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Prof Urges ‘Motivation’ By BOB SLOAN Battalion News Editor The lamentable fact that college professors “don’t even want their students to be human beings” was discussed by George Guion Williams, Professor at Rice Institute, at last night’s Spring Program for the faculty of the School of Arts and Sciences in the Memorial Stu--t ^ . . The Battalion Volume 59 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1960 Number 111 dent Center Ballroom. Williams, an authority on Chau cer, Shakespeare and 18th century English literature, has been a pro fessor in the Department of Eng lish at Rice Institute since 1928. Williams received his undergradu- Architecture Exhibit Shown At Convention A special exhibit by the Division of Architecture was included among the exhibits presented at the rib bon cutting ceremony officially opening the multi-million dollar Technical Exhibit Show of the Texas Hospital Assn. Convention this morning in the Dallas Memor ial Auditorium. The Technical Exhibit Show is being held in conjunction with the 31st Annual Convention of THA. F. S. Walters Jr., Amarillo, presi dent of the Assn, will officially open the Exhibit. Also participating in the open ing ceremony were the officers and trustees of THA as well as the ex hibits committee composed of: George B. Pearson, chairman, ad ministrator of Medical Center PIos- pital, Tyler; F. R. Higginbotham, president-elect of THA and admin istrator of Baptist Memorial Hos pital, San Antonio; Ward Huey, Bauer & Black; W. R. McPheeters, Surgical Selling Co. of Texas; and James H. Taylor, Cary-Taylor Corp. The Exhibit will be located on the arena level of the . huge audi torium with 151 booths represent ing products of 123 different firms. In addition to the commercial ex hibits there will be 12 educational displays. Other exhibits included: Ameri can Hospital Association; Dallas Health and Science Museum; Med ical Social Work Section of Na tional Assn, of Social Workers; Texas Assn, of Hospital Auxiliar ies; Texas Assn, of Medical Record Librarians; Texas Assn, of Oper ating Room Nurses; Texas Assn of Nurse Anesthetists; Texas Hos pital Assn. Public Relations Scrap book Display; Texas Medical Assn, and Texas Society of X-ray Technicians. ate degree from Rice and did grad uate work there and at New York University. He is the author of two college English text books, w.'rks on the habits of birds, his hoppy, and a novel, “Blind Bull.” In his sneech, “Professor vs. Stu dent,” Williams said many po tentially good college students drop out because they are forced by their college professors tb do as signments they are not at all in terested "in. ‘Without Motivation . . .’ “Accomplishment without moti vation can only breed resentment,” Williams said, , “and it is our sole responsibility as college professors to provide the student with that motivation.” To illustrate his point, Williams said that of all students of high school age in the United States, 25 per cent never get to high school. Of those who do get to high school, almost one-third will drop out before graduation. Many of these drop-outs are intellegent students who just lose interest in school and have no one to motivate them to stay. “About The same thing can be said for the 40 per cent of enter ing freshmen in America’s colleges who leave school before gradua tion,” Williams added. Get Them Interested Williams said little more than the ability to read and write ac ceptable English was needed to graduate from high school today and it was the job of the college professor to take these high school students and get them interested enough in a course to make them work hard at it and enjoy their work. But Williams warned that this was not always the case. “I know a lot of college profes sors who are actually sadist,” he said. “They seem to believe that if a student is given enough work to hurt him, it is good for him,” he added. “Actually this is not so,” Wil liams declared. “The overworked student soon loses interest in the course and respect for the teacher. ‘Sit back and . . “Treat your student as human beings. Appreciate their efforts and tell them so and make them feel they are accompishing some thing and then just sit back and watch the interest and the class attitude improve,” Williams con cluded. James P. Hannigan . . addresses Senate fete AT SENATE FETE Purdue Dean Named Graduation Speaker Hannigan Praises Campus Groups Dean of Students James P. Hannigan told the Student Senate last night that “the effectiveness of any governing body depends on the quality of its individuals” as he ad dressed the Senate at its annual banquet in the Memorial Student Center. Hannigan praised the Senate and all other campus organizations