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ncttonti smtci t saus BOX 8066 Sfimild College i’s Name * itr- - •. < ‘) See Editorial %> * * *' % ' Page 2 ft COLLEGE CITY. Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1967 Number 459 1 ■ Announced ■i-c u '! U Room Sign-up Begun NEW NAME NEEDED? f fit, VV hat new name could this sign carry to express College Station s growth and progress? Mayor D. A. Anderson has proposed that a new name be investigated by a group of citizen. See Editorial, Page 2. Ten Junior CoUege Grads Get! Merit Award Scholarships Junior college graduates of Navarro, Amarillo, Schreiner, Texarkana, Panola and Wharton and a Tarleton State College tranafer have been awarded Mer it Award Scholarships to attend Texaa A4M Ten $300 a year scholarships for outstanding Texas junior col lege students were announced by Academic Vice President Wayne C. Hall. Dean Hall chairs the faculty scholarship committee which selected Merit Award re cipients. The program, in its second year, is funded by industry, form er students and organisation gifts through the AAM Development Fund. . k~i ior College, and Kenneth D. Va- sina of Lissie, Wharton County Junior College. The new A4M students expect to study mathematics, business administration, accounting, agri cultural education, chemistry, electrical and mechanical engi neering. Grade point ratios for their first two years of college study range from 2.89 to 2.52. 84 Vet Graduates Set A&M Record A record 84 veterinary medi cine students are scheduled to graduate from Texaa A AM Aug. 4, announced Dr. Alvin Price, Col- Recipient of the two-year-achoi- lege of Veterinary Medicine dean. arship are Amarillo College grad uate obert B. Morgan of Amaril lo; Joe D. Platt of Thornton, Navarro Junior College; Michael D. Asher, Beckville, and Michael L. Heard. Panola. Panola Col lege; James L. Hobbs, Van, and Ronald E. Stoeck. Houston, Schreiner Institute; Jimmy G. Cheek, Virginia Beach. Va., Tar leton State; Rudolph A. Drautz. Texarkana, and Charles G. Pat ton, New Boston. Texarkana Jun- Dr. Price said graduation cere monies are set for 8 p.m. in Bryan Civic Auditorium. The College of Veterinary Med icine conducts graduation separ ately from other units of the university because it operates on a trimester basis, rather than the standard semester. Dean Price said the largest previous graduation class was last year’s which totaled 69 stu dents. By WINSTON GREEN Battalion Editor Students now in school who will attend the second term of sum mer school should report to the Housing Office and sign up for rooms. Housing Manager Allan M. Made ley urged Thursday. “Students who wish to reserve the room they now occupy have until Tuesday to do so,” ^e said, “Students who wish to ^reserve a room other than the one they now occupy may sign for rooms on a first come, first served basis beginning Wednesday ” Students who have a $20 rooai he posit on file will not have to pay, additional fees to reserve rooms Other students must pay the deposit in order to reservq rooms. Since room reservations for tin} second summer term are begin ning after the deadline cancella tion, he said, students should not reserve rooms if there is a pos sibility that they will not attend the second term. Cancellation of a room reservation for any iwa- son, except for the of the university, will forfeit of the room deposit. “Because of room property re sponsibility,” Madeley said, “all students changing rooms are re minded to properly check out of their old rooms and into their new ones with the dorm house masters.'* Students who reserved rooma for the fall before May 13 in those dormitories being used for summer t «n those rooms for the fall. ^Summer school students will not necessarily be able to retain their summer rooms for the fall. According to Madeley, male undergraduate students are re quired to live on campus unless they live with their families. "Exceptions will not be made except for very unusual circum stances,” he said. “Students who have reasons which are an excep tion to this policy must file a re quest for a day student permit <with the Student Affairs Office unless they have already been cleared to be a day student dur ing the first term of summer school.” Students who are eligible for a day student permit, including stu dents living in university apart ments and others who are day students at the present time, are urged to secure their permits early in order to save time at registration, on July 17. Per mits may be'secured at the Hous ing Office in the YMCA until noon, July 15. After this date, day student permits must be secured in the process of registration at Sbisa Hall. Tuesday Night Set For Next Event Dances sponsored by the Mem orial Student Center Summer Di rectorate will be held next Tues day and Aug. 1. The events were announced by David Wilks of Pampa, MSC Summer Directorate president. Soul music by the “Soul Shad ows” of Bryan will be the fea- Rehmet Says SCON A XIII Plans Southeast Asia Topic The price of peace in South east Asia will be “studied, dis cussed and argued” in the 13th Student Conference on National Affairs at Texas AAM next De cember. Patrick G. Rehmet, SCON A Workshop Set For Journalists M ra V Texas AAM will host 360 per sons for a High School Publica tions Workshop July 23-28, an nounced Dr. Delbert McGuire, Journalism Department head. McGuire, workshop director, said innovations include begin ning and advanced lecture sec tions in the newspaper workshop, divided sections in lecture and laboratory for newspaper, year hool will have priority • and photography workshops. Also offered this year is a two- hour seminar in high school pub lications and journalism