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/ The Battalion Number 15: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1955 Price Five Cents Freshmen Register Friday a Saturday Is Day For Old Students Freshmen will storm the steps of Sbisa Hall tomorrow in their mad scurry to register and go home before upper classmen start filing onto the campus for Saturday’s reg istration. All students with regular schedules, one without a special assignment such as Math 100, will register Friday morning according to the following schedule: 8 a.m.—All those whose surnames begin with A, through G. 9 a.m.—^All those whose surnames begin with H through O. 10 a.m.—All those whose surnames begin with P through Z. + All other students, those Unofficial Figures who have an irregular pro- “ Sept. 28, 29 Union Fee Up To Vote gram, attended summer school, or transferred less than 15 hours will register tomor row afternoon according to the fol lowing schedule: 1 p.m.—All those whose - sur names begin with A through G. 2 p.m.—All those whose sur names begin with H through O. 3 p.m.—All those whose sur names begin with P through Z. A list of student names will be placed on each unit bulletin board, on the day student, civilian stu dent and the Basic Division bul letin boards. All students on the list will register with the afternoon section and all students not on the list will register with the morning section. Upperclassmen will register Sat urday according to the following Schedule: (See SCHEDULE, Page 6) Show 1,900 Fish A&M will have about 1,900 new students enrolled for the fall semester, according to an unofficial report. Official figures are not yet available on the new student enrollment, since they actually don’t register until tomorrow, but about 1,900 have been test ed during the week. Last year’s freshman enroll ment was around 1,800. No estimate was available on the over-all enrollment of the school for the coming year. Approximately 100 more stu dents are expected to enroll as transfers from other colleges over the state. The official number of students enrolled will be ready for release some time after Sept. 24, according to the Rigistrar’s Office. Students will have the opportu nity Sept. 28 and 29 to vote on whether a fee of $2 per semester will be charged for operating and maintaining the Memorial Student Center. If a majority approve the assessing of this union fee, it will be compulsory from this semester on. During the summer terms, the fee is $1 per semester. The union fee vote was author- zed by the state Legislature dur ing its last session, the law provid ing that the Board of Directors call such an election, canvass the returns and declare the results. Approval of the fee w r ill enable the MSC to continue its services unimpaired, said J. Wayne Stark, director. The reluctant alterna tive, he said, in the absence of the fee would be a cutting of personnel which would in turn lead to the inevitable lessing of services to students. Air-conditioning, check cashing, furniture maintenance, housekeeping of meeting rooms and corridors, and floral decora tions are other activities which would have to be curtailed or elim inated, he declared. The Center does not have an in come sufficient to meet its expen ditures this year, Stai-k said. The deficit is due to facilities costing about $20,000 moi’e than will be received and a $25,000 student pro gram which used to be provided for by Exchange Store profits. The cutting off of funds fi-om the store’s profits, no longer available because of remodeling expenses in curred by the bookstore, and long-standing deficit due to non participation by students in the financing of current operations'of the MSC are the two reasons the fee is needed if the Center is to continue its present standard of operation, he said. Some students misunderstand the purpose of the MSC, Stark said Those who criticize the holding of short course and other conferences budgeted to be used partly for HOWDY—President David H. Morgan says “howdy” and greets Ballard with a firm Aggie hand shake at the Fresh man Reception Sunday in the Memorial Student Center. Bud Whitney, president of the MSC Council looks on as the near 1,600 freshmen slowly come through the line. Activities Fee To Re Optional The student activities fee will be optional again this year. “The student will really save money by paying the fee, said W. L. Penberthy, head of the Student Activities Department. The fee is $21.90, and if pur chased sepai'ately, the activities would cost approximately $36. By purchasing the student activities card, about $15 is saved unless the student does not plan to attend more than half of the events in cluded in the fee. Included in the fee is Town Hall, athletic events, student publica tions and the Great Issues and Re- I cital Sex-ies. at the Center are not aware that this was one of the original pur poses of the building, he explain ed. Without that purpose, the fa cilities now available to present- day students could never have been created. The classes of ’35 and ’36, who started the drive