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Battalion Editorials \ Page 2 THE BATTALION THUURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1953 It’s A Long Rood* Fu ll of Haza rds Give your ear a check-up before you leave. Mechanical defects can be mean. They can kill you as quick as a stray bullet. Don’t drink when driving. You will be another statistic before you know it. Think while you are behind the wheel. Think of the people in the car who are depend ing upon you to get them there without harm. Think of the bloody and despairing pictures you have seen of thousands of wrecks and let that be your guide. Nearly every year some Aggie gets just a “little” careless on the road and someone is killed or injured for life as a result. Would you want the death of one of your friends embedded in your mind for the remainder of your life? No one is immune. It can happen to you. And it probably will if you don’t realize this. 'TTHE ROAD to Arkansas is a long and dan- gerous one. The road to your home is the same. Whether you are going to the game or going home, your journey can be a happy and safe one if you will consider the thous ands of hazards which await you, and pre pare to combat them. Speed limits are designed for the road on which you travel. Don’t think you can figure the right speed better than the man who put the sign up. He is a trained engi neer and studies the problem from every angle. And remember this when you start to exceed the speed limit: speed is the big gest killer on American highways. Every driver on the road is drunk and crazy except you. If you will look at it this way, your chances of getting to the game and back safely are much greater. Moore Trophy Committee Takes Big' Step Forward A SPECIAL student committee studying re- quirements for the Gen. George F. Moore trophy put on their seven league boots Tues day and took a giant step forward. The committee recommended that grades be given less importance in awarding the trophy. This is a step which is long overdue at A&M. From the way awards, rank, prestige and positions are passed out at A&M, one would think that grades are the only thing in a col lege education. This line of thinking can hinder a student’s education to almost any degree. First of all it creates an atmosphere which prevents true learning. It encourages a stu dent to study for quizzes, not for what he can learn from the course. Secondly, it puts a block in the student’s extra-curricular activities. It teaches him to stay in his room and keep his nose buried in a book rather than balance his “book learn ing” with his “common sense” education. The recommendation made by this com mittee must be approved by the Executive committee before it will go into effect. If the Executive committee will look up on the subject with the same open-minded attitude this student committee did, A&M will take a big step forward in abandoning the perils of an “education for the grades.” What’s Cooking Thursday 7:30 p. m. — Gaudalupe Valley club meeting, room 3D, MSC. Stu dents from Victoria, Calhoun, Re fugio and Dewitt counties are in vited. Caldwell County club meeting, 3rd floor, Academic building. Election of officers. Fayette - Colorado A&M club meeting, room 2C, MSC. Brush Country club meeting, room 207, Academic building. San Angelo club meeting, Agri cultural building. Fall function and Christmas shall be discussed. Milam County club meeting, YM CA. Robertson County club meeting, room 303, Goodwin hall. Galveston County A&M club meeting, room 303, Goodwin hall. Final plans for Christmas dance to be made. Corpus Christi club meeting, in front of MSC. Discuss hometown function. Beaumont hometown club meet ing, room 104, Academic building. Party plans. Panhandle and Amarillo club meeting, room 12 p, Academic building. Discuss party plans. Brazos County A&M club meet ing, club house. Football film and speaker, Rev. W. H. Andrew, “My experience as a service Chaplain.” West hometown club meeting, YMCA. Pan - American Club meeting, room 3C, MSC. Miss Hill will speak about Puerto Rico. Dallas Club meeting, lecture room, Biological Science building. El Paso Hometown club meeting, Academic building. Austin Hometown club meeting, YMCA chapel. Decide plans for party. Hi-Fi Club meeting, radio club room, MSC. Laredo A&M club meeting, MSC. Constitution approval and Christ mas dance. Waco McLennan County club meeting, room 306, Goodwin hall. Camera club meeting, room 3D and C, MSC. Portraiture lighting talk and demonstration. Friday 7:00 p. m. — A&M Dianetics Group meeting, cabinet room, YMCA. The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions “Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechan ical College of Texas, is published by students four times a week, during the regular school year. During the summer terms, and examination and vacation periods. The Battalion is published twice a week. Days of publications are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, and Tuesday and Thursday during examination and vacation periods and the summer terms. Subscription rates $6.00 per year or $.50 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas under the Act of Con gress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Fran cisco. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republi cation of all news dispatches credited to it. or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. News contributions may be made by telephone (4-5444 or 4-7604) or at the editorial office room, 202 Goodwin Hall. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Activities Office, Room 209 Goodwin Hall. JERRY BENNETT, ED HOLDER- Chuck Neighbors.. Harri Baker Bob Boriskie Jon Kinslow... Jerry Estes Bob Hendry Barbara Rubin Jerry Wizig Rill Turner — Co-Editors Managing Editor Campus Editor Sports Editor I..