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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JANUARY, 19,
Number 393
774 To Get Diplomas
In Saturday Program
l ONE MORE FOR THE MONSTER
Last-minute studying seems to have proven have been wageing a constant battle against
fatal to senior pre-dental major Pat Roach, the arch rival, “The Bag Monster,” in pre-
:He is only one of about 10,000 Aggies who paration for next week’s finals.
£xains, Sweat, Midnight Oil
Can Lead To Poor Results
“One advantage of studying all
night before a final examination
is that it gives you a beautiful
alibi for failure.”
;/ The observation belongs to
Auston S. Kerley, director of
Texas A&M’s Counseling and
Testing Center.
“Although the best solution
may be to skip finals,” Kerley
grinned, “a more practical ap
proach to preparation for exams
would be to follow planned re
views for about 10 days before
the exam.”
I think two hours on one sub
ject is long enough for a single
study session,” Kerley added.
“Several review times are sug
gested over one lengthy session.”
Kerley said the best thing a
student can carry into a final
examination is a rested, clear
mind.
‘‘STUDENTS sometimes get
too serious about examinations,”
Kerley noted. “They need to re
call that a final is simply to
measure how many main points
have been learned.
Fall semester exams begin Jan.
23 at Aggieland.
The counseling expert recom
mends that students preparing
for finals lead a normal pattern
of living.
“Staying up long hours and
overexertion do not contribute a
‘Scho Pro’ Provides Incentive
For 147 Liberal Arts Majors
A minority group of Aggies in
the College of Liberal Arts will
have extra incentive as they be
gin their semester exams.
In addition to the worry of the
draft faced by all students, 147
members of the group are on
scholastic probation. Scholastic
probation generally means a de
ficiency in grade points, or unsat
isfactory scholastic progress.
It also means the draft is one
step closer to the Aggie on ‘scho-
pro’ than to those with acceptable
grades.
A scholastic probation is offi
cially recorded as a “C plus 10, C
plus 5, etc.” The “C” designates
the grade point average a person
should have to make satisfactory
progress towards graduation. Un
der Texas A&tM standards, a “C”
equals one grade point per semes
ter hour passed.
The “ plus 10, plus 5” indicates
a deficiency of as many grade
points below a “C.”
In A&M’s College of Liberal
Arts, the “scho-pros” vary from
“C plus 12” to “C plus 2.” The
approximate distribution is as
follows: 5—“C plus 1”; 5—“C
plus 2”; 12—“C plus 3”; 11—
“C plus 4”; 6—“C plus 5”; 8—
“C plus 6”; 10—“C plus 7”; 11—
“C plus 8”; 1—“C plus 10”; 1—
“C plus 12”.
However, scholastic probation
should not be interpreted as a
“death sentence” to a student’s
academic career. For example,
a person is on a “C plus 6” for
one semester and fails to meet
it at the next, he is not necessarily
dismissed from the university.
Pinkie Sits Up,
Cards Welcomed
Texas A&M’s official greeter,
P. L. (Pinkie) Downs Jr., is sit
ting up in bed in a Galveston
hospital.
Doctors recommend Downs not
have visitors but that cards and
letters are welcome.
Mail should be addressed to
him at 305 Randall Pavilion, John
Sealy Hospital, Galveston 77550.
“A ‘C plus 6,’ for those per
sons on it, is selected as a criteria
for progress, in light of the stu
dent’s recent achievement,” O. L.
Dorsey, assistant to the associate
dean, noted.
“We consider each student an
individual matter, and want to
help him in his academic career.”
“A number of students not now
on probation may find themselves
blocked at registration. These
students will be required to re
port to the associate dean’s office
to get permission to register. By
presentation of this notice to the
registrar, these students will be
able to pick up their card pac
kets,” Dorsey concluded.”
great deal to success in most in
stances,” Kerley remarked.
“Leading a normal pattern of liv
ing is best.”
Counselor Ulrich Crow said a
good way to review is to get to
gether with two or three class
mates and share information.
