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THE BATTALION
Thursday, May 21, 1953
FROM THE CITY DESK
Clean-Up Week
Needs Your Help
By THOMAS HARRISON (HARRI) BAKER III
Battalion City Editor
When Spring comes around, clean-up time ccmes along
too. This year, as in the past. College Station city officials
want to cooperate with the residents of the city in cleaning
up.
If the residents will clean up their property and put
everything they want to throw away in front of their houses,
city trucks will come by and pick it up.
The days the city has set for the pick-ups are next Tues
day and Wednesday. All they ask is that the material to be
thrown away be put some place where the trucks can get it
easily.
After the clean-up drive, the city will spray all areas where
mosquitoes might breed to keep down this summer’s mosquito
population.
Many people doubted the effectiveness of the spraying
last year, but it seems to have done a good job.
CHS Athletes Honored
LETTERS TO EDITORS
‘Information
Complete All-College Calendar
PI
ease
Editors, The Battalion:
We would like to know if any
one has information on this mat
ter.
Will the four seniors that were
relieved of their rank for missing
federal inspection have their old
rank returned to them before the
end of the school year?
Also will they become a i - oving,
unattached officer in the corps ?
Pat Kerr ’53
J. B. Ramsey ’53
Pat Rithman ’53
Jim Moore ’53
W. W. Sheffey ’53
Howard Allen ’52
Carl Berglund ’53
All-College Night Leads Events
A&M Consolidated had its an
nual sports banquet Monday night,
sponsored by the Kiwanis Club.
The banquet was to honor all of
CHS’s athletes especially the grad
uating seniors.
Consolidated had a fine I’ecord
this year. They tied for football
championship with Hempstead, won
first in basketball, and came in
third in track.
Graduating seniors on the teams
are Joe Motheral, John Mathei,
Don Burchard, Byron Andrews,
David Carroll, and Rod Cook.
Twenty-one lettermen will be back
next year.
David Bonnen was the only CHS
athlete to letter in four sports—
football, baseball, basketball, and
track. David also completed the
entire baseball season at second
base with 26 chances and not a
single fielding error.
Bobby Carter won the district
and regional high jump and placed
sixth at the state meet. Bobby will
be back jumping for Consolidated
next year.
All-district football men for the
season were Bobby Jackson, Wil
liam Arnold, Jimmy Bond, Melvin
Free and Fred Anderson. Pete
Hickman was the only unanimous
choice of the voting coaches for all
district baseball team.
Clothes Don’t
Make the Man
Editors, The Battalion:
It seems to me that a man is
poorly trained when a uniform is
required to maintain his discipline.
A man’s actions should not be
changed simply by his change of
clothes—whether from military to
civilian or vice-versa.
The civilian students here at
A&M College don’t appear to have
any mob-trouble because of non-
reg clothes.
E. J. Green ’54
Second Girl Lettermen Named
Betsy Burchard has the distinc
tion of being the second girl in the
history of Consolidated to win a
letter. Betsy received her letter in
tennis.
Any round-up of sports would
be incomplete with out mention
ing the yell-leaders. This year’s
yell-leaders were Martha Ergle,
captain, Carolyn Landiss, Margaret
Arnold and Eleanor Price. Carolyn
will be next year’s captain.
Clifton Bates, official score-
keeper for the teams and The
Battalion’s staff correspondent,
was given a medal for his services
by the team.
And while we’re on sports, the
school board has given this writer
a life-time pass to all A&M Con
solidated athletic events. This is
a public thank-you.
College Station Patrolman, Cui'-
tis Bullock has just awarded 396
bicycle safety certificates to bike
owners of Consolidated elementary
School. The certificates were given
CHS Bicycle
Owners Get
Certifica tes
Three hundred and ninty six A
& M Consolidated Elementary
School bicycle owners received safe
driving certificates last week.
College Station Patrollman Cur
tis Bullock issued the certificates
to children who had less than three
ti'affic violations.
The certificates, which were
furnished by the Jack Fugate
Printing Co., were printed in the
school colors of maroon and white
and signed by City Manager Ran
Boswell and Bullock.
Earlier in the year Bullock
sponsored a Bicycle Safety Week,
during which he made talks at the
school and showed safety films.
