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Battalion Number 76: Volume 54 New Honor Code Drafted COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1955 Price Five Cents LICENSE PLATES—County Tax Assessor-Collector Mrs. Marjorie E. Burkhalter, left, and Mrs. Lioris A. Garner are selling automobile license plates in the Memorial Stu dent Center everyday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The plates will be on sale in the Center until Saturday. Tickets Available For Variety Show Tickets for the ‘Pinky’ variety show to be presented March 24 in G. Rollie White coliseum are now available at College Station and Bryan business establishments, J. E. (Jocko) Roberts, manager of ticket sales, said this morning. The show, “In the Pink,” will be presented in appreciation of P. L. (Pinky) Downs jr., the college’s official greeter. Talent for the show is being selected now and will include singing, dancing and or chestral acts. Downs, who was 71 on Feb. 26, is recuperating in Galveston’s John Sealy hospital after falling ill dur ing the Christmas holidays. In addition to his position as official greetei’, he has worked for the ath letic and fiscal department here and was a member of the A&M Sewage School Told Texas Leads Nation I'N Texas leads the nation in the number of municipal sew age treatment plants, said the editor of “Wastes Engineer- fpng” of New York, Morris M. JCohn, speaking at the opening ses sion of the Texas Water and Sew age Works short school. | “I am aware of the fact that a I’ecent survey conducted by Wastes Engineering showed Texas has 700 municipal sewage treatment plants ^nd that it leads the nation in num- ers,” he said. V. M. Ehlers, secretary of the exas Water and Sewage Works Association, said Texas needs 350 more sewage plants in the next five years, and 100 existing plants Bare “running down at the heels or Ipursting at the seams as a result Bof the growth of Texas communi ties.” At the annual banquet, tonight Dr. Henry A. Holle, state health officer, will review accomplish ments in 1954; and a report by the awards committee will be giv- eft by J. L. Homer, chairman. Cdyce Moore, the Hearne philoso pher and well known speaker, will deliver the pidncipal address. Sessions today will include talks on water conservation by Ehlers, W. A. Hardenbergh, editor of Pub lic Works magazine, New York, and Stanley Banks jr., state rep resentative from San Antonio. More than 700 persons are at tending the short school which will end Friday. Joe H. Sorrels of the civil engineering department is general chairman. Prom Sa tu rday Juniors To Have Filet, Three Bands Three bands and filet mignon will be the highlight at the annual Jun ior Prom and banquet Saturday night in the Memorial Student Cen ter. Ernie Martellino and his combo, the Aggieland Combo and the Mel- lowstones from Sam Houston State Teachers college will play for the ball. One combo will be in the main ball room, one in the assembly room and one on the terrace, ac cording to Bill Swann, chairman of the orchestra committee. Guest speaker for the occasion is A. O. Sainger, assistant southeast division sales manager for Humble Oil and Refining company. Entrees for junior class sweet heart must be turned in before 5 p.m. today. Information on pic tures should be name, measure ments, hometown, and the name of Aggieland Sets Picture Deadline The deadline for Senior Favor ite and Vanity Fair submissions for the Aggieland ’55 is March 15, according to Lolan Pullen, co-editor. There have been about 43 en tries for Vanity Fair, Pullen said. Pictures for these two sections of the yearbook may be turned in at student publications office, Goodwin hall. the person submitting the picture. All pictures will be returned. Tickets to the prom or banquet may be purchased from Glen Rice, Richard Gentry, Bill Swann, Cy Johnson, Gus Mijalis, Wade In gram, Weldon Walker and Jim Bower for $2.50 for the dance and $1.50 for the banquet. Civilian juniors may purchase tickets from Ray Winbum, Lamar Hisey, Bobby Lee, Phil Weinert or Walter Parsons. . The entire second floor of the MSC will be devoted to the dance. “Tables will be set up on the ter race, weather permitting,” accord ing to Wade Ingram, dance com mittee chairman. Architects Dance Set for Saturday Architecture students will reveal their “suppressed desires” Satur day from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the annual Architectural ball in the American Legion hall in Bryan, acording to Joe Bob Walker, chair man of the annual costume party. The Prairie