The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, August 25, 1955, Image 13

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, August 25, 1955, Image 13

Newspaper Page TextFRESHMAN EDITION SECTION III The Battalion Number 12: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1955 Price Five Cents Control Of A&M Traffic Duty Of Campus Security Office A lot of cars travel every day on the camptxs streets. Most of these cars are owned by students. In a week’s time 2,700 different cars will be here and to control them is the duty of the Campus Security Office, by enforcing the college traffic rules. Students are welcome to bring their cars to the campus, but cer tain procedures have to be obser ved and 'certain regulations abided by. College regulations provide that students must register their ve hicles (including motor scooters, etc.) at the Campus Securiy Office, which is on the first floor of Good win Hall, not later than 48 hours after arrival. This pertains only to a car you will keep here with you. Registration fee is 25 cents, and one registration is good for all four years. You will be given a campus license plate which must be placed in some spot on your car visible from the outside. Most persons put them on their wind shields. Parking Decal Starting this year as part of a new setup in handling A&M traf fic, you will also be given a color ed decal which must be put on pour windshield as low as possible In the right hand corner. This de- /al indicates the parking lot area in which you are to park your ve hicle. A facsimile of the decal is shown on this page, and the colors which are used for each particular lot. Student Senate Serves as Voice The Student Senate, A&M’s stu dent government, serves as a voice for the students and as an exec utive group for them. It is composed of representatives from each class and dormitory, both military and civilian, elected in the spring general elections. The vice-president of the freshman class is representative for the first-year men. Meeting monthly, the Senate discusses and votes on matters of student life, campus improvements and other facets of the school. Their action, which is reviewed by the Student Affairs Depart ment, takes the form of a recom mendation to the college author ity concerned with that particular item. Also included are directions for re moving the transfer from its base. Once you are registered and have put up your license and prop er. parking lot decal you are ready to learn just what you can and cannot do on the campus. Hours Restricted During business hours campus streets are adequate only for hand ling of traffice necessary to college business. These are hours 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Students’ cars must be parked in their proper parking area by 2 a.m. Thus, between 5 p.m. and* 2 a.m. Monday through Saturday mornings students can park their cars in areas usually re served for business After 12 noon Saturday until 2 a.m. Monday are also free parking periods. Students cannot take their cars to classes. They may use them for off-campus trips during classroom hours provided no stops are made Mail Service Available Two Places During 1 your four years at A&M, you will get all your mail through a post office box. There are two post offices on the campus: one at the North Gate area, and one in the Memorial Student Center, Get youf\ box early, and get it at the post office that will be closest to your dormi tory. The college has a special delivery service, and special delivery letters should have your dormitory and room number on them. All incoming long distance calls come through the Housing Office, where messengers are on duty at all hours of the day and night to get the person being called. There is a telegraph office in the MSC which receives telegrams at any hour. Telegrams can also be sent from there. The MSC operates a long distance telephone service too. To ship packages or footlockers to school before you come, address them to yourself, Texas A&M Col lege, College Station, and send them by rail. You can pick them up at the railroad station when you arrive. DALLAS Io hr ml „. HOUSTON LOS ANGELES ^n. *Via Connecting Airline Coll Comtimentol ol 4-5054. on the campus. <The term “cam pus” is interpreted to include all property at College Station under the jurisidiction of A&M College.) Texas laws governing traffic are effective at A&M. Speed limits are 20 and 30 mph, and are so posted. Pedestrians shall at all times have the right of way, and at intervals between classes vehicular traffic is expected to stop for a sufficient period of time to permit pedestri ans to cross drives and streets. Now What Happens Now that the majority of the basic college traffic regulations have been discussed, the next step is what happens when a regula tion is violated. Until this year violators were given a ticket and when they had a certain number of tickets their right to have a car on the campus was taken away. Violations coming after having a car banned resulted in more ser ious disciplinary action. Under an authorization granted by the A&M System Board of Di rectors last June, Dr. David H. Morgan, A&M president was em powered to levy a fee for regain ing college driving permits taken from violators of college traffic laws. The maximum fee authorized was $1 for parking violations (and these