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THURSDAY,
23, 1948 f
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f "Sower, Statesman, Knigbtly Gentleman”*
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Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
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Trampling Out The Vintage . . .
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By FRANK CUSHING
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Septem
A&M stude
“t) M for d
weekend will
- student body of
urea of Sail An
portant gridiron sera
. The demomtratio
ill b j tD f ’ day for the ed in the Battalion editorial! on last March
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or the lack of it, pro
mean a great deal to tljijs School, oursdves,
and the alumnfir! | \,
It will be,entirely oi r responsibility to
prove to the people of sjin Antonio and
Texas Tech that there 141 no linger a 2
percent who foi*get theniselves at game
time and-leave an unpleasant impression.
Kof only 98 percent kyhj conduct them-
^ selves with reispdnsibmtyi t
Only by being “10(1 pe^centejfs” ca
prevent sum inSdentli! ai the
1: “A serious blow was dealt A&M’s r^p-
since. this utation Friday night by the inspired ac-
e segment of the . jtion of some person, or group of persons,
pying the pleas- The clowns to whom we are referring
in duding the im- probably thought they were striking a
jlth Texas Tech, 1 mighty wallop for the Cause of A&M when
sportsmanship, jthey tossed buckets of mud in the dressing
by Aggies will room windows of a visiting athletic team.”
Let's win back the annual Batt sports
manship award in a walk-away. Remember
the basis for the ayrard: recognition will
be given to the conference school whose
student body and athletic teams display
the best sportsmanship jh connection with
intercollegiate athletic contests and their
associated activities.’ ‘
The award in itself is .unimportant,^
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he was abqu;
The better game clubs will no doubt se- that^ 6 ^
verly criticise the hunting technique demon-
started by an 18 year old girl in California
recently. AU those who enjoy the excite
ment of the hunt will probably deploy the
methods she used in bagging a deer. Never
theless, when all is said and done, she did
cause the unfortunate^nimarsdeath, and so
may be credited with a kilL ’
The young huntress sighted the deer and
took careful aim and fired. The bullet merely
dirty
rear
in that city.
The quick
could *
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minutes,
there
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wounded the deer in the leg. To this point smashed od f
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Senate Constitution Ratified,
Placed in Full Force This Fall
can we
no cover- ,
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but the recognition ik\prlceles4.
An Exeel}|iitf destifre By the Corps
■ • Lust night t|u! cut )•'bggM Uw ^jly Without it tho oomiilys tmTlmnimn would
custom of Ktaiuling am hwirlug the soon tear Itself to pieces.
L jCbftplaln offerAbanks before thflr evening Another recorntnomlntion for the ges*
' ideal. | titro la public rolatlona value. All of
. Inuofui* 88 we kquw;'this.has never' u " remember from our early corps day?
been done In the echeoln: immediate past. , the horrified expressions of visitors, pur-
We-believc: it will hel« vjfise pfecedent. Ueularly feminine, as we stormed into
While most of us sine pn theicampus we f ? 0W .“ ‘"^ Im
tend to be a li*l?&ieittul if our reli- ^ utl " g . S , hoqt ,[ frying. Al-
gious fences. A,vay-fro* the familiarity • tho , UKh ™ .haven t eaten in Duncan in
of our home churches aid with so many 9^0 some time we imagm.
local distraction^ this neglect comes easily, before
quite some time we imagine things are still
informal and that a little order
, , „ before the meahyould be an improvement,
rW Q could l # aiv-kcdssidnil reminder . \y e hope this will be another step to-
iimicH fhnTV-.rfnr it a
that there is something | bigger than our ward justifying the description of Aggies
own small plans and^rotiblep. Religion is offered, by‘a lady from Houston. “They
ati\\ the B.aianee wheili of our (civilization.
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are always masculine, but never crude.
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This Tiflib Ijiciard Goes Down ...
