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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1953
Basic Division Shows
It’s Doing A Better Job
CINCE THE Basic Division was started in
^1950, it has received more criticism than
praise from the students, former students
and a few of the instructors.
The students and former students regard
it as a necessary evil and the only way that
freshmen would be allowed to live on the
campus. They feel it was established only as
a means of keeping the neophyte collegians
separated from the upperclassmen.
Air Accidents
Are Unavoidable
AIR FORCE officials answered the House
Armed Services Committee recently con
cerning the possibile causes of the latest
military plane disasters. Their answer: The
289 lives lost in military air crashes is the
price the nation must pay in safety.
The Air Force believes that no faulty
equipment, or sabotage, or accident pattern
is responsible.
Pilot errors account for 51.3 percent of
the accidents, equipment failures 27.4 and
improper maintenance 6.5.
We hope no one asks the diplomats why
accidents occur in foreign policy which makes
these air accidents a possibility. Their an
swer could be embarrassing.
•
British Steal
Airline Supremacy
HTHERE’S something new in the field of
•*- airline travel, but the US is far behind
competitors of Great Britain.
This country’s tight grip on the produc
tion of airliners of commercial firms all over
the world has been challenged.
The jet air age has touched the commer
cial production line, and the British-made
Comet II, only jet airliner being produced, is
much in demand on the world market. One
American airlines has placed an order for
three to be delivered in 1956 with an option
to buy seven more.
American manufacturers have yet to an
nounce a commercial jet airliner to compete
with the British plane. One firm has laid out
$15 million for development of a jet trans
port. Others say they are working on a jet
plane but have nothing to say about it.
The Americans are confident. They claim
greater manufacturing know-how plus the
idea of competition demanding top develop
ment of their plane will help them regain
their position in production of the giant
airplanes.
Perhaps after a few foreign dollars which
might have been spent in the US go to our
European neighbor airplane manufacturers
will get down to work and regain the prestige
they have claimed so long.
Some professors criticized the Basic Div
ision because it keeps the freshmen separate
from upperclassmen whose association might
broaden their maturity and mental develop
ment more quickly. Yet even these profes
sors realize the disadvantage an entering stu
dent encounters in trying to adjust himself
to college life while under the strain of a
policing upperclassman.
But the development of the Basic Divi
sion has proved it to be one of the most suc
cessful educational units on the campus. It is
producing a better student and more profit
able results may develop later.
Statistics released today by the school
shows that its students are making better
grades than ever before and resignation per
centage is beginning to drop.
The significance of better grades will
gain further stature if these same students
outproduce previous graduates of the college.
The results bear watching. We think they
will prove the effectiveness of the Basic Div
ision.
Hand Signal Month
Needs Support
/^OV. SHIVERS has designated January as
^ Hand Signal Month in Texas, urging all
drivers to heed the theme: “Right turn—
hand up. Left turn—hand out. Slow or stop
—hand down.”
Statistics show that over 50 per cent of
intersection collisions are caused because of
laxness in hand signals.
Here there is a car for every three per
sons. These motor vehicles are in operation
throughout the day and use of hand signals
would make for easier and safer driving.
Alertness while driving, following safety
rules and especially use of hand signals in
close traffic can prevent accidents and per
haps save a life. It’s courteous to use hand
signals, and respect those of others.
•
Army’s New Song
Could Be Belter
rpHE ARMY has placed a new marching
tune on the three-month trial period and
thinks it may become its official song if
favorable reports are received.
Picked from 700 entries submitted in a
contest, the song is entitled “The Army’s Al
ways There.” The composer: Sam H. Stept,
of New York, who is better known for “Don’t
Sit Under the Apple Tree,” which was a hit
during the last war.
Two other songs which he wrote and
later became famous might be more suitable
for the Army. They are: “That’s My Weak
ness Now,” and “Please Don’t Talk About
Me When I’m Gone.”
Friday
7:30 p. m.—Aggie Talent Show-
Tentative, Ballroom, MSC.
Czech Club, Room 2A, MSC.
Panhandle Club, Room 2B, MSC.
Mid-Winter Conference of Ag
ricultural Teachers, Assembly
Room, MSC.
BSU Vespers, Baptist Student
AH Class to Visit
Hereford Ranch
The Animal Husbandry 315 class
will make a one-day field trip
to the Straus Medina Hereford
Ranch near San Antonio Friday.
The purpose of this trip is to
give the class some practice in
judging breeding stock.
The Junior Livestock Judging
team to represent A&M at the
Fort Worth Livestock Show and
Exposition Jan. 31 will be chosen
from this class.
Center, Students from Prairie
View A&M wil present the pro
gram.
Monday
7:15 p. m.—Six County Club, 104
Academic Bldg., vdll make plans
for between semester dance.
7:45 p. m.—Bryan-College Station
Branch of AAUW, Bryan Women’s
Club, J. F. Moussalli; director of
Near East Foundation in Syria,
will be the guest speaker.
CS City Council
Postpones Meeting
College Station’s monthly City
Coun&l meeting, scheduled for
Monday, has been postponed until
Monday, Jan. 9, according to Ran
Boswell, city manager.
Expected items of business are
voting on the Recreation Coun
cil’s request for tax support and
the school board’s request for a
tax assessment increase.
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
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Day activities will be held in thfe
Student Activities office, Goodwin
Hall, Wednesday at 5 p. m.
For High School Day
Pete Hardesty, club advisor, is
calling the meeting to coordinate
plans for the annual affair, which
will be March 14.
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