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Cbe BattalionCOLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1965
Number 161
STUDENTS CONDUCT DESIGN TEST ... as part of experimental
psychology project.
Experimen tal Psychology Offers Unique Lab Work
Houze Accepts Post With Trinity Library
Take 11 Aggies studying experimental psychology, add a
laboratory with white rats, bring in some people as experimental
subjects and you have the possibilities of all sorts of
situations.
The basic fact is that the students gain valuable knowledge.
They repeat experiments lately reported in professional journals
and then think up and do their own test studies.
Sometimes things sound odd, though. In one cubicle a person says
as quickly as he can all of the words that come to mind. Elsewhere
a person looking at a screen sees different projections and down
the hall students wait anxiously to see which turn in a maze the
white rat will take.
“About half of our work is people work, half is animal work,”
Dr. Albert Casey said of the students’ projects.
The students in many cases
build special test equipment. Lab facilities include a
woodworking shop plus facilities for metalworking and electrical
jobs.
But it’s the completed experiments, not the carpentry that is
graded.
“And these experiments account for a major part of the student’s
grade,” Casey emphasized.
The students are psychology majors and seniors in the Department
of Education and Psychology. The university last year awarded its
first degrees with psychology as a major.
Students are likely to be at the lab anytime of the day or
night. One pair, for example, works regularly from 6-8 a.m.
“We intend to be as far on the outgoing frontiers of research as
we can get,” Casey said of the student work. In his own research,
the professor is part of a team studying with National
Institutes of Health sponsorship the effects of nuclear
radiation.
“We require two rather extensive projects to be completed by the
students, who work in teams of two. The major project, the one
which they devise, is worth a major part of their grade,” Casey
said.
Learned first are the 16 steps involved in experimental work.
These begin with the first idea, continue through a search of
literature to see what other researchers have done and progress
through procedural and control techniques, statistical analysis of
data and finally the writing of the final experimental report.
“Serendipity” is a favorite word of their professors, the
students have learned. The word means the gift of finding fortunate
things, being alert to the possibility of making important research
findings in addition to those sought.
A $20,000 grant from the National Science Foundation helped
finance facilities for the laboratory.
Literary Festival Set For Opening
The second annual Spring Literary Festival opens Thursday with a
lecture by associate professor Harrison E. Hierth. The festival
continues through April 12 under sponsorship of the Department of
English.
Hierth is to lecture at 4 p.m. Thursday on “Washington Square
and One West Main Street — Edith Wharton and Ellen Glasgow.” This
free, public lecture will be given in Rooms 2A-C of the Memorial
Student Center.
Library Director Robert A. Houze will become head librarian of
Trinity University in San Antonio effective June 10.
Houze will be responsible for the George Storch Memorial Library
built in 1951 and the Graduate Library to be provided in the
newly-finished Chapman Graduate Center. Expansion and development
of these libraries to places of prominence will be his key
responsibilities.
The librarian’s 16-year tenure at A&M has been marked by
major growth of the library collection, admission of the university
into the prestigious Association of Research Libraries, the start
of studies applying electro-
Six major topics of transportation will be spotlighted by
speakers during the seventh annual Transportation Conference
Thursday and Friday.
Interstate regulations, re-regulation, simplification of
tariffs, common ownership of several modes, future of highway
transport for shippers and vehicle weights and sizes will be
subjects for talks in the Assembly Room of the Memorial Student
Center.
The conference, sponsored by the Texas Transportation Institute
and its advisory committee, is expected to attract 150 persons.
Maj. Gen. John P. Doyle, McDonald Professor of Transportation, will
direct the sessions.
Judge James C. Langdon of the Texas Railroad Commission will
speak at 9 a.m. during the opening session on “The Texas Interest
in Regional Transporttaion Matters.”
Another early speaker will be Clifford Gannett from the Office
of the Undersecretary of Commerce. He will discuss a project he is
supervising regarding simplification of transportation tariffs and
reduction of paper
nic data processing techniques to library procedures and the
near completion of plans for a major library center.
Houze also has been active in professional associations and in
the community.
“He has contributed significantly to Texas A&M and to the
interests of all of the state libraries through his work with
various state councils and committees . . . we wish him every
success,” Dean of Instruction W. J. Graff said.
Houze said he and his family “will be leaving many friends and
pleasant memories at this institution and in this community.”
work costs for the economy of the transportation industry.
Lawrence K. Walrath, a member of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, Thursday’s luncheon speaker, discussed objectives of
minimum regulation of transportation.
During the afternoon, Wesley J. Barta, president of the
Mississippi Valley Barge Line, and Clair M. Roddewig, president of
the Association of Western Railroads, discussed coordination of
transportation by two or more modes through formation of
transportation companies or the ownership of one mode of
transportation by another.
First speaker for the Friday session will be Edward V. Kiley,
director of research and transportation economics for the American
Trucking Association. He will look at the future of highway
transportation.
Final technical speaker will be L. M. Clauson, chief engineer of
the Iowa State Highway Commission, and chairman of the
Transportation Committee of the American Association of State
Highway officials.
