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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1967
Number 466
More Transfers
Expected In Fall
Increased numbers of transfer
students are forecast among ap
proximately 12,500 students ex
pected to enroll for 1967-68 class
es at Texas A&M Sept. 13-15.
The registrar’s office predicts
a 10 percent increase in trans
fer enrollment, with new stu
dents of advanced undergi-aduate
status coming primarily from the
state’s more than 50 junior col
leges. Last fall, enrollment of
10,700 included 760 transfers.
A&M recruiting programs in
clude extensive plans for the
transferring junior college grad
uate.
Robert B. Gleason, associate di
rector of admissions, annually
makes contact with prospective
transfers in a series of college
and high school visits between
October and 'March. Among 101
schools visited last spring were
34 colleges, primarily of the two-
year type.
A&M’s student aid office each
year recognizes junior college
graduates’ scholastic achievement
in a $3,000 merit award scholar-
Former Newsman
Named To Head
Journalism Dept.
Former Associated Press news
man C. J. Leabo of Minneapolis
has been named head of the
Texas A&M Journalism Depart
ment, announced Liberal Arts
Dean Frank Hubert.
Dean Hubert said the appoint
ment is effective Sept. 1.
Leabo succeeds Dr. Delbert
McGuire who will become visit
ing professor of journalism at
the University of North Caro
lina.
For the past six years, Leabo
has been assistant director of the
National Scholastic Press Asso
ciation and the Associated Col
legiate Press, based on the
campus of the University of
Minnesota.
He previously served more
than a decade with the Associ
ated Press. He joined the wire
service at San Francisco in 1951
and six years later transferred to
Sacramento where he spent two
years as news editor. In 1959
he moved to AP headquarters in
New York and served two years
as a photo editor before joining
NSPA and AGP.
In addition to his NSPA and
AGP work, Leabo, along with his
journalist wife, has taught sum
mer workshops for publications
advisors at the University of
‘i Minnesota.
Leabo initially attended the
University of California but
earned his degree from the Uni
versity of Minnesota School of
Journalism where he has con-
j tinued graduate studies.
ships program.
The university’s broad spectrum
of undergraduate degree pro
grams meshes with the first two
years of study of junior college
transfers. Graduate degree pro
grams allow the transfer to
structure his junior and senior
work toward entering graduate
school.
The Coordinating Board of the
Texas College and University Sys
tem recognizes a trend of fresh
man students to choose two-year
colleges. The growth rate of jun
ior colleges in the last two years
has exceeded 15 per cent. New
junior colleges are opening yearly,
with the Tarrant and Bee County
Junior Colleges among new school
to enroll their first classes this
fall.
Dr. Jack K. Williams, Coordi
nating Board commissioner, point
ed up problems in a recent A&M
address.
He said institutional plans must
be made to accommodate two-year
college graduates who will be
standing at senior college doors
for admission. The impact on
four-year colleges’ programs and
facilities is under question.
“Will senior colleges be pre
pared to handle junior and sen
ior classes larger than their fresh
man and sophomore classes?”
Williams said.
4,000 Biologists Expected
For Conference Sunday
Noon Classes
Due Increase
More noon hour classes are
being scheduled this fall at Texas
A&M to make more efficient use
of classrooms and laboratories.
Registrar H. L. Heaton said
the number of noon classes will
be stepped up “across the board”
five days a week.
“Noon classes are not new at
A&M,” Heaton remarked. “How
ever, they are being increased
partly in anticipation of a con
siderable increase in enrollment.
Heaton said the additional
noon classes are not necessarily
designed to reduce the size of
classes. He said classes may
range from one in problem
courses to 350 in chemistry.
A&M fall enrollment is expect
ed to soar near the 12,500 mark,
an increase of 1,830 over last
fall.
Meet Is First
In Texas History
WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?
This week, Friday is a very important day to the Aggies on campus. It means finals to
take, rooms to clean, moving to do, and books to sell, but most of all it signals the begin
ning of a short, well-deserved vacation before the fall semester begins. (Batt Staff Photo)
The first conference ever held
in Texas by a big scientific
organization begins Sunday at
A&M.
The American Institute of Bio
logical Sciences, which represents
more than 70,000 biologists, will
bring more than 4,000 members
to Bryan-College Station this
weekend.
There are 43 scientific societies
which are adherent to AIBS, and
21 of these will be meeting at
A&M, in addition to a special
session of individual AIBS mem
bers.
Biologists will be pushing their
frontiers into space while keep
ing a wary eye on the environ
ment of earth in scientific papers
to be presented.
Studies of organisms living in
simulated weightlesseness and
under conditions of extra gravity
stress will be reported. Tolerance
of living things to exotic and
harsh environments such as am
monia atmospheres and a broad
look at the possibilities of life
on other planets and in the rest
of the universe will be presented.
An examination of injury in
duced by freezing and thawing
living organisms and experiments
on limb regeneration in frogs
are among i-eports keyed to man’s
move into space.
At the same time, there is
scientific concern about the con
dition of the earthly environment.