“One student often causes an
other to recall something impor
tant or prompt him to do some
additional study on certain
phases of work,” Crow pointed
out. “You must, however, avoid
wasting time. Stick to the busi
ness at hand.”
“QUESTION prediction will
help on the final,” Crow explain
ed. “Do this by observing your
professor and textbooks. Review
important points you have trou
ble recalling. Rereading is time
consuming and not very effective.
Major quizzes make good re
views.”
Kerley offered some pointers
for taking the exam. “Arrive
early, engage in small talk with'
classmates, but don’t get into
heated discussions over ma
terial,” he suggested. “Glance
over the test for length. Some
parts require more time. Others
are of more value. Decide how
much time is necessary for each
part. Pace yourself and take a
breather about every 45 min
utes.”
“If you experience anxiety
about a certain problem, jot down
several notes about it as you go
along,” he added. “And when
you have finished the exam, be
sure and go back over every ques
tion to make certain you didn’t
skip or misinterpret anything.”
Rehmet, Gonzales
Cop MSC Posts
Degrees will be conferred upon
774 January graduates Saturday
in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Dr. Landrum Pinson Lea veil II,
a Wichita Falls pastor and Bap
tist denominational leader, will
deliver the commencement ad
dress.
The 10 a.m. commencement will
precede commissioning exercises
for 90 new officers who have
completed A&M’s reserve officer
training program.
Gold Lieutenant’s bars will be
presented to the new officers in a
1:30 p.m. program. This will in
clude 67 Army, 20 Air Force, and
three Marine officers.
AIR FORCE ROTC Comman
dant Brig. Gen. Donald F. Blake
of Maxwell Air Force aBse, Ala
bama, will deliver the commis
sioning address.
There will be a reception hon
oring Gen. Blake in the Mem
orial Student Center on Friday,
Col. Vernon L. Head, professor
of aerospace studies announced.
The degrees conferred will in
clude 191 advanced degrees, and
among those will be the first in
the A&M doctoral program in
Education. There are two candi
dates for the mid-year Ph.D.s.
Commencement this year will
see the largest number of Janu
ary graduates ever.
LAST YEAR there were just
over 600 diploma recipients, and
63 cadets were commissioned.
Ten years ago the graduating
class numbered 230, and 25 years
ago, during wartime, there were
only 13 mid-year commissions
awarded.
The commencement speaker*
Dr. Leavell, replaces the earlier
announced speaker, Dr. M. B.
Draft Exams
To Be Given
Optional draft tests will be giv
en March 11 and 31 and April 8
at Texas A&M, Registrar H. L.
Heaton announced.
Applications will be available
later this week in the registrar’s
office. They also are available
at local draft boards.
Col. Morris S. Schwartz, state
selective service director, said ap
plications for taking the test must
be postmarked not later than Feb.
10. He said eligible applicants
must, on the testing date, be
registered with a draft board, in
tend to request occupational de
ferment as a student, and not
have taken the test previously.
Auston S. Kerley, director of
A&M’s Counseling and Testing
Center, reported almost 1,000 stu
dents took the test here last year.
Kerley added that the tests will
be administered in the Chemistry
Building.
A&M is one of 23 test sites in
the state. Almost 37,000 students
took the test in 1966.
Applications must be mailed to
the Educational Testing Service,
Princeton, N. J.
Carroll, pastor of the East Grand
Baptist Church in Dallas, who
died Dec. 27.
Pastor of the First Baptist
Church in Wichita Falls since
1963, Dr. Leavell previously
served as pastor of several Mis
sissippi churches, among them
the First Baptist Church of Gulf
port.
DR. LEAVELL is a member of
the Sunday School Board of the
Southern Baptist Convention and
the Education Commission of the
Baptist General Convention of
Texas.
He also is a former member
of the Home Mission Board and
has served on several other state
and convention boards and agen
cies.
A native of Ripley, Tenn., he
earned his A.B. degree at Mercer
University in Macon, Ga. He
was ordained to the ministry in
July, 1948, and he entered the
New Orleans Seminary where he
added the B.D. and Th.D. degrees.
Dr. Leavell is active in civic
affairs, and he is a member of
the Southwest oRtary Club in
Wichita Falls. He is married and
has four children.
