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Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1962
Number 10
Student Senate
roposes Exam
Ixemptions
BY DAN LOUIS JR.
Battalion News Editor
|A proposal that students with
92-up averages in individual
(purses be exempt from course
pal examinations at the discre-
jjun of the professor was approved
v iby the Student Senate Thursday
■ght and sent to the Executive
lommittee.
■Dean James P. Hannig'an, sen-
■e advisor, will present the pro-
■isal to the committee. If ap-
rored by the committee the pro-
ftsal vnll then face the academic
Iimcil for final approval.
■The 95 avei-age which had been
■scussed earlier as the qualifying-
lark for exemption was replaced
I icause some senate members ex-
iessed the opinion that the lower
lark would be a more practical
werage for an exemption goal.
■ SHELDON BEST, president of
[fit senate, read a copy of a letter
and Cadet Col. of the Corps
yin. Nix mailed to “Time” maga-
ine concerning the article on cam-
■s life at A&M. The letter stated
■at students had read the article
■rith considerable alarm” and
ggested that “the Texas A&M
bdent body would be happy to
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Review
By The Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
PARIS hP> — The French Na-
onal Assembly neared a show-
)wn early Friday on a motion
censure against Premier Geor-
s Pompidou over President
harles de Gaulle’s plan for the
ection of future French presi-
mts by popular vote.
De Gaulle threatened to resign
I the Assembly voted censure.
I Although the direct parliment-
jiy action was aimed at Pompi-
|ou, debate droned on past mid-
ght on de Gaulle’s controversial
ptional referendum set for Oct.
on his proposal for direct elec-
lon of presidents. The president
w is chosen by Parliament.
U. S. NEWS
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. GT)—The
Federal government was ordered
Thursday by a U. S. district
judge to show cause why former
ilaj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker, ar
rested in the Oxford, Miss., riot
ing, should not be released on
bail.
The show cause order, which
the government must answer
next Tuesday, was issued by
Judge John W. Oliver after Wal
ter’s attorneys had filed a peti
tion for a writ of habeas corpus.
Walker is charged with incit
ing insurrection and seditious
conspiracy. His bond was set
at S100,000 in Oxford and then
be was flown here for detention
at the U. S. Medical Center.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON GP> — President
ennedy signed Thursday the res-
hrtion giving him stand by author-
Fy to call 150,000 reserves to ac-
military duty if necessary to
afend U. S. interests anywhere in
be world.
He signed also the congression-
J resolution expressing U. S. de-
ermination to employ force, if
'ecessary, to prevent a Soviet
uilitary buildup in Cuba which
ou ld endanger national security.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON UP) — The
Army announced Thursday night
that approximately 3,500 Missis-
81 Ppi National Guardsmen will be
Pleased from federal service at
midnight Friday.
have an unbiased reporter from
your staff on our campus.”-
The issues committee was in
structed to study the possibility
of having the library remain open
Saturday afternoon. It was point
ed out that students in the corps
had little opportunity to use the
library on Saturday morning.
Gregory Laughlin, vice presi
dent of the senate, reported steps
had been taken to extend the li
brary’s hours. He announced that
Robert L. Houze, director of the
library, had agreed to keep the
library open until 1 p.m. on Sat
urday as an experiment.
Thirteen students have been se
lected to go to the Texas Woman’s
University campus and choose the
Aggie Sweetheart, Best said. He
said the group will be in Denton
Oct. 13-14 to make the final se
lection.
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GAME WITH HOUSTON SATURDAY
Ole Miss Homecoming Moved
From Oxford To Jackson
OXFORD, Miss. </P) _ The Uni
versity of Mississippi’s gala Satur
day homecoming football game
with the University of Houston
was switched Thursday to Jack-
son, the capital, 170 miles away
to avoid any renewed violence
over Negro James H. Meredith’s
forced integration into the student
body.
The Denfense Department order
ed the transfer “on the basis of
information which indicated it
would be unwise for the game to
go ahead at Oxford and the fact
that minor incidents continue to
occur.”
THE GOVERNMENT ultimatum
put a damper on a festival week
end for Ole Miss students, who had
planned to play host to nearly 30,-
000 visitors. A big Friday night
dance was called off. So were out
door bonfire rallies and other
homecoming- events.
As Meredith, 29, went through
his fourth day of scholastic activi
ty, his escort, of U. S. marshals
was cut in half, from six to three.
