Battalion
Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1961
Number 35
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Grateful Audience 1 lemands
Encores Of Symphony Group
By TOMMY HOLBEIN
Battalion Managing Editor
Presenting a program of eight
iassical selections, three of which
we unscheduled but demanded
tacores, the San Antonio Sym-
(kony Orchestra under the direc
tion of Dr. Victor Allessandro,
(tetained Town Hall goers for
Her two hours last night.
Starting at 8 p. m. in C. Rollie
Jkite Coliseum, the performance
lithe noted orchestra, established
is one of the outstanding sym-
flonic organizations in the nation,
opening with “Roman Carnival
Overture, Opus 9” by Hector Ber
lioz.
The number filled the coliseum
fith an initial English horn solo
trough an exciting tarantella, and
siding in a tornado of swirling
mind blending violin with wood-
tinds, brass, and percussion.
Second selection of the orchestra
'as Antonin Dvorak’s “Symphony
Srnnber 5, “From the New World,
Opus 95.” The symphony, written
'hile Dvorak was in the United
Slates, gave the composer's im
pression of U. S. landscape and
culture.
Elements of Negro and American
Indian origins were identifiable
through the number, but the com
posed also included Slavonic phras
es from his native Bohemia.
“Til Eulenspiegel’s Merry
Pranks, Opus 28,” was third num
ber of the performance, written by
Richard Straus and musically de
scribing the adventures of a fav
orite folk-hero of the middle ages.
Day Students Plan
Council Election
Doug Schwenk, president of
the Civilian Student Council,
announced that the election of
Day Student Council members,
to include the day student repre
sentatives to the CSC, will be
held tomorrow. Students may
place their ballots at one of three
places, the Veterinary School
Library, the Housing Office and
Parking Lot No. 1, located be
hind the Geology Building.
Written in memory of a great
Russian composer, the fourth num
ber was “Elegy In Memory Of
Serge Koussevitsky, Opus 44.” by
Howard Hanson. The Russian com
poser came to the United States to
assume leadership of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra, where he
conducted from 1924 to 1946.
Final listed selection was
“Rhapsodic Espagnole” by Maurice
Ravel, divided into four move
ments. The first was a nocturn,
soothing and exotic; next, a Mala-
guena, followed by a “Habanera”,
employing interesting effects on
the harmonics of strings. The final
movement was a vigorous “Feria,”
describing the excitement of a
Spanish public fair.
Called back for a first encore,
Alessandro presented Mr. L. Wil
liams, professor of composition at
the University of Texas, who con
ducted the orchestra in one of his
compositions, a march.
The second and third encores
were selections from “The Nut
crackers Suite” by Peter Tchaikov
sky.
ANYONE ELIGIBLE
SCONA Delegates’
Nominations Open
Prospective delegates to the
Seventh Student Conference on
National Affairs will be inter
viewed this week through Friday
from 3 to 6 p.m., according to
J. Wayne Stark, director of the
Memorial Student Center.
A committee, made up of college
faculty and staff members who are
on the Memorial Student Center
Council or SCONA VII advisors
and one student from the MSC
Council, will interview the prospec
tive delegates.
Any student at A&M, either on
the graduate or undergraduate
level, is eligible to be nominated
as a possible delegate. However
Silver Taps Held
For Jones, James
Silver Taps were held last night
for Patrick Lee James and Clebeart
Houston Jones, both freshmen in
Company C-l, who died in a one-
car accident 10 miles west of
Hearne early Sunday night.
James, a general curriculum
major, was the son of Mi - , and Mrs.
Emmitt James of Rt. 4, Rosebud.
He was born Nov. 30, 1941.
Funeral services were to be held
at 9:30 a.m. today at St. Anne’s
Catholic Church in Rosebud.
Jones, an agriculture major, was
the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. C.
Jones, Jr., of 1116 N. 9th, Long
view. He was born July 11, 1943.
Funeral seiwices were to be held
at 4 p.m. today at Oakley, Metcalf
Funeral Home in Nacogdoches.
Stark said students of junior and
senior level were preferred, but
graduate students are also eligible
to be nominated.
The number of delegates has
been increased from last year’s 16
to 24 this year, with 16 students
from the United States and eight
foreign or international students
participating from A&M, Stark
said.
Students can be nominated by
either the faculty, Department of
Student Affairs or be self-nomi
nated. Boxes are available to en
ter nominations in the Housing
Office, Office of the Commandant
and in the Memorial Student Cen
ter.
Anyone who accepts a nomina
tion should make an appointment
in the Memorial Student Center
Director’s Office, either in person
or by phone. The number is
VI 6-8722, Station 12.
