ATLANTA, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1946 Number 18 X-lll—Vol. XXIX Students Seek Better Football Seats Schneider Leads Mass Meeting; Student's Rally Committee Has Committee To Bargain With AA Parley With The Georgia Tech student body held a mass meeting at four Pres. Van Leer o'clock Monday afternoon in the gymnasium for the purpose of discussing an approach to securing better seating arrangements President Blake Van Leer held a for the football games of the coming season. conference Thursday morning, Au­ Charles Schneider, president of the Student Council, took gust 15, with Dean Griffin, Coach charge of the proceedings and introduced the three student speak­ Alexander, and the representatives of ers. He wound up the meeting with an address by himself. the student body to discuss the foot­ ball ticket situation currently caus­ Leading off on the program, T. B. ing so much unrest on the campus. Kelly, co-sponsor of the original peti­ A. E. Department Representing the student body were tion with Boh Shelton, repeated his five members of the committee selected at Monday's mass meeting: Charles convictions concerning students' rights Makes Rotor Tests Schneider, Bob Shelton, T. B. Kelly, to the best seats. He read a petition James Crawford, and Ken Greene; which called for seats between the Besides the routine testing of plane and Al Newton, editor of TECHNI­ models, the Aeronautical Department 30 yard lines but stated that if the QUE. has recently tested a Coca-Cola sign Athletic Association conceded seats Unfavorable publicity received by to determine how much wind pressure the school from the city papers was to the students from the fifty to the it could stand. This test showed that a major factor in the discussion. end zone, his group would be satisfied. the sign could stand a wind velocity Plans were made for the committee of 70 mph before it began to vibrate. In addition, he asked that students Journalism Society Has to prepare a resolution wliich in should have an option on season date The A.E. Department held a series effect would rebuke the newspapers tickets at full public price for all of five tests to determine the thrust for the bad light in which they have and rag of helicopter rotors and how games, primarily because most stu­ Ed Danforth As Speaker put the issues at stake. much power is required to operate the According to the original leaders dents were married and desired to rotors. In endurance tests with these Ed Danforth, sports editor of the Atlanta Journal, spoke Mon­ in the movement, T. B. Kelly and Bob take their wives with them to the rotors, parts of two rotors were day night, August 12, at the regular weekly meeting of *Pi Delta Shelton, the situation is by no means games. broken off and the blade of a third Epsilon, national journalistic society. comparable to the Athens, Tenn,, was torn completely off. The depart­ A graduate in Chemical Engineering at the University of Ken­ A. N. Adcock followed Kelly in an episode; they acted not as an individ­ ment has also held tests on sections tucky, Mr. Danforth received no more preparation for a career in ual unit of veterans, but as united address that backed up the latter's of the tail surface of a new bomber journalism than what he absorbed from his work on the collegiate students seeking simply by the use appeals. Adcock called for close co­ to determine the amount of effort newspaper and annual. of a petition to secure what they Speaking on matters pertaining to operation among the students and that it will take to change the sur­ considered their rightful seats at the face. present-day newspapers, he pointed finished his speech with the state­ games. Expansion of Textile out the inefficiency of a great deal The wind tunnel, in which these Kelly stated that when the original ment, "I'll see you on the fifty yard- of colleges in that their journalism tests have been held, is one of the petition was posted on the bulletin line." Departmen tPla nned schools were concerned more with pieces of valuable equipment which board, another notice was posted by he theoritical aspect of the journal­ Schneider, while speaking of the Tech prizes very highly. After being the side of it, containing some false For Postwar Demand istic field, and gave less attention to $8,000 which it is estimated the AA installed in 1932, the wind tunnel has statements concerning the amount of Georgia Tech's Textile Department he actual practical necessities of a will lose, making only $14,000 profit helped in many experiments and tests money the Athletic Association re­ under the direction of Professor H. A. newcomer to the newspaper world. on models and different parts of ceived from each student. This falsi­ instead of $22,000, if they give in to Dickert is expanding its course to According to Mr. Danforth, the planes. When a test is made in the fied report to the students was the students' demands for a fifty-to- meet the great postwar demand of JOURNAL employs graduates of the A.E. wind tunnel, complicated opera­ erroneously taken to be a part of his end zone seating arrangement, was textile mills throughout the nation. state's journalism schools as well as tions and derivations are necessary to petition by the newspapers and some There will be greater stress put on some out-of-state students, but these interrupted by a member of the stu­ arrive at the desired conclusions. of the students. specialization than ever before. usually require a year or longer be­ dent body who asked for seats be­ According to Professor Dickert, the fore they are completely in stride tween the thirty yard-lines, Schneider fault of Georgia Tech's past textile with the business. made the statement that 7,000 seats courses has been a decided lack of He went further to explain the would be available from the fifty to theory. Now there will be an increase difference between a news and a fea Industry Needs in the number of lectures courses the zero line, 4800 for students and All members of the TECHNIQUE ture story. Contrary to news articles, while not cutting down on the neces­ (Continued on page 3) staff are urged to attend the next which are straight, direct accounts of Ceramics Men sary laboratory work. The depart­ simple facts or recent occurrences, meeting to be held at 6:45 Monday Doctor Lane Mitchell, head of the ment is also offering more electives feature stories deal more with the evening in the basement of the YMCA. Ceramics Department, recently stated and humanities than before, giving human interest angle; that is, they Vets Should Fill Out Any cartoonists on the campus are that since the reopening of the the student the opportunity for more direct interest more to a person or especially invited to join the staff. Ceramic Engineering Department last specialization. persons than to facts. Recognition Card * * * March, the staff has literally been The Textile Department has de­ However, he added a drawback to swamped with offers from industry. Veterans now in school who expect cided upon this course of specializa­ that statement in that too much dis­ Member of Phi Kappa Tau fraterni­ Hundreds of scouts from industry tion because of the demands of the tinction should not be delegated be­ to continue their education at Geor­ ty who are in school are urged to at­ have interviewed the members of the various synthetic textile industries, tween news and feature stories. gia Tech in the fall quarter are re­ tend a meeting in the office of the Georgia Tech Ceramics staff in an all of which offer different problems Following up the current series of quired to report to the Information Dean of Students at 12:30, Monday, effort to fill large numbers of vacan­ for which the student must prapare Pi Delta Epsilon guest speakers, an­ August 19. cies in industry. Most of these vital Counter, Administration Building, to * * * himself while at college. other member of one of the city's men on the staff have just returned prepare their veteran recognition card Students entering textiles at Geor­ newspapers or publication houses will There will be a meeting of Tau Beta from the armed services and find gia Tech may enter either of three speak next Monday night at 7:30 on for the fall quarter, to include signa­ Pi, Wednesday, August 21, in the themselves in great demand. options offered. The first of these is the first floor of Swann Hall. Stu­ ture of the veteran, according to the M.E. lounge at 4:00 p. m. All mem the engineering option with the stress dents interested in campus publica­ Seven students; have returned from following schedule: bers are invited and urged to attend. place on engineering principals and tions are extended a cordial wel­ the service to take refresher courses. DET students, both 12 and fitting the student to enter the textile come. These courses are designed to follow 8 week courses August 20 industry as a throughly trained en­ the subjects that the students have The local chapter of Alpha Chi College students, A through gineer. The second option is the already taken, rather than the intro­ Sigma, honorary and professional F August 21 chemistry and dyeing option which "Ordinary School Year" duction of new subjects. Two of these Chemistry and Chemical Engineering puts great stress on chemistry as ap­ Defined For Veterans students have already been placed in College students, G through Society, will hold a regular meeting plied to the field of textiles.