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THE BATTALION
Colleg-e Station, Texas Wednesday, May 8, 1968
CADET SLOUCH
by Bulletin Board
Finals Schedule
Must Be Changed
In addition to the Ag-gie stickers which North Gate
merchants went wild ordering following last January’s Cot
ton Bowl victory, selected store owners are eyeing the third
week in May by stocking proverbial “Midnight Oil,’’
For students other than graduating seniors, who are
preparing to enter the world outside the college cocoon,
final examinations mean that the study lamp is “on”.
The topic is a frustrating one for those making a
last ditch attempt to stay afloat, for those with grades
which won’t be affected either way, to professors who have
a grade everything from 200 question “objective 7 ’ tests
to 10 question essay tests, and for administrators who
have to decide when, where, and how to schedule tests.
It is the scheduling of the tests which is the most
flexible item and which has provided some of the greatest
consternation among students.
Last semester, a student could have had a final at
8 a. m., 1 p. m. and 7 p. m. on the same day. To avoid a
mass cram situation which would not have been any real
test of overall course knowledge, tests this semester were
planned only at the two earlier times. To make up the dif
ference finals will now begin on Friday May 24.
One situation is almost as bad as the other. The admin
istration has made it very clear that what was affectionately
refered to as “Dead Week” did not exist.
The week preceding final exams was to be treated as
and other and the probability of last minute quizzes was not
to be disregarded.
May 25th is Final Review, graduation exercises and
commissioning ceremonies. The occasion brings thousands
of parents sweethearts and guests who usually arrive Fri
day. It would be difficult to both greet guests and study
for or take a final exam.
Although representing an ever smaller portion of the
student body many ROTC classes plan final tests on Satur
day. As presently scheduled, two days of final exams will
fall on, or just proceed, the biggest and busiest weekend
of the year and just after a “live Dead Week.”
We believe that the past schedule of tests should be
maintained with one change. Tests could be given at 8 a. m.,
1 p. m. or 7 p. m. once again, but no student should be ex
pected to take more than two exams on any one day.
If scheduling called for three exams on the same day,
a student could arrange an alternate day with his professor.
With many students having a broken week with, as an
example, a test Monday, Tuesday and then not again until
Saturday, a day in between could easily be arranged for
the third exam.
Changes should be made, even at this late date. The
problem of final exams should be reconsidered so that the
schedule is more in keeping with an accurate measure not
of course material, without necessitating undue cramming,
and with interrupting a busy and important weekend of
activities with campus guests.
TODAY
The Aggie Wives Bridge Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the
Memorial Student Center.
THURSDAY
The Texas A&M Polo Club
will elect officers for the fall
semester at 7:30 p.m. in Room
203 of the Animal Industries
Building.
The Wichita Falls Area Home
town Club will meet at 7:30 p.m.
in Room 313 of the Military Sci
ence Building- Annex.
The San Antonio Hometown
Club will have elections, discuss
an end-of-the-year party, and
plan a Mother’s Day reception at
7:30 p.m. in Room 231 of the
Physcs Building.
The Southern Louisiana Home
town Club will elect officers for
1968-69 at 7:30 p.m. in the Main
Lobby of the Memorial Student
Center.
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Meet Everywhere
SATURDAY
The Former NSF Summer
Geology Students will have a bar
becue at 7 p.m. Information can
be obtained from Prof. Smith of
the Geology Department before
Friday.
The Chemistry Department in
vites all faculty, graduate and
undergraduate students and their
wives to the annual Chemistry
Department Barbecue at 11 a.m.
at the Fellowship Hall on Tabor
Road. For information, call
Linda Salitros, 846-3508 or Adri
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Biackie Sherrod, sports editor of the Dallas Times
Herald, is this mdfith’s winner of the Battalion’s Sincerity,
Humility, Intelligence and Tact Award., ,
Sherrod won the honor on the strength of printing a
letter from Mrs. Clarence W. Ward in the sports section of
Friday’s Times-Herald which began: “I want to thank you
for your wonderful column ... I cut it out every day and
we have been sending it to my brother in Minneapolis who
has been in the hospital for a heart attack, and lately sur
gery. He is fine and came for a visit for two weeks.”
Mrs. Ward went on to say that her brother shared the
column with all his friends, that she is sending it to her
grandson in the Air Force and a Marine in Vietnam. She
is also sending the columns to a friend’s cousin in a vet
erans hospital in Kansas.
A heart-warming ending on the letter cinched the award
for Sherrod. It read: “My brother said he has read sports
pages from many parts of the U. S. and you are absolutely
the very best. Thank you so much. May God bless you and
let you write for us many, many more years.”
Batt-Baby Arrives
The first Batt-baby in at least six years was born Sun
day night to Janis Solovey, wife of Battalion Editorial
Columnist Bob Solovey.
Sherri Lee Solovey, a seven-pound brown-eyed beauty,
measured in at IS) 1 /?"- The announcement prompted a Tues
day night psychedelic Battxave cigar and handshaking
party that ended when Dad had to be home for the ten
o’clock feeding.
By JOHN MORGANTHALER
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK UP) — Red bal
loons labeled “Strike” bobbed up
all over Columbia University’s
campus Tuesday, but classes met
anyway — in classrooms, on the
lawn, in off-campus apartments,
and one in a nearby bar.
The student strikers still were
protesting last week’s raid by
1,000 police, which routed stu
dents from five occupied build
ings and resulted in 720 arrests
and injuries to 100 young people
and 15 policemen.
A fact-finding committee met
to discover the causes of two
weeks of student disorders at the
25,000-student Ivy League uni
versity.
Graduate schools re ported
near-normal operations Tuesday,
but undergraduate Columbia
College was scattered about in
“liberation classes” — many
meeting outside in balmy spring
air.
There were some new subjects.
One class was called “Sexual
Intercourse, a Political and Hu
man Reality.” Another was
“Columbia as an International
University: Liberation or bond
age ?”
“Many students and faculty
are not in the frame of mind to
go back to the old routine,” said
Acting Dean Henry S. Coleman
of Columbia College. He was
held captive for 24 hours by stu
dents early in the uprising.
In the afternoon, a lazy carni
val atmosphere pervaded the
campus. Students carried the
“strike” balloons on long strings
or tied them to benches or other
objects. One flew from the col
lar of a German shepherd dog.
Only small groups of pickets
persisted in front of several
buildings, with many students
stretched out on the lawn in the
sun. A rally with folk singers
and student orators was held.
Monday there had been 300
pickets and Provost David B.
Truman warned another “calling
in of city cops is not out of the
question.”
MONDAY
The Peace Corps Club will
have a program presented by
two Peace Corps recruiters who
were volunteers at 7:30 p.m. in
Room 3C of the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
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