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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1968
Number 112
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Name-Change Bill Endorsed
Gov. John Cormally puts his signature to are President Rudder, Rep. David Haines
the legislation which will change A&M’s of College Station, Sen. W. T. (Bill) Moore
name to Texas A&M University 90 days of Bryan and Chancellor M. T. Harrington,
after the legislature adjourns. Looking on
fROM LEGISLA TURK
Administrators Seek Funds
For Vet School Enlargement
President Earl Rudder and Dr.
Ivin Price, dean of the School
! Veterinary Medicine, were in
nstin Tuesday to present a spec-
1 request to the legislature to
low A&M' to double the size of
e veterinary school.
Jhe request stated that the need
ir more funds for the school is
Rent. Applicants for training in
ferinary medicine have more than
uhled during the past four years
ie request pointed out. About
15 Texans have applied for ad-
tission to the school which has
ilities which are only adequate
»admit 64 new students each year.
RUDDER AND Price sought to
trsuade the legislators it would
(More profitable, and would serve
ie people of Texas better, if
itM’s veterinary school could be
expanded instead of building a
second school in the state.
The request gave nine reasons
why it would be better to expand
A&M’s facilities instead of creat
ing a new school.
The reasons are:
A&M’s school of veterinary medi
cine is well established.
A&M’s school has a strong
teaching staff and facilities which
have been developed over many
years.
REQUIRED supporting courses
in other schools and departments
at A&M are already available.
Clinical cases (animal patients)
which are a highly critical teach
ing element, are on hand and
sources of supply are established.
A&M’s school of veterinary
medicine is fully accredited.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. CP)
"Astronaut Gordon Cooper soared
:ir ay on America’s longest plan-
■f! space flight today, described
celestial ride as “quite a thrill”
-dearly in the mission was given
?o-ahead for at least seven of
'^planned 22 orbits.
During the first orbit he gave
■s spacecraft system a thorough
■ding and pronounced them all in
Client shape. Mercury Control
C®fer at Cape Canaveral then re-
Aed the word that he was “go”
■ ,f at least six more orbits.
That was the first of three criti-
d decisions scheduled for the 34-
|,J r flight. The other two were
d for orbits 7 and 17.
Principal landing areas in the
■ : btie and Pacific were at the
"dof each of these passes. How-
alternate landing areas were
Wire
Review
% The Associated Press
TEXAS NEWS
EL PASO CP) _ A Biggs Air
Wee Base pilot stuck with his
•Urning FIDO jet fighter long
*a°ugh to fly it away from a
kavily populated area and then
debuted to safety Monday.
Lapt. Dewitt Cage discovered
^ fire shortly after taking off
y Biggs on the edge of El
He headed at once for an un
dulated area, parachuted and
Wered only minor injuries.
located around the world in case
of an emergency.
The decision to keep flying was
passed on to Cooper by astronaut
Virgil I. Grissom, capsule com
municator at the Guaymas, Mexi
co, station.
“You’re go for seven,” Grissom
— who made a suborbital flight
years ago-reported.
“Roger,” replied Cooper, and
then jokingly made believe that
he had understood Grissom to say
thirty-plus orbits.
“For thirty how many?” he
asked. “As many as you want,”
Grissom chuckled.
Minutes later, at 9:37 a.m.
Eastern Standard Time, Cooper’s
Faith 7 spacecraft passed above
the Florida-Georgia border to
complete the first orbit.
That was one hour, 33 minutes
after an Atlas rocket blasted off
from Cape Canaveral to propel
Cooper’s spacecraft into a nearly
perfect orbit ranging from 100 to
166 miles above the earth.
Each orbital pass was to take
88.7 minutes. The first circuit re
quired longer because it included
the boost phase of flight.
As Cooper completed orbit No. 1,
he talked with astronaut Walter
M. Schirra Jr. at Cape Canaveral.
Schirra, whose six-orbit space
flight record Cooper was out to
break, told the pilot, “It was a
beautiful shot.”
“It looks pretty good from up
here, too,” Cooper answered.
Schirra told Cooper to turn on
his television camera and as the
pictures were relayed to a moni
tor at the Cape, Schirra said,
“You look pretty casual up there.”
“Boy, I am,” Cooper replied.
Trimester teaching has been ap
proved and will begin this sum
mer,
A&M is prepared to increase its
new student capacity in veteri
nary medicine by 50 per cent next
fall with the same quality train
ing.
A&M is prepared to double its
new student capacity in only two
years by a further increase of new
students by 1964.
DOUBLING the output of grad
uates at A&M can be accomplish
ed with only a fractional increase
in operating- costs compared to
establishing a new school.
The Battalion contacted Rep.
Bill Heatly of Paducah, Tuesday
night, who is a member of the
appropriations committee, hut he
refused comment.
It is not our policy to disclose
to the press, at this time, matters
concerning the committee meetings,
he explained. Heatly was not able
to disclose when the committee’s
decision would be available.
