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WTSC Gets New Stationery As A&M Stands Idle
By RONNIE BOOKMAN
Battalion Managing Editor
As Rep. David Haines’ bill to
hange A&M’s name to Texas
l&M University lies in the “in”
lasket of a special House sub-
ommittee, West Texas State
College is busy ordering new
itationary reading West Texas
State University.
Why has the 3,800 - student
ichool located in the Panhandle
wn of Canyon become a “uni-
’ersity,” at least in name, while
i&M with more than twice as
nany students is still tagged
'college?” Gov. John Connally
esterday signed a bill into law
e-naming the West Texas insti-
ution.
Part of the answer can be
found in the numbers of the
two bills - - West Texas’ HB 12
and A&M’s HB 755.
Strategy of the veteran legis
lators who pushed the West Tex
as name-change in the House,
Bill Heatly of Paducah and Red
Simpson of Amarillo, was to get
their bid before the usual snarls
of trade-outs spoiled the peace
ful opening climate.
Now, Haines’ bill, introduced
743 pieces of legislation later
than the other, is enmeshed in
hearings, studies and probes.
Of course, there has been no
indication of opposition to chang
ing A&M’s name, but the quick,
painless passage of the West
Texas State bill is not going to
be duplicated.
The biggest obstacle in chang
ing A&M officially from college
to university status is that HB
755’s “backers” aren’t fighting
for it.
Haines, a freshman in the
House from College Station, is
sincere in his efforts, but he
should not be left to carry the
bill by himself.
The other Aggie representa
tives—there are nine others in
addition to Haines—evidently
are not lending any weight to
the change.
In contrast to the puny fight
the Aggies are waging for the
change, West Texas State Uni
versity had one of the most
powerful men in the House push
ing for HB 12. Heatly, as chair
man of the appropriation com
mittee, is in a position to put
pressure to bear on any repre
sentative not going along with
his pet bills.
It was Heatly and his com
mittee, of which Haines is a
member, that sliced the Texas
Maritime Academy off the House
appropriations bill.
The picture in the Senate is
if anything, worse. Salty Sen.
Bill Moore of Bryan, long a
proponent of the name “Texas
State University” for A&M, has
given only half-hearted approval
to Haines’ bill.
It was Moore two years ago
who introduced a bill calling for
A&M’s name to be changed to
“Texas State University” over
a recommendation by the Sys
tem’s Board of Directors asking
for “Texas A&M University.”
The only support for the bill,
which Moore has called a “seri
ous mistake,” comes from Sen.
A. R. Schwartz of Galveston,
who is at odds with Haines over
the Maritime Academy.
Pushing for the West Texas
legislation in the Senate was
Sen. Grady Hazlewood of AmariL-
lo. Hazelwood is chairman of the
Senate finance committee, and
like Heatly in the House, is in
a good position to fight for pet
bills.
This split in A&M name-
change proponents will mean
that the Legislature won’t know
who to listen to.' The House and
Senate will wait until they hear
a solid voice for a particular
name.
Texas Tech, like A&M, is suf
fering from this “can’t make
up their mind” situation. Just
as Aggies hate to give up the
“A&M” in their name, Tech
doesn’t want to lose the “Dou
ble T.” Observers have said
that Tech is sure to ask for a
name-change in the next ses
sion of the Legislature, however.
The president of West Texas
State University, Dr. James P.
Cornette, told The Battalion that
they had worked a long time for
their name-change. Said Cor
nette:
“Last fall we invited to our
campus—under the student body
president . and student senate’s
name—the men who we wanted
to help us change our name. We
explained the situation and asked
them whether they would be wil
ling to help us. They said they
would.”
He said the secret to getting
through the house was to get
the bill introduced early.
While HB 755 — the bill to
change A&M’s name to Texas
A&M University—is being shuf
fled around in the House, West
Texas State’s HB 12 has been
signed and made law.
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The academic honors program is spreading to all types
f colleges and universities, Dr. Joseph W. Cohen, director'
f the Inter-University Committee on the Superior Student,
ild faculty members in the School of Arts and Sciences
"♦Thursday night.
Cohen, who has been active in
coordinating the honors program
of the more than 300 institutions
comprising the Inter-University
Committee, discussed the structure
and goals of an honors program
and related the achievements of
present programs.
“THE HONORS PROGRAM of
the past didn’t do the job,” Cohen
said. He described this inferior
program as being one which is
based solely on grades and per
haps objective exams.
