Aggies Go For Broke
By GERALD GARCIA
Battalion Sports Editor
Only Texas Christian stands
between the Texas Aggies and
a berth in the NCAA baseball
playoffs or a coin flip.
TCU and A&M tangle in Fort
Worth at 2 p.m. Saturday in a
makeup game which could give
the Aggies the Southwest Con
ference title and a spot in the
NCAA playoffs or throw the con
ference back where it started.
A Frog win would snarl the
conference in a four-tie between
TCU, A&M, Texas and Baylor,
all with 9-6 records. This is some
thing the conference has never
had. There has never been more
than a two-way tie for first.
If the conference race ends in
a tie, the representative to the
NCAA playoffs would be deter
mined by a flip of a coin.
Aggie coach Tom Chandler
thinks if the Aggies play good
defense there will be no doubt in
the outcome of the game.
“They have tough pitching and
good hitting, but so do we,”
Chandler said. “The turning
point will have to come from our
defense. We cannot play ragged
defense like we did at Texas.
We’ve got to play to our poten
tial.”
The game will be a replay of
the 3-3, 15-inning tie in Fort
Worth earlier in the year.
A&M will be trying to do some
thing it has yet to accomplish all
season. The Aggies have met the
Frogs three times and have yet
to beat them. First it was the
3-3 tie, followed by the TCU
sweep of the two-game series in
College Station, 10-6 and 5-3.
Chandler has nominated lefty
Steve Hillhouse for his pitching
choice. Hillhouse is 6-2 in con
ference play and 8-2 for the sea
son. Three of his conference wins
came over Texas. One of his loss
es was a 5-3 loss to TCU.
Tommy Chiles, Billy Johnson
and Billy Crain, all righthanders,
will be ready to back up Hill
house on the mound.
The rest of the Aggie lineup
will probably be:
Lou Camilli, third base; Mike
Arrington, shortstop; Lance Cobb,
second base; Billy Crain, fitst
base; Alan Koonce, left field; Ric
hard Schwartz, right field; Joe
Staples, catcher, and Neil Thomp
son, center field. If TCU pitch
es a righthander, Thompson will
bat second and Arrington eighth,
but if a lefthander works for the
Frogs, the above lineup will be
used.
Camilli leads A&M regulars in
hitting with a .355 mark in SWC
play and .347 for the full sea
son. For the full year Cobb is
next at .321 followed by Crain at
.299, Thompson at .291 and Sta
ples at .283. In SWC play Sta
ples is second to Camilli at .304,
followed by Crain at .297 and
Koonce at .255. Actually, Hill
house is the club’s top hitter
with a .379 mark for the year and
.455 in SWC play, but he only
hits when he pitches.
TCU will either start right
hander Tom Gramly or lefty Ron
nie Paul. Both have beaten the
Aggies once this season.
Chandler thinks the Aggies are
ready to go, especially after
Thursday’s workout.
“We looked real sharp. The
infielders were real smoothand
we seemed to have plugged up
all the holes we had,” Chandler
said.
The Aggies will workout again
Friday afternoon at the Kyle
Field diamond before departing
for Fort Worth late Friday even
ing.
STEVE HILLHOUSE
. . . ace lefty to face Frogs Saturday.
Volume 61
Cbe Battalion
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1966
Progress Made
From Problems |
Cited In 1958
By ROBERT SOLOVEY
Battalion Staff Writer
Eight years have passed since
a series of articles were written
about Texas A&M by Leon Hale
of the Houston Post. After three
weeks on campus Hale noted
some of the problems that A&M
faced in the near future.
The near future is now, and
A&M is still pressing hard for
improvements.
In 1958, a general complain
was that the school was too heav
ily staffed with former students.
It was considered a poor policy
and was a factor that accredit
ing agencies used in examining
the School.
It was then felt that a Board of
Directors consisting of eight for
mer students and only one that
Summer Room
Signup To Begin
Room reservation for the first
summer session will open Mon
day, housing manager Allan
Madeley has announced.
Students will be housed in
dormitories 17, 19, 20, 21, 22 and
ramps E, F, G, and H of Walton
Hall.
Residents of these dormitories
desiring to keep their rooms may
sign up in the Housing Office
from Monday through May 24.
