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Freedom of College Press...
In one of the first statements of its kind ever issued on
a college campus, President Everett Case of Colgate Univer
sity recently guaranteed freedom of the press for. Colgate
student editors of the post-war period so long as they con
tinued to be faithful to the principles of responsible journal
ism. Faculty supervision for student publications is still
traditional on most college campuses.
The Battalion has for some time enjoyed the same type
of freedom as that granted at Colgate. The editors are free
to publish whatever they see fit to print, but it is their per
sonal responsibility to see that nothing appears in print that
is untrue, obscene, libelous, defamatory, or inciting to riot.
That is a sobering responsibility, but one which we are will
ing to take.
Emphasizing that every editor—the college editor in
cluded—carries a heavier responsibility today than at any
hour in American history, Mr. Case’s three-page statement
was issued as Colgate University observed the one-hundredth
anniversiary of journalism on its campus.
One hundred years ago, Colgate’s first editor was ex
pelled for “contumacy and rebellion” even before he printed
an editorial he had told the faculty he felt duty-bound to
publish.
“In college journalism, as in the professional field,” Mr.
Case asserted, “responsibility can best be met, we hold, if
the editor has free access to the facts and liberty to express
his opinions once these facts have been obtained and thought
fully examined.
“Only free journalism can be responsible, as in the long
run only responsible journalism can be free.”
Declaring that Colgate asks only that its student edi
tors be faithful to the tenets of responsible journalism, Mr.
Case went on to say:
“We have a right to expect of student journalists scrup
ulous adherence in all of their writing, news and editorials
to the canons of accuracy, truth, good taste and fair play
which are accepted everywhere as a part of the journalists’
code.
“We have a right to expect too that college publications
faithfully reflect the characteristic concerns and activities
of the institution as a whole the intellectual, the scholar
ly, the cultural as well as the athletic, the social, and the ex
tra-curricular.”
Mr. Case said that the college needs intelligent self-
criticism and student publications would fall short of their
full responsibilities if they failed to provide it.
“Colgate administrators and faculty members would
not be human,” he said, “if they did not at times wish for
more gentle treatment than is sometimes accorded them in
student publications. But we at Colgate do not, and will
not demand it.
“If our publications are articulate, and at the same time
dependable, accurate and honest, we in the administration
and faculty will try to regard their opinions, not as thorns
in the side, but as nudges in the ribs, good natured though
possibly vigorous shoves in the right direction students hon
estly think things should go.”
The Forgotten Man. . .
When the squabble about the athletic situation began
growing in intensity, it was discovered that student repre
sentation on the all-important Athletic Council was entirely
lacking. The students, who constitute the largest single
bloc of Aggie team supporters, were absolutely without any
say concerning athletic policies, while the Former Students
Association had two representatives on the council. ^
An inspection of the handbook of college rules and reg
ulations reveals that membership of the Athletic Council is
to consist of “three members of the Academic Council,—the
Business Manager of Athletics, two members of the Former
Students Association,—and one member of the senior class
elected by said class.” •
C. W. Crawford, chairman of the council, explained upon
questioning that he had only discovered this provision with
in the last two weeks. The habit of not including an elected
member of the senior class on the council was so strong that
the provision for student representation had merely been
overlooked.
An opportunity to receive the opinions of the student
body should not be carelessly overlooked by the council, un
less they consider such opinions of no value. Surely the
students should be consulted on matters of hiring and firing
of coaches.
The senior class, at its next meeting, should elect a rep
resentative to serve on the Athletic Council. The possibili
ties of having more than just one representative should be
thoroughly investigated—after all, don’t the present stu
dents rate as much representation as former students and
faculty ?
BRIGHT IDEAS
Publicity Agents Jump at
Novelties in Advertising
“Anything for publicity,” say newspaper editors and
advertising agencies. Whether the novelties in the juornal-
ism field be in the form of a contest, or whether they be
editorials, newspaper men jump at all ways and means to
attract attention. ,
A CALENDAR for 2003 has”
been distributed by the Irving Da
vis Company, New York advertis
ing agency which sent out a 1901
calendar last year. The reason for
last year’s calendar was because
1901 was identical with 1946. Some
clients ribbed the agency for be
ing “behind the times,” so Mr. Da
vis made this year’s presentation
futuristic—2003 being the same as
1947!
THE SCRANTON, P E N N A.
TRIBUNE’S campaign to get work
for disabled veterans has resulted
in placements for more than 100
and praise from the Veterans’ Ad
ministration.
