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Bster will not only stand a chance of losing their present room, but delayed in the re- Made n u • u > Twri also be dela y e ( ‘ n tration procedure, s we will roiap^ e ester jl C J _No additional fees will be t is shiest, ■haj.ggjj students already living in E. McC dormitories, but they must have toi, said their room deposits verified and ils are r g ( t signed up for the spring res ist be com t er ik -” [STUDENTS NOW living in the units le.: c b r ilian dormitories who wish to ints for the:'' reserve room s they now oc- nd flag are cu Py rnust report before 5 p.m. G-2, and tiee| an - 16 - Sqd 8 andB Civilian students who wish to 3 in the' freslly serve an y rooms other than the 7 tied forst bries now occupy and students i r 9 2 changing from military to civil- d C-2, Sqd. m ran donmtories, must do so by -^Tan. 16. Room change slips signed by housemasters and organization commanders concerned must be presented. Students moving from a military to a civilian donnitory dust also have the signature of mm. $100 Award Due (Top Fish Cadet m r A $100 cash award for the out standing freshman in the Corps of Cadets will be made this sp iring, thanks to a New York Foun dation. ||: The cash will be in addition to the medal traditionally presented on Parents Day, according to Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant. fe-’ A grant from the N. S. Meyer- Raeburn. Foundation, Inc., of New York City makes possible the new award. ■ The foundation has for several their tactical officer, and must turn in a clearance form to the Hous ing Office before spring registra tion. All remaining rooms in civilian dormitories will be issued on a first-come, first-served basis be- gnning Jan. 17. STUDENTS PLANNING to live in military dormitories the spring semester may begin signing up for rooms immediately in accord ance with new spring rosters sub mitted by cadet units. A student moving from a civil ian dormitory to a military dormi tory for the spring semester will need a room change signed by the housemaster, organization com mander and tactical officer con- cerned. A student who reserves his room for the next term must cancel his I’eservation by Jan. 15 in order to secure a refund of the $20 room deposit unless he is not allowed to register by the college. All students changing from the cadet area to the civilian area, or vice versa, must turn in their mattress covers to the place where they were drawn and obtain new ones from the issuing agency for their new area. DORMITORY 16 and the top three floors of Dormitory 15 will be used to house civilian students during the next semester. First priority on these rooms will be given civilian students now living three to a room, while civil ian day students will be given second choice. These students should reserve their rooms before Jan. 16. On Jan. 17 students with ade quate reasons for moving will be allowed to sign up for these rooms as long as they last. These rooms will not be available for occupancy before noon Feb. 1, and keys will not be exchanged prior to hdiat time. All students who will be day students the spring semester, in cluding those who are day students Graduating- seniors will be required to participate in the Graduate Record Examination, a national .testing pro gram, aS a part of graduation requirements effective in 1964, Dean of Instruction W. J. Graff announced Wednesday. The new requirement, plus strong encouragement that seniors graduating this May take the test this spring, was voted by the Academic Council. “Use of the Graduate Record Examination will benefit both the college and the individual student,” Graff said. The college has strongly encouraged all graduating seniors during the past year to take the test. The college pays the Educational Testing Service for all costs. The next testing date is April 19, and seniors will be excused from classes. “There has been an increase of more than 100 per cent in five years in the number of colleges and universities participating in the institutional testing program,” Graff said. A&M is now among the colleges participating. Results Pave Way For Evaluation years provided an award, a saber, at the present time, should secure for the outstanding battle group or Jroup commander in the corps. their day student permits early to save time at registration. Roberto Navsdad tc Rbberto Navidad Abejon de Platanos” is days. The beetle is of a giant size found in the new pet of W. D. Edmonds, a senior en- the Mexican jungles near San Andres. Ed- tomology major, who acquired Roberto dur- monds feeds Roberto bananas and keeps him ing a trip to Mexico over the Christmas holi- in an old cigar box. IN EXTENSION SERVICE COURSE Polygraph Examiners Face A Taste Of Own Medicine col- nt... who <i in But iiave =:ular ■ ints Hme =nce the -lake and Accepted applicants in a six- week Polygraph Examiners Course here this spring will be obliged to take a dose of their own medi cine. The medicine is a lie detector test. Wallace D. Beasley, chief of the Police and Industrial Security Training Division of the Texas Engineering Extension Service, said the purpose of requiring stu dents to take the polygraph exam before the course is “to establish an appreciation of the real signi- fiance and usefulness of the in strument in discovering attempt ed deception.” Beginning April 22, the course will be the first of its kind in the Southwest, Beasley said. IN CHARGE of the six-week course will be David C. Betts Jr., January Grads Eligible To Get Fees Refunded sard any Kiwanis Officers Selected R. H. Fletcher (left) and Isaac I. Peters head the College Station Kiwanis Club chapter for the new year. Fletcher was elected president and Peters first vice president at a ladies’ day luncheon Tuesday in the Memorial Student Center. Graduating seniors who paid the student activity fee and will not be in school the spring semester may obtain a refund on the spring portion by making application at the Housing Office. Students must present their stu dent activity cards in order to be eligible for refund. Dormitory students must turn in their mat tress covers before claiming any refund. Graduating seniors who live in dormitories may obtain a refund of the last week of dormitory fees by reporting to the Fiscal Office beginning Jan. 15. Students other than graduating seniors, who will not be in school during the spring semester, may make arrangements for their stu dent activity fee refunds when they turn in their clearances prior to leaving campus. instructor with the service’s Po lice Training Division. According to Betts, there are currently only three such recog nized programs. They are locat ed in New York, Chicago and Cali fornia. Instructors for the course will be from each of the fields covered by the use of the polygraph instru ment. An attorney will lecture on the legal aspects involved with the polygraph or lie-detector test, while members of the college’s psychology faculty will discuss the psychological effects of the mac hine. The medical aspects of the in strument 'will be explained by members of the Veterinary Medi cine School. INFORMATION about the school has been directed to municipal officers, county