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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1966
Number 285
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By Glenn Dromgoole
Several thousand students here
have never peeked inside a Stu
dent Senate meeting. And sev
eral thousand students could
probably care less.
But in case you have been
curious at one time or another
about what goes on there—but
not so curious to attend an actual
meeting—here is a play by play
of last night’s Senate session (no
editorial comments included).
7:34—Meeting called to order
by President Roland Smith; open
ing prayer.
7:35—Roll call.
7:37—Announcement that Stu
dent Senate pictures will be made
March 31.
7:39—Minutes of last meeting
approved.
7:40—Committee reports, be
ginning wtih Issues Committee.
Investigation of the Memorial
Student Center Food Services—
courtesy, cost, cleanliness and
quality—planned.
Life Committee—No report.
Welfare Committee—$3,298.54
reported in Campus Chest; an
nual Blood Drive scheduled.
7:41—Public Relations Com
mittee reports dropping study of
Student Publications.
7:42—MSC Council representa
tive tells of MSC expansion plan,
reminds of Town Hall perform
ance March 26 and requests
members for MSC committees.
7:44—YMCA rep recalls Mar
riage Forum and Aggie panel to
TWU.
Election Commission—Election
March 24; reminds about voter
registration procedure.
Civilian Student Council —
Civilian Weekend March 26.
7:45—Old Business: Political
Clubs resolution sent to Execu
tive Committee.
7:47—New Business: Faculty
evaluation (Issues Chairman Sim
Lake gives a four-minute prepar-
etory speech).
7:51—Debate opened on faculty
evaluation.
7:55—Debate closed, passed
Unanimously. A few comments
by Smith.
7:57—Slides of about 15 types
°f dogs being considered for
Aggie mascot replacement shown.
8:08—Discussion opens.
8:22—Motion to accept Collie
entertained.
8:23—Amendment seeks to
>nake it “Female Collie.”
8:26—Amendment passes unan
imously.
8:40—Motion passes, large ma
jority. Discussion of further
^tion concerning mascot.
8:51—Vice President Barney
fudge given authority to accept
i'est female Collie available.
8:53—Meeting adjourns.
Administrative Nod Needed
Senate Approves Plan
Of Faculty Evaluation
SEN. FRANKLIN SPEARS
Sen. Spears
Begins Tour
Here Monday
State Sen. Franklin Spears
will open his East Texas “Blow
the Whistle on Crime” campaign
with a 9 a.m. reception in Bryan
Monday, the first of a five-day
tour through East Texas asking
election as Texas Attorney Gen
eral.
The candidate’s whistle-stop
ping will carry him to Caldwell,
Navasota, Brenham, Conroe,
Cleveland, Liberty and Beaumont
Monday for receptions, talks and
informal meetings.
This is Spear’s first statewide
race but not his first venture into
politics. He was first elected to
office when his fellow students
chose him president of the stu
dent body at the University of
Texas where he received his law
degree. After graduation, Spears
served with the 10th Infantry Di
vision in Europe and was dis
charged from the Army with the
rank of Captain.
Returning to San Antonio to
practice law, Spears entered poli
tics. His late father served as
State Senator from Bexar County
and his uncle is a federal judge.
In 1958 he was elected to the
Texas House of Representatives
by a two-to-one margin. In 1960
he was re-elected by a three-to-
one vote and in a 1961 special
election overwhelmingly defeated
his Republican opponent to win a
State Senate post. He was elect
ed again to that post in 1960 and
is currently serving the last year
of the four-year term.
By GLENN DROMGOOLE
The Student Senate unanimous
ly passed a resolution Thursday
night urging the University Exec
utive Committee to adopt a fac
ulty evaluation plan “at the earli
est possible date.”
Issues Chairman Sim Lake sub
mitted the program which would
call for the administrative group
to establish a student-faculty
committee to determine A&M’s
method of faculty rating by stu
dents.
Lake presented examples of
evaluation now in effect at Michi
gan State, Rice and the School of
Business Administration and De
partment of Modern Languages
here. The resolution asked the
committee to study these and
similar plans in deriving a uni
versity-wide program.
The resolution read:
“In its drive for academic ex
cellence, the administration of
Texas A&M University has taken
steps to stiffen both the entrance
requirements and course work.
We heartily support both of these
efforts, but we feel that our drive
towards excellence can best be
achieved by a balanced, concerted
effort which integrates the ac
tions of students, administration
and faculty. We feel that adop
tion of the proposals of this reso
lution will greatly facilitate such
a balanced effort.
“Premising our proposal on the
sincere belief that most faculty
members desire to improve their
proficiency, we call for the adop
tion of a policy now in effect at
many other leading universities
throughout the nation—a policy
of student evaluation of faculty
members. Various forms of this
policy are currently in use in
some classes at Texas A&M and
we believe that this policy should
be expanded to encompass the
university as a whole.
“We resolve that the Executive
Committee of Texas A&M Uni
versity establish a student facul
ty committee to study the various
plans of student evaluation and
adopt a method suitable for reg
ular, general use at Texas A&M.
