Battalion Editorials Page 2 THE BATTALION THURSDAY DECEMBER 3, 1954 Leaders Must Help Students To Accomplish Grade Plan A&M scholastic officers and sergeants placed a high goal on a tottering pedestal Monday night. They started a program designed to im prove the grades of cadet upperclassmen. The plan mainly affects students doing un satisfactory scholastic work. The program calls for scholastic officers and sergeants to keep reports on the academ ic standing of cadets, and requires upper classmen on scholastic probation to sign an oath forcing them to fullfil certain study obligations. A high academic rating of a student body is a great asset to any institution. But certain factors must not be overlooked in carrying out the plan. A college education serves several pur poses—it developes character and personal ity and teaches a student to think for and discipline himself. The grades a student makes are determined by the degree of which he possesses these qualities. A student cannot be forced to study nor can any of these qualities be shoved, into him. He can only be guided so that he might absorb them himself. He must determine what he wants from'college and then develop the initiative and ability needed. After graduation, a student must guide himself. No one will be around to force him to do anything. It will be entirely up to him. The grade improvement program offers an opportunity to guide a man to success. But at the same time might cause a man to be resentful of such a plan and make him build up an inward resistance to its very aims^ The goal is tottering. The students can go either way. They will be resentful of the force or they will learn to develop habits of discipline. The way they go depends on the attitude of the men who will carry but the program, the scholastic officers and sergeants. These leaders must remember they are trying to help the students on probation. They are not punishing the men for failure to meet grade requirements. If this principle is adhered to, then the tottering pedestal will develop a firm foundation. Enrollment Figures Rumors of Freshman Quash Decrease Figures recently presented at the annual meeting of the Land Grant College associa tion show that A&M is leading 16 out of the 22 land grant colleges in freshmen enroll ment for 1953. Freshmen enrollment this year at A&M totaled 1,758. A&M can take pride in this fact especially when the freshmen total is 211 more than it was in the fall of 1952. Six colleges led A&M in the number of freshmen entering school this year. Yet three of these suffered a drop in freshmen enrollment under what it was in 1952 while A&M’s increased. These statistics quash occasional state ments which would have one believe that less high school graduates each year enroll at A&M. We hope that the number of freshmen will continue to rise until A&M has made up for its total enrollment drop and leads the freshmen enrollment of the 22 land grant colleges. WhaVs Cooking Thursday 7 p. m.—Houston hometown club meeting, room 301, Goodwin hall. Very important meeting. Texarkana - Four State club meeting, room 224, Academic building. 7:15 p. m.—Waco - McLennan county hometown club meeting, room 306, Goodwin hall. To dis cuss Christmas party. Kansas-Missouri club meeting, room 107, Biological Sciences build ing. Discuss Christmas party and election of officers. Panhandle club meeting. Aca demic building. San Angelo A&M club meeting, Ag. building. Bring pictures for duchess election. Pan - American club meeting, room 3C, MSG. The A&M Latin- American committee will be pre sent. Fayette - Colorado A&M club meeting, room 2C, MSG. Christ mas party plans. 7:30 p. m.—Knights of Colum bus, basement of St. Mary’s chapel. Rusk county hometown club meeting, room 307, Goodwin hall. Whispering pines club meeting, room 228, Academic building. Laredo A&M club meeting, room 125, Academic building. Plans for dance. Very important, reserva tions for tables. El Paso hometown club meeting, 3rd floor, Academic building* Dis cuss Christmas party. Marshall meeting, YMCA. Dis cuss Christmas party plans. Tyler - Smith coufity hometown club meeting, room 104, Academic building. Plan Christmas party. Austin hometown club meeting, chapel, YMCA. Plan Christmas party. West hometown club meeting, YM CA. Plan Christmas party. Shreveport club meeting, room 106, Academic building. Discuss plans for Christmas party. Amarillo A&M club meeting, so cial room, MSC. Final plans for Christmas dance. Flax county club meeting, Academic building. Palestine hometown club meet ing, 3rd floor, Academic building. Discuss Christmas party. East Texas hometown club, 227 Academic building. Special. Smoker and plans for Christmas party. Job Calls # Dec. 4—Oil Well supply will interview mechanical engineering and business administration majors graduating in January. Mechanical engineers will be interviewed for either sales engineering or design work, and business administration graduates will be interviewed for audit work and also sales and management. ® Dec. 4—National Advisory Com mittee for Aeronautics will inter view 1954 graduates at all degree levels in aeronautical, civil, electri cal, mechanical and chemical engi neering, chemistry, mathematics, and physics. Work will be in basic and fundamental research in var ious phases of aeronautics where their training and specialities may be applied. # Dec. 4 — Civil and mechanical engineering majors at all degree levels graduating in January will be intervied by Chicago Bridge and Iron company. Training would be in field construction, shop fabri cation, and engineering drafting, and there will be quite a bit of traveling involved during this period. They will consider men with ROTC contracts. Save Your