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Fish-Wogs Clash Tonight On Kyle Field Che Battalion Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1965 Number 210 A&M Work Projects Total $26.5 Million Dorm Renovations Slated For Spring BAND PREPARES FOR 1965 DEBUT Aggie Bandsmen run through one of the in- Saturday night. The band, 240 strong this itricate routines prepared for the band’s ini- year, is the largest group fielded in the last tial public appearance this school year at the four years. A&M-University of Houston football game ivilian Student Council Chooses ew Parliamentarian, Secretary The Civilian Student Council elected Bob Miller as its record ing secretary and Don Sweeney parliamentarian at its meeting Wednesday night in the Memorial Student Center. | The office of recording secre- tary was contested by Gerald Keep and Jake Kinnard provided the opposition for the office of parliamentarian. I In other business, members of the council were asked to re- )top Sign Placed Near Underpass I The intersection of Farm Road I 2154 and the detour of Farm Road 60 in College Station was made a four-way stop Tuesday. I A Texas Highway Department spokesman said, the action was necessary to allow traffic to ' pross FM2154 with a higher mar gin of safety and to keep traffic from backing up along the FM60 detour. I The spokesman added that the feigns are temporary until com pletion of the underpass now un- ? der construction on FM60 and Hhat stop lines will be drawn as soon as the weather permits. commend that anyone interested in becoming Civilian Chaplain should contact Bennie Zinn, direc tor of Student Affairs, or J. Gordon Gay, director of the YMCA. The deadline for selling dorm and apartment council activity cards was extended by Don Von Dohlen, council treasurer. The cards entitle a student to entrance to a dorm steak fry and admit tance to the Civilian Ball in the spring. A committee was appointed to look into a possible reduction in cost of student date tickets for home football games. The present date tickets cost $5, a $1 increase over last year. The council ex pressed concern over the price, especially to students who wanted to bring their wives. Larry Schuelke and Jake Kinnard were appointed to head the investiga tion of date ticket prices. Dick Franklin, life chairman of the Student Senate, asked for volunteers to help with the ropes at this year’s home football games. Other officers for 1965-66 in clude Terry Norman, president, and Paul Oliver, vice president. Johanna Says Thanks Dear Aggies, This Sunday the new Aggie Sweetheart for 1966 will be an nounced, and she will officially begin her “reign.” I hope I can convey to you how very much this past year has meant to me — the un forgettable experience of your friendships, sharing the plan ning of and participating in your numerous activities, and being your official representa tive. Having been a real part of A&M will be one of my fond est memories and the one I’ll be proudest to recall. Yet A&M will never cease to be a part of me. Thank you, each one of you, for a truly wonderful year. Sincerely yours, Johanna oCeidter Johanna Leister By MIKE BERRY AND ROBERT SOLOVEY James P. Hannigan, dean of students, announced this week that construction totaling $26.5 million will begin on the Texas A&M campus within the next year, including renovation of dormitories in the Duncan Hall area. Hannigan emphasized that the project would not force an in crease in tuition in the near fu ture. Plans for renovation of the Duncan area dormitories have been delayed until the spring be cause of the crowded conditions at present. Hannigan said the vacancies left by graduating sen iors will enable a readjustment to leave some dorms empty for re novation. Other plans call for the follow ing construction: a $2.5 million Veterinary Medicine Sciences Building addition; a $1 million Veterinary Medicine Hospital Ad dition; a $2.5 million Space and Research Center and a Data Pro- cessiong Center addition; a $6 VFW State Exec To Speak Nov. 7 John P. Keelan, senior vice commander for the Texas Vet erans of Foreign Wars, will speak to members of the local post 4692 and the ladies’ auxil iary No. 7 in the Army Reserve Armory. A Navasota resident, Keelan attended Texas A&M before serv ing as a B-1T pilot with the 8th Air Force in England during World War II. His ship was shot down in the North Sea in 1943 and he spent 52 days in a life raft and a Danish fishing boat before being rescued. His service decorations include the Distinguished Flying Cross, three Air Medals and the Presi dential Citation with cluster. Gave Up Band For Books Frisk Now Drums Out Math Teaching mathematics on a ^college level is more conductive to a well-balanced family life gjthan drumming in a band. That’s the reason Tom Prisk ave up a lucrative job with the Jimmy Keep band to work to- 3 ward a master’s degree in celes- ftial matherhatics at Texas A&M. I Prisk and his wife, Sharon, have a year-old son, Tom IV. ‘ hey call him “IV”. “Music is an exciting field,” the 28-year old student-instruc tor said, “but so is math. People can’t understand how I can mix the two. I think I’m fortunate to be able to work in both fields.” Prisk, who teaches three fresh man algebra courses at A&M, is •taking two graduate courses in math. He earned a B.A. degree in math at A&M in 1962 after dropping out of school in 1958 to play with the Buddy Knox band. “Playing with a band is a good way to travel all over the coun try and get paid,” Prisk noted, adding that he has been in every state in the union and in Cana da. When I first started with Bud dy in Quincy, 111., we had a long stand and everybody was asking when we were going to get out and see the country,” he grinned. “Then we covered 20 states in two weeks, driving 400 to 500 miles a night.” Prisk began playing drums in the elementary school band when he was 11, and later played in local bands. He plays all types of drums and likes all kinds of music, especially hard-driving music like jazz. As a distinguished undergrad uate student, Prisk was drummer for the Aggieland orchestra and combo. Robert L. (Bob) Boone, music coordinator for A&M, has high praise for Prisk. “Tom is one of the most out- SWAPS DRUMS