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A&M will offer a new two-year Air Force ROTC pro gram next Fall in addition to the traditional four-year pro gram, according to a Department of Air Science announce ment. The new program will be run under the ROTC Vitaliza- tion Act authorized by congress last year. “The program will definitely start in the Fall, but plans are still being outlined,” Col. Raymond C. Lee said. Students who formerly did not qualify for an advanced Air Force ROTC contract may now be eligible. This pro gram will benefit sophomore and junior civilian students, especially transfer students from junior colleges and four- New Computer Thinks Faster The long wait in line to use a computer at the Data Processing Center is a thing of the past with the installation of an IBM 7094 computer during the year-end holi days. The new machine, capable of handling 90,000 characters per sec ond, was off and running after a crew of IBM representatives and Data Processing personnel worked around the clock for a week string ing the miles of wire necessary to make the complex machine operate. Robert L. Smith, Jr., director, Data Processing Center, said the new machine, which sells for more than 3% million dollars, was be ing rented from the IBM Corpor ation at a reduced rate. “This computer is six time faster than our IBM 709 computer which had been in operation for the past two years,” he said. South African Scientist To Lecture Here Thursday Dr. Louis Herman Ahrens, a South African scientist described as among the world’s outstanding geochemists, will visit campus Thursday and Friday to give three lectures as a National Science Foundation Visiting Lecturer. A Graduate College Lecture on “Fractionation in Chondritic Mete orites,” separation ..into minerals and chemicals, will be given at 8 p.m. Thursday, Graduate Dean Wayne C. Hall announced. The public has been inivited to hear Ahrens speak in the Biological Sci ences Lecture Room. Ahrens also will lecture at 12:50 p.m. Thursday and 10 a.m. Friday. Ahrens also will be available for individual conferences. The Thursday noon lecture, plan ned especially for the junior high school science teachers who are Academic Year Institute partici pants, will be given in 146 Physics Building. The topic is “The Im portance of the Nature of the Chemical Bond for Controlling the Geochamical Distribution of the Elements.” Graduate Study To Be Discussed Graduate study will be the theme of this month’s meeting of the History Club, scheduled for 4 p.m. Thursday in Room 2A of the Me morial Student Center. Five speakers will discuss var ious aspects of graduate work, with question periods following their talks. The meeting is open to all in terested persons, especially in the fields of history, government and pre-law. Ahrens will speak Friday morn ing on “The Statistical Nature of Element Distribution in Rocks.” in Room 101 of the Old Petroleum Engineering Building. The visiting lecturer graduated from the University of South Afri ca and then attended Oxford Uni versity where he completed the MA degree. He holds the Doctor of Science degree from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Ahrens has held an assistant professorship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a read ership in mineralogy at Oxford. At the University of Cape Town he has held professorships in geo chemistry and chemistry. The scientist is well known for his professional interests in geo chemistry, spectrochemical analy sis, use of ionization potentials in chemistry, and nuclear structure. year colleges not offering ROTC. “Our present plans call for all applicants to be fitted into the present units now in the Corps,” Lee said. “Of course we will have to make some adjustments in order to place students who have never had ROTC,” he said. Students who have four semes ters remaining before completion of their degree programs are eligible to apply. A student may be enrolled in the advanced pro gram (either two- or four-year) while attending graduate school under another provision of the Act. Before a student starts the four- semester advanced program, he will be required to attend a six- week Field Training Course. Two sessions of the Field Training Course will be offered next sum mer to prepare students for entry into the program. The Course will be conducted at an Air Force base and will cover the material which students in the four-year program receive in the on-campus basic program. Students who enter the two- year program will also attend the traditional 28-day Summer Train ing Unit between their junior and senior years. A survey is being conducted on campus to determine several fac tors needed to iron out the plans for the program, Lee said. Students who are interested in the program should contact the Professor of Aerospace studies as soon as possible to complete an application for a reservation in