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PLANNING—C. H. Ransdell, acting dean of the Basic Division, talks over plans for
new student week with two of his assistants. Pictured from left to right are A. E. Den
ton, jr., remedial reading counselor, Ransdell and F. E. McFarland, personal and vocation
al counselor.
For Spring Semester
New Students Enroll Feb. 4
By RALPH COLE
Battalion News Editor
About 110 new students are ex
pected to enroll here for the spring
semester, according to C. H. Rans
dell, acting dean of the Basic Di
vision.
New student week will begin at
8 a.m., Feb. 2, when housing as
signments will be made. A general
assembly, followed by tests, will
round out the day. Testing will
continue Thursday and uniforms
will be issued. A military orien
tation period will be held in the
evening with a general assembly
that night.
Friday will begin with a general
assembly, followled by group and
individual conferences, identifica
tion photographs and registration.
Cadet officers will not be re
quired to stay here during new
student week, according to Frank
Ford, cadet colonel of the corps.
News of the World
By The ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON—President Eisenhower proposed yes
terday that the United Nations “take a look” at the possi
bility of halting the shooting between Nationalist and Com
munist Chinese.
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AUSTIN—The House Affairs committee voted
unanimously yesterday to ask the House for author
ity to make its own investigation of the state vet
erans land program. The program is already under
probe of a Senate committee and three state agen
cies.
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WASHINGTON—President Eisenhower said yesterday
after two years in office that the foreign situation appears
to him to be “more stable, generally speaking” and the out
look for the internal economy “is good.”
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MANAGUA, Nic. — President Anastasio So-
moza said last night two F51 fighter planes from
Costa Rica violated Nicaraguan territory this af
ternoon by flying- over the border. He called the
resulting situlation “very tense.”
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WASHINGTON—In history’s first test of its kind, two
doctors in different cities concurred via color television yes
terday in diagnosing a breast cancer in a woman.
New students will be allowed to
go home after registration Friday,
Feb. 4 by signing out in one of
the guard rooms.
Registration for ol^i students and
new transfer students will be held
Feb. 5. Cards will be issued ac
cording to the following schedule:
8- 9 a.m. — Surnames beginning
with G, H, I, J, K.
9- 10 a.m. — Surnames beginning
with A, B.
10- 11 a.m.—Surnames beginning
with T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z.
1- 2 p.m. — Surnames beginning
with L, M, N, O.
2- 3 p.m. - Surnames beginning
with P, Q, R, S.
3- 4 p.m. — Surnames beginning
with C, D, E, F.
Registration wall be conducted
in Sbisa dining hall. Classes are
scheduled to start at 8 a.m. Mon
day, Feb. 7.
Admission Notice
Must Be Presented
Graduate students must present
a copy of their official notice of
admission to the Graduate school
at registration, according to Ide
P. Trotter, dean of the Graduate
School.
At each subsequent registration,
a copy of the approved course of
study with grades recorded oppo
site all coui-ses completed must be
presented.
Undergraduate students expect
ing to “double register” should
meet all the requirements of double
registration on page 24 of ; the
graduate bulletin.
Work On College Honor Code
Proposal To Be
Composite System
The Intercouncil committee is working - «on an honor code
for the entire school, which will be a composite of all the
codes that have been proposed for the various schools of the
college.
According to Bill Coppage, committee president, the var
ious honor codes are now being studied by the members of
the committee to determine what type of code should be for
mulated. He said yesterday that the planning “hasn’t gotten
very far,” but^the code will probably be ready by the middle
of March.
Once a plan is chosen by the Intercouncil committee the
proposal will be taken to the student councils of the schools
♦of the college for approval
“If a single council votes
the plan down,” Coppage said,
Dorm itories
To Be Open
For Holidays
All dormitories will be open
during the between semester
holidays, according to the
housing office.
The dorms will be left un
locked for the benefit of stu
dents living great distances
from the campus who are un
able to go home and for new
students coming in early.
SCS To Offer
Summer Work
To Students
College students seeking
summer employment may be
interested in a recent an
nouncement by the Soil Con
servation service.