Money! Save Your Clothes! CAMPUS CLEANERS 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 $9.00 per year or $ .75 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas under ttie Act of Con gress of Maxed 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., at New York City. Chicago, Ix>a 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. .Co-Editors Chuck Neighbors ....Managing Editor fclarri Baker Campus Editor Bob Boriskie Sports Editor Xon Kinslow City Editoi Jerry Estes Basic Division Editor Bob Hendry.. Feature Editor Barbara Rubin Society Editor Jerry Wizig Associate Sports Editor Rill Turner ....Advertising Manager Frank Hines. Jerry Neighbors, Bob Domey. Jim Collins, Ray Wall, A! Eisenberg, Amp Id 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 Boh Painter, Tom Skrabanek v......................... .Advertising Staff James Earle ...• Staff Cartoonist Saymcxr Smith. Will Hol’.aday, John ifmcher Staff Photographers Larry Lightfoot . ..- Cmciilaticn Manager Roland Baird, Jewel Raymond. Monro* Odom, Tom Syler, Buddy Williams, Russell Reed .....Circulation Staff LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Editors: We are very fortunate here in this land of ours for everytime we are ready to cast judgement of dis approval on a group of people a few rise to show the best side of the human race. Bill Wiseman and Ed Waples should be commended for their un-biased minds. If this mature thinking and reasoning is i\ result of their four years here then neither educator’s time nor the tax-payer’s money has been spent in vain. These are the ex amples of tomorrow’s praise worthy citizens. Barney Smith Editors, The Battalion: Ole Army: The Texas A&M club of Ark ansas appreciates the fine turn out of Cadets that came to Little Rock on October 31 to see the A&M -Arkansas football game. We are proud of you and wish particularly to commend those Cadets present at the game for the fine spirit they showed after the regrettable incident involving moving from one section of the stadium to the other. Such spirit, we feel, can be found only among the student body of Texas A&M, and it gives us renewed pride in our school. We, of course, deeply regret the in cident and are sorry that it oc curred. We understand that Chancellor Harrington has already received letters from the Governor of Ark ansas, the President of the Univer sity of Arkansas, and the stadium management expressing their re grets for the incident. Also, the mayor of Little Rock addressed a letter to you under the date of November 12. In this connection we feel that only a small percent of the people of Little Rock were responsible for the incident and that there should be no ill will toward the University of Arkansas, its student body, or its football team. They were in no way responsible. We are also grateful for Dr. Har rington and Dean Abbott. They did a splendid job in easing the trouble and preventing a much greater dis turbance. In order that the people of Lit tle Rock may more fully appreciate and understand our side of the story we are making available to the editors of the local newspapers the write-up in the Battalion of Tuesday, November 3. Again let me assure you that the majority of the people of Little Rock feel badly about, this incident as evidenced by an editorial which appeared in the Arkansas Gazette, November 3, and which follows: “It was extremely unfortunate that formal rounding out of the cycle of War Memorial Stadium appearances by Arkansas’ six Southwest Conference opponents should have been married by in cidents involving seating of the Texas A&M student cheering sec tion. “The fact that Saturday’s game was A&M’s first stadium ap pearance offered some excuse for the Arkansas hosts, but not enough. “The Aggies’ ancient ‘Twelfth Man’ tradition well-known in Con ference circles, and the stadum management should have made ad vance arrangements to place the standing Cadets where they would not obstruct the view of other pat rons. “A student spokesman for the Aggies said after the game, ‘I hope we never come back to Little Rock.’ For our part, we hope that he and the other Aggies will re consider on cooled second thought. We think we can assure them that it won’t happen again.” We are glad that you came to Little Rock, we deeply regret the misunderstanding, we hope that you will forgive and forget and that you will come back again. The welcome mat is out. Yours very truly, Texas A&M Club of Arkansas Charles A. Long, ’32 President Editors, The Battalion To John Clark: I cannot address this to an Ag gie Because you could never fall in that category. There are a few names I could address you by but the editors wouldn’t print them. With reference to your literary masterpiece in Wed’s Batt. We are extremely fortunate in having very few men of your kind on the cam pus of A&M. Although I’ve never met you, your type is very easily spotted on the campus. You be long to the gi’oup that think it above their dignity to speak when passing people on the campus, you belong - to those few who talk about the shortcomings of A&M but make no attempt to alter and im prove them. You belong to the group that feels like it is some type of belittlement to meet the fellow sitting next to you in class, or standing by you in a coffee line, or riding with you in a car. This de scription may not fit you on every count but it describes the group to which you belong. You and those who feel as you do are truly a sorry lot. As for you and your future alma (See LETTERS, Page 4) T«*aillONA •r Keeps alee WEDDING SETS We proudly present a wide choice of Keepsake Wed ding Sets for bride and groom in many styles . ; . at many prices. 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