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1 10 Candidates Competing For Civilian Sweetheart Crown - , MARY BETH FOLEY . - . Dorm 22 CHARLYN BILBRAY . . . Puryear Hall LYDIA CRUZ . . . Leggett Hall JEAN ANN SANDERS . . . Walton Hall DOROTHY LEMONS . . . Dorm 20 MARILYN JOY PENDERY . . i Dorm 21 Cbe Battalion COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1965 Number 161 STUDENTS CONDUCT DESIGN TEST ... as part of experimental psychology project. Experimen tal Psychology Offers Unique Lab Work Houze Accepts Post With Trinity Library Take 11 Aggies studying ex perimental psychology, add a laboratory with white rats, bring in some people as experimental subjects and you have the possi bilities of all sorts of situations. The basic fact is that the stu dents gain valuable knowledge. They repeat experiments lately reported in professional journals and then think up and do their own test studies. Sometimes things sound odd, though. In one cubicle a person says as quickly as he can all of the words that come to mind. Elsewhere a person looking at a screen sees different projections and down the hall students wait anxiously to see which turn in a maze the white rat will take. “About half of our work is people work, half is animal work,” Dr. Albert Casey said of the stu dents’ projects. The students in many cases build special test equipment. Lab facilities include a woodworking shop plus facilities for metal working and electrical jobs. But it’s the completed experi ments, not the carpentry that is graded. “And these experiments account for a major part of the student’s grade,” Casey emphasized. The students are psychology majors and seniors in the Depart ment of Education and Psychol ogy. The university last year awarded its first degrees with psychology as a major. Students are likely to be at the lab anytime of the day or night. One pair, for example, works regularly from 6-8 a.m. “We intend to be as far on the outgoing frontiers of research as we can get,” Casey said of the student work. In his own re search, the professor is part of a team studying with National Institutes of Health sponsorship the effects of nuclear radiation. “We require two rather exten sive projects to be completed by the students, who work in teams of two. The major project, the one which they devise, is worth a major part of their grade,” Casey said. Learned first are the 16 steps involved in experimental work. These begin with the first idea, continue through a search of literature to see what other re searchers have done and progress through procedural and control techniques, statistical analysis of data and finally the writing of the final experimental report. “Serendipity” is a favorite word of their professors, the students have learned. The word means the gift of finding fortunate things, being alert to the possi bility of making important re search findings in addition to those sought. A $20,000 grant from the Na tional Science Foundation helped finance facilities for the labora tory. Literary Festival Set For Opening The second annual Spring Liter ary Festival opens Thursday with a lecture by associate professor Harrison E. Hierth. The festival continues through April 12 under sponsorship of the Department of English. Hierth is to lecture at 4 p.m. Thursday on “Washington Square and One West Main Street — Edith Wharton and Ellen Glas gow.” This free, public lecture will be given in Rooms 2A-C of the Memorial Student Center. Library Director Robert A. Houze will become head librarian of Trinity University in San An tonio effective June 10. Houze will be responsible for the George Storch Memorial Library built in 1951 and the Graduate Library to be provided in the newly-finished Chapman Graduate Center. Expansion and development of these libraries to places of prominence will be his key responsibilities. The librarian’s 16-year tenure at A&M has been marked by major growth of the library col lection, admission of the univer sity into the prestigious Assoc iation of Research Libraries, the start of studies applying electro- Six major topics of transporta tion will be spotlighted by speak ers during the seventh annual Transportation Conference Thurs day and Friday. Interstate regulations, re-regu lation, simplification of tariffs, common ownership of several modes, future of highway trans port for shippers and vehicle weights and sizes will be subjects for talks in the Assembly Room of the Memorial Student Center. The conference, sponsored by the Texas Transportation Insti tute and its advisory committee, is expected to attract 150 persons. Maj. Gen. John P. Doyle, Mc Donald Professor of Transporta tion, will direct the sessions. Judge James C. Langdon of the Texas Railroad Commission will speak at 9 a.m. during the open ing session on “The Texas Interest in Regional Transporttaion Mat ters.” Another early speaker will be Clifford Gannett from the Office of the Undersecretary of Com merce. He will discuss a project he is supervising regarding simplification of transportation tariffs and reduction of paper nic data processing techniques to library procedures and the near completion of plans for a major library center. Houze also has been active in professional associations and in the community. “He has contributed signifi cantly to Texas A&M and to the interests of all of the state libraries through his work with various state councils and com mittees . . . we wish him every success,” Dean of Instruction W. J. Graff said. Houze said he and his family “will be leaving many friends and pleasant memories at this institution and in this commun ity.” work costs for the economy of the transportation industry. Lawrence K. Walrath, a mem ber of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Thursday’s luncheon speaker, discussed objectives of minimum regulation of trans portation. During the afternoon, Wesley J. Barta, president of the Missis sippi Valley Barge Line, and Clair M. Roddewig, president of the Association of Western Railroads, discussed coordination of trans portation by two or more modes through formation of transporta tion companies or the ownership of one mode of transportation by another. First speaker for the Friday session will be Edward