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I 6 Battalion Number 42: Volume 54 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1955 Price 5 Cents smissed On TT Violation General Dean To Address Cadets at Commissioning liy RALPH COLE Battalion News Editor Brig. Gen. Fred M. Dean, the youngest general in the service, will be the main speaker at com missioning exercises Jan. 21 at 7 p.m. in Guion hall. He will also present commissions to eligible air force cadets. Brig. Gen. William M. Brecken ridge, deputy commander of the fourth army, will present army commissions. Uniform All cadets to, receive commis sions will be present and seated by 6:45 p.m. Uniform for the cere mony will be either a cadet uni- A&M Club Officers Meet Here Saturday Sir Robert Scott Speaks Tomorrow British Diplomat To Speak on Asia Sir Robert Scott, minister of the British Embassy in Washing ton and second highest ranking diplomat in the U. S., will speak here tomorrow on “The British Ap proach to Asian Problems.” Stassen Talk Here Canceled; Not Rebooked Harold Stassen, director of the Foreign Operations ad ministration, who was sched uled to talk here Monday, has cancelled his 1 appearance. Stassen was to speak on “The East—Far, Middle, Near—Which Way Now?” as part of the Great Issues lecture series. In a telegram to the Memorial Student Center Great Issues com mittee, Stassen said that he would not be back from a meeting in Paris , he is now attending in time to make the talk Monday. He also said “impossible to fore see future date when we might work this out.” “In view of this statement,” said Herman Hassel, chairman of the Gi"eat Issues committee, “we will have to give up trying to have Stassen in our series.” Stassen had been originally scheduled to speak here Nov. 17. His speech then was cancelled be cause President Eisenhower called him to a bipaifisan foreign policy meeting. Sir Robert Scott, of the British legation in Washington, will speak tomorrow as a part of the Great Issues series. Other speakers in the series have not been definitely set. Snodgrass Elected President of SCS Joe Bob Snodgrass, senior agron omy major, was elected president of Soil Conservation Society re cently. . , Other officers elected were Jer ry Ellis, vice president; George Cason, secretary; Jesse Russel, treasurer; Cliff Hobbs, reporter; and Jerry Ellis and Jim Hanna, program chairman. Scott’s talk will be held at 1:15 p.m. in the Memorial Student Cen ter ballroom and the public is in vited. Although he is one of the scheduled speakers in the Great Issues Series, no entrance fee will be chai’ged. Luncheon David H. Morgan, president of the college, will honor Scott with a luncheon before his speech. C. S. Adams, British counsul- general for Texas and New Mex ico; John S. Bennett, British Con sul for Texas and New Mexico; J P. Abbott, Dean of the College; W. L. Penberthy, head of the office of student activities; Dr. T. R. Timm, faculty sponsor for the Great Is sues Series; and J. Wayne Stark, director of the MSC, will attend the luncheon. Scott was assistant under-secre tary of state for the British for eign office, in charge of all the Far Eastern departments before taking his present post with the British Embassy in Washington. Previous to that he was in charge of the Southeast Asia department. Following his talk here, Scott will attend a kick-off dinner in Houston for the newly organized Institute on Foreign Relations. He will be one of the speakers at the $50-a-plate dinner at which Sen ator Robert Knowland will speak. A&M club officers and class agents will open a two-day meet ing with a conference for the agents at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Memorial Student Center. Sponsored by the Former Stu dents association, the conference is designed to give club officers and class agents an opportunity to gather and \liscuss mutual prob lems and to exchange ideas on club functions. About 25 class agents are ex pected to attend, J. B. (Dick) Her- vey, association executive secre tary, and yesterday. W. J. Terrell of Navasota is chairman of the class agents committee. At 1 p.m. Saturday the ninth annual A&M club officers confer ence will begin in the MSC. The conference will include all officers of A&M clubs and is open to pi-es- Weather Today tm PARTLY CLOUDY The weather outlook for today is continued cloudy with light rain showers today, tonight and tomor- row. Yesterday’s high was 56, low 46. The temperature at 10:30 this morning was 54. Globetrotters To Play Here Feb. 16 The original Harlem Globe trotters, one of the greatest attractions in the history of basketball, will play in White coliseum Feb. 16. Featuring Reece (Goose) Tatum, one of the finest individual attrac tions in the game, and a host of others, the Globetrotters will fur nish their own competition. They travel with three other teams. Tickets go on sale Feb. 