‘We must insure quality in the I
threat of increasing quantity,” he
stated.
In his description of an adequate
academic honors program, Cohen
said the honors program should
start early, most desirably with |
students in their freshman and
sophomore year.
T H E HONORS PROGRAM|
should be both genei'al and depart
mental in content, he added. This,
he related, is a permissive and
varying approalh.
The honors program is aimed at
stimulating the student of unusual
ability, but it must aid in develop
ing the students with latent abili
ties as well as the ones whose
abilities are evident, he explained.
HONORS PROGRAMS ONCE
associated with the small, liberal
arts/college have increased great
ly in number within the last' few
years. The principles in these pro
grams have recently been adopted
to engineering, agricultural, edu
cation and medical schools.
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1963
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DAN LOUIS JR.
New Dance Step?
G. E. Bayliss, Department of History, appears to be doing
a modified ballet as he dances with his wife at the faculty-
Staff Dinner-Dance Thursday night in the Ballroom of
the MSC.
New Filing Begins
For Nine Positions
Registration of candidates for
nine student government positions
QUANTf
JOHN V. CONNER
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CHRIS C. SCHAEFER
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Students Named By Rudder
To Assume Editorships
Student publications editors have been selected for next
year, President Earl Rudder announced Thursday.
The editors of The Battalion and The Aggieland, and
summer editor of The Battalion were recommended to Rud
der by the Student Publications Board. Editors of The Texas
A&M Review, The Southwestern Veterinarian, The A&M
Engineer and The A&M Agriculturist were recommended by
the deans of their respective schools, after being approved
by the board.
The new editors are:
Dan Louis, The Battalion, replacing Alan Payne;
Chris Schaefer, The Aggieland, replacing Weldon Nash;
John V. Conner, The Battalion summer editor;
David S. Jones, The Texas A&M Review, replacing Jack
Graeme;
Sam A. Monticello, The Southwestern Veterinarian, re
placing Ben Johnston;
Peter C. Forster, The A&M Engineer, replacing John
Imle; and
Larry Braidfoot, The A&M Agriculturist, replacing
James Dotson.
Louis will assume his duties April 29 and Conner will
take over June 6. The other editors begin their work next
year.
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DAVID S. JONES
will begin Monday and last until
April 19.
In postponing the election date
from April 4 to the 24th, A1
Wheeler, chairman, of the Student
Election Commission, said several
students in the first filing were
declared ineligible for scholastic
reasons, leaving some positions
with no candidates.
The new ruling requires students
who had filed earlier to register
again.
POSITIONS FILLED are stu
dent body president, vice-president,
parliamentai’ian and recording sec
retary.
Four Student Senate chairman
ships will be open for filing. They
are for the student welfare com
mittee, student life committee,
public relations committee and the
issues committee. Also open for
filing will be the position of civilian
yell leader.
“THIS IS THE LIGHTEST turn
out that we have had in three
Candidates for the student body
positions are required to have a
1.5 over-all grade point ratio. Yell
leader candidates must have a 1.25.
Students who will be seniors in the
fall are eligible for president and
parliamentarian, while next year’s
juniors may file for the vice-presi
dent post. Fall sophomores are
eligible to seek the recording secre
tary position.
LARRY D, BRAIDFOOT
PETER C. FORSTER
Chapel To Hold
Easter Service
A pre-Easter program will be
held Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the
All Faiths Chapel.
Sponsors for the observance
will be the YMCA Cabinet and
A&M student chaplains.
Student Senate
Rejects Election
Rules Revision
Senators Want
More Color
In Campaigns
The Student Senate rejected
proposed election rule revi
sions Thursday night and ex
pressed a desire for more
colorful campaigns in the
future.
James Carter, senate parliamen
tarian, who served as chairman of
the election rules revision commit
tee presented the revisions which
he described as being designed “to
clear up part of the old rules.”
DISCUSSION WAS started by
Richard Moore, Civilian Student
Council representative, over a por
tion of the old rules which state
“No posters will be posted on walls
or doors, . . . .” Moore protested
that in some ramps of some civilian
dormitories “walls and doors are
the only place posters can be placed
because there are no bulletin
boards.”
Senior Class President Charles
Blaschke pointed out that bulletin
boards in the Corps dorms are there
for special purposes and that “the
addition of material by all candi
dates would only clutter the
boards.”
Blaschke also took issue with a
proposed change to the rules which
would provide that “Campaign
literature will be permitted, and
may be distributed only within
dormitories, college apartments and
inside classrooms.