View Collegians will play for the dance. Tickets for the Architectural So ciety Annual Beau Arts Ball are $2.50 for members and $3.50 for non-members. Bob King is in charge of ticket sales. Anybody can come if he will carry out the costume theme, said Walker. System board of directors from 1923 to 1932. Priced at $1 for adults and 50 cents for children and students, the tickets can be purchased from the following College Station busi nesses: Lipscomb pharmacy, Made- ley pharcnacy, Black’s pharmacy, Loupot’s Trading Post, Student Co op, Shaffer’s Book store, A&M g r i 1 1, Burgess-Price Insurance agency, Holick Boot and Shoe re pair, Memortal Student Center main desk, and the A&M Consoli dated schools. In Bi*yan, tickets ai*e available at Canady’s pharmacy, Ellison’s phar macy, Conway and Co., Waldrop and Co., Bullock-Sims, W.S.D.’s clothiers, Hotard’s cafeteria, Orr’s Food center, Kelly’s cafe, Major’s cafe, Stephen F. Austin high school and all elementary schools, Ridge- crest washateria and the American Laundry and Dry cleaners. World News NEW YORK — Democratic Na tional Chairman Paul Butler said yesterday that he doesn’t think President Eisenhower will be a candidate for re-election, but the Democrats will gear then' 1956 campaign to Ike being the nomi nee—or the nominee being a man selected by Eisenhower * * * * LONDON—The British gov ernment disclosed yesterday it is adopting an American guided missle which can carry atomic warheads. War Secre tary Anthony Eden told the House of Commons that the U.S. missle, the Corporal Mark 2, will be issued to British army nuclear formations in Europe next year. * * * * WASHINGTON—Russia told the U. S. yesterday that it expelled an American Roman Catholic priest because the U. S. refused to al low a Russian oi'thodox priest to remain Ln this country. The ex pulsion followed the state depart ment’s refusal to allow Archbishop Boris to stay in the U. S. after his 60-day visa ran out Feb. 28. * * * * WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Dulles said in a na tion-wide radio - television speech last night that Red China seems determined t o challenge America’s military power, and if it is necessary the U. S. must meet hostile force with the greater force that we possess. Let's Ask Anyivay Council Makes Second Report By HARRI BAKER Battalion Co-Editor With an attitude of “Let’s ask 1 for it even if we can’t get it,” the | student Arts and Sciences council I has prepared its second evaluation I of A&M’s School of Arts and Sci- 1 ences. The report includes recommen- cfntions ranging from the building J of a new arts and sciences class- I room building and the elimination I of compulsory attendance, to re- I quests for rugs in the dormitory I lounges and sidewalks in the East I area. The special committee of the Weather Today The weather outlook for today will be misting and low fog until late in the afternoon. Yesterday’s high was 67, low 33. The temperature at 11:15 this morning was 65. council which prepared the report decided that anything that affect ed students here affected their learning, so they included recom mendations on dormitories, traf fic, sidewalks, and the airport, as well as classrooms, curriculum, and the library. The report starts off by saying, “We of the Arts and Sciences coun cil would like to express our appre ciation for the cooperation we re ceived in the considei'ation of our last year’s recommendations,” then goes on to say, “We back whole heartedly any proposal for the erection of a new arts and sciences building. The present buildings are overcrowded.” The report says that the “shacks” (temporary classroom buildings) should be removed “eventually,” and also suggests that the exterior of the Academic building and the library be cleaned. The council believes that com pulsory class attendance is not nec essary—“To encourage an active desire to learn, we feel that com- pulsoi-y class attendance should be eliminated. If enough material is presented in class that a student will fail if he does not attend class, then he will attend. Burchard To Go To New York Meet D. D. Burchard, head of the journalism department, will attend a meeting of the American Coun cil on Education for Journalism in New York City April 24. Burchard visited the University of Florida and Florida State uni versity March 2-8 as one of a six- man accreditation team approved by the ACEJ. Recommendations made by this team will be appraised at the meeting in New York on April 24. Burchard said A&M is scheduled for an accreditation visit next fall. “If