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Number IB: Volume 13 GIGEMLAND, ALL FOOL’S DAY, 1955 Cheap At Any Price Board Approves Making A&M Coed Studies Now Put In Proper Place; Academics Out In line with growing pressure from the ex-Aggies’ association, a long-reeded step toward the build ing of a greater A&M has become a reality. The academic side of life at A&M finally is to be de-emphasized. In what became the longest fili buster in A&M star chamber his- tory. Bear (Paul) Bruin, athletic director, successfully pleaded the hard life that his proteges had to lead, what with having to go to bee keeping, basket weaving, square dancing and elementary ping pong classes. Bruin said, “My boys don’t like it.” Following Bruin’s three - day speech, the board woke from their hibernation to defend the mighty academic empire for which the school has been known so long. “It’s an old tradition that stu dents take courses when they come to A&M,” said David H. Mambo, college president. Bruin shrugged this off saying, “It just don’t leave them time to practice. And besides, they might learn to read and find out they didn’t win every game last year.” After all opposition had col lapsed, Bruin outlined his plan for his boys, whom he modestly calls “National Champs of 1955.” Cadet Corps Changes Style; Color Used University of Texas stu dents will no longer have any thing over the Aggies in the way of dress. Comrade Cun- ing, senior class president, said last night. The senior class voted to sub stitute red, white, and chartreuse candy -s tripped pegged trousers for the usual pinks, greens and ol ive drab slacks now being worn by the corps of cadets. Uniform regulations and class privileges are not yet complete, but stipulations made so far include golf caps for upperclassmen only; freshmen may not wear suspenders of a louder hue than heliatrope; no pegged trousers for freshmen, and satin-lined trousers for juniors and seniors. Anyone may wear white buck shoes if tied with plaid strings. After much arguing among sen ior corps members about uniform privileges and a few broken chairs, they got their powerful pol itical machine back on the way to revamping the entire A&M system, and voted “no speaking to non- regs.” They later ammended this vote to “no speaking”. The meeting was concluded with a pledge to be good and stay off the new grass. No Short Courses For Better Living There are no short courses be ing held this week in the Memorial Student Center and the place is like a vast tomb. Fort Wayne Starred, director of the MSC, is in a coma—he had sent invitations all over the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and South Georgia to various or ganizations, such as the Bee Keep ers society, Mud Puddle Builders, Pogo Enthusiasts, and Grasshop per Watchers and Observers of Georgia. But nobody came. “It’s an eerie feeling,” said Starred, “to walk in the fountain room and see nothing but stu dents.” “First, we abolish all classes, then professors and hence all stu dents. With no students and no exes, I can stay here indefinitely.” Then Bruin delivered his ulti mate goal in the realigning of the ideals for A&M. “With the money we used to spend for scholastic scholarships and professors’ salaries, we can award more athletic scholarships and build four new gyms to re lieve the present overcrowded sit uation,” he said. Ililpif U f 1 mmm SIT DOWN STRIKE—It seems that the statue of Lawrence Sullivan Ross is on an invol untary strike against coeds. Enraged students last night took the statue from its ped- istel in front of the Academic building and placed it on the steps of Guion hall. Old Buildings Are Replaced With Shacks A&M will receive twelve new shacks to replace the Pe troleum Engineering building and the Veterinary Hospital, it was announced here today. The shacks will be equipped with the most modern type of wat er wells available. “This will give us the extra room we have needed for so long,’ said J. B. Killdey, assistant man ager of publications for college utilities and the physical plants. Modern benches, hollowed from New York pine trees, will line each of the buildings. Floors will be made of the new type non-skid ce ment, and the walls and outside will be solid oak. Modern rest rooms are located outside each building. More of the shacks are expected to arrive any day to care for the over-flowing student enrollment. The Memorial Student Center and the Biological Sciences building are the next two buildings to be replaced. “We want to do everything for the comfort of Aggies,” said Chan cellor P. T. Herringbone. “The students seemed to like Splinter