Howard Head, MSC Council rep
resentative, suggested that a de
cision had to be made between
strict rules or more interesting
campaign.
Blaschke pointed out that the
thing that he remembered about
elections of last year “is Spike
Freeman getting drowned out on
the MSC lawn. Now that was
colorful and made the election in
teresting.”
A motion by Carter that the
revisions be accepted as presented
was defeated by a 16-7 vote. Car
ter immediately asked the senate
to approve two parts of the re
visions which would prohibit formal
campaigning on the day of elec
tions within the building or within
50 yards of the building in which
the election is being held and pro
vide that an election commissioner
as well as a candidate could file
violation charges against a candi
date.
After brief discussion the senate
accepted the two regulations.
154 SEEK HONORS
Beauties, Royalty
Cap Cotton Pageant
Nathan R. Boles, 21-year old
senior agronomy major from Win
ters, will be crowned King Cotton
during coronation ceremonies at
the Pageant in Guion Hall Satur
day night.
Joseph S. Mogford will crown
Boles king at the ceremony, which
begins at 7:30 p.m.
Mogford is the chief cotton
breeder for Nothern Star Seed Co.
of Waco and a retired A&M
agronomy professor. He origin
ated the Cotton Pageant and Ball
in 1932.
the Festival is one of the
highlights of the year and is
sponsored by the Student Agrono
my Society in honor of the im
portant cash crop, cotton.
During the pageant a queen and
eight ladies-in-waiting will be
selected from 154 candidates re
presenting colleges, universities,
clubs and other organizations.
Judges for the contest will be
Mrs. Vivien Castleberry of the
Dallas Times Herald; Curtis Cas
tleberry of Edins Galleries in Dal
las; and Mrs. Jaine Holloway of
Dallas International and Cultural
Society Circle.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON a
reception will be given for the
candidates from 2-4 p.m. in the
Ballroom of the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
At 4:45 p.m. a rehearsal will be
held at Guion Hall.
There will be an informal din
ner for out -of-town guests at 6
p.m. in the MSC.
Miss Janie Pardoe, Agronomy
Society sweetheart, will assist at
the reception and will later present
bouquets to the ladies-in-waiting.
FOLLOWING THE PAGEANT,
the ball will begin at 9:30 p.m.
in Sbisa Hall.
Johnny Watkins, farm director
of KWTX-TV in Bryan-Waco, will
be the master of ceremonies.
Local talent, The Wayfarers and
Mrs. Ann Harrison will be special
attractions during the pageant and
the ball.
Members of King Cotton’s court
will be Jim Griffith of Paint Creek;
Vincent Haby, Castroville; Bob Mc-
Michael, Chillicothe; Robert Heine,
Thorndale; James Bartak, Temple;
James Connor, Evant; Kindred Cas
key, Weslaco and Roy McClung
Jr. of Seymour.
Forms At MSC
For Bowl Game
Applications for the Twelfth
Man Bowl must be filled out at
the Student Programs Office in
the Memorial Student Center by
5 p.m. Wednesday, Doug Hotch
kiss, chairman of student issues
committee, has announced.
The forms will be available
between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. daily.
The football game between
civilian students and Corps stu
dents will be held in early May
at Kyle Field.
Wire
Review
By The Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
BUENOS AIRES—Loyalist and
rebel chiefs broke up truce talks
Thursday amid reports that re
treating Argentine navy insurgents
were sticking to their demand for
the ouster of President Jose Maria
Guido. The loyalists ordered a tank
attack on the last rebel stronghold,
350 miles south of Buenos Aires.
The hitch in the talks here
threatened a resumption of fight
ing that has taken a toll unoffi
cially reported as 26 dead and more
than 30 wounded in three days.
U. S. NEWS
WASHINGTON — The Senate
Armed Services Committee made a
surprise slash Thursday of more
than $400 million below Pentagon
requests for new aircraft, missiles
and other military hardware.
The committee went along with
the House, however, in voting an
extra $363.7 million to provide two
more RS70 experimental recon
naissance strike aircraft than the
three Secretary of Defense Robert
S. McNamara insists are adequate.
TEXAS NEWS
AUSTIN—The House gave final
approval Thursday to a bill re
aligning Texas’ 22 congressional
districts and giving Dallas County
another congressman.
At the same time the Senate
ended a filibuster and passed Gov.
John Connally’s bill merging the
State Game and Fish Commission
and Parks Board under a new
three-member agency.
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