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anie Change Is Effective Tomorrow as Hunters'G n the publisk lias, for Uiv d to included ten especiallyi ritten by top si's give the b ire, and how cas' most hr, ; and birds. includes F: 11 country, at: i-y, javelina, antelope andt .t they say it [‘PER of Am e javelina is iller. It is sky ted animal tki >ossible, evet its path of s the hunter, Hi by, over or ill .iry, to escape,' 1 : . informationc dusive jaVelk ig of Victotji r duck calls,, three hunten ks if they left ?. Improper t in the conservtj at used propir asset to the hr •n to explain ill President Rudder Reflects On Recent A&M Progress a IMPS it purcblt of l&M freshmen this September 1 study in a new English pro- tm with emphasis upon develop- writing techniques for use wghout the years. The Freshman English Commit- worked for almost a year in living this new program which lows the general trend in teach- i composition in the larger col- fes and universities,” Dr. John Anderson, department head, said announcing the new program. The two semesters of freshman glish have been made into a unit. FRESHMAN ENGLISH at A&M THE OLD LOOK Incoming freshmen will be members of the first class to en roll in Texas A&M University. Friday A&M will trade “College” for “University” in its official title. The name change was approved by the legislature in May but became effective 90 days after the bill was signed. A&M has been a university in fact for many years, since, its educational offerings include un dergraduate and graduate stud ies, engineering, arts, science, agriculture, business, architec ture, veterinary medicine and teacher education. President Earl Rudder calls the occasion “a time to reflect on our progress and our future.” “Our goal is excellence,” he as serted. “By insistence upon excel lence in every aspect of our uni versity, we will best serve the needs of Texas.” Rudder noted that the univer sity’s future was charted in a “Blueprint for Progress” issued last year by the Board of Direc tors. The Blueprint called for strengthened programs of in struction, recruitment of a super ior faculty, attraction of out standing students and improved facilities. “Since the Blueprint was pub lished we have made significant advancements toward our goal,” Rudder noted. Examples of strengthened in struction cited by the president included re-examination of cur rent courses and new programs such as the interdisciplinary doc torate in engineering, graduate degrees in statistics, government and laboratory animal medicine and the pending doctorate in agricultural engineering. Additions to the faculty noted by the president included a world-renowned chemist from Iowa State University, Dr. Fred erick R. Duke; Dr. George J. Igo, senior staff member of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif.; Dr. John L. Gammel from Los Alamos, N.M. and John A. McIntyre from Yale, both distinguished physicists; Dr. H. O. Hartley also from Iowa State, an outstanding statisti cian; and Dr. Robert Gilruth, di rector of NASA’s Manned Space craft Center in Houston, who will be a visiting professor. A portion of permanent uni versity funds has been committed to improve faculty salaries, Rud der said, and outstanding profes sors will receive merit raises in pay this year. Healthy increases in enroll ment were recorded both during the regular and summer sessions in spite of a more selective ad mission policy, Rudder said. He added that many of the addition al students were in the Graduate College where percentage in creases in 1962-63 were almost double the national average. Che Battalion Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1963 Number 129 TRESSES WRITING TECHNIQUES New English Plan Announced is taught by all the department members. “We’ve always gone on the the ory that our best people should be used in teaching freshman Eng lish,” Anderson said. The freshman English program will account for 44 percent of the department’s teaching load this Fall Semester. Professor Lee J. Martin heads the program and chaired the com mittee which conducted extensive research and study in planning the new procedure. Dr Martin attended several na- .aw Officers Hear If Problems, Plans Delegates attending the sixth tual Police-Community Relations ititute currently undeiway here ird talks on the state’s crime nblems and rehabilitation plans fthe future. A Los Angeles police official pressed concern over the nation’s leasing crime rate. Noel A Mc- pn, deputy chief commander of Los Angeles Police Department, ft told 45 Texas and Louisiana enforcement officials that so iled “peaceful” demonstrations * becoming a great part of our ftie problem. J lcQUOWN SAID crime in the ■Red States has increased 27 per- four times greater than the Nation growth. He called on citizen to assist with law en- fcemen “if the community in toeh he lives is to survive.” 