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Battalion Editorials
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1954
juggled Words Used
In Censorship Attempt
Juggling the English language is the
weapon being used in an attempt to abolish
freedom of the press at A&M.
A special group from the Student Life
committee may recommend today if
The Battalion should be censored.. And cen
sored is the correct word. There is no way
to get around it. Only another word is be
ing used.
Some people would swear that censorship
is not intended. If we were to take at face
value the motion passed by the Student Life
committee which established this group, we
might agree. But the threat of censorship
is there. It can not be ignored.
Committee members will decide if a
standing committee is needed for student
publications. If they decide the answer is
yes, they will determine the committee’s
membership and duties. Their recommenda
tions will be presented before the Student
Life committee in the form of an amendment
to the Student Life constitution. Student
Life will then vote whether or not to make
the amendment. ^ 11H
It seems that the word censorship has
been disguised by another—committee. In
this case the words mean the same.
Censorship does not necessarily mean
marking out words or sentences with a red
pencil. Or does it have to mean that articles
are checked and changed by a censor before
being printed.
If a newspaper must be responsible to a
committee, then it is being censored. The
paper is no longer free. It is under the con
trol and influence of a group of outsiders
who could use it for their own selfish means.
A red pencil would not be needed. Ar
ticles dealing with controversial matters
might not ever be written in the first place.
We hope the group realizes this danger.
If it decides to draw up the amendment it
will be taking a major step in tearing down
a freedom that we brag about graduating
officers to defend.
P tifol ications 13 isc ussed
(Continued from Page 1)
it was only The Battalion they
were worried about.
He indicated these persons did
not think the Battalion co-editors
were working for a greater A&M
college. He said the Student En
tertainment manager ab'eady was
responsible to a special committee
but student publications and the
yell leaders were not. The Student
Life committee supervises all three
groups.
Later White told The Battalion
editors not to worry. He claimed
they would not be censoi^ed. But
* Job Calls *
® The engineering department of
the American Mutual Liability In
surance company desires to contact
mechanical, electrical and civil
engineering graduates for safety
engineering positions in industrial
amd construction work. They will
be located in one of the South
eastern states and will travel up to
50 per cent of the time. There is a
six month training period before
assignment to a permanent posi
tion,
® There are several vacancies in
the engineering division of the Mis
souri Pacific lines in St. Louis for
young' civil engineering graduates
who desire to follow a railroad
career.
© The Cedar Bayou High school
JNew School
(Continued from Page 1)
for teaching aids.
factory - m a d e aluminum-glass
and cement asbestos wall panels
will be used for the exterior of the
building. These panels can be erect
ed in minimum time, resulting in
less field labor cost, Caudill said.
“Classroom comfort is the key
note of design, and all teaching
spaces have tross-ventilation and
high level natural illumination.
This involves a system of tri-lateral
lighting using plastic skylights,”
he said.
will have an opening as of Jan. 1,
for a mathematics teacher. They
prefer to have someone who could
also teach some physics and chemi
stry.
• Scholarships are available for
study leading to the Ph D Degree
at the Institute of Paper chemistry
in Appleton, Wis. The pulp and
paper industry needs men trained
at the graduate level for research,
technical and administrative posi
tions; therefore, the institute, sup-
parted by companies that produce
the major portion of tire pulp,
paper and paperboard in the
county, offers an integrated pro
gram in the sciences apd tech
nology basic to the industry. Appli
cants must hold a bachelor’s degree
in chemistry or chemical engineer
ing.
@ Jan. 6 — Liberty Mutual In
surance company will interview in
dustrial education and industrial
engineering majors at all degree
levels. This company is interested
in men who wish to make a career
in safety engineering to fill exist
ing vacancies in the loss prevention
department or their company.
There is a four month training
period.
The injuction to avoid putting
new wine in old bottles results
from the fact that the ancient skin
bottles might be so weakened by
use that gas from the new wine
would burst them.
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
“Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman”
The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechan
ical Colleg'e 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.
Sntergd. as second-class
J matter at Post Office at
College Station, Texas
under tiie Act of Con
gress of Maxell 3, 1S70.
Member of
The Associated Press
Represented nationally by
National Advertising
Services, Inc., at New
Vorit City, Chicago, L,oa
Angeles, and Sas Fran
cisco.
White has maintained The Battal
ion should be responsible to some
one.
Already States
The constitution of the Student
Life committee already states it
shall:
“Exercise general supervisory
control over all student publica
tions.”
“Supervise the activities of Stu
dent Entertainment Manager, the
yell leaders, and the editors-in-chief
of all student publications. The
committee shall have power to re
strict or remove these officers for
improper conduct or incompetence.
In the case of the editors-in-chief
the. publication of obscene or li
belous material shall be deemed
improper conduct. The same rules
of personal conduct which apply to
other students shall apply to the
officers named in this section.”
, Yell Leaders
Special committees for student
publications and yell leaders are
not mentioned in the constitution.
White has also maintained that
the John Clark incident has no til
ing to do with the attempt to set
up a publications! committee. He
said that complaints against The
Battalion also had been received
during past years.
The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republi
nation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in
the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights
>f 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
Harri Baker Campus Editor
Bob Boriskie Sports Editor
Jon Kinslow City Editor
Jerry Estes Basic Division Editor
Bob Hendry Feature Editor
Barbara Rubin Society Editor
Jerry Wizig. Associate Snorts Editor
^ * a3t Afr Eiser.bergj Arnold ’ GoldsttinT"Bill' Pa.rsoni.'Yiu 'l.VaSlnl
Jack Farley, John Linton. King McGowan, Jay Ireland,
Charles Kingsbury, George Manltzas, E. B. McGowan . . . Staff Writers
Gardner Collins. Exchange Editor
Bob Palmer, Tom Skrabaaek Advertising Staff
James Earle. ... . . . v . .. — sti afJ Cartoonist
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Kiwanians Set
Objectives.
For New Year
Objectives of the College Station
Kiwanis club for 1954 were out
lined yesterday at the club’s first
meeting of the year.
J. B. (Dick) Hervey, newly in
augurated