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Battalion Editorials Page 2 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1955 Foundations and Such Public school week, which started yes terday, is a good time to raphsodize editor ially on the schools as the foundation of democracy, the hope of the future, and all that sort of thing. It all sounds real pretty and is probably true, but most people can’t see it that way. Can’t see the forest for the trees, to coin a phrase. Everybody—school student, college stu dent, parent, or just plain citizen—is too close to the school to see clearly its ideolog ical funbtions. To most people, the school house is right around the corner, and whether its shaped like yesterday’s barn or tomorrow’s flying saucer, it is as much a part of their neighbor hood as the fireplug on the corner. It affects everything in their lives, and families with school-age children are liable to find their lives geared around it. Parents casually send their children to a public school for 12 or more years, trusting the school to take care of them for six hours a day and to teach them the “right” things. The children accept the school with equal casualness; they complain about parts of it, and enjoy other parts. This is probably the highest tribute that can be paid our schools: they exert an im measurable influence on the lives of everyone in the nation, but they are accepted as com monplace. Now for the moralistic part — granted that the schools are one of the foundations of democracy, and granted that the citizen with his vote is an equally important part of the same foundation, the two should get together more. The schools are using this public school week dodge as an excuse to hold open houses and similar festivities, in an effort to get the people out to see what the schools do all day. The least the people can do is to take them up on it. Four Hours . . . The Student Senate last week made a rec ommendation that, if approved by the col lege, could possibly save a student’s life some day. The senate requested that the Thanks giving, Christmas and Easter holidays start at noon instead of at 5 p.m., giving the stu dents a chance to get home before dark. This will involve no great loss on the part of the college—one afternoon of classes. But it might prevent some student from pushing his driving luck too far into the night. The coming Easter holidays would be a good time to stkrt. What’s Cooking TUESDAY 7:00—Milam county club, YMCA, discuss plans for Aggieland. 7:15—Rural Sociology club, 410 Agriculture building, speaker: Jack Springer, a^iout Chamber of Com merce work. 7:30—Ag Eco club, room 2A i MSC, Dr. W. W. Mcllroy will show ! slides on FDA work in India, selec- | tion of Cotton Ball duchess and set time for Aggieland picture. Geological society, lecture room Geology building, informal discus sion on the exploration activities of an oil company, speaker: Morgan Davis, vice-president, exploration, Humble Oil and Refining Co. Pre-Med, Pre-Dent club, 107 Biol ogy building, discuss banquet. Spanish club, 123 Academic, or ganizational meeting, election of officers, J. J. Woolket, head of modern language department, will preside. Pre-Law society, room 3B MSC, two movies about court cases and proceedings. AIChE, Petroleum engineering building, speaker: Morrow of the Humble Oil Co. on “Modem Fuels for Modern Motors.” Business society, 107 Biology building, speaker: Amando Cava zos, secertary of H. B. Zachary Construction Cti., San Antonio, “In teresting Phases of my Job.” Today Is Last Day Today is the last day that mem bers of the Pre-Medical, Pre-Den- t&i club can purchase tickets for the annual banquet to be held March 12 in Maggie Parker’s din ing hall at 7:30 p.m. Tickets can be boug'ht from members of the club. Golf, Tennis Teams Win Openers With SFA Easily With Jerry Durbin shooting a low of 69, A&M’s varsity golfers thumped Stephen F. Austin here 5V2-V2. Saturday in' the Aggies’ first match of the year. Bobby Nichols sparked the Ag gie freshmen to a 6-0 triumph over the SFA frosh by tying the com petitive course record at A&M with a 66. ger in the first varsity foursome. Bill Franklin of A&M halved with Robert Baker, and Tommy Cox won over Stewart Bell in the, sec ond foursome. Coach W. M. Dowell’s , Aggie tennis team completely dominated Stephen F. Austin here Saturday and swept to a 7-0 win. A&M won easily in the singles matches. Don Dixon defuated 'Mural Highlights A transportation corps won over A signal corps yesterday, 2-Q, in freshmen intramural volleyball. In other games, B anti-aircraft artillery beat A engineers, 2-9; B engineers downed C anti-aircraft artillery, 2-0; squadron 1 won over B field artillery, 2-0; squadron 13 sank squadron 22, 2-0; A chemical corps beat A field artillery, 2-1; A ordnance won over A quartermas ter corps, 2-0; and Mitchell hall beat Walton hall, 2-1. Five PE Majors Teaching at CHS Five A&M physical education majors aae practice teaching at A&M Consolidated junior high and high school this semester. The students are Billy Pickard, G. O. Mayers, Elwood Kcttler, B. H. Menard, K. L. Fry and Bob Easley. Texas state law requires two se mesters of practice before a stu dent can receive a teacher’s certi- BRING YOUR CAR TO US FOR . . . Best “TUNE-UP” In Town BRUNER BATTEKY & ELECTK1C CO. Bruner ’44 281 h & Main PHONE 2-1218 Bobby Briggs and Durbin down ed Jim McDonnell and Bitsy. 