Battalion Editorials Page 2 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1953 Job Interviews Praise Should Go To Fund Donors Praise should go to everyone who has helped ease the tragedies suffered by two fellow students. Many people here have donated money to help Leo Draper and Charles Arnold. Others have worked hard to collect the funds. Draper and his wife lost most of their possessions in a recent fire which destroyed their apartment. Arnold suffered serious injuries in an automobile wreck during the weekend of the Georgia game. He is recovering in a Waco hospital. Students have given more than $450 to aid the Drapers. Donations are still being re ceived. By yesterday students had dug $475.20 from their pockets for Arnold. These donations are worth more than their monetary value. They pay high divid ends in showing unselfishness on the A&M campus. ® Oct. 26-28—The Square D com pany will interview January and June graduates at all degree levels in electrical, mechanical and in dustrial engineering for positions as design and development engi neers, production engineers, ap plication engineers and field engi neers. Work is available in the southwest, as well as plants located in various other places in the country. ® Oct. 28—The Louisiana division of Esso Standard Oil company will interview January and June grad uates at all degree levels in chemi stry, civil, chemical, industrial, electrical, mechanical and pet roleum engineering for employ ment in technica.1 functions in the manufacturing department of the Baton Rouge refinery. A limited number of men with iwigh techni cal and personal qualifications who, by June 1954, will lack no more than one year for completion of their education program will be in terviewed for temporary summer employment. • Oct. 29 — Consolidated Vultee aircraft corporation of Fort Worth will interview January and June graduates at all degree levels in the fields of aeronautical, mechani cal, civil and electrical engineering. •Oct. 29-30—Monsanto Chemical company of Texas City will inter view January and June graduates in chemistry and mechanical engi neering at all degree levels. The mechanical engineers will be inter viewed for design or maintenance and construction work and chemis try majors will be interviewed for analytical work, and also produc tion and research. • Oct. 29-30 — Boeing Airplane company will interview January and June graduates in civil, aero nautical, chemical, mechanical and industrial engineering, physics and mathematics for employment at either their Seattle or Wichita plants. Work will be in design, development, research and pro duction. Bridge Club Plays At MSC Tonight The Aggie Wives Bridge club will meet at 7:30 tonight in rooms 2A and 2B of the Memorial Student Center. Hostesses for tonight’s meeting will be Kathryn Harns, Nita Kur- nick, and Dorothy Bell. High prize winners for last week’s games were Carol Pilgrim, first prize, and Lura Griffin,, sec ond prize. Mrs. E. E. McQuillen and Mrs. E. L. Angell were sponsors for last week. Rules Show TGU Ticket Sales May Be Illegal By ED HOLDER Battalion Co-Editor It’s very possible that TCU has walked out on a mighty shaky limb. And the school apparently is out there with a blindfold on. A reader of The Battalion from Ft. Worth clipped an article from one of last week’s editions of the Ft. Worth Star- Telegram, and sent it to us. The article described the ticket sales situation for the TCU-A&M game. The last sentence in the small story said, “High school students will be admitted to the north end zone sections at the drastically reduced price of 50 cents.” As soon as we got the letter, we called Barlow (Bones) Irvin, A&M’s Athletic director. Irvin gave us the rules of the Southwest conference ticket sales. Then to make sure of the $.50 price, we called Bruce Craig last night at TCU. Craig is TCU’s ticket manager. Craig said the price quoted in the Star-Telegram was correct. ★ ★ ★ According to conference rules then, TCU is selling tickets illegally. Here’s why: The rules say that at a conference game, tickets may be sold to high school students at NOT LESS than half the price of a college student ticket. The price of a college student ticket is $1.20. By our figuring this minimum comes out at $.60. This may seem like an insignificant few pennies in dif ference. But is it? Stop and think how many high school stu dents probably attended that game. If there were 2,000 there, the total difference would figure around $60. That’s about the price of four footballs. And there are still other schools which we understand may be charging this $.50 price. A&M charges $.75. ★ ★ ★ If A&M is so “football poor,” how can it afford to let money slip through its fingers without even mentioning it. We told Craig up at TCU about the rule. He said he didn’t know anything about it, but that he “certainly will check on it.” We thought of the possibility that TCU has a special deal for charging this price. But if the school’s ticket manager didn’t know about it—it doesn’t look like there is such a thing. A few years ago, A&M was forced to pay back some money to SMU on a deal which was very similar to this. ★ ★ ★ Now let’s bring this thing even closer to home. If TCU can let high school students in for $.50, or even for the “legal” $.60, why can’t we get a reduced rate for married student’s wives and for date tickets. As it stands now r we have a reduced rate for date tickets at home, but only $2.50. Date tickets out of town are $3.60. So let’s look at it this way: ★ ★ ★ If a boy at one of the other colleges wants a date, chances are he will go to the game with a girl who also is a student at the college. This automatically gives students at other schools a decided advantage in the price for date tickets. We have been told how strict the rules of tickets sales are at the conference schools. Then up pops something like this $.50 price at TCU. And to top it off, the ticket manager there doesn’t even know the “strict” rule concerning these sales. LETTERS TO THE EDITORS Editors, The Battalion: I was so sorry to read in the Batt’s Friday, October 16, edition that a seating arrangement had been worked out for the non-regs. Up until now I had been very well pleased with the arrangement, having never had to sit in what I considered a “bad seat or with “bad” company. It was so simple, if you get there first you get a “good” seat in the non-reg section. Yep, just like it is in the local movie, in the local cafes, and come to think of it just like it is in any place where the public meets. I heard a saying once, “the early bird gets the worm”, and I think there is something more than hear say to it. I paid just as much for my sea son ticket to these games as did any junior or senior in the institu tion. I’ll let whom-ever-it-may-conceln knoy something else too; I’d be a junior or senior had I not been un avoidably detained by an Uncle named Sam. I can go along with the wearing of I. D. tickets to keep unauthoriz ed persons from entering the non- reg section, but I just can’t go along with the breaking down of this group into four distinct groups. If the non-reg juniors and seniors haven’t been getting good seats it was because they didn’t get there early enough. So I’m saying now, speaking not only for my self but a number of other non-regs, the non-reg juniors and seniors have the same privilege of getting there early as do we non-reg freshmen and sophomores; why then is our twenty one dol lars and four years in the Army not worth as much as theirs in terms of sitting where there is an empty seat in the non-reg section ? Doyle Smith, ’56 Editors, The Battalion: To the Student Council: When I made my decision to come to Texas A&M several years ago, I never though that I would see the day the student body, through its - elected representatives, would give a public slap in the face to a group of its own kind. But it has already done this once this year with its decision on “Boot Privileges” for ti’ansfer students. Now it has done it a second time when t]m Student senate made its move to restrict Non-Regs’ seating at the football games to class dis tinction. It turned to its freshman and sophomore veterans and told them that they were not good enough to sit with the upperclass men at the ball games. The fact that these men took their Fish and sophomore pri vileges, if you want to call them that, while serving in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines for periods of two, three, four and five years in places all over the world, including the battle fields of Korea, makes no diffei’ence. 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