Civilian Students Organizing Own Military Company
Civilian students interested in
wearing’ the uniform and taking
part in Corps activities are work
ing on a plan which may boost
A&M’s military enrollment by
about 60 students.
Those interested should meet at
4 p.m. Tuesday afternoon on the
main drill field. It is necessary
that a uniform be worn.
Several students who were un
able to get contracts but who were
interested in being Corps members
have met with military and college
officials to see if they could organ
ize a “civilian military unit,” and
have circulated a petition to that
effect.
“We’ve met with no opposition
so far,” said Morris Rogers, one
of the seniors organizing the unit.
“In fact, there has been more in
terest in organizing such an outfit
than we believed possible. I think
we could even get a whole battal
ion.”
“Capt. Albert Sparks, dormitory
counselor, is the spark that started
the flame,” Rogers said. “We ask
ed him about the possibility of or
ganizing the unit and he encour
aged us to see the college officials,
and guided our moves.”
“Our tentative plans,” Rogers
said, “are to live as any other mili-
taiy unit in Dormitory 16. It
would be a sti'ictly military out
fit, made up mostly of juniors and
seniors. There will be a few soph
omores.”
“If the plan goes through we
will march in as the Corps and eat
in Sbisa. Drill will be held every
Thursday and will be compulsory,”
Rogers said. “We will march into
all home football games, and take
part in corps trips and competitive
drill, such as the General Moore
Trophy.”
Thirty-five students signed a
petition to the Military Depart
ment asking for the organization,
said Col. Joe Davis, commandant.
The Military Science Department
is looking forward to the organiza
tion of such a unit, he added.
Rogers pointed out that while
only about 35 signed the petition,
many other students had shown
interest, and there would be ap
proximately 60 charter members in
the unit.
Corps privileges will be taken
according to class. There will be
C.Q for sophomores. Qualifica
tions, as they now stand, are to
have two previous semesters of
military science, show interest in
the organization and willingness to
abide by the Articles of the Cadet
Corps, and have approval from the
commanding officer.
Officers in the unit will be rec
ommended by the seniors in the
unit, and the Military Science De
partment will select them from the
list recommended.
Uniforms have not been supplied
as yet; Rogers said, but college of
ficials are working on this and
will probably appropriate at least
part of the money needed. He
pointed out that the students would
have to buy their own shoes, socks,
ties and caps, and whatever other
articles the college can’t supply.
Uniforms will not be issued by the
clothing warehouse.
Civilian students interviewed
seemed to be highly in favor of the
“civilian military unit.” Eddie
Nettles, junior civil engineering
major, pointed out that . several
students like himself missed a con
tract by one or two grade points,
but they still wanted to belong to
the Corps.
“I’ve wanted back in the Corps
ever since I got out, said Wane
Davis, senior education major.
That’s one reason I came to A&M,
and now it looks like my chance
to get back into uniform. Even
if it costs me $100 I’m going back
in.”
“Shoes and brass will be pol
ished, and we’ll be ready to march
in with the rest of the Corps for
the University of Houston game,
if our tentative plans work out,”
Rogers concluded.
Ilier Ba tia lion
Number 19: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1955
Price Five Cents
READY TO DANCE—Sorry, girls, but you’ll are more than a week too early to sign up
for the dancing classes conducted in the Memorial Student Center by Manning Smith
and the Dance Committee of the Center. Boys register Monday at 7:30 p.rn. and the
girls a week later. Left to right in our picture are Patsy Smith, Norma Udatshen, Sar-
ita Colson, Marilyn Machlman, Manning Smith and Mrs. Betty Traganza, MSC program
director.
Student Senate Indorses Fee
For Memorial Student Center
Football Seating Plan • • tt* i
To Remain Unchanged Governing Body
Should Be Senate
The Student Senate last night decided to back the pro
posed $2 compulsory union fee in the coming election Sept.
28-29. The vote was unanimous.
Bud Whitney, MSC Council President, presented a sjiort
discussion on the union fee. Some Senators wanted to know
why the money was collected at registration instead of after
the election to see if the fee would pass or not. Whitney
explained that “it would be too much trouble for the Fiscal
Office to call in every student and collect $2 after the elec
tion. If the fee does not pass, the money will be refunded.”
The Senate Committees were named after an hour and
a half of voting and shuffling around at the meeting with
♦an additional committee
for campus beautification
named. The committees
named were for the entire
year with the exception of
the Seating Arrangement Com
mittee, which presented its plan
for Kyle Field seating.
The seating plan will be the
same one used last year. It will
be used experimentally for the
University of Houston game to
see if it will work out, according
(See SENATE, Page 2)
A&M Enrollment
Shows Increase
In keeping with the already
noted fact that there are many
more cars on the campus this
year than last year, the stu
dent enrollment also shows a
healthy increase this year.
Showing an increase of 9.36
per cent, this year’s enrollment
figure is 6,736 compared with
6,159 for last year.
