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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1961)
X Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, September 14, 1961 THE BATTALION CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle LARGE PROJECTS PLANNED Building, Construction On Rampage A completely air-conditioned campus. Beautifully landscaped grounds. Repaired and refurnished dormi tories. An outdoor swimming pool. A new night-time automatic sprinkler system. Three hugh new classroom build ings. These were some of the many building and construction projects undertaken during the summer to prepare the A&M physical plant for another school year. Work has begun on a new chilled-water cooling system, the first step to a totally air condi tioned campus. The new cooling system is the reason for the torn-up streets in the northern and eastern parts of the campus. Physical Plant Man ager W. H. Badgett said the streets will pi’obably be open by Sept. 15. Huge water pipes, some as large For The Largest Selection Of Styles In Shoes COURT’S North Gate as 28 to 30 inches in diameter, are being placed under the streets to accommodate the chilled-water supply. Badgett explained that the new system is planned to eventually provide air-conditioning for the entire campus. Chilled-water will be produced in the college’s power plant by the same facilities that currently pro duce heat for the hot water supply. The cold water will be piped to all buildings for use in air-condi tioning systems, Badgett said. The project presently underway is aimed at air-conditioning most of the eastern sector of the campus. Building that are already air- conditioned will continue to use their old systems. These now air- conditioned buildings will be con verted to the chilled-water method when their present cooling sys tems wear out, Badgett said. He added that dates for further work in supplying chilled-water to other parts of the campus have not been determined. The estimated cost of the project in a contract held by F&S Co. of Austin is $147,677. No campus streets were actually paved' this summer, Badgett said, but a street is now under construc tion behind Kyle Field to accom modate the new outdoor shimming pool that will be built on the site of the old handball courts. The street, not yet named, will also accommodate sportswriters and newscasters at Kyle Field WELCOME AGGIES STUART’S HARDWARE Your Center For * Gifts * Household Appliances * Electric Fans Come by and Get Your BROOMS and MOPS from us. STUART’S HARDWARE 109 N. Main College Station football games. The building and utilities department has also con structed a fence between the site of the proposed pool and the foot ball practice field directly behind Kyle Field. Even though actual street work was light, parking lot work and landscaping jobs on streets moved at n fast clip. The grounds main- t e n a n c e department completed landscaping projects on Ireland Street in front of the power plant and on Asbury Street near Sbisa Dining Hall. Even more land scaping, especially shrubbery, is planned during the winter. Floodlights were installed at all campus student parking lots and, according to Badgett, “They’re ali pretty well lighted now.” Additional lights, however, are planned for the sophomore and freshman parking lots behind Dorm 11. Badgett also disclosed plans for a mammoth parking lot at the new Military Sciences Building. He said plans have not officially been approved by the A&M System Board of Directors but they have reached the drawing board stage. The proposed lot, to run in an east-west direction, will accom- A series on the three new classroom buildings now going up will begin in Tuesday’s Bat talion. The first feature will introduce the new wing of the Military Sciences Building. modate around 110 cars, Badgett said. It will extend from the new wing of the building to Joe Routt Blvd., with openings on Joe Routt Blvd. and Lubbock St. It will have an asphalt surface and the esti mated cost is $15,000. Material has been received and work will begin soon on the new irrigation sprinkler system, Bad gett said. The system will be in stalled at the Physical Plant Of fice, Sbisa Hall, Milner Hall, All- Faiths Chapel, Petroleum Engi neering Building, Geology Build ing, the Clark Street island west of the Memorial Student Center and the Lamar Street island in front of the MSC. The $15,000 system is complete with time clocks that will auto matically turn the sprinklers on at 1 a.m. for three days weekly. Extensive repair work was done in the Corps of Cadets dormitories, Badgett said. General repainting and repair work was done in Dorms 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11 and 12. Rei'oofing and door and window work was done in Dorms 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11 and 12, while showers and toilet rooms were repainted in all the dorms in the east cadet area. New tables and chairs were placed in two dormitories, while two others received new beds. Also, Badgett added, 2,000 mat tresses were rebuilt. Badgett said that the present chests-of-drawers in the dormitor ies in the west cadet area will be replaced during the school year. Three more dorms will receive new tables and chairs and two more will be furnished with new beds. He said a lighting experiment will be conducted during the year in Dorms 2 and 10. One of the dorms will be equipped with eight- foot fluorescent lamps in the halls, while the other will have incan descent