Through a student trainee pro
gram, the SCS now is offering em
ployment to college students. Civil
Service ratings of GS-2, GS-3 and
GS-4 for students lead to a per
manent rating of GS-5 after grad
uation.
Approximate pay scales for
these ratings are from $200 to
$260 per month. Active work with
the SCS in Texas, Arkansas, Lou
isiana and Oklahoma alternates
with regular school periods.
Students majoring in soil con
servation, agricultural engineer
ing, civil engineering, animal hus
bandry, botany, forestry, range
management, agronomy, biology,
soils and other closely related ag
ricultural sciences are eligible. Ap
plications may be obtained from
the post office. Civil Service ex
aminations for the jobs will be
held hei'e and in many other parts
of the state.
To Legislature
Commission To Present Facts
By HARRI BAKER
Battalion Co-Editor
Since its formation two years
ago, the temporary Texas Commis
sion on Higher Education has as
sembled a vast collection of facts
to support its recommendations to
this session of the Legislature.
These recommendations cover
every phase of collegiate-level edu
cation, from finance to course of
ferings.
Here’s the story of what the
commission found and what it will
recommend, as told in its report to
the governor:
The commission was established
by the last Legislature to “study
the pi’esent needs of higher educa
tion in the state, and to recom
mend a coordinated system of
higher education.”
It was composed of 10 legislative
members, 10 citizen members, 10
representatives from boards of di
rectors, and a set of officers, with
A. R. Bivens as chairman. H. L-
Winfield of the A&M system board
was representative from A&M.
The commission decided that the
following points were to be their
goals: everyone should have an
opportunity to get public higher
education; the educational system
should include a curriculum gear
ed to current needs, and provisions
for research and public service; the
education should be of the highest
possible quality; it should be ef
fectively administered; and it
should be within the state’s finan
cial range.
The first thing the commission’s
researchers found was that a lot
more students are going to be in
the Texas schools: an increase of
95 per cent by 1970. It also found
that there is even now an acute
shortage of teachers.
The solution of these problems,
the commission said, requires coor-
Weather Today
The weather outlook for today
is continued cloudy and cooler.
Yesterday’s high was 42, low 32.
The temperature at 11 this morn
ing was 36.
dination of courses to meet the
state’s needs, increased financial
support, and a more equal distribu
tion of money among the colleges.
The commission called upon the
aid of the 18 members of the Tex
as Council of College Presidents,
and went outside the state to com
pare Texas educational institutions
with six leading state-supported
schools from other states.
From the information gathered
from these six schools, plus re
search within the state, the com
mission decided to i-ecommend two
main points:
One, that the commission be set
up on a permanent basis, as a
board of directors over the boards
of all the schools. It would coor
dinate all the schools’ activities,
and would provide a central agency
between the state and the schools.
Two, that more money be given
to the schools for teaching, and
that it be given on a unit cost for
mula. This means give the schools
more money to teach the courses
that require more equipment and
teaching aids.
Now, the teaching money is giv
en to the schools on a basis of stu
dent credit hours, regardless of
what course the credit hours are
in.
These points, along with other
minor points, will be presented to
the Legislature in bill form some
time this session, probably soon.
Bryan Architect
Authors New Book
William W. Caudill, formerly a
member of the architecture depart
ment and now a practicing archi
tect in Bryan, is author of a new
book, “Toward Better School De
sign.”
A common sense approach to
planning and designing school
buildings of all types, the volume
contains 91 complete case studies.
Publishers are Architectural Rec
ord and the F. W. Dodge Corp.
Caudill, who lives in College Sta
tion, is senior partner of Caudill,
Rowlett, Scott and Associates, lead
ing designers of modem schools in
the Southwest.
“the code will be taken back
to the Intercouncil committee
for further study.”
He also indicated that if an hon
or code is chosen that requires
students to comply, it will be voted
upon by the students. A poll of
the students living in college hous
ing will probably be taken to see
if they want such a code, after it
is proposed and approved by the
councils, said Coppage.
“Any honor code we propose will
not take any duties away from the
instructors,” he said. “They will
still be responsible for the conduct
of their classes.”
At the present time, the School
of Veterinai’y Medicine has" a code
in operation, the School of
Agi’iculture has a code partially
in operation, and the School of En
gineering has proposed a code.