Students who wish to reserve a
room other than the one they
presently occupy may begin reg
istering May 25. Reservation
closes June 3.
Madeley stresses that students
should not reserve rooms if there
is a possibility they will not at
tend summer classes.
Students who have filed $20
room deposits will not be permit
ted to pay any additional fees,
he said. Other students will be
required to pay the deposit.
Madeley also reminds students
to properly check out of their
old rooms and into new rooms
with the dorm housemaster con
cerned.
was not might be blinded by love
of tradition and not see the
school’s needs.
Today, fewer former students
are on the teaching staff but the
ratio of former students to oth
ers on the Board of Directors
is seven to two.
In 1958, when the Corps be
came compulsory after a four-
year attempt on a voluntary
basis, the school felt a student
should maintain a “C” average
to stay in the ROTC program.
Today, this goal is about the
same but students falling below
this average are not automati
cally dismissed. The threat of
the draft has apparently started
to push grades upwards in many
quarters.
Dean of Students James P.
Hannigan expressed the opinion
that the Corps is an integral and
important part of A&M and that
he does not believe the strict re
gimen of military life is incom
patible with high academic
achievement.
In his article Hale wrote that
he saw the Aggie spirit as “a
feeling that ’we have lived to
gether and suffered and bled to
gether in this womanless world,
and so-we-are-blood-brothers.’ ”
Today’s “spirit” seems just as
strong and although there have
been many changes in policy,
every Aggie takes with him a
life-long love for his school and
the friendships that he has made.
In these areas A&M has per
haps made its biggest gains.
Teacher salaries are up over 50
per cent, $26.5 million in new
facilities are being added this
year, teaching loads are still
heavy but down, the graduate
program has grown from about
500 students to well over 2,000,
and along with this, thousands
of dollars are received yearly
in research grants.
Yesterday’s problems are in
many ways still here, but to a
great degree they are being
solved and possibly in the near
future the administration’s desire
for “academic excellence” will be
come a reality.
ALL AMERICA RIFLEMAN
Freshman Christopher West was named to the second team
All America Rife Team at the A&M group’s banquet last
night. Col. D. L. Baker presented the award, the first
ever granted to an A&M freshman. West is the first
Aggie to win the honor since 1961.
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SAME OLD STORY
Election Commission head Pappas with empty booths.
Fallout Plays Set
As Usual
Senate Voting
Turnout Puny
An original play by an A&M
student will be included in the
Fallout Theater productions Mon
day night.
“Monarchs Must Obey,” writ
ten and directed by Lani Press-
wood, concerns a condemned man
during his last few hours. Set
in a prison cell, this drama fea
tures Glenn Dromgoole, Paul
Bleau, Jan Gannaway, Bob Spi
vey and Presswood.
“The Killing of Abel,” which
was featured Tuesday night in
the Fallout Theater, will be pre
sented also. Directed by Marie
Crook, this comedy is taken from
the Wakefield Cycle mystery
plays.
Appearing in it are Kippen
Blair, Richard Dooley, Randy
Davis and Leon Greene. Jim
White will handle the sound for
this play.
Joyce Cassens, Ruth Becker
and Larry Baugh will make their
debut in Eugene Ionesco’s “The
Lesson,” rounding out the even
ing’s entertainment. Nancy Lou
Aggieland Needs
Student Addresses
Students not returning to A&M
who desire a 1965-66 Aggieland
are urged to leave a forwarding
address and mailing fee in the
Student Publications Office in
the YMCA.
Yearbooks will be mailed dur
ing the fall.
Monday
Womack is the director.
On May 20 five other plays
will appear in the theater. “A
Phoenix Too Frequent,” by Chris
topher Fry, will be directed by
Shirley Whatley.
“Poor Dear Mama” and “With
Any Amazement,” written by
Rudyard Kipling, will be directed
by Margaret Curtis. Bob Rob
inson will direct “Her Name Was
Dawn,” and Bob Coltrin will pre
sent an original play. “The Eve
in Evelyn” directed by Dee Ann
Bogusch, will close the show.
These plays will end the Fall
out Theater presentations for
this semester, but others are
slated for the summer.
