THE BATTALION
PAGE 2 Tuesday, January 19, 1960
College Station, Texas
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Dead Week?
Since the action of the Academic Council of a few years
ago discontinuing Dead Week on the Texas A&M campus, it
seems the emphasis has been thrown in exactly the opposite
direction.
Although some professors still cling to the theory and
memory of Dead Week and all it stood for, most of the
faculty seem to be using it as a time to make up for lost time
during the semester and giving final quizzes.
Does Texas A&M need to re-insitute Dead Week?
The negative camp will tell you that the week free from
quizzes and extra-curricular activities would only serve as
lax time during the semester when constructive work could
be under way, a time when the coffee shops would encounter
booming business while the book lie gathering dust on book
shelves.
The positive side would point out that the let-up in the
rush of daily life here would give them a chance to catch
up and prepare for the rigorous finals to come. They would
say the grade averages would rise since the break would
give them time to re-group the semester’s work into a con
centrated effort toward the test of overall understanding of
the course.
Dead Week should be brought back to Texas A&M. The
advantages outweigh the disadvantages and the student
benefits would be worth the sacrifice in time.
Democrats Show Intention
To Revise Ike’s New Budget
WASHINGTON <A>)—The
Democratic Congress signaled its
intention today of recasting
President Eisenhower’s budget
along the lones of its own politi
cal ideas.
Prime target in a drive to pare
down the over-all $79,800,000,000
spending total forecast for the
year beginning July 1 seemed
likely to be the President’s re
quest for $4,175,000,000 in new
money for foreign aid. This in
cluded two billion for military
outlays.
Although Eisenhower estimated
the amount of actual aid spend
ing at $3,450,000,000, he asked
for more appropriations to
stretch the program out into the
future. The quick consensus was
that he will get less new money
that he expects to spend.
On the other hand, Democrats
laid the groundwork to reshuffle
and increase the $40,995,000,000
defense program. They showed
immediate, irritation and disap
pointment that Eisenhower’s
space recommendations were not
more comprehensive.
In other comment, they balked
at increasing postal rates or gas
oline rates, as Eisenhower asked.
They criticized his housing pro
posal. They raked his proposal
to raise the interest ceiling on
government bonds.
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by Jim Earl* Among The Faculty
Wildlife Management Prof
Boasts Varied Background
“I’m beginning to understand why they call this ‘Dead
Week’!”
On Other Campuses
By Alan Payne
U of H
It seems that quite a few Cou
gar High students aren’t at all
satisfied with their school and
its activities. In a recent inter
view by the school paper, such
objections as, “Students don’t
show enough interest in what the
school does”; “We need state
support;” “It’s too noisy in the
dorms”; and “There aren’t
enough extralcurricular activi
ties,” were expressed.
Things got even worse when
Delta Sigma Phi’s mascot, an
ocelot named “Sob”, was fatally
shot while trying to crash a par
ty.
Baylor
Baylor is both rejoicing and
griping at the same time.
Their mascot, Josephine, gave
birth to twin bears the, other-
day, which quite naturally
pleased the student body.
But an editorial griping about
unsportsman-like conduct at bas
ketball games really took the
cake. While sternly dressing down
the student body over its conduct
at a recent home game, the writ
er of the editorial stated, “Even
the Texas Aggies, in all their
glory, couldn’t have put on a
louder, ruder display.”
He only casually mentioned
that Baylor lost the game, which
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Civilian Senior and Graduates
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Jan. 11-12 E-K
Jan. 13-14 L-R
Jan. 18-19 S-Z
is one thing we don’t make a
habit of around here.
The Teasips are really work
ing their brains thinking up ways
to stay awake while studying for
finals. Such remedies as drink
ing coffee, tea, cokes and cigar
ettes, sitting in hard-back chairs,
sitting on the floor and sitting
in front of an open window in
freezing weather were suggested.
At the same time it was re
vealed that the top one percent
of the freshman class studied an
average of an entire 30 hours a
week. They acted like it was a
shame to put in so much time
studying—and maybe it is with
all that partying going on.
By BEN TRAIL
Assistant News Editor
Active in his profession and a
familiar sight to wildlife manage
ment majors is Dr. Richard J. Bal-
dauf, associate professor in the De
partment of Wildlife Management.
Thirty-nine years old, Baldauf
has been associated with the col
lege since 1949.
Married to the former Jeanette
K. Kring, Baldauf is the father of
two sons, James i5% and John 11,
and lives at 1004 Walton in Col
lege Station.
During World War II, Baldauf
served in the tank destroyers, field
artillery, engineers and medical
corps. He served in India from
1945-46. At the war’s end, he re
turned to Pennsylvania and became
an undergraduate assistant in bi
ology at Albright College. After
serving as a zoology graduate as
sistant in the Department of Biol
ogy, Baldauf was chief biologist
for biological surveys of streams
in the A&M Research Foundation.
From 1953-56, he served as a lec
turer and laboratory instructor in
the Department of Biology. In
1956, he became an assistant pro
fessor in the Department of Wild
life Management and is now an as
sociate professor specializing in the
various aspects of icthyology.
Along with being extremely ac
tive in his field, Baldauf is a rec
ognized photographer, with several
of his prints being published in
photographic magazines. Music,
another of his hobbies, helped him
finance his education. Baldauf
played piano for the Aggieland
Combo, along with several other
bands.
Baldauf has published 11 articles
relating to fish, reptiles and am
phibians and curi’ently has another
article accepted for publication.
While working for the A&M Re
search Foundation, he had three
articles printed for classified pub
lications, one going to the USAF
School of Aviation Medicine at
Randolph Field in San Antonio.
Baldauf has been an officer and
editor of the Texas Herpetological
Society, director of the A&M Col
lege participation in National Sci
ence Foundation’s Undergraduate
Research Participation Program,
in charge of contractual research
between the Texas Game and Fish
Commission and the Texas Agri-
cqltural Experiment Station for
fishery research at A&M and treas
urer of the A&M Chapter of Sigma
Xi.
Along with being a member of
Sigma Xi, Baldauf is associated
with the Society of Systematic
Zoology, Texas Herpetological So
ciety, a Fellow in the Texas Acad
emy of Science, National Geo
graphic Society and a Fellow in
the Academy of Zoology.
What’s Cooking
A conversation group composed
of first year Spanish students
will hold an organizational meet
ing next Sunday at 3:30 p.m. in
the home of Dr. and Mrs. Frank
Gould, 906 Park Place, College
Station.
Senora Hugo Estrada of Vene
zuela will conduct the meetings.
Persons interested in the group
may obtain further information
by calling TA 2-8977 or VI 6-
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