constitute the majority of traffic miscues at A&M), $2 for moving car violations and $5 for violation of driving car on the campus after the permit had been withdrawn. Reinstatement Procedure College regulations specify that driving privileges are suspended 48 hours after date of regular no tice of violation or driving and/ or parking regulations (Saturdays, Sundays and holiday excluded) un less the permit is reinstated by the following procedure: Persons who received tickets should within 48 hours either re port to the College Fiscal Office Cars Banned For Frosh At University Some folks are not going to like A&M’s new fee system for traffic violations. But that’s A&M for you. Now at Austin the prob lem of what to do with the traffic problem was solved by a different solution. Fresh men can’t have cars this school year and sophomores also will not be able to have them after September, 1956. The reason given for ban ning the cars was twofold: ac ademic and traffic. The de cision was handed down by the University’s Board of Regents last spring. Texas University still has tis orange tower, but our freshmen can still have their cars. Final Review Ends A&M School Year The traditional Final Review marks the close of each school year at A&M. That is the last military review for senior mem bers of A&M’s Corps of Cadets. The full corps forms on the drill field and passes in review once under the command of the senior officers, returning to the original positions of the field. A brief intermission follows, during which the seniors say farewell to the men of their organizations—and the lower classmen put on the uni form of the class into which they wnll be advanced. After this intermission, seniors form a line and march across the field to a position in front of the reviewing stand, and the corps, under command of the junior offi cers, passes in review. The band plays "Auld Lang Syne” as a march. As each organization pass es, its seniors step out to give and receive salute customary for guests of honor at a review. where a fee will be accepted for reinstatement of driving privileges or report to the Campus Security Office where notice of appeal may be prepared, if the driver thinks that the ticket in unwarranted. The appeal court is to be open from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Student Labor Office with Col. E. F. Sau er, student labor and loans direc tor, as appeal authority. Sauer’s decisions on appeal cases will be based on the circumstances under which violations occurred. Should a student lose his appeal or if he does not appeal, he must pay the fee to get his driving rights restored. If he wins his case, the ticket will be torn up. Not a Fine The fee is technically not a fine, for a student does not have to pay it unless he wants his driving priv ileges on the campus restored. A larger fee will be assessed if a student drives his car on the campus without having first gotten his permit back, either by paying the violation fee or by winning his appeal to the traffic officer. Fur ther violations may cause the case to become a matter for disciplinary action. The Campus Security patrolmen will issue some “Courtesy Notices” for the purpose of notifying and warning the driver of the vehicle. This notice will be used in border line cases where the patrolman be lieves that the driver will park and drive properly in the future. A record of all notices will be main tained. So there you are. A&M has a limited amount of space and a seemingly unlimited number of cars that want space. Students want to drive to class or want to make too much noise. Or maybe they want to gather too many people in and/or on one ve hicle. Some always want to speed and drive recklessly to show off. You don’t impress anybody, and you might end up having to shell out a wad of money. The Campus Security Office is not set up as a ball and chain upon student inclinations. The college wants students to have and enjoy their cars and other vehicles at A&M. But control of vehicles on the campus is necessary for the efficient operation of the college. Pamphlet of Rules When you registej’ your car, you will be given a pamphlet of the traffic rules. Be sure and read it. You can help yourself and help the college at the same time. And remember. The rules given are for driving and parking on the , campus and are aimed at your’s and other persons’ safety. And this safety should extend beyond the limits of the campus. A&M had a bad record last year for traffic fatalities coming and going to and from school. It’s a good idea to familiarize yourself with rules and tips on safe driving on our highways as well. Fred Hickman is Chief of Cam pus Security. Patrolmen are Olan Armstrong, Clenn E. Bolton, Ru fus E. Batten, Ellis Folsom, Mor ris A. Maddox, Thurman Maxwell, Walter L. Rice, Ray S. Rosier, Al bert R. Ward and Hugo J. Wiese. School Year Sees Many Dances Here A&M has many dances through out the year, with the one reserved especially for the freshmen being the Fish Ball, held about half-way through the sprong semester. On football game weekends at College Station, an All - College dance is held in Sbisa Hall, with a name band playing. During the spring, the various campus and corps groups have dances—the regimental balls, the class balls, and club dances. The Fish Ball, according to cam pus legend, draws the prettiest