for a student union on the campus, had only the lobby of the YMCA and the Aggie- land Inn as places to meet parents and dates. These classes left their class gifts to create a fund for building such a union building. The Former Students Association sub sequently contributed about $200,- 000. The balance of the approxi mately $2,000,000 was furnished by series of appropriations by the System Board of Directors. The original purposes of the MSC, as stated in its Constitution, included the px-oviding of facilities for meetings, ^hoi’t couxses and conferences of the citizens of the State (agricultural, business, dustrial, px-ofessional, cultural and educational gx-oups and oi’ganiza- tions), so as to make the Center a functional unit in the educational and cultui’al life of Texas. Other purposes wex-e the px-oviding of an extra-curricular educational pi‘o gram for the students and staff the providing of more adequate op poxtunity for friendly association among the students, former stxx dents, faculty and fx-iends of the College; and the fostering of so cial and cultural phases of student life. Visitors who attend shox-t courses and meetings at the Center pay for their own r oom an< i board, as do students for the dormitories and mess hall. While state funds pay for the use by such visitors of the MSC’s free ai’eas, such as meeting rooms, lobby and hall ways, the students have never be foi - e been given an oportunity to pay their share in the use of such facilities, Staxk said. If appi’oved, the $2 union fee is such facilities and partly for those student activities centering in the MSC. Besides being the “Living Room of Texas A&M” and furnishing a focal point on the campus to at tract outstanding expex-ts in vax-- ious fields to A&M (as in the case (See UNION FEE, page 3) OUR BOY—Marvin Ballard, freshman architectural engi neering major from Sudan, has become The Battalion’s boy. Several pictures of Freshman Week have been taken with Ballard for our model. Here, he is shown just arriving and finding his home for the next nine months. Band Goes Too Aggies UCLA Ready To In Season Face Opener Two weeks of sweating thi’ough twice-a-day workouts and the A&M eleven is i-eady to face the famed UCLA Bruins, last year’s national champs, Friday night in the opening game of the season for both teams. The Aggie team left this morn ing to fly to Los Angeles and will arrive in time for a workout in the UCLA stadium. Coach Paul (Bear) Bryant has indicated that six of his brilliant arary of sophomores are likely to Shivers I lails Ag Team, Band Texas’ Gov. Allan Shivers has issued the following statement: “All Texas can take pride in the fact that it will be well repre sented at the opening of the inter collegiate football season, at Los Angeles, on the night of Sept. 16, when the Texas Aggies meet the UCLA Bruins in the Memorial Col iseum. A young and inexperienced Texas A&M team is not only tak ing on one of the top-rated teams of the nation but is going West with banners flying, accompanied by its world-famous 250-piece band. “This band, the largest march ing band in the world, is made up of boys from 128 Texas towns, from the Panhandle to the coastal tip at Brownsville, and is directed by a native Texan, Col. E. V. Ad ams, of Bx-yan. When it marches onto the Memorial Coliseum field, the people of California will know that the Texans ai - e on hand, and not to be taken lightly. “The former students of Texas A&M and other friends of the Col lege throughout the state w’ho have made this trip possible are to be commended. Texas will be well rep- resented on the gridiron through out the evening.” President’s Welcome I am indebted to The Battalion for this opportunity to extend greetings to our returning students and new stu dents. The latter group will be a larger one this year in that as of August 15, we had 21 per cent more applications from new students than we had a year ago. We will be pleased to see you whether you are a returning student or a new student. We hope that you are looking forward to your arrival on the campus as much as we are. During the summer we have been working to make A. and M. a better place for you. Some of the work will be obvious in the form of new buildings, new lawns, and side walks. You will find the drill field with a “new look,” in cluding a broad sidew r alk. v Sbisa Hall is in the process of having its face lifted. You will find that it is a different place! Student life has been studied critically during the sum mer under the direction of our new Dean, Dr. Robert Kamm. This study will continue after you return because you will be necessary for certain parts of it. Less obvious changes, but even more significant per haps, have been made in our curricula. We are constantly studying our educational programs in order to provide you with an education that will more adequately meet your needs both present and future. For those of you who are interested in Engineering, the new Dean, Dr. John Calhoun, will be here to help you. The entire program of the Corps of Cadets is now, along with