Thursday, September 15, 1955
THE BATTALION
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Bill Awaits Senate
AF Cadets May Fly
Students Will Need 6 Hours
Of Am. History After July 1
A bill passed by the House of J
Representatives in its closing days
last spring and now awaiting the
Senate to reconvene in January
could mean 35 hours of flight in
struction for every physically qual
ified Air Force ROTC cadet at
Texas A&M.
This bill has been second only
to the new Air Force Academy on
the USAF’s list of proposed legis
lation. Now that funds for the
newest service academy have been
assured, Air Force top leaders have
concentrated their effort on the
AFROTC flying bill.
As parsed by the House, the bill
would give every physically qual
ified Air Force ROTC cadet a
minimum of 35 hours flight in
struction during his sophomore
year. Each cadet would then re
ceive a CAA private flying license.
Brig. Gen. Richard H. Carmi
chael, the AF’s deputy personnel
procurement chief, said the service
was ready to move the program
into 90 of the 188 AFROTC units
at once. He put the cost at
$1,800,000.
Air port officials at A&M stated
that this school is one of the 90
already prepared to begin the pro
gram, and expressed disappoint
ment that the bill did not gain ear
lier passage.
Gen. Carmichael said there would
be a big savings in other areas of
flight training, in that AFROTC
cadets would be screened in actual
flying. For example, a man who
gets air sick would be detected and
eliminated from any further Air
Force flying. At the present time
the air sickness probably would not
be detected until the student had
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been commissioned and entered in
a AF flying school.
The washout rate today in US-
AF flying schools is approximately
29 per cent, according to Gen. Car
michael. Passage of the flying bill
would reduce washouts in these
schools, he said.
AFROTC is furnishing and will
continue to furnish the bulk of
Air Force pilots. Gen. Carmichael
said the bill “will stimulate interest
among the AFROTC group.”
91.4 Per Cent
Of Class of ’59
In Military
Approximately 91.4 per
cent of the freshmen class has
elected to take military sci
ence and live in the Corps of
Cadets during the coming
year, according to Dr. David H.
Morgan, president of the college.
A&M’s optional plan for Mili
tary Science was approved by the
System Board of Directors at their
July meeting last year, stating all
students have the option of taking
military science or being a civilian
student.
Those students taking military
science will live in the Corps, with
all four classes living together,
marking the second year of Corps
consolidation.
The optional military plan was
presented to the Board by the Ac
ademic Council, the governing body
of the college composed of the
heads of departments.
All students in the Corps will
wear the uniform all the time and
will abide with the articles of the
Cadet Corps, which is the same as
last year.
If a freshman or sophomore
wants to get out of the Corps or
drop military science, after regis
tration, the procedure will be the
same as dropping any academic
work.
After July 1, 1956 no person
shall be granted a baccalaureate
degree of any kind from A&M un
til he has taken and passed six
semester hours in American his
tory.
A student can have the option,
at his request, to substitute three
semesters hours of Texas history
for three of the six semesters hours
in American history required by
the terms of the act passed by the
state Legislature during its last
session.
The provisions of the act are in
addition to existing laws requiring
the teaching of state and federal
Constitutions in state supported
colleges and universities in Texas.
These are history 306 and 307 at
A&M.
By action of the Executive Com
mittee of the Academic Council,
all curricula which do not include
this requirement in full have been
amended to include it for all stu
dents who receive their degrees
after July 1, 1956. In these cur
ricula the additional hours needed
to satisfy the requirement will re
place an equivalent number of
elective hours. The total number
of semester hours required for the
degree remains unchanged, accord
ing to J. P. Abbott, dean of the
college.
Two sequences of history courses
offered by A&M meet the new
law’s requirement. These are as
follows:
• History 105 and 106 (History
of the United States), and
• History 325 (Trends in
American history) and History
326 (History of Texas). The Texas
history course will be offered be
ginning with the spring, 1956, se
mester.
Students who have completed
three or more semesters of college
work before registering for courses
in American history have been ad-
Civilian Students
Have Own Council
A&M will have the Civilian Stu
dent Council, put in operation last
year, with it again for the coming
semesters. Definite plans have not
yet been made.
The Council is composed as fol
lows. Floor or ramp representa
tives from each civilian dormitory
are elected and they will elect a
councilman from their dormitory
area. The council will work toward
better and friendlier relationships
with the cadets and all parts of
the college and toward improving
all phases of college life.
vised by Dr. Abbott to schedule
history 325 and 326.
Academic Building
Classrooms in the Academic
Building have been given new
chairs and repairs needed have
been made.
The concrete stairway has also
been redone this summer, and
brand new steps are awaiting the
scurrying steps of students hurry
ing to classes.
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