‘ Everything that| gojes up. lias gotta^ to the surface. If all goes well Picaird will
cqjne down. In the casej of, Auguste Pic- then make his first descent, fie has picked
card this rule reaches, 1 if^ ultipate end. 0 degree Longitude - West and 0 degree
i ' " Sixteen 5’eajrs agd lhc soared, ten miles Latitude North as the point of descent,
into t)p stnitojjphercLi in a balloon. Now’ Once down Piccard 'and his companion
he has compibfebd plaip fo^ pli|iiging downi, Cosyns will be able to observe the iast
into tfie ocean.deptlp. He Is again using geographical frontier of man.
a balloon but r its smicfure ife somewhat Their findings will be recorded on
altered. The new mlteriials are .steel and films; pictures and a dictaphone. They
lyscaphe, With will particularly observe the fish and anF-
3l Piccard hopes mal life, the plant life and the ocean bed.
plastic. It is called a
this new undeipwatec y
to dive as far! las 18
Thq Constitution for the Student
Semite' has been formally paused
by the Student Senate, Student
Lifp Committee,. and Academic
Council. The constitution was writ
ten by Neal Calloway, N, It, heath-
onVciod, Tom I.aroi, and Luthoc
Terry with Charles Kirkhum aerv-
ing artM’hairman,
, Til view of the coinlnjt Senate
election, the entire constitution, an
approved hy the three irrouim inak-
Inr: up the SenateV chain of com-
maiul, la itlven, below for Informu-
lion.
AK'IICLK ()NK. ritKAMHLK
We, the atiidente of the AgHeul* .
tural and MeehuHlen) Collc'nd of
Texas; in order to form an effec
tive government, for determininx '
"and conducting matters of general
student concern, eatablish the fol
lowing constijut/on:
ARTICLE TWO. OBJECT
1. The .object) of the student
government wiTT be to act in an
executive capacity lor the student
body. i ■ .
2. To. represent the student
body both on andjlff the campus
of tile college. '
3. To serve as a liaison organi
zation between the faculty, th»b stu
dent body and other '"colleges in
matters relating to student activi
ties.
ARTICLE THREE. STUDENT
LIFE COMMITTEE
The Student Life Committee ,13
a committee of the Academic Coufti-
N cil am} is responsible for consid
ering policies and procedures af
fecting student life. This committee
makes its recommendations to the
Academic Council. It shall conceni
itself particularly with such mat
tery relating to the operation of
certain phases of the student activi-
tips program and to student life
as are not assigned to some other
committee or agency. It shall con
sist of 9 members of the faculty
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the hunt had progressed in the accustomed
manner. Here entered the unusual.
'^The injured deer took a hurried if wound
ed departure down a steep embankment lead
ing to a creek. Hot upon the trail, the girl
plunged after the animal in the true sense-qf
the word plunged, she slipped. Her fall
brought her to an overhanging ledge in close
proximity to both the deer and the stream.
The deer, who (harbored no strpng affec
tion for the young miss, turned and charged
her. Undauted, thq huntress proceeded to
mot)
happily drT e bn his way.
If^one were
form oif h|u|nqlr
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that a lam
vine homeic
is Tiot, no 4u
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out
by the
the car’s
of the law
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driver asked if he
thje forthcoming tie-
in two
^ cod, evidentally
assented to t£e con-
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termt
in Po
jj»ed[up a crank handle
^towards the low
funs, he mi*
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The aiofc-ej
from then yaca
a fair imi
was explaji;
Seedless
(2) tp Report minutes of regu
lar OrtR*crbir» of their committees
tu tho Secretary of the Student
Senate.
(II) • to inform members ami call
moeUngs of their committees.
2. Elvetlon of Officers, The
Student Senate- ahull elect its of.
floors from its mom her ship.
4 It. Standing Committee. There
' shall 1)6 the following standing
committees!
s. Executive Committee. It
rhull consist of seven (7) mem
bers elected by the Student Senate
from its own membership, It nhull
Consider all mutters of business
brought before the student gov
ernment ami shall refer them' to
the appropriate agencies. It shall
prepare agenda of business for the
meetings of the Student Senate.
It shall concern itself with ail mat
ters of .student life which do not
of its tendtrifs jthhosu,
ther
Cham
strike the animal smartly, breaking her
(i) to j preside over meeting^ rifle barrel with the blow. The stunned and
of their respective committees discouraged deer fell into thq water and
suffered the final indignity. He drowned.
