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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1963
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Paul TimminB Battalion Staff Writer
linor. ■ Students now enrolled at A&M
the Fish will!who live in dormitories and ex-
i at 6 p.m. pect to attend the spring semes
ter should report to the Housing
Office in the YMCA as soon as
./ Q ppssible.
I a ■ Harry L. Boyer of the Hous-
/ hJ jip. ()ffi ce said thaf students who
put-off this action until they re-
Levy. Bster will not only stand a chance
of losing their present room, but
delayed in the re-
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( ‘ n tration procedure,
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_No additional fees will be
t is shiest, ■haj.ggjj students already living in
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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