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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1957)
The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas PAGE 2 Wednesday, October 16, 1957 Aii Editorial Cadet Slouch by Jim Earle SPUTNIK OVER A&M The Rough Road Freshmen, whether Corps or Civilian, have by this time begun to realize just how much education is available at A&M outside the classroom. At the beginning- of New Student Week, if freshmen this year are like those of the past, A&M offered a pretty gloomy picture in contrast with the sheltered, secure life of high school and its accompanying pleasures-—mainly girls. It remained that way for some time and many couldn’t stand it and left—both Civilian students and Corps mem bers. It’s still gloomy to some but even those have matured rapidly into manhood and the responsibilities accompanying it. One Aggie once said. “They tell me life after college is pretty rough. But it should be a bed of roses after the trials of A&M.’’ Those “trials” are with us definitely, but they are all parts of training which make A&M men better able to compete in the outside world. An A&M graduate, whether Civilian or Corps, has had his training in some of the toughest problems he will face during the remainder of his lifetime. He has entered as a boy and emerged as a man. Campus Personalities Chief of Housing A t A &M 25 Yea rs The past 25 years have seen a multitude of changes at Aggie- land and Harry L. Boyer, Chief of housing has been around to see them all take place. In 1929, Boyer came here as a student in entomology, getting his B.S. degree in entomology in 1931. He had previously attended John Tarleton State College three years. From 1926 to 1929 he worked in the Exchange Store and post office at Tarleton. Boyer was born, reared and at tended high school in Brownwood, but has made College Station his home since coming here in 1929. After receiving his B. S. degree in 1931, Boyer worked in the com mandant’s office, which then handled all details now taken care of at the Housing Office. Bo^er remained with the Commandant’s office, in charge of housing, until 1946, when he was named Chief of Housing. This title was later changed to Housing Manager. As housing manager, Boyer is responsible for the supervision of all aspects in housing the 7,000 A&M students. The Housing Office stays open 24 hoiirs a day. Every year the office fills out, addresses and dis patches about 25,000 student call slips, said Boyer. He has been married for 10 years, and has no children. The Boyers live at 1206 Milner. All tSie Newest Styl es and Colors Plaids, Ivy stripes, win- d o w - panes, checks . . . you name it, we have it, in sport shirts for fall. Plenty of solid colors, too. Come see! Temporarily Short On Dough? Your Credit’s Good! A&M MEN'S SHOP (Continued from Page 1) cope observers, a radioman, a timekeeper, a vice director and Kent the director of the teams. Volunteers make up all the teams and more men are required to suc cessfully opex-ate the teams. Operation moonwatch wafe origin- i| ally set up to observe the U. S. satellite Vanguard after its launch ing in December. In the meantime, Sputnik offers the moonwatchexs the opportunity and the job of observing the Russian- launched apparatus. Vanguard, according to Kent, will contain instruments to record collisions with meteors, obseive cloud cover effects, check space tempei-atures, measuring cosmic i-ays and investigate amounts of hydi-ogen in the atmosphex-e. He continued by saying the American satellite would be pro 103 North Main YOUR IVY LEAGUE CENTER Dick Rubin, ! ’59 North Gate THE BATTALION The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represents the Views of the Student Editors The Battalion, daily newspaper of the Acricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station, is published by students in the Office of Student Publications as a non-profit educational seivice. The Director of Student Publications is Ross Strader. The governing body of all student publications of the A.&M. College of Texas is the Student PubJications Board. Faculty members are Dr. Carroll D. Laverty, Chairman; Prof. Donald D. Burchard, Prof. Robert M. Stevenson and Mr. Bennie Zinn. Student members are W. T. Williams, John Avant and Billy W. Dibby. Fx - officio members are Mr. Charles Roeber, and Ross Strader, Secretary. 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Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. News contributions may be made by telephone (VI 6-6618 or VI- 6-4910) or at the editorial office room, on the ground floor of the YMCA. Classified ads may be placed by telephont (VI 6-6415) or at the Student Publications Office, ground floor of the YMCA. JOE TINDEL Editor Jim Neighbors : Managing Editor Gary Rollins Sports Editor Joy Roper —— ..Society Editor Gayle McNutt, Val Polk ; City Editors Joe Buser, Fred Mexirer News Editors Jim Carrell .. Assistant Sports Editor Robert Weekley, Holim Kim, David Stoker, Johnny Johnson, John Warner, Ronald Easley, .Lewis Reddell Reporters '•MO'hT WAVE GOTTEN THE It? QOIXXE/b BACK !“ Job Interviews The following interviews will be held in the Placement Office: THURSDAY THE MARTIN COMPANY in- teiwiews electiical engineering majors. PURE OIL COMPANY inter views chemical, electrical, mech anical and petroleum engineering- majors for positions in transport ation and production. Also inter viewed will be geology, geological engineering and geophysics ma jors for positions in the Explor ation Department. THURSDAY AND FRIDAY WESTERN COMPANY inter views civil, industrial, electrical- mechanical, geological, mechani cal and petroleum engineering, industrial education, geology, chemistry, physics and business majors. pelled into space using a three- stage rocket arrangement. The first stage would push the satellite up about 35 miles with 60 per cent lift and 13 per cent speed being utilized. Following the release of the first stage the second would move the rocket upwai'd at a 35 degree angle away from the earth to a height of 200 to 250 miles. At that point the second stage would be ejected and the rocket would coast until reaching a pre-arranged height. In the thix-d stage of the ascent, the nose cone protecting the satel lite would be knocked off, the thii'd stage rocket would put the sphex^e into a spin and with a final push, the satellite would be thrust into its final oxbit. Sputnik was probably not sent up exactly the same way, but the methods would have been similar. American scientists either do not know or are not revealing what instruments the Russian satellite contains. No matter what is in Sputnik, the A&M teams of operation moon- watch are ready to track and observe the satellite as it swings into view early Friday morning, CATERING, for SPECIAL OCCASIONS Leave the Details to Me * LUNCHEONS * BANQUETS * WEDDING PARTIES Let Us Do the Work — You Be A Guest At Your Oivn Pjirty MAGGIE PARKER DINING HALL IV. 26th & Bryan Army, There’s Bad Weather And Bonfire Week Ahead CHOOSE YOUR JUMP BOOTS FROM THE WIDE SELECTION AT LOUPOTS PRICES AS LOW AS $10.95 Now! The one cigarette in tune with America s taste! has all you want! 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