The School of Arts and Sciences
has no code proposed.
Coppage explained that the In-
tercouncil committee decided to
work on an honor code because
“most of the student councils were
seeking one and they were all dif
ferent.”
“We would like to have some
thing uniform,” he said.
The Intercouncil committee is
composed of 14 student represen-
batives from the four councils—
two from the veterinary school and
four each from the other schools.
Drivers To List
Tra ffic Viola tors
Consolidated school system bus
drivers have been instructed to take
the license number of any car that
passes a school bus while it is stop
ped, Jack Chaney, business manag
er of Consolidated, said yesterday.
The numbers will be turned over
to police, Chaney said.
The rule was enforced because
several school children were almost
hit by cars passing stopped school
busses.
Chest X-Ray Unit
To Be On Campus
A mobile chest X-ray unit will
be on the A&M campus March 22-
25 and 28-29.
All students will be given a
chance to have an X-ray taken at
that time, said W. L. Penberthy,
A&M representative of the Brazos
county tuberculosis committee.
Other public schools and Allen
academy will also participate in the
X-ray didve, said Joe H. Sorrels,
president of the Brazos county TB
association.
The primary purpose of the sur
vey, Sorrels pointed out, is to find
unknown cases of tuberculosis, but
other chest diseases, such as lung
cancer and tumors, can also be de
tected.
Philip W. Gaus, jr., field repre
sentative of the tuberculosis divi
sion of the state Department of
Health, was on the campus yester
day to confer with the college
health unit.
X-ray machines and technicians
will be furnished by the state De
partment of Health. Local ex
penses will be paid by the Brazos
county association out of Christ
mas seal funds.
Marine Recruiter
To Be Here Feb, 7
Captain Charles Fimian, Marine
corps procurement officer, will visit
A&M Feb. 7 to discuss opportuni
ties for college men receiving a
commission in the Marine corps
reserve, and enroll students in the
reserve program.
There were 14,935 X-rays taen
for last year’s Brazos county sur
vey.
Globetrotter
Ticket Sales
Start Feb. 1
Tickets for the Harlem
Globetrotters exhibition Feb.
16 go on sale Tuesday, Feb.
1, in the student activities of
fice, Goodwin hall, and at
WSD clothiefs in Bryan.
Mail order reserve seat tiekets
will be accepted now. There are
5,000 general admission seats at
$1.25 each, 2,000 reserve seats at
$2 and 250 special reserve seats
at $2.50.
The first game, between the
Washington Generals and the To
ledo Mercurys starts at 8 p.m.,
with the Globetrotters playing the
Philadelphia Sphas in the second
game. The doors will open at 7.
A 30-minute show featuring
jugglers, tumblers, table tennis
and trampolinists. is scheduled be
tween the two contests.
Starting their 28th season, the
Globertotters have won 4,770
games and lost only 280. Last year
they won 423 of 430. Goose Ta
tum, Leon Hilliard, Walter Dukes,
Clarence Wilson and J. C. Gip
son ai’e some of the more famous
Globetrotters.
12-Year-Old Girl
Wants To Be an Aggie
By DON JOHNSON
Battalion Staff Writer
If A&M ever goes co-ed, Mimi Thedford will certainly
be one of the first girls to enroll here.
Sister of Tom Thedford, sophomore from Petersburg,
Mimi is already a loyal Aggie fan, although she is only 12
years old.
Mimi has expressed her enthusiasm for A&M in the fol
lowing poem, titled simply “Texas A&M.”
Oh Texas A&M, how wonderful you are
With your football, basketball, and baseball stars.
Your Aggie customs just can’t be beat.
And at inspection you look so neat.
Every Thanksgiving the bonfire is made
With Aggies guarding it to keep TU from raids.
There is so many things I could say about this school,
When boys walk the bullring because of disobeying rules.
You should be glad that you are a him
Because you go to good old Texas A&M.
WHAT’S THE USE—Dead Week is almost over, and Floyd Tarvin, agricultural educa
tion major from Laredo, believes the only thing to do is follow Cadet Slouch’s advice
and sack out. Next week is exam week, then comes a week of vacation before the
next semester.
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