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Number 271: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1954
Price 5 Cents
Military
A&M May Begin
New Athletic Era
Tomorrow Night
The beginning of what support-
ersfehope will be a new era in A&M
athletics unfolds tomorrow night
on Kyle field, when the Aggies
linkup against a heavily favored
Texas Tech squad in the season
opener.
About 30,000 fans are expected
for the 8 p.m. kickoff and the first
showing of Head Coach Paul
(Bear) Bryant, his eight man staff
and 35-man squad. Three other
players, Ends Paul Kennon and
Bill Schroeder, and Halfback
Charles. Hall, will sit out the game
because of injuries. 1
Faced with one of the smallest
gipup of players in A&M’s foot
ball history, Bryant and his staff
have worked long and hai'd in their
effort to teach “hardnosed” foot
ball to the gridsters they have to
work with. Tech, on the other
hand, returns with a veteran team
and a flaming desire to avenge last
year’s loss to the Aggies, their
only defeat of 1953.
fe&M’s probable starters, as an
nounced by Bryant, are: Right end,
Bennie Sinclair, 6 feet, 2, 195;
right tackle, Norbert Ohlendorf, 6
feet, 3, 200; right guard, Marvin
Tate, 6 feet, 175; center. Herb
Wolf, 5 feet, 11, 185; left guard,
Ray Barrett, 5 feet, 9, 195, 6r Sid
Theriot, 5 feet, 10, 185; left tackle,
Larry Winkler, 5 feet, 11, 205; left
end, Donald Robbins, 6 feet, 1, 188;
Quarterback, Elwood Kettler, 6
feet, 165; left half, Don Watson,
6 feet, 11, 185; right half, Joe
Schero, 6 feet, 165; fullback, Don
Kachtik, 6 feet, 1, 185.
Yesterday, the No. 1 and 2 teams
Rgain polished offensive plays and
Worked on defense against the No.
S team. The first two elevens also
drilled on punting and kicking
field goals under pressure.
At one point in the practice, the
nine-man coaching staff, with two
managers, took over as the No. 3
team, and ran Tech plays against
the Red and Blue squads. Assist
ant Coaches Jerry Claiborne and
Jim Owens, a former all-America
at fche position, filled in at right
end on offensive drills.
Bryant explained later that he
made the move to give his White
team a rest and because he didn’t
No Review Set
For Tech Game
The cadet corps will not march
into Kyle Field prior to the game
with Texas Tech Saturday night,
Frank Ford, cadet colonel of the
corps, announced.
Units will not have time to or
ganize after registration. Ford
said. Some cadets will not have
their uniforms by then, so there
will be no pre-game review, he
added.
“Cadets will be in uniform un
officially,” Ford added. “But it
will not be compulsory.”
On The
Inside
Here are some of the storys
on the inside of this edition
of The Battalion:
Section One
Page One—Some of the ma
jor changes that have taken
place here this summer, and
th& Texas Tech game.
Page Five—A feature on
A&M’s new football coaches.
'Page Eight—What the wo
men of College Station plan
for the year.
Section Two
Page One—A picture story
on the first day here for the
class of ’58.
Page Three—Cadet promo
tions for the coming year.
Page Seven—The All - Col
lege Calendar for 1954-55.
want to take the chance of getting
any more players hurt. Bryant, an
all-conference end in his playing
days, lined up at right tackle.
After- practice, Bryant said, “I
think they looked pretty good, es
pecially the first bunch. I’m con
fident they’ll give a good account
of themselves.”
“We recognize that Tech is the
national scoring champ and is deep
everywhere, and that we’re thin
and light. But I don’t think our
boys want to concede or call the
game off yet.”
Bryant rated Kettler and centers
Herb Wolf, Richard Vick and Lloyd
Hale the most improved players
at their positions. Kettler was a
half, Wolf a fullback, Vick an end
and Hale a guard last year. The
last three were moved to center,
and Hale has worked there only
four days in practice.
A&M To Have
1,700 Fish
This Semester
A&M will have about 1,709
new students this fall.