SCON A Assured For A&M
A group of A&M students with
their eyes on the future and their
hands willing to work in the pres
ent have successfully carried
through plans that will give top
students from 50 leading colleges
and universities of the South and
Southwest a behind-the-scenes look
at national affairs.
Invitations are being mailed this
week to the presidents of educa
tional institutions in Texas, Loui
siana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New
Mexico, Kansas, Mississippi, Ten
nessee, Alabama, Missouri and
Colorado to select two / top stu
dents from each to attend the first
Student Conference on National
Affairs. The $12,000 project is to
be held Dec. 14-17 in the Memorial
Student Center.
In addition to the larger schools
within a 600-mile radius of A&M;
special invitations were sent to
the United States Military Acad
emy, the United States Air Acad
emy and three of the leading edu
cational institutions of Mexico.
Students are to be selected by their
schools, including Texas A&M, on
Aggies Make Early
Trip To TSCW
Five A&M students left with W.
D. (Pete) Hardesty, business man
ager of student activities, for Tex
as State College for Women in
Denton yesterday to attend All-
College Night.
Making the trip with Hardesty
were Larry Kennedy, cadet colonel;
Paul Holladay, head yell leader;
Gerald Van Hoosier, Civilian Stu
dent Life Committee; Stewart
Coffman, civilian chaplain; and
Glenn Buell, representing the Stu
dent Senate.
The trip is an annual affair with
the Aggies appearing during the
All-College Night festivities at
TSCW to explain the cooperation
between A&M and TSCW students
on Corps trips. Rosebud Festival
and at other functions during the
school year.
the basis of their interest in na
tional affairs and background.
Both men and women in the col
lege junior and senior grade level
will be eligible. Half of the trans
portation cost of each represen
tative will be paid by SCONA.
For three days these students
will listen to addresses by men ac
tive in national affairs, from the
governments of this country and
others, and will engage in panel
discussions led by these experts on
the problems involved. SCONA
chairman John Jenkins said that
the names of speakers and panel
leaders will be released later. The
conference this year will center on
“The Role of the United States in
World Affairs.”
While the conference plan has
the blessings and full cooperation
of A&M’s administration, it has
been wholly the result of student
planning and work, and will be
run by student leaders on the
campus.
Leading roles, besides Chairman
Jenkins, have been played by Jack
Lunsford, vice-chairman; Herbert
W. (Bud) Whitney, who’s enthu
siasm got the plan off to its reali
zation; Les Robinson, who repre
sents the MSC Forum Group; Har
old Sellers, chairman of the Secre
tariat Committee; Vic A. Mosely,
chairman, Program Committee;
Weldon Walker, chairman. Ar
rangements Committee; Jim Ar
nold, chairman. Publicity Commit
tee; Cyrus M. Johnson, chairman,
Planning Committee; Larry Ken-
Memorial Student Center, III
Council Governs Activities
Ed Note: This is the third in
a series of articles on the Memo
rial Student Center. With the
election next week on the union
fee, it is felt that students can
decide how to vote easier if they
know more about the Center.
A major point in the overall pur
pose of the Memorial Student Cen
ter is to teach self-government.
This is accomplished through th^
functioning of the student govern
ment of the Center.
The MSC is governed by a Coun
cil of eight students, five faculty
members and two former students.
A student is always president of
the MSC Council.
Herbert W. (Bud) Whitney, en
gineering and English senior from
Big Springs, is president of the
Center’s governing body for the
1955-56 school year. Assisting him
as vice-president is Dick Wall,
chemical engineering junior from
Houston. One other officer for the
Council exists — secretary-treasur
er, who is always the director of
the MSC. J. Wayne Stark fills
this capacity.
The Council members are picked
as follows:
• Four student representatives
from the MSC Directorate or the
outgoing Council, to be elected by
the Council. The Directorate is
composed of chairmen of the vari
ous Center committees; its purpose
is to plan and direct the program
of the Center.
• The editor of The Battalion,
official newspaper of the college.
• Five members of the faculty,
to be appointed by the president of
the college, Dr. David H. Morgan.
• Two former students, chosen
Weather Today
Partly Cloudy
Forecast for today remains
partly cloudy with occasional rain
showers through this afternoon.
Temperature at 10:30 a.m. was 83
degrees. Yesterday’s high was 90
degrees with a low of 77 degrees.
by the governing board of the For
mer Students Association for over
lapping terms.
• One member of the Student
Senate to be elected by the Senate.
• Two' student representatives
to be elected by student members
of the Center.
The term of office for student
members is one year; for faculty
and former student members, it is
two years.
Student members of the Council
for this year are Frank daggers,
Bill Willis, Don McGinty, Ernest
Kennedy, Douglas DeCluitt and
Bill Fullerton.
Faculty members are F. D. Law
yer, Architecture Department; B.