The librarian’s professional services at the state level include
the chairmanship since 1961 of a sub-committee of the Texas
Commission on Higher Education. Findings of this sub-committee for
revision of the library formula used by the legislature in
determining library appropriations has provided the basis for the
Commission and Governor John Connally’s budget proposal to the
current legislature.
Houze also has served since 1961 as chairman of the Council of
State College Librarians.
The librarian has served as a consultant and advisor to several
organizations and is the author of several publications. He is
active professionally in library associations from the area through
national levels and a past officer of the Texas Library
Association. He also is vice chairman and chairman-elect of the
college division, Southwestern Library Association.
In the community Houze is a past president of the Rotary Club,
has held various leadership posts as an adult Scouter and served in
1954 as general chairman of the College Station Community
Chest.
He also is active in the A&M Presbyterian Church, serving as
a ruling elder and former deacon. Since coming to the community in
1949 he has taught in the church school or served as
superintendent.
Houze was acquisitions librarian at the University of Texas
before coming to Texas A&M. Before World War II service
overseas as an artillery officer he was on the staffs of
universities in the Denver area.
He holds the AB and BS in Library Science degree from the
University of Denver. He also has done graduate work in educational
administration here.
Mr. and Mrs. Houze, who reside at 1005 Harrington, have two
children. Robert A. Houze, Jr., is a sophomore majoring in
meteorology and Jane is a junior at A&M Consolidated High
School.
Today’s Edition Includes Annual April Fool Section
Today is April Fools. Webster’s says this day is devoted to one
who is sportively imposed upon the first day of April, and not to
be a tradition-destroyer, The Battalion again is publishing its
April Fools Edition.
In the second section of today’s newspaper you will find our
attempts to prove a basic axiom of this campus, “Aggies are able to
laugh at themselves.” Some of our barbs are not very well
shielded—they were not meant to be.
Call it our reply to all the disparagements thrown at us during
the past year, or call it our last chance to raise hell—it’s all in
fun and we hope those hit a bit hard will accept it as fun.
Of course if anyone feels unduly slighted, we will be glad to
entertain complaints—all of which will be cheerfully ignored.
The WorldBy The Associated Press
NationalSELMA, Ala.—A Negro leader said Wednesday
that Gov. George C. Wallace reacted favorably to a petition from
a civil rights delegation seeking easier means of registering
voters.
“But the petition had nothing to do with demonstrations,” said
the Rev. Frederick D. Reese of Selma, a leader of the Negro voter
drive which started here more than 10 weeks ago and sent
repercussions across the nation.
“Demonstrations will continue,” Reese said. There will be no
cessation of demonstrations, he said, “until there are no barriers
to free registration of Negroes.”
★ ★ ★LANSING, Kan.—Harvey Bailey, notorious bad
man of the early 1930s who became a model prisoner, walked out
of the Kansas state prison Wednesday, a free man on parole.
Bailey, now 78 and white-haired, left the state penitentiary at
Lansing early in the day to take a job at Joplin, Mo.
★ ★ ★WASHINGTON—A Texas congressman sug
gested today that Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach had cleared the
constitutionality of the adminis-
at a Glancetration’s voting rights bill with the Supreme Court
before submitting it to Congress. Katzenbach promptly denied the
report.
Rep. John Dowdy, D.-Tex., told a House Judiciary subcommittee he
had a third-hand report that Katzenbach assured Senate backers of
the bill that its constitutionality would be no problem because he
had already shown it to Chief Justice Earl Warren and four other
members of the court “and they enthusiastically approved it.”
★ ★ ★NEW YORK MILLS, N. Y.—Nearly 30 pupils
suffered shock or other injuries today in an explosion in a high
school chemistry laboratory in this community west of Utica.
TexasAUSTIN—Texas house members voted today to
begin negotiations with Mexico over a battle flag captured by
Santa Anna's army in the 1836 fall of the Alamo.
HOUSTON—More than 10,000 shouting, flag- waving school children
provided a noisy homecoming Wednesday for space heroes VirgiJ I.
Gus Grissom and John W. Young.
The loud cheers from the children went up as soon as the
astronauts alighted from a blue and white National Aeronautics and
Space Administration plane at Houston’s International Airport.
Transport Meeting Opens Here Today
SUE FERRELL. . . Dorm 19
ASC Divorce Bill Passes In House But Senate Stalls
AUSTIN UP) — Plans to divorce Arlington State College from the
Texas A&M system got a quick shove in the House today but an
equally quick slap in the Senate.
The Senate-passed measure won House approval 138-4 after an
amendment was attached prohibiting the use of any permanent
university fund money by Arlington.
Within minutes, the Senate voted 11-17 against accepting the
bill hanging in parliamentary space,
Sen. Don Kennard of Fort Worth said he would make another
attempt for Senate approval after getting the House amendment
printed and distributed so each senator could study the exact
wording.
Senate agreement to the amendment would send the bill to the
governor for signature into law. Senate refusal to accept the House
amendment would call for a conference committee to try to iron out
differences.
There was no House debate on final passage of the bill which
would put Arlington State under the University of Texas instead of
A&M.
