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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1946)
PAGE 2 THE BATTALION THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 13, 1946 Let’s Say “Howdy”... Among important A. & M. customs which have been ignored lately, the most noticeable is the lack of “howdys” from fellow students as we amble down the walks. Are we getting so deep in thought, so disturbed by the problems of the world, that we can’t give a neighborly greeting to the folks we meet? Some people want to argue about who should speak first. Last semester there was a question, should a cadet speak first to a veteran, or vice versa. What difference does it make? One rule of gentlemanly conduct is “when is doubt, speak first.” Let’s limber up our jaws and give forth with a deep, hearty “howdy” to everyone we meet. A. & M. used to be known as the friendliest campus in the world. Let’s get back that reputation. Another Step Forward ... Through the efforts of the Dean of Engineering, his staff at Easterwood Field and the Veterans’ Advisor, flight training has now become a reality and an approved course here at A. and M. College. This is another step forward along the air trial that leads to unbelievable as well as un known destinations. This step is another progressive step by the college to maintain its place high on the list of tech nical schools of the country. This summer’s class should prove the testing group or the guinea pigs to determine just how much can be done and just what provisions will have to be made to fit such a class into the college curricula for the regular semesters. What ever the outcome and whatever the grief and grievances, the move is a creditable one, a forward one. Where Is Fronds Hall? Know Campus and You Start Right (This ia the first in a series of articles | requested by the former Aggie veterans ’ Organization. is hoped that through at a June meeting of the Ex-Servicemen’s >pe these, new students at A. & M. College, veterans of the last war, will learn more of Aggie life as it is lived, and assist them in becoming Aggies in the real sense of the world). No Tranquility at T. u The attempt to establish an “era of tranquility” at Austin has blown up with a bang. This should surprise no one, for it is impossible to establish peace simply by saying “Everything is rosy now.” Problems must be faced, not merely ignored in the pious hope that “the less said, the sooner forgotten.” No one can accuse the American Association of Uni versity Professors of playing Texas politics; it is the Su preme Court of American university education. Therefore the censure of U. T. by that body, stating that the faculty is to be commended for “its 1 courage and tenacity in oppos ing systematic, persistent and continuous attempts by a dominant political j^boup to impose its social and educational views upon the university” must be accepted as the calm finding of the major body of American educators. One of T. u.’s English professors, departing for a teaching position at Harvard this week, left behind him a letter that burned the ears of the regents. And J. Frank Dobie, No. 1 man in the Southwest literary movement, de clined to return to his professorship there. ' There is no gloating here at A. & M. over the difficulties of our arch-rival. Both at College Station and at Austin there is a large body of students who are eager to see Texas state schools rated equal to any in the land; Perhaps, in time, the uproar at Austin will lead to reforms sufficient to bring about that end. To thousands of Texas men the greatest day of their college careers was the first day they en rolled at A. and M. College and donned the uniform bearing the narrow—but oh so wide—white | stripe, the mark of the first year student. The uniform bound all stu dents together in one large and strong organization, expelling social and financial standings. Joe’s clothes were the same as John’s. The uniform carried on it the initials AMC which, as far as the wearer and his thous ands of comrades were con cerned stood for the greatest school in the Southwest Confer ence—in the United States. On the campus however, the first main point that is put across to the “fish”, as all first year students of the corps are called, is that there are many other people in this world, people that are just as important as he is and a few that have duties and respon sibilities and are due a bit of re spect. This idea is brought to light in an entirely different man- er than we have witnessed in the service. Here it is the bonding of an everlasting fellowship. New Name The first important thing that the “fish” has to remember is that for nine months he is “fish”. He will always address his classmates as Fish Jackson, not Tom Jackson. He introduces