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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, May 31, 1962
CADET SLOUCH
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Big A&M School Year
To End This Weekend
With this issue of The Battalion, another nine-month
school term comes to an end. Looking- back over the year,
one can readily see that 1961-62 has been one of A&M’s big
gest years, both for progress and accomplishment.
Following is only a partial list of the more prominent
happenings of the school year:
• Students arrived on campus last September to find
over 700 Hurricane’ Carla refugees housed in college dormi
tories. The refugees stayed in the local area for three or
four days and all expressed gratitude for use of the dormi
tories.
• Students also found the post office at North Gate
undergoing renovations. Construction is still underway, with
business being conducted in a smaller building adjacent to
the Church of Christ Bible Chair Building.
• Enrollment for the fall semester totaled 7,694, A&M’s
highest number since 1949. Registration figures also re
vealed that 66 per cent of the previous year’s freshmen were
back for their second year of college. •
• Corps students returned from summer vacations to
find a third brigade installed in the organization of the
Corps of Cadets.
Several units were moved from the second brigade and
an additional unit was formed to make up the new brigade,
now firmly entrenced in the Corps.
• Fall also found football on everyone’s lips as the
darkhorse Aggies launched another Southwest Conference
season. The Cadets finished the year with a 4-5-1 record,
after which Head Coach Jim Myers was replaced by Hank
Foldberg of the University of Wichita.
• Football season also was a highlight of the social
year, with the crowning achievement the naming of Ann
Edwards, a sophomore nursing student at Texas Woman’s
University, as the year’s Aggie Sweetheart.
• The autumn season also had its sadder moments.
Before even the first round of quizzes, several students were
forced to drop out of school to join the 49th Armored Divi
sion on active duty at Fort Polk, La.
The year’s first traffic fatality was also recorded last
fall. Up to the present, seven Aggies have died during the
school term—one of A«^M’s blackest records in years.
• Fall was also a time for celebrating, especially on
Oct. 4 when A&M officially observed its 85th anniversary.
Observers even then were looking forward to July 2, when the
Morrill Act, the legislation that founded A&M, will mark its
100th anniversary.
• The approaching of A&M’s 100th anniversary, in
1976, also triggered the organization of the Century Council,
which will conclude a study next fall of ways to improve
A&M during the next 15 years.
Century Council findings have also triggered their share
of controversy, especially in the early spring when a report
was prematurely released that showed coeds and a non-
compulsory Corps were being advocated by an internal study
group.
• This report was probably a big factor in an informal
student opinion poll, taken early in May, that disclosed that
students favored admitting coeds, changing the name of the
college and abolishing the compulsory Corps.
• As autumn turned to the cooler winter months, stu
dents built another bonfire, observed the Thanksgiving holi
days and then returned for one of the most successful SCONA
sessions on record.
This year’s topic was “Liberal vs. Conservative,” with
interest running at a fever pitch for the duration of the
meetings.
• A few weeks later, announcement was made of the
opening of an Olympic-type outdoor swimming pool at the
former site of the handball courts.
The pool is now open, while the popular handball courts
have been moved to DeWare Fieldhouse.
• Also during the year, work has continued on the new
Plant Sciences Building, while a $900,000 Architecture Build
ing has been started.
The Plant Sciences Building is due to open in September
with two new departments—plant sciences and soil and crop
sciences.
• Two other facilities were also added to A&M’s gigan
tic educational plant. Bryan Air Force Base was deeded to
the college and has since been named the A&M Research and
Development Annex. And A&M is making plans to open the
Texas Maritime Academy in Galveston next September.
• The year also saw seniors take for the first time
the Graduate Record Examinations, senior favorites were
removed from the Aggieland, ’62, the Southwest Conference
Student Association was killed before ever getting organized,
the head of the Student Senate became the student body
president, a Day Student Council was formed, the travel
and Pan American committees were added to the MSC Coun
cil and Directorate, Vice Chancellor E. L. Angell resigned to
accept a position in Arkansas, The Battalion won second
place in the national Lumbermen’s Mutual Casualty Co. col
lege newspaper safety contest and students made convenient
paths across plots of campus grass.
• Last, but not least, 1,257 students received degrees—•
379 in January and 878 just last w T eekend.
by jim Farip Zorin Rejects
US Proposal
GENEVA <A>)—The Soviet Un
ion turned down Wednesday the
Western proposals for an inter
national force to keep peace in
a disarmed world.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minis
ter Valerian A. Zorin told the
17-nation disarmament talks the
Western formula “is not accept
able” to the Soviet Union. It
was his second sharp “nyet” in
two days. He stunned the con
ference Tuesday by abrubtly re
pudiating his earlier acceptance
of an East-West declaration
against war propaganda.
Wednesday he delivered a blis
tering attack on all Western
ideas for an international peace
force to maintain world security
after disarmament. He accused
the United States of seeking to
create a strong international
body, that is equipped with nu
clear weapons, to dominate the
peoples of the world.
Zorin said this was the real
aim of the American disarmament
plan which, provides that by the
end of total world disarmament,
existing national forces will have
been replaced by an efficient in
ternational peace-keeping force
under the United Nations. The
American plan is backed by Brit
ain, Canada and Italy.
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J. C. Brusse at VI 6-5911,
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. . is th’ campus traffic always this bad?”
Official Claims
Calleges Adequa te
Special To The Battalion
WASHINGTON —- A so-called
shortage of college and university
facilities “exists only in the
minds of those who wish to see
the federal government take over
the responsibility for financing
and managing higher education,”
Ladd Plumley, President of the
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States, said Wednesday.
Plumley issued a statement to
correct what he termed the “dis>-
torted picture of higher educa
tion” which has been presented
to Congress in support of H. R.
8900, a bill proposing federal
funds for construction of college
classrooms and laboratories.
ate and House-approved versions.
The Senate version includes a
program for federal scholarships.
“Careless or deliberate distor
tion of the improvements which
have been made in American
higher education have been wide
ly publicized to justify immedi
ate federal intervention into the
plant development and enroll
ments of our colleges and univer
sities,” Plumley said.
The National Chamber of Com
merce, who is also president and
board chairman of State Mutual
Life Assurance Company of
America of Worcester, Mass.,
added:
The hill has been cleared for
Senate and House conferees to
begin work soon in an effort to
iron out differences between Sen-
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