Biologists are finding powerful
new tools for broad surveys of
the earth’s living things in the
once-secret intelligence techniques
of infrared, ultraviolet, radar and
photographic scanning from air
craft or satellite.
This will be examined in a
symposium, “The Biological Im
plications of Remote Sensing of
the Earth Ecosystem.”
The AIBS plenary session this
year will be “Man and Environ
ment Revisited,” and will exam
ine, among other things, those
forms of pollution which some
times go unnoticed until their
sudden cumulative effect poses
a threat. Some possibilities for
solution of the increasing prob
lems of pollution will be exam
ined.
The principal event of this
year’s sessions will be a major
scientific speech by Secretary of
Agriculture Orville Freeman at
9 p.m. Aug. 30 in G. Rollie White
Coliseum on the A&M campus.
Secretary Freeman will explore
“Science in the Service of Man:
Agriculture 2000.” The Secretary
has announced he will detail goalp
for his own department for that
time period with concern for
“the abundance and quality of
the products of the land, the
quality of the rural environment
as a place for people to live and
relax as well as to make a living,
and the service of agriculture to
all mankind.”
During the scientific meetings,
more than 1,070 papers will be
presented, in addition to scores
of lectures, demonstrations and
panel discussions.
Storage Service Set
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. —Adv.
Aggies won’t have to rent
trailers to haul their possessions
home for the brief three-week
period between the last summer
session and the fall term.
The Texas A&M Agronomy
Society is sponsoring a storage
service for those students who
wish to leave behind trunks,
lamps or other personal items
during the break, announced
Bennie Zinn, director of Student
Affairs.
“All baggage will be stored at
the student’s risk,” he said, “but
all possible precautions will be
taken to safeguard it. Insurance
coverage will not be provided for
this short period.”
The storage charge will be 20
cents per footlocker and other
articles will be stored at a pro
portionate rate based on size. All
charges will be paid at the time
of storing.
Small, loose items such as
radios, typewriters, clothing,
books and athletic equipment
must be securely boxed and
sealed or tied, he commented.
Students must remove all items
from storage prior to 5 p.m. Sep
tember 22, and all items not
picked up from storage rooms by
then will be disposed in order to
clear the rooms.
Storage will be in the basement
of Dorm 3. The storage room will
be open to accept items for stor
age as follows:
Thursday, August 24, 11-12
a.m. and 5-6 p.m.
Friday, August 25, 11-12 a.m.
and 5-6 p.m.
Inquiries concerning baggage
storage can be made to the Secre-
tatry of the Agronomy Society in
care of the Agronomy Depart
ment, Texas A&M, or call 846-
5022.
Mysterious Banner Appears
On Newly Installed Lights
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Not many people get to takemSan^ride 1, in'aCadJ^
Rowton To Begin
Batt Editorship
This is the last edition of The
Battalion for Editor Winston
Green. He relinquishes his duties
to Charles Rowton, a junior jour
nalism major from Killeen.
Green, a senior journalism
major from Tyler, has been the
editor of The Battalion since last
October.
Next week’s issue will be
Rowton’s first. He will name his
staff in September.
Did fired-up Aggie football fans
become human flies over the
weekend at Kyle Field ?
Sixty feet off the ground be
tween two newly placed flood
light standards, was strung a
“Beat SMU” sign appropriately
lettered in Maroon paint on white
canvas.
Some stadium workmen were
puzzled as to how the “flies”
climbed 60 feet up the 166-foot
tall poles. The wide 40-foot high
concrete bases for the poles have
no steps or hooks for climbing.
700 Foreigners
To Enroll In Fall
A record foreign student en
rollment is expected to contribute
noticeably to an overall high
mark this fall at Texas A&M.
Foreign Student Adviser Bob
Melcher predicted 700 foreign
students will be among the an
ticipated 12,500 registrants. The
old high was established last fall
when 639 signed up for classes.
“Deposits indicate that we will
have about 97 new faces,” Mel
cher noted. “Of that number
about half have never been to
the United States before. They
will report Sept. 7 for special
orientation.”
More than half the foreign en
rollment is expected to be com
prised of graduate students.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav-
ts A t ings Center, since 1919.
BB&L —Adv.
No helicopters were reported
hovering in the area over the
weekend.
See the answer to this puzzle
on pages 7 and 8.
2nd Session
Ends Friday
Texas A&M’s busiest summer
of classes draws to a close this
week, but a flurry of activity is
due before doors open for the
1967-68 long term.
Second summer session students
will write finals today and Fri
day, concluding two six-week
class periods that registered a
total of 9,413 students. Some 5,000
attended first session classes.
Fall semester registration Sept.
13-15 is expected to enroll a rec
ord 12,500. New students sign up
for classes Sept. 13, returning
students will storm Sbisa Hall
registration in increasing num
bers Sept. 14-15 and classes be
gin at 8 a.m. Sept. 18.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
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FIRST SIGN OF FALL
The Class of ’70 hung 1 the first football sign of the up
coming season on dorm 18. The signs are usually con
structed from old bed sheets and decorated with slogans
done with crayola. (Batt Staff Photo)