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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1967
Number 394£*
Globetrotters Make Visit
To Town Hall Monday
Fish Submit
Entries For
Sweetheart
All freshmen interested in nom
inating a candidate for Freshman
Class Sweetheart should begin
turning in their entries now.
Freshmen submitting entries
should write a brief paragraph
about the girl they are entering
in the contest, including her home
town, school, and any connections
she may have with Texas A&M.
A photograph of at least wallet
size must be included in the entry.
All nominations must be turned
in to Harold Gaines in the Stu
dent Directorate Office at the
Memorial Student Center by Feb.
10.
Girls nominated for sweetheart
must be able to attend a recep
tion the afternoon of Feb. 25 and
the Fish Ball that night.
Tickets for the ball may be
obtained from freshman class of
ficers.
Fun Performance
Starts At 8:30
" * I,
SHOULDER. . .
a little shoulder action,
With a little knee action and
Globetrotters Meadowlark
Lemon shows some of his
stuff.
The Harlem Globetrotters, who
mix a wealth of comedy with a
winning brand of basketball, will
play an exhibition game here
Monday.
Billed as a Town Hall Extra,
the Globetrotters’ appearance is
set for 8:30 p.m. at G. Rollie
White Coliseum.
Sammy Pearson, chairman of
the Memorial Student Center
Town Hall Committee, said the
opposition will be provided by
the New York Nationals, a team
which includes several players
Four Dormitories
Vacated For Spring
Four dormitories will be va
cated and released to contractors
by Feb. 9 for airconditioning in
stallation, announced Dean of
Students James P. Hannigan.
Dorms 9, 10, 11 and 12 are the
Data Processing Study Helps
To Prevent Power Blackouts
A recently completed study by
Texas A&M’s Data Processing
Center is expected to help avert
a repeat of a gigantic power
blackout which struck New York
and the East Coast in 1965.
The blackout plunged a major
portion of the nation’s populace
into darkness.
A&M was asked to provide
computer programs for studying
load flow and transient stability
of power systems. The request
was by Stone and Webster Corp.,
the firm hired by 27 utility
companies to conduct the North
east Interconnection Study.
“We had the world’s largest
programs in these areas,” com
mented Robert L. Smith Jr.,
A&M’s Data Processing Center
director. “These included 1,200
simulated power lines and 800
buses, or places where power
lines interconnect.”
The A&M programs allowed
checks of simulated electrical
systems of the affected North
east.
“We programmed these sys
tems into IBM 7094 computers at
A&M and the AVCO Company
in Wilmington, Mass.,” Smith re
marked. “Data regarding the
system’s condition at the mo
ment of failure, and the continu
ing path of failure was checked
in stop-action sequence in divi
sions as minute as 1/400th of a
second.”
“By studying these time slices,
Stone and Webster engineers ob
served as the system fell apart
like dominoes,” Smith said. “Mas
ter controls are being developed
to chop the system apart before
a widespread power failure can
occur.”
“This study also will help pow
er companies throughout the na
tion in preventing similar mas
sive power failures in their
areas,” Smith noted.
A&M’s Data Processing Center
has conducted power systems sta
bility tests for power companies
since 1960. Thirty-three compa
nies now check their systems at
the DPC.
“Since the Northeast blackout,
most power companies have tak
en a careful look at the stability
of our system,” Smith declared.
“We have conducted network an
alyses of virtually all Southern
power systems in the past six
years. Engineers come here to
set up simulated conditions of
their respective systems. They
plan additions and changes as far
as 10 years in advance. Our sys
tem helps prove feasibility of
their plans.”
Monroe Invited
To L. S. U. Panel
Dr. Haskell Monroe, assistant
dean of Texas A&M’s Graduate
College, will address the Baton
Rouge Civil War Roundtable Feb.
16 in Baton Rouge, La.
