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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1965
Price Five Cents Number 120
2-Year ROTC Program
Commence Next Fall
Stringfellow Hits Two-Pointer
Aggie guard Dickie Stringfellow hits a field goal in con
ference opener against Baylor here Tuesday night as
teammate Ken Norman looks on. Baylor won the game
80-77. See story on page 4.
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.’