Official figures are not yet
available on the new student
registration, since they actu
ally register today, but a usu
ally reliable source said about
1,700 were here for new stu
dent week.
Last year’s freshman enroll
ment was 1,785 at this time.
Almost all of the freshmen
here now are electing to take
military science. Early, in
complete figures gave 1,129
electing military, and 56 elect
ing civilian status.
No estimate is available on
the over-all enrollment for the
year.
Welcome
Rack
It is a particular pleasure to
welcome returning students and
new students to the A&M campus
this year because this year holds
rich promises of being a highly
significant period in the rich but
stormy history of this great col
lege as it continues to advance in
its steep climb to a position of
national and international reputa
tion. This can be the year that
the administration, faculty, stu
dents, and former students joined
forces to initiate a program that
became stronger with the years
and continued to warrant, and to
receive, their combined support.
This can be the year that the
student body became one organized
group with accepted objectives and
the support of all—Aggies first
and last. This can be the year
that the Corps of Cadets began its
modern operations under military
discipline which recognized the
rights and integrity of the indi
vidual and that saw mental hazing
join physical hazing in leaving the
A&M campus never to return!
This can be the year that the
“forgotten” students—the civilian
students—organized to take their
rightful place beside the Corps of
Cadets in forming one consolidated
student body cemented in spirit so
that friction and dissention van
ished, the year in which the accent
was placed on the common good
rather than “privileges”—on op
portunities rather than “rights.”
This can be the year that pro
duced hope that A&M’s future in
athletics would live up to—or ex
ceed—its past glory, the year in
which all Aggies, present and for
mer, supported the. athletic pro
gram.
Welcome back, and let’s go to
work. This CAN be THE YEAR.
David H. Morgan
President
A Special Edition
For the Upperclassmen
This issue is The Battalion’s welcome to the campus for
the returning students.
It is a little different from our back-to-school specials
in the past, when they were aimed at telling the freshmen
about the school in which they had enrolled.
This summer, a 20-page edition of The Battalion was
sent to all the freshmen telling them about A&M, so this
issue is aimed at telling the upperclassmen what went on here
during the summer.
We hope we’ve covered all the changes that have hap
pened, and we hope you’ll enjoy your year here.
Optional
Plan Approved
By Directors
By HARRI BAKER
Battalion Co-editor
The major change to greet the returning students this
year is A&M’s new optional military plan.
Under the plan, approved by the A&M System board of
directors at their July meeting, all students have the option
of either taking military science or being civilian students.
Those who take military will be in ( the corps of cadets,
and all four classes will be housed together, bringing into
effect the corps consolidation proposed at the spring board
meeting.
A third option was also authorized by the board: the
president of the college on the recommendation of the aca
demic council and approval of the chancellor, can allow stu-
♦‘dents to enroll for military
Great Issues
To Feature
Harold Stassen
A&M
XT’s Readmitted
By Executive Panel
Harold Stassen, U.S. for
eign operations administrator,
and Dr. William G. Pollard,
executive director of Oak
Ridge Institute of Nuclear
Studies, are slated to speak in No
vember for the Memorial Student
Center’s new Great Issues and Re
cital series.
Pollard will speak on “Secrecy,
Security, and Science” Nov. 10.
Next will be Stassen on Nov. 17,
who will talk on the American for
eign policy, and foreign operations
administration.
Other speakers contacted by the
council who are not yet scheduled
but who are expected to speak dur
ing the year include: Dr. Robert
Hutchins,' former chancellor of the
University of Chicago; Henry Ford
II; and Chester Bowles, former
ambassador to India.
The theme for this year’s great
issues program is “free minds, free
men”, said Bud Whitney, vice-
president of the MSC council.
“Purpose of the great issues se
ries,” Whitney said, “is to acquaint
A&M students with some of the
greater issues of our time by in-
inviting prominent Americans to
speak here.”
p.m.
Guion To Open
Next Saturday
Guion Hall will open at 1
Saturday with the movie “Act of
Love,” said Tom Puddy, manager.
The theater will close at about
6 p.m. for the Texas Tech football
game and will reopen at 10:30 for
a late show.
