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PAGE 2 Thursday, Aug-ust 22, 1957
Visitors Reach
Total Of 1
A total of 1,887 visitors atten
ded 14 short courses, conferences,
and other scheduled meetings at
A&M in July, P. L. (Pinky) Downs
Jr., the college’s official greeter,
announced recently. For the months
of June and July th«re were 5,380
visitors on the campus.
Meeting's in July included visits
of 14 Turks, high school boys tak
ing basic division placement tests,
Symmetrical Components No. 1,
statewide meeting of Cotton Pro
duction Committee, General Course
in Supervision and many others.
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DR. W. J. DOBSON IS ONE OF MANY AT THE BASIC DIVISION who will help the
students over the rough spot£ of the road to a college education.
Basic Division Eases Change
From Home To College Life
By CARLTON E. GIPSON
It is not an easy step from high
school to college. It was with this
in mind that the creation of A&M’s
Basic Division took place in 1950.
It is not the purpose of the Basic
Division to hinder a student but
the opposite, to help him in every
possible manner so that he may
benefit and find himself better
equipped when he enters a degree
granting school of the college.
The most important' responsi
bility lying with the Division is
furnishing assistance, both per
sonal and academic, to students
pertaining to schedule planning,
substitutions for required courses,
irregular class attendance and de
cisions by students about remain
ing in college.
Every student entering A&M for
the first time, without previous
college credit, enrolls in this di
vision, where normally he will re
main for two semesters. Those
students not making progress to
ward a degree are not permitted to
advance until their work provides
evidence of their being able to pro
gress toward graduation satisfac
torily.
Many students come to A&M
with a specific course or major of
study in mind. On the other hand
most students do not really know
what they want, or are unable to
pin their goals down to one major
subject. This is where the Basic
Division can aid in selecting a
course suited to the aptitude of
the student.
Those students who do not know
the course of study they plan to
riculum course that will ultimate-
follow will enroll in a Genex-al Cur
ly allow them to follow through
to a degree.
Some students may find certain
adjustments necessary in their
first semester of college such as
academic, social, personal, and vo
cational problems. Probably the
two most frequent adjustments are
of social and vocational nature.
Many of these problems are of
such a nature that they need to be
resolved in face-to-face relation
ship with professional counselors.
Many students: have been led to a
more realistic; insight into their
problems, and have been assisted
in the solution of their emotional
disturbances by one of the Divis
ion’s specialized counselors, who
are available to all students in the
Basic Division office.
Testing and counseling services
provided by the Basic Division aid
those students who do not have a
set degree in mind. With addi
tional aid of aptitude and achieve
ment tests administered Sept. 7
(you may have been ope of those i
who took these tests during the
summer) the division counselors
can better advise a student.
Professional . counselors- in the
-Division, assisted by members of
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Tuition Hikes Go
Into Effect Sept. 1
Increased tuition fees, for both
resident and nonresident students
of the four colleges of the A&M
College System, will become effec
tive Sept. 1.
The new fees will double the
tuition for resident students, from
the present $25 to $50 per semes
ter. Nonresident fees will be $200
at A&M, $125 at all the other Sys
tem colleges.
Noni-esiuent fees will increase
at the three other System colleges
to $175 per semester beginning
Sept. 1, 1958, and to $200 on Sept.
1, 1959.
The fees are levied in accord
ance with the provisions of House
Bill No. 265, passed at the last
session of the Texas legislature.
The. bill provided for the doub
ling of resident tuition fees, effec
tive on the first of this coming
September, and for raising non
resident fees from their present
rates to a maximum of $200 by
Sept. 1, 1959, but with not more
than a $50 per year increase until
the Department of the College in
which a student wishes to study,
interpret and review each student’s
test results and high school tran
script individually.
Those students whose records
show they need additional back
ground in certain fields are advis
ed to select from the Division’s
courses designed to aid in building
knowledge in this direction.
Those students whose test re
sults show a proficiency in a par
ticular subject are allowed to sub
stitute other courses for the one
usually taken during the semester.
Before a student reaches a de
cision about these suggestions
made to him, he is given an op
portunity to discuss in groups and
individually, the matter pro and
con.
Past records show that chemis
try, English, mathematics, and
reading serve as a stumbling block
to many students. The Basic Di
vision has courses designed to bol
ster students weak in these and
other courses as. well.
Regarding reading, it is sur
prising to know that many stu
dents graduate from college with
out being able to read. By this
we mean a student doesn’t take in
or “soak up” what he goes over.
Every year and every day students
are heard griping about flunking
a quiz or missing- a question be
cause they didn’t read the ques
tion. Over 2,000 students have
taken J3asic Division Basic 102,
Remedial Reading and Basic 103,
College Study. Ninety-five per
cent of these students have been
enthusiastic about the way their
reading and comprehension speed
has been increased.
the maximum was reached.
This provision accounts for the
variance in charges to nonresident
students at the colleges within the
System. From Sept. 1, 1959, all
tne colleges will maintain uniform
tuition fees for both resident and
nonresident students—the former
being assessed $50 per semester,
and the latter, $200.
The bill which authorized in
creases in tuition fees also allow
ed colleges to set up a system of
tuition scholarships, thro u g h
granting governing boards of state
colleges authority to set up a spe
cial fund for needy resident stu
dents.
These scholarships, the bill
states, shall be awarded in an
amount of $25 to resident stu
dents only. The scholarship com
mittee, m making recommenda
tions for such scholarships will
take into consideration need, char
acter and scholastic record of the
applicant.
To provide for such scholarships
in the four colleges of the Sys
tem, an order authorizing these
scholarships was approved by the
board of directors of the System.
The scholarships are to be fi
nanced out of not more than 10
per cent of the increase in tuition
or five per cent of the total tuition
fees collected.
REFUGEES CO-OBEKATE
NANAIMO, B. C. (4?)—A house
building co-operative has been
formed here by 25 refugees from
Hungary. All are qualified
journeymen, and they aim to build
about 20 brick homes.
TRADITIONS
(Continued from Page 1)
fox hole and for a few minutes
held their muster. Everywhere on
this day Aggies meet and hold
their Muster. The ceremony held
on the campus is the largest and
many noted persons have said a
few words hei(e at Muster.
Another beautiful ceremony is
Silver Taps, which is held when
ever an Aggie is killed during the
school year. All of the lights on
the campus are turned out and
the students gather in front of the
Academic Building to pay final
tribute to their departed brother.
There are many more customs
and traditions here at A&M. It
would take a book to list them all.
It is these customs that make the
school what it ‘is today. The rich
heritage of the past mixed with
the technology of the present give
to A&M something no other school
has.
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From the Official Photographer for the
Yearbook, “THE ACGiELAND ’58”
Annual Portraits
Are Scheduled to Be Made Soon.
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