We request that the Executive
Committee act on this proposal at
the earliest possible date and
keep the Student Senate regularly
informed of its progress along
this line.”
Lake reported that he and sen
ior David Miller had taken a sam
ple poll of 40-50 faculty members
during the past two months, with
95 per cent of the group favoring
such a plan.
“The general opinion was over
whelmingly in support of the con
cept, the principle of student
evaluation,” Lake told the Sena
tors. “There were frequent ob
jections to possible flaws in a
plan to implement this concept,
but all expressed a belief that
these flaws could be alleviated
and that such a policy, if correct
ly planned and used would be of
great benefit.”
“I hope something will be done
before this year is over,” Senate
president Roland Smith comment
ed.
In other action the Senate:
—Voted to secure and train a
female Collie dog as a replace
ment for Reveille who has been
in bad health the past few
months. Vice president Barney
Fudge was given authority to ac
cept “the best” dog available.
Senator Stacey Lackey showed
about 15 slides of various breeds
before the group chose a Collie.
—Heard reports from the Is
sues Coimmittee of an investiga
tion of courtesy, cost, cleanliness
and quality of the Memorial Stu
dent Center Food Services.
—Was told the political club
resolution has been sent to Presi
dent Earl Rudder for Executive
Committee consideration.
—Accepted the Public Relations
Committee report to drop study
of Student Publications under
taken about two months.
Weekend activities will un
ravel Saturday night with the
1966 Louisiana Hayride and the
annual Junior Banquet and Ball.
The banquet kicks off the eve
ning at 6:30 p.m. in Sbisa Dining
Hall, with the dance following at
8:30.
The Louisiana Hayride, featur
ing the talents of country-west
ern performers Lester Flatt, Earl
| Scruggs, Little Jimmy Dickens,
I Debbie Day, Nat Stuckey, Wilma
Burgess and the Glaser Brothers,
will get under way at 8 p.m.
The G. Rollie White affair will
also feature the singing of Aggie
Sweetheart Cheri Holland.
Long-time veterans of the
Grand Ole Opry, Flatt and
Scruggs will display their banjo
pickin’ ability often heard on
The Beverly Hillbillies, Hooten
anny, The Tonight Show, the
Tennessee Ernie Ford Show and
Folk Sound-USA.
Dickens, with his hit recording
“May The Bird of Paradise Fly
Up Your Nose,” possesses the
unique distinction of owning a
best-seller in both the country
and pop markets.
Miss Holland, a Texas Wom
an’s University sophomore, will
be on hand to sing a few folk
songs. She recently entertained
for the Intercollegiate Talent
Show here.
Tickets for the Hayride will be
on sale at a booth in the Mem
orial Student Center from 8 a.m.
until 5 p.m. Saturday.
The doors will open for the
show at 6 p.ni., with tickets sell
ing for 25 cents more at the
door.
The Junior Ball will feature
the music of The Ed Gerlach Or
chestra, a band of renown in the
Houston area.
Eelection of the junior class
sweetheart will highlight the oc
casion.
The Gerlach Orchestra, known
as “The Name Band of the South
west,” consists of former mem
bers of such groups as the Glenn
Miller, Tex Beneke, Stan Kenton,
Tommy Dorsey, Buddy Morrow
and Claude Thornhill bands.
In a recent contest sponsored
by the American Federation of
Musicians, the Gerlach band was
selected top band of the South
west.
Gerlach, a former cadet at
A&M, will play the type music
students in attendance prefer.
Widespread
Unemployment
Not Foreeast
Dr. John Glasgow, assistant
professor of economics, doesn’t
foresee widespread unemploy
ment in the next 50 or 60 years.
“Widespread unemployment is
more of a figment of our imag
ination. Automation does away
with it in the long run,” he told
the Apollo Club Thursday night.
He added that we are not going
to be faced with this problem in
the immediate future because it
takes people to build machines
for that time. Glasgow also com
mented that people shouldn’t look
at displaced labor as the only
result of automation.
“Increased labor,” he said, “can
take the form of increased pro
ductivity and higher wages or
increased productivity and lower
costs.”
The speaker remarked the re
sult would be an increase in the
overall demand of economy — a
demand for increased output, and
someone has to provide this.
Glasgow, who majored in labor
economics, listed three main rea
sons for concern about automa
tion today:
1. Mechanization causes dislo
cations in the economy.
2. There is the recognition that
displaced persons have nowhere
to go.
3. Realization in the last 25
years that we live in an indus
trial society.
A&M’s Mr. English
‘Golf Now, Rocking Chair Next 9 —Morgan
Positive Attitude Stressed
By Stallings In RE Address
Air ROTC Official
To Speak March 23
Maj. Robert B. Frazier of the
Air Force ROTC Headquarters at
Maxwell AFB, Ala., will visit
^exas A&M March 23-24.
An AFROTC Field Service
'iam member, Frazier will meet
’ith cadets and officer instruc-
<rs on academic activities, for
Action to curriculum and in
duction techniques.
TV Commentary
On Viet Nam Set
Sen. John Tower’s television
documentary, “Why Viet Nam?,”
will be shown on KBTX-TV at
7 p.m. Monday.
