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-
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Tuesday. March 8. This includes students
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in February. 1955.”
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Letters to the Editors
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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-
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