The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 05, 1962, Image 1
Tech Game Weekend Activity Packed I Or- Che Battalion 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 X J Wire 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. nif 1 1—ii.~ir .. if you think that steer was tough—just wait! "Si 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- i 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.