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THE BATTALION
Tuesday, January 320, 1953
MAY INCLUDE YOU
Mail’s Curse
Discovered
By Collegian
From The Minnesota Daily News
Last week President Tru
man presented his state of the
nation message. He also ask
ed congress for a $76.6 billion
budget, for the next fiscal
year. Next week a new pres
ident takes office.
As the country now takes
stock of itself and its resour
ces, I decided as a New Year’s
resolution to review my posi
tion in relation to that of the
rest of the population. It was
after midnight when I com
piled this “balance sheet” of
me and the nation’s labor sup
ply.
Population of the U.S 135,000,000
People 65 years or
older 27,000,000
Balance left to do the
work 98,000,000
People 21 years or
young-er 34,000,000
Balance left to do the
work 44,000,000
People working for
the government 21,000,000
Balance left to do the
work 23,000,000
People in state and city
offices . 12,800,000
Balance left to do the
work 10,200,000
People in the armed
forces 10,000,000
Balance left to do the
work , 200,000
People in hospitals and
insane asylums 126,000
Balance left to do the
work . 62,000
Bums and others who
won’t work 62,000
Balance left to do the
work 12,000
Persons in jail 11,998
Balance left to do the work 2
Two—you and I. And you’d
better get a wiggle on because
I’m tired of running this show
all by myself.
Advisory Group
Names S. P. Davis
Stanley P. Davis, wool and mo
hair specialist of the Bluebonnet
Farm near McGregor, has been
named to serve on the Technical
Advisory Committee for the US
Department of Agriculture. The
Bluebonnet Farm is a substation
of the Texas Agricultural Experi
ment Station.
The committee will gather infor
mation on the technical phases of
the wool industry, wool manufact
urer and research in wool tech
nology. It will advise the USD A
concerning the various phases of
the wool industry from producer
through processing to consumer.
“It is an important committee
and its effect may be felt through
out the industry,” said Dr. J. C.
Miller, head of the animal hus
bandry department. “It is a recog
nition of Mr. Davis’ prestige and
ability in the wool industry to
have him selected to serve on this
impoi'tant committee,” Miller said.
Profs Ratings?
‘Faculty Failings 5
The following lines, written by Harold A. Larrabee of
Union College; were found pinned to a College bulletin board.
They seem particularly apropos at this time—the windup of
the semester, when most students take at least a few mom
ents to evaluate the profs they’ve struggled with for a
semester.
Faculty Failings
Or, a Professor Can't Win
If he’s brand-new at teaching, he lacks experience.
If he’s been teaching all his life, he’s in a rut.
If he does all the talking in class, he’s in love with the sound of his
own voice.
If he leaves the discussion to others, he’s just too lazy for words.
If he gets his name in the newspapers, he’s publicity-mad.
If he never appears in the public prints, he’s so much deadwood.
If he attends all athletic contests, he’s a popularity-seeker.
If he never goes to a game, he’s a public enemy.
If he dresses decently, he’s trying to be a fashion-plate.
If he thinks about something besides clothes, he’s a bum.
If he seldom, admits a mistake, he’s arrogant.
If he ever admits a mistake, he ought to go back to bricklaying.
If he teaches at a different college every three years, he’s a rolling
stone.
If he teaches at the same college for more than three years, he’s a
stuck-in-the-mud.
If he takes an active part in faculty business, he’s a politician.
If he never serves on a committee, he’s a work-dodger.
If he plans an occasional joke in his lecture, he’s a comedian.
If he never condescends to an academic nifty, he’s duty dull.
If he goes to chapel with regularity, he’s a hypocrite.
If he shies at sermons, he’s a heathen.
If he writes books, he’s neglecting his teaching.
If he never publishes, he never had a thought worth printing.
If he hands out plenty of high grades, he has no standards.
If he hands out plenty of low grades, he’s a butcher.
If he uses notes, he’s unoriginal.
If he gets along without notes, he’s an ad-libber.
If he’s on good terms with the President, he’s a sycophant.
If he doesn’t wear out the stairway to the administration building
he’s disloyal.
If he gets to classes late, he’s an oversleeper.
If he gets to, classes ahead of time, he’s lost his watch.
If he keeps classes overtime, he has no terminal facilities.
If he gives a lot of quizzes, he’s a slave-driver.
If he seldom gives a test, he’s too lazy to read papers.
If he hangs around after class, he’s looking for apples.
If he makes speedy exits, he’s got a case of studentophobia.
If he sticks to his specialty, he has a one-track mind.
If he tours the encyclopedia, he’s a show-off.
If he presents both sides of a question, he’s afraid to commit himself.
If he betrays his own opinions, he’s a propagandist.