and revealed that he felt they had all had a lot to do with the overall success experienced over the past school year. He did, however, point out a few things he felt the Senate should discuss and try to improve next year in an effort to improve stu dent relations. Among these things were rela tions between the Senate itself and several other campus organiza tions, an honor code and coopera tion with the ROTC program. He also revealed that in yester day’s Executive Committee meet ing President Earl Rudder has stated that he felt relations be tween the corps students, civilians and the faculty and staff had been especially good over the year. Also he expressed the belief that conditions in the mess halls and dormitory study conditions were at a high level over the past year. Following Hannigan on the pro gram, Senate president Jake Seker- ka presented keys to all members of the Senate who have served over the year. Receiving keys were Sekerka, Travis Wegenhoft, vice president; Norris Gilbreath, recording secre tary; Wayne Schneider, parliamen tarian; Tom Hamilton, Public Re lations Committee Chairman. W. B. (Ben) Cook, Issues Com mittee Chairman; Larry White, Student Life Committee Chairman; Marvin Schneider’, Student Welfare Committee Chairman. Marcus G. Blagg, Bill Brown, James, W. Carter, David N. Chap man, Charles Cloud, Roland Dom- mert, Wiley Wade Dover, Don M. Dungan, A. W. Dunlap, George A. Johnston, W. F. McFarland, Rush McGinty. Hubert Oxford, Tim Pixley, Ed gar Price, Sam H. Ridgeway, Leo C. Rigsby, James E. Taylor, John G. Thomas, Bruce Ueckert and James Wolfe. Sekerka was then presented an engraved gavel by the Senate sop homores as a token for the job he has done while serving as president for the year. Guests, in addition to Hannigan and Rudder, were Chancellor M. T. Harrington; Bennie Zinn, Director of Student Affairs; Col. Joe E. Davis, Commandant; R. 0. Murrah, President of the Association of Former Students; J. Wayne Stark, Director of the MSC, and W. L. Penberthy, Department of Health and Physical Education. NEA Officer Installation Slated Tonight New officers of the Student Na tional Education Assn, for the [ 1960-(5l school year will be in stalled tonight at 7:30, Room 3C of the Memorial Student Center. Dr. George B. Wilcox, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Education and P.y ehdlogy, for .whom the A&M •?'••• ••• NEA Chapter is named, will ins* ill Rob ert KeaU-’sy, a jinnor C'hvmion major from Corsicana, as presi dent. Keathley will be ass" 1 d by Fred A. Hopson, s'- ii r edvotion major from. Llano as vice-presi dent; Albert C. Sur -muth,- junior education majqr from Houston, as secretary-treasurer; Carroll Goode, senior education major from Clarksville, as -parliamentarian, and Keith Sterzing, junior educa tion major from Austin, as pub licity chairman. i Dr. E. L Butz commeneemeni Mieaker Over 1,000 Seek Degrees Earl L. Butz, Dean of Agriculture of Purdue University, will deliver the commencement address at the May 28 gradu ation. The commencement will be held in the G. Rollie White Coliseum at 10 a. m. The final review for the senior cadets will be held at 1:15 on the main drill field in front of the Memorial Student Center. Commissioning exercises for the cadets will be held at 3:15 p. m. in the Coliseum. There are 1.009 candidates for degrees including 104 candidates for advanced degrees. Since 1957 Butz has been with Purdue since 1957 and for three years prior he served as assis tant secretary of agriculture in Washington, D. C., jn charge of marketing and for eign agriculture. Crestview Supporters Hear Rudder President Earl Rudder spoke last night at a special fund-rais ing dinner for the Bryan-College Station Chamber of Commerce Crestview Home for the Aged The proposed home, which will be located at the intersection of 29th and Villa Maria Road, will cost the Chamber a total of $100,- 000 even though it is actually valued at a $1,000,000 home. A lucheon was held Friday for people planning to give gifts lar ger than usual. Henry Clay is chairman of the Drive, Ralph L. Grange is execu tive secretary and R. B. Butler and F. W. Kazmeier are co-chair man of the finance comittee. AT BANQUET TONIGHT Eighty-Eight To Join Phi Kappa Phi Eighty-eight-new members will be initiated and new officers in stalled, at a meeting of the Hon orary Society of Phi Kappa Phi tonight at 7 in the MSC. New officers to be installed in clude Fred E. Ekfelt, Department of English, president; Wayne C. Hall, Department of Plant Phys iology and Pathology, vice presi dent and Howard Gravett, Depart ment of Biology, treasurer. Rich ard Vrooman, Division of Archi tecture and L. C. Grumbles, De partment of Veterinary Microbiol ogy, will begin their second year of two-year