1 in the office of student activities and at WSD Clothiers in Bryan, said C. G. (Spike) White of student activities. Prices will be $1.25 for general admission and $2 and $2.50 for reserved seats. There will be a special section for Negroes. Two of the teams that travel with the Globetrotters will play the first game of the night. Be tween games, there will be a 30- minute show featuring the world’s champion table tennis player and other performers. This is the 28th season for the Globetrotters. They recently re turned from a three-month tour of Europe and have played throughout the world. idents and other officers of home *town clubs who are invited to at tend the afternoon session, Hervey said. A stag dinner will be held in the MSC ballroom at 7 p.m. Saturday for all visiting 1 former students with President David H. Morgan giving the welcoming address. Sunday at 9 a.m. a meeting of the nominating committee will be held for district and at-large rep resentatives of the Former Stu dents Association council. The committee will nominate two can didates for councilman to be elec ted from each of the state’s sena- torial districts. One will be elec ted from each district by mail bal lot. The committee will also nominate 20 candidates for councilman-at- large of which 10 will be elected by mail ballot. form, consisting of a green blouse and pink trousers, or the uniform of the service in which he is being commissioned.* Both uniforms will be with blouses. At about 7 p.m., the distinguish ed guests will enter the stage and the audience will be called to at tention. Following the invocation and the singing of the “Spirit of Aggieland,” Gen. Dean will deliver his speech. After the address, Col. John A. Way, PAS, will have the cadets being commissioned rise and the mass oath of office will be admin istered by Maj. O. H. Johnson, air science instructor. Presentation of commissions will then be completed. After the ceremony, the entire audience will participate in singing “The Star Spangled Banner.” Approximately 147 students will receive commissions during the ceremony. No Exercises About 234 graduating seniors will receive degrees this semester, but there will be no formal grad uation exercises. Graduating seniors who paid their student activities fee and who will not be in school the spiung semester, may obtain the refund on the spring portion of the fee. Application should be made at the housing office and Town Hall, Great Issues and athletic tickets must be presented. (See DEAN, Page 2) Faculty Eligible For Fellowships The Council of Southern Uni versities Inc. is offering through the Southern Fellowships fund sev eral fellowiships according to W. H. Delaplane, dean of the school of Arts and Sciences. Faculty members with the rank in instruc- to or above are eligible to apply. Application blanks may be ob tained by writing Robert M. Les ter, executive director of the Southern Fellowships Fund, 119 North Columbia St., Box 427, Cha pel Hill, N. C. The fellowships are designed to assist persons now teaching* in southern colleges to cdrry on ad vanced study and research leading to PhD or similar degrees. Battalion Schedule Altered For Finals The Battalion will be on a limited publication schedule during final examination week and between semesters, said Karl E. Elmquist, chairman of the student publications board. The paper will come out Thursday, Jan. 27, and Thurs day, Feb. 3. Regular publica tion will be resumed Feb. 8. Lions To Honor Wives With Dance The College Station Lions club will hold their annual Ladies’ Night Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the banquet room of the Triangle drive-in. Chicken or fish will be served, and there will be a hillbilly dance following the banquet. Press Club Dinner Set For March 25 The annual Press club banquet sponsored by student publications will be held March 25. The Student Publications board recently set up a new plan for charging admittance to the ban quet this year, said Karl Elm quist, acting manager of student publications. Students in their last year of college will be ad mitted free. Students on student publications who are not in their last year of school and receiving awards will pay one-half price. The office force of student publications will be admitted free. Otjier guests will be invited at their own ex- pense. Arrangements for guest speaker and place of meeting have not been arranged. Panel Revokes Probation Terms Tom McDade has been dismissed from A&M for viola tion of the probation by which he was allowed to return to school this semester as a convicted member of the Tonkawa Tribe, a secret fraternity. McDade, a senior business major from El Campo, was dismissed for “putting constantly in front of the student body reminders of a student organization (the TT\s) that was disbanded last spring,” and for excessive demerits. A five-man military