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nits Post '1’agic thing 0116 yet knots vhy. At S' the Bruins' fei Che Battalion Ag Thindads Favored *.. See Page 7 a " ! :i Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1963 Number 109 track title, ri l 8 ee your k—such J Maga* Award: HR” lass Election ills Six Posts; 8 In Runoffs Six students won positions as class officers and 28 Jiers were forced into runoffs as 1552 voters visited the jlsin Wednesday’s class elections. David Anderson and Pat Payne survived the prelims to ;+move into runoff spots for senior class president. The sophomore and junior presidents elected on the first ballot were Richard Dooley and Frank Muller, respectively. hi ior A gen t Wi 11 \ Named May 14 Filing for the office of gradu- ing senior class agent will use Monday at noon, according A! Wheeler, election commis- on chairman. Voting on the position will ke place during the May 14 moff election. R TOP tail price for 5-month con- s not include e, state and ;ing policy. of wl is! :ket ’ty Officials live Offices 'o Students Eleven students from A&M Con- idated and 11 students from :phen F. Austin High Schools ed the positions of city officials lay in Bryan and College Sta- a. Hie third annual Government l sponsored by the area Elks dge, arranged for students to Icity offices ranging from may- to police chief. hie Government Day activities fan with a luncheon at Coach Mon’s Pancake House with 75- students and city officials at- iding. Students and Bryan city offices were Ralph Young, mayor; »mas Pack, city manager; John mtgomery, police chief; John irguson, fire chief; Gary Foster, f engineer; Paul Swarthout, tchasing agent; Mike Ritchey d Jarvis Porter, parks and rec kon; Charles Scherbel, city sec tary and Davis Mayfield and ■fid Segrest as city attorneys. A&M Consolidated students par- dpating in the Government Day d the offices held were Frank ■own, mayor; K u r t Schember, ■E manager; Les Palmei', police •af; Bobby Holcombe, city attor- 1 and Allen Coulter, city judge. Consolidated elected six students fill the positions of commission- s in the three separate wards, “y were Nils Ekfelt and Paul [amaliga for Ward 1; Rosemary •mpson and Judy Morgan for l|,( l 2; and Jimmy McAfee and Callaham for Ward 3. Friday Deadline od For Purchase W Opera Tickets A few tickets are left for two ^ Performances in Dallas this ^Aend. Lee Walker, chairman fi 16 trip, has set Friday noon ^ deadline for the purchase fi'ose tickets. A&M delegation will attend * operas Friday and Saturday. /%’s performance begins at 8 •■while Saturday’s matinee gets ^rw'ay at 2 p.m. fiokets to “Boris Gudenov” and J %ne Butterfly” sell for $4.70 ^16.70. Transportation will he %hed for students desiring to M either of the two shows, %r said. A* ducats may be purcased at I Student Programs Office in ^Memorial Student Center. %ris Gudenov” will be held Fri- y with “Madame Butterfly” ^duled for Saturday. !lie MSC Council is sponsoring ^cultural presentations. Bill Monier and Charlie Powell will vie for vice president of the Class of ’04 in the May 14 run offs, while Tom Collins and Bill Herrman will be pitted in the race for senior class secretary- treasurer. THE LONE member of the Class of ’04 elected in the primary elec tion was Rick Railston, who was named social secretary. Stan Wy lie and Ellis Smith will be in the runoff for class historian, while Larry McGlothlin and Larry Gar rett topped the list in the race for student entertainment chair man. Three candidates for senior yell leader moved into runoff places: Mike Marlow, Jim Schnabel and Harry Haggard. Left in the race for the Memorial Student Center Council’s senior representative are Roy Netz and Charles Brandt. NEXT YEAR’S junior class vice president will be chosen from Jim Burns and Butch Triesch. Besides Muller, other junior officers select ed in the primary voting were Charles Wallace, secretary-treasur er, and Garry Tisdale, social secre tary. Ernest Chaney and Rob Row land led other candidates for jun ior representative on the MSC Council and move into the runoff election. Runoff candidates for jun ior yell leader are Ted Hopgood, Tommy Harrison and Frank Cox. SIX FRESHMEN were forced into runoffs for three sophomore class positions as a result of Wednesday’s election: Robert Q. Donnellan and Michael O. Beck, vice president; Mike Raybourne and Sim Lake, secretary-treasurer, and Early Denison and Travis Wil liams, social secretary. Johnny Rodgers was selected freshman representative to the MSC Council. Aggie Mother nr* t> ti j i 1 o Be Presented AtAnnualEvent STEP RIGHT IN Paul Dresser readies voting machine. Aggieland By Mail Will Cost Students Students wishing to have their copies of the 1962-63 Aggieland mailed to them may do so by making arrangements with the Office of Student Publications. Mailing fees will vary accord ing to the distance. Students must contact the office and pay the determined amount. 