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LIBRARY « COLLSCL *F TEXAS No Drill Saturday THE GROUP No Classes Tomorrow Approved by You Knoiv Who Number 93: Volume 58 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1959 Price Five Cents First Coeds Storm Aggie Campus To Break Old Girl - less Tradition ‘Push Out Students 9 Sinner to Have More Courses A special convention of persons likely to hold a short course will be held in the Sinner beginning tomorrow, according to Fort Wayne Sark, Sinner director. Purpose of the meeting will be to ice away plans to insure that stu dents won’t be able to crowd in to the feinner in the future, said Sark.) Wh|at this campus needs is more short| courses and we’re going to see that it gets them, he said. Among the early arrivals for the conference which is expected to attract more than 1,4G9 people was the president of the Society for the Preservation of Spastics. Between jerks, the president managed to express his apprecia tion to the former graduates of the A&M College of Texas for the erection of the fine Sinner build ing in order to hold short courses. Another early-bird was the px-es- ident of the Association for the Preservance of Alcoholics. He ex plained that his group was inter ested in the possibility of turn ing A&M into a home for old and young alcoholics. “Of course we’d have to see about bribing the Maj. Forrests ... in congress race Forrests Puts Pot in Race For Congress Maj. John Paul Forrests, US Air Farce, Reseiwed, has announc ed he will ran for Congress. “I’m running for Congress,” Maj. Forrests said. “Too much going on up there that can’t be fitted into a phonetic device. Like that last series of bills on funds. Who can x'emember ACCRAU 'l Like it working a hard ship on us profs and students,” he screamed over the roar of his campaign vehicle, a M-47 tank with wings. In addition to advising local Air Farce Tigers, Forrests is an in structor in the Department of His tory, Government and Tactics. He teaches courses like 306, “Govern ment Problems and How We Took Italy” and 308 “The Constitution and How to Bx*ibe a Judge.” When asked when he was going to throw his helmet liner into the ring, the emminent professor of history was heard to say: “On the first Monday, after the third Wednesday following the sec ond Tuesday of the first month following the second phase of the new moon. No, on the first Tues day, after the second Friday, when the east meets west ...” “Oh you know, when ever it is that they have elections.” boys at the KK Corral, but I’m sure that would be no problem as their salaries are so low.” The cashiers in the Sinner were all grins at the possibility of completely closing the building to students with the addition of more short courses. “Our ultimate aim is to reduce to nothing the amount of space and time allotted students,” said Sark. At the pi'esent time approxi mately one per cent of the build ing space is not being used for short courses and only the grave yard shift—11 p.m. to 7 a.m.— is open to students who want to use the Sinner as a place to study and sack out. Prof Charged With Misuse Of Electricity Fess D. Camera, a professor in the Depax-tment of Writing, was arrested by Campus Security cops at 3:27 this morning and was charged by the college for using too much electricity after hours. Camera was being held in the local cop shop this morning. He asked for an editing textbook to read for pastime, but the cops gave him only a newspaper with “circus” makeup. He didn’t like it. The makeup, that is. Events leading to Camei’a’s ap- px-enhension began when cops re ceived an anonymous phone call from S. Tool Pidgeon, who said he was mad at Camera because the latter lowered his grade on an as signment by one letter after he turned it in 17 seconds late. Pid geon got a “G” on the paper. Top Cop Andy Oakley said fol lowing the tip, they proceeded to the Writing department armed with copy pencils. He said when they bui’st into the room, Camera was nowhere in sight. Oakley continued that they were ready to give up the search when Camera suddenly burst to the sur face of a barrel of printer’s ink. He explained that he heard the cops coming and quickly tried to grow sideburns for disguise, but when this failed, he jumped into the barx-el. Camera said he had been in the office since 5 p.m. making up Minor Quiz “K”. “Somebody’s gonna get a black mark,” Camera muttered. His face brightened, though, when one of the cops said that if he was convicted, he could perhaps publish a prison newspaper. “Oh, goody,” replied Camera. “That will make 42 newspapers I’ve worked for in my illustrious career.” Camera is 33. Only 500 Injured In Intramurals Intramurals are going along ex tremely well, according to Barney Smelch, as only 500 Aggies have re ceived injuries requiring hospital ization thus far this year. “This