H. Nelson, Agricultural Economics
and Sociology Department; W. F.
Berndt, Fiscal Department; E. D.
McMurry, Veterinary and Physiol
ogy Department; and W. L. Tid
well, Biology Department.
Former student members are J.
B. Longley and Brownrigg H. Dew
ey Jr.
The preceding is, in brief, the
organization of the Council, *nd
the names of present Council offi
cers and members, which is charg
ed with the organization and oper
ation of the activities and events
within the Center.
(The fourth in this series will
appear in Tuesday’s Battalion.)
nedy, chairman. Finance Commit
tee; and Bob Bacher, chairman,
Transportation Committee.
Lack of space prevents publish
ing the names of all committee
members, but Jenkins said that all
of the committees need more stu
dents to help with the planning.
Anyone interested in working with
a SCONA committee should con
tact Harold Sellers in room 218,
dorm 10.
The only other conference of this
type, sponsored by an educational
institution with private backing,
is the U. S. Military Academy’s
Student Conference on United
States Affairs. This conference,
held each December at West Point,
provided the spark that led to
A&M’s SCONA.
Although the Academy’s confer
ence is limited primarily to the
major Eastern colleges and univer
sities, A&M was invited last year
to send representatives. One of
the students selected for this honor
was Whitney, then a junior, from
Big Springs. Whitney is now pres
ident of the MSC Council.
He was enthusiastic over the op
portunities which the West Point
conference offered for seeing first
hand some of the men who deal
with our national problems and for
discussing these problems with
(See CONFERENCE, Page 2)
MSC Art Gallery
To Meet Monday
The year’s first meeting for the
Art Gallery Group of the Memo
rial Student Center will be held
at 7:30 Monday night. Anyone
desiring to join the group should
plan to attend this “get acquaint
ed” session, which will be held in
the Art Gallery Room on the third
floor of the Center.
Instruction during the year is
given free by Mrs. Ralph Terry,
advisor to the group. Materials
must be bought by those partici
pating.
Paul Ross is chairman of the Art
Gallery Committee.
“I consider this as the key-
body of the campus, the gov
erning body,” Dr. Robert
Kamm told the Student Sen
ate last night.
“I don’t know whether you have
been doing all the governing that
1,600 Aggies
Buy Tickets
For LSI! Came
More than 1,600 students
will be leaving the campus to
day and tomorrow for the
A&M-LSU game in Dallas and
the various parties held after
the game.
According to Pat Dial, business
manager of the athletic depart
ment, 1,675 student tickets have
been sold for the game. Along
with student tickets, 950 date
tickets were sold.
“This is a 50 per cent increase
ovei- sales for last year’s game in
Dallas,” said Dial.
Numerous parties are slated to
be held over the city with the
largest being at the Aggie favor
ite, Lou Ann’s.
The weekend game has been
declared an unofficial corps trip
by Larry B. Kennedy, Corps Com
mander. I’m sure all Aggies will
be there to show the team that the
Twelfth Man is still behind them,
win, lose, or draw, he said.
A yell practice will be held in
Dallas Saturday in the park just
south of the Dallas Hotel, accord
ing to Paul Holladay, head yell
leader. The yell practice will be
gin at 5 p.m. and last for approx
imately 30 minutes.
Kick-off time is 8 p.m.
you can do or not,” he said, “But,
I would like to see the Senate as
the main group on the campus.”
Dr. Kamm presented the Senate
several things he would like to
see done this year.
These were as follows:
• Give consideration to cam
paigning on the campus. Create
two or three spots on the campus
where students can campaign, both
Corps and civilian students.
• Welfare fund drives cleared
through the Senate instead of
through • the Dean of Personnel
Services Office.
• The possibility of having the
president’s reception held in the
MSC instead of at the president’s
home. Too many people do not
bother to walk all the way across
the campus to go, he said.
Dr. Kamm said the Student Life
Committee was here as an advis
ory group and that the Senate did
not have to go through this com
mittee.
In closing, Dr. Kamm said he
was here in the interest of every
student—both civilian and Corps.
Dance Classes
To Begin Monday
A&M students can register for
fall dancing classes at 7:30 p.m.
Monday in the Assembly Room of
the Memorial Student Center.
Manning Smith will conduct the
classes, which will start the first
week in October and continue until
February.
High school girls from College
Station and Bryan will take part
in the classes once again. They
will register at the Center Oct. 3,
the night of the first class.
Regular fee for the classes will
be $5, for both students and girls.
SHE PLANNED IT—The activities which students enjoy
at the Memorial Student Center can be traced back to Mrs.
Betty Traganza, program director. She recently replaced
Mrs. Frances Shackelford, who returned to her job as Di
rectorate secretary. Mrs. Traganza is married; her hus
band, Gene, is a graduate student in oceanography. She
holds an AB from Nebraska University and a Masters
from Indiana U. She has taught in colleges in Missouri
and Mississippi.