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Time’s Article—How It Happened
By ALAN PAYNE
Battalion Editor
A former A&M professor got
off a “parting shot” Tuesday
when the first issues of the
Sept. 28 issue of Time Magazine
arrived in the local area.
In an article written by Rob
ert Glenn Sherrill of Austin, a
former member of the Depart
ment of English faculty, A&M
received some of its most mis
leading and false publicity since
the founding of the school.
Reaction here, of course, was
anything but favorable. Copies
of the magazine could not be
purchased by afternoon and the
article was on the lips of almost
every student.
President Earl Rudder even
commented: “I am disappointed,
as I know every Aggie is, with
the story. It was particularly
disappointing that the writer
missed the real meaning of be
ing an Aggie. He overlooked
many fine areas to concentrate
on the few, which resulted in a
distortion of the real A&M. We
all recognize that in some areas
our efforts fall short of our goal,
but in fairness, these must be
examined in light of our prog
ress toward a goal of excel
lence.”
Sherrill probably summed up
his beliefs when he said, “the
prime requirement may not be
scholarship, but the prime bless
ing is belonging.”
The story behind the article,
however, is even more interest
ing than the final article.
Sherrill himself attended three
colleges before receiving a BA
degree from Pepperdine College
in California. Then he received
an MA degree from the Univer
sity of Texas.
In his short career he has
worked for five newspapers—
none for over one year—as well
as instructed. His latest em
ployer was the Texas Observer,
a liberal newspaper printed in
Austin. He is not a full-time
writer for Time, but a stringer
who works on specific assign
ments.
He was with the English fac
ulty here for only nine months
—resigning after the 1956-57
regular session.
Accompanied by a commercial
photographer from Austin, Sher
rill arrived here during the week
of Sept. 3-8 and spent his first
full day with Normand DuBeau,
director of the system informa
tion office.
DuBeau showed the writer
nearly all of A&M’s science fa
cilities—which rated a total of
nine one-column lines in the final
story.
Sherrill then turned to J.
Wayne Stark, director of the
Memorial Student Center, who
briefed the writer on various
aspects of student culture. None
of this appeared in the final
draft.
Five students were formally
interviewed, but others were
stopped at random across the
campus. Sherrill spoke for over
two hours with Corps Comman
der Bill Nix, Student Body Pres
ident Sheldon Best, MSC Council
President James Ray, SCONA
Chairman Vic Donnell and Civil
ian Student Council President
Jeff Harp.
These interviews were devoted
primarily to campus traditions
and customs—with little of the
information being printed.
Sherrill then interviewed Col
lege Greeter P. L. (Pinky)
Downs, J. B. (Dick) Hervey,
executive secretary of the As
sociation of Former Students,
and Football Coach Hank Fold-
berg. The result was the same
—no mention in the final story.
One interesting point did turn
up, however. Sherrill made a
typically slanted remark about
freshmen coming from such
towns as Wink, Sundown or
Cottonwood — the author was
born in Frog(;own, Ga.
AGGIE “HAZING”—TIME MAGAZINE-STYLE
. . . Charles Coffin, ’66, meets Gerry Brown, ’63
JfMCA Proposes
rogram Changes
The YMCA has put into high
sar a plan to acquaint the stu
dent body with the “Y.” Up to
e present time, meetings of the
MCA Cabinet, the ruling body
the “Y,” have been held weekly,
ith attendance and participation
Iben to general membership as
ell as officers.
The rapidly increasing member-
ip in the past year has made
jhis arrangement too unwieldy to
mtinue.
^■Beginning Oct. 8, meetings will
II held every Monday night for
bie general membership, and Cab-
^•et meetings will
another time.
be shifted to
J Committees will meet this week
'to arrange details for the change,
hese details will be released as
Wire
Review
By the Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
COPENHAGEN, Denmark —
fATO Secretary-General Dirk U.
pkker warned the Russians Tues-
jay to keep hands off West Ber-
h. He served firm notice the
estern Powers would never com-
omise or surrender their rights
the front-line city.
