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Number 67: Volume 58
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1959
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12th Man Bowl,
Parking Aches Hit
By Student Senate
By FRED MEURER
Battalion Managing Editor
Problems and activities ranging
from car registration and its con
sequences to the 12th Man Bowl
were bounced around by the Stu
dent Senate last night, although
no final lines of action were drawn
on any of the issues.
This year’s 12th Man Bowl, pit
ting Air Force and Army cadet
football teams, will be held either
on March 6 or 13, the Senate de
cided. One man from each Corps
unit and four residents of each
civilian dormitory may try out for
the teams on a date which will be
announced later.
President John Thomas said
some voluntary aid has already
been offered to make arrangements
for the Senate-sponsored scuffle
and that more will be sought soon.
This is the first time in recent
years that Civilians will partici
pate in the contest.
Parking Discussed
In an attempt to ease pressure
on a sore spot felt by students,
the Senate renewed an attack on
“inadequate” parking facilities for
students, an issue that has been
hovering in the air since last Sep
tember.
In a report from Bill Myers,
jhairman of the Issues Committee,
it was learned that a string of
traffic sub-committees is still
awaiting a meeting with Campus
Security. The Senate first entered
the picture in September when
Campus Security asked that a traf-
The Ross Volunteers—75 men
strong—will take part Tuesday in
the famous Mardi Gras Parade
held annually in New Orleans, La.
The RV’s, who leave Saturday,
will serve as honor guard for King
Rex. Also on the agenda is the
Rex Ball Tuesday night and a lun
cheon in a French Quarter res
taurant as the guest of the New
Orleans A&M Club.
The Mardi Gras trip is an annual
affair for the RV’s and is financed
entirely by individual members,
with the exception of housing,
which has been arranged for at
Camp Leroy Johnson.
RV officers include Melbern G.
Glasscock, commander, mechanical
fic committee be set up to study
phases of the problem. Myers’ com
mittee took over the task.
According to Thomas, Campus
Security appointed members of the
committee at that time to appraise
various auto-connected conflicts on
the campus and promised to call a
conference with them later. Thom
as said the meeting had still not
been called.
Since September, M,yers and
Harley MsAdams have graded each
parking lot on the campus as to
if and when they should be paved
or otherwise improved. However,
the issue is still at a stalemate,
they reported.
Thomas said the Senate would
delve into the problem anew to find
out just where student registration
and parking violation monies are
going.
Other Business
Don Rummel, chairman of the
Welfare Committee, reported that
five per cent of the Campus Chest
had been given to the March of
Dimes, bringing the total of wel
fare grants to 35 per cent. Five
per cent still remains to be allo
cated according to a budget set
up at the beginning of the year.
Thomas told the Senate five Bay
lor students would visit the campus
Saturday to renew discussion of
the A&M-Baylor student fracas in
Waco after a basketball game last
month. The group will meet with
five Aggies in an attempt to ease
tensions between the two schools.
(See related story, below, columns
5 and 6.)
engineering major from Houston;
Herbert E. Whalen, executive offi
cer, petroleum and geological en
gineering major from Beeville;
Robert F. Hunter, administrative
officer, senior civil engineering
major from Dallas.
Walter F. Kappel, platoon lead
er, civil engineering major from
New Braunfels; Jack N. McCrary,
platoon leader, mechanical engi
neering major from Midland;
George R. Curtis, platoon leader,
business administration major
from Pearsall; Robert F. Turner,
first sergeant, electrical engineer
ing major from San Antonio.
The RV’s will return to Aggie-
land Wednesday.
College Given
Biglmprovment
ViaFace-Lifting
A series of improvements in
landscape and inside dormitories
have made Aggieland a little easier
on the eye and brightened the en
vironmental atmosphere.
Shrubs planted in the New Corps
Area during the past holidays and
last week have reduced a former
noted drabness in the Cadet hous
ing section. The bushes were in
stalled along Dorms 2, 4 and 6.
In addition, the bugle stand and
flagpole, standing all alone in the
center of the quadrangle between
Dorms 1 and 2, have been encircl
ed by new shrubbery as well as
a gravel path leading to and
around them.
Before the holidays, new side
walks were laid around Mitchell
Hall, and others were added in
front of Sbisa Dining Hall.