4 citizen cannot disassociate •■self from this responsibility.” tyiown warned. He pictured 1963 tbe year of protest and added tore and more people are advo- foig protest.” Some people in this world firmly *tove this nation will fall,” he ^d. “Our country has the oldest to) of government, yet we have Celebrated our 200th birthday. ^ long can we exist when crime Increasing so?” ^cQuown’s talk highlighted the ^ning session of the sixth annual ftoe-Community Relations school. is one of several to address : *?ates through Thursday. P&. GEORGE BETO, director of Texas Department of Correc- ^ said the Harlem Prison Unit, toted near Richmond, will become ^charge center beginning Sept. ring his talk, he mentioned ^ 12,433 are now in the state ^on and predicted the figure will climb to 14,500 at the end of 1965. Ray W. Williams of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, speaking at the conference, said 300 more convicts will be released in 1963 than last year, although he quickly added “the success of the parole system should not be judged on the number of persons it pa roles.” Williams did indicate, however, that he felt “too many people are kept behind bars too long, rather than not long enough.” tional meetings and seminars to gain information on the latest de velopments in freshman English across America. In English 103, the first semes ter course, the student will be taught the rhetoric of the sentence and then will progress to coordi nating the elements in writing a short paper. Students will write a minimum of 5,000 words during the semester. TWO PAPERBACK textbooks will be used throughout the fresh man year. Each semester there will be one additional, paperback text book. Students in English 104 will study more complex patterns of paragraphing, methods of combin ing these patterns, and the selec tion of adequate material to sup port the theses of papers. Vocabu lary study also will be emphasized. Students will be required to write a minimum of 6,500 words during the semester. Each student will receive per sonal attention during two con ferences each semester. These per sonal conferences will provide op portunities for students to gain extra knowledge. The new program in freshman English includes details of the final examinations. “FOR THE FINAL examina tion in English 103,” to quote from the summary, “students will be given a broad topic of their in structor’s choosing. They will be expected to narrow this topic to a subject they can deal with in 500 words, to frame an acceptable thesis statement, and to establish this thesis through competent para graph development. Students will also be held responsible for ac ceptable use of grammar and me chanics.” The final examination in English 103 will be similar, but the paper will be 800 words in length. DR. JOHN Q. ANDERSON . . . announces new program Maritime Students Return From Trip Cadets’ New Record Bob Boone, director of the Singing Cadets, shows the group’s latest album to Mrs. Judy Gagliardo, his secretary. The two are obviously pleased with the shipment of records that arrived this week. Eleven seagoing Aggies fresh from a summer trip to European ports are scheduled to fly into Houston at 6:55 p.m. Friday to end the first summer cruise for Texas Maritime Academy cadets. The cruise aboard the Empire State IV, training shop of the New York Maritime College, began in June. The training ship docked Tuesday morning in the New York area. Capt. Bennett M. Dodson, TMA superintendent, and Capt. John Evei’ett of Washington and a mem ber of the Board of Visitors of the Texas Maritime Academy, were among those greeting the cadets. CAPT. DODSON made the first portion of the cruise, but returned I earlier to supervise preparations j for opening of new facilities at I Galveston. The cadets are in good health | and the cruise was successful, Capt. Dodson reported in a telephone j call Tuesday to the A&M campus, j Twenty Texas Maritime Acad- j emy cadets made the cruise. Some j are going to their homes elsewhere, ! thus only 11 are flying to Houston Staff To Register Cars By New Plan Campus Security officials an nounced this week that new pro cedure will be followed by fac ulty and staff members in regis tering their cars for fall. The $7.50 fee is to be paid at the Fiscal Office. The parking sticker will then be acquired by presenting the receipt at the Campus Security Office. All summer car permits expire Aug. 31. Faculty and staff mem bers who wish may pay for the fall sticker starting Monday. on Friday. “The summer cruises are an in tegral part of the Texas Maritime Academy progi-am of preparing young men for careers in the mari time industry,” Capt. Dodson has said. Cruises will be scheduled each year. The TMA cadets who have just completed their first cruise will, in time, form the first graduating class of the Academy. Among