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COLLEGE STATION. TEXAS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1963
Number 70
Indent Election Set On Name-Change
ilrashears Briefs
Senate On UT Riot
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Head Yell-Leader Bill Brashears
■Jhe Student Senate Thursday
fht that he did everything he
jld before and after' the A&M-
p P game Tuesday night to prevent
fight.
Biishears said that he was
peied by an athletic official
mi UT and the Texas head yell-
idei', Bill Melton. He said they
d phem that he and the other
11-leaders would not he allowed
the gym floor and that A&M
ch Bob Rogers had agreed to
, ilea.
‘I asked Coach Rogers about it.
paid that he didn’t know about
Bipart of this,” Brashears said.
■WENT back to Melton to get
mething straight,” he added.
ie j^ggie yell-leader said Melton
fealed that the whole thing was
! iflea.
“His reasoning was that we are
only yell-leaders to follow our
: j for basketball and the only
bool that has a student body
at turns out,” Brashears said,
g i herefore, he felt we should re-
s s i quish our right to yell.”
Mishears said that after the
.me he started to leave the gym
hppes that everyone would do
e'Same. He said that he noticed
at 1 Aggies and “tea-sips” were
adjng for the same door and the
ips” were still chanting “Poor
bje”
“ll LOOKED for Melton to see
fief was trying to stop the chant-
g’, but I couldn’t see him any-
iieije,” Brashears said.
“I tried to get to the ‘no-man’s
nd’ between the two groups and
op what was coming,” he pointed
it. | “About the time I got there
was knocked to the floor. Before
I could get up I was kicked sev
eral times and the fight was on
its way.”
Brashears said: “With some
help from police and a lot of help
from Coach Foldberg the thing was
finally stopped.”
“The police told us, the yell-
leaders, that we had been a lot of
help in stopping the fight,” Bra
shears said. “But we all know
what they have been telling the
newspapers.”
Peterson Named
Muster Speaker
L. F. Peterson of Fort Worth,
president of the Association of
Former Students and a member
of the A&M System Board of
Directors, has accepted an in
vitation to be speaker at the
campus Muster observance here
April 21.
Peterson’s address is set at
2 p.m. sinde April 21 falls on a
Sunday. Tentative plans for
other activities in the campus
observance call for appearances
by the Ross Volunteers, band
and Singing Cadets.
LOVERS, NOT FIGHTERS’
Rudder Tells UT:
‘Keep Own House’
President Earl Rudder Thursday
called for Texas University of
ficials “to keep their own house
in order” in an effort to prevent
additional occurances like Tues
day’s riot after the Aggie-Long-
horn game in Austin’s Gregory
Gym.
“The fight was regrettable,
“Rudder said, “but I’m just thank
ful we have never had such trouble
here. Much credit should go to
our student leaders for the exem
plary job they have done prevent
ing conflicts in G. Rollie White
Coliseum.”
RUDDER confirmed jdiat a check
with Assistant Athletic Director
“Bones” Irvin show's that there
has never been such a riot on cam
pus.
“I can’t speak for our people
in Austin,“ the president said,
“but I can’t understand why any
trouble always takes place in Aus
tin. We had Aggies and university
students sitting together at the
game here and everyone got along
just fine.”
HE ADDED that university of
ficials have made no contact with
him since Tuesday’s incident.
Rudder also couldn’t understand
the charges that Aggies had for
saken dates to plan a riot.
“I always thought w'e were
lovers, and not fighters,” he said.
Cadet Col. of the Coi'ps Bill Nix
also rebuked stories that Aggies
were primed for a fight.
“ON THE CONTRARY, we did
everything we could to prevent an
incident at the game,” he said.
“Only 200 students drove to the
game and we were there to support
our team - - not fight.”
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Date Pending
For Voting
By DAN LOUIS JR.
Battalion News Editor
After 65 minutes of debate Thursday night the Student
Senate voted to give students an opportunity to vote for the
name they would prefer in the event a name-change for the
college becomes a reality.
The lengthy session, which was prevented from becoming
a heated argument only by the gavel of Student Body Pres
ident Sheldon Best, attracted as many visitors as there were
senators present.
As chairman of the issues committee, Doug Hotchkiss
presented the question of the name by referring to recent
issues of The Battalion. Hitchkiss said he personally felt
there was no longer a question about the name-change, but
what to change the name to. ★ ★ ★
Students Added
JERRY VION, chairman of
the student life committee,
agreed with Hotchkiss and
said that he believed that only
two possibilities exist. He sug
gested Texas A&M University and
Texas State University and Agri
cultural and Mechanical College
which he favored.
