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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.