*..... City Editor Basic Division Editor Feature Editor Society Editor Associate Sports Editor Advertising Manager Frank Hines. Jerry Neighbors. Bob Domey, J'im Collins. Ray Wall, A1 Eisenberg. Arnold Goldstein, Bill Parsons, Bill Warren. Jack Farley. John Linton. King McGowan. Jay Ireland. Charles Kingsbury, George Manitzas, E. B. McGowan Staff Writers Gardner Collins . . . Exchange Editor Bob Palmer. Tom Skrabanek Advertising Staff James Earle. - Staff Cartoonist Seymour Smith, Will Holladay, Buddy Woods Staff Photographers Joe News Editor SWC Cage Tilt Ian. 8, Marks Gym Opening The new $1000,000 physical education building will be op en for A&M’s first conference basketball game, Jan. 8, said Joe Orr, superintendent of construction. The remaining outside work in cludes the roof, 15 feet of exterior wall, windows and the entire back wall. * The court floor and the electrical and plumbing installation around the court, remain to be completed inside the building. Interior work will be finished last. Orr said he is pleased by student interest shown in the building and also with classes which have been brought to observe construction. said Orr, a 1946 A&M ch neering graduate. A United Steel Worker in the spring of 1952 cause month construction delay, ( An average of 50 men a c worked on the job with c serious accident. One of i strucUon company emplo' from the 1 '°of and hurt his SWEET AND LOW DOWN—Bunny Hopping Marcie Mil ler will be on hand Nov. 7 to spark the Ray Anthony band with vocals of some of the nation’s hit songs. News Flashes LOS ANGELES—(A 5 )—Suit for $400,000 has been filed against Co lumbia Pictures, Inc., by Mrs. Car olyn Ward Satterfield for herself and three children, claiming her husband was frightened to death when two movie planes dived with in 30 feet of their home. * * * LOS ANGELES— CT*) —Direc tors of the Church Federation of Los Angeles have criticized the philharmonic auditorium for re fusing to allow Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam to use the auditorium for a speech. * * * UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—(A?) The Western Big Three were re ported ready today to urge a U.N. Security Council rebukes against Israel for the recent border kill ings in an adjoining Arab village, and to call for more U.N. “watch dogs” in the troubled area. Israel Chief Delegates Abba S. Eban also served notice he intends to go over the whole Middle East security question before the coun cil today. * * * LOS ANGELES—(A 5 )—Dr. Kin sey’s “Sexual Beh?\)jijOr in the Hu man Female” was more demoraliz ing to American troops in Kofea than Red propaganda, says John Morley, a lecturer who recently returned from the Orient. The Kinsey Report, Morley said at a civic meeting yesterday, told 200,000 Americans overseas that “one out of every four American wives has been unfaithful.” At Ollier Colleges Midwestern 17. Has Trouhles- Too Many Coeds By ED HOLDER Battalion Co-Editor Coed schools might brag about all the good points, but occasionally there arises something at these skirt-bedecked colleges which fairly puts them in a frenzy. Such an incident came up re cently at Midwestern university in Wichita Falls. The Homecoming Queen always gets her crown from the student council president in the annual ceremony. She also gets a kiss from the same person. This year’s queen has declined to accept. For the first time in the history of the school, the president of the student council is a girl. ■&: it 'k Aggies sometimes yell about their lack of freedom. But see if you have ever heard one that can beat this: At West Virginia university “all husbands- and wives-to-be who are under 21 and have not previously been married must submit a letter of approval from their parents at legist one week prior to marriage.” It seems that any student who fails to do,this may be suspended from school. Only by action of the Council of Administration may these students be reinstated, says the Daily Athenaeum, the school paper. it it it We picked this one up for all the 3. He is friendly and enthusias- professors in school. The Daily tic; really interested in his class O’Collegian at Oklahoma A&M car- and aware that ideas CONTRARY ried it under the headline, “Atten- TO HIS OWN MAY BE JUST AS tion, All Professors!” SOUND. The paper says the “ideal pro- 4. He does not use the curve fessor” is one who has the follow- system of grading, but rather rates ing traits: each individual on effort as well as 1. He can laugh with his class; achievement. has a sense of humor and uses it 5. He should be young, in the classroom. They were doing all right until 2. He is well prepared for all they got to the last point. We lectures and understands his sub- hardly think a professor is “good” ject thoroughly. or “poor” because of his age. ★ ★ ★ Look out, veterinary medicine ment of that division is 250. majors! The female of the species The majors in vet medicine up is moving in on your profession. there say a woman’s chances in the Michigan State college now has field are good now and will con- ; i nine women in the school of veteri- tinue to be because of the current nary medicine. The total enroll- shortage of veterinarians. it it it Shirley Wilkes, president of the own. student council of religious activi- “You had big plans for what ties at TSCW, wrote an open letter your career at college would be to the Daily Lass-O. She brought like and you were eager to make out some very interesting observa- them materialize., tions. Here are some of them: “But were you as determined to » “Let your memory carry you develop your spiritual life; or had back to the fall that you first left you, somewhere along the line, home for college. What thoughts said, ‘Goodbye God, I’m going to ^ were uppermost in your mind? college?’ ” “Probably your brain was teem- Shirley makes a very strong ing with such questions as ‘Wonder point. Many magazines have who my roommate will be. . . Shall brought forth “alarming statistics” * I pack my heavy coat or send for on the sex life and drinking habits it later. . . But then almost before of college students. Many of these you knew it, good-byes were over, statistics are true. Too many col and you found yourself in a world lege students do say, “Goodbye of self-operated elevators, steamer God, I’m going to college.” I* trunks and an incalculable number ^ A A of unfamiliar faces. 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