Plans were announced for the
withdrawal of 380 marshals from
among 450 on duty here since
campus rioting’last weekend claim
ed two lives.
In Washington, however, an of
ficial said the situation at Oxford
still was considered “fairly tense.”
MEREDITH, slightly built, quiet-
spoken center of the greatest inte
gration crisis yet in the South, ar
rived on the campus last Sunday.
He was the first Negro ever know
ingly enrolled in the 114-year bis
tory of the school.
With the rioting, some 12,000
troops were rushed in to restore
order. About 8,000 still are on
duty.
Nicholas Katzenbach, deputy U.
S. attorney general, told newsmen
here that while there was some
relaxation in Meredith’s security
guard, he did not know when fur
ther reductions in the troops might
come.
At some point, he added, local
authorities may have to assume
responsibility for Meredith’s safe
ty.
AS FOR THE football game,
Katzenbach said no federal troops
or marshals will be detailed to
Jackson.
Selecting Our Sweetheart-
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Just How Is She Chosen?
By ALAN PAYNE
Battalion Editor
Thirteen Texas Woman’s Uni
versity students will be on campus
before long for the beginning of a
whirlwind of activities that will
lead to the selection of this year’s
Aggie Sweetheart.
The question that logically fol
lows must be “How were these
girls selected ?”
STRANGELY enough no one
seems satisfied with the manner
in which they were nominated. This
includes the girls themselves, many
A&M students and the men who
did the actual selection.
A three-man crew from the Me
morial Student Center — director
J. Wayne Stark, Robert L. Boone
and Bill Hite — interviewed 40
semifinalists at TWU in Denton
last weekend. From these inter
views, lasting around five minutes
each, the 13 were picked.
TWU selects its own 40 semi-
Color Guard Units Announced
For Year By Cadet Corps
Twenty five cadets have been
named to color guard units in the
Corps of Cadets, sergeant major
Paul A. Dresser announced Thurs
day.
The color guards will be on dis
play for the first time Saturday
night at the march-in before the
Texas Tech-Aggie football game.
Named to the groups were:
Corps Staff: Gerado Gonzales,
Robert Eugene Harvey, Ray Jones,
Paul Riley and John Fiegel.
First Brigade: Mike Mullican,
Wayne Edmundson, Mike Richard-
Meredith already had made
weekend plans. He is expected to
leave the campus, and may visit
his wife, who is a student at Jack-
son State Negro College.
Students reacted in varying
ways. One complained that the
student body might as well be un
der martial law.
Another said: “We’ve had
enough trouble around here with
out inviting the rednecks in for a
football game.”
Gov. Ross Barnett of Mississippi,
and Sen. James O. Eastland,
D-Miss., have blamed U. S. mar
shals for last weekend’s rioting at
Oxford.
A minority group of professors
at the University of Mississippi
adopted a resolution in defense of
the marshals.
son and Jim Mayo.
Second Brigade: George Levis,
Kim Gray, Frank Muller and Ben
Wolfe.
Third Brigade: Anson Holly, Lar
ry Stanton, Patrick Laird and Mike I
Laughlin.
First Wing: Michael J. Halabui’- |
ka, Robert Schneider, Michael Sloan J
and Jay Jaynes.
Second Wing: Henry Mundt,
Ronald Scharck, Michael Suib and j
James R. Roberts.
finalists.
Therefore A&M comes into the
picture with the selection of the 13
finalists. The sweetheart herself
is selected by a 13-man delegation
of students that will visit TWU
next weekend.
A&M’s Magna Carta provides
for the 13-man group to select
the sweetheart, but the selection of
finalists has never been outlined.
How the interview method got
started is a mystery. All sources
say only that interviews were
started two years ago. Prior to that
pictures of the semifinalists were
viewed here and the finalists were
selected from the pictures.
This proved especially unpopular
with TWU girls and provoked more
than one complaint here.
IT SEEMS, however, that the in
terview method is obtaining much
the same results. Surely few peo
ple would be disappointed if a
change were made in the selection
procedure.
The Battalion feels the time is
ripe for a change — any good me
thods would probably be viewed
with considerable interest here and
at TWU. These methods can only
come from the students — after all
the winner will be our Aggie
Sweetheart.
Today’s Thought
Gen. John J. Pershing once
told me, “I always tell the truth.