himself using the handle “fish” before his last name. This is not a punitive measure Versus While the rgger^g^administratjjcm, asnd faculty o/f The University of Tgxas are all looking with no small degree of apprenhension at the recent statement made by Governor Coke Stevenson concernign the possibility of a legislative investigation of the institution, it may well be worthwhile to consider the following passage from “Campus Versus Classroom,” by Burgess Johnson. “If we are to educate our young people wholesale, and it seems as though we cannot avoid it, there must be ma chinery. But how simple and unobtrusive can it be kept, and how little does it interfere with the educational pro cesses of a man and a boy walking and talking and working together in an atmosphere conducive to learning? Trustees and presidents and deans and buildings and equipment are all machinery of one sort or another. The education itself occurs at that point of contact betweeen teacher and student. “There are colleges where teachers are not wholly free to serve the cause of learning because they are forced to be too consciously the servants of a group of businessmen, called regents or trustees, who are themselves unacquainted with educational problems . . . “When a group of teachers first came together, thus forming the nucleus of the first university, they found it convenient to select one of their own number as chairman. They did not bother about where and how the students lived; that came later . . . But that simple organization of teach ers . . . has lasted until this day in some parts of the world, and proved its own efficiency. “Trustee control of colleges has sometimes turned out to be more arbitrary and more destructive of teacher in dependence and self-respect than a political-minded legis lature or a narrow-visioned denomination. The trustees are of course essential where trust funds and endowments must be perpetually guarded and invested, and guardians em ployed; but the men who first established such a board of control chose citizens who were themselves educationally minded and trained for such a job; and did not contemplate a day when men tested only by business success would be put in complete control of educational objectives and meth ods of attaining them. The college president was then the final authority on such matters. But today in many colleges and universities the trustees control the appointment of teachers, the addition of courses to the curriculum, or their discontinuance; the determining of educational policies and the choice of a president, who becomes their employee often without a right to share in their councils except by re quest.”—The Daily Texan. taken just because he is a first year student, but it marks him as such. The title “fish” can bring many hardships but at the same time it offers to others the reason, not necessarily excuse, for the student’s lack of knowledge— acquaintance with the campus, peo ple and customs. Next to remembering his new name, the greenhorn should never forget the name of his roommate, organization commander and the person whom he served as maid. This will be discussed later un der the title of administrative duties. Know the Campus This college is a large one and one which seems forever growing. Of this we are proud! We keep abreast of all the new changes and new buildings and at the same time know the story of the old ones. Where is Gathright Hall? Where is Francis Hall? These are probably the first two questions asked a “fish” to test his knowledge or acquaint ance with the campus. In no time at all he will learn to know the campus far better than he will the book. Know your campus. In civies we are often mistaken as vis itors on the campus. At the same time, many of us are ask ed for information concerning the location of certain offices, buildings or establishments. Be able to answer properly if you are asked. The Registrar’s Bulletin carries a detailed map of the cam pus. Any pre-war Aggie will be glad to help you. You might take a bit of ribbing, but if you can’t take what little they’ll give you now, chances are you wouldn’t have lasted had you entered as a “fish”. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR RECORD COLUMN RAZZED BY RABID READER Editor Battalion (Newspaper for men?) Open letter to author of “Platter Chatter” Oh I do think our column called “Platter Chatter” is so divine. I simply must tell you about it, es pecially your latest column head ed, “New and Oldies Feature Re cent Record Releases;” how utterly charming. You remind me of another old friend of mine, poor boy. He took tap-dancing with knitting on the side, but that awful Army took him and now, as you have probably guessed, he has just gone to the dogs. Yes, he stopped his knitting and started dating girls, of all things. Now he says naughty things about your column, too. Secretly, though, Ferd, the other fellows and my room-mate GOFER BETROTHAL Miss Sara Allen Gofer of Col lege Station and former member of the Summer Battalion Staff is being honored with teas and lun cheons proceeding her coming marriage to Cedrick R. Landon June 15. all laugh at me when I go into raptures over your exotic descrip tion of Frankie or Harry’s latest recording, but I just say, “Oh shush,” and ignore them, the hor rid people. One more thing, Ferd dear, did you ever take knitting or tap-danc ing? Breathlessly awaiting your next column I remain, (Name withheld at writers request.) CollegjtaStation, (Non-khit^g, noh-tap-dancing, ex-army man English says, “What do you want, egg in your beer?”) ASHWORTH MARRIED Jack Ashworth, veteran student from Bryan, and Miss Dorothy Foster were married in Bryan Tuesday night at the First Bap tist Church. Ashworth was a staff member of the old Battalion maga zine before joining the Army Air Corps. MRS. VARNER GRAVELY ILL Word was received late yester day evening that Assistant Dean of Men D. B. “Woody” Varner has been called to the bedside of his mother, who doctors say is not expected to live. 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O. “Huh” JOHNSON, JR Co-Editor VICK LINDLEY Managing Editor U. V. JOHNSTON Sports Editor WENDELL McCLURE .Advertising Manager PAUL MARTIN. WALLACE J. BENNETT, FERD ENGLISH. Reporters , •ALLEN SELF Co-Editor I •On summer leave. FATHER’S DAY SUNDAY, JUNE 16 Remember him with a gift of a beautiful hand-tooled • BILLFOLD • KEY CASES • BRIEF CASE • BELT Leather Goods for Every Purpose HOUCK’S North Gate SELF ASSISTS DANIEL Allen Self, co-editor of the Bat talion elected by the corps, is spending the summer as a secre tary to Price Daniel, candidate for state attorney general. Self, is now working in Austin, but will go on tour with Mr. Daniel after the campaign opens in Houston, on June 17. The Brazos river valley was the habitat, in prehistoric times, of the huge mastadon known as the Brazos river elephant. Several skeletons are in the A. & M. mus- PENNY’S SERENADE By W. L. Penherthy Every once in a while I run across one of our returned students who had difficulty in being rein stated because when he left the in stitution his scholastic record was pretty badly messed up. This sit uation is true in the case of many of our men who felt that the fu ture was so un certain that there was no use in be ing too concerned with their scho lastic record. This attitude is un derstandable, but I feel that many of us adopt the same attitude in instances where there is much less reason. It is often very easy for us to adopt the “what’s the use” slant when we just don’t want to put out what it takes to do the job. I get a lot of inspiration from the story of Joseph, the Biblical character, whose father showed favoritism by giving him a coat of many colors. This act made Joseph very unpopular with his manybro- MASONS TO ORGANIZE IN COLLEGE STATION All Master Masons interested in organizing a College Station lodge are invited to attend a meeting at 7:00 p. m. on Monday, June 17, at the Assembly Room of the YMCA. Those who signed the original petition for this purpose are especially urged to be present. DEADLINE FOR OFFICIAL NOTICES During the summer session the deadline for Official Notices and Classified Advertising will be 2 p.m. each Wednesday, for display advertising, 3 p.m. each Tuesday. CURTIS WILKINS DIES Curtis N. Wilkins, brother of Taylor Wilkins ’36, Assistant Dir ector of Student Affairs of the College, and John Wilkins ’37 of Franklin, Texas djed last week after an operation ponnected with an internal muscular disorder. Funeral services were held Sun day in Franklin. 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I have known many instances where athletic teams had to take some bad breaks, but refused to admit defeat and so played just a little harder and came through for a fine victory. None of us know what the fu ture holds for us—we will have some good breaks and some bad ones—but in my opinion one of the best ways to insure a successful future is to develop the attitude of doing our best in our every un dertaking. Bryan, Texas WED. - THURS. - FRI. - SAT. Paulette Goddard — in — 6 i K I T T Y , PREVIEW SATURDAY NIGHT SUN. - MON. - TUES. Barbara Stanwyck — in — “THE BRIDE WORE BOOTS” C^anipii AIR-CONDITIONED Open 1:00 P.M. — 4-1181 THURSDAY — LAST DAY “BUFFALO BEL” — starring — Joel McCrea Maureen O’Hara in Technicolor FRIDAY and SATURDAY Two Big Features No. 1 “HUSH EYES ARE SMILING” in Technicolor — with — June Haver Monty Woolley No. 2 also Color Cartoon SUNDAY and MONDAY TUES. - WED. - THURS. to******' ' ■ o N InTechnicoJor ^ Plus Donald Duck Cartoon