Howard Head, Memorial Student
Center Council representative, said
that he favored the Texas State
University name because this was
the name that had been taken by
a great number of the land-grant
colleges throug'hout the nation.
“I believe changing the name of
the school will not change the
quality of the school,” stated Shel
ly Veselka, junior class senator.
“The school can grow without a
change.”
Winton Zimmerman, junior class
social secretary, .offered a new
idea to the group. “I don’t see how
a name-change can help. Why
don’t we do something like adopt
co-education ?”
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SHERRY STARLING
DIANE LEE WOODRING
and To Choose Sweetheart
t Annual Dance Tomorrow
Tomorrow night members of
the A&M band will take a secret
plot to vote for the 1963 Band
Sweetheart at the annual Band
Ga j *y/JDance in the Ballroom of the
Hi" /p^ emoi 'ial Student Center.
■These girls have been selected
qUAN4 s finalists:
RlOIffjkPam Primdahl, of Dallas,
RESER'^seorted by sophomore pre-vet
;.J iajor Larry Phillips;
| Diane Lee Woodring, of San
^ Bitonio, escorted by sophomore
'VvA ^counting major Frederic
'Xv.\ Sasse;
escorted by senior insurance
major David Karrer;
“Bo” Evans, of Houston, es
corted by senior accounting
major John White;
Doris Ann Davis, of Duncan
ville, escorted by freshman busi
ness major Phillip Pelt; and
Sherry Starling, of Monahans,
escorted by junior electrical en
gineering major Sandy Dendy.
The six were chosen by a
sweetheart committee, made up
of one member of each class
from both the Maroon and White
bands. Committee chairman is
Ronnie Moon.
The Aggieland Combo is
slated to furnish music for the
ball, which begins at 9 p.m. and
will last until 12.
Other committee chairmen for
the dance are Don Willis, decora
tions; Karrer, finance; Henry
Potter, program and invitations;
and Bill Barnhart, coordinations.
The dance is to be formal, but
Moon said either cocktail or long
formal dresses may be worn by
band members’ dates.
Honored guests at the ball are
the chancellor, the president and
several deans and members of
the faculty.
Charles Blaske, senior class
president, suggested that everyone
remember that “a name-change
will mean a lot to professors.”
AT ONE STAGE of the debate
Cecil Bourne, pre-med student, had
expressed the opinion that “If we
change the name we will be known
as the school that used to be A&M.
Why can’t we remain different and
il|g keep our name, traditions and Ag-
I gies ? ”
As Bourne sat down, Reed Arm
strong, who identified himself as
a liberal early in the meeting,
came to his feet and asked Bourne,
“Why are you here?”
“You’re out of order, Armstrong.
Damn it sit down!” shouted Bill
Brashears, head yell-leader.
The rapid crack of a gavel in
Best’s hands and a stern warning
against additional outbursts re
stored order.
THE FINAL proposal as ac
cepted by the Senate provides for
an election, for which the date
is to be set, which will present
two questions to the student.
The first Question will ask the
student to vote “yes” or “no” to
a name-change.
The second question will provide
a student with the opportunity of
voting for one of five names he
would favor in the event a name-
change does occur. The names
are Texas State University and
Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege, Texas Agricultural and Mech
anical University, Texas A&M Uni
versity, Texas State University
Culture
Answer
Question
To Traffic
Appeals Panel
During the regular Student
Senate meeting Thursday night
the body:
1. Voted to have Student Body
President Sheldon Best appoint
from the Senate one Corps student
and one civilian student to sit on
the traffic appeals court. Best
said the two i - epresentatives would |
be named next week.
2. Heard the issues committee
chairman report that the 12th Man
Bowl committee will be formed
next week and preparations will
get underway for the annual event.
3. Heard the student welfare
committee chairman report that
the first steps toward the annual
Aggie Blood Drive have been
taken.
4. Received a report from the
Civilian Student Council that a
clean-up program for civilian
dorms is under way.
5. Accepted a report from the
Memorial Student Center Council
that an evaluation study to review
the MSC program is being pre
pared and should be Veady in the
near future.
6. Heard a report on the activi
ties of Aggie Sweetheart Lynn
Pai'ks.
7. Heard a report from Best
that the Bryan-College Station
Chamber of Commerce has set
money aside to purchase signs to
be placed along incoming high
ways greeting .visitors.
