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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1952
Cafe Pinalle Presidents View Censorship
Opens in MSC y 0 F ree Expression
Sportsmanship
Is Everyone’s Business
HTHE SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE has a
unique organization in its Sportsmanship
Committee. Composed of students from each
school, the committee is steadily becoming
an influence on the conduct of students at
all athletic contests.
It has its own rewards for sportsmanship.
Each year a trophy is given the school which
exhibits the best principles of sportsmanship.
But judgment of the winner is not based
completely on how the athlete conducts him
self on the field of play. It is the student
and the athlete together who set the stan
dards by which a school is judged.
In making its selection, the committee
brings in votes from football and basketball
officials, state sports writers, and school of
ficials, in addition to the committee’s mem
bers—head yell leader, school newspaper ed
itors, student body president, and a represen
tative athlete.
A ballot is cast by these people twice each
year, with the winner receiving the trophy
at the Cotton Bowl game in Dallas, Jan. 1.
True happiness consists not in the multi
tude of friends, but in their worth and
choice.—Ben Jonson
Gutenberg Gets
Double Honor
OHANNES GUTENBERG has been in the
spotlight across the nation last week and
he’ll remain there until Oct. 8.
Gutenberg holds a special niche in the
hearts of churchmen and newsmen.
He is the man who first printed from
movable type, and supposedly published the
first printed Bible.
During the last week, nationwide pre
sentations have been made of the new Re
vised Standard Version of the Bible. This
week, until Oct. 8, Gutenberg will be honored
indirectly through the celebration of News
paper Week.
U. S. newspapers have more than kept
up with the country’s population in the past
12 years, and getting more news to more
people. In 1940, morning and evening news
paper circulation was 41,131,611. That
meant one copy for every 3.31 persons.
In 1951 there was a circulation of 54,-
017,938 with a population of 154,353,000 or
one newspaper for every 2.86 people.
With the consistent increase in newspa
per circulation and the issuance of the Re
vised Standard Version of the Bible, more
persons will be better informed—news wise
and spiritually.
One man, dead these many years, can be
credited for both. A man who knew there
was room in the world for both newspapers
and the church, Johannes Gutenberg.
What do we live for, if it is not to make
life less difficult to each other?
—George Ellliot
Why can’t A&M be' the one to receive
the sportsmanship trophy this year? Sports
manship isn’t such a bad thing to practice
and in the long, run members of the athletic
teams can profit by it greatly.
One or two students can break down ev
erything other people have tried to build up.
One little destructive mission to an opponents
campus is used as a springboard by their
coach to build up enthusiasm among his own
team.
Sportsmanship is a collective responsibil
ity of the entire student body; it entails a
certain degree of turning the other cheek,
something most A&M students need to prac
tice a little more.
Aggies demonstrated t^ieir ability to turn
the other cheek at the Oklahoma A&M game
when seat cushions were thrown into their
student section by students of the opposing
school. Very few Aggies threw the cush
ions—even after being hit.
Good sportsmanship is just as important
a yelling loudly. If the athletes know you
are going to be a good winner and a good
loser, they too will try to be a clean player.
Watch yourself and your buddy. Let’s
keep a clean slate and enlarge our good rec
ord which already has weathered two foot
ball games.
The only rose without thorns is friend
ship.—Mille de Scured!
Corps Split
Hurts Strength
| ATELY a considerable amount of rivalry
has broken out between the Army and
Air Force cadets and progressed to such a
point that unity in our cadet corps is be
coming questionable. More and more we are
doing too many things as a member of our
branch first and as a member of the A&M
cadet corps second.
A man should be proud of the branch of
service to which he belongs.
If he is in the armor he should be sold
thoroughly on that type of warfare, and be
ready to defend it when an infantryman
boasts the merits of his way of fighting.
But at the same time we must live to
gether at A&M and work together as one
corps of cadets, learning how to become offi
cers in a united effort to protect and defend
our country. Each arm, service,*or section
of the Air Force is just as important as the
other in the overall defense program.
The future of A&.M’s Corps of Cadets is in
jeopardy. If the split continues on the up
swing, officials in Washington are sure to
frown on allowing one uniform for this school
and the Air Force will be put into the auth
orized blues; something that will draw a* dis
tinct line through our corps.
What has been harmless rivalry in the
past has turned into a serious threat and
should be stopped before harm is done.