lamps in its halls. Badgett said the experiment was being conducted to determine which would be more practical in the cadet dormitories in an effort to improve the much-criticized lighting system used now. Work in the grounds saw land scapes completed at the Petroleum Engineering Building, Civil Engi neering Building, Geology Build ing and in the west cadet area. Also, work was begun on the Law Hall court area, with all side walks to entrances completely re placed. The entire area will even tually be landscaped. A walk was also paved from Dorms 3 and 5 to the parking lot immediately behind Dorm 5. Also, the large gully behind Dorm 1 was filled. The ground areas between Wal ton Hall and the college hospital, between the east and west wings of Walton Hall and north of Dorm 16 were completely redone. Dirt and gravel was taken out to an average depth of 18 inches and the grounds were seeded in Ber muda grass. New walks were built around the Dorm 14, 15 and 17 quad rangle. Handled by private contractors, three new classroom buildings be gun last spring are much closer to completion. The new wing on the Physics Building and the $2.3- million Plant Sciences Building won’t be ready for some time, but the classroom wing of the Mili tary Sciences Building will accom modate classes this fall. In other work done by the phys ical plant office over the summer, the road from Easterwood Airport to the nuclear science center was paved and repair work was done on the power supply system at the agronomy laboratory. City Churchy Open Doors p { » For New Yea- ln A student h: opp< “One thing for sure—there won’t be any sleeping in clas: when a girl enrolls in your course!" (Summer enrollment showed 327 of ’em in classes.) Entrance Tests Set For 1963 Frosh to worship as he choo A&M and will probably faith has a church in Coll« k .. Change tion or Bryan. bot h A Many churches in College , tac hme tion have student centers for students. Here the sUnkn, take part in activities M ping-pong or friendly Some student centers have d socials or outings during the On Wednesday and $ nights, call to quarters is 4 until 8:30 p.m. so cadets q tend church. During the year, usually j| ruary, the college .sponsoit gious Education Week, f leaders of different faiths a vited to hold nightly diice with students in the durmi in the mornings a guest ■ talks to the student body. Special services are held i All-Faiths Chapel on the <a Included in the churches h lege Station are the A&M odist < hurch, the \\M C'hri terian Church, the AMtenbl d the God Church, the A&M Chardin his ( hriM. i Ik- \ a. M t‘ h r iit |_,[ n t< Church, the First Baptist (V- er nain Our Saviour’s Lutheran (Y ion ar St. Mary’s * atholic Chapd. n mmer en ret assigm issionei ive bee ' those The .4 >ur enli Missign nd two ie cam The A nd an p two i R< tiri 1 ,S gt H. en M. ?r. Harri VUgust vith tl ttle it SAFETY SLOGAN STOCKDALE, Ohio UP) — A truck loaded \vith caskets passed through with this sign on the back: “Please Drive Careful. Your Casket Isn’t On This Load. These Are All Ordered.” LOU S TRADING POST NOW HAS PLENTY OF ROOM AND LOTS OF TIME FOR EVERY CUSTOMER A&M has adopted the College Entrance Examination Board test ing program as a part of its test ing and placement activities, Dr. Frank W. R. Hubert, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, has announced. The system will become effec tive in September of 1963, Hubert said. All students entering A&M then and afterward will be re quired to take the tests. This year’s freshman class is taking the exams, not for admission or placement, but to establish norms for future classes. Hubert said, however, that stu dents planning to enroll here in September of 1962 will be encour aged to take the tests. The tests will include a schol astic aptitude test, achievement test in mathematics and achieve ment test in English composition. “The adoption of the College Board tests in no way changes the eestablished admission require ments to A&M,” Hubert said. “These tests will enable us to re fine our procedures for placement of students in the college’s various curricula.” Hubert said a student’s admis sion to A&M is determined by his high school transcript, and that the test scores are for placement purposes. The College Entrance Examina tion Board is a non-profit mem bership association composed of college and school representatives. CEEB’s service and research activ ities relate to college admissions and are designed to help students, schools and colleges to cope with problems in this field. The Board’* best known activity is its program of college entrance tests required by many colleges as part of their admiaaion pro cedure and by sponsors of some scholarship programs. Thomas Episcopal Church, tian Science Society, B’aii • Hillel Foundation of Tcxu juKJJ* and Unitarian Fellowship. Summer \ isitors A(L The examinations are prepared by College Board committees of teachers, with the assistance of the professional staff of the Educa tional Testing Service. Around 7.860 Off Col. More the can The tests are administered for the Board by the Educational Test ing Service on scheduled dates dur ing the year at about 1,700 centers throughout the world. er P. I>. (P ingf fessor all fre prior 'coptac Selene •n Force “Af -to enr WELCOME AGGIES gil 11 e Rc<-or (J3ooLnooL (jrcice J (NORTH GATE) The Best Mexican Food Anywhere t&ry Sept. | The for p Hr F BUT OUR SPECIALTY IS FRIENDSHIP FRIED PIES .. 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