1,500 MA Y BE TRIPLE-STACKED Crowded Conditions Seen For Dorms In Fall Term Approximately 1,500 members of the Corps of Cadets will be re quired to live three to a room when classes begin next fall. Outfit dormitory assignments were re leased this week by the Office of The Commandant. Dormitories 1 through 12 will each have 35 rooms triple-stacked, and Dorms 14, 15, and 17 will have 78 rooms with three cadets together. Equally crowded conditions are expected for civilian students, who will be housed in Hart Hall (Ramps A-E), Law (Ramps 1-6, Puryear, Mitchell, Legett, Milner, Walton, Dorm 13, Dorm 16 and part of Dorm 15 (2-4 floor). TWO DORMITORIES located at the Bryan Air Force Base will house an additional 288 civilian stu dents. Col. Frank S. Vaden, assistant to the commandant and in chai'ge of Corps housing, said that he didn’t feel the crowded conditions would cause anyone to leave, but he felt it would prove to be a con trol problem. “I don’t feel that it is an ideal situation, and I don’t know any one in the administration who does feel that it is,” Col. Vaden said. JAMES P. Hannigan, dean of students, said that there will he ENFORCEMENT! Hannigan Clarifies College Regulations Dean James P. Hannigan clari fied the interpretation of college clothing regulations to The Bat talion Wednesday afternoon in an effort to avoid possible misunder standings on the pai-t of students. The Executive Committee agreed last week to assist the Civilian Student Council in stronger en forcement of the clothing i-egula- tions which were first put into effect more than two years ago. The rules were written at that time by the Academic Council, at the request of and with the help of the CSC. HANNIGAN pointed out that the clothing regulations do not prohibit the wearing of blue jeans or khakis by students, except in cases where the trousers are tattered. Although the rules state that students may not wear beards, Hannigan affirmed that in appro priate cases exceptions can be made. The dean of students emphasized that a student should have a neat appearance on the campus at all times. COLLEGE REGULATIONS in dicate that students should not wear T-shirts on the campus un less they are participating in an athletic activity. Students are also warned against wearing show er shoes outside of the dormitories at any time. The Board of Directors ex pressed admiration during its last meeting for the CSC’s action in seeking stricter enforcement of the regulations. Faculty and staff members have been asked to see that the regulations are observed by students. House Passes Bill Creating New Colleges AUSTIN CP) _ The House, in an emotionally-charged atmos phere, voted Wednesday to create new state colleges at San Angelo and Edinburg. Passage was the final step need ed to put the bills on Gov. John Connally’s desk for signature into law. The four-year, state-support ed schools, the state’s 21st and 22nd, will enter the system in 1965. THE BILL to bring Pan Amer ican Colleg’e ot Edinburg into the system quickly passed with little debate after passage of the con troversial San Ang - elo measure. The San Angelo bill, marred by personality conflicts in the House since it received committee ap proval last month, was preceded and followed by biting personal privilege speeches. The sponsor, Rep. Forrest Hard ing of San Angelo, wept. Rep. John Allen of Longview, who threatened to resign last month because of what he said was pressure from the governor, lieutenant governor and speaker for his State Affairs Committee to approve the San Angelo bill, spoke after passage of the bills. THE ANGELO STATE Col lege proposal was passed 79-62, and the Pan American State Col lege proposal, 81-62. “You have just seen passage of legislation that will automatically put the state in a deficit for the next legislatm'e,” Allen said. He said that he has learned from San Angelo citizens that if Harding and Sen. Dorsey Harde- problems next year, but in Sept ember 1964, the college will have three new air-conditioned dorms, and Dorms 14-17 will have been re medied and air-conditioned. By the second semester of the 1964-65 school year, we will have completed the big complex south of Dorm 14. These projects will give the school six new dorms, and nine air-conditioned dormitor ies, Hannigan said. ACCORDING TO housing office records, as of April 26 of this year, there were 495 vacant beds in the Corps dorms, 235 empty civilian beds, and 17 empty in the athletic dorms — a total of 747 vacancies. Hannigan said that it would be wrong to “dump” civilian stu dents on the Bryan-College Sta tion people to ease the situation. To do this only gives the area peo ple the idea that a guaranteed board and room income would come each year from civilian housing. Plans are to have all under graduates living on the campus when the new donnitories are com pleted. Until then there will be a liberal distribution of day stu dent permits for those who have completed a specific number of years at the school, Hannigan said. Mom’s To Be Sacrifices Rewarded Red roses and the Aggie Honor Mother Award will be presented to Mrs. Lena Partridge Sunday morning. Mrs. Partridge, the mother of five, including two Aggies, was named to the honor by unanimous decision of the selection committee last week. Mrs. Partridge was nominated for the honor by her son, Jerry L. Partridge, a junior mechanical engineering major in Squadron 13. Another son, John Partridge Jr., is a 1959 Aggie graduate. There is one more son, Jim, attending West Texas State College on a football scholarship. The three boys have two sisters, Mrs. J. N. Field of Uvalde and Phyllis, who is a junior in high school. Jerry told the committee, “It is about time that someone « cheered her up instead of her k cheering everyone else.” THE NOMINATION stated that J . because of extended illness in the Partridge family Mis. Partridge |fl has not had the opportunity of visiting on the A&M campus since Jerry enrolled. It was necessary for the family to move from Uvalde to Corpus Christi in 1957 so that Mr. Part ridge could find new employment. During that same year doctors discovered