Dr. K. C. Yeh
Issues Talk
Canceled
Dr. K. C. Yeh, Chinese am
bassador to the United States,
will not be able to make his
scheduled appearance here to
morrow night as announced by
th^ Great Issues Committee.
A release by the committee
said it hoped Dr. Yeh would be
able to make his presentation at
a later date.
Filing For Freshman Offices
To Begin In MSC Tomorrow
Freshman filings for elections
open tomorrow, and members of the
Class of ’65 may begin filing for
the following offices: president,
vice president, secretary treasurer,
and social secretary.
'Also to be elected are four stu
dent senators and five men to the
election commission, and filings
for these positions are open to
freshmen.
Requirements for class offices
and election committeemen state
that any applicant must have a 1.0
overall at mid-semester, and for
VT STUDENTS REPRIMANDED
Ginger Dead; Apologies Flow
student senators, a .5 overall grade
point ratio is required.
Filings will close Nov. 2, and
all grade point ratios of candidates
will be checked through the Regis
trar’s office for authenticity. The
primary election will be held Nov.
30, and the runoff is set for Dec.
12.
The primary election will be
conducted through use of voting
machines located in the hallway
between the bowling alley and the
fountain room in the Memorial
Student Center.
All freshmen interested in filing
for election to any positions avail
able should register in the Student
Program Office in the Memorial
Student Center.
TB Christmas Seal
By The Associated Press
ADSTIN—University of Texas
students and officials began a
Sties of apologies yesterday to
feylor University for nine prank-
te who killed a Baylor mascot
tar cub in a kidnaping attempt.
The 9-month-old bear cub, named
linger, died last Thursday night
*hen slugged with a wrench during
ta kidnap plot. Ginger was one of
! set of twin cubs. The other,
Pepper, was unharmed.
Dean of Student Life Arno Now-
% said the nine culprits met
Monday afternoon with members
•fa special committee of student
leaders, faculty members and ath
letic department officials, known
asthe rally committee. That group
made three recommendations:
1. That the nine appear today at
1p.m. before a university discip
linary committee of three faculty
members and two students “for
serious disciplinary action.”
2. That student, leaders go to
taco to make a public apology to
Baylor students for the death of
Hie mascot.
3. That University of Texas
President Joseph R. Smiley be
asked to issue a statement to the
effect that any similar actions by
Texas students in the future would
result in immediate suspension of
those students.
Nowotny said he could not re
lease the names of the nine stu
dents.
The Dean said no date has been
set for the public apology in Waco
but “at least 25 wires of apologies”
went to Baylor yesterday. Nowotny
said those making the apologies in
cluded coach Darrell Royal, team
co-captain Mike Cotton, the di
rector of the Longhorn band, the
president of the student body and
other leaders.
Nowotny said the agreement of
the nine students to make com
plete restoration by buying Baylor
a new set of twin cubs has nothing
to do with the university leaders’
actions and was made voluntarily
by the youths involved.
Meeting on the Baylor campus
at Waco, a committee readed by
Dr. W. C. Perry, dean of men,
drafted three demands on Texas
representatives. Perry’s assistant
and three students joined in de
ciding the steps to be asked.
The Baylor group called for 1)
repairs to the university’s bear
pits costing $25. 2) payment of
$125 for handling and training new
cubs and 3) two new bear cubs.
Dr. Pei’ry’s committee said the
replacements must be twin black
cubs born in captivity and under
eight months old. The group set
next March 1 as deadline for their
demands to Be met.
The Baylor dean said his com
mittee does not want to press
charges against the Texas students
but reserved a final decision until
it earn what disciplinary steps are
taken against them in Austin.
The story of the Bear’s kidnap
ing and death was told Nowotny
Monday morning by an attorney
representing the nine students.
Nowotny listened behind closed
doors, then referred the matter to
the special group that handles
university discipline. The dean said
he would not reveal the names of
the nine involved.
Here’s the dean’s account:
The nine decided Thursday to
kidnap one of Baylor’s two cub
mascots—an almost annual plot
by one or another of the South
west Conference schools.
Football* spirit was high on both
campuses as Baylor challenged
Texas’ No. 1 national football rank
ing.
The students broke the lock to
the Baylor bear pit and enticed
Ginger outside and put a chain on
her. They avoided her more trouble
some twin, Pepper.
The kidnap plot was perfect un
til one of the collegians and Ginger
tried to climb a fence together.
Both became tangled in the chain.
Ginger became angry and the boys
panicky.
“They hit Ginger over the head
with a wrench to calm her down.
The blow killed her,” Nowotny
said.
