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The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Thursday, March 19, 1959
BATTALION EDITORIALS
. . . Our Liberty Depends on the Freedom of the
Press, And It Cannot Be Limited Without Being
Lost . . . Thomas Jefferson
Non - Reg Day?
In many respects, the Corps of Cadets was looking its
best last weekend. The military dignitaries here for Spring
Military Day could not give the Corps enough praise for their
splendid parade-review and the two weekend dances.
For some first classmen, however, the weekend would
have been more accurately named if it had been called
“Non-Reg Day” rather than Military Day.
The number of seniors out of uniform on the campus
during the day was apalling—it was as ill-timed as it was
contrary to regulations.
By Military College definition, “. . . all cadets will habit
ually be in uniform on the campus.” Yet by actual count
17 seniors out of uniform were seen in the Memorial Stu
dent Center during one hour Saturday.
And contrary to seemingly popular belief, there is no
provision in the regulation for senior “privileges.”
Currently, however, seniors have been authorized to wear
civilian clothing—OFF CAMPUS AFTER RETREAT. And
possibly this can be considered a privilege. But it was given
to seniors “for the fine manner in which they have carried
out their responsibilities this year”—not as a green light to
abandon the prescribed uniform altogether.
Since the recent flagrant violations of uniform regs on
the campus, however, there has been some talk at several
levels of retracting the off-campus “privilege.”' And as a
last resort it might be the way to “discipline” the defenders
of “discipline” and “privilege.”
It is regrettable, however, that the men of Aggieland
are so short-sighted they can’t spot a good deal when, they
see one. Right now they can go off campus in whatever they
feel like—provided they wear the uniform on campus. In
the past they had to wear the uniform on the campus—
and off. And quite possibly if they continue to flaunt their
senior “privilege” on the campus, they’ll be wearing uni
forms everywhere in the future.
Are the seniors so foolish they will ape the past and “ol’
Army” until they lose this new privilege they worked so
long for?
WhaVs Cooking
The following clubs and organ
izations will meet tonight:
7:30
Austin Hometown Club will
meet in Room 125 of the Aca
demic Bldg.
Bell County Hometown Club
will meet in Room 103 of the
Academic Bldg.
Dallas Hometown Club meets
in Room 107 of the Biology Bldg.
Deep East Texas Hometown
Club meets in Room 102 of the
YMCA.
Galena Park Hometown Club
will meet in Room 106 of the Aca
demic Bldg.
Laredo Hometown Club meets
in Room 3D of the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Land-O-The-Lakes Club will
meet in Room 109 of Bagley Hall.
Red River Valley Hometown
Club will meet in Room 123 of
the Academic Bldg. High School
Day plans will be discussed.
Runnel’s Coleman Hometown
-Club meets in Room 3C of the
MSC.
San Antonio Hometown Club
meets in the Academic Bldg, to
discuss final plans for their Eas
ter party.
7:45
Yankee Hometown Club will
meet in the second floor lounge
of the MSC. Pictures for the Ag
gieland will be taken.
Milby Hometown Club will meet
in Room 208 of the Academic
Bldg.
8:30
Northeast Texas Hometown
Club meets in Room 208 of the
Academic Bldg.
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CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
“Sorry, sir, it’s hard salutin’ when you’re riding a bike.”
Interpreting
Nasser Learns Value
Of Kremlin Protests
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
President Gamal Abdel Nasser
of the United Arab Republic is
learning the true value of Krem
lin protestations that its eco
nomic aid for underdeveloped
countries is given without polit
ical strings.
Nasser found the strings invis
ible until he started disagreeing
with something the Soviet Union
wants.
Now he has joined John Foster
Dulles and Marshall Tito on the
Communist list of public enemies.
For many years, ever since
Britain and France replaced
Turkish rule of the Middle East
with a group of states lacking
the power to stand 'alone, Egypt,
Saudi Arabia and Iraq have been
in competition for Arab leader
ship. Primarily it was a person
al competition among the kings.
Cairo had the widely powerful
Moslem University; Arabia had
Mecca, the spiritual center of Is
lam; and Iraq had Baghdad, the
once great historical capital. Ara
bia and Iraq had the oil.
Nasser, attempting to organize
a great pan-Arab movement to
put himself and Egypt on top,
has never been able to get at the
oil, only real source of Arab
wealth.
When a nationalist revolt oc
curred in Baghdad last year,
much akin to the one he staged
himself against King Farouk in
Egypt, Nasser thought he was in.
He had received much helpk and
was promised more by interna
tional communism, because he
represented a thorn in the side
of the Western powers.
But any place that is full of
trouble and material wealth, es
pecially any nearby place, is of
great interest to the Kremlin,
also.
Let’s not get any ideas about
expanding the U.A.R. in this di-
dection, Khrushchev says to Nas
ser.
The Egyptian lacks the power
to accomplish his aims, but can’t
give up publicly.
Now, if the usual pattern is fol
lowed, he is about to be strangl
ed by the strings of economic
*aid. Having been emboldened to
break with the West, he is scut
tled by the East.
The West, following- its usual
practice of loving anyone who
opposes communism, will now
take Nasser back to its bosom
for the sake of expediency.
Two reversals of policy can be
expected. The Soviets won’t build
the Aswan dam, and the United
States will.
Wee Aggies
We Aggies like to read about Wee Ag
gies. When a wee one arrives, call VI
6-4910 and ask for the Wee Aggie Edi
tor
A future fightin’ Texas Aggie,
Michael Curtis Hart, weighing 6
lbs. 6 oz., was born March 3 in
St. Joseph’s Hospital. He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis V.
Hart ’59, of D-3-Z, College View.
★ ★ ★
Coby Michael Dye, a 6 lb. 514
oz. future Aggie, was born in St.
Joseph’s Hospital, Feb. 24. His
parents are Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy
Dye ’59, of B-15-X, College View.
★ ★ ★
A future Aggie date, Cheryl
Anne Miller, was born in St.
Joseph’s Hospital at 4:32 p.m.,
Feb. 26. She weighed 7 lbs. 9 oz.
The parents are Mr. and Mrs.
Conrad Miller ’60, of D-5-X, Col
lege View.
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