After a lifetime, I find I can
remember it longer.” —John J.
McCIoy
Yell Practice,
Dances On Tap
By RONNIE FANN
Battalion News Editor
With an event-packed schedule, the A&M-Tech weekend
will begin tonight with a “Stereo Dance” in the lower level
of the Memorial Student Center from 8 p. m. until midnight
yell practice.
“This is the second dance of this type and we hope it will
be as successful as last year’s was,” said David L. Kabell,
chairman of the MSC Dance Committee. Admission is 25
cents and is payable at the door.
After the dance, the band will file out of Dorm 11 and
strike up the “War Hymn” for the first midnight yell practice
of the season. After a parade through the campus streets,
where they will pick up thousands of spirit-filled Aggies and
their dates, the Band will - *
Aggie I* layers
Finish Casting
For First Show
The cast of “Male Animal,” this
fall’s first production of the Ag
gie Players, was completed Wed
nesday night for the tentative
Nov. 5-9 performances.
Lack of women performers al
most caused the production to fold.
Director Harry Gooding, after se
veral failures, secured the final
two women for the cast Wednes
day.
Playing parts in the production
will be:
The part of Tommy Turner, Bob
Stark; Ellen Turner, Selma Clack;
Patricia Stanley, Lynn Imle; Wal
ly Myers, Eugene Byrd; Dean
Frederick Damon, Richard Hein-
ieb; Michael Barnes, Jack Brooks;
Joe Ferguson, Bob Hipp; Blanch
Damon, Marianne Mallett; Ed
Keller, Ronald Hunter; Myrtle Kel
ler, Mavinee Wright; and the re
porter, Pat Richardson.
The play, written by James
Thurber and Elliott Nugent, is
a situation comedy. The action
takes place on a college campus
and portrays a past g-eneration of
students mirrored in the actions
of the present generation.
Producing the show for the Ag
gie Players will be C. K. Esten,
a professor in the Department of
English.
head for Kyle Field under the
guidance of torch waving yell
leaders.
Several events will be held
Saturday before and after the
game, with an eye to visiting par
ents and dates. Floy Smith, reac
tor operations chief of A&M’s
Nuclear Science Center, has an
nounced plans for tours through
the reactor installation Saturday
afternoon.
THREE TOURS of the center
will be staged for a limited num
ber of former students, parents
and dates at 2, 3 and 4 p.m.
The tours will be conducted for
groups of 25 persons each. The
small number of available film
badges required for visitors by the
Atomic Energy Commission is the
reason the number in visiting
groups is somewhat restricted of
football weekends, Smith ex
plained.
Persons interested on going on
a tour at one of the hours indi
cated should call VI 6-7210 to see
which hour is most convenient,
Smith said.
Saturday afternoon, before the
game, representatives of the Tex
as Tech delegation to Southwest
Conference Sportsmanship Com
mittee will meet with the A&M
delegation in the MSC to discuss
sportsmanship problems between
the schools.'
SATURDAY NIGHT, the Ag-
(See TECH on Page 4)
Junior College Press Reps
To Start Sessions Sunday
The 10th annual Texas Junior College Press Associa
tion convention will begin Sunday with approximately 100
representatives from 17 junior colleges expected to attend.
The three-day meeting will feature speakers from
various news media for newspaper and yearbook staff mem
bers.
Highlight of the convention will be the awards banquet
Monday night, when winning entries from various year
book and newspaper contests will be cited. «
The banquet speaker will be John C. (Jack) Mohler,
city editor of the Houston Press and a newspaperman for
23 years. A native of Indianapolis, Mohler has won nu
merous awards as a writer.
D-Eon Priest of Houston, a Taylor Publishing Com
pany representative will assist yearbook staff members
in editing layout and design.
Newspaper representatives will hear C. Richard King,
a University of Texas journalism professor; John H. Mur
phy of Houston, executive director of Texas Daily News
paper Association; Bruce Roche, head of journalism at
Southwest Texas, and Dave Campbell, sports editor of the
Waco News-Tribune.
How A Finalist Is Selected
Sophomore Sweetheart Finalist Betty Lang- with her, from left, are J. Wayne Stark,
ford is interviewed by the three-man A&M Robert L. Boone and Bill Hite. The woman
delegation at last weekend’s selection of is Lynn Gresham, president of TWU’s stu-
finalists for Aggie Sweetheart. Men talking dent council of social activities.