
Cloudy to partly cloudy with
occasional thunderstoz'ms and
light rain showers late today and
early tomorz-ow. High yesterday
77. Low this morning 64.
Schooner Cruises
Gulf for Research
The A. A. Jakkula, the ocean-
ogz*aphy department’s research
schoonez-, is cruising the north
west part of the Gulf of Mexico,
said R. O. Reid, assistant professor
of oceanography.
The navy-sponsored cznzise is to
study the temperatuz’e and salt
distribution, chemical constituents,
and sedimentation in the .Gulf,