girls to A&M, so it is always a w’el- come attraction from everyone’s point of view. The freshman class, through its class officers, does all the planning for their dance. Decals To Denote You r Pa rking A rea f 'v I m A&M gets something new this year, something that will be attractive to look at and also will be an efficient way of keeping students from parking in improper areas. The Campus Security Office will issue colored decals that are to be placed on the windshield of all student cars. These transfers, the color of 1 *- which will depend upon the individual student’s dormi tory parking area, are to be put as low as possible on the right hand side of the car wind shield. Anyone having a favorite color (or trying to avoid a clash of col or schemes) had better arrange his housing to fit the color he de sires. The color of the decal for each parking area is a follows: Blue—Day Student parking lot Black—Milner and Hart Halls’ parking lots Green—Lot behind Law Hall Red—Dormitories 1 through 12 parking lots Brown—Dormitories 14 through 17 parking lots So that students who have al ready registered their cars can get this decal, a supply will be avail able at registration. Students reg istering their cars for the first time will get their decals at that time. The transfers can also be picked up at the Campus Security Office in Goodwin Hall. Students will fill out a blank giving all in formation about the car needed, in cluding the owner’s living area so that the properly colored decal can be issued. One more thing about these dec als should be mentioned. No in structions are printed on them and they are used in just a little dif ferent manner from the kind one ordinarily runs across. These are to go on the inside of the windshield. The decal is in serted in water for about 15 or 20 seconds, then the paper is placed next to where the transfer is to go. The decal is slid off if its base paper onto the windshield and then smoothed out with a flat sur face to remove wrinkles and air holes. (With most decals the transfer is placed against the sur face and the base paper then re moved.) TSCW Teams Try To Predict Score Each year before the annual Tur key Day classic between A&M and the University of Texas, two field hockey teams at Texas State Col lege for Women (A&M’s sister school) try to predict the score. The two teams, one called A&M and the other Texas, play their an nual game the Saturday before Thanksgiving and have been doing so for more than 20 years. Last year, the school paper reported that once, back before the war, A&M and UT battled to a stale mate just a week after the mock Thanksgiving game at TSCW had ended with the identical tie. The score the teams made last year was 2-2, not quite equal to the 13-22 score that A&M and Tex as really made. (For those of you that don’t know, Texas •won.) JUDGING CONTESTS Several judging contests are held at A&M each year, and are open to freshmen students. Some of them are the Spring Dairy show, the Freshman- Sophomore Dairy Cattle Judging contest, the Little Southwestern Livestock show, and the Agricultural Judging contest. White Coliseum Anniversary Near A&M’s G. Rollie White Coliseum will celebrate its first anniversary Sept. 21. It was dedicated on this day last year. The coliseum has a total floor space of 154,000 square feet on its three floors. Cost of the original building was more than $1,500,000. The use of folding bleachers and chairs on the* floor provide a total of 8,500 seats for staged events. Maximum seating capacity for sports events is 7,247. An addition to the coliseum ex tends the building 80 feet to the south for its full width. Three Honors Open to Fish For Academies Three academic honors are open to A&M freshman, in cluding 1 an honor society of their own. The honor society is Phi Eta Sigma, national honor society for freshman men. Its purpose is to “encourage and reward scholar ship among freshmen.” A grade point ratio of 2.5 in either the first semester or the first year of college work is re quired. This means a B plus aver age. Although membership in the so ciety is for life, the active Phi Eta Sigma chapter is composed o f sophomore members only. At the present, total member ship in school is more than 200 per sons. To quality as a distinguished student, a person must have no grade below C at the end of the semester, have completed at least 16 semester hours, and have a grade point ratio of not less than 2.25. The distinguished student list is made up at the end of each se mester, and a person named on the list receives a card entitling him to miss any class in which an an nounced test has not been sched uled. The distinguished student list covers all four classes. Alpha Zeta, national honorary agricultural fraternity, recognizes annually the five highest freshmen agricultural students with their Alpha Zeta Freshman Award. A special award is presented at the School of Agriculture’s spring banquet to the student who is con sidered the outstanding freshman in the School of Agriculture. The awards are based on grades and other activities indicating leadership ability. SAVE! SAVE! SAVE! At Least 4 CENTS Per Gallon On Gasoline At TRIANGLE SERVICE STATION ALL MAJOR COMPANY OILS SOLD

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, August 25, 1955, Image 13

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