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WURSDA Y NIGHT ACTION
Senate Backs
Honor Code
By ALAN PAYNE
Battalion N>wk Editor
Jlhe AgtRie Honor Code, after
itensive discussion, was Kiven
ifficial endorsement last nifrht by
ie Student Senate.
The endorsement apparently
Jared some shades of doubt, in
^student body, as the senators
gal unanimously to approve and
jpport the code.
The student-initiated code was
ratted late this summer after
ifctive years of work by A&M
piients. Amonpr those working:
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In Huge Mass
for Practice
Aggies showed their fighting:
slrit last night with a surprise
jdl practice in front of Henderson
Hail starting at 11:30 p.m. The
pgantic turnout of students for
he event, kept secret ’till the
5rst strains of the War Hymn
tended, filled the entire front
tea of the dormitory.
Not a word was said of the yell
uactice until the band fell out
cd struck up a drum beat. As
:filed down the quadrangle and
fell Practice picture is on Pap:e 3.
Seeded toward the Dorm 14-17
irea, cadets fell out from dorms
iltired in shorts, T-shirts and
hthrobes.
By the time the swirlinp: mob
Sul collected students the campus
ner, it had grown to huge pro-
nrtions; Henderson Hall resi
sts were roused by one of the
irgest crowds ever to concentrate
3 front of the dorm.
With the traditional yells, songs,
wildcatting, ending with
‘Spirit” and “Fifteen for Team,”
fc yell practice was a true sym-
V of Aggie spirit.
on the code were members of this
year’s Senate.
An oath will be given unit com-
manders and dormitory presidents
next week as code operations move
into full swing.
Senate President Malcolm Hall
announced senators are invited
along with yell-lesiders to a recep
tion Saturday from 5-7 p.m. at
the Texas Tyh Student Union
Building.
At this same thing a barbecue
will be given the Aggie Band, with
other students welcome at $1.25
each. The barbecue is sponsored
by the West Texas Exes Club.
In other business a list of six
constitutional revisions proposed
at the last Senate meeting were
passed..
Also Student Welfare Commit
tee Chariman John R. Anthis re
ported sales of $11,151.50 in the
student insurance program. This
was an increase of over $3,000 in
sales over last year.
Student Life Committee Chair
man Ken Joyce presented the sen
ators a letter of protest to the
LSU student body over actions at
Saturday night’s grid battle at
Baton Rouge.
Dallas Aggies Pay
T ribute T o Rudder
President Earl Rudder will be
honored at an appreciation ban
quet tonight at 7:15 in the Shera-
ton-Dallas Hotel ballroom in Dal
las.
E. L. Stapp, ’31, publicity chair
man for the dinner, said that the
Dallas A&M Club, sponsor of the
affair, is giving the dinner to
show the people of Texas what
a fine man the president of A&M
is.
Stapp estimated that 500 per
sons, including a detachment of
Ross Volunteers, will attend the
informal banquet.
In College Station, tickets may
be purchased from J. E. Loupot
at $7.50 a ticket.
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Best Football Sign
Company G-l (Dorm 7) produced the best football sign
tor the A&M-Texas Tech football game in Lubbock Satur
day night. This is the second week Dorm 7 has won the
sign contest. Squadron 5 took the honors last week. (Photo
by Bob Sloan).
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Pat Dreckman
Band To Make
Lubbock Trek
The 277 members of the Aggie
Band will embark from Caldwell
aboard new tourist coaches of the
Santa Fe Railroad at 7 a.m. to
morrow en route to Lubbock. They
will perform at the A&M-Tech
grid battle Saturday.
First stop on the trip will be
at Brownwood, with a Coke break
sponsored by the Brownwood A&M
Mother’s Club, scheduled t)b coin
cide with the lunch to be served
on the train.
Expected arrival of the train
at Lubbock is at 3:25 Saturday
afternoon. Immediately upon the
arrival at Lubbock, the band will
form to parade downtown after
which the band members will be
the guests at a barbecue to be
held at the National Guard Ar
mory near Tech Stadium.
Later Saturday evening after
the game, band members and their
dates will journey to Reese Air
Force Base outside Lubbock for a
dance sponsored by the Lubbock
and West Texas A&M Clubs and
held in the base service club.
Final event of the weekend will
be a large breakfast for all band
members at 6:30 in the armory.
They will depart from Lubbock
at 7:45 a.m. and are expected to
arrive back in Caldwell at 3:15
p.m. Sunday. Box lunches for the
return trip will also be furnished
through the courtesy of the Lub
bock A&M Club.