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The type of ingenuity that made this
country what it Is'today was demonstrated
in Kunsns City Jutoly. A patrolman, rubbing of the chajujiH
his hands in anticipation of tho nice fat fine lures. [ r
. »e might say
ille, Calif., had a
btljii. Sincqi this writer
jtateinent will be made,
menti tea family returned
tjiun t||> find tneir living room
j ungleJ The spectacle /
ploring Thompson
had sneaked one
craqlc; Tne wea-
by the California
y!
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titipn of i
by a i
vfne v||hic
Hy lijicky. If thejr
they might have
wujidojr in artd put
4 in these atruc-
feet Or abofit six
ent
One qf Piccards specialties is cosmic
times as deepjifs thesPjfdsent necord 4et by .- rays. Cosmic • rays were the phenomena
William Bequei in 19ia4. ^ that bared him to the stratosphere and
The bathyscaphe is composed to two their study* will be an, important part of
major sections. Thq “ijiasketi section” is his undersea work.
} a steel sphere six fqet ind fcjur Fuiehes in This expedition is the retfuljt of trc-
diameter. It! if attadhjedl to a float of steel inendous. scientific' achievement ami per-
which corresponds ifp jthe^gas bag on a sonal courage. The dangers of the descent
baloon. Instead of Mciliqm the supporting are belittled by -Piccard but we shudder
asubstanixi is jjrftsoUniN 1 the bathyscaphe is when we consider that the pressure on
truly u submarine bullloon; the .principle the small spherq will be over six thousands
^dilforehcii beltig wii|ght rat|er( than det . pounds-pdr square inch v
r mIctm Pu'iHit'il alVliklllilii'l Kiiv.iiA.i.t .’’Fn trvn ..Ltntru /if (Vv.
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Hign. Piccard shouldn’l. huveHui) trouble
sinking; comjiJotoli’ einhgwd the f'Mia-
llooti;’ weighs nearlji fo *ty to|s. , F
Tho ftftt dOtfconi of the bsliomt will be
unmanned. After a drop of about 1,2,000
feet an auioinatic ircUasc bring it
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One of tbie fowiiV|eadiitg osteopaths
discovered thiijin oqe»f his medical refer
ence books, and 1 equldjn’t help passing it
on to the men. Wo/henidislociatc their jaw
•’he markings of lh«ts}>herC arc
^H”. Thci" arc a tribute to ..the Bel-
gium National Scientific Kt.’seurch Fund
which furnished capital for the expedition.
It seems that Uncle Sam isn’t ahead on
everything.
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joint four timjes mare often than men.
de
The Bat!
City of College
Friday afternoon.,
tauon
toliin, official!
-ge Station, Te
ledric Adams
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“Nobody paid much attention to tlie
dress until the facetious model daintily
lifted her skirt to reveal a new topic of
table talk under the hemline.”
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news
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except jdurhig
nubliishld Ui-tve'el Jy on lioiiclay, Wednesday and Friday. Subscription rate $4.30 per school
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OfBcu at Iculk'Ee gtationi! Tt-j aa, undittr
thalAct of > ConrrtiJi of M4rt|h! i 1870.
[of M^rtlhi !
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injuy be iuade by telephone (4-5444) or at the editorial office. Room 201,
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tper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the
published five times a week and circulated every Moijtday through
halfdays and examination periods. During the summer The Bat-
appointod by the President of thu?
College, and 11 students, namel^v
Carlet Colonel of the Corps, Presi
dent of the Senior Class, Presi
dent of the .Junior Class, one Bat
talion Editor, 4 representatives
from the Student Senate, and 3
non-military students elected at
large. s 1 ■
ARTICLE FOUR. THE STU
DENT SENATE
Section I. The representative
body of the student government
shall he the Student Senate.
Section II. Representation.
1. Each dpimitory shall elect
oihi Student Senator us prescribed
in Section IV, Article Four.
2. Each college housing urcu
shall elect one Student Senator.
3. There shall he elected two
Student Suitors from the day
F.N. € student's,
4. The virc-pfcosidents of the
clunses shall he memberx of the
Student Senate.
fv, Then' shifll be a number of
student semi lot’s tH'|<'t4'd at large
to bring the membenltlp to n U>(dl
of foriy.threo -(43) niemhV'ta.