WALTER S. MANNING
Manning Is Named
Accounting Profs’
Association Head
Walter S. Manning, associate
pi-ofessor of accounting, was elect
ed president of the Texas Associa
tion of University Accounting Pro
fessors at San Antonio recently.
Manning has been a member of
the A&M faculty for 25 years. Be
tween teaching assignments here
Manning has been a visiting pro
fessor at Texas A&I College and
Texas Tech.
He is listed in the 1961-62 Who’s
Who in American Education and
1962-63 Who’s W T ho in the South
and Southwest.
Manning received a bachelors
degree in business administration
at Texas A&I and earned his
M.B.A. from the University of Tex
as. He holds a Texas certified
public accountant certificate.
Yell Leaders Elected
In Wednesday Voting
Rudder Examines Bill
President Rudder examines the bill which has changed the
college’s name, as it’s author, Rep. David Haines chats with
Chancellor M. T. Harrington.
Blaney To Speak
At Senior Banquet
Walter “Zaney” Blaney, official
ly titled Texas’ Goodwill Ambassa
dor by gubernatorial proclamation,
is scheduled to be the feature
speaker at the Senior Banquet in
Duncan Dining Hall, Saturday, at
6 p.m.
Known for his “wild antics”
during after-dinner talks,’ Blaney
received the title of “goodwill” am
bassador for the state from Gov.
Price Daniel last year.
ALSO INCLUDED in the ban
quet program will be the reading
of the class history by Brucks Ba
der, historian for the Class of ’63.
Highlig-hting the evening’s activi-
Religion’s Side
Of Agnosticism
Given Tonight
Religion’s side of the current
controversy on Agnosticism will
be heard Wednesday night at 7:15
in the Presbyterian Student Cen
ter.
The Rev. Fred Holt, Wesley
Foundation Dh-ector at Rice Uni
versity, is scheduled to speak in
rebuttal to views given last week
at the Center by professed agnos
tic Pat Decker, a graduate stu
dent in English.
Holt will discuss “An Alternative
to Agnosticism,” and is to give
his ideas on the Christian’s atti
tude in this scientific age.
Last week, Decker defined an ag
nostic as one who believes in an
“ultimate answer” but does not
call it God. He told his listeners,
“I believe that the ultimate answer
lies in science.”
Decker said that the world’s re
ligions had always directed their
efforts at man’s emotions rather
than his mind and had conse
quently failed to do anything but
retard his progress.
He based his statements on his
belief that when a person blindly
accepts a faith he is forced to
close his thoughts to any viewpoint
that would oppose that faith.
The graduate student was in
vited to air his views on agnostics
and people of similar convictions
cannot accept the traditional re
ligious beliefs.
The Center scheduled Decker’s
talk and the forthcoming one by
Holt to allow both sides to bring
their views into the open.
ties will be the traditional Senior
Ring Dance to begin at 8 p.m.
in Sbisa Dining Hall.
The ring dance, held annually to
celebrate the turning of a senior’s
ring that represents his change
from an undergraduate to a grad
uate.
One of the newer traditions on
the A&M campus, the first ring
dance was held about 20 years ago.
Seniors and their dates will dance
to the music of Buddy Brock’s Con
tinental Orchestra. Brock’s or
chestra is the largest one to ever
play on the campus according to
Charles Blaschke, senior class
president.
TICKETS FOR both the dance
and the banquet will be on sale at
the Memorial Student Center
cashier’s office until 4 p.m. Wed
nesday. Banquet tickets are $2
per person.
The menu for the banquet will
feature filet mignon with baked
alaska for desert, Blaschke said.
Ducats for the dance are $6 per
couple. The price of the tickets
will include two photographs of
each couple made in a replica of
the senior ring.
1189 Go To Polls
For Class Runoffs
Mike Marlow. Harry Haggard, Ted Hopgood and Frank
Cox were elected yell leaders for 1963-64 in Tuesday’s runoff
election.
David Anderson was named president of next year’s
senior class, as 1189 students turned out at the polls.
Three vice presidents were chosen in Tuesday’s voting.
Bill Monier moved into the second spot for the Class of ’64;
Butch Triesch took over the number two position for next
year’s junior class, and Michael O. Beck was selected to the
sophomore vice prexy post.
More sophomores voted than did members of any other
class, as 416 members of the Class of ’65 visited the polls
as compared to 399 freshmerU
and 367 juniors. Next Week’s Vote
To Name Senators
Seven seniors voted in the
race for class agent for the
Class of ’63, with Clyde Bick-
ham securing a majority vote.
Ken Stanton, vice chairman of
the election commission, said, “I
guess it was a fair turnout, con
sidering that the freshman and
sophomore classes had already
elected their class presidents last
week and no runoffs were neces
sary for them.”