Reflector tape, furnished by Sid
Loveless, and safety stickers were
put on all bicycles and the elemen
tary school. Bicycle owners were
given membership cards in the
Bicycle League.
to boys and girls had less than
three traffic violations recorded
against them this year.
Bullock has done a good job on
bicycle safety this year. He has
made talks and showed movies at
the school, and put reflector tape
on all the bicycles there. More of
this was done on his own time.
The tape was provided by Sid
LoA^eless, and the certificates were
donated by Jack Fugate.
CHS Band Concert
Slated for Sunday
A&M Consolidated High School
will hold its annual band concert
at 3:30 p. m. Sunday, said Mrs.
Avery, chairman of the Publica
tions Committee.
The concert will be held in the
MSC Ballroom and will be under
the direction of Col. R. J. Dunn.
Proceeds from the concert will
go to the A&M Consolidated In
strumental Music Club and will be
used foi" the purchasing of new
uniforms and instruments.
Tickets for the concert will be
25 cents for adults and 15 cents
for children.
What Others Think About the NEWS
Profs Need Freedom
To Search for Truth
ACADEMIC freedom is an integral part of any social order based up-
x on democratic principles.
Scholars in search of truth must not be shackled by political tyran
ny. Their only limitation is the limitation of forthright honesty in their
quest for greater knowledge. - •
No individual or group of individuals having good and sincere mo
tives need fear the discovery and apllication of truth in any realm of
human relations. Truth is its own guarantee of worth and dependa
bility.
The scholar . . . must be free to explore, discover, analyze, and in
terpret new areas of knowledge and invention. He must, at the same
time, be fully aware of the fact that his pronouncements will be sub
jected to the most exacting and impersonal scrutiny by other scholars as
sincere as he. This is as it should be.
American educational institutions, both public and private, both
tax-supported and independently endowed, are noble monuments to this
principle of academic freedom. Neither vested financial interests nor
political or other pressure groups have been able to divert or distort
the clear lines of truth to suit personal advantage.
Many instances might be cited where small and struggling colleges
have refused to accept large gifts that had strings tied to them and
that would put the institutions under obligation to the donors in mat
ters of academic and campus freedom of thought and action. “Your
money perish with you,” might well be the indignant reply of the needy
but independent college under such an alluring temptation.
However, there rests upon evei’y teacher a sacred obligation to
search diligently and reverently for the larger revelation of truth in any
field of research. Crack-pot theories and unsound teachings have no
place in scientific reseai*ch and instruction.
Assembly-line processes of instruction soon degenerate into mass
propaganda. This is the situation in Russia and in the Russian- con
trolled countries. Education is the servant of the ruling class with the
police state. Teachers are not free to draw their own conclusions, based
upon the facts as they have brought those facts together. Academic
freedom is unknown in Marxian communism.
In democratic countries the search for truth carries its own safe
guards. Let us rejoice in the educational institutions of our own coun
try. Education and democracy dwell happily together and flourish to
gether.
—Editorial in Illinois State Journal, Springfield.
All-College Night on Sept. 14
is the first outstanding event sche
duled on the approved All-College
calendar, said G. G. (Spike) White,
dean of men for Student Activiti-
tes.
“This calendar, which includes
all the student social events and
many meetings for the year, was
approved this week by the Student
Life Committee,” he said.
It may be changed only with the
consent of the committee. White
added. Additions will be made if
the need arises by the Student
Activities Office.
“In order to minimize conflicts,
dates for events concerning more
than two per cent of the student
body should be cleared with the
Student Activities office,” said
White.
An up-to-date calendar will be
maintained by the office at all
times, he said.
“Any mistakes in the following
calendar should be called to our
attention immediately”
Student Activities’ phone num
bers are 4-1149 and 4-5324.
Following is the All - College
Calendar as approved:
September
4—Opening Day—New Student
Week.
11— Registration, New Students
for Basic Division.
12— Registration—All other stu
dents
14—Classes begin; Agricultural
Council meeting, MSC Council
meeting, All-College Night.
17—Intramural athletic officers
meeting, Employes Dinner Dance
Club.
19—Last day for enrolling or
adding new courses; University of
Kentucky football game in Lexing
ton, Ky.
21— Entries close for Intramural
Table Tennis tournament, basket
ball, swimming; MSC Directorate
meeting, Engineering Council
meeting; Senior Class.
