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Number 93: Volume 58
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1959
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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.
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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.