ROTC, under the Dean of the College. The Corps of Cadets is not an extra-curricula activity, but is the laboratory for ROTC. You can reassure your mother that hazing is gone from A. and M. College because it has no part to play in the development of officers for the Corps of Cadets and for our armed services as well as Pf citizens for our great country. The leadership development program of the Corps of Cadets operated on a high plane last year, and I am cer tain after meeting with the top officers of the Corps for the coming year that this program will continue to develop, recommend it highly to the new freshmen. I hope that the summer has been a pleasant one for you and that you are eager to begin the work of the fall as we are. We look forward to your return and stand ready to assist you in any way possible. Sincerely yours, David H. Morgan President of the College PUNCH LINE—Ballard receives a “howdy” and a cup of punch from Ann Fleming, one of the local girls who helped make the reception a success. Few freshmen ^ftwvjthout first tMkfng with some of the girls there for the occasion. As one girl P u t J t, You better look good, you’ll never see this many girls together again in one place loi time.” And, we agree!! Page 1 Seel ion 1 This is section I, page 1 of the “Back to School” edition which The Battalion publishes each year when the Aggies happily return to school. In it you will find news of various aspects of the college and of changes which have ocur- red at A&M. And with the news may you also find the intention the Batt staff had of welcoming you back. So, welcome back. Great Issues Plans 1st Speaker Nov. 4 Carter L. Burgess, assistant sec- i door wnll be $1. Students paying retax-y of defense for manpower their activities fee pay $1 for and personnel, has been slated to | Gx*eat Issues and MSC Recital speak here Nov. 4 by the Gxeat j Sex ies combined. Issues Series, Bob Bachex*, chair- “We do not have a complete man, said yestei'day. schedule of speakers yet,” Bacher Others scheduled to speak during i said. “Later in the year we may the year are Norman Thomas, who j add other speakers, and some of has run for president on the Social- these might cancel their appoint- ist ticket several times; and Ches- j ments. ter Bowles. Thomas will speak I Tentative speakers listed include j Senate President Leaves For UCLA Byron A. (Scotty) Parham, sen ior fx*om College Station and presi dent of the Student Senate, lefFf start the game. They are Bobby Joe Conrad, Ed Dudley and John Crow, backs; Guax-d Jim Stanley, Tackle Charles Krueger and End Bobby Marks. Although these six have been pointed out as probables, no one can discount hard-x-unning Ken Hall, the flashy fxxllback from Su- garland. At present Jack Pax-dee is beating Hall out as the starting fullback. Other probable starters are End Gene Stallings, a junior letterman; Tackle Jack Powell, a letterman who was ineligible last year; Guard Dennis Goehring, junior let terman; Center Lloyd Hale, junior fx-om Iraan. The team is a little green this year, with 38 sophomoi-es on a 60- man squad and only 11 returning lettex-men, some of who played very little last year. Bxyant pointed out that the Ag gies have not been making any prepax-ation for the UCLA game that they wouldn’t make for any other opener, except bearing down on a defense against the single wimg. The Bx-uins have an all-veteran combination of eight senioi-s and three juniox-s from their undefeat ed and untied 1954 squad. They also have a weight edge on the Aggies, averaging 203 pounds to 191 for the Farmers. Mox-e than 50,000 fans are ex pected to turn out for the first A&M-UCLA game since 1951 when the Aggies won a 21-14 thx-iller. This is the only opening game loss on Coach Red Sandex-s’ record at UCLA. “The Fighting Texas Aggie Band,” will be in Los Angeles for the pigskin inaugural under the dii'ection of Lt. Col. E. V. Adams. They will march onto the field just befox-e kickoff time at 8 p.m. and play the National Anthem. At half-time the band will put on an exhibition of its famed px-ecision mai’ching and playing. (See FOOTBALL, Page 5) Weather Today Gen. Carlos P. Romulo, former sec retary general to the United Na tions; former Congressman T. V. Smith, who is now' professor of philosophy at the University of Texas; and Thurston Morton, as-I list night by train to attend the sistant Secretary of State. Mor- A&M-UCLA football game in Los ton will accompany Secretary of Angeles, Calif. State John Foster Dulles to the ! Parham’s trip to the game was Geneva Conference and will speak financed by student activities. He here shortly afterwards. is attending as the official repre- Non-student season tickets for sentative of the A&M student body, the Great Issues Series will be being the presiding officer of the $3.00. General admission at the 1 governing body of the students. PARTLY CLOUDY Temperature at 10:45 a.m. was 85 wnth a high of 93 pi'edicted and a low- of 71 for tonight. Fox-ecast is partly cloudy with widely scattered thunderstorms and I rain showers. Yesterday’s high was 86, low’, [71.