22— Intramual athletic officers
barbecue.
23— Entries close for intramural
football, hprseshoes, bowling.
24— Student Senate meeting.
25— MSC Rue Pinalle.
26— Last Day for dropping
courses; University of Houston
football game here (night); MSC
After Game Dance.
28—-Swimming meet in Intra
murals begins.
30—Entries close in Intramural
open handball.
October
1—Tarleton freshmen football
game here; Student Senate meet
ing.
3—University of Georgia foot
ball game in Dallas (night).
5—Arts and Sciences Council
meeting; Alpha Zeta; Engineer
ing Council meeting.
8—Baylor freshman football
game here (night).
10—Texas Tech football game in
Lubbock (night).
12—Agricultural Council meet
ing, MSC Council meeting.
15 — TCU freshman football
game here; Student Senate meet
ing
meeting; Alpha Zeta; Engineering
Council meeting.
5— Student Senate meeting.
6— Former Students Reunions,
Rice freshman football game here;
MSC Rue Pinalle.
7— SMU football game here;
Ray Anthony to play for All Col
lege Dance; Former Students Re
union.
9—Midsemester grade repoi’ts;
Agricultural Council meeting; MS
C Council meeting.
14—Holiday—Corps Trip, Rice
Institute football game Houston.
16— MSC Directorate meeting;
Senior Class; Alpha Zeta.
17— American Album of Familiar
Music, Town Hall Concert.
18— Entries Close for Intramur
al Cross Country.
19— Student Senate meeting.
21—University of Texas fresh
man football game in Austin.
26—University of Texas foot
ball game here.
26-29—Thanksgiving Holidays.
December
I— Lamar State basketball game
at Beaumont.
3—Intramural cross country
meet for upperclassmen; Student
Senate meeting.
4 — Intramural cross country
meet for freshmen; MSC Christ
mas decorating party.
5—Oklahoma A&M basketball
game here.
7— Charles Laughton in Town
Hall performance; Bloodmobile
here; Arts and Sciences Council
meeting; Alpha Zeta; Engineering
Council.
8— Bloodmobile here.
9 — University o f Houston
basketball game at Houston;
Bloodmobile here.
10—Ross Volunteer initation
banquet; MSC Talent Show; Blood
mobile here.
II— Debate tournament; Blood
mobile here.
12—Debate tournament.
14— Agricultural Council meet
ing; MSC Council meeting.
15— MSC Christmas Carolling;
MSC Directorate meeting.
16 — University of Houston
basketball game here.
17— Student Christmas dinner;
Twelfth Man Bowl football game;
Student Senate Meeting.
18— LSU basketball game in
Baton Rouge, La.; Employes
Christmas Dinner.
19— From Noon until Jan. 4 at
8 a. m., Christmas recess.
January
4— Engineering Council meeting*
5— SMU basketball' game here.
7—San Antonio Symphony in
Town Hall concert.
9—Consolidated Band Dance;
TCU Basketball game at Fort
Worth.
11— Arts and Sciences Council
meeting, Agricultural Council
meeting; MSC Council meeting.
12— Rice Institute basketball
game at Houston; MSC Directorate
meeting.
14 — Employes Dinner Dance
Club; Student Senate meeting.
15— Baylor University Basket
ball game here.
16— Football and Cross Country
17—Holiday—Corps Trip, TCU teams banquet.
football game in Fort Worth.
19— MSC Directorate meeting;
Alpha Zeta.
20— Arts and Sciences faculty
meeting.
22 — Employes Dinner Dance
club.
23— Aggie Rodeo; Service or
First Reginmental Ball; MSC Rue
Pinalle.
24— Baylor University football
game here; Aggie Rodeo.
26—Senior Class.
31—University of Arkansas foot
ball game in Little Rock, Ark.
November
2—Arts and Sciences Council
18-23—Semester Examinations.
27—Opening Day, New Student
Week.
29— 1 p. m. Registration, for
new Basic Division students.
30— Registration of all other
students.
February
I— Beginning of classes; Univer
sity of Arkansas basketball game
at Fayetteville, Ark; Alpha Zeta;
Engineering Council.
4—Westminister choir in Town
Hall Concert; Intramural athletic
officers meeting.