INSTEAD of editorials, the
Shreveport Times ran half a page
of Christmas Psalms in its De
cember 25 issue.
ON Christmas Day, the Dallas
Morning News ran a bpx on Page
One as a greeting from the carrier
boy to his subscribers: “I won’t
waken you from your early morn
ing nap,” the message said, “so I
must be content to greet you in
this fashion.”
THE Chicago Daily News is go
ing to pick the batboy for White
Sox, letting youths write brief
essays on “Why I’d Like to Be
Batboy for the White Sox.” Boys
from 8 to 15 are eligible to apply.
George L. Wilson, a city district
manager with the oPrtland, Ore
gon Journal circulation department
used his ability as a cartoonist to
aid in the “wet paper” campaign.
He placed a sign in each of his
two districts, reading: “Reward.
$1 paid for every good reason why
any sane subscriber would want
to receive a wet paper.” T|?e ad
was a result of complaints from
subscribers upon receiving wet pa
pers in the morning.
And Texas editors and publish
ers will be special guests at the
opening day, January 29, of the
Houston Fat Stock Show and Ro
deo.
New Instructors in
Engineering Dept.
Faculty additions in two engin
eering departments at A. & M.
were announced January 13. W.
Hansen Hall will join the electri
cal engineering staff as assistant
professor February 1, while W.
H. Nedderman will become a civil
engineering instructor.
Hall is a graduate of South
western Louisiana Institute, holds
his M. S. degree from Louisiana
State and has been teaching at
Northeastern State College of
Oklahoma.
Nedderman graduated from
Iowa State College in 1943, and
served in the navy until last May.
Since then he has been county en
gineer in Monroe county, Iowa.
A&M Can ‘Shine’ in Astronomy, PENNY’S
Monnig Tells Star Gazers Club SERENADE
By Vick Lindley
Texas A. & M. can play an important part in developing
the science of astronomy in Texas, according to Oscar E. Mon
nig, noted amateur, astronomer of Ft. Worth. Mr. Monning
was the chief speaker at the first
annual banquet of the college As
tronomy Club Monday night.
At the banquet Prof. E. E. Vez-
ey of the Physics Department un
veiled a three-foot model of an
eighteen-foot telescope dome pro
posed for erection on the Physics
Building here. Mr. Monnig ex
plain what could be done with such
a structure, and the 24-inch re
flecting telescope which Prof. Vez-
ey is grinding for use in the dome.
If this telescope and its ob
servation dome are completed A.
& M. will have the second largest
telescope in Texas, Mr. Monnig
reported. The largest is the 81-
inch telescope of the University
of Texas, at the MacDonald Ob
servatory in the Davis Mountains.
Other telescopes now in use in
Texas are considerably smaller
than the one under consideration
for A. & M., according to Mr. Mon
nig.
It is important not only to build
and install a fine telescope, but al
so to keep it in consistent, but al-
Mr. Monnig said. If proper peri
odic observations are made, the
amateurs of the club can observe
and report variable stars, time oc-
cultation of stars when eclipsed by
the moon, observe faint comets,
watch for meteors, photograph
stars and take star-spectra (de
termining the chemical composi
tion of the heavenly bodies.) Be
cause there are so many stars, the
big observatories such as Mt. Wil
son, Yerkes, etc., depend on small
er observatories to study many
phenomena of the skies, Mr. Mon
nig pointed out.
In addition to such serious work,
the telescope could be used for
classes, and for “open nights”
when the public would peep
through the eyepiece and hear
short lectures. At present, said
Mr. Monnig, too many people can
not distinguish properly between
astronomers, the scientists of the
skies, and astrologers, who tell
fortunes (or at least claim to) by
the stars.
Dick Bolin, president of the club,
was toastmaster at the banquet.
In addition to student members,
many faculty and staff guests
were present.
Sleep Outside to
Combat Housing
An estimated 2,500 members of
the American Veterans’ Commit
tee slept on the ground January
10 in Los Angeles’ downtown Mac-
Arthur Park in a demonstration
which one of their leaders said
was to “focus attention on the
plight o fthe homeless veteran.”
e “This is just a twenty-four-
hour demonstration.” said the
chairman of the oLs Angeles
area council of the A VC. He
said it was a nationwide cam
paign by the AVC to attract
public attention to the housing
shortage as it affects veterans.