the student can learn by himself the material covered in class, there is no reason for him to attend, except for the value gained by repetition. “Compulsory attendance for freshmen need not be eliminated.” The council also felt the course load is “heavy in hours and light in substance,” and requested that the regulation that teachers stay away from controversial issues in the classroom be clarified. As in last year’s report, the li brary got its share of recommen dations. This year they included a different color scheme, “perhaps green,” better lighting, placing the browsing room on the first floor, making the stacks more accessible to the student body, and a means for students to recommend book purchases. Under the curriculum section, the corfncil believed there should be an increase in required outside read ing and writing and in classroom (See COUNCIL, Page 2) A&S Council Names Three Top Teachers Three professors in the School of Arts and Sciences have been named as outstand ing by the student Arts and Sciences council. They are Robert G. Layer of the economics department, F. E. Ekfelt of the English department, and P. J. Woods of the history depart ment. They were selected by the coun cil on the basis of their ability as an instructor, the interest they show in their students, and the amount of extra time they spend in helping students. “The most impoi’tant thing is their willingness to spend their time helping the students,” said Charles (Chuck) Newman, presi dent of the council. The three winners were selected from a slate of nominees prepared by each technical club in the School of Arts and Sciences. Each club nominated three professors, and the student members of the coun cil selected the three winners. The three will be presented with an engraved gift at the May meet ing of the council. Film on Safari The Fish and Game club will sponsor a color film about an Afri can safari at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Biological Sciences building. The public is invited, according to Terrell Hamilton, pi’ogram chair man. Sent to Councils For Suggestions An honor code for all A&M students has been drafted by the Inter-council Committee. The plan, which will now be presented to each school souncil for suggestions and approval, provides for an honor pledge, but all students will be covered by the code, regardless 9f whether or not they sign the pledge. Those signing the pledge, however, have the greater re sponsibility to see that the code works. Basically, the plan approved by the committee yesterday is this: Students signing the pledge will not tolerate cheating and will report any violations. Unlike one of the former 41 honor code proposals, how- Polgar Here For Show In Guion Hall Di\ Franz Polgar appears tonight in the first of two shows in Guion hall. Both tonight’s and tomor row nig-ht’s shows will start at eight. The show is spon sored by student activities of fice, and all seats are 75 cents. Tickets may be purchased in the student activities office, Goodwin hall, or at the door. Polgar’s show, “Miracles of the Mind,” encompasses mem ory demonstrations, mind reading and hypnosis. Only volunteers are used for audi ence participation stunts, and at all times the show is con ducted with absolutely no em- barrasment to any of the par ticipants. The show is not a Town hall presentation. Date Set For Filing For All Class Offices Students interested in running for any class office may begin fil ing applications with the student activities office March 22. Dead line for filing is March 29. Students running for yell-leader and student entertainment mana ger must have a grade point ratio of at least 1.25. The student en tertainment manager also must be a junior with one or more years experience on the entertainment staff. For all other offices the stir- dent must have a g-rade point ratio of one point or better, and be ac ademically classified in the class he is representing. The general run of offices will Third Installment Due by March 22 Third installment payments are now payable at the fiscal office, and must be paid by March 22 to avoid a $1 penalty for each day overdue. The payment is $52.30 and covers the period through April 22. It breaks down into board, $36.30 (spring recess excluded); room rent, $11.65; and laundry, $3.75. be a president, vice-president, sec retary, social secretary, treasurer, and parliamentarian. The class of ’56 also will elect a historian, an entertainment mana ger, a representative to the Me morial Student Center council and two yell-leaders. The