6—University of Texas basket
ball game here; Last day for en
rolling or adding courses.
8— Arts and Sciences Council
meeting; Agricultural Comicil
meeting; MSC Council meeting;
Entries close for Intramural
wrestling, team handball; Senior
Class.
9— Baylor University basketball
game in Waco; Intramural wrest
lers weigh-in; MSC Directorate
meeting.
10— Intramural wrestlers weigh-
in.
II— Entries close for Intramui’al
ping-pong, softball, volleyball,
team golf and open golf and team
tennis and rifle; Student Senate-
meeting; Employes Dinner Dance
Club.
13—Rice Institute basketball
game here; Last day for dropping
courses.
15 - 19—Religious Emphasis
Week.
16—University of Texas basket
ball game at Austin.
19—Texas Newspaper Clinic.
20 — Sports Day and High
School Day; High School Debate
Tournament; University of Ark
ansas Basketball game here; Texas
Newspaper Clinic.
23—TCU basketball game here.
25—Gershwin Festival in Town
Hall concert; Student Senate meet
ing,
26 — Regional High School
basketball tournament.
27 — Regional High School
Basketball tournament.
March
1— State Junior College basket
ball tournament; Arts and Sciences
Council meeting; Alpha Zeta;
Engineering Council meeting.
2— SMU basketball game at Dal
las; State Junior College Basket
ball tournament.
4— Student Senate meeting.
5— Combat Ball; MSC Rue Pin
alle.
6— Military Ball.
_ 1—Singing Cadet Concert.
8—Agricultural Council meet
ing, MSC Council meeting;
15— MSC Directorate meeting;
Alpha Zeta.
16— Arts and Sciences Faculty
meeting.
18 — Intramural Fight Night;
Employes Dinner Dance Club; Stu
dent Senate meeting.
19— Intercollegiate Talent Show;
MSC Rue Pinalle.
20— Little South Westem Live
stock Show; Junior Prom and Ban
quet.
22—Senior Class.
23 — Begin Filing for Class
Elections.
26— Fish Ball.
27— Composite Ball (Basic Divis
ion); MSC Rue Pinalle.
29—Mid-Semester Grade Re
ports.
30 — Close Filing for Class
Election.
April
1— Student Senate Meeting.
2— MSC Rue Pinalle.
3.—Sophomore Ball; FFA Ball.
5— Arts and Sciences Council
meeting; Alpha Zeta; Engineering
Council.
6— Class Elections; Press Club-
Student-Faculty Banquet.
7— Begin filing for general elec
tions.
8— Entries Close for Intramural
Track; NIRA Rodeo.
9— NIRA, Rodeo.
10— NIRA Rodeo; Ross Volun
teer Banquet and Ball.
12— Agricultural Council meet
ing; MSC Council meeting.
13— Runoff for* class elections;
MSC directorate meeting.
15-17—State High School Golf
Tournament.
15-19—Spring Recess.
21—Close filing for general elec
tion.
22 — Employes Dinner Dance
Club; Student Senate meeting.
23— Cotton Ball.
24— Spring Dairy Show; Hillel
Club Dance; Air Force Ball; Sing
ing Cadet Banquet; MSC Rue Pin
alle.
26— Senior Class.
27— General Elections.
28— Begin filing for election
Commission.
29— Entries close for Open in*
tramural Badminton.
May
I— Cattleman’s Ball
3— State Junior College Traci;
Meet; Arts and Sciences Council
meeting; Alpha Zeta; Engineer
ing Council.
4— State Junior College Tract!
Meet.
5— Close filing for Election
Commission.
6— Student Senate Meeting.
Awards and Merits Convention.
8— Open House; Engineering
Awards and Merits Convention.
9— Parents’ Day.
10— Agricultural Council meet
ing; MSC Council meeting.
II— Student Senate Banquet;
Alpha Zeta.
12—Election Commission elec
tion.
13 — Appreviation barbecue for
Intramural athletic officers.
14—Press Club Banquet and
Dance; MSC Rue Pinalle.
45—Senior Ring dance.
17— MSC Directorate meeting.
18— Spring sports barbecue.
21— Commencement, Baccalaure*
ate, Commissioning.
22— Final Review.
24-29—Semester Examinations,
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