IMPROVEMENTS SOUGHT
III 1
By GLENN DROMGOOLE
Battalion Staff Writer
“Scientists and humanists
are both intellectuals, Harry
Levin, professor of compara
tive literature at Harvard
University, said in a special
lecture series here last night to an
overflow crowd in the Biological
Sciences Lecture Room.
IN THIS statement Levin prac
tically summarized his views on the
Snow-Leavis literary controversy.
The debate between Sir Charles
Snow, a British scientist, and Dr.
F. R. Leavis, a Cambridge literary
critic is, in short, whether a new
culture based upon the sciences is
replacing the long-existing culture
centei’ed upon the humanities.
Levin related the Snow-Leavis
controversy to a Victorian debate
between Thomas Henry Huxley and
Matthew Arnold, during which
Huxley emphasized the place of
science in a literary curriculum.
The Harvard professor claimed
that following Huxley’s plan is
“at least as effective” as an ex
clusive literary education.
ALTHOUGH Levin sided with
Show on the central idea of the
debate, he critized the scientist for
various portions of his thesis.
“Scientific culture is vertical.
The farther you go, the narrower
it gets,” Levin said.
The professor added, “Science
without conscience is but the ruin
of the soul.”
While Snow’s basic idea is that
science should be emphasized in
a literary education, his critic
Leavis believes science unnecessary
in the education of a humanist.
Leavis has called Snow’s work
“beneath contempt.”
The visiting lecturer claimed that
“one big hetehogeneous culture”
should be present in a well-edu
cated society, a culture which con
tains a knowledge of the sciences
and of the humanities.
Clergy
During
Discuss RE
Evaluation
Week
Session
By RONNIE FANN
Battalion News Editor
Clergy, laymen and guests
gathered in the Memorial Student
Center Thursday for an evaluation
luncheon of the twenty-first annual
Religious Emphasis Week. Pui'-
posq of the meeting was to solicit
recommendations from the men to
improve next year’s program.
Response to RE Week by stu
dents was widely discussed. Some
clergymen reported excellent at-
tendence, others reported poor.
and for the student who would j This is the first year the activities
perfer another name, a write-in | were held off-campus and not in
space will be provided. dorms.
ATTENDENCE statistics are not
a good method of judging the suc
cess of RE Week, however, it was
stressed. Some clergymen were
very pleased with the new method
because they were speaking to an
audience who had come because
they wanted to, not because they
had to.
Others felt last year’s method
was best because it attracted more
attention on campus. Many stu
dents, they said, didn’t even know
there was a Religious Emphasis
Week this year.
“Religious Week can be looked
upon very critically, but we must
DORIS ANN DAVIS
Local TSPE Chapter Names Calhoun
‘Engineer Of The Year’ At Banquet
The Brazos chapter of the Texas i The award came as a surprise
i Society of Professional Engineers l to Calhoun, who before the pres-
named Dr. John C. Calhoun Jr., I entation of the award commented
vice chancellor for development of on “The Engineer and National
the A&M System, as “Engineer of Engineers’ Week.”
i the Year” at their annual banquet j “Engineering is perhaps the
held last night at the Briarcrest ; most dominant force that exists
Country Club. j today in civilization,” said Calhoun.
Making the award to Calhoun He ' vent on to briefly picture the
was John-S. Denison, associate 'vork of engineers in past centuries
and its challenge in future decades,
professor in the Department of Calhoun was recently^ named
Electrical Engineering and “Engi- president-elect of the Society of
neer of the Y’eai’” for 1962. Petroleum Engineers.
JOHN C. CALHOUN
remember changes have to be made
to find the right way,” one minister
told the group. There is more
than one purpose of RE Week.
This year the emphasis was on
church loyalty, maybe next year
it should be different, he suggested.
THE MINISTERS reported they
were very impressed with the in
tellectual quality of the. students
who attended the meetings. The
ones who favored this year’s pro
gram stressed the abundance of
centralization of former programs
prohibited this free intercourse of
ideas and thoughts.
President Earl Rudder addressed
the group and explained this year’s
change in the program. He said
there was discontent in previous
years because a minister of one
religion would be assigned for all
the men of one dorm.
ONE REMEDY for this, he sug
gested, would be to allow the
ministers to stay in a different
dorm each night. Rudder also
proposed a joint meeting in Guion
Hall each day with the denomina
tions presenting a speaker to ex
plain the beliefs of that church.
This would replace the convoca
tion speaker of previous years,
but retain the centralization to
some degree so the program would
be more organized and more wide
ly known among the students.