Dr. Monroe will discuss “Edit
ing the Jefferson Davis Papers,”
at the invitation of Dr. Charles
B. Drew of the Louisiana State
University History Department.
Also an associate professor of
history at A&M, Monroe is edit
ing a 20-volume set of “The Pa
pers of Jefferson Davis” to be
published in 1960 by the LSU
Press.
first of a dozen in the east cam
pus area to be airconditioned by
next September. Duncan dining
hall will also be connected to the
campus cooling system.
About 800 relocated students
will be absorbed in other dormi
tories. Civilian students in 10
and 12 will be shifted to 14 other
civilian dorms, explained Allen
Madeley, housing manager.
Corps of Cadets units in 9 and
11 will be moved to corps dorms
in the east and west areas, noted
Bill Presnal of the commandant’s
office. Companies E-2, F-2 and
the Fourth Battalion staff move
across campus to the west dorm
area.
The Aggie Band and other
units of the First Brigade will
transfer to Dorms 1, 3, 5 and 7.
The band will use a partitioned
part of the east wing of Duncan
dining hall for practice, Lt. Col.
E. V. Adams, bandmaster, said.
“These plans are tentative,”
Presnal stated. “Space alloca
tions will be finalized the first
day of classes.”
Fall semester room assign
ments will be used for spring
registration Feb. 3-4, he said.
Unit room requirements will be
determined from registration fig
ures.
“No space will be left over in
civilian dorms,” Madeley indicat
ed, “but we should have no prob
lem in providing corps housing.”
Airconditioned rooms for 2,400
students will be finished in the
east area in the next eight
months. Nine airconditioned
dorms in the west area house
about 2,390 students.
A record 10,000 spring semes
ter enrollment is expected. An
all-time record of 10,700 students
attended classes in the fall.
Society Schedules
Cotton Pageant
The 33rd Annual Cotton
Pageant and Ball will be held
April 1 in Guion Hall.
The affair is sponsored by the
University Agronomy Society,
according to Jimmy McAfee,
president.
McAfee said local civic clubs
desiring to enter a duchess can
do so by contacting him or
Professor Frank Mills in Room
105 of the Agronomy building, or
by calling Mills at 846-7413.
The Pageant will be followed
Center Ballroom, McAfee said,
by a ball in the Memorial Student
Registration Schedule
Registration for the Spring Semester will be conducted
in Sbisa Hall. Registration cards will be issued at the news
stand according to the following schedule:
Friday, Feb. 3
1-3 p. m.—All whose surnames begin with G, H, I, J, K.
3-4:30 p. m.—All whose surnames begin with A, B.
Saturday, Feb. 4
8-10 a. m.—All whose surnames begin with T, U, V, W, X,
Y, Z.
10-11:30 a. m.—All whose surnames begin with L, M, N, O.
1-3 p. m.—All whose surnames begin with P, Q, R, S.
3-4 p. m.—All whose surnames begin with C, D, E, F.
Education Course
Designed For Ags
With Math Doubt
An educational statistics course
scheduled this spring offers a
plus for students who feel their
math is below par.
The three-credit-hour Educa
tion and Psychology Department
course will be taught on Mondays
from 5 to 8 p.m., announced Dr.
Paul Hensarling, department
head.
Dr. Donald G. Barker, who will
instruct the course, has conduct
ed help sessions for interested
students during the eight years
he has taught Education 439.
Course content includes statis
tical concepts, techniques and
their application in behavioral
sciences. Social research relies
extensively on statistics, Dr.
Barker explained.
“There seems to be an unusual
amount of concern about the sub
ject,” he said. “Some students
feel the math may be over their
heads. I introduce the subject
gradually and try to show it is
mostly logic and not too much
mathematical.
The course is required for psy-
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who earned All-American honor
able mention ratings in college.
Leading the Globetrotters in
comedy as well as basket shoot
ing is stringbean Meadowlark
Lemon, a 6-2 clown with 12 years’
experience with the Globetrotters.