is way below the normal average,” the intramurals director went on to say. In a normal year at least 10 students would have been killed by now, he said. The sports which normally claim the most injuries are the annual fifth-killing contest and the dag ger-throwing tournament. Ei - “s' .Tmg - • * j. , ' ' - ■ ■ .. / \ 'it :■ is -■ IPi fill ' •• ' Jr lititflit ■ M First Aggie Coed Miss Mildred Snigfoose Only 69 Qualify ’Sips Injured in Try To Join Ag Love Class By PETER PAN Morehill Correspondent AUSTIN — Nineteen male stu dents at the University of Texas were injured seriously yesterday after being trampled in a rush to sign up for the latest course offered at the school. But they are not unhappy. In recognition of their splendid par ticipation in the melee, college of ficials allowed them to sign the dotted line for P. T. 969, Aggie- Style Loving. In all, 12,069 students waited their turn for screening in a line that stretched from the beerless student union, ai’ound the gover nor’s mansion, to Schultz’s Beer Garden. All but 69 were disqual ified because of weak heax’ts, lazy blood or cax-rying wands in their pockets. A quick check revealed that all of the remaining 69 were trans fer students. This is the first time the course is being offered, with classes to begin after mid-semester. Reason for the short half-semester dura tion is that university officials fear the Teasips won’t be able to undergo the x’apid pace of the course for a long period of time. The course will be taught by C. S. Don von Harris, who quit his post in the A&M Department of History so that he can “give the ’Sips what they have been lack ing for 76 years.” According to Harris, he began action to get the course inaugurat ed at TU after months of think ing. “In my 15 years at A&M, all I’ve ever heard is Aggies going with TU women, TU women going with Aggies, or Aggies stealing TU women from the TU boys, who certainly can’t be classified as men. Pex-haps this coui’se can get one or two of them into that cate gory.” Harris also plans to open a new men’s shop on Guadalupe Street where he will sell senior boots, sabers and various A&M uniforms. He said he would take Two Cars Sink In Navasota Lot Two students reported the loss of their cars to the Campus Secur ity Office yesterday. The two Ags reported their cars had sunk in the mud in the parking lot behind the New Coi'ps Area, affectionately known as the Nava sota Lot. KK Chief Red Light Hictfum ex pressed concern at the boys’ loss but told them that his deputies were too busy using up their monthly quota of ticket pads to in vestigate the matter. He told the pair to write a mili tary letter in ti’iplicate to him explaining the full details of their loss and he would have his men check up on the facts when their quota was fulfilled. When told of the loss, Whose A. Badger, head of college physical plants, expressed his grief but ex plained that too much money had been spent elsewhex*e to improve the lot. Meanwhile the students still don’t have their cars back. some items in trade. He cautioned, however, “Chaps and spurs will bring in very little in trade. After all, who wants them?” 1 Meanwhile, back on the Forty Acres, female students are in a frenzy of anticipation. Two hours after the announcement of the course was made, all dates for the next three months with TU men were broken and the 69 students who successfully signed for the course had been flooded with date inquiries, with many of the girls clamoring for a date four years hence. Said one of the group of 69, Tiny U. Okam, “It’s gotten to the point where the ladies have to show me keys to a Cadillac and pay me $50 to even talk to me. But I like it. I don’t know why I didn’t go to Aggieland in the first place.” Women’s dormitories have also been showered with long distance telephone calls from girls who dropped out of TU and who are now seeking re-admittance. Calls came from an ax’ea bordered by Del Mar College in Corpus Christi in the South to Montana School for Women in the North. But there is also a note of dis tress indirectly connected with the course. Abe Wisker, chairman of the Round Up held annually at TU, said the beax-d-growing con test for this year had been can celled. “Ai’ticle 17, Section 69, states that no beard may have been ex posed to salt for three months pi'evious to the contest. At the rate the guys have been crying in their watered-down beer, what’s the use of tx*ying?” Girls to Live In Hotard Hall By COOPER BLACK Group Staff Writer It’s all over now—the age-old tradition of a girless Tex as A&M. The tradition was shattered yesterday after more than a year of legal battles in the courts when the local justice of the peace court ruled that the 83-year old institution for boys on the Brazos River must admit coeds. Immediately after the news broke the Registrar’s Office was flooded with