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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1963)
Pape 6 College Station, Texas Thursday, August 22, lf)6S THE BATTALION FOR SUCCESS IN COLLEGE F amiliar ity W ith Library Y ital As incoming freshmen one of the biggest favors you can do for your selves is to become familiar with the A&M library system. Taking advantage of its services can mean the difference between success and failure in your college career. Staffed by professional librarians under direction of Robert A. Houze, the library system owns 450,000 volumes, 325,000 of which are con tained in the main building, Cush ing Memorial Library. CUSHING, the main storehouse of books and reference material on the campus, is located just east of the Academic Building. According to Houze, the library is open 99 hours a week. The fol lowing schedule has been set up: Weekdays from 8 a.m. to midnight, Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from 2 p.m. to mid night. As you enter the first floor of Cushing Memorial Library you enter the newspaper lounge where more than 50 papers from across the state and nation are available for up-to-date study of world events. The required reading room con tains volumes placed on reserve so they be easily obtained. GOING UP the stairs to the sec ond floor, on the left is the main loan desk. This is where books from the general collection ai’e located. In the second floor lobby are the card catalogs. Cushing Library is presently operated on a “closed stack” pro gram which means that a check slip has to be filled out and presented to library personnel at the loan desk. The library worker then goes back into the stacks to bring out the desired book. On the right at the top of the stairs is the general reference room. Here are located periodicals indices, encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, bibliographies, year books, and cer tain issues of the New York Times and other newspapers including The Battalion on microfilm for your reference. 4-Stage Program In Effect For Expansion Of Library TO THE LEFT of the newspaper lounge is a periodical reading room for the humanities and social sci ences. Current files only are avail able in this facility. Back issues of all periodicals received by the li brary may be obtained at the peri odical desk in the rear of the news paper lounge. On the right is the reserve and required reading room. As an in coming freshman, you will soon learn that professors expect you to spend many hours here. During the fall of 1962 it was announced that a four-stage plan for expansion of A&M library facilities would soon swing into effect. Library Director Robert A. Houze told The Battalion the ultimate goal of the expansion program was to provide one mil lion volumes and seating for 2,500 students. The plan is designed to serve university needs through 1996. Ultimate cost of the expansion program is to be about $3,800,000. Houze said last week that the first stage of the plan is already under operation. One-hundred thousand volumes from the col lection of the Texas Engineers’ Library were moved to Bagley Hall this summer. The chief librarian said con struction is scheduled to begin around the beginning of the next calender. This fii’st stage, which is to cost $1.5 million, will pro vide a two-story building stretch ing back from Cushing Memorial Library over and around the small Texas Engineers’ Library building. “The emphasis in the new building will be upon bringing together the undergraduate stu dent and library materials,” Houze said in making the orig inal announcement. The first stage is to provide 650,000 volumes and seating for 1,500 students. Present facilities proyide 450,000 volumes and space for only 600 students in all libraries. Houze said the expected time of completion for the first stage is late 1965 or early 1966. Later stages of construction are to add two more stories to the library building. ADJOINING the reference room is the documents division which contains thousands of public docu ments. On the third floor is the new Science and Technical Reports Cen ter. Houze said that current files for all periodicals received for the pure and applied sciences are housed here. He added that this room also houses a depository col lection for the Atomic Energy Com mission, including all unclassified publications of that agency. Also in the third floor reading room are all unclassified National Aeronautics and Space Administra tion documents and the documents of all other government agencies engaged in research. ANOTHER FEATURE of Cush ing Memorial Library is tbe A&M Archives, located on the first floor. Houze said this collection of histor ical material has been moved front the third floor for the convenience of students and visitors. In addition to the main library there are five other libraries on the campus. The Texas Engineers’ Li brary, normally housed in a small building behind Cushing Library, is now set up in Bagley Hall, acfoss the street to the north. The Chemistry Library is located on the top floor of the new wing of the Chemistry Building. A business administration library is located in Francis Hall. The Architecture Library is lo cated in the new Architecture Building. On the first floor of the main building of the College of Veterinary Medicine is the A&M Veterinary Library. f s HOWD Y! WELCOME to AGGIELAND S' ! •X •X •X •X You’ll want to tell the folks at home about all the exciting things happening here at Aggieland. A “per sonal” visit to your home can be made almost as quick ly as you can reach the nearest telephone. Yes, telephone service is faster and better than ever . . . and cheaper too. By calling station-to-station, you can make three calls for the price of two person-to- person calls. So reach for the nearest telephone, and you’ll be “at home” in a jiffy. Remember . . . for faster service at lower rates, call station-to-station by number. Southwestern States Telephone 1 f I lince 1876 lied its doc las been a lie univen le hearted' ■teaching r Ithe Natio: i m [For many "v - ' rgie Reference Room Study Table These Aggies make use of the general ref- dents to go beyond text books to i erence room in preparing reports for a found here and elsewhere in the