During the summer, a new, wider
screen and an anamorphic lens
were installed, so Guion can now
show CinemaScope movies.
Admission this year will be ten
cents for children and 35 cents for
students and adults.
training without living in the
corps of cadets.
This option has not been
put into effect, and the ad
ministration has no plans for auth
orizing it in the near future.
The optional military plan was
recommended to the board by the
academic council, the governing
body of the college, composed of
the heads of departments.
All students in the corps.of ca
dets will wear the uniform all the
time, the new regulations state.
The corps is to function “on
strict military lines” under rules to
be established by the staff of the
college and approved by the aca
demic council.
A new articles of the cadet
corps has been drawn up, based on
the recommendations submitted by
last year’s cadet officers. It is
essentially the same as last year’s.
Morgan said the academic coun
cil recommended the optional* mil
itary plan to “open the college to
boys who want to take one of our
unique land-grant college courses
but who do not want to be in the
corps of cadets.”
A&M has 14 courses that are
not offered at any other Texas
state school.
“I have not changed my opinion
of the corps,” Morgan said. “It
is a wonderful body for leadership
training.”
(See MILITARY, Page 2)
The 17 A&M students who were
suspended in May for being mem
bers of the Tonkawa Tribe, a secret
fraternity, can come back to school
now.
The executive committee of the
academic council has changed their
“indefinite suspension” punish
ment, and they will be allowed to
re-enter school this semester if
they wish to.
All of the 17 will be on conduct
probation when they are readmit
ted. They must also sign an oath
saying they will not room with
another member of the TT’s and
A&M Cadet’s
Final Appeal
Rejected
John W. Robertson, sopho
more cadet, has been suspend
ed from school for mental
hazing of new students, and
has had his appeal for read
mittance as a civilian student re
jected by the executive committee.
He was formally charged with
“assuming unauthorized authority
as a sophomore private.”
The new articles of the cadet
corps state that a freshman has to
take orders only from authorized
upperclassmen, those in his mili
tary unit.
A board composed of the com
mandant, the assistant command
ant, the professor of air science,
and a member of the cadet corps
staff assessed the punishment.
Robertson was not in uniform at
the time of the hazing.
David H. Morgan, president, said
A&M system board directors at
their July meeting instructed the
administration t® see that hazing,
both mental and physical, is elimi
nated.
Bertrand, Barlow
Resign from A&M
Two of A&M’s top administra
tors have resigned from A&M to
take jobs at other colleges.
Howard W. Barlow, former dean
of engineering, resigned Sept. 1
to become director of the Institute
of Technology at Washington
State College.
John R. Bertrand, dean of the
Basic Division, will leave Oct. 10
to become dean and director of
(See RESIGNATIONS, Page 3)
Better Dancing Floor
New Construction Complete
By RALPH COLE
Battalion News Editor
The class of ’58 will be the first
to trod the floors of the newly re
decorated Sbisa mess hall when
the doors open for registration
Friday.
Rest rooms, a new dish washing
room, lights, draperies and a new
red tile floor will greet Aggies
when they register. The floor is
designed to make the hall a better
place for student dances.
The system board of directors
approved more than $400,000
worth of construction for A&M.
This included construction of
curbs, gutters and parking facili
ties in the Academic building area
as well as the painting of six dor
mitories.
The Cushing Memorial library
had its lighting system changed
from the old type fixtures to the
new flourescent lamps. The foun
dation was raised under the wing
where books are stored. The in
terior was replastered and painted
and will be air conditioned during
the fall of this year.
The Memorial Student Center
was allocated $30,000 for repairs,
alterations and purchase of equip
ment for the center. Television
has been placed in the MSC foun
tain room and main lounge.
BAFB Combo
Plays for Dance
Bryan air force base’s five-piece
combo will play for a dance Sat
urday night on the Memorial Stu
dent Center terrace following the
game with Texas Tech, said Mar
garet Long, MSC program consult
ant.
A Latin-American combo from
Bryan may also play for the dance,
Miss Long said.