law enforcement officers, state enforcement agen cies, people involved in industrial and retail security and to per sons dealing with personnel in vestigation work. “Poly means many, and graph means recording on paper or mak ing a permanent record,” Betts said when asked to explain the instrument. “We are using the word in terms of a lie-detector machine,” he continued. “The instrument is designed to detect attempted deception and is being used extensively in law en forcement work throughout the entire United States,” he explained. “IT RECORDS changes in the body’s circulatory system or the body’s functions, and this is the manner in which we quite fre quently determine whether or not a person is attempting to evade or deceive the person who is con ducting the interview with the in strument,” Betts said. “Of course, this doesn’t solve a crime. It just is an aid to an investigator who might be working on an offense,” he added. The use of the machine is not limited to law enforcement. It is being used for internal spot checks on employees as far as their honesty and loyalty is concerned, pre-employment screening, exam inations regarding specific losses and periodic examinations. “It has been said that Texas is further advanced in the use of the instrument, not only in law en forcement but in industrial securi ty and retail security, than in any other area in our country,” Betts commented. Adventure Series To Hear Film, Talk On ‘New India’ A man well known in the travel- film business will narrate a movie on “New India” in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom at 8 p.m. Thursday. Russ Potter’s appearance at A&M is part of the Great Issues Committee International Adven ture Series. Admission to the movie-lecture is 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children under 12. Students with activity cards will be admitted free. Since 1948, Potter has gained wide recognition as a narrator and script writer of the Laguna Beach, Calif., Festival of Arts, where more than 1,000,000 spectators heard his commentary. His travel-film career, starting in 1956 with “Inside Red Russia,” also includes a film on “Belgium.” With “New India,” Potter’s all color motion picture has exclusive filmed interviews with Prime Mini ster Nehru, the exiled Dalai Lama of Tibet and other leaders, accord ing to Bob Wimbish, head of the Great Issues Committee. Results of the battery of tests allow a college to do a more complete job of evaluating its instructional program, he said. Each student receives a report of his scores and an explanatory booklet, and he may ask the Educational Test ing Service to forward a report of'his score to a professional school or prospective employer. The testing service assesses a $1 fee for this service. Graff said the score does not become a part of a student’s official record or transcript here, but will be kept on file for use of Counseling and Testing Center personnel in statis tical studies and at the office of Dean of Instruction. “The greatest benefit to A&M will come after norms have been established on the basis of three or four years of test scores,” S. A. Kerley, director of the Counseling and Testing Center, said. The center, with the aid of academic departments, administers the test. Approximately 85 per cent of the 900 graduating seniors took the examination last spring. A lower percentage of January, 1963, graduates took the tests. Faculty Letter Suggested Program A letter from several faculty members suggesting to President Earl Rudder that the possibilities of using the Graduate Record Examination be studied is credited with starting the move toward the program. Rudder received the letter during the summer of 1961, and asked Graff to investi gate suitability of entering the national program. The testing program of the past year was developed with the help of both the Student Senate and the Executive Com mittee of the Academic Council, Graff said. The eight-hour examination consists of a general apti tude test and a thorough examination in the student’s major academic field. The program here has been hampered to some extent by the lack of advanced tests in some relatively specialized academic fields, but this lack should be remedied over a period of several years as local norms are developed, the dean said. The senior majoring in a field not covered by a specific advanced test takes the test in an area of study as nearly comparable to his own as possible. Norms Set By National Scores National norms for the advanced tests are established upon the basis of results of tests taken by students from a variety of colleges and universities. “The primary advantage to the student is one of affirma tion,” Kerley said. “It gives him reassurance that he can perform satisfactorily in his field ... he knows where he stands.” The greatest benefit to the college will come after local norms have been established, as any significant changes then in results scored by A&M students can be quickly evaluated. “As long as the scores are comparable to or above our norm, we’ll know we are doing a good instructional job,” Graff said. A&M also is nearing the effective date for another re quirement concerning a nationally-established testing pro gram. This is the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB) tests required of all freshmen planning to enter the college in September. Results of these tests will provide officials with an in sight into a student’s abilities and background before enter ing school. The Graduate Record Examination taken four years later will give an indication of how much the student has learned in his major area of study. Wire Review By The Associated Press WORLD NEWS SAIGON, South Viet Nam—The South Viet Nam government claim ed Tuesday its forces killed or wounded more than 700 Viet Cong guerrillas in two extended opera tions that ended Monday. The claim was not confirmed by A- merican sources. Fewer than 100 casualties could be confirmed in dependently. U. S. NEWS WASHINGTON —. The De fense Department asked Tuesday for the drafting of 9,000 men for the Army in March. This is the biggest monthly quota since January 1962 and more than dou ble the quotas of recent months. ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON — President Kennedy met with congressional leaders of both parties on the eve of a new legislative session Tues day night and agreed to deliver his State of the Union message next Monday. The chief executive brought his top advisers on defense, diplomat ic and intelligence affairs into a meeting with Republican and Democratic leaders from Capitol Hill for a briefing on defense and foreign policy. TEXAS NEWS AUSTIN — Backers of Rep. Byron Tunnell of Tyler crushed 141-9 Tuesday liberal opposition and named the Tyler attorney as House speaker of the 58th Legis lature. ★ ★ ★ AUSTIN — Sen. W. T. Moore of Bryan said Tuesday he will introduce legislation requiring a constitutional amendment before any college can be made a four- year state-supported institution. Moore, long a foe of creating new four-year state colleges, help ed filibuster as the bill passed in the last regular session making the University of Houston a state school. •V'} ini ill