telegrams, phone calls, letters and postcards from girls across the country seeking admittance next fall. A Red Cross station was set up in front of the Coca-Cola Building to feed and care for the long line of aspiring girl- Aggies-to-be. But not all was gladness here in the land where men are made. Brave men wept and gnashed their teeth. Attend ance in Guion has dropped. Sil ence surrounded the once bright campus. Not a single “Gig ’Exxx” was heard for hours. Housed in Hotard Plans were announced immed iately to remodel Hotard Hall into the first girls’ dormitory. Rumor has it that the name will be changed. New tension broke out in the Cox’ps when the news of girls com ing was announced. But the stalward, red-faced lead er of the Corps, Donald R. Cum ulo-Nimbus was confident his boys would take it in stride. “No sweat, men. I know it’s going to oe a serious detriment to studying and may interfere with our overall program, but frankly I don’t think it’ll bother us too much,” he said, smiling as he di’ove off to pick up his date for the evening. No official comment from high- level college authorities was avail able. The first coed to apply was Mil dred Snigfoose, a shapeless 19-year old freshman from Texas Old Maid Training School at Denton. The 300-pound bundle of woman is cur rently working- her way through i school by wrestling on weekends in nearby Dallas. Her comment on making her ap plication was, “I can hardly wait to get to A&M and be near all those darling Aggies.” The fartherest application re ceived by this morning was from a Miss Jane Smith at the Califor nia Institution for Cox-rection of Wayward Girls. Other applications were received from girls throughout Texas and Oklahoma, Ax-kansas, Louisiana and other outlying regions. The Registrar’s Office said all the applications of girls would be honored and other, dorms will be convex-ted as needed to house the gix-ls. CWP Outfit Gets Mickey Mouse Ears Several pairs of embossed Mickey Mouse ears have been received for use in A&M’s Civil War Patrol Squadron, accox-ding to the com pany commander of the organiza tion, Boing-Boing-Boing Girls. Each member saved 35 box tops for the ears and sent them in, Gix-ls said. The addition of the ears will make our unifox-ms quite complete, the CO said. RV’s Must Turn Back Jackets Ross Volunteer members were urged today by their commander Smell Ironpants to turn in the waiters’ uniforms borrowed to make their trip to the parade at New Orleans. Ironpants said unless the uni forms are returned, the waiters will be forced to wear shoulder- boards on their present jackets. Non-Regs Plan PartyThursday In Grove at 5 All civilian students ax-e invited to a come-as-you-ax-e party tomor- x-ow aftex-noon at 5 in The Grove, according to Scrounge Wreckit, prexy of the Non-Reg Conclave. Purpose of the party will be to allow the civilians to meet their roommates as well as the non-regs across the hall, said Wreckit. Dress will be infox-mal as worn on the campus. Wxeckit urged the civilians not to shave, shine their shoes, take a bath, wear clean clothes or anything different from their regular campus wear. A contest will be held to select Mr. Scrounge. Points will be given for sloppiness and body odor. A special B. O. meter will be used in the test, Wreckit said. “We expect a close race as all the non-Cox-ps students are in the running,” Wreckit told this repox-t- er at a respectable distance. Roomies Unknown To Most Non-Regs Only one-half per cent of all civilian students have met their roommates, accox-ding to the re sults of a recent survey made, on the campus by the giddy-up pole. Civilian Student Council We-Came-Here-Fox--An - Education Dumbo after heax-ing the results x-eplied “Nonsense, pure nonsense! I know at least thx-ee civilians who know their roommates.” Plans ax-e now underway to spon sor a get acquainted party next year at the beginning of the school yeax-. Thus far Liver Hall has px-o- mised a six man turnout if the event is held. Slements Gets Top ‘J’ Award An award for outstanding achievement in the field of journal ism went to Prophet Slements at the annual Russian Newspapex-men banquet held at College Station last night. Slements who is head of the A&M Propaganda Bureau is well- known for his cax-efully-written stories. He was selected for his outstand ing scoop of May 1958 when he beat all daily newspapers in Texas announcing A&M’s gx-aduation ex- ex-cises. The Prophet was also fix-st to announce the annual ex-convict short coux-se which was held in the Sinner last November. He was also given an award for taking the most unintex-esting news photograph of the year with his entry of “An informative basket weaving lectxfre.” I. T. Smudgeofinkynose, editor of The Daily Red made the award to Slements and commented, “Here!” “Please return my picture if you don’t use it,” Slements cried.