panel decided yesterday after six hours deliberation that these two offenses constituted vio lation of McDade’s probation. The panel was unanimous in the decisions on both the '♦■guilt and the punishment. “Dismissal” means perman ent separation, and normally means the person must leave the campus within 24 hours. McDade gave the panel no indi cation that he would appeal the decision. If an appeal was made, it would go to the Executive com mittee of the Academic council. .Lt. Col. Taylox* Wilkins, assist ant commandant and chairman of the panel, would not say last night what the “reminders” McDade was accused of were. Reliable sources reported to The Battalion that McDade has been seen wearing a pin with the TT em blem on it, that he had a portrait picture made wearing this pin, that he at one time had the double-T emblem on his automobile, and that he has frequently been seen in the company of other students who were convicted last year of be ing members of the TT’s. On the excess demerits charge, McDade had 32 demerits this se mester. Twenty-nine is the num ber allowed a senior before disci plinary action is taken. “The concensus of the panel was that these two charges constituted a violation of his probation,” Wil kins said. McDade, as a condition of his being allowed to attend A&M this semester, signed a statement say ing he would be on conduct proba tion, would not room with another TT, and could not hold any elected or appointed campus position. Violation of any of these condi tions would be grounds for dismis sal, the statement said. McDade’s parents also signed the statement. Last spring, 17 students, includ ing McDade, were indefinitely sus pended for being TT members. During the summer, it was an nounced that they would be allowed to return to A&M if they would agi’ee to the terms of this proba tion statement. The college regulations also say that “membership in any group or organization not sanctioned by the college” will be grounds for dis missal. Wilkins said McDade denied none of the charges pi’esented to him. “He was frank and honest about everything,” he said. McDade had six character witnesses. Wilkins also said the consensus of the panel was that the TT’s were not active or organized this year. Col. Joe E. Davis, comman dant, also said that after review ing the action of the panel, he didn’t believe the group was ac tive. President David H. Morgan de clined to comment on McDade’s dismissal, saying he had not had chance to review the action of the panel. Whether or not McDade vail get credit for this semester’s work de pends on how much of each course he has completed, Morgan, said. The military panel was compos ed of two senior cadet officers, a tactical officer, and an air science instructor. Wilkins, as assistant commandant, was chairman without vote except in case of a tie. ROTC Policy Is Announced By Col. Offer A new policy for ordering army graduates to active duty has been announced by Col. Robert Offer, PMS&T. The new plan will mean that graduates who will be com missioned between May 1 and Sept. 30 of this year will be called into active duty between July 1, 1955 and June 30, 1957. Period Extended “The new plan extends the pe riod during which spring graduates as well as those who will be grad uates from both semesters of sum mer school and those being com missioned after completing sum mer camp this year will be called into active duty,” Offer said. Un der the present system, graduates are being called into active duty within 12 months after graduation. The graduates will be given their choice' as to when they will be called “as far as requirements for the army permit,” said Offer. They are being given an opportu nity to make their choice this week, he added. According to Offer, distinguished military graduates who have been selected for regular army commis sions will continue to be called into active service under the present regulations. This new plan for calling the army graduates is only for those who will be commissioned between May 1 and Sept. 30, and there is no indication as to whether or not this policy will be continued in the future. Offer said. 40 YEARS, 40 MINUTES—Three students pause on their way to Anchor hall to watch workmen remove the stump of a tree by the Memorial Student Center. The workmen said the tree was 40 years old, but it took them only 40 minutes to saw it down and remove the stump. The students are, left to right, Gary Lemmon, engineering student from Tyler; Charles Flanagan, civil engineering student from Houston; and Paul Rogers, architect from Pineville, La. All are freshmen. Grant Awarded A grant-in-aid for $80 was awarded to the Texas agricultural experiment station by the William Wrigley company of. Chicago for the use of ecological study of can- delilla plants. The studies are be ing conducted at the animal disease investigations laboratory at Marfa.