curricula for advisers. Jack Boggan. assistant profes sor of journalism at AAM. and Mrs. Lela Edwards, publications •dviser at Stephen F. Austin High School in Bryan, are assist ant workshop directors. Other staff members include Mrs. Betty Stanley *of Lubbock Monterrey High, adviser for “Summertime,” a 64-page year book produced during the work shop; Mrs. Ester Curnutt, San Antonio Roosevelt High, begin ning newspaper workshop super visor; Chet Hunt, a University af Texas graduate student from Port Lavaca, beginning news paper laboratory instructor; and Mrs. Elaine Pritchett, Houston Memorial High, advanced news paper laboratory instructor. Also Mrs. Sharon Cox, San Antonio Lee High, adviser for the “Sweetahopper,” mimeographed newspaper produced by students; Charles J. Dolan, national educa tional director for Taylor Pub lishing Company, Dallas, instruc tor for the advanced yearbook section. Mrs. Edwards will supervise the advanced newspaper work shop and Boggan will teach the advanced photography section. Newspaper lecturers include Mrs. Lillian Hefner of Dallas' Lake Highlands High Mrs. Dim ple Hutchings of Longview, Mrs. Edith King of San Antonio Col lege, Don Presley of Dallas Storey Junior High, Mrs. Corinne Remschel of Gonzales, and Mrs. Norma Mares of Huntsville. XIII chairman, announced the program committee's topic selec tion for the Dec. 6-9 conclave that annually involves students from all over the nation and key in ternational diplomats as speak ers. “The agenda is designed to out line the apparent policy of the U. S. government,” Rehmet ex plained. The senior civil engineering major from Alice said that such an agenda should create a gen eral exchange of ideas induced by delegates who disagree with subject area policies The 180 SCON A delegates will dissect the Southeast Asia conflict, economic prospects, so cial progress, prospects for pol itical stability and peace. Among focal points of the Agen da are Western and Chinese ex ploitation vs. local resistance, post-colonial communist and Western intervention, land re form and reconciling interna tional political rivalries. The planning committee head ed by Frank Tilley of Jackson ville has invited eight Southeast Asian embassy representatives as round-table co-chairmen. Dr. Lev E. Dobriansky, Georgetown Uni versity economics professor and Washington Post economics edi tor, and AAM history professor Dr. David Woodward have ac cepted invitations. * ture attraction at the July 11 dance in the MSC ballroom. Ad mission for the 8 to It p.m. dance will be $1 per person, Wilka said. Continuous music with two bands is scheduled for the Aug. 1 "Sock Dance-Town Hall” com bination in G. Rollie White Coli seum “Neal Ford and the Fan atics” of Houston and “The Chessmen” of Dallas will play from a platform in the middle of the coliseum floor. One of the hands will be playing at all times during the 8 to 12 p.m. dance. Dancers will chock their shoes as they go down the ramp to the dance floor. Those who only watt to watch and listen to the music can sit in the stands above the floor. Admission to the dan<4 will be $3 for couples and $2*ft>r singles. Both dances are open to the pub lic as well as AAM students. Wilks noted. Exams To Bring Session To End / The first summer session of summer school at Texas AAM comes to a close next week with final exams on ThursdfV and Friday. Classes which meet daily at 1 8 a.m. will have their exams given at 8 a.m. on Friday and classes meeting at 10 a.m. *ill hold their exams at 11 a.m. Friday. Exams for npon classes are 2 p.m. classes will hold exams at 7 p.m. Thundwy. Final exxhts in courses with only one theory hour per week will be given at the discretion of the department head concerned or at the last meeting of either the theory class or the practice per iod before the close of the term. University National Bank ‘On the side of Texas AAM” . ' —Ada. \ LI rT8 FINGER LICKIN' GOOD! Ken, left, end Kyle Patranella were only two of the more then 600 Bryan-CoUege Station citizens who attended the Lions Club's “Chick-N-Cue” Tuesday at the A&M Consolidated * football stadium. The chicken dinner was Dart of the Fourth of July celebration sponsored by the Lions Chib and the CoUege Station Recreation Council. See pages 6-7. 11»- Christian Named To Library Post f Roger L. Christian of Roawell. N. M., has been appointed assist ant library director for collection development at Texas A AM’s ' pushing Library. His appointment was effective July 1, announced Dr. James P. Dyke, library director. Christian, a native of Shreve- bort. La., came td AAM from New Mexico Military Institute. Where ha was head librarian three years. ' He is an Elk and member of American, Louisiana and New Mexico Library Associations and Alpha Bets Alpha. A Reserve Officers Association member, he Was sn Army reserve unit cotn- Isander in Roswell. Christian received his bachelor degree at Northwestern State College and n masters in library ‘fpience from Louisiana State. The 1956 Shreveport Byrd High grad uate attended Centenary College for his Louisiana teachers certifi cate before going into teaching and librarianship in Louisiana schools at Cameron and Vivian. Buildiug A Loan your sav- shsce 1919 Adv. I L.. . . .-sni- >V . . i. |U.!. r.!. .1.1.!. • cstatis i! M • « i H \ \ y M * l H I S -TA » * • * 11 * V ■4 / L- I 1— I {i f » Ift r m. •• TS S$U PROPOSED BY-PASS CONNECTION Shown above is the proposed f120,000 extension of University Drive which would be buUt eastward to connect with the State Highway 6 by-pass to be constructed around Bryan- College Station. This extension is part of Mayor D. A. Anderson’s five-year plan which was presented to the city council recently. , i v