The plays will begin at 8 p.m.
Admission price is fifty cents.
By JOHN FULLER
Battalion Staff Writer
They said it couldn’t be done.
But—sure enough— Thursday’s
turnout in the Student Senate
College Elections was actually
smaller than that of the General
Election April 21.
A total of 453 students cast
votes for Senate seats in five
colleges. This represents about
5% of the student body, as com
pared with the 11% who voted
last month.
“This definitely has to be the
smallest election turnout yet,” an
nounced Election Commission
Chairman Harris Pappas. He
said the vote was fairly well dis
tributed among classes, with 130
juniors, 138 sophomores and 185
freshmen voting.
Eddie Joe Davis, designated
Corps Commander for next year,
won the senior Agriculture rep
resentative’s post with a write-in
campaign that netted 20 votes to
Chester Shmoldas’ 5. Kenneth
Robinson and Bill Carter won the
junior and sophomore Agriculture
races.
Liberal Arts representatives
elected were Joseph Webber, jun
ior, and Willard Bryant, sopho
more. Pete Garza and Larry
Heitman tied for the senior sena-
torship with 14 votes each and
will face each other in a runoff,
tentatively scheduled for Tuesday
afternoon in the Memorial Stu
dent Center, to settle the race.
In the Engineering elections,
winners were Clinton Campbell,
senior, 20 votes, John Corcoran,
junior, 29, and Don Swofford,
sophomore, 25.
Science college winners were
Richard Franklin, senior, 7 votes,
Kenneth Kennerly, junior, 8, and
James Mobley, sophomore, with
14.
Two races in the College of
Geosciences were literally cases
of “one rrlan, one vote.” Randy
Andes, senior, and John Thomas,
junior, ran unopposed and re
ceived one vote each. Robert
Ryan, sophomore representative
candidate, also ran unopposed, re
ceiving 3 votes.
Pappas explained that the un
usually small vote in these races
reflects the fact that the College
of Geosciences is much smaller
than the others.
Veterinary Medicine college
representatives running unop
posed were J. T. Browder, third
year, Douglas Matthews, second
year, and Kenneth Cantrell, first
year.
Summer Library
Hours Announced
Cushing Library’s summer
schedule has been announced by
Acting Librarian Rupert P.
Woodward.
The regular schedule from
June 1 through September 30
calls for 8 a.m. to midnight hours
Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to
5 p.m. on Saturdays and 2 p.m. to
midnight on Sundays.
Branch libranes will post sep
arate schedules.
Cushing Library will be closed
July 4, August 28, Sept. 4-5 and
11-12.
Photography Assignment Poses Perils
By JOHN HOTARD
A new, inexpensive game has
recently been discovered on cam
pus. The object of the game is
to take pictures that will astound
and snow a photography prof.
Up to three people can play by
following a few basic rules.
The rules:
Take one rowboat . . . with oars.
Take one river.
Put one boat in water. Do not
stir.
Add three journalism students
—two with cameras and one with
19 lifejackets, 27 flares, 8 survival
kits and 1 box of safety matches
(in case of emergency).
Take the three students, one at
a time, and place in boat in
such a fashion so as not to cap
size boat.
Splash!!
Boat capsized . . . minus 20
points. Go back to bank and try
again.
AFTER GETTING three stu
dents in boat properly, have the
student in the middle start row
ing downstream. Once in awhile,
monitor conversation in boat so
as to find what’s going on, if
anything.
“O.K. Has anybody here ever
rowed a boat before?”
“Nope.”
‘Not me.”
Well, we’ve got two oars. I
wonder if you use both of them
at the same time.”
“I think one of them’s a spare.
I saw a movie once with this guy
who paddled a canoe, and he only
used one oar. Don’t see much
difference between this rowboat
and a canoe.”
“Sounds logical. Start rowing.”
Boat is now going around in
circles. Tell the idiot who’s row
ing to use both oars. Minus five
points.
BOAT SHOULD NOW be head
ing straight downstream. Every-
time boat careens into bank of
river, subtract 10 points.
Boat has now moved down river
quarter of a mile. For informa
tion of onlookers at the game,
boat is heading for the fork of the
Navasota and Brazos rivers so
that pictures can be taken that
will astound and sown prof.
