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During- |.he talidays we were offered
a suggestioi i whiwt, although not new to
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for a co
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for additioi
Mid
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o again remind us of one of
omings. We refer to the need
of remedial reading,
there Is a cpnstant demand
to the curriculum. Many of
these demands are reasonable and will, in
time, be fulfilled. It takes time, we know,
to institute new courses. But a course in
remedial reading is badly needed here now.
We at A&M probably show less en
thusiasm for English, history, education,
and similar subjects than is usually shown
fit other colleges. This is natural since the
emphasis here is on technical courses
jrather than on the humanities and asso-
biated subjects: Then, too, there is the old
problem of selecting for the technical stu
dent those courses w.iich will be of most
benefit to him in his field in later years.
For that reason alone, we imagine, many
worthwhile subjects are not required or, in
some cases, not even offered.
Blut, We are convinced that a course
are c
in rehnedial reading would not only bene
fit tlie student in later years, but would
enab e hiin to make better use of his time
and (comprehend more from his present
than he now does,
schools have realized this need,
of Texas, for one, now
in reading improvement,
and It is apt unusual for a student who has
comi: leted the course to have doubled his
reading speed with no appreciable loss of
comprehension. The University course is
elective and any student may drop it with
out penalty anytime he feels that it is not
little bit of time it requires,
irer, we don’t believe we should
to sell remedial reading to
ident or prof—for its value
irent. We do believe that such a
course isjlong overdue at A&M. The soon-
it can be instituted, the better it will
be for the students, the teachers, and the
college.
court es
Oher
The University
offers a course
wort i thi
Howe
have to
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Mercy Killing; Ethics Not Stricl Law . . .
^Currently astir in American thinking
is ‘that age ojd subject of discussion and
debate—mercy killing.
Aggravating this old wound is a re
cent wire report from Manchester, New
Hampshire, concerning a young doctor in
dicted for mercy killing when he injected
10 cubic centimenters of air into the vein
of a 59-year-old, cancer-ridden woman
patient.
The woman was considered mortally
ill with cancer, and pain had so possessed
her that the doctor chose to put her out
of her misery with the injection of air
I info her blood veins. Air causes bubbles
which find their way to the heart or some
! other part of the circulatory system and
stop circulation. _ i
By the law, the doctor has willfully
taken a life. Therefore^ he has broken the
law. He has been indiited by a grand jury
andTOUst stand trial fpir murder.
Whatever trials are heai>ed upon the)
! doctor, their juries must assume the role
of dispensers of not law, but also justice;
The issue to bo decided is one of moral#
—Whether willful murder under the pip
cm
curcumstances is justified or if
are! no circumstances in human ex-
ee (when one person can take the
f another or break the basic com-
ent, ‘^thou shall not kill.”
the patient was in such dire physical
Ition, although we mayi or may not
with the doctor’s actions, we
that the jury should take into
n that this case involves more
is e tained in our present code of
e dp not believe, however, that the
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No Olco or State’s Rights Supreme?
Dixicratic Senators must have perked-
up and taken notice when Iowa’s Senator
Gillette (Dem) claimed that the House-
pussed bill repealing federal oleomargarine
taxes attempts “a gold, bald, inexcusable
j violation of states’ rights.” y
Not that the Southerners are against
the bill as is Senator Gillette; the south
ern gentlemen are for repeal of oleo taxes
B
stat
ators
whatr
thoug
being
It
again s
b^jause oleo is made largely from cotton-
Man in Competition With Cows
Cattlemen at the Miami convention of in o
the American National Livestock Associa
tion were told last week that by 1956
America’s cattle population may reach
90,000,000. •• 1
f This is good, but beware. The pork
population is growing by leaps and bounds
—up 5 million this past year. The gain
e do e
of the land should be changed or
to condone mercy killings. The re-
if speh a law were passed would be
suffering persons, who other-
might unexpectedly be saved from
at (the last minute would be killed,
(iuld also mean that too many per-
would suddenly be handed the pow-
life and death. Such a situation
Mj dangerous. I F - H j I •
ijstead, the decision of this case and
HinUliar cases involving mercy kill-
should be bast'd upon a more ap-
ij-iate! code of ethics, not upon a strict
of IpW.