Section III. Urgunixatiom
, 1. The Student Sennfo'! shall
have the following officers: '^'
a. President, whoso duty it, In
(1) to eull meeting* of the Stu
dent Senate,
(2) to duly inform all member*
of the Student Senate of the meet
ings and the agenda to he followed,
(8) to supervise and coordinate
all activities of the Student Sen
ate, - ' '[ y\
(-$)• to serve,m any teiuporary-
tfypacity as is delegated to him by
the Senate,
(5) to preside over all'mcetings
of the Student Senate.
b. Secretary, whose duty it is
(1) to handle all correspon
dence of the Student Senate, f \
X (2) to keep an accurate record
of all regular Student Senate meet
ings, regular committee meetings
and sub-committefi: meetings.
eh Sena
(3) To send to each Senator a
copy of the minutes jof the previous
. meeting within ten days after the
meeting. {}
. Member oi\.
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The Associated Press
BcprctenUnl 1 nationally by National Ad
vertising Service Inc., at New York City,
Chicago, Los Angeles, ami San Francisco.
jy* telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Activities
ing Editors
ire Editors
eate
k* -Wlra Editor
.. t.J.-^.Sjtorts Editor
.. jiJOkiqk Editor
.Circuktiun Manager
Curtli^ EmU.. r)!'..
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.Co-Editors
44 “V- Adve-tising Manager
.Toe Trevino, Hardy Hosa.; If— •' Photo Engravers
l>on Engclking.'Lurry Goodwj u Assistant Sports Editors
Uub. "Suck" Spoede, Hill Pott*, Bill Evans,
Bill Thornton, Cbgrles Cabanks, Leon
Sdmar, and H«rsohal Shslhy — —Sport* BeporUra
xtJ- i 1:1- . . V. i
;eting.
(4) to maintain permanent
files iii the Student! Activities Of-
fice. |
c- Parliamentarian, whose duty
it is ’' ' 1 •
(1) to enforce the use of par
liamentary procedure as stated in •
Roberts’ Rules of Order.
(2) to decide points of parlia
mentary procedure.
(3) to instruct the Senators in
the rales of parliamentary proce
dure.
d. Chairmen of standing com
mittees. They Shall be elected by’
the committees themselves. It shall
be their duty to
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Letters ,
TO ITkRfi.T. IF
1 nhnuld like to liikc thin ( >|i*
porluttlty to siteak in .defense of
some of the polieieit of the library;
ami of Home of the practice* which
Mr. Trail condemned ho vchemmit-
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The present library building
was completed and occupied in
1930, only 1ft years ago, but even
so, many of the modern library
feature^,, were not included in
this ^structure. For instance, ade
quate bffifvs ami work rooms
were not provided. It is now im
possible to provide adequate
work rooms and offt]KM for the
staff without taking pubic read
ing room space.
j Mr. Trail may be interested in
luiowing that there are no “back
rooms" where the reference li
brarians may go to do their typ
ing. Furthermore, if the reference;
librarian is in some other place
typing she will not be able to as
sist the patrons, namely students
and faculty. Both of the, reference
librarians are needed at j-he refer
ence desk to assist students ami
faculty in finding the things they
came to the library seeking) It is
necessary that the reference li
brarians keep a number of files
for the purpose of helping patrons
find information. The most practi
cal way to keep a record of the de
sired information is on 3x5 cards*
and for permanency this informa
tion is typed rather thap written.
Many of the modern and up-to-
date libraries provide glass enclose
ed work rooms or offices near at
hand so the assistants will be avail
able at, all times, but on the other
hand tne enclosed space conceals
some of tho-noise. This library was
hot planned originally for work
. rooms or' off ices, as I have men
tioned, and they cannot be provid
ed now. >
Mr. Trail would ask our librar
ian* to work a forty-five or forty-
six hour week by remuinmg until
10:20 or 10;30, in order to com
pletely close the building after 10
o'clock. Our librurluns already
work a longer work week ,than any
of the other librarians In Texas
libraries. All librarians work on a
I’lNhottr week at the University of
Texas. We have found from exoer-
irnco Umt if »io signal is given
until the exact hour of closing 1 that
student* will renuost arm loads oi
books and periodical* at five min
ute* to the hour, and the librarian*
would be charging thl* material 'to
them after the closing hour only to
have the periodical* and book* re
turned hot u»od. ., 4
Furthermore, several of the
ladies who work at night Kvc in
Bryan and they rely upon the
bus for transportation; - if they
arc delayed more than a few
minute* after 10, they arc com-
pr.v-a tri wait a full hour for
another bus.