I More than 300 delegates at a
peeting of national associations
Idiich support the North Atlantic
Ireaty Organization applauded
■tikkers’s assertion: “If our ad-
persary should decide to move
■gainst Berlin, he will be con-
P'onted by a whole series of coun-
■sractions which will be evidence
|f our firmness.”
U.S. NEWS
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—
U.S. Secretary of State Dean
Rusk and Soviet Foreign Min
ister Andrei A. Gromyko met for
more than three hours Tuesday
but apparently failed to come to
grips on the vital issues of Ber
lin and Cuba.
It was the first meeting of
the two foreign ministers since
the conference on Laos in Ge
neva last July. It is expected
they will meet again in New
York, but no date has been set.
^ 'A'
I WASHINGTON—The Senate ig
nored a barrage of sharp-tongued
Enunciation of the compromise
'arm bill Tuesday and passed it
>2 to 41, with the Republicans
toting solidly against it.
The action sent the measure to
Resident Kennedy, who is ex
acted to sign it even though it
tontains only about half the au
thority he asked to control grain
surpluses. Congress was put on
notice that the administration will
be back next year with a new re
quest aimed at putting grain sup
plies in balance.
soon as they become known, along
with reports from other commit
tees.
The change in program was the
major topic of business at last
Monday night’s meeting. The only
other major item of business was
election of members to the YMCA
Advisory Board. The board con
sists of two staff members, two
faculty members, one minister, the
“Y” president, a representative of
the general membership and J.
Gordon Gay.
Those selected to join Gay are
Dr. Bardin Nelson, Rev. Norman
Anderson, Dr. John Abbott, Dean
Frank Hubert, Dr. Charles Lyons,
President Don Willis and Gary
Rudder. The names of the two
men elected to replace retiring
members, Rev. Anderson and Ly
ons, are being held pending their
notification and acceptance of the
position.
Before adjourning the meeting,
the cabinet voted to sell candy,
as in the past, to help finance their
projects. Last year’s sale of candy
went to help a Korean boy through
medical school.
Officers of the YMCA Cabinet
for this year are Don Willis, pres
ident; Joe Chapman, vice presi
dent; Lannie Jackson, secretary;.
Curtis Morton, treasurer; and Jack
Cline, program committee chair-
Che Battalion
Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1962
Number 4
SCONA Budget Reached
Barnett Defies Federal
Courts For 2nd Time
JACKSON, Miss. OP)—Gov. Ross
Barnett—sworn to go to jail ra
ther than integrate—defied federal
courts Tuesday for the second
time. He denied James H. Mere
dith, a Negro, admission to the
all-white University of Mississippi.
Almost immediately the Justice
Department said it would seek a
contempt citation against the gov
ernor.
The announcement from the Jus
tice Department at Washington
said papers were being drafted for
presentation to the 5th U.S. Cir
cuit Court of Appeals at New Or
leans.
A JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
spokesman said he understood that
Meredith would make a third try
to enroll Wednesday, this time at
the campus at Oxford.
Meredith left Jackson by air
plane shortly after 5 p.m. for an
unknown destination.
The registrar of the university,
Robert B. Ellis, said here Tuesday
night that he expected to return
to the campus and would register
Meredith under orders from the
State College Board if Meredith
appeared.
The governor and Meredith, 29,
met face-to-face for the second
time in less than a week while
a hooting, jeering crowd of 1,500
milled around outside the state
office building.
BARNETT, 64, MET Meredith
at the door of State College Board
office, received copies of federal
court orders, refused to accept
them, and read a proclamation as
serting the state’s sovereignty in
the case.
A Justice Department attorney
accompanying Meredith called at
tention to the federal court orders
again. Barnett replied he was
acting under state laws, the State
Constitution and portions of the
U.S. Constitution delegating pow
ers to the states.
The Justice Department attor
ney then asked: “Well, you refuse
to register him?”