RICHARD DOOLEY and Frank
Muller were elected presidents of
the freshman and sophomore class
es, respectively, in the May 8 prim
ary. They were two of six stu
dents elected on the first ballot
which recorded 1552 voters.
In winning the senior class presi
dency, Anderson amassed 207 votes
to Pat Payne’s 153. Ivionier de
feated Charlie Powell in the day’s
closest race, 179-176.
Other juniors elected to upcom
ing senior posts were: Tom Col
lins, secretary-treasurer, over Bill
Hermann, 191-156; Stan Wylie, his
torian, over Ellis Smith, 180-155;
Larry Garrett, student entertain
ment chairman, over Larry Mc-
Glothlin, 184-178, and Charles
Brandt, MSC Council representa
tive, over Roy Netz, 200-138.
MARLOW TOTALED 235 votes
and Haggard had 218 tallies in the
senior yell leader race, defeating
Jim Schnabel with 210 counters.
Sophomore officers elected were:
Triesch over Jim Burns, 229-165,
and Rob Rowland over Ernest
Chaney, 234-163. Cox amassed
310 votes and Hopgood chalked up
267 marks in the junior yell leader
runoffs, ousting Tommy Harrison,
who had 192 votes.
Beck downed Robert Donnellan,
265-121, for sophomore president,
Mike Raybourne defeated Sim
Lake, 191-180, for secretary-treas
urer of the Class of ‘66, and Early
Denison beat out Travis Williams
236-142 for sophomore social sec
retary.
Summer Dorm Reservations
Will Be Accepted Thursday
The Housing Office announced
Monday there will be five dormi
tories available for student resi
dence during the forthcoming ses
sions of summer school.
The memorandum listed Hai’t
Hall (Ramps A-E), Mitchell, Leg
gett, Milner and Dorm 16.
STUDENTS NOW in school who
plan to attend the first term of
summer school have been asked to
report to the Housing Office and
register for rooms according to
the following schedule:
Those presently living in the
dormitories listed above and wish
ing to reserve the room they now
occupy should report Thursday
through May 22.
Students who wish to change
rooms or dorms are asked to re
port Thursday through May 22
and to bring a room change slip
from the housemaster of the new
room and dormitory concerned.
After May 22, all students who
have not signed up according to
the above instructions may sign for
a room on a “first come, first
serve” basis.
The announcement also pointed
out that those who have a $20
room deposit on file will not have
to pay any additional fees to re
serve housing. Others will be re
quired to make the deposit in order
to reserve rooms.
The memorandum stressed that
any student who makes the $20
deposit and fails to register will
forfeit the money.
Students who have reserved
rooms for the Fall semester in
the dormitories to be used for sum
mer school will have priority on
those rooms in September provided
they have sent in reservation cards
by July 31.
SINGLE UNDERGRADUATE
students are required to live on
campus unless they reside with
close relatives. The announcement
said exceptions will be made only
for very unusual circumstances.
Those students eligible for day
student permits were urged by
the memorandum to secure the per
mits as soon as possible in order
to save time at the June 3 regis
tration for the first summer term.
Student Senate representa
tives will be elected May 21, ac
cording to A1 Wheeler, election
commission chairman. One mem
ber from each of the four schools
will be named to the senate.
Five members from each class
are to be selected to the election
commission, which holds its
election May 21 also.
Deadline for filing for the
senate and election commission
posts was set for 5 p.m. Wed
nesday.
College Degree
Means Little
Says Educator
DALLAS UP) _ A college de
gree too often means only that
the student has made the neces
sary deposits in his academic bank
account in the registrar’s office
for four years, a speaker at the
“school” for university regents
said Tuesday.
Emphasizing the need for more
and better long-range planning
among colleges and universities,
Carl M. Franklin of the Universi
ty of Southern California said an
examination of curricula is a nec
essary first step to good planning.
“ON THIS point,” he said at the
school for regents held by the
Association of Governing Boards,
“we hardly need remind our
selves that many of our curricula
are really conglomerations and ac
cumulations, often outmoded.
“Courses are too frequently
adopted and retained to provide
a forum for the elaboration of a
young instructor’s recent doctoral
dissertation or to satisfy the whim
of a distinguished professor who
has long since relocated or re
tired.
“Our catalogs abound with
courses which haven’t been given
for years.”
Many institutions are still grad
uating students without a compre
hensive and liberal education, but
simply because their permanent
records in the registrar’s office
indicate they have gone through
the motions, he said.
“WE GIVE students diplomas
when we should give many only
academic deposit books. We im
ply that they are educated and
able to think when we should ad
mit frankly that many are merely
filled to capacity and able only
to regurg-itate,” he said.
Goals, he said, should be deter
mined by the faculty and staff
rather than outside consultants,
who should be called in only to
guide the institution in carrying
out its goals, Franklin told the
more than 100 regents present.
It is also necessary to distin
guish goals from their implemen
tation. Goals also must be formu
lated in considerable detail, he
added.