If the complainant had ever tried
to close the windows in the library
he would understand that the type
metal windows there cannot be
closed noiselessly. It actually takes
a student assistant 20 to 25 min
utes to close all of the ^windows.
The window closing should be per
formed by janitors and not by li
brarians, but the janitorial force
arrives at 9 a,, m. and leave* at
5:45 p. m,. therefore the Window
closing task becomes the duty of
the library assistants.
The library Is only another ser
vice organization on this campus
trying to do a satisfactory ‘job.
The library can do a better job by
having cooperation from its pa
trons, namely students and faculty.
Tiie librarian welcomes " sugges-/
.taildutTrf'tS eommii! & v forit1dS“but £&&
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i. Representatives to the Stu- ^ er y truly yours,
dent .Life Committee. There shall , PAUL S. B ALLAN CE
(See CONSTITUTION, Page 4) Librarian
y
come under the jurisdiction of
some other committee, or agency.
h. Welcoming Committee. Thci
Welcoming Committee shall con
sist of five (5) students elected
from' the Student Senate from its
members. The Committee shall be .
responsible for bringing, about co- ,
operative relations with other stu- -
dent bodies and outside groups;
The director "of Student Activities
shall be a member of the Welcom- 1
ing Committee. '
c. Election Committee. The
Election Committee Shall consist
of five (5) members elected by
the Student Senate from its mem
bership, and one, staff member ap- ,
pointed by the Dean of Men. It
shall operate 1 the machinery for
all studeht elections on the cam
pus. It shall engineer all publicity
pertinent to the actual elections,
plan for the receiving of nomina
tions, and the distributing and col
lecting of the ballots, and announce
the results in writing to the Dean
of Men.
(k 1 The Exchange Store Com
mittee. The Exchange Store Com
mittee shall consist qf six ((!) col
lege staff members and six. (6)
Student Senators elected by. the
Student Senate from its member
ship. It shall study the operations
of the Exchange Store and make
recommendations for improvement
of its .service. It shall recommend
u djvrhim) of the profits of. the
store each year. It shall concern
itself with equipment and supplies,
Service, prices and schedules.
o. The Hospital Committee. The
' Hospital Committee shall consist
of five (5). college stuff members
and five (5) jtudont Senator* elec
ted by (V Student Sonata from its
ntombttwilf. It will study the uoedU
for improving and maintaining
proper! medical service to all stu-
ildnlM, EL shall acquaint itself with
t he plan of opera Hon of the hosq
pita), the duties of the staff, the
available equipment; and methods
of ox* mi nation ami "Iraatment. It -
shall publish from time to time
report* covering tlm 'complete op-
eraiion of the hospital, In order io
, kcifp all students informed a* to
the!, nature and quality of service* .
provided.
f. Mess Committre. Th<f Mess
Commjttoo shall eohsist of four (4)
members of the' Student Senate
elected bv the Student Senate from
it* membership. Tho Director of
Subsistence and the Director of
the Memorial Student Center shall
be members of the Mesa Commit
tee. It “shall keep itself informed
of all mcas problems with a view
to maintaining or improving the
service, the quality, and the quan
tity of food, and the regulation qf
price*. ..if
g. Publicity Committee. The
Publicity Committee shall consist
of t\v<? (2) members elected by tho
Student Senate from its meinber-
Ship, Tire Manager of Student
PuBlicatiohs (Shall be a member of
the Publiprty Committee. It shall
bo ‘the diSiy of This Committee to
5 the student body the ac-
reporjrtq'’
tions’•taken by the student Senate
relativg. to Student government.
h. The Social Conimittee. The
Social Committee shall consist of
five (5) members elected by the,
Student Senate from its member
ship. The Assistant-nDircctor of
Student Activities shall be a mem
ber of the Social Committee. It