Tonight at 8:30
Cafe Rue Pinalle reopens to
night for the first of ten ses
sions this year at 8:30 p. m.
in the game section of the
MSC with several major
changes in the program offerings,
according to Betty Bolander, MSC
program chairman.
The Kelly Sisters, popular per
formers of last season, will not
appear this year. Carmen Hinds,
dancing teacher from Foi't Worth,
a TV performer who has been on
Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Show,
will replace them.
The Cafe Rue Pinalle staff for
this season will be: Darrell Rob
erts, Corpus Christi, ticket taker;
John Reeves, master of ceremon
ies; Oscar Garcia, Laredo, general
manager; and Boyce Holmes, Cor
pus Christi, MSC dance committee
chairman.
The 60 cents admission price will
be used to pay the Aggieland
Combo, who will provide the music.
The floor show will start promptly
at 10 p.m.
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
“Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman”
Entered as second-class matter at
Post Office at College Station, Tex
as under the Act of Congress of
March 3, 1870.
Member of
The Associated Press
FRANK N. MANITZAS, JOEL AUSTIN.
Ed Holder »
Harri Baker
Peggy Maddox
Today’s Issue
Bob Selleck.
Ed Holder
News Editor
Sports News Editor
Jerry Bennett, Bob Hendry, Joe Hipp, Chuck
Neighbors, Bob Selleck News Editors
Gus Becker Associate Sports Editor
Vernon Anderson. Bob Boriskie., William Buckley,
Arnold Uamon. Robert Domey, Allen Hays,
Joe Hladek, Bill Foley, Ed Fries, Raymond
Gossett, Carl Hale. Jon Kinslow, H. M
Krauretz, Jim Larkin, Steve Lilly, Kenneth
Livingston, Clay. McFarland, Dick Moore, Ro
land Reynolds, Jolm Moody, Sob Palmer, Bill
Shepard, and Tommy Short Staff News Writers
Joe B. Mattel i Editorial Writer
Jerry Wizig, Jerry Neighbors,
Ger • - '
erald Estes.
Jerry Bennett, Bob Hendry..
Jon Kinslow, Ed Fries
Willson Davis
Gene Ridell, Perry Shepard. . .
Bob Godfrey
Bob Selleck, Leon Boettcher. .
Keith Nickle, Roddy Peeples. . .
Garder Collins
Thelton McCorcle
Hugh Philippi
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. Advertising Representative,
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Forest Fire Losses
Higher Last Month
Losses from forest fires in East
Texas during September were
much higher than for the similar
period in 1951. Approximately 450
wild forest fires sitppressed last
month consumed 10,000 acres com
pared with only 150 fires which
burned 5600 acres in 1951.
The Situation appears especially
critical in northeast Texas where
a large percentage of last month’s
losses occurred. The extreme sum
mer drought has extended into
the fall months causing an alarm
ing condition.
/ Texas forest fire records over
a 20-year period show tha,t an
average of 22 per cent of all for
est fires and 27 per' cent of the
area burned is lost in October and
November. Unless heavy rains are
received in the near future, Texas
Forest Service personnel fear that
forest fires this fall will far ex
ceed the 20-year average.
Dancing Lessons Set
Dancing classes for married
couples are being offered as a
function of the MSC dancing com
mittee, Miss Betty Bolander, pro
gram consultant, has announced.
Classes will be held from 9:15 to
10 p. m. each Tuesday. Instruction
is under the direction of Manning
and Nita Smith. Enrollment fee
for ten lessons 'is $3 per couple,
Miss Bolander added.
From Editor & Publisher:
CTUDENTS USUALLY get plenty peeved over an
^ administrative crack-down on the campus news
paper.
The youths believe that freedom of the press
extends to the under-graduate press. Right or
wrong, they’re pretty idealistic about it, and they
rarely agree with president or dean that something
printed there should not have been.
College administrators usually win such argu
ments. Yet, if there is an optimum policy for the
administration of undergraduafe newspapers at U.S.
colleges and universities, their presidents certainly
are not agreed upon it. Thirty presidents and chan
cellors replying to an Editor & Publisher query on
“how much freedom for the student press?” spread
themselves across the full range of opinion.
A majority of the respondents reject censorship
of the campus newspaper, but believe in permitting
“freedom equivalent to responsibility”—a principle
■which they interpret variously.