Ginger’s body Vvas buried near
Waco. The next day the students
consulted the attorney.
Pepper appeared at Saturday’s
game, growling and seemingly
more upset than usual. The Bay-
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Fund Drive Begins
Annual Christmas Seal letters
from the Brazos County Tubercu
losis Association started being de
livered Monday to over 12,500
county residents.
A&M students, who will also re
ceive the letters and seals, are
automatic donors to the TB fund
drive through the Aggie Campus
Chest.
Four Brazos County children, to
be admitted to the state TB hos-
pittal this week, have made the
campaign’s slogan “Protect The
Family Circle.”
Mrs. Hickman Garrett Jr., chair
man of the drive, said money from
the Christmas Seal program will
be used by the local TB association
to pay for the services that helps
protect other Brazos County fami
lies from contracting tuberculosis.
She said that there are presently
25 families in the area disrupted
by the disease. She said that a
number of these 25 families have
two and three members with tu
berculosis.
New Three-Story
Gets Underway
A new symbol of progress in architectural education is
taking shape with the construction of a new home for the
Division of Architecture currently underway on campus.
The new $900,000 building- is designed to house the fa
cilities to educate the very same professions which will be
involved in making - it a reality—research, planning-, archi
tecture, landscape architecture and construction, said Theo
R. Holleman, head of the Division of Architecture.
For years architecture students have climbed to the
fourth floor of the Academic Building to attend lectures and
spend hundreds of hours at the drawing hoards. Research
by architecture graduate students and faculty has been con
ducted in a building several
blocks away.
With completion of the new
three-story structure of mar
ble, glass, steel and brick, the
Division of Architecture will have
47,000 square feet of enclosed
space in which to educate build
ing and product designers of (he
future.
Six A&M*
Architects
Win Awards
Six A&M architecture students
shared in more than $8,750 in
scholarships and awards presented
during the 22nd annual meeting of
the Texas Society of Architects in
Fort Worth late last week.
The awards, including the Jesse
H. Jones Scholarship in Architec
ture, the Featherlight Corporation
Scholarship and the Texas Con
crete Masonry Association Awai’d,
were divided among five Texas uni
versities and colleges and given to
students who plan careers as archi
tects.
Steve Murphy Vaught, fifth year
student from Port Arthur, re
ceived a $1,000 grant from the
Jessie H. Jones Scholarship fund.
The Featherlight Corporation of
Austin each year presents scholar
ships totaling $2,500 to leading
students of the five schools of
architecture in Texas. First, sec
ond and third place awards are
given at each school.
Winners from A&M were, in
first place, Lee E. Dodson, fifth
year student from Dallas, and
Louis E. Thomas, fifth year stu
dent from Fort Worth. Second
place winners were James J. Amis,
fifth year student from Bryan, and
Daniel R. Brents, fifth year stu
dent from Dallas; third place
winners were Joseph C. Mills, fifth
year student from Pearsall, and
Harold L. Adams, fifth year stu
dent from Dallas.
The Texas Concrete and Masonry
Association pi-esented a $750 grant
in recognition of excellence in de
sign at each school .of architecture
in Texas. Brents also won this
award.
“The new home for the Division
of Architecture will provide maxi
mum flexibility in the arrangement
of its design studio areas. By the
use of specially designed movable
partitions, various size spaces can
be arranged to accommodate vari
able size sections in the different
classes — freshman through fifth
year and graduate students,” Hol
leman said.
Excavation has begun for the
new building at the corner of
Bizzell and Ross streets, across
from the Highway Research Cen
ter and Civil Engineering Building.
Main entrance to the building will
be on Bizzell.
The front entry will feature a
landscaped courtyard and opens
into a lai'ge exhibition area for
student work and traveling ex
hibits. Also on, the ground floor,
space is provided for the archi
tecture library of approximately
12,000 volumes, an auditorium, ad
ministrative offices and confer
ence room and storage area.
The auditorium, containing ap
proximately 200 seats, will have
special equipment for lighting ef
fects, slide and movie projectors
for visual aids used daily in in
struction. It will also be the scene
of the division’s guest lecture
series.
The second and thh’d floors will
have identical floor plans, housing
12 design studios and an equal
number of staff offices. A class
room for lectures will be on each
floor. Even lig*hting for the studios
will be provided by a solid bank of
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Air Force Sweetheart
Aggie Sweetheart Ann Edwards (right) presents Air Force
Sweetheart Delores Collins with the traditional bouquet
after she was declared winner of the honor at the Air Force
Ball. Miss Collins, a Houston product, was escorted by Bob
Cooley. (Photo by Johnny Herrin).