the Field Training Courses. A physical examination and the Air Force Officer’s Qualifying Test are required for applicants before summer attendance. The implementation of this new program does not involve any change of policy by A&M with respect to mandatory participation in the Corps by freshmen, the an nouncement said. It presents addi tional opportunities for transfer students (who formerly were not eligible) to receive military train ing and enter the Corps, Lee said. Roam Reservation Plans Outlined For Spring Term All students now enrolled who expect to live in the civilian dormi tory room they now occupy will have until 5 p.m. Jan. 13 to re serve their room with the Housing Office. Students who plan to live in Cadet dormitories will not sign or register for rooms prior to regis tration. Their room reservations will be made by means of rosters submitted to the Housing Office by Cadets units showing the room assignment of each Cadet who ex pects to return. Civilians wishing to reserve any room other than the one they now occupy may do so until 5 p.m. Jan. 13 by presenting a room change slip signed by both house masters. A student moving from a civil ian dorm to a Cadet dorm will need a room change slip signed by the housemasters, organization commander and Cadet dormitory counselor. All students who will move from a Cadet dorm to a civilian dorm may register until 5 p.m. Jan. 13. They must have a room change slip signed by their unit command er, the civilian counselor in Room 105, Military Science Building, and the housemaster of the dorm to which they are moving. All students who move from a Cadet dorm to a civilian dorm must turn in a “Clearance for Dropping Sam Houston Proxy To Be Featured At Commencement President Arleigh B. Templeton of Sam Houston State Teachers College will be featured speaker for the A&M University Com mencement Jan. 16, President Earl Rudder announced. There are 574 candidates for bachelor and graduate degrees to be conferred during the program starting at 10 a.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum. The candidates include 414 graduating seniors, 122 persons seeking the master’s de gree and 38 doctoral students. Templeton recently assumed the presidency of Sam Houston State after serving as executive director of the Governor’s Committee on Education Beyond the High School. His career in education dates to 1936. He is president-elect of the Southern Association of Schools and Colleges, the regional accre diting group. Templeton’s career began with a high school principalship at Willow Hole High School in Madison Coun ty. He had just graduated from Sam Houston State. After serving as a principal at Willow Hole and later at League City, he worked for Pan American Refining Corp. before being commissioned a naval lieutenant for World War II serv ice. In 1947-48 Templeton was super intendent of the League City Schools and then went to the Clear Creek school district as assistant superintendent. At the same time he was a graduate student at the University of Houston and com pleted the master's degree in edu cation in 1949. Play Opens Tonight In Chapel Seven local churches will pre sent The Bishop’s Company pre- esntation of Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the All Faiths Chapel. The Bishop’s Company touring productions in a 12 year period which includes 24 national tours covering over a million miles. No admission will be charged but an offering will be taken to help defray expenses, group has presented over 6,000 ROTC” form to the Housing Of fice before Spring Registration. Remaining rooms in civilian dorms will be available on a first come-first serve basis beginning 8 a.m. Jan. 14. Special consideration for Dorms 22 and Ramps E and F of Walton will be given to graduate students, veterinary medicine students and foreign students not now living in that area. Housemasters of these dorms will issue room changes to incoming foreign, veterinary medi cine and graduate students. Because of room property re sponsibility, all students changing rooms should check out of old rooms and into new ones. A student who reserves his room for spring must cancel his reservation at the Housing Of fice by Jan. 15 in order to secure a refund of the 20 dollar room deposit unless he is not allowed to register by the University. Cadets who will not return must contact their first sergeant or forfeit their room deposit. Day students including those liv ing in the University owned apart ments, are strongly urged to se cure Day Student Permits to save time at registration. Permits must be secured from the Housing Office before fees may be paid. College Station Dog Tags Due Dog owners in College Station have been issued a reminder by City Manager Ran Boswell to ob tain a city dog tag as soon as possible. Boswell said utility bills were stamped reminding the city resi dents that the dog tag was due during