No Perfect Solution Found
Many frankly concede they have found no per
fect solution to the problem of the undergraduate
press, but offer persuasive arguments in justification
of what they do. President Troy H. Middleton of
Louisiana State University put it this way:
“Much as 1 might wish it, I don’t believe there
is any pat answer to the question of “How much
freedom for the student newspaper?” I’m sure you
will receive carefully constructed arguments for
every possible approach.”
The prediction was correct. Some presidents
consider the advantages of an. autonomous under
graduate press to outweigh the annoyances or injury
that such publication occasionally may inflict. Says
President Colgate W. Darden Jr. of the University
of Virginia.
“The administrative authorities here make no
attempt to control the publication of the Cavalier
Daily. Conduct of the paper is entirely in the hands
of the students charged with its publication. 1 think
it is important that complete latitude be given in
this.
“The views expressed in our paper are often
quite different from views held by me and others
connected with the university, but I see no objection
to this. It is completely free to criticize the univer
sity’s policy and it often does criticize it construct
ively. It is my opinion that a controlled student
newspaper would be of little worth either to the
students or to the institution wherein it is published.”
Abolishment Before Censorship
Chancellor R. B. House of the University of
North Carolina agrees. He says, “We should prefer
abolishing the publication to any exercise of faculty
or administrative censorship.”
At Stanford University, one of the important
principles “underlying our approach to campus jour
nalism ... is simply that the great principle of
freedom of the press should operate just as strongly
on the campus .as anywhere,” says Peter C. Allen,
director of information and publications, responding
for President Wallace Sterling.
And Chancellor William P. Tolley of Syracuse
University declares: “At Syracuse we regard the
Daily Orange, our student newspaper, as a publi
cation serving the interests of the members of our
student body. It is not designed to serve the inter
ests of the administration or the faculty or alumni.
Opposite point of view is renresented by the
University of Oklahoma, where “With the start of
the Oklahoma Daily this fall . . . we shall insist
that all editorial copy be read and approved by the
supervisor of publication before it is set in type,”
according to Dr. Carl M. Franklin, executive vice-
president, responding in the absence of President
George L. Cross.
This is a basic change of policy for operation
of the Oklahoma Daily, but actually, says Dr. Frank
lin, the change was made in 1944. “At that time
the school of journalism was directed to exercise
more supervision over the editorial policy than
had been exercised prior to that time. However, for
a variety of reasons the strict supervision policy was
not exercised - . • with the result that v e have had
periodic difficulties when the editor of the paper
did not exercise good judgment.”
“It is not our thought,” says Dr. Franklin, “that %
student ingenuity should be curtailed m any way.
However, we look upon the Oklahoma Daily as a
laboratory for journalism students much as the
chemistry laboratory fulfills a definite need for.
the chemistry students. However we also consider * 1
that some of the mixtures concocted in the journal
ism laboratory are apt to be as volatile as some
of the mixtures concocted by the chemistry students.
We would not think of turning a group of chem
istry students loose in a chemistry laboratory with
out faculty supervision.”
Justification for Free Press
Fullest justification for complete independence
of the student newspaper was submitted by Presi
dent John S. Dickey of Dartmouth in the form of a
letter to a critic of his policies in 1951. The letter
constitutes a classic statement in support of the
“free student press’ point of view. Wrote Dickey:
. . Here at Dartmouth we have had a longA
tradition of according to undergraduate journalism^
a freedom which is roughly comparable to the free
dom accorded the press in American life generally.
There is no need to tell anyone vyho is at all broad
ly acquainted with American life that we pay a
price for this freedom. That price is paid in the*
irresponsibilities and malice which certain type^iKd'
individuals practice under the guise of joiy//;#(sm.
“. . . All colleges do not have a tradition of ac
cording such freedom to undergraduate journalism,
and, believe me, the other tradition looks wonder
fully attractive to the man on this job. Officially
and personally, directly and indirectly, he is more
often than not the victim on whom the burdens of
a free college press come to rest .... Having said
that, let me say that on balance I air* clear that
I would not alter this core principle of American
life by one jot. I say this because I believe that to
do so' would be to take the first firm step toward
altering the best in the character of America ....
yasic College Objectives—Free Expression
“The basic objectives of the college bear on the
problem of Dartmouth and, indeed, on the problem
of living with any undergraduate paper where there
is, as here, a tradition of free expression ....