FOR BOOKS Tom Prisk, an instructor and graduate student in math ematics, studies celestial mathematics after giving up his career as a drummer. He eventually hopes to earn a doc torate and teach math on the college level. standing drummer-musicians I’ve ever run across,” Boone empha sized. He’s tremendous . . . not a kooky musician . . . very seri ous. He interprets tastefully, a vital requirement in a dance band . . . just enough to give that driving feeling.” Prisk is hesitant to name the top drummer of them all be cause he feels it depends on the kind of music being played. “Billy Joe Jones is good all around,” he said. “But so are Buddy Rich, Shelly Mann, Gene Krupa and others.” His most exciting experience? Prisk picked his first show in Las Vegas, his first recording session in New York, and a polio benefit show in Nashville, Tenn., follow ed by the governor’s reception. The dark-haired musician is equally enthusiastic when talking about math. “They are modernizing methods of teaching math in high schools,” he said. “It’s something that should have been done a long time ago. A&M is progressing. I can tell if after being away less than three years. The ad ministration has sharpened up in personnel and facilities.” Prisk has a problem when he goes dancing with his wife. “If the band is good, I want to sit and listen,” he chuckled. “And if it’s bad, I don’t want to dance.” million cyclotron, and the well- publicized addition to the Cush ing Memorial Library. A $2.5 million Biological Sciences Build ing addition is also in the works. The financing of the new cam pus features will be handled in various ways. Renovation of the new dormitories will be financed by selling bonds which will be paid by room rents. The cyclotron will be financed in part by the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Science Foundation and the State Build ing Appropriations Fund. The new Building Use Fee paid at registration will raise an amount needed for the Guion Hall, Memorial Student Center and G. Rollie White Coliseum projects. “Expansion funds for the Uni versity must come from federal, foundation, or state grants and bonds,” said Hannigan, “because state educational funds do not, as a rule, provide for campus ex pansion.” However, the “oil-endowment fund” shared by A&M with the University of Texas may be used to pay off some of the cost. And some additions to the Uni versity’s physical plant come at no cost at all. An example is the new $6 million Toxicology Laboratory being built by the U. S. Department of Agriculture across from the Veterinary Medi cine Hospital. The Memorial Student Center will add a new wing with meet ing rooms, auditoriums and de luxe apartments with an addi tional floor for the coffee shop and ballroom. On the agenda for the Board of Directors this weekend will be the decision whether to renovate or rebuild Guion Hall. The judg ment will be made after review ing the reports of consulting en gineers. Cost of the project, along with the air-conditioning of G. Rollie White Coliseum, will be $3 million. Future plans for expanding facilities to house 12,000 stu dents, determined by projected enrollment estimates, call for six new dormitories in the Dun can area. Also included in the plans are increased parking faci lities almost totally surrounding the campus. The center of the campus would have very few streets for traffic with the re mainder left for pedestrians. PARKING LOT ROULETTE ... he lost. Junior College Conference To Discuss Student Transfers One hundred and fifty parti cipants are expected for the 22nd Junior College Conference Mon day and Tuesday at the Mem orial Student Center. Goal of the conference is to ease the problems of junior col lege students transferring to sen ior colleges. Dr. C. H. Ransdell, conference chairman and assistant dean of Sociology Club To Hold Picnic An outing is planned in the Hensel park dome for all soci ology majors, wives, children, and faculty members at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. Tickets at $1 each must be pur chased from Dorothy Grice, Dr. R. L. Skrabanek’s secretary, by noon Monday. The meal will consist of chick en, beans, potato salad, rolls and iced tea. After the meal, a travelog will be presented about South Africa. engineering at A&M, said con ferees will study action needed in Texas to improve communica tions between two-year and four- year institutions, and ways to strengthen the national project for junior and senior colleges. Making the keynote address at 9 a.m. Monday will be Dr. Le- land Medsker, professor and vice- chairman, Center for the Study of Higher Education, University of California. His topic is “Artic ulation — by Default or Design.” At 11 a.m.. Dr. James H. Nel son, director for the national project, will discuss “For Articu lation between Two-Year and Four-Year Colleges.” Nelson is dean of instruction for Golden West College, Orange Coast Jun ior College District, Costa Mesa, Calif. Discussion groups are slated Monday afternoon for admission standards, evaluation of credits, curriculum planning, student per sonnel services and articulation progr&ms. Dr. James C. Jernigan, presi dent of Texas College of Arts and Industries at Kingsville, will speak at a 6:30 p.m. Monday dinner. Reports of discussion groups will be heard during the closing sessions Tuesday morning. Ransdell said reservations for the conference have been made by a majority of the 105 colleges and universities in Texas. TESSIES HUMP IT TWU students practice A&M yells in preparation for Sat urday’s clash with the University of Houston and the up coming Corps Trip to Fort Worth Oct. 16. Play Tickets Sold At Reduced Rates The Contemporary Arts Com mittee of the Memorial Student Center is making available to Texas A&M students tickets to dramatic productions in Hous ton’s Alley Theatre at reduced rates. Four tickets per person are al lowed for each performance. The first play, George Bernard Shaw’s “The Devil’s Disciple,” runs Oct. 16 and 17. Saturday tickets normally sell ing for $4.25 may be purchased for $3.75 while $3 Sunday tickets may be purchased for $2.20. Sales will be limited to Aggies until the week before the play date. At that time tickets may be purchased by anyone.