January. He said the an nual dog tag is required of all dogs in College Station by city ordinance. All that is needed to obtain the dog tag it proof of a current ra bies vaccination. The cost of the tag is $1. Cost for not obtaining a tag is $3, Boswell said. The city manager said that over 300 dogs were picked up the past year. Cargill’s Veterinary Clinic serves as the College Station Dog Pound. System Reorganization Plan Will Retain Uniqueness No Common Ring, Nickname Or Diploma By TOMMY DeFRANK Two members of the A&M Uni versity System Board of Directors have expressed doubt that the proposed reorganization of the system would destroy the unique ness of the individual schools concerned. In a special telephone inter view, board members John W. Newton and S. B. Whittenburg, contended that the schools, par ticularly Arlington State College, the only member to oppose the reorganization, would retain their separate identity and would prob ably not share a common senior ring, nickname or diploma title. Whittenburg said that a great deal of confusion has clouded the proposed changes but that the board has endeavored, to convince Arlington State that its indi viduality would not be lost. “We have tried to make it clear that Arlington State will not lose its identity. They naturally want to keep their own identity, own ring, and own loyality. Each will have its own identity by the same name as they presently have,” he emphasized. He also said that the changes would not retard the progress of A&M. “It will continue to grow and expand as in the past. I can’t see anything taken away from A&M as a result of this over-all growth of the system,” he ex pressed. Whittenburg predicted that diplomas granted at other system schools would bear the heading “Texas A&M University System” but explained that the Board had not established such a policy as yet. Newton, hoard vice-president, said that such matters as mutual rings and nicknames were minor details to the reorganization and that they would be decided upon and outlined by new System President Earl Rudder and his staff. President Rudder was out of town and unavailable for com ment. Both board members praised the planned changes as a step upward for the system as well as the state’s educational system. “The important thing is that you must consider the over-all picture—what is best for educa tion, the state, and the taxpay ers,” Newton contended. “By con solidating the entire system we will operate with more efficiency and with better coordination.” “To be competent today it’s a good idea to reorganize in order to call it a Texas A&M University with 24,000 students. It’s very smart procedure to coordinate,” Whittenburg added. Under the reorganization plan the A&M University System, at present a confederation of A&M, Prairie View A&M The Texas Maritime Academy and severa agricultural and engineering or ganizations, would be merged under direct control of an ad ministration located on the Col lege Station campus. The system would then be operated as a “super” university with one central campus and administra tion but with several campuses, possibly including a new one to be built in the San Antonio area. Names of the institutions involved would be changed to A&M Uni versity at Arlington, A&M Uni versity at Tarleton, and A&M University at Prairie View. In addition, the presidents of the schools would be relegated to a position of “chancellor” or “provost” and would be respon sible to Rudder. Under the changes more co operation between the member schools would be possible, and facilities of one school, such as A&M’s nuclear reactor and cyclo tron, would be made accessible to students of the other schools. There could even possibly be an exchange of professors between schools. Opposition from Arlington State supporters received a jolt Tuesday when ASC President J. R. Woolf, in a closed meeting of student leaders, declared his support for the planned re organization. At the same time an official of the Dallas Chamber of Commerce criticized the stu dent body for acting like “babies” in the matter. The controversy over ASC, largest school in the system with 11,500 students, erupted Dec. 17 when the system board met on the Arlington campus and an nounced that a graduate school, with degrees to be granted under the title “Texas A&M Univers ity,” had been approved. The board then detailed the proposed changes in organization, and overwhelming opposition sprang up from students, faculty and ex students. On Dec. 29 State Rep. George Richardson announced he would sponsor a bill in the Legislature divorcing Arlington State from the A&M System. The bill would allow a portion of ASC’s tuition money to be used as a building fund to replace funds lost if Arlington State were to achieve separation from the system. SIGN DISPLAYS ANTI-A&M FEELING AT ARLINGTON . .. A&M name removed from “Texas A&M University System.’