“First is the educational value involved in hay
ing a community of scholars have its own experi
ence with the raw material of freedom.
“ . . . The second reason for this traditioft
grows out of the practical advisability of limiting
the responsibility of the official college as to the
irresponsibilities, inaccuracies and immaturities
which are a part of any undergraduate activity. If
the college* is to supervise and censor the content oi
an undergraduate paper, it cannot escape total re
sponsibility for what appears in that paper.
“As every student and practitioner of the sub
ject knows, it is almost inevitable that a little cen
sorship leads quickly to more .... censorship and
supervision of the content of undergraduate journal
ism have the almost inevitable consequence of pro
ducing a ‘tame press.’
“. . . Just the other day I was talking about
this problem with another college president who has
the tradition of a supervised paper on his campus
and he not only confirmed this observation to me
but he went on to say that he often yearned for the
vigor and comparatively greater maturity of a stu
dent paper which addressed itself occasiontlly to the
controversial issues of the world.
“I reminded him of the price which we pay
for having that kind of journalism on this campus
and his reply was, ‘Yes, but the other way you
probably pay a higher price without knowing ilj’
Have 48 Senate Candidates
Sophomores Vole Monday
Forty-eight sophomore Student
Senate candidates await only final
approval before being placed on
the ballot for Monday’s election.
The secret ballot election will be
between 8 a. m. and 6 p. m. in
the MSC.
For the first time in student
election history here, sophomores
are taking an interest because they
know they will be a part of the
new senate government, reports
show.
Thirteen other sophomores have
signed for the newly formed posts
on the Election Commission. Sec
ond-year-men will elect five men
from their classes to the commis
sion.
Student Life Committee candi
dates include three sophomores.
They are James M. Myers, Neil
Price, Richard K. Chambers.
Sophomores who have filed for
the senate are:
Frederick Konig, Neil Price,
James H. Baggaley, John W.'Bene
field, James E. Coffey, Richard K.
Chambers, W. R. (Dusty) Canon,
Bobby E. Carpenter, Charles W.
Cox, Robert L. (Bob) Cloud, Bill
Coppage, John E. Cozard, Frank A.
Davis, Frank Dunn, Gerald L. El
lis, Wallace Eversberg.
Alan J. Ezzell, Don Friend, J.
Frank Ford, Don Godwin, Vernie
Godwin, Earl R. Hall, Terrell H.
Hamilton, James R. Henderson, W.
LePrince Huettel, Buck O. Isbell,
Jerry K. Johnson, T. H. Johnson,
Walter M. Kilgo, Jon P. Kinslow,
Lawrence Laskoskie, Theo Lindig,
Samuel D. McAnally.
Joe M. Mejia, Mac Moore, Chuck
Newman, John H. Pelt, Joe L.
Poitevent, Jerry Ramsey, Keith
Dwight Savage, Charlie W. Seely,
Bob E. Stout, Roberto Tijerna, F.
E. (Scotty) Tutt, Jerry Van Hdos-
ier Jr., Jule Vieaux, William J.
(Bill) Winter, James R. (Windy)
Womack.
Sophomores who have filed for
the Election Commission are: Bil
ly Gene Coleman, Thomas N. Dur-
din, J. F. Farlow, Don E. Feltz,
J. E. King, Frederick Konig, Buck
O. Isbell, Dave Lane, Richard C.
Reynolds, Gordon E. Tate, James
L. Whitfield, Charles E. Bowers,
E. R. (Nick) Nicholson.
Boy Scoats to Get
Merit Awards Soon
Thirty-one Bryan and Colleg-
Station boys will receive meri',
badges or advance in rank at the
Boy Scout Court of Honor to be
held at 2:30 Sunday afternoon in,
the district court room, Bryan.
In charge of the Court, first of
the Fall season in" the Brazos dis
trict, will be Earl Bryan, district
advancement chairman. F o u r
troops will have boys coming up
for honors, 16 to advance in rank
and 31 others to receive merit
badges for acquistion of scouting
skills.
Troops whose members wilL ap
pear at the Court of Honoy
80 and 383 from Bryan, ary
and 411 from College
Awards will be made ’rrs certified
to the Court by boards of review
held during the past two weeks.
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