Village so well that we decided to turn the whole campus into one big splinter,” he added. Today To Be Aggies’ Day For the Sack Today, April 1, has been an nounced as Sack Day, a col lege-wide holiday. All students will remain in bed all day, without bothering to even look out. College officials are enthu siastic about the idea: “I’m going to stay in bed too,” said Walt Airplane, dean of artistic sciences, voicing a common thought of the facul ty and administration. The idea is said to have or iginated with the corps’ tacti cal oficers, who are continual ly having to wake up Aggies. Senate Discusses Revielle FeetJing The Student Senate met again last night,, and after a three-hour discussion on who would feed Rev ielle during the Easter holidays, decided to refer the matter to a committee. The senate then proceeded to make a clean sweep of the night’s agenda by refering everything to a committee. First item was the senate’s pro posal to ask the college to serve beer in all classrooms. This pro posal, which will be sent to all student hometown clubs for sup port, was referred to the Asking the Impossible committee. Council Adopts Civilian Month ‘’Joint’ Meeting The Collegiate Cutthroats Tiddle- wink association and the Amalga mated Alliance of Used Prodigies will have a joint meeting tonight to discuss the latest underhanded move of the administration. Mem bers are asked to bring their own crosses and oiled-soaked rags. Matches will be furnished. The Civilian Student Council voted last night to make the month of April “Civilian Month.” During this time, civilian stu dents will not be required to go to classes, but instead they will spend their time building a bonfire. The fire will be burned at 7:30 p.m., April 3J. Special contests for the civilian students were also planned. There will be a weekly beard shaving con test for the students who would like to cut off their beards. Prizes will be given for the best shave, and the shave with the most cuts. In other action, the council re ferred to a committee a motion recommending a committee be set up to find out what has happened to other committees that have been appointed this year. A slight disturbance was caused Letters to the Editors Editors, The Platoon: Dear Sirs: I don’t see why everybody is al- days complaining about their school. I like my school. I have a good time, and am really enjoy ing my college life. Why can’t everybody be happy like this? Algernon Farnsworth Littlefield Hall University of Texas Editors, The Platoon: Why don’t you jerks give up try ing to write a newspaper? Take your lousy sheet and quit messing up our campus! I could put out a better newspaper than you guys without even half trying, and do the Ags a little good at the same time! Put that in your garbage wrapper and smoke it! J. Gutenberg Editors, The Platoon: I like Platoon editorials. They show rare sense of judgment and a keen insight into the workings • of the school. The writing quality is superb, and the thought is ob viously that of a mature, trained jcbserver. , _ Mother . Editors, The Platoon: It's about time something was done about this? This situation has k existed around here for too long, 'and it can no longer continue. We mpst do away, with it, and the sooner the better! , , Over N. Out Class of‘’026 when Jesse Chevrolet, corps com mander, spoke to the group. The council disagi’eed with his com ments and in the brawl that fol lowed, he was ejected from the meeting, with an axe. The meeting then adjourned so the councihnen could rest up for Civilian month. Senior Graduates Get Commissions All of A&M’s graduating sen iors have been assured commis sions, according to Col. Joey Debit, commandant. After a special announcement from the armed services the mili tary department here said they felt A&M was included in the schools. Debit said the bulletin said, “all graduates of military schools will be commissioned.” However, this posed another pi’oblem. Debit said. “Since the ajmouncement says ‘all graduates’, this means we will have to commission everyone. This includes civilian, students,” Debit explained. He also said the military depart ment would not know definitely exactly how many commissions would be given until graduation day. . ‘‘If there is a commission with your degree, then you will know you are a second lieutenant,” he said. The We’ve Got Too Many Profes sors committee, which has been making arrangements for a meth od of systematically disposing of old and worn out professors, re ported and was properly cheered. The Sidewalk committee report ed on its proposed request for a sidewalk fi’om the fourth floor of