terms as secretary and as Journal Correspondent. “Phi Kappa Phi is the only one of the national honor societies which seeks its membership among the high-ranking students from all colleges, graduate, agriculture, arts and sciences, engineering and veterinary medicine and also among the faculty,” Professor Ek felt points out. “It nominates the highest ten per cent of the grad uating class in all colleges, pro vided the grade point ratios are 2.25 and the highest five per cent of the junior class, provided grade point averages are 2.50.” Faculty Members Faculty members to be initiated include the following: Professors John Q. Anderson, Department of English; Charles Hubert Bridges, Veterinary Path ology; Meta S. Brown, Agronomy; O. D. Butler, Animal Husbandry; Lawrence S. Dillon, Biology; How ard E. Joham, Plant Physiology and Pathology; Truman Ross Jones, Jr., Civil Engineering; Charles J. Keese, Civil Engineer ing; Karl J. Koenig, Geology; Willie F. D;;ueger, Poultry Science and Erwin E. Liebhafsky, Econom ics Department. The following students were in itiated: College Station: Gilbert Sadler Bridges, Robert P. Shubinski, Rob ert W. Mitchell, graduate school; Donald D. Day, accounting; Em mett J. Ross Jr. and Ben B. Trot ter, business; Moss L. Antony and James R. Couch Jr., pre-medical; Mohammed Abdus Salam Mia, vet erinary medicine. Bryan: Don Bull and Neilon J. Roawn, graduate school; Winford E. Mauldin, physics; Frederick H. Cleveland, electrical engineering. From Houston Houston: Thomas D. Daugher ty Jr. and Jack V. Walker, grad uate school; Charles R. Moore, pre-medical; Marvin J. Schneider and Jerry E. Reynolds, mechanical engineering. Dallas: Ralph L. Shanahan, graduate school; Patrick Watson, pre-medical; James R. Carey, aero nautical engineering; Jimmy H. Hinton and Robert H. Highen, electrical engineering. San Antonio: Allen C. Ludwig, chemical engineering. Ft. Worth: Alfred R. Pate Jr., chemical engineering; Robert E. Abies, veterinary medicine. Odessa: James Dunn, graduate school; James L. Wallace, electrical engineering. Lufkin: Sam G. Gibbs, grad uate school. Irving: J. Ralph Ellis, graduate school. Kirbyville: Alexander S. Pool, graduate school. Conroe: Donald Walder, grad uate school. Port Lavaca: Henry J. Bonoi’- den, agricultural engineering. Robstown: Robert J. Rektorik, agricultural engineering; Richie S- Dryden, pre-law. Smithville: Paul W. Unger, ag ricultural engineering. Columbus: Travis L. Wegen hoft, agricultural engineering; Walter R. Willms, agronomy. Paige: Allan A. Marburger, agronomy. Floydada; Gayne W. Scott, ag ronomy. Cherokee: Lovell W. Kuyken dall, animal husbandry. Lockhart: George W. Ohlen- dorf, rural sociology; Dickie D. Fox, chemical engineering; Robert C. Ohlendorf, electrical engineer- ing. Canyon: Leo C. Rigsby, rural sociology; Charles W. Conatser, science. Victoria: Joseph H. Post, wild life management. Montalba: Kenneth R. McGee, animal husbandry. Caldwell: James R. Groce, ac counting. Mabank: Hollis C. Boehme, mathematics. El Campo: Paul A. Rainosek, mathematics. Joaquin: Sam E. Spence, per sonnel management. San Angelo: Gus T. Alexander, pre-dental; Wiley W. Dover, pe troleum engineering. "Henderson: Wm. Curtis Clary, science. Abilene: William R. Olds, arch itecture. Honey Grove: Henry F. Goss, chemical engineering. Carthage: Freddie Marlowe, chemical engineering and English Cadet, Civilian Awards Given Corpus Christi: John Minor, chemical engineering. Bishop: Ed H. Moerbe, Jr., chemical engineering. Kingsville: Darrell G. Pausky, chemical engineering. San Benito: Clyde C. Bagley Jr., electrical engineering. Whitesboro: Virgil L. Boas, electrical engineering. Hearne': James C. Harless, elec trical engineering. Groves: Bruce B. Johnson, elec trical engineering. Naples: Noel W. Tuck al engineering. Brookshire: Alroy G. Sturm, industrial education. Beaumont: Hubert Oxford, III. ihechanical engineering. Schulenburg: Louis E. Little, petroleum engineering and agri cultural education. Thorndale: Charles W. Graham, veterinary medicine. Justin: Joseph E. Smith, vet erinary medicine. Santa Monica, Calif.: Douglas K. Carriger, veterinary medicine. Fluker, La.: Warren D. Kent, Jr., veterinary medicine. Farmersville, La.: Perry G. Smith, veterinary medicine. Ft. Meade, Md.: Thomas C. Hunter Jr., graduate school. Trenton, N. J.: Carl T. Jantos, graduate school. Woodville: L. Wayne Sanders, mechanical engineering. Grant To Open Undergraduate Science Work The Texas Academy of Science has received a grant of $10,750 from the National Science Founda tion, to promote a second series of undergraduate research confer ences during .the 1960-61 academic year, Dr. Charles LaMotte, pro gram director, has announced. Dr. LaMotte is a professor in the De partment of