The AVC issued blankets to
hundreds of veterans, but many
came prepared with sleeping bags
and their own blankets. Even
some were accompanied by their
wives and children.
Squads of policemen stood by
but offered no inference as the
vets settled down. Hollywood
A VC’s representative told report
ers: “We have to put on the pres
sure to get Congress to vote funds
to continue the Federal housing
program. Price ceilings and pri
orities for building must be re
stored.”
ASABAB
Temporary Gym
Heating Started
W. H. Badgett of the College
Construction Program has a n-
nounced temporary heating for
DeWare Field House by the be
ginning of next week.
No longer will the spectators
freeze when they see the basket
ball games. Gas-fired heaters will
be installed and ready for the next
game. They will be put in mainly
for the players. The heaters will
not be adequate for severe cold
weather, but will satisfy the con
ditions until permanent ones can
be put in.
Plans are being made for per
manent heating for the beginning
of the next fall semester. Unit
heaters will be used, and the gym
will be supplied with sufficient
heat.
President Gibb Gilchrist was un
aware of this condition, but ••has
now asked T. R. Spence, head of
the College Construction Program,
to put in installations as soon as
possible.
Model Aircrafters
Name Barton Head
New honors have come the way
of Rogers L. Barton, faculty mem
ber and a championship^caliber
builder of model aircraft.
He has been appointed vice-
president of the Academy of Model
Aeronautics, the national govern
ing body of the sport, for District
8, and will represent Texas, Okla
homa, Arkansas, Louisiana and
New Mexico for the AMA. In
addition, Barton, currently doing
research, work in the use of model
aircraft for school instruction pur
poses, was appointed to the AMA
contest board, which formulates
the rules of the increasingly-pop-
ular hobby.
Ex-Aggie Now With
Vet-Med Department
Dr, Sam Law, Cameron, is now
with the department of veterin
ary medicine at A. & M. as in
structor of veterinary pathology,
it was announced recently. He
began his duties with the college
on January 1. _
A graduate of A. & M. in Sep
tember, 1945, Dr. Law became en
gaged in a large veterinary prac
tice in Austin prior to coming here
as an instructor.
Veterans Plan
Full Program
A full entertainment program,
including dances, free movies, and
a vaudeville show, was approved
by the Board of Representatives of
the Veterans’ Association at their
meeting, Wednesday evening.
Bob Polsum, chairman of the
program committee, said arrange
ments had been completed on four
feature programs for the spring
semester and that one other was
yet pending. The first meeting of
the Veterans’ Association will be
on the evening of February 3,
when a free performance o f
“We’ve Never Been ' Licked” \Vill
be shown. Football pictures of
the A. & M.-Oklahoma game of
1946 will be shown at the March
3 meeting.
The Veterans’ Association Grand
Ball will be held on April 25 and
efforts are being made to obtain
a name band for the occasion. On
May 5, a vaudeville show is sched
uled for the Veterans’ meeting.
The Association will probably co
sponsor the George Washington
Ball on February 22 with another
campus organization; as yet plans
for this event are incomplete.
President Sid Smith handed ov
er his office to President pro tem,
Dave Bruce, who will head the club
until a new executive is elected.
Bob Polsom and Ed Fisher as vice-
president pro tem and secretary
pro tem, respectively, until the
next elections are held.
Onceover
and a clean,
shave!
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As a student I can remember
there were three times during the
year when I made resolutions.
They were New Years, and the be
ginning of each of the two school
semesters. The resolutions at the
beginning of the semesters were
motivated by the fact that I had
been through a hectic week of ex
aminations and didn’t want to re
peat the experience. I am sure
many of my readers have been
through the same experience.
I feel that
this is just one
of the many
parallels be-
tween sports
and life. In the
• sports field a
great deal of
study, time, ef
fort and empha
sis is placed on
practice, j Dur
ing the practice
periods much
time is spent on
drills with the
idea of estab
lishing the hab
it of flawless
performance in the execution of
the game skills under near-game
conditions. This provides the best
insurance of effective play when
the “Chips are down.” A team or
individual that does not perform
well in practice is not likely to
look well in a scheduled contest.
Practice is graded so that the
coach works his men from the
simple to the difficult. Day by
day, a good team is built, and if
the team is good, the players must
all be there every day and each
day’s schedule of drills must be
mastered. When this is done the
contest that has been prepared for
is taken in stride, and the team
plays well and looks good even
though it may not win.