the academic building to the MSC terrace. This proposal will be taken up with the proper county officials. In other action, the senate voted to move the site of the bonfire to Dallas, to award money instead of keys to its members, and to ad journ the meeting. Hospital To Hire All Veterinarians All veterinary graduates this year have been assuredof jobs, ac cording to W. W. Armybed, Dean of .Veterinary Medicine. Since more patients were in the college hospital last week than the hospital had workers, the officials there decided that they needed some good doctors to handle the work. Not being able to find any al ready established medicine men, the hospital decided that some of the inexperienced graduates would do. Thus all of the veterinarians will get jobs. “They can make up in quantity what they lack in quality,” said Armybed. With this added service to stu dents, hospital fees will have to be raised. “You can’t get good men for nothing,” said hospital authorities. Two Girls Enroll During First Day Texas A&.M is now a coeducational school. In a special session held on the oceanography ship in the Gulf of Mexico yesterday, the A&M System board of directors approved opening the doors of A&M to girls. Immediately after the meeting, the board sailed for an indefinite stay in the Panama Canal Zone. As soon as the news of the board’s action reached the school, two young women from nearby Snook enrolled. They are Miss Belle Bellemy and Miss Lulu Filnichel. The board voted to make military optional for the coeds, and the two enrollees yesterday chose to take the uniform. Col. Joey Debit, commandant, said the board’s action would mean no changes in the current military policy, and he expected to see added spirit .in the corps of cadets. President Dave H. Mambo was both surprised and enthused when he heard about the board’s action. He said he felt the move would definitely strengthen A&M by bringing color and social ac tivity into the everyday life of the Aggies. W. T. Dough, chairman of the board, was contacted late last night by ship-to-shore phone and gave his comments on the board’s de cision. “I don’t think the action was in any way rash,” he said, “because A&M needs coeds to help build its athletic empire. A&M is a poor boys school, but we felt it should also be a poor girl’s school,” he said. Students Revolt When informed of the action, the corps held a mass meeting at the Grove last night. After glowing speeches by all the wheels, a vote was taken and the students decid ed to show their disgust by moving Sully’s statue over to Guion hall. They then went to the board of^ directors’ home, but the men had already left. As a showing of their reseptment, the students, led by the'bbrps officers, burned the house down and threw the ashes into the Brazos river. Housing officials were working out the problem of providing hous ing for the coeds, and decided to set up temporary quarters for them in the third floor of the air- conditioned library. Head Football Coach Bear (Paul) Bruin said, “We’ll wait and see how things turn out. Maybe we’ll win some games next year. Even if there’s women down here, we’ll still need men with hard noses.” The New York Central Raih*oad reported that a trainload of howl ing, screaming girls was headed for the college and were expected to arrive here tomorow. BmH H. ®s 1 SMILES—A&M’s first two coeds, above, smile brightly as they try on their new uniforms. The girls, who have wonderful personali ties and just love Aggies, elected to be in the corps of cadets. ‘No Dean’ System Approved Here The Agriculture council has pre sented the college with a new hon or system which would do away with the position of dean of agri culture. The honor code would allow Ag gies to put themselves on proba tion and to “boot” themselves out if that probation was not met. “It didn’t sound logical at first, but, after-all, agriculture Aggies can be trusted. Besides, if that’s the way students want it, that’s the way we want it. Anything for our students is our motto,” said Charlie Sheepherder, present dean of agriculture. Sheepherder has left the college. Wlia’ Hoppenin’ Here’s what’s going on at Aggieland for this gay and riotious weekend. Event Dog Fights Dance, of sorts Beer Drinking Bear-baiting FRIDAY Time 6:20 p.m. 9 p.m. SATURDAY on :02 p.m. 8 p.m. 11; Place Duncan Hall Shiloh Hall Claypits Rodeo Arena ELECTION TIME—Happy fun-loving Aggies, participating in the usual dignified, no publicity student elections, square off for a discussion of the relative merits of the can didates. On the left is the air force debate team; on the right, the army debate team.