Venetian blinds costing approx
imately $8,936.11 have been in
stalled recently in several build
ings on the campus, according to
Raymond L. Rogers, assistant man
ager in the Office of Physical
Plants.
A College Station firm hung $6,-
122.95 worth of blinds in Dorm 6,
12 and 14, Milner and Leggett.
Rogers said nine of the “Shacks”
(temporary classrooms) also were
adorned with blinds by an Austin
firm which was awarded a $2,
813.16 contract for the work by
the College Board of Control.
It was learned Wednesday that
Milner Hall will be completely ren
ovated to the tune of about $10,-
000. Students living in the dorm
itory will vacate their rooms Sat
urday and move to Dorm 16 so
that the work can be done.
CORRECTION
The Valentine’s Dance will be
in the living room of Capps Hall
from 8-11 p.m. Saturday at Tex
as Woman’s University, Denton.
In a story which appeared in
The Battalion yesterday the
headline said the dance would be
Friday night at 8.
As in the past the Aggies have
been invited to this annual
dance, according to John Sackett,
Class of ’59 social chairman.
The dance will be a semi-for
mal affair for girls and formal
for Aggies.
Dates will be on a first-come-
first-served basis. But Aggies
who want to make sure of a
date can do so by rushing a date
application to the date bureau at
Tessieland. These applications
are available in Room 210 of the
YMCA.
The University band will pro
vide music for the dance.
Ross Volunteers to Leave!
For Mardi Gras Saturday!
Religious Emphasis Week
To Be Held Feb. 15-20
Feb. 15 marks the beginning of
the 17th annual Religious Empha
sis Week on the A&M campus.
Each night at 7:15, 15 dorm
counseloi’s will be available for
group discussions on topics of in
terest as shown in the results of
the interest locators handed out
to students earlier this year.
In addition to these men, Dr.
James Wood, professor at Baylor
University will lead faculty forums
and discussion groups in the
YMCA.
Dr. Robert Ledbetter, director of
the Wesley Foundation in Austin
will lead the forums and discus
sion groups for the married stu
dents, also in the YMCA.
The convocation speaker for this
year will be Dr. Ernest Remley,
Pastor of the Collegiate Presby
terian Church of Ames, Iowa.
Dr. Remley will deliver speeches
in Guion Hall Monday at 11 a.m.,
Tuesday and Wednesday at 10 a.m.
and Thursday and Friday at 9 a.m.
Born in Boulder, Colo., Dr. Rem
ley graduated from Colorado State
Univei’sity in 1940, earned his
Bachelor of Divinity at McCormick
Seminary in 1943, his M.S.Th. de
gree from Northwestern Univer
sity, and his Th. D. from the Bibli
cal Seminary of New York in 1948.
During and following the war
years, he was a Chaplain in the
United States Navy. During 1952
he was a chaplain in the U. S.
Army.
In 1956 he received the Distin
guished Service Award from the
Ames Junior Chamber of Com
merce, and in 1957 he received the
ROTC Award from Iowa State Col
lege for distinguished service from
Scabbard and Blade, an honorary
military fraternity.
Dr. Remley has served as speak-
Three A&M Men
Plan AF Research
Three A&M men have returned
from Florida, where they discuss
ed future meteorological instru
mentation research with Air Force
officials.
Dr. William H. Clayton, Dr.
Vance E. Moyer and Archie Kahan
met recently with U. S. Air Force
representatives at Eglin Air Force
Base in Florida to discuss pro
posed research in meteorological
instrumentation.
Clayton is an assistant profes
sor of physical oceanography and
Moyer is a associate professor of
meteorology. Kahan is executive
director of the A&M Research
Foundation.
er in Religious Emphasis Weeks
at Jamestown College, Colorado
State College, Missouri University,
Wisconsin University, Missouri
Valley and Buena Vista. Dr. Rem
ley will live in the Board Rooms.
Dorms 6 and 8 discussion gx*oups
will be led by Rev. Jack H. Prich
ard, pastor of the Hemphill Pres
byterian Church, Fort Worth.
These meetings will be held in
the lounge of Dorm 8.
Rev. Prichard was born in Breck-
enridge, 'attended Oklahoma City
University and graduated from the
Presbyterian Theological Seminary
at Princeton, New Jersey. He has
served pastorates in Oklahoma and
and New Mexico and was minister
to students at the University of
Arizona, in Tucson.