Corps Of Cadets
Schedule March
To Commissions
The Corps of Cadets will con
duct a special march to G. Rollie
White Coliseum for Saturday’s
commissioning ceremonies.
First call for the assembly will
be at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, with
units scheduled to enter the Coli
seum at 12:55. Ceremonies be
gin at 1:30 p.m.
Uniform for the Corps will be
Class “A” Winter with white
gloves. Name tags will not be
worn. Seniors may wear boots,
but sabers will not be carried,
according to Corps Operations
Officer James M. Bassham who
issued details for the march.
All but three sections of the
Coliseum’s tiered seats have been
reserved for cadets, who have
been requested to sit in the low
est tiers possible. The First,
Second and Third Wings, First
Brigade, Third and Fourth Bat
talions and the Band will each
have specified seating areas in
the Coliseum, Bassham continued.
The only change scheduled, in
the event of inclement weather,
is the addition of raincoats to
the uniform, he noted.
Final Exam Schedule
Pat G. Rehmet of Alice and
Robert F. Gonzales of San An
tonio have been named to top
leadership posts of Texas A&M’s
Memorial Student Center for
1967-68.
The MSC Council selected Reh
met as chairman of the 13th Stu
dent Conference on National Af
fairs, which annually attracts
outstanding students from cam
puses throughout the United
States, Canada and Mexico.
Gonzales was chosen to chair
the Town Hall Committee, an
organization which selects and
presents leading entertainers and
road shows throughout the school
year. The committee also spon
sors the “Music for a Sunday
Afternoon” series.
A COUNCIL spokesman said
the chairmen were selected ear
lier than usual this year to give
ample opportunity to work with
current chairmen. Robert Heat
on of Tyler headed SCONA XII
and Sammy Pearson of Calvert
is current Town Hall chairman.
Rehmet, a junior civil engineer
ing major, was vice chairman of
SCONA XII and has two years
experience with the program. A
first sergeant in the Army divi
sion of the Corps of Cadets, Reh-
ment is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph R. Rehmet, 709 5th St.,
Alice.
Both Rehmet and Gonzales are
members of the Ross Volunteers,
A&M’s honors drill unit.
GONZALES, A junior govern
ment major and operations ser
geant on the First Brigade staff
of the Army branch of the Corps
of Cadets, has served on the Town
Hall Committee and was vice
chairman of the SCONA XII
Planning Committee. He is sec
retary of the MSC Personnel
Committee, a member of the Elec
tion Commission and the YMCA.
His parents are Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph F. Gonzales, 751 Utopia
Road, San Antonio.
Rehmet and Gonzales are
standouts in the classroom as
well as in leadership assignments.
Rehmet has a 2.58 grade point
ratio, Gonzales 2.20 on A&M’s
3.0 scale. A 3.0 gpr is a straight
“A”.
Final examinations for the Fall Semester 1966
will be held Jan. 21—Jan. 28, according to the follow
ing schedule:
1-4 p.m.
8-11 a.m.
1-4 p.m.
7- 10 p.m.
8- 11 a.m.
1-4 p.m.
7-10 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 21
Monday, Jan. 23
Monday, Jan. 23
Monday, Jan. 23
Tuesday, Jan. 24
Tuesday, Jan. 24
Tuesday, Jan. 24
Wednesday, Jan. 25 8-11 a.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 25 1-4 p.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 25 7-10 p.m.
Thursday, Jan. 26 8-11 a.m.
Thursday, Jan. 26 1-4 p.m.
Thursday, Jan. 26 7-10 p.m.
Friday, Jan. 27 8-11 a.m.
Friday, Jan. 27 1-4 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 28 8-11 a.m.
Saturday, Jan. 28 1-4 p.m.
Math 102, 121
Classes MWF8
Classes TThSFl
Classes MWF12
Classes MWF9
Classes MWThl
Classes TThl2
Classes MWF10
Classes TF1
Biology 107
Classes MSTThlO
Classes MWTh2
Chemistry 101, 102
Classes MWF11
Classes M4TThll
Classes TTh9F2
Classes TF2, TWF3
TThF3
Final examinations in courses with only one
theory hour per week as shown in the catalogue
will be given, at the discretion of the department
head concerned, at the last meeting of either the
theory or practice period before the close of the
semester.