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B - 11 - W, College View. 72t4 OFFICIAL NOTICES Official notices must be brought, mailed, or telephoned so as to arrive In the Office of Student I’ublications (207 Ooodwin, 4-632+, hours 8 - 12, 1 - 5, daily Monday through Friday) at or be for.* the deadline of 1 p.m. of the day jireceding publica tion.—Manager. “All Baste Division students entering school in February, 1955 will meet in the Chemistry Lecture Room at 4 p.m. on Tuesday. March 8. This includes students in the Corps, civilian students and trans fer students registering for the first time in February. 1955.” C. H. Ransdell Acting Dean, Basic Division 73t2 Letters to the Editors Vacancies still exist for physfes labor atory student assistantships Wednesdays 10-12 A. M., Physics 202, and Wednedays 2-4 p.m. in Physics 204. Men who have completed sophomore physics courses with superior records are invited to apply at the office of the department at their earliest convenience. 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BOB BORISKIE, HARRI BAKER Jon Kinsiow Co-Editors —Managing Editor To Fish Wachel '58 I read your letter to the Batt about ' the “Soldier Boys” of the Corps pnd I would like to defend the letters that were previously ‘written on the subject of non-regs. t; am not ridiculing you for not joining the corps; that’s your pe-, rogative and you may have your good reasons for not joining. What I do object to is your calling the Corps “Soldier Boys.” I don’t be lieve that in any of the letters be fore yours has there been any “name calling” by the Corps. We teach the Corps freshmen that they are men the minute they enter A&M and I don’t believe that they, your own class buddies, would ap preciate your calling them “Sol dier Boys,” when in my opinion, it takes much more of a man to take the C.Q.’s, drills, bull-rings, mess-hall bull, etc. at a “non-coed college” than it does to merely go here and come and go as you please, sit on your dead when you meet a man, and wear your hat in the M.S.C. I hope, Fish Wachel, when old Uncle Sugar drafts you, that one of those Class of ’58 “Soldier Boys” is your C. O. and he really puts you through it. Bill “Red” Swann Class of ’56 ★ ★ ★ To Whom It May Concern, Through Editors,—The Battalion: We, as “soldier boys” in the Corps at A&M, have found that to be qualified to speak of spirit, it is imperative that one must have first participated in the traditions of our school. We have found many discrepancies in the argu- i ments presented in the recent let ters to The Battalion by several j non-reg students — freshman in particular. It is our firm belief that there has not been any “mud slinging” at those non-regs who have never been in the Corps. Cer tainly one would not expect a vet eran who has already served his country well or a physically handi capped student to participate in the Corps activities—unless they so desire. Nor do we feel that Pre-Meds or men who have had to drop out of the corps at the end of two years of military train ing should be included unless they i so desire. But we feel that if we are to look at any present situa tion from the non-reg view point it is imperative that those per sons, who never have participated in the Corps also consider our 'feelings. How many times have the non-reg authors of the recent letters been to yell practice, stood at attention during Silver Taps, gone to support our team on Corps Trips, or even felt the spirit that they believe they know so much about. It is you, those who were able to join the Corps of Cadets and who didn't, and you, those who did join and quit because you did- not have the “guts” to stick it but, whom we are refering to. It is a proven fact that many of you, instead of joinging in with the Corps, have turned your back on our traditions by such things as going home on football week ends, or playing poker while we paid a final tribute to a deceased fellow Aggie. . . .Yes, Army, they played poker. These men, and we use the term loosely, are the ones we have objection to. At present our school is faced with a serious problem. The ac tions of the above mentioned non conformists are the ones whom we feel are, in part, directly re sponsible for starting A&M on the road to coeducation. Only by co operation on the part of the school administration and the students, both military and non-reg, can we keep A&M an all male college. If the above mentioned desire to con- ' (See LETTERS, Page 4) CLASS' ~v~ (Advertisement) veo"'—...... |—,,,..............i.ww C KE VOOR ' OS KJvtQGK-? 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