970 points have been subtracted
for hitting banks of river.
“Say, how far did you say we
had to go before we got to the
fork ? ”
. “According to my map, it’s
about a half mile .... should
be around the next bend.”
“Hey, what’s that up ahead ?
Looks like a bunch of plastic
bottles stretched across the river.
I think we’re going to hit them.
Yep, we did. Wonder what they
were.”
Boat has just ripped through
trotline. Add 25 points. Here
comes fisherman with shotgun.
Boat picks up speed. One stu
dent stands up in boat to get pic
ture of irate fisherman. Shotgun
goes off. Student changes mind
and sits down.
TWO HOURS and 68 bends
later, the fork of the rivers is
still not in sight. Boat is still
moving downstream.
“I thought you said it was only
a half mile to the fork. We’ve
now gone about three miles. The
sun’s going down. Nobody goes
rowing down the Navasota River
in the middle of May. I’m getting
cold and wanna go home.”
“You’re what?? Don’t forget
that you’re an Aggie. You’re
tough, mentally and physically.
You’re hard!! You can take any
thing! Now what do you say
to that?”
“I’m still cold and I STILL
wanna go home.”
“Sissy. We’ll keep rowing. Its
bound to be around the next
bend.”
“You can talk .... you’re not
doing the rowing.”
Three hours and 95 bends later,
a vote is taken. Boat heads for
bank. One student gets out and
starts up bank to get bearings.
Bank is 25 feet high . . . and very
steep.
Squish . . . squish . . . squish . . .
splash!!
Squish . . squish . . . splash!
Bank of river is also very slip
pery. Minus 20 points for fall
ing into river. Student finally
get up bank.
“Whataya see?”
“One cotton field. One very,
very large cotton field.”
Other two students climb bank.
O.K. DON’T anybody lose his
head. We’re not lost. I know
we’re either one of three places
— Grimes, Washington or Brazos
County.”
“Right. Now then, does any
body remember anything from
their military science that might
help?”
The muzzle velocity of an M-l
rifle is . . .”
“Uhh ... I can see right now
you are going to be a great help.”
“How about if we had one of
those little round things with a
needle . . . .”
“ You mean a sextant? We
don’t need one. Look .... the sun
is still up. Now, if I remember
corectly, the sun rises in the
North . . .”
“IT RISES WHERE ? ? Listen.
Any idiot knows that the sun
rises in the west. It’s very sim
ple. Japan is known as the Land
of the Rising Sun, right ? There
fore, the sun must rise in Japan,
right? Now then, Japan is west
of us, right ? ? Therefore, the
sun rises in the west.”
“Sounds logical to me.”
“I’ll go along with that.”
“Hey, I see a road.”
“Where ? I don’t see any road.”
“RIGHT OVER there. Squint
your eyes and look on the hori
zon. See that little speck moving ?
That’s a truck.”
Are you serious ? That’s a mile
away, and I don’t even see the
fork of the rivers yet.”
“See that row of trees over
there?- That’s the banks of the
Brazos. See how this row of
trees and that row of trees come
together in a point down there ?
That’s the fork. Now, it’s getting
dark, so one of us will go back to
where we started, get the truck
and meet the other two at the
fork.”
“You and your fork. I’d like
to have a knife . . . ZAP . . . right
in the back.”
Two students get back in boat
and head downstream. Other stu
dent starts trotting across cotton
field . . . stepping all over farm
er’s cotton. Add 25 points.
Boat finally reaches fork of
Navasota and Brazos Rivers. Add
five poitns. Students start to take
pictures. Sun has gone down. No
pictures. No points.
OTHER STUDENT reaches
truck after three-mile walk. Add
15 points.
Boat is now headed UP
STREAM on Brazos to meet
truck. Boat gets too hard to
row. Students get out and pull
boat along from the bank. Most
unethical. Minus 12 points.
Meanwhile, back at the photo
lab .... students have no pic
tures. Prof listens with unsym
pathetic ear . . . chuckles silently
to himself .... too bad students
don’t have pictures. Prof is nei
ther astrounded nor snowed. No
points.
First Bank & Trust now pays
4%% per annum on savings cer
tificates. —Ady.