that the father had h blood disease and would require medical care. Mrs. Partridge went to work as a salesclerk in oi'der to meet thef bills of the family and to keep her children in school. JERRY TELLS how his mother has been “especially wonderful” during the past year. Mr. Part ridge’s health reached such a state in recent months that he was forced to quit working. The nomination for the Honor Mother went on to say “Mother sent me money on my installments and continued to send encouraging letters telling me not to worry.” Jerry Vion, selection committee chairman, said “There were a lot of deserving mothers and it was a hard decision to make, but we are convinced we made the right choice.” MRS. LENA PARTRIDGE Cushing Library Head Reports Success Of Book-Checking Robert A. Houze, director of Anti-Coed BillFails Again To Secure Required Majority AUSTIN <2P)—The House refused for the second time, 109-28, Wednesday to let Rep. Will Smith of Beaumont introduce a bill to prevent women from entering Texas A&M. A four-fifths vote is necessary to suspend the rules and introduce a bill. Smith said Tuesday when he first tried to introduce the measure that the alumni of the all-male college has requested the bill, in protest of the school’s recent de cision to admit coeds. A companion resolution, express ing dissatisfaction with the de cision and asking that A&M be kept for men only will be heard | Harding a standing ovation “not | to the establishment of the door next Monday night by the House State Affairs Committee. The Senate sent to the governor Tuesday a bill to change A&M’s name to A&M University. Rooms Must Be Reserved At MSC Before May 31 Requests for Memorial Student Center guest room reservations for the 1963-64 school year will be accepted from students and former students during May. Only one room per family can be reserved for each event, according to Mrs. Mozelle Holland, guest rooms manager. Following the May 31 deadline, a drawing wdll be held to determine who will receive accomodations. Notices will be mailed to each person who is assigned a room. Those not drawn will be placed on the “waiting list,” Mrs. Holland said. Persons on the waiting list will be notified at least two weeks before the event if a room becomes available because of a cancellation. Agnostic Airs His Opinions At Discussion man of San Angelo failed to pass | Cushing Memorial Library, said the bill they “just might as well I Wednesday that the first month not announce for re-election.” “It is a sad state of affairs when a man comes to the legis lature and because special people have special interests they have to pass special legislation to get re-elected,” Allen said. THE STAUNCH opponent of the bill asked House member to give of library checks at the door of the library have proved a success. Houze said that by the end of April there had been a notice able decrease in the number of missing books and periodicals. “As a matter of fact the number of stolen periodicals has dropped to zero.” Houze said that prior the lobby, you can remember this | checks, periodicals and even entire the rest of your life,” Allen said i files had been removed from the and gestured toward the balcony, first and third floors. The members clapped while Hard ing wiped tears from his eyes. “We know that the check sys tem can be beaten” said Houze, “but the number of people who go to the trouble to do so is relatively small. Pat Decker, a graduate English student, said Wednesday night in a speech at the Presbyterian Stu dent Center, that the world’s re ligions have always directed their efforts at man’s emotions rather than his mind and have conse quently failed to do anything but delay his progress. Decker had been invited to air his views on why agnostics and many people of similar persuasion cannot accept the traditional ortho dox religious beliefs. “RELIGION HAS always re quired some commitment to a belief, which automatically closes some avenue of thought.” Decker based his argument on the fact that when a person blindly accepts a faith he is forced to close his thoughts to any viewpoint that would oppose that view. “If he didn’t then he does not have faith in that point of view and therefore cannot believe in that particular faith.” Decker emphasized that most of the world’s religions depend upon a faith of some nature. “Of course in our everyday life we depend upon some momentary faith some time or other. The point is that I don’t believe in pro ponents of a particular faith forc ing their views on other persons. Everybody has the right to believe in what he wishes.” Decker went on to explain that he believed the definition of an agnostic depends upon the relative “We have even caught a number i definition of an atheist, of faculty members leaving the ! IF AN atheist is a person who library without checking out the \ does not believe in a God, then an books, but in most cases it was i agnostic believes in an ultimate just a matter of absent minded- answer but does not call it God, ness.” j Decker said. “I believe answer lies Decker. On May 14th the Presbyterian j Student Center will present an “Alternative to Agnosticism.” The ; Rev. Fred Holt, Methodist campus minister at Rice University, will 1 be the speaker. Houze said that one of the most significant results of the checks has been the decrease in the num ber of requested books missing. “All in all I think that it is a tribute to Aggies that the system has turned out to be such a suc cess,” said Houze. that the ultimate in science,” said