The Globetrotters like to win
while they are entertaining the
fans. As Meadowlark explains,
the team has to be good enough
to pile up a big lead before
clowning begins.
“We turn the jokes on and off,”
he said. “Whenever the other
team draws close, we turn on the
good basketball. Then back to
the jokes.”
A sports writer summed up the
Globetrotters this way:
“When they play, there is no
mention of the odds or logical
favorite. Not the slightest hint
of psychological exchanges be
tween coaches ... no talk about
full court or half court presses,
high post or low post, rebounding
strength, fast break or slow
break.
“The Globetrotters guarantee
the weary sports loving public
relief from all that. They com
plain about a referee’s decision
only in jest and only if the beef
can add to the fun.”
Other trotter stars include
dribbler Fred Neal, floormen
Hallie Bryant, Mel Davis, Jackie
Jackson and Bobby Joe Mason.
Other familiar names are Troy
Collier, Frank Stephens, Hubert
Ausbie and Billie Barnes.
Halftime entertainment also is
provided by the Globetrotters.
“Miss Loni”, beauty queen of the
International Circus in 1961; the
Del Moral Trio, a perch act;
comic juggler Lee Marx; and a
table tennis match between Eng
land’s Richard Bergmann and
South Korea’s Lee Dal Joon com
prise the program.
Tickets are on sale at the MSC
Student Programs Office.
TEXAS A&M “ATOM SMASHER”
A 21-ton yoke slab for the magnet assembly A&M “atom smasher”—largest in the South
of Texas A&M University’s new $6 million —is scheduled to begin test operations this
cyclotron complex is hoisted into place. The spring and be in full service by mid-year.
Loyalty Oath Not Required
Says State Attorney General
Increases Posted
In Laundry Rates
A slight increase in Texas
A&M laundry rates has been
necessitated by the Fair Labor
Standards Act, announced George
R. Hartsock, laundry manager.
Commercial rates on dress
shirts and pants will be raised
Feb. 1. The dress shirt increase
will be from 12 to 15 cents, pants
25 to 30 cents, he said.
Rate changes will not affect
student fees, which will remain
at $20 per semester.
“These prices are designed to
cover only the increased labor
cost for the next year,” Hartsock
noted. Implementation of the
labor act will increase laundry
labor costs about $60,000 for the
Feb. 1, 1967, to Feb. 1, 1968,
period.
By JERRY GRISHAM
Battalion Staff Writer
Do Texas A&M students have
to sign the student loyalty oath
when they register Friday and
Saturday ?
Texas Attorney General Craw
ford Martin issued a formal opin
ion Tuesday which held that stu
dents at state-supported colleges
and universities do not have to
take the oath.
The opinion was based on a
law passed by the State Legisla
ture in 1953 which required that
all state employees sign the oath.
It repealed a 1949 law which re
quired students to take a similar
oath.
On the heels of Martin’s opin
ion, University of Texas officials
announced that students in that
school’s system are no longer re
quired to sign the oath before
being admitted.
President Earl Rudder an
nounced Wednesday that A&M’s
policy concerning the loyalty oath
will be determined by registra
tion time at 1 p.m. Friday.
“I’ll talk to the university’s at
torney Thursday concerning our
position and then contact the
board of directors,” Rudder said.
“We should have a decision by
registration time Friday.”
State-supported colleges and
universities had been basing their
administration of the oath on a
law passed by the 1949 legisla
ture. It required students to
sign the oath before they could
register for classes.
One section of the 1953 loyalty
oath statute states that the new
law “shall supersede all other
loyalty oaths now required by
law on that may be required in
appropriation acts by the Legis
lature.”
In his written opinion, Martin
said the 1953 statute repealed the
1949 statute “. . . and students
applying for admission to state-
supported colleges and universi
ties are not required to execute
the loyalty oath . . .as a pre
requisite for admission to such
institutions.”