The Texas Senator, who recent
ly completed a three-weeks tour
of the war-torn Southeast Asian
country with the Senate Armed
Services Committee, will use
films, photographs and com
mentary to aid viewers in under
standing what is happening in
Viet Nam and what the United
States may have to do to accom
plish its objectives.
He will also discuss supplies
and weapons, with much empha
sis on the M-16 rifle which has
proven highly effective in close
jungle fighting.
Head football coach Gene Stal
lings said Thursday night a posi
tive attitude is vital in every
thing, and especially when deal
ing with religion.
Presenting the second address
in the 1966 Religious Emphasis
program, Stallings said many
people try to approach religion
with a negative attitude, that is,
emphasizing the “don’ts” rather
than the “do’s.”
“There is nothing any more
important in the world than reli
gion,” he stressed. “The only
way you can have pride in reli
gion is to do things. That’s the
positive attitude.”
Stallings, a Church of Christ
deacon, pointed out a tie-in be
tween religion and athletics in
that sports provides the neces
sary attitude.
“Athletics gives a student
pride, poise and confidence,” he
noted. “And more important it
gives him the proper attitude.”
Stallings offered the sparse,
but engrossed, audience the age-
old philosophy of the Golden
Rule, good in Biblical times and
still applicable today.
“You ought to live like this is
the last day,” he said. “You
should treat your fellow man the
way you want to be treated.”
Stallings is a firm believer in
whole-hearted loyalty regardless
of a person’s doctrine or belief.
“If you want to be a Christian
go and be a good one, or stay
away from it,” he remarked. “But
don’t be wishy-washy. The Bible
teaches against luke-warm Chris
tians.”
Tunisian Emissary
Visits March 25
Several events have been
scheduled to honor Rachid Driss,
Tunisian ambassador to the Unit
ed States, who will visit here
March 25-26.
Following a March 25 after
noon visit with Dr. Jack Gray,
director of International Pro
grams, Driss will dine with Tuni
sian students at A&M.
The March 26 itinerary lists a
visit to A&M’s Nuclear Reactor,
a university luncheon and a ban
quet. Foreign Student advisor
Robert L. Melcher will host the
reactor visit.
Driss will be honored by the
Tunisian students Association at
a banquet that night in St.
Mary’s Student Center. Presi
dent of the club is Ridhi Charfi,
senior sociology major from Sfax,
Tunisia.
Tunisian enrollment at A&M is
49.
By JAMES SIZEMORE
Battalion Special Writer
Since 1921 English students
have experienced the interesting
and informative instruction of
one of A&M’s most scholarly
gentlemen — Dr. Stewart S. Mor
gan, Professor of English.
Reared and schooled in Cin
cinnati, the 68-year-old Morgan
studied at the University of Cin
cinnati where he was the first
degree candidate in English, and
was graduated with honors there.
He went on to get his master’s
and Ph.D. in English from Ohio
State University.
Morgan has been teaching here
ever since, except for two brief
leaves of absence when he taught
at Ohio State in 1939 and at the
American University at Biarrity,
France, in 1945-46, and is af
fectionately referred to as the
“Grand Old Man” by many stu
dents.
“I’m not a very interesting sqb-
ject,” Morgan insists, but a look
at his record proves him some
what modest. He is listed in
both The Directory of American
Scholars and the Who’s Who in
the South and Southwest.
Also, he has published six books
used in college courses as well
as articles for professional jour
nals and bulletins connected with
college courses. He has served
as associate editor of The Month
ly Bulletin of the Conference of
College Composition and Commu
nication and has been a member
of many professional societies.
During his tenure at A&M Mor
gan served as the head of the
Department of English for 10
years until 1962, when he became
officially retired, but continued
teaching on a one-third basis.
Graduate study in English was in
itiated during his tenure as Mor
gan watched a rapid growth in
the number of English majors.
“I played baseball, then ten
nis, now golf; next — the rock
ing chair,” said Morgan of his
interests. His hobby, he men
tions, is reading on archaeology.
“I don’t want to dig,” he says.
“Let someone else dig, but let
me read about it.” This brings us
to his central interest which is
reading.
He has spent several summers
reading in the Huntington Library
of San Marino, Calif. His favor
ite area is 18th century litera
ture and has read thousands of
plays from this period along with
other works.
Morgan has taught courses in
18th century literature as well as
modern drama and Romantic and
Victorian Poets. These his main
teaching fields although he has
taught other courses such as
freshman composition.
“I like our students well
enough to scold them,” he ob
serves. “I like students because
there is little pretense. They are
intellectually honest.
“I am distressed by the con
servation of students,” he said.
They lack an interest in knowl
edge for its own sake, but when
they are interested, they can
do excellent work.”
A professor of such experience
and background has been appre
ciated by students here for many
years. Along with his other
honors he has received the Bat
talion Award and has twice re
ceived the Arts and Sciences
Award.
Whatever other awards he may
receive, he certainly has gained
the respect of a number of stu
dents who appreciate the profes
sional quality he demonstrates.
THE GRAND OLD MAN
... Dr. Stewart S. Morgan.