The governor replied: “I refuse
politely.”
The Justice Department attor
ney said: “We’ll leave politely.”
Krebs Reports
$12,600 In,
More To Come
Campus
May Be
Entrances
Restricted
A possible reduction in the num
ber of through streets on the cam
pus was discussed by Dean of En
gineering Fred J. Benson in the
Monday night meeting of the Col
lege Station City Council.
At the meeting, Benson, city 1 en
gineer for College Station, gave
an unofficial forecast of A&M
plans which would affect the City
of College Station.
Cashing A Check At The MSC
Starts Many Ag Weekend
What marks the beginning of an
Aggie’s weekend?
Memorial Student Center Direc
tor J. Wayne Stark’s answer is:
“When he cashes a check at the
MSC.”
And chances are Stark is right.
Analysis of the MSC’s check cash
ing record shows that last year
208,989 checks were Turned into
more than $1.3 million in green
backs.
Based on 320 school days, busi
ness manager Charles Cosper fig
ured that 653 checks worth an
average $4,130 were converted to
cash.
Based on 365 days 572 checks
were cashed for $3,620 per day.
THE NUMBER of checks that
pass through the MSC’s hands has
increased from 78,584 in 1953-54
to last year’s staggering number.
The 128,818 checks cashed in 1960-
61 were worth $1,099,526.
Said Director Stark:
“The A&M MSC is in the top
five per cent of the 400 college
Dance Planned In Houston
Members of the Spring Branch
A&M Club are planning a “Kick-
Off Dance” Saturday night in
Houston for students who will at
tend the A g g i e-Unlversity of
Houston football game.
Club representative Arthur Her
zog said the dance will be held
from 8 p.m.-midnight in the Hous
ton Home Builders Association
Hall at Alabama and Kirby streets
in downtown Houston.
Admission will be $2.50 per
couple, with proceeds going to the
athletic fund. According to Her
zog, the club has set a $1,000 goal
for dance proceeds. All proceeds
will go to the fund, with the club
footing other bills, Herzog added.
A midnight yell practice is on
tap at midnight and the club hopes
Coach Hank Foldberg may be able
to drop in on the dance.
The dance idea originated after
a speech by Foldberg in Houston
during the summer.
Any student unable to find the
dance can get instructions by call
ing HO 5-3959, Herzog concluded.
unions in the United States in
check service. That puts us among
less than 10 schools in the United
States that go to the trouble of
cashing check without service fees.
He said that probably 90 to 95
per cent of the checks cashed at the
MSC were for students — the ma
jority just prior to weekends and
big campus events.
A SPECIAL fund of $10,000 is
tied up almost continuously by the
check cashing service. Several
MSC personnel spend almost full
time tending to bookkeeping and
cashing duties.
Business manager Cosper said
out of the many drafts and checks
cashed only a negligible number
was ever written off as uncollect
able. He said:
“In the three years I’ve been
here we have only lost $233 on
bad checks. Of course we get many
more than that but they are usually
collected.”
Stark said that recently a stu
dent wrote a total of 22 hot checks
for a sum of only $55. He added
that the student was required to
pay a $2 penalty on each hot check,
so the sum of penalties was almost
as much as the amount of the
checks.
In the future, campus entrances
which will remain open to through
traffic may be limited to the East
Gate on Highway 6, the highway
circle on Farm Road 60 and an en
trance on the west side of the cam
pus, Benson said.
Only two entrances would be
open to through traffic on the
north side of the campus, the Farm
Road 60 circle and a street at the
northwest corner.
Although North Gate would be
closed to through traffic from the
College Station area, North Gate
merchants can look forward to
additional dormitories being built
on the northern portion of the
campus, Benson stated.
He added that the Missouri Pa
cific Railroad is seeking to aban
don its Bryan-Navasota tracks and
hopes to use the nearby Southern
Pacific tracks instead. The Texas
Highway Department is planning
to install a railroad overpass at
Farm Road 60 for the Southern
Pacific tracks.