Biology. Three hundred and ten under graduate science students and 78 of their science teachers from 58 of the junior and small senior col leges of Texas participated in the conferences. Research laborator ies were visited, projects reviewed) techniques discussed and the na ture, significance, requirements and rewards of present day re search explained by outstanding scientists in each of the major science fields. About 250 more students applied than could be accommodated in the conferences. Many of those who did participate are now being ad mitted to, universities throughout the country for study toward ad vanced degrees. Dr. LaMotte says the A&M Re search Foundation will disburse the funds in accordance with the provisions of the grant. Prior to going to Washington Butz spent most of his life in "Miana. He graduated from Pur due in 1932 and acquired his doc- ,orate in 1937. He served for eight years as head of the Department of Agricultural Economics before becoming assistant secretary of agriculture. Butz has traveled widely, hav ing been abroad six times in 25 foreign counties, and has spoken in 46 states in the United States. Research Economist In 1943 he was research econo mist with the Brookings Institution in Washington, D. C., where his researches were published in a book entitled “The Production Credit System for Farmers.” The follow ing year he was Research Econo mist with the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York City. He has been a lecturer for many years before the School of Banking at the University of Wis consin and before the Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers Uni versity. Likewise he has lectured before the Life Officers Investment Seminar at the University of Chicago. Butz is a member of a number of professional and learned socie ties. He is also a director of the Standard Life Insurance Company of Indianapolis, of the Ralston Pu rina Company of St. Louis and of the Foundation for American Agri- | culture. ■ ..Jl# 1 lli JjpSI ' £ ■ ' A ' 'X • l Wf * mlUll : !■ : : : ■ , f . r » * ' . * • „, 15 I i%”t : 1 pYG , Conference Expecting Big 3-Day Crowd Advance reservations indicate a big crowd of cattlemen will be on hand for the sixth annual Amer ican Angus Conference on campus today through Thursday. The event is jointly sponsored by the Amer ican Angus Association and Texas Angus cattlemen in cooperation with the College, according to O. D. Butler, head of the Department of Animal Husbandry. The gathering of cattle breeders from every section of the nation will see demonstrations and hear talks by 21 speakers on a wide va riety of subjects. The theme will be “Pacing Progress for Greater Profits.” One of the feature attractions of the event will be a demonstra tion of the use of ultrasonics in measuring a beef animal’s rib-eye muscle. It is hoped the process may some day be a big help in se lecting breeding stock which is heavily muscled and whose off spring will produce meaty carcas ses. Another highlight of the Confer ence will be a panel discussion on merchandising Angus cattle in the Southwest. T. B. Porter of Aus tin, a former Texas Angus Asso ciation president, will be the mod erator. Other Texans on the panel will be Herman Allen of Menard and Milt Miller of Brady, a field representative for the American Angus Association in the South west. Marvin Couey of San Angelo, president of the Texas Angus As sociation, has announced that everyone attending the big event is invited to a Texas Chuck Wagon Feed at 5 p.m. Wednesday. m 11 ; US: - " I ^ ,. 44 * , k i.T - . _ s "f _ . ViUi*:' Cadets On Parade The A&M Corps of Cadets pass in review in honor of their parents at the annual Parent’s Day review on the main drill field in ceremonies last Sunday. Cadet and civilian awards were also announced. See Page 3 for story. A&M Professor Asked To Attend Dallas Conference Dr. Bardin H. Nelson, professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Sociology, has been asked to serve as rapporteur for a National Conference on the Pop ulation Crisis. This conference is being sponsored by the Dallas Council on World Affairs and Newsweek magazine and will be held at the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel May 17-19. Program participants will in clude Mr. John D. Rockefeller III, chairman of the Rockefeller Foun dation and of the Board of Trustees of the Population Council; Mr. H. E. Mahomedali Chogla, Ambassa dor to the United States from In dia; Dr. F. F. Hill, vice-president of the Ford Foundation with re sponsibility for the Overseas De velopment Program; Dr. Philip M. Hauser, director, Population Re search and Training Center, Uni versity of Chicago, and Mr. Ernest K. Lindley, director of Newsweek’s Washington Bureau.