10,000 Expected For Spring;
Registration Begins Friday
A predicted spring semester
student body of more than 10,000
registers Friday and Saturday.
The expected record enrollment
starts passing through Sbisa Hall
registration lines at 1 p.m. Fri
day. Class cards for the last
registrants will be processed at
4 p.m. Saturday.
This fall semester 10,700 stu
dents attended A&M classes.
Registration usually drops in the
spring, but Registrar H. L. Heat
on forecasts a record second
semester enrollment despite a
When It Was 6 Ole Army,
By STEVE KORENEK
Battalion Special Writer
Back when it was “Ole Army”
No, this isn’t a story about the
board and the hazing that went
along with that part of A&M’s
past.
This is a story about Aggie
spirit. Not about the great spirit
the Corps shows or that shown by
the civilian students. This story
is about the spirit of former stu
dents.
All of us have noticed from
time to time large numbers of
former students on the campus
for football games, class reunions,
and other events. Overnight hous
ing is usually provided at the
Memorial Student Center and at
commercial establishments in the
College Station-Bryan area. Did
you ever stop to think about
where the former students stayed,
say prior to 1950?
There were commercial facili
ties back then: the LaSalle Hotel
and the Charles Hotel in Bryan,
the Blue Top Motel which was
located at East Gate, the Aggie
Auto-tel, several other motels,
and the Aggieland Inn on the
campus. Where the Aggieland Inn
once stood near the hospital there
is now a parking lot. All the
motel rooms in the county prob
ably did not number much more
than 100.
These hotels and motels were
not the only overnight facilities
available to former students
visiting the campus.
“In those days before World
War II and even after the war,
before construction of the Memo
rial Student Center and other
facilities here and with the diffi
culty of transportation to Bryan,
former students would come to
athletic events, commencement,
and reunions on the train. Very
seldom did they bring their wives,
of course. All these events were
stag affairs.
“The Association, in coopera
tion wtih the Housing Office,
would set up cots in DeWare
Field House. Sometimes Mom
Claghorn would have a ward set
aside for them to sleep over at
the hospital and, generally speak
ing, the professors and other local
residents would open their
homes,” Buck Weirus explained.
Weirus is executive secretary of
the Former Students Association.
Former students also stayed
overnight in dorms with their old
outfits.
“One of the reasons a lot of us
didn’t like to stay in the dormi
tories was because it was really
big time stuff to drown-out one
of the exes. Every time I would
come back and stay in the dormi
tory I would get drowned-out. In
fact I even got drowned-out when
I was a major in the Army,” he
related. Perhaps these drown-
outs were warranted.
“It wasn’t anything unusual at
all on the day of a football game
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large January graduating class.
The complex registration pro
cess begins Friday with the Gil
berts, Harrises, Ingrams, Jones
and Kings to get first chance at
scheduling. Adams, Kings and
other students whose last name
begins with the first two letters
of the alphabet register from 3
to 4:30 p.m.
Taylors, Uptons, Vaughns, Wil
liams, Youngs and Zemaneks will
draw registration packets first
Saturday, between 8 and 10 a.m.
From 10 to 11:30 a.m., the
Lanes, Martins, Nelsons, Reeds
and Smiths follow from 1 to 3
p.m. and the Carters, Davises,
Edwards and Fords register last,
from 3 to 4 p.m.
Radios, telephones and the
Sbisa public address system will
be used to adjust student flow
through lines. Registration times
are designed to prevent student
stack up.
48 Engineers
Attend Meet
Forty-eight faculty members
and researchers from the College
of Engineering are attending a
Gemini Summary Conference to
day at NASA’s Manned Space
craft Center in Houston.
Engineering Dean Fred Ben
son said the A&M representatives
were invited by conference man
ager Andre J. Meyer Jr.
Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, director
of the Manned Spacecraft Cen
ter, and Dr. George E. Mueller,
NASA associate administrator
for manned space flight, will
speak in the opening session.