a fine southern product.
it anything that tinges of violating
es’ rights rouses several southern Sen-
to' the point that they are against
it is. The tactics by Gillette,
h seriously delivered,. Strikes us as
rather humoroiis. ; I
may start a fad—whatever you’re
:t, its a violation of states’ rights.
nd Pigs . i j • '
pig population was ^ 12.1'f in
crease, while the one millidn head increase
in th^ cow population was an increase of
v4
Hhman population increases, however,
are sufficient enough, we expect this
year’s census to assure us. that we needn’t
fear l>eu|ig overrun by cows and pigs.
The Battalion
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Lawrence Sullivan Ross, rounder
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MIDNIGHT YELL PRACTICE
Editor, The Battalion:
Ever since we have been in A&M
it has been tradition to have a
mid-night yell practice the night
before an out of town football
game. Our ^experience has beeik
that nothing destructive usually
happens at the Mtc of the yell
practice, and, as Tar as we have
heard, the general opinion of the
people is that it is just a good disj-
play of genuine Aggie spirit whicl)
they enjoy and respect.
Next year we will be Seniors anil
we centainly don’t want our Senj-
ior year to be the first in which
mid-nite yell practices are banncdl
As .a matter of information, jus);
who is on this Student Life Com.
mittee anyway? Do they represent
the majority of the students? WO
have certainly expressed no desirf
to have our yell practices discon
tinued. If they are so all-powerfuli,
why don’t we have a say-so lor at
least have the arguments presented
in the open so that all might bO
allowed to hear them?
Why is it necessary to eliminate
all the good traditions that we have
at present? (The few that are left,
that is.) It seems that -all thy
traditions we have loved and cher.
ished while hero at Aggieland are
being taken away from us one by
one. Why?
We, personally, feel that there
Official Notice
An oxumlnattun for credit In C. Ht
noilK will hr given In the (\ K Leeturt
lit I I*. M . Naturday. January It.
ttiMt. Only thna« student* awlhorlsad It)
the Kxcrtjitlvc Commlttnv may take till'
exam.
J. A. Orr. Profeasor
Civil Etiglttta'rlng Dept.
All physical education major* who ex,
Poet to graduate in June or durtng tlri
Slimmer pimae cheek ymur degree pla
with m before Satumny. January 7.
C. W. Landla*
Physical Education Dept.
of the
signed by a student or amptoyea 01
• Uboloua material will be published. _ _
from publication may request such action
of the writer, bo dfrutged to any persona
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Inspection Should Go
would be more cause for distur
bance if there were many small
groups jagt wandering abound the!
towns than if all were 1 assembled
in one group for the purpose of
yelling for A&M. In the past, we
have assembled, had our yell prac
tice, and then left for our various'
ways; We feel that mid-nitc yell
practices should be continued and
we intend to do all that is within
our power to see that this tradition
is continued next year and all the
years to follow.
Killy Hoskins '51
Emil Huber '51
Ed Fincias '51
Bob Statlcr ’51
Rill Boddcker 51
Fred Sommers '51
Melvin Monerief .’51
Carl Scudder *51
Bill Witty ’51
Joe Willhelm ’51
David Sechelski ’51
Bob Smith ’51
Carl Adams '51
Ernest Miller ’48
Ronald Greet ’51
Herbert Horton '51
(Editors’ Note—The resolution
recommending discontinuance orf
out-of-town midnight yell practice
which was sent by the Student
Life Committee to the Academic
Council carried with it a special
notation. The notatioin specified
that the votes of the student -mem
bers of the committee did NOT
represent the opinion of the stu
dent body as a whole.
(There are 21 members of the
Student Life Committee. Nino are
faculty members, twelve are stu
dents. Faculty members are Dr.
It. W. Steen, Dan Russell, M. t„
CaAhlon, R. G. Perryman, Joe
Orr, U. Col. Joe Davis, Dr. F. P.