Benson stated that in the future,
a main traffic thoroughfare could
be built between College Station
and Bryan on the site of the Mis
souri Pacific tracks.
DEAN FRED J. BENSON
JOHN KREBS
Advisors Needed
For Bridge Club
Advisors and instructors for
the Aggie Wives Bridge Club
are badly needed, club president
Mrs. Jenne McFadden reported
Tuesday night.
Mrs. McFadden said interested
faculty wives, student wives or
other citizens would be more
than welcome to help those wives
just beginning to play bridge.
Interested persons can contact
Mrs. McFadden at VI 6-5754 or
club Reporter Mrs. Dixie Sea-
quist at VI 6-6219.
The club contains from 125
to 160 members in beginners, in
termediate and regulars classes.
It meets weekly from 7:30-9:30
on Wednesday nights.
Debate Team
Planning Trip
Dr. Harrison E. Hierth, faculty
advisor of the Aggie Debate Club,
announced Tuesday that four mem
bers of the Debate Team will at
tend a debate workshop at North
Texas State University Friday and
Saturday.
They are George J. Stengel,
Robert Denney, Frank M. Muller
and Jerome Rektorik.
The topic to be discussed will
be: “Resolved that the Non-Com
munist Nations Should Form an
Economic Community.” Teams
from all the Southwest Conference
schools will attend.
SCONA VIII is now on firm
financial footing with $12,600
banked and almost $7,000 to
come in from other sponsors
and delegate’s registration
fees, according to John Krebs,
chairman of the giant conference’s
finance committee.
The Student Conference on Na
tional Affairs, due to begin on
♦campus Dec. 12, has a college
approved budget of $18,660. Krebs
said $2,000 would be accounted for
by $15 registration charges. How
ever delegates from A&M will pay
only $5 registration fees.
The balance of the budget has
been committed by educational
foundations and interested business
firms.
The MASSIVE canvass for funds
to run SCONA VIII began last
Easter when students began call
ing on businessmen throughout the
state. This summer more volun
teer workers called on prospective
patrons in untapped Texas cities in
addition to possible sponsors in
Louisiana and Mexico.
SCONA General Chairman Vic
tor Donnell estimated $1,500 came
from trips to Monterrey and Mex
ico City. Donnell said:
“We still have letters of request
going out to people we have con
tacted down there. Additional con
tributions come in almost every
day.”
THIS YEAR’S budget of almost
$19,000 tops last year’s limit of
$17,900. Chairman Krebs, ’63
from Victoria, directed the drive
which will provide funds to operate
the largest student conference of
its type. Topic for this year’s
four-day session will be “Sources
of World Tension.”
Krebs echoed Donnell’s state
ment that more money earmarked
for the conference arrived each
day. He said:
“It’s very hard to keep up with
just how much money we do have.
By the time an exact total is fig
ured up it has changed.”
Expenses of the ingathering
from universities from Canada, the
(See SCONA Page 3)
Senators Ponder Special Bill To Allow
Filipino Orphan To Become Aggie
A special bill has been intro
duced in Congress to help a Fili
pino orphan realize his dream of
coming to Texas to attend A&M.
The boy, 19-year-old ' Maximo
Leach, is one of five orphans
adopted by Grady R. Leach of Fort
Worth, a bachelor civilian employ
ee of the Army Corps of Engi
neers on Okinawa. Leach has been
offered a job in the state and is
willing to take it if his “sons” are
allowed to come with him.
. Maximo, a recent high school
graduate and a member of the All-
Far East football and basketball
teams, says he wants to attend
A&M if he is allowed to come to
Texas.
Hearing of his interest in A&M,
college officials have written to
Maximo and offered all possible
assistance in helping him enroll.
A special bill was introduced in
Congress by Rep. Jim Wright (D-
Tex.) of Fort Worth to allow Leach
to bring his sons into the country.
The bill was passed in the House
Sept. 18 and is now befox’e the
Senate.
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