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(Battalion co-editor Frank Man
itzas is currently on tour with the
A&M debate team which is travel
ing through the mid-west.)
By FRANK N. MANITZAS
Battalion Co-Editor
CHICAGO, (Delayed) —
Never again will we ever pull
our hair when the many milk
trains slide
past A&M.
I n s t e ad we
plan to thank
our lucky
stars that
Cpllege S t a-
tion has not
heard of an
elevator. This
is not the
kind which
runs up and
down inside a building, in
stead it is an elevated trolley
car which runs above you and
around you, although most of the
time you think it’s going through
you.
That’s Chicago. It’s big, smoky,
musty, dirty, enchanting bewitch
ing, tiring, inspiring and disap
pointing. With the wind whistling
through you and around the build
ings, with smog everywhere and
soot making your white shirt a
musty grey, you find your way
through the many theatres—bur
lesque, and broadway plays—sky-
scrappers, and multi-small shops.
Different Scene
But away from the hustle of the
big city, the elevator will take
you to a community which seems
out of place. The smoke is still
there, but the. scene is different.
No longer are busses and cars
screeching around corners, instead
you see men and women with
books under arms, collar up-turn
ed, and another book open, read
ing, walking from one building to
another. Here and there groups
are talking—politics, philosophy,
economics, history.
You might say “hello” as they
pass you. Most will ignore you,
thinking you are speaking to
someone else. Others will answer
and continue on their way.
You cannot help but be impress
ed by the University of Chicago.
With its Hutchins and Dewey
backgrounds, with its large grey
stone Gothic buildings, U of G
seems to drop a cloak of serious
ness about you. This is the first
impression.
No Desks
f<You then move into the classes.
Amazement. No armchair desks.
Only large round tables with 16
to 20 chairs placed around it.
The students file in, speaking
noddingly to each other, sit at a
chair and open their books. Then
it begins to gather a more friend
ly air.
Here’s a conversation:
“Did you read all the pages,
Joe?”
“Naw, Mike. I read a couple of
them, then I read the rest of that
new Mickey Spillane book.”
“Say that is pretty good. You
haven’t got the new book club se
lection yet, have you?”
“Naw. I gotta read some Shake
speare and Jung tonight. Won’t
have time for anything else.”
Read and Recite
It is not different from A&M or
other schools in that some of the
students have read their lessons
and others haven’t. But listen what
happens when the professor comes
in:
“Good morning.” And they ans
wer.
“Now then Mr. Hunt recite to
me why and how Hannibal got his
idea for using elephants. It’s in
the 300 page assignment you had
for today.”
We were floored by the 300 page
assignment. But that’s the way it
is here to the 1,500 college stu
dents and 5,000 division (gradu
ate) _ students. Everyone reads.
And they read everything.
“From Shakespeare to Spillane,”
one of the campus leaders told us.
“Everyone is always reading. We
do so much woi'k in the library
that the division students each
have a key to it. They can stay
there all night and work if they
wish. Many times they do.
“Here at U of C, anything and
everything a student might want
is at his disposal.”
Outstanding Facilities
And he proved to us he was
light. For physics; the groups
which are studying nuclear fission
can see the cyclotron in action.
There is one - in full operation, 24
hours a day on the campus. It
was ,at Chicago on Dec. -2, 1942,
that man first conducted success
fully a controlled atomic fission
test.
In the other sciences: Billings
Hospital is world famous for pro
ducing outstanding doctors. It is
here that one of the world’s larg
est cancer research groups is in
constant operation, seeking new
cures for the disease.
But the dormitory life of a
E T of C student is not too different
from that of an A&M student. The
dormitories, although of a differ
ent architecture, have the same
facilities as those at A&M, but
they are joined in a quadrangle,
called a court. At 11 p.m. each
night, the gates to the court are
locked, and the students must sign-
in when they enter after this time..
We were surprised at first,
known for its liberliaism. But they
explained it quite simply: “No one
bothers with checking the record,
unless someone is missing for sev
eral days. It means nothing as to
what time you might come in.”
The Chicago student eats either
at the courts’ dining hall or, if he’s
a day student, he may eat at the
Reynolds’ Club, the university’s
small but comfortable union. And
if he gets hungry during the night,
the student can find in the base-
Uncle Sam Gives
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(Editors’ Note: This is the third a long-form (four pages) or short
ment of his dormitory a snack in a sei ’ ies of six articles on how form (single sheet).
shop. Besides providing a refresh
ment counter, chess games, check
ers, bridge, table tennis, a piano,
and a juke box, the snack shop
provides many bull sessions.
Beautiful Campus Chapel
The tallest and most beautiful
building on the well-formed cam
pus is the chapel, a Rockefeller
memorial which serves as a place
of worship not only for the stu
dents but the surrounding neigh
borhood. It seats more than 500
persons.
'Here are the interesting facts
of U of C’s teaching methods:
A student can be accepted into
the college when he is 14 years
old, provided he has completed one
year of high school work. He (or
she) must first pass 22 examina
tions for entrance and placement.