Jagifi Jr., Barlow “Bones” Ir
vin, and F. R. Brlson.
(Student members are Hntri’
Raney, Floyd Honk, Cecil Huey,
Halo-Stringer. C. D. Cabuntss, It.
G. Woran, Bob Page, Doyle Avant,
Office,
morsel in which anyone
be interested. More often than
wc find, after inquiring arou
that there is
little if any factj
behind most
the stories.
Such an
dent occu
yesterday,
received , wo
that many
the dorms
been
during the'h
days. An mil
be expected tl
didn’t strike
too well so we|
checked with
the Campus Security
Housing Office, and the Military
Department. The report from each
was that no rooms had been search
ed.
Two dormitories had been en
tered by college officials after
they were locked, but only to run
out men who had tried to set up
housekeeping there to avoid the
complicatiops of moving into Wal
ton, the (lorm which remained
open through Christmas.
Many rooms on the first flooi-s
had been opened by college
ployees before the dormitorii
were closed, but only to make sui
that-the windows were locked
ter the windows had been;check
the rooms were locked and were
not again disturbed by anyone uh-
til the students returned.
We were glad to learn that the
dorms had not
Hi
in*
to n
v occasionally
Bjobby Byington,
Bill Biliingsley,
“Pusher” Barnes.)
C. C. Munroe,
and ; Wilman
OFFERS THANKS
Editor, The Battalion:
L
On Thursday, December 22, 194)9,
I left a leather briefcase, contain
ing a notebook and most of the
notes I had taken this semester,
at the line in front of the Church
in Bryan.
Saturday the mailman delivered
that brief-case to my. home.
If the person will get in touch
with me at room 315, Dormi 3, I
would like to personally thank him
for tho effort I know it required.
'Sincerely,
have
to the
dent’s
present
The"
state
f>ft*n
practice ol
car when
such a rule,
believle that lt|l
cover promlecuo
of private automobile
Natjurally, there an
For instance,'if n pel
pec ted of theft then
of hh) pro;
However,
mander or
searched, end
rtns
on-
r :*! or
Igs bri
ll wc
which
Wo
tin* *
er is
the college
belongings of
to inspection
njpr his auth-
at all times.”
the need for
we do not
intended : to
Iriveetigations
sake
with
1 '
ironerty should
, either the company
OuscmnsU‘1'
responsible si
ent when
put, if
».<
„ But,
dent’s
curred
Should not
A student
pect his car
when he lea
locked or no
As we ha
(■tend that
eervo the rig i
property. How
the college si
mete the hi
of persona!
dents. For tfi]
tion—with
should be
dent conceri
opportunity _
presented. |
lerjt should be pto-
£ inspection is ci r-
ily for,appearances
into o st li
as have oc-
it owned ca rs
dtted.
the right to eic-
reman undisturbed
m it, whether It is
r; .
stated, we undeii-
collego muiit
to Inspect persons
jer, with that righ
Id also seek to pm-
t possible riegiv-i'
vacy for the stu-
reason, no inspec-
exception notrtl -
without the stu-
being afforded ain
be present or r^-
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QUEEN
PBEVUE
iy II P. M.
conditions were "gi
shapeV at the Bryan Field A
clinic. IA tom of the cjinic was .
by Forsythe, following a complaint
on condition's made by several
freshljien in a “Letter to; the Edi
tor” on the Freshman Page of The
OkU, needed is that
^-ation be given to stu-
Annex on hours, fecil-
ntimely requests of med
ical a|dtf!Effi' minor' injuries and ir
ritations,; said Forsythe.
An invitation will i be extended
to the! executive committee of tho
Academic \Council ;to meet with
the senate at the n«xt meeting to
acquaint bolk bodtes with their
mutugl aims and to foster better
relationships between the : two
groups. Joe- FuHer was named ,to
extend the ihvitbtitjjns.
A motion made by Charles Kirk-
ham hon-corps. vice-president of
the Sbnior Class, requesting pos
sible panel discussion by deans in
the college, passed by a unanimous
vote. : . 1 T- 1
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