the 20 cadets are 13 fu ture deck officers and 7 engineer ing officers. PORTS OF CALL for the cruise this summer included Dublin, Ham burg, Antwerp, Naples and the Balearic Islands. The Empire State sailed from Albany, N.Y. in mid-June to com mence the cruise. " "I THE NEW Fish Welcome Agenda Starts September 11 When this year’s new student welcome prog-ram begins Sept. 11 two-thirds or more of the incoming freshmen will have already, registered, paid fees and been assigned to a military unit. C. H. Ransdell, assistant to the Dean of Engineering and chairman of the New Student Committee, said Tuesday that the traditional Freshman Orientation Week will feature a somewhat different schedule this fall. “Two-thirds or better of the incoming freshman have already pre-registered during several two-day periods over the summer,” he explained. Fifteen such sessions have been offered since June 10. “Many parents have come 4- and participated,” Ransdell ‘ said. He said he felt the sum mer conferences, offered for the first time this year, were very appropriate. Ransdell said this year’s new student week will be a three-phase operation: 1. ON WEDNESDAY, Sept. 11 freshmen who have participated in one of the summer new student conferences will report to the Ball room of the Memorial Student Cen ter from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. At this time the students will visit a Housing Office station and receive room keys. They will re port to a Registrar’s station to secure a mimeographed block schedule of classes they have been registered in. They will report to the Student activities station to pick up their activities booklet. There will be a picture station where the fresh men will report to have an identi fication card photograph made. 2. ON MONDAY, Sept. 9 a make up orientation and testing session will begin. Students will report the previous day, secure a room from the Housing Office. From 8:30 a. m. until noon Mon day students will be given College Entrance Examination Board tests and other special examinations in (See New Students, Page 8) This ‘BatV Edition Designed For Fish This edition of The Battalion is especially designed for incoming freshmen and their families. The first section includes cur rent campus news and some fea ture stories on the school. Sec tions 2 and 3 have information on educational facilities, history and extra-curricular activities. The fourth section covers sports. The new student might find it useful to keep this “Batt” and bring it with him in September to help in the big job of getting acquainted with A&M. Navy, Army, Air Force Brass Begin Computer Study Sunday Fifty-five reserve officers of the Navy, Army and Air Force will report at the Memorial Student Center Sunday afternoon for the first Research Reserve Seminar on Electronic Computers in conjunc tion with A&M and Naval Reserve Research Company 8-3 of College Station. The seminar will continue through Sept. 7. Officials said all sessions will be open to interested visitors. Many top Navy scientific research makes it an appropriate place to hold the meeting. “W’hether on board ship or air craft or on the ground, the com puter has become essential in mod em military operations,” he said in pointing out the importance of the seminar. “New, sophisticated computer techniques, such as self-organizing systems and the optical processing of information, will enable us to officers will j solve complex problems of planning attend the meeting, including Rear Admiral L. D. Coats, chief of Naval Research. IN A LETTER to the men who will attend the conference, Admiral Coates said A&M’s prominence in in a fraction of the time presently necessary,” he added. Chairman of the seminar will be Commander B. C. Moore, a pi'ofes- sor in the Department of Mathe matics. Swim Meet Begins Today At Cain Pool Registration for approximately 500 Texas youths competing in the “Water Olympics of Texas” will begin here at 4 p.m. Thursday. The two-hour registration period will be followed by opening cere monies, including a welcome ad dress by President Rudder, dedica tion and awards ceremony. Scene of the first statewide swim meet for youth is the Olympic style pool, named in honor of Wofford Cain, one of A&M’s most dis tinguished alumni. Art Adamson, A&M swimming coach, will receive special recog nition during the opening cere monies. The formal program will begin at 7:30 p.m. Following the talks, synchronized swimming, diving and water polo exhibitions will be pre sented. Swimming events will get under way at 10 a.m. Friday with prelimi naries in 18 different events. Ages of the contestants range from 11 to 17. Water polo teams will come from Austin, Dallas, and Houston. Meet officials will include persons from throughout Texas. Honorary ref eree will be Art Adamson, and the meet director is Hank Chapman of the University of Texas. liSP