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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.
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