To graduate with a BA a student
needs 14 credits. If he is exempt
in some of these credits; that is,
already has the necessary know
ledge, he is given credit for the
different units. Some students re
ceive their B^.s from Chicago at
17 and 18 years of age.
One Examination
to make out your federal income
tax return.)
By FRANCIS J. KELLY
AP Staff Writer
WASHINGTON —(A*)— Govern
ment experts will do the bulk of
your income tax arithmetic for you
if you are eligible to use Form
1049 A.
This single sheet, amber colored
Or, it may be that you want to
know right away the amount of
your refund or tax due, without
waiting for the revenue director’s
office to figure it. In this case,
short-form 1040 is your choice.
When you use short-form 1040,
you find your tax frqm a table
and write it in your self. Long-
form 1040 requires you to make
your own computations. The long-
RAY
Examinations: One is counted, other sources, such as rents, an-
This is the (comprehension). It
covers the course of study for the
quarter of the course the student
has taken.
He only takes (normally) four
nuities, royalties or a business;
or if you claim status as the head
of a household.
In reckoning your tax, the reve
nue bureau uses a table which
courses during the year. The exam- takes account of your exemptions
ination in each quarter is his final
grade. During the year, the in
($600 each) and allows about 10
per cent of your total income as
when he wants to, but the grades
are never recorded. In fact, the
papers usually are never graded,
merely corrected and returned. In
this manner, the student is in
formed as to what he should know
about the course
Battalion Editorials
Page 2
THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1953
It Could Happen in Texas
¥TNMARRIED MALES beware! You soon
^ may find yourself among a host of Ark
ansas bachelors fleeing a tax recently pro
posed by the state’s legislature.
If they don’t offer more competition for
dates, the Arkansas bachelors still might
bring cause for alarm by giving legislators
of Texas a similar idea.
The Arkansas girls are against the idea
of a $750 yearly tax against their boyfriends
(?). The ladies claim they need no help from
legislators in “catching husbands,” in fact
they are afraid such a law would hinder their
chances of marriage.
Eight lassies of Little Rock who work in
downtown offices have formed a rapidly
growing organization to combat the proposed
law. They are called The Association for Pre
vention of Alarming and Stampeding Bache
lors Beyond the Hopes of Arkansas’ Unmar
ried Women.
Members of the Little Rock bachelors
club consider the legislation a blight against
the single women of Arkansas.
The girls are afraid the states “eligibles”
may run off to Texas or another nearby state
to escape the tax.
Rep. James Bruton, Arkansas congress
man' who introduced the bill suggested that
funds derived from the measure would go to
the Welfare Department to pay for care to
unwed mothers.
We hope Texans will not have to worry
about an influx of Arkansas bachelors, much
less similar legislation in Texas. We pity the
Texas congressman who would introduce
such a bill here. He may find himself fleeing
to another state.
BA Course
Not Amusing!
A BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION student
was rather surprised recently to find
some quiz questions from a textbook chapter
not assigned by his professor.
Inquiring about the incident, the student
said: “I thought the quiz was to cover chap
ters 1-10, sir. These questions were all from
chapter 22.”
“That’s just one of the amusing things
about, this course,” was the profs answer.
“But, sir,” barked the student, “I didn’t
enroll in this course to be amused.”
structor can give examinations a deduction in place of charitable
contributions, taxes, interest, ex
traordinary medical-expenses, etc.
If your deductions run more than
10 per cent of your income, it
will pay you to use the long-form
1040 and itemize them.
If you are buying a home, and
The informal and discussion the interest payments on your
methods of teaching are used pre- mortgage run high, it may pay you
dominantly through the course of to itemize them and other allow-
study. No student has to attend able deductions on the long-form,
every class if he is in the divisions. It is impossible to do so on form
College students do not have to 1940 A or on 1040 when used as
attend either if they are not on a short-form. The same holds good
probation. This usually occurs if if you sustain a big loss from fire,
a student fails two of his four flood, or theft, or have large med-
courses. i ca l expenses.
Once the ice is broken, and all fhere are a couple ol other
it takes is a smile and a friendly reasons why you may find it de-
Texas “Howdy”, the U of C stu- sirable to us^ form 1040 in place
dent proves a rabid and interested of 1040 A. i
conversationalist. Besides that, he You may have received rteiyi-
quickly becomes your friend. burses out-of-town travel exp^uit-.
As one of their professors told es, which your ehVpkTyer reported
us: “Few visitors to the campus as part of your income. You aren’t
pity our students; most envy required to pay taxes on an ex-
them.” peiise account, so you take this
We know what he means. deduction on 1040, used either as
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your name, address, employer,
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You 'answer the questions and the
bureau of Internal Revenue will
figure out your tax, sending you
a bill for any amount not covered
by withholding, or a refund, as
the case may be.
Strict rules govern who may use
this form, however.
You may use a 1040 A if your
total income was less than $5,000
and consisted entirely of wages
subject to withholding, or of such
wages and not more than $100
total of other wages, dividends and
interest.
But you will have to use the
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