The Exchange store has com
pletely remodeled the upstairs and
installed a loading dock and an
eleyptor for easier handling of pro
ducts. The supply center will be
moved to the upstairs and a pro
posed “help your self” book store
will be moved to the present posi
tion of the supply center. A whole
new remodeling of the store and
the breaking down to departments
is planned and will be finished by
Sept. 1955.
The parking lot west of Bagley
hall is being rebuilt and is about
one-half finished and ready for
use. The project will include a
drainage system, concrete curbing
and gravel topping. It is expec
ted to be finished in October.
The proposed addition to the G.
Rollie White coliseum will open
during the fall term of 1955, said
C. E. Tishler, head of the physical
education department. The new
addition, which joins the rear of
the main building, is for physical
education and intramural athletics.
One of the outstanding features,
according to Tishler, is the small
corrective gymnasium on the
ground floor. Students with psys-
ical handicaps will, through the
help of their family doctor and
the college hospital, participate in
modified sports, Tishler said.
A&M’s newest and most modern
*
religious student center at St.
Mary’s Catholic chapel is now in
use. This center contains a lounge,
an education room, a patio with
a barbeque pit, a kitchen and a
bedroom for the caretaker.
The Jones bridge, known to Ag
gies as “Whiskey Bridge,” is ex
pected to be completed within two
months. The new bridge is about
100 yards downstream from the
old one. It will cost about $226,-
610.
With all of the construction ov
er the summer, Aggies will be able
to sit back and enjoy it in comfort
for the next nine months.
Howard W. Barlow
Leaving . . .
they will not be allowed to hold
any elected or appointed campus
positions for a year. Both the stu
dent and his parents must agree
to these provisions.
Failure to comply with any of
these provisions may mean dismis
sal, according to college officials.
The executive committee read
mitted the TT’s “to prevent in
equalities due to difference in army
and air force regulations concern
ing students under suspension.”
The executive committee. Presi
dent David H. Morgan said, had
been notified that air force regu
lations do not permit students un
der suspension to attend summer
camp or receive commissions,
while those enrolled in army ROTC
were permitted to attend camp and
were commissioned.
As a result, air force ROTC stu
dents among those suspended have
been subject to draft and others
being punished for the same of
fense were commissioned, Morgan
continued.
The 17 men, including members
of the senior, junior, and sopho
more classes, were uncovered in an
investigation the week before
school ended last spring.
Four of them later proved to be
members of the football team.
John R. Bertrand
. . . Also Leaving
Ag, TU Vandals
To Be Punished
For Damage
Any student of either A&M
or the University of Texas
who does property damage on
the other school’s campus will
be suspended for one semes
ter.
The A&M board of directors and
the University board of regents
unanimously approved the resolu
tion at a joint meeting after the
board’s July meeting.
The resolution calls for a mini
mum punishment of one semester
suspension for any student of
either school who goes to the other
campus “with the intent of paint
ing or otherwise defacing statues
or buildings or committing any
other depradation.”
The boards said they “view with
concern the growing tendency of
the students of the two schools”
to deface the property of the rival
school.
During the week before the tra
ditional A&M-UT Thanksgiving
game last year, several cases of
property damage and personal
abuse by students from both
schools were reported.
Mothers Clubs
To Plan Policies
State Board of Federated Moth
ers Clubs will meet at the MSC
Saturday at 11 a.m. to form the
organization’s policies for the year.
The executive board, which in
cludes presidents of the A&M
Mothers’ Clubs throughout the
state and state officers, will be
present. Mrs. J. F. Van Wert of
Marshall, state president, will pre
side over the meeting.
Attending from this area will be
Mrs. David H. Morgan, wife of the
A&M College president and hon
orary president of the club, and
Mrs- Ide Trotter, Brazos County
A&M Mothers Club president.
Batt Suggests
Dorm Area Names
Since A&M no longer has a
“corps area” and a “freshman
area,” a change in nomenclature
is needed for the two corps dor
mitory areas.
The Battalion suggests that
the area with dormitories 1
through 12 be called the “West
Area” and the area with dormi
tories 14 through 17 be called
the “East Area.”