By Selection Team
Brenda Haynes Sally Willis
Kathy Coffey Ann Abbott
San Scifres Lynn Gresham
14 Students
Invade TWU
Fourteen A&M student are at Texas Woman’s Uni
versity in Denton this weekend to select the 1961-62 Aggie
Sweetheart.
A like number of TWU co-eds have been selected contest
finalists.
The sweetheart will be presented at the TCU game in
Fort Worth Oct. 21. She will represent A&M throughout the
remainder of the year at various social functions.
Sweetheart finalists, selected last weekend by a three-
man A&M committee, are:
Ann Abbott of Fort Worth, Judy Amphlett of Orlando,
Fla., Kathy Coffey of Sulphur Springs, Pat Dreckman of El
Paso, Ann Edwards of Hous
ton, Caroline Farris of Waxa-
hachie, Edna Figueroa of San
Angelo,
Lynn Gresham of Grand
Prairie, Brenda Haynes pf Fort
Worth. Marilyn Jordan of Mes
quite, Marsha Langston of Dallas,
Janette Noll of San Antonio, San
Scifres of Little Rock, Ark. and
Sally Willis of Doyline, La.
A&M students who will select
the winner are:
Student Senate President Mal
colm Hall, Cadet Col. of th Corps
Bill Cardwell, Civilian Student
Council President Doug Schwenk,
Senior Class President John Wad
dell, Deputy Corps Commander
Gary Anderson.
First Wing Commander Homer
L. Denning, Senior Class Social
Secretary Juan M. Martinez, Stu
dent Senate representative John
R. Anthis, Second Wing Comman
der Stewart Carpenter.
Civilian Dormitory Presidents
William Knapp, Donald Morris,
Hank Farrow and Hubert D. Nel
son, 'and Corps Supply Officer
Harold Stevens.
They will be accompanied by
W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, director
of student affairs, and Bob Boone,
MSC music coordinator.
The student delegation left here
early this afternoon for Dallas
and the appreciation dinner hon
oring President llai’l Rudder.
They are expected in Denton
late tonight.
Actual activities at TWU will
begin early tomorrow with break
fast at 7:30 a.m. This will be
followed by a 1 p.m. picnic, dinner
at 5:15 and a formal dance tomor
row night.
The Sweetheart will be an
nounced Sunday morning follow
ing 8 a.m. chapel services and a
9 a.m. breakfast. Judy Amphlett
Carl Koch To Lecture Here
Carl Koch, internationally fa
mous architect, will be first guest
speaker of the season sponsored
by the Guest Lecture Series, Di
vision of Architecture, Monday
evening at 8 p.m. in the Memorial
Student Center Ballroom.
After graduating cum laude
with a Bachelor of Arts Degree
in architecture from Harvard Uni
versity, Koch obtained an M.A.
from the same school, and ob
tained a Bacon Traveling Fellow
ship to study In Europe.
During his studies in Europe,
Koch spent 1937 and 1938 work
ing on the Swedish pavilion for
the New York World’s Fair in
the office of Sven Markeklius of
that country.
In 1938, the designer joined the
staff of Gropius and Brener in
Cambridge, Mass., where he stayed
until 1942. At this time, he be
came senior architect for the Na
tional Housing Agency research
on community amenities, space
standards, and dwelling space re
quirements, prefabrication methods
and materials.
During 1944 through 1946, Koch
was an instructor at the Naval
Officer’s Radar Training School,
Hollywood, Fla., serving as visual
aids and advance planning officer.
He was also officer in charge
of plans development- for a new
$3,000,000 radar school in Key
West, Fla.
From 1946 to the present, Koch
has been one of the nation’s out
standing architects, principal of
Carl Koch and Associates with
offices in Cambridge, Mass.
Much of his career has been
spent in research, development and
design for manufacturers, includ
ing city planning and housing
projects throughout the United
Dr. Richard Wainerdi, assistant
to the Dean of Engineering, will
address the second general as
sembly of freshman engineering
students tonight.
The meeting is scheduled at 7:30
in Guion Hall.
Tonight’s meeting is the second
in a series of five designed to
acquaint new engineering students
States and abroad.
Another area of Koch’s success
ful research has beefi prefabricated
housing components which can be
combined in an infinite number
of ways to create numerous build
ing types.
with their respective academic pro
grams.
The next two meetings will be
held in the different departments,
with a general assembly Jan. 12
to conclude the program.
Assistant Dean of Engineering
C. H. Ransdell is directing the
series of programs.
Engineering Fish Get Orientation Talk