Dr. Wood, faculty forum leader,
is a native Virginian and holds
both Th. M. and Th. D. degrees
from the Southern Baptist Theo
logical Seminary. He has further
ed his studies at the University of
Tennessee and Yale University.
He is the author of A History of
American Literature: An Anthol
ogy, co-author of Church and
State: in Scripture, History and
Constitutional Law and has written
several articles in scholarly jour
nals.
Officials Tab A&M
‘Poor Boys’ School’
Area Around Flagpole Renovated
During the between semester holidays,
workmen from the College Physical Plant
worked busily to lay an artistic floor around
the flagpole and bugle stand between Dorms
1 and 2. Bushes were also planted around
the area. Shown above is Thursday’s cadet
guard, composed of, (left to right), Cadet
Cpl. Jerry Castleberry, A Chemical; Cadet
Sgt. Newton Lamb, Squadron 6; and Cadet
Pvt. Guy Story, Squadron 15.
4
Entremont Success ^
String Quartet Plays
Tonite In Arts Show
By GAYLE McNUTT
Executive News Editor
The next three days will wind
up an array of talent which is
probably the greatest spectacle of
the arts ever witnessed in a given
week on the A&M campus.
The Hollywood String Quartet,
four Hollywood film studio music
ians who began playing quartets
together as a hobby and later be
came famous, tonight at 8 will
mark the sixth performance in the
first annual A&M Fine Arts Fes
tival. Playing in the Memorial
Student Center Ballroom, the quar
tet is a MSC Recital Series pre
sentation, its fourth of the season.
The Hollywood String Quartet
first became known through their
recordings and was invited to play
at the Edinborough Festival of
1957. This performance was fol
lowed by a trans-continental tour
which spread their fame through
out the nation.
All four membes of the quartet
have a wide musical background
and each still plays the first chair
position in one of the major studio
orchestras. Individually, their
musical records include conduct
ing, concert soloist and member
ship in major orchestras.
Making up the group are Felix
Slatkin, first violinst; Paul Shure,
second violinist; Alvin Dinkin, vio
list; and Eleanor Aller, the only
female in the quartet, bass viol.
Entremont Shines
Last night, Phillipe Entremont,
24-year-old French pianist now on
his fifth transcontinental tour, dis
played his talents in the MSC ball
room. Despite his youth, Entre
mont showed the dexterity of a
master in an extremely polished
performance.
But a look at the record of the
young pianist makes his brilliant
performance quite cieax\ After be
coming Laureate in the interna
tional Long-Thibaud competition,
held annually in Paris, at the age
of 16, Entremont at 19 became
First Laureate and Grand Prize
winner in the international Mar
guerite Long-Jacquest Thibaud
competition. He now holds an ex
clusive recording conti’act with Co
lumbia Masterworks.
‘Antigone’ Repeats
The string quartet will conclude
the musical performances for the
Fine Arts festival, but the final
curtain won’t go down on the
week-long parade of events until
the Aggie Players conclude their
third performance of “Antigone”
Sunday afternoon in the MSC Ball
room.
The Players’ first performance of
Sophocles’ famous Greek ti’agedy
Tuesday night recorded a shining
success as voiced by the audience.
The curtain will rise at 8 p.m. Sat
urday on their second production of
the recital reading of the tragedy
in a new translation by Theodore
Howard Banks, professor of Eng
lish and Greek scholar at Wes-
lyan University in Middletown,
Conn. Sunday’s production begins
at 3 p.m.
The first presentation of the full
week of entertainment in all phases
of the fine arts opened Sunday af-
Student leaders from Baylor and
A&M will meet Saturday at 3:30
p.m. in the Birch Room of the Me
morial Student Center to thrash
out the growing “tension” which
has arisen between the two schools
The meeting was called at a prev
ious joint meeting between the
schools on Jan. 16 in which stu
dents and staff from here met with
W. C. Perry, dean of men at Bay
lor and two of his assistants. At
the request of W. L. Penberthy,
director of Student Activities, ac
tion to prevent further demonstra
tions like the one on the Baylor
campus Jan. 9 was defei'red until
students from both schools could
talk the problem over.
At 5 p.m. yesterday plans were
made to limit the attendance at
the meeting to students only. Af
ter the discussion both groups will
ternoon with Hungarian tenor Les
lie Chabay, a former member of
the Metropolitan Opera Co., and
now a recitalist and soloist. His
renditions before a sparse but ap
preciative audience can be called
highly successful.