in variety of courses. Professors expect stu- [In additio Aggies orld wars |ve been ( th imong Student Cars Are Welcon If Certain Rules Follows “Students are welcome to bring their cars to the campus but cer tain procedures have to be ob served and certain regulations abided by,” according to Campus Security Chief Fred Hickman. Under college regulations stu dents must register their vehicles (including motor scooters and mot orcycles) at the Campus Security Office in tbe basement of the YMCA within 48 hours after their arrival on the campus. This regulation applies only to cars that a student plans to keep on the campus. AFTER PAYMENT of a regis tration fee for $3 per semester, a student will be issued a parking permit decal to be placed in the lower left hand corner of bis wind shield. This decal will have a particular number, depending in which dorm itory area a student lives. This number will indicate the 'parking lot in which the student may park his car. During business hours campus streets are adequate only for hand ling of traffic necessary to col lege business. These hours are from 8 a.m. un til 5 p.m. Students’ cars must be parked in their proper parking area by 2 a.m. Thus between 5 p.m. and 2 a.m., Monday through Saturday mornings, students can park their cars in areas usually re served for business. Twelve noon Saturday until 2 a. m. Monday are also free parking periods. WORK IS VARIED Campus Jobs Help Many Aggies Stay Lack of adequate cash should not keep any student from going to A&M. Many an Aggie has work ed or is now working his way through college here. Married Students’ Quarters Offered By Housing Office Many students at A&M, no small percentage of them fresh men, are married. The university has inexpensive facilities for many of these students. A&M owns and maintains 351 furnished two-bedroqm apartment, 312 furnished one-bedroom apart ments and 115 unfurnished two- bedroom apartments. University housing for married students consists of the Hensel Apartments, brick building north east of the main campus. Near the Hensel area are also the College View apartments, a number of bar rack-type structures remodeled to provide eight two-bedroom dwel lings per building. To the south of the main cam pus is another set of apartment buildings known as Project Hous ing. Information regarding these liv ing areas for married students is available through the Housing Of fice. There are also a number of pri vately owned houses and apart ments for both married and single students in Bryan and College Sta tion. The Office of Student Labor and Loans has jobs to fit every need. Some students work at greasing cars, mowing lawns, or trimming hedges. Others wash glassware in chemistry labs, wait on tables in the Memorial Student Center, or serve as waiters in one of the dining halls. PAY FOR most part-time jobs is commensurate with the student’s ability. Most often, it runs about a dollar an hour. Assignments to part-time jobs are based on the student’s need and sincerity of purpose. Students who need part-time em ployment should file applications with the student labor office. The type of job desired and hours that are free in the student’s class schedule should be noted on the application. Aggies are expected to maintain good scholastic standing to remain eligible for employment. The Office of Student Labor and Loans also maintains a munber of short-term, small loan funds. THE ASSOCIATION of Former Students also administers a series of loan funds which are available to any student who has been at A&M at least three semesters, and whose record in conduct and schol arship is satisfactory. The amount of the loan depends on the student’s need. There are other loan funds from various businesses and agencies also avail able to all students. Those needing extra money can get information about such loans at the labor and loans office on the third floor of the YMCA building. STUDENTS CANNOTli to classes. They may as for off-campus trips durii? room hours provided no sti made on the campus. Texas laws governing fa effective on the campus, limits are 20 m.p.h. and art Pedestrians shall at all tins the right of way, and ati between classes, vehicular is expected to stop forasd period of time to allow pelf to cross drives and streets With the discussion of hs fic regulations, next come cussion of what happens regulation is violated. Under an authorization!! by the A&M Board of Dte fee may be levied for rtf college driving rights tala violators of college traffic!! UNDER NEW re| student receiving five notices in one semester his parking privileges rB ^ for three months while in A thirty day period will 1* for each unpaid notice. Each violator has 111® redeem the driving privileg* out an additional fineheini egulai: • At the bottom of every issued will be instructions s a violator may go about getd car reinstated and the and place to go. If the driver thinks tie is unwarranted, he should to the Office of Campus^ where notice of appeal $ prepared. Clothing, Lai Is Fairly Sinflf Problem At Al (n Terry, : ne 27 whil :al advisor their fligl Viet Cor rt of an i Terry and wn by gre rafing rui Letters fn atements : uch-quoted ter Terry’ “It is not am concer And th isband felt In the ne: his wife 1 ost fortui orld to live This is me and I ch a fine fe to fight In a letfa mmanding said, “T my mind ippen, this anted it.” The flier illowing tl Hg annive In additic two so y HI, 8, i Entering freshmen will terested to know the cloth? laundry problem at A&M latively simple one. The student in the f? Cadets will have most of ht ing issued to him. The bif lem here is alterations, $ incoming freshman will do have this work done as ^ possible. During Orientation We* entering freshman must college laundry, where he * assigned and told when and he will deposit his soiled ck For convenience, then depositories at various locals the campus. After that, civilians and units have regular laundry* The cleaned clothing is ph 1 at the main laundry office 3 cases; in some cases thelaiJ 1 brought back to the depod to be reclaimed by the stud® UPPERCLASSMEN KNOW WHERE TO GET THE BEST DEAL ON BOOKS AND SUPPLIES---If You Are In Doubt Ask An Upperclassman LOUPOT S TRADING POST *11 (Regular! THE ( Pas u If you are You Order by