Tickets Announced
For Mathis Show
A ticket distribution plan for
the Town Hall performance of
Johnny Mathis Feb. 13 has been
announced by Town Hall Chair
man Sammy Pearson.
“Technically, we have about
10,000 persons eligible to see the
show, with approximately 8,500
available seats at G. Rollie White
Coliseum,” Pearson noted. “The
ticket distribution plan also helps
us in planning general admission
sales.”
Student activity card owners
are asked to pick up general ad
mission tickets by presenting
these cards at the Memorial Stu
dent Center’s Student Program
Office between 9 a.m. and 5:30
p.m. Feb. 7-8. Date tickets may
be purchased at the same time.
“Although the ticket distribu
tion period ends Feb. 8,” Pearson
explained, “this does not mean
that a student can no longer get
a ticket to the show. It simply
means that he no longer has first
priority on tickets.”
These students, Pearson added,
may pick up a ticket after single
admission sales begin Feb. 10.
Single ticket sales continue until
5:30 p.m. Feb. 13 or until all tick
ets are taken.
If. tickets remain after distri
bution and advance sales are com
pleted, they will be available at
the door, Pearson remarked.
Soph Suspended
For Marijuana
A 20-year-old physics major
from San Antonio was suspended
from school today for growing
marijuana and peyote in his dor
mitory room.
In announcing indefinite sus
pension of the sophomore, univer
sity officials stressed there was
no indication that he was using
or selling the drug.
“From all indications, the stu
dent was merely experimenting
with these plants,” stated A&M
Security Chief Ed Powell who
headed the investigation.
Powell pointed out, however,
that possession of marijuana is
a state and federal offense and
that the university has notified
the Brazos County district attor
ney and sheriff.
The plants were discovered
Wednesday morning by the stu
dent’s dormitory master, who in
turn reported the matter to uni
versity officials.
$3.50 Tickets
To Soph Ball
On Sale Now
Tickets to the annual Sopho
more Ball went on sale this week
at $3.50 a couple.
Sophomore President Larry
Henry said the tickets are avail
able from any sophomore class
officer for the Feb. 18 event, to
begin at 8 p.m. in Sbisa Dining
Hall. In addition, a ticket booth
has been set up outside Duncan
Dining Hall, where tickets may
be bought after meals.
Neal Ford and the Fanatics, a
Houston-based group that ap
peared on the bill with The Lovin’
Spoonful at a November Town
Hall presentation, will play for
the dance. Dress is semi-formal,
and sophomore cadets will wear
Class “B” uniform with ascots.
Each military unit will assign a
particular color ascot to be worn
by its members.
“We’re hoping for good ticket
sales to meet the large costs of
this year’s ball,” Henry noted.
A highlight of the dance will
be the presentation of the Sopho
more Class Sweetheart. Henry
said sophomores wishing to have
their dates considered for the
title must turn in two 5x7 or
similar-size snapshots, with at
least one full length view, and
supply measurements, age,
height, weight, and address for
each contestant. All entries must
be turned in at the Student Pro
grams Office by Feb. 10, Henry
said.
FOUL!
Aggie guard John Underwood (20) is fouled as he attempts
shot in Tuesday night’s 68-59 victory over Tevas. Others
pictured are Texas’ Charley Turnbough (35) and Noel
Stout (right). Aggie Billy Bob Barnett (40) is at right.
Geyer Appointed
To Marine Board
Dr. Richard A. Geyer, Ocean
ography Department head, has
been appointed vice chairman of
a Commission on Marine Science,
Engineering and Resources an
nounced by President Johnson.
The committee will develop and
maintain a long-range program
in marine, science for the benefit
of mankind. Julius A. Stratton,
Ford Foundation board chairman,
was appointed committee chair
man.
The New York University and
Princeton trained scientist was a
research geophpsicist in the oil
industry.