Boston Pops Were Tops
And a delighted audience left
the Boston Pops orchestra, under
the baton of Arthur Fiedler, with
little doubt of their success. The
versatile orchestra, playing the
kind of music “the public wants to
hear,” was by far the largest
drawing card of the week. A
crowd of more than 4,000 heard
the orchestra Monday night in G.
Rollie White Coliseum.
Wednesday’s lecture on fine arts
by Amy Freeman Lee, noted au
thority on the subject rounded out
the week’s events and was one of
the week’s most educational pre
sentations to art lovers. Her
speaking appeal has been illustra
ted through more than 500 lectures
from the platform, radio, and tele
vision over the past 10 years.
have dinner with representatives
from both schools in the MSC.
The students presenting Baylor’s
side of the situation have not yet
been named. Accoi’ding to Perry,
however, they will be made up of
the president of Baylor’s student
body, president of their Chamber
of Commerce, a representative
from their weekly newspaper, The
Larait, their head cheerleader and
one athlete.
Six Aggies will sit in on the
conference. They are John Thomas,
president of the Student Senate;
Joseph (Jake) Sekerka, vice presi
dent of the Senate; Charles Gra
ham, vice pesident of the Civilian
Student Council and ex-officio
member of the Senate; Don Cloud,
Corps commander; J. C. Burton,
acting sergeant major; and Joe
Buser, editor of The Battalion.
Baylor Fracas on Agenda
For Meeting Here Saturday
Administrators
Ask for Added
Financial Help
By The Associated Press
AUSTIN — A&M officials
pointed to their college yester
day as^a “poor boys’ school.”
“It’s the cheapest place I
know to go to school,” Vice
President Earl Rudder told the
House Appropriations Committee.
Rudder, President M. T. Harr
ington and numerous members of
the A&M board asked the com
mittee to appropriate $5,300,000 a
year from the general revenue
fund for the college instead of the
$4,200,000 recommended by the
Legislative Budget Board.
The budget board did not recom
mend any increase in teaching
salaries, which Harrington said
was the paramount problem.
“We like to think that if a boy
really wants to go to college he
can afford to go to A&M,” Rudder
said. “Tuition is the same at all
state colleges, but at A&M room
and board costs only $1.87 a day.”
Freshmen and sophomores get a
federal clothing allowance because
military instruction is compulsory
the first two years.
“Then there is not all the social
activity and not all the things to
do like at the other schools,” Rud
der said. “Instead of running
around at night our students are
supposed to be studying with a
CQ (charge of quarters) watching
them.”
Harrington and Rudder were
asked if they thought hazing at
A&M in past years, the compul
sory military participation, and the
Aggies’ success or lack of success
in athletics had any effect on the
size of the freshman class.
“Statistics won’t prove there is
any effect,” Harrington said.
“I hope athletic success isn’t
tied to the size of the freshman
class,” Rudder said.
Rudder was asked several ques
tions about hazing. He said there
was nothing now but “mental haz
ing”—such as making freshmen
pass food to upperclassmen before
helping themselves.
“We ride herd on it and stay on
it pretty good,” Rudder said.
“Every day I get a report on my
desk of any freshman who resigns,
and I look into each one.”
Aggie officials and board mem
bers stood up for the compulsory
military training which was rein
stated last September after a lapse
of several years. However, some
parents expect too much, they said.
“Some parents expect us to take
a freshman and do in just 414
months what they have failed to do
in 18 years,” Rudder said.
In addition to Harrington and
Rudder, A&M executives present
included W. C. Freeman, System
Comptroller; C. A. Roeber, college
business manager, and directors H.
B. Zachry, E. B. Darby, A. E. Cud-
lipp, and Price Campbell.
Saturday Last Day
To Add Courses
Tomorrow is the last day for
students to add courses, for the
Spring Semester, according to
H. L. Heaton, registrar.
A student who desires to
change any course in which he
is currently registered must ob
tain the written recommendation
of the head of each department
concerned and the approval of
the dean of his school.
Any course dropped after Sat
urday, Feb. 14, shall normally
carry a grade of “F”, Heaton
said.
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“The only thing worse than be
ing talked about is not being
talked about.”—Oscar Wilde