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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1963
Number 109
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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.
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'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
â– fid Segrest as city attorneys.
A&M Consolidated students par-
dpating in the Government Day
d the offices held were Frank
â– own, mayor; K u r t Schember,
â– 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
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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