V. Kiley, director of research and trans portation economics for the American Trucking Association. He will look at the future of highway transportation. Final technical speaker will be L. M. Clauson, chief engineer of the Iowa State Highway Com mission, and chairman of the Transportation Committee of the American Association of State Highway officials. The librarian’s professional services at the state level in clude the chairmanship since 1961 of a sub-committee of the Texas Commission on Higher Educa tion. Findings of this sub-com mittee for revision of the library formula used by the legislature in determining library appro priations has provided the basis for the Commission and Gover nor John Connally’s budget pro posal to the current legislature. Houze also has served since 1961 as chairman of the Council of State College Librarians. The librarian has served as a consultant and advisor to sev eral organizations and is the auth or of several publications. He is active professionally in library associations from the area through national levels and a past officer of the Texas Library Association. He also is vice chairman and chairman-elect of the college division, Southwestern Library Association. In the community Houze is a past president of the Rotary Club, has held various leadership posts as an adult Scouter and served in 1954 as general chairman of the College Station Community Chest. He also is active in the A&M Presbyterian Church, serving as a ruling elder and former deacon. Since coming to the community in 1949 he has taught in the church school or served as super intendent. Houze was acquisitions libr arian at the University of Texas before coming to Texas A&M. Before World War II service overseas as an artillery officer he was on the staffs of univer sities in the Denver area. He holds the AB and BS in Library Science degree from the University of Denver. He also has done graduate work in educa tional administration here. Mr. and Mrs. Houze, who re side at 1005 Harrington, have two children. Robert A. Houze, Jr., is a sophomore majoring in meteorology and Jane is a junior at A&M Consolidated High School. Today’s Edition Includes Annual April Fool Section Today is April Fools. Webster’s says this day is de voted to one who is sportively imposed upon the first day of April, and not to be a tradition-destroyer, The Battalion again is publishing its April Fools Edition. In the second section of today’s newspaper you will find our attempts to prove a basic axiom of this campus, “Aggies are able to laugh at themselves.” Some of our barbs are not very well shielded—they were not meant to be. Call it our reply to all the disparagements thrown at us during the past year, or call it our last chance to raise hell—it’s all in fun and we hope those hit a bit hard will accept it as fun. Of course if anyone feels unduly slighted, we will be glad to entertain complaints—all of which will be cheerfully ignored. The World By The Associated Press National SELMA, Ala.—A Negro leader said Wednesday that Gov. George C. Wallace reacted favorably to a petition from a civil rights delegation seeking easier means of registering voters. “But the petition had nothing to do with demon strations,” said the Rev. Frederick D. Reese of Selma, a leader of the Negro voter drive which started here more than 10 weeks ago and sent repercussions across the nation. “Demonstrations will continue,” Reese said. There will be no cessation of demonstrations, he said, “until there are no barriers to free registration of Negroes.” ★ ★ ★ LANSING, Kan.—Harvey Bailey, notorious bad man of the early 1930s who became a model prisoner, walked out of the Kansas state prison Wednesday, a free man on parole. Bailey, now 78 and white-haired, left the state penitentiary at Lansing early in the day to take a job at Joplin, Mo. ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON—A Texas congressman sug gested today that Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach had cleared the constitutionality of the adminis- at a Glance tration’s voting rights bill with the Supreme Court before submitting it to Congress. Katzenbach promptly denied the report. Rep. John Dowdy, D.-Tex., told a House Judiciary subcommittee he had a third-hand report that Katzenbach assured Senate backers of the bill that its constitutionality would be no problem because he had already shown it to Chief Justice Earl Warren and four other members of the court “and they enthusiastically approved it.” ★ ★ ★ NEW YORK MILLS, N. Y.—Nearly 30 pupils suffered shock or other injuries today in an ex plosion in a high school chemistry laboratory in this community west of Utica. Texas AUSTIN—Texas house members voted today to begin negotiations with Mexico over a battle flag captured by Santa Anna's army in the 1836 fall of the Alamo. HOUSTON—More than 10,000 shouting, flag- waving school children provided a noisy home coming Wednesday for space heroes VirgiJ I. Gus Grissom and John W. Young. The loud cheers from the children went up as soon as the astronauts alighted from a blue and white National Aeronautics and Space Adminis tration plane at Houston’s International Airport. Transport Meeting Opens Here Today SUE FERRELL . . . Dorm 19 ASC Divorce Bill Passes In House But Senate Stalls AUSTIN UP) — Plans to di vorce Arlington State College from the Texas A&M system got a quick shove in the House today but an equally quick slap in the Senate. The Senate-passed measure won House approval 138-4 after an amendment was attached prohibi ting the use of any permanent university fund money by Ar lington. Within minutes, the Senate vot ed 11-17 against accepting the bill hanging in parliamentary space, Sen. Don Kennard of Fort Worth said he would make another at tempt for Senate approval after getting the House amendment printed and distributed so each senator could study the exact word ing. Senate agreement to the amend ment would send the bill to the governor for signature into law. Senate refusal to accept the House amendment would call for a con ference committee to try to iron out differences. There was no House debate on final passage of the bill which would put Arlington State under the University of Texas instead of A&M.