class of ’57 will elect the usual officers, two yell-leaders and one representative to the MSC council. A student agent will be the only officer elected by the graduating class of ’55. Final elections will be held April 5. Runoffs will be held April 13. Student’s Design Included in Exhibit James B. Good, senior from Dal las, recently had his design solution for Problem 1, Class A, Landscape exchange, 1954-55, “A City Parking Garage and Park,” chosen as one of four problems which comprise an intercollegiate traveling exhibit. The problem was judged at Har vard by four landscape architects. Twenty-seven solutions were sub mitted in the intercollegiate com petition by six different schools. News Briefs LT. J. G. HILL, U. S. navy, will be in room 3C of the MSC March 17 and 18 to discuss naval reserve, naval air ca det, and naval officer candidate programs with interested students. • • • LEGIS E. DAVIDS of the business administration de partment has been selected as a.fellow for the annual Insti tute on Freedom and Competitive Enterprise, to be held at Claremont Men’s college in California, June 14-26. • * * THE ANNUAL Dairy Manufacturers conference will be held here March 16-18, bringing dairy processors from all over the state. • • * DR. RUTH PATRICK, curator of limnology at the Phila delphia Academy of Natural Sciences, will lecture on “Ecolog ical Factors To Consider In Studies of Rivers” at 8 tonight in the Biological lecture room. * ♦ * A 40 HOUR TRAINING COURSE for the motor trans portation supervisors will be held here March 21-25. L. K. Jones, chief of supervisor training, Texas engineering ex tension service, will be in charge. ever, they will report to an Honor Council instead of the instructor. This Honor Council would be composed of two members from each of the undergraduate schools on the campus, and would review all cases of cheating. Their de cisions, either guilty or not guilty, would then be forwarded to the student’s dean. A quorum of six members of the council would be necessary for cases to be reviewed. A unanimous vote — without discussion among the council members of the facts—would be required for a de cision. Committee President Bill Coppage said the subcommittee which drew up the plan decided it would be best if no discussion was allowed on the cases. “This would prevent the council from being swayed by an eloquent speech,” he said, “and the decis ions of the council would be strict ly on the facts presented.” Sign At Registration A student would be given an op portunity to sign the honor pledge at registration, but the code would be in effect no matter how many students signed, Coppage explain ed. Coppage compared the honor code to a “big police force with a lot of deputies.” Those who sign the pledges would be the “depu ties” and would be responsible for reporting cheating offenses, but those who did not sign would not have this responsibility, Coppage said. He also said the Honor Council could try the cases in any way they chose, and could call for witnesses and the accuser if they chose to do so. Procedures other than those named in the honor code would be up to the council itself, he said. ‘Gave It Elasticity’ “We gave the honor code a lot of elasticity—like the Constitution —so that it would function better in actual practice,” Coppage said. As outlined in the code, the purpose is “To provide a spirit of honesty and ethical behaviour among the students of Texas A&M which will foster the development of professional honor and integ rity.” Opposition Voiced Opposition to many parts of the plan were voiced by Bill Willis. He said Aggies “don’t consider cheat ing dishonorable,” and because of this first offenders should only be warned by the Honor Council. The decision on a first offender should not be forwarded to the student’s dean, and he “should be given an other chance.” The other councilmen argued that the proposed code would stim ulate interest against cheating. The proposal will now be sent to the school councils for approval, and Coppage has asked the coun cils to call special meetings to con sider the problem. This would bring quick action, he said. The Inter-council committee will then consider the councils’ sugges tions on how the plan should be changed, he said. Netherlands Flyer Speaks to BCAA Capt. D. J. F. Roxs of the Neth erlands, who is stationed at Bryan air force base, will speak tomor- now on “Private Flying in My Na tive Land,” at a 7 p.m. meeting of the Brazos County Aviation asso ciation in the temporary court house on West 25th street in Bry an.