If we follow this same plan in
our every-day life, whether we
be a student or engaged in an
occupation, we can expect pretty
much the same results. The in
dividual who goes along day by
day doing his every assignment
well, be it large or small, need
never worry about an examina
tion or any other test to which
he may be put. This recipe made
many heroes during the recent
war.
In our athletic dressing room is
a sign that reads “Its the way you
show up at the show down that
counts.” I know no better way to
be sure we will show up well at
the show down than to show up
well in the things we do every
day.
What’s Cooking
MONDAY, January 20
7:30 p. m. Aggie Wives Circles
of A. & M. Methodist Church and
other circles of Women’s Society
of Christian Service. ■ Regular
monthly business session.
TUESDAY, January 21
4:00 p. m. “Fumed Oak”, play
by Aggie Players to Entertain
Campus Study Club, Assembly
Hall. Public invited.
7:00 p. m. All personnel inter
ested in flight training, Petroleum
Lecture Room.
Opens 1:00 p.m. Ph. 4-1181
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BETWEEN THE BOOKENDS . . .
Something to Think About:
Here’s Fifteen of the Greatest
By WILNORA BARTON
Reader’s Adviser
Atkins, Elizabeth.
EDNA ST. VINCENT AND HER
TIMES. University of Chi
cago Press. 1946.
Readers of Edna Millay’s poetry
will hail this biography of schol-
ary acumen with arden Enthusi
asm. Here is revealed the living
spirit and mind back of her art—
a talent which has grown and
matured to echo the vibrations of
our times. Millay is to twentieth
century America what Tennyson
was to Victorian England, or what
Byron was to the period of Roman
ticism.
“She is the only living poet
who is casually quoted in phil
osophical treatises and in mov
ing-picture magazines, in church
es and in night clubs, in the
rural schools of Oregon and in
the Sorbonne of Paris.”
Miss Atkins traces the develop
ment of this fine and sensitive
talent from her first poem of sig-
nifiance. Renascence to Wine From
These Grapes. Evident through
out her poetry are the books the
child read, the life of the young
girl in Greenwich Village, and the
thought of the mature mind of the
poet.
The author is a professor of En
glish at a University and knows
the poets and poetry of all times,
yet Miss Atkins believes that Mil-
lay will live on as one of the great
poets long after our times.
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Trattner, Ernest R.
THE STORY OF THE WORLD’S
GREAT THINKERS. 1946.
This book is a collection of short
sketches about the lives of fifteen
of the greatest thinkers in the his
tory of humanity. These fifteen
men lived at widely different times
and under very different circum
stances, yet they are kin because
they were all seeker of truth. The
theories which they formulated vi
tally concerned the path of civ
ilization and are basic to all as
pects of present day living.
The author says of these men,
“In the entire history of man
kind there have not been more
than two dozen first-rate theor
ists, men endowed with the in
tuition of unknown things and
the imagination that creates
new worlds. Perhaps there is
no achievement that demands
such exceptional mental power,
physiological endurance and im
mense intellectual effort as the
ability to formulate a scientific
theory.”
The author treats each theorist
who is a true pioneer in his field
of endeavor with a view to giving
the reader a wide and interesting
background. The stories are filled
with curious facts and lively anec<r
dotes. From Copernicus to Ein
stein, this book tells the story of
how we acquired our present con
ception of the universe and man’s
place therein.
Joint Monthly Meeting
At Church January 20
At the A. & M. Methodist
Church on Monday, January 20,
The Aggie Wives Circle of the
church and the other circles of the
Women’s Society of Christian Ser
vice, will meet jointly, at 7:30
p. m., for their regular monthly
business session. f
All members are urged to at
tend, as officers will be installed
and pledges made for the year.
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Hinton, Harold B.
CORDELL HULL: a biography.
Doubleday, 1946.
Going from the literary world to
the philosophic, and now to the
political, we have a third fine and
very timely biography. This is
the story of one of the world’s
foremost statesmen, one of the
most ardent champions of democ
racy in this or any time. This is
not only the story of a statesman,
it is also the story of a childhood
and a young manhood spent in the
upper Cumberlands of Tennessee.
From an early interest in law and
government, young Hull’s ability
led him in a career of international
importance. In the illumina
tion light of his forthright per
sonality we see more clearly the
formulation of modern American
foreign policy and a great deal of
recent American Domestic policy.
The biographer, Mr. Hinton,
has succeeded in presenting a
picture of Cordell Hull which
leaves the reader with a warm
appreciation of the man and sin
cere respect for the statesman.
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