If he ever says a kind word about anything Russian, he’s getting
monthly checks from Molotov.
If he ever says a kind word about the G.O.P., he’s been reading election
returns.
If he listens to sports broadcasts, he’s illiterate.
If he can’t identify Fritzie Zivic and Jack Kramer; he isn’t human.
If he gets paid for outside work, he’s greedy.
If he does outside work for nothing, he’s a sucker.
If he praises a book, he’s on the payrole.
If he pans a book, he’s just jealous.
If he stands up while teaching, he’s oratorical.
If he sits down while teaching, his feet hurt.
If he’s young, he needs more seasoning.
If he’s old, he’s seen better days.
If he doesn't sign his name to anything, he’s wise. —
If he writes stuff like this, and signs it, too, he’s . . .
H. A. L.
GODSPEED!
Solution—Better Teaching
"Cheating’ Promotes
Students’ Cribbing
Requirements Set Hearing Planned
For BPM Awards On Train Removal
Any freshman or high school
graduate with good character, abil
ity, ambition, and leadership now
may apply for a scholai’ship in
building products marketing, said
Jack Steele, of the business ad
ministration department.
These traits are the first re
quirement for obtaining a four
year scholarship in this combina
tion course of architecture, en
gineering, and business adminis
tration.
Steele said in addition to these
requirements, the selection of the
students to receive the award will
be based on interest in a course
in BPM. Ability to complete the
training and to succeed in this
field also is required.
The student must also be in fi
nancial need for the aid.
Selections will be made by a
scholarship committee consisting
of representatives of the Lumber
man’s Association of Texas and
A&M College.
Each award winner will receive
$250 %ach year for two years,
roughly two thirds of his school
expenses. He will also be given
assistance in finding summer em
ployment to provide additional
funds to meet his expenses.
Additional information may be
obtained from Steele.
Opponents of the pi’oposal of
the Southern Pacific Railroad to
discontinue the operation of the
north and south bound Hustlers
between Dallas and Houston have
been advised they will be given
an opportunity to present their
case in an oral argument before
the full membership of the rail
road.
The fact that the Commission
had agreed to this, said to be un
usual in such cases, was learned
by Bryan City Attorney W. T.
McDonald in a letter from Exam
iner C. F. Boulden.
MacDonald represented the City
of Bryan at the Hearne hearing,
Jan. 6 and 7, at which time a re
quest for permission to make an
oral argument before the commis
sion was made.
Mayor Ernest Langford and
City Manager Ran Boswell rep
resented College Station at the
meeting.
Col. McCulley Speaks
To Air Reservists
Lt. Col. W. S. McCulley will be
in charge of the 9807th VART
Squadron m e e t i n g Wednesday
night at 7:30 in the Memorial Stu
dent Center. He will discuss “Gen
eral Court Martial.”
From The Education Forum:
Research has proved that crib
bing is a specific action and does
not constitute a specialized, trans-
ferrable or transferred form of
cheating. A rascal may not re
sort to cribbing in school, while
the.ethical enthusiast may.
The classroom is a world of its
own and cannot be judged by the
everyday morality of the adult.
The student may take to cribbing
for a host of different reasons:
fear, inferiority complex, nervous
stress, pressure at home on good
grades, general atmosphere of
cribbing (“it’s smart to do so”),
a necessity of not falling behind
the ones who crib, and poor prep
aration on the part of the student
or on that of the teacher.
If thus cheating at an exam
must be separated from cheating
in “real life,” it can hardly be
severed from a student’s general
and often calculated tendency to
impress the teacher, and gain his
good graces and grades by more
or less falsely laying claim to cer
tain abilities, interests, and
achievements; by pretending af
fection and using other proper im
proper means. Strangely enough,
this attitutde of deceit has never
found such severe critics as “crib
bing.”
How To Polish Apples
There is a great variety of ap
ples for the teacher—some of
them worm-eaten—and there is
a great variety of methods and
tools to polish these apples, from
drudgerey to eye lashes. But all
this deceit, some of it is self-deceit,
is pure truth or honesty compared
to certain less criticized activities
of mature persons.
The keenly observing young peo
ple cannot help noticing how many
adults engage in practices that
make cribbing fade ip to harmless
ness. They see some teachers
trying to build up false impx-es-
sions on students, principals and
supervisors; they hear about school
administrators tampering with
scholastic admission records of
athletes; they sec adults lying to
each other for politeness, conven
ience or interest; they see busi
nessmen giving wrong informa
tion, poor merchandise and service
to consumers; they learn about
corrupt politicians, disloyal civil
servants, padding of accounts, tax
evasion, and so forth.
Bolsters Students’ Position ,
Those practices are obviously
more reprehensible and detriment
al to society than cribbing, but
often are not even called “cheat
ing.” That .kind of tolerance in
directly bolsters the cribbing pos
ition of the student.
Education probably always has
been tainted with vanity and am
bition, but has now—to some ex
tent—become such a mad race for
grades, points, credits and degrees
that its basic function and value
has often been obscured for stu
dents and adults alike. In the ideal
situation, of course, the student
would not hide his deficiencies but,
on the contrary, be anxious to
show them to his teacher and ac
cept his advice and information.
The more remote we are from this
situation, the nearer we are to
the innumerable devices of crib
bing.
Methods Ineffective
In general, the schools cope with
cribbing in two ways. Both, alas,
often lack effectiveness and sin
cerity. The old-fashioned method
is to punish the culprit by failing
him in the exam or the course, or
by dismissing him from school.
If that procedure were entirely
justified, and the same justice pre
vailed in other fields of human
endeavor or weakness, a great
many persons to whose misdeeds
society now only reacts with mild
disapproval or not so mild jealousy
would have to be tortured and
executed publicly. No wonder that
some honest teachers pretend to be
blind or dumb at or after examina
tions.
The “honor system,” which put*
on the weak shoulders of the stu
dent body the responsibility of su
pervising the examination and de
nouncing the cheaters, has in gen*
eral met with failure, To denounct
a member of one’s group to an
outsider, violates an old, basic-
though unwritten-code — which
even criminals refuse or fear "to
violate.
Educators should be the lasf
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P O G O
Studen ts Dism issed
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ed the Marines recently,” Wallace
related.
“Before he left his father talked
him into giving the names of boys
who had used the “board’ on him.
The father then wrote a letter to
a dormitory counselor, I believe.
It was dated Jan. 7.
“Wilkins, assistant commandant
called in the two juniors one at a
time and showed them the letter,
but remembering the policy follow
ed by other members of the unit,
they denied having hazed anyone in
B Armor.
Continuing the story, Wallace
said; “Col. Davis, commandant,
then called in Bob McCarley (sec
ond battalion commander) and I
and asked us what we could do
about the matter. We spoke to the
boys individually and without re-
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luctance they told us the complete
story and suggested they would
probably be suspended for confes
sing.”
Military Panel
Sears and Vickers went with
Wallace and McCarley to a mili
tary panel held yesterday after
noon in Col. Davis’ office. The
panel recommended punishment of
indefinite suspension effective af
ter this semester.
The recommendation was acted
upon by Dean of Men W. L. Pen-
berthy after the panel adjourned.
Both Penberthy and Davis said
the suspension of these students
would not permit reorganizing B,
Armor next semester. Col. Davi^
said it would probably be neces
sary to do so next year because
of the enlarged Armor allotment
of students.
Commenting about the action he
took on the students, Penberthy
said: “The boys were guilty of
hazing and 1 could do nothing but
suspend them. I am not fully con
vinced they are the only boys
guilty of hazing in B Armor.”
Sears had been first sergeant of
B Armor and Vickers was a junior
representative to the student sen
ate.
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FRANK N. MANITZAS, JOEL AUSTIN Co-Editors
Ed Holder Sports Editor
Harri Baker City Editor
Peggy Maddox.. .....Women’s News Editor
Today’s Issue
Bob Selleck
Jerry Bennett ....
Frank Manitzas
News Editor
Assistant News Editor
Sports News Editor
Television will not eliminate
grand opera from the stage al
though opera will make use of the
new medium, said Lauritz Mel
chior, world famous opera tenor.
Melchior, who gave a concert
in Guion Hall Sunday with six
young singers tind a duo piano
team, said operas will have to be
shortened before appearing before
the cameras. He said TV opera
probably will have more dialogue
than that heard on the stage.
Jerry Bennett, Bob Hendry, Joe Hipp, Chuck Neighbors, ^
Bob Selleck News Editors
Bus Becker Associate Sports Editor
Vernon Anderson, Bob Boriskie, William Buckley, Arnold Damon, Robert
Domey, Allen Hays, Joe Hladek, Bill Foley, Ed Fries, Raymond Gossett,
Carl Hale, John Kinslow, H. M. Krauretz, Jim Larkin, Steve Lilly,
Kenneth Livingston, Clay McFarland. Dick Moore, Roland Reynolds,
John Moody, Bob Palmer, Bill Shepard, and Tommy Short .... Staff News Writers
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Make-up Final Set
For Fish AF Exams
Make-up final examinations for
freshman who missed the Military
Science 121 final last Thursday
will bo held Thursday at 4 p. m,
in Building II.
Freshmen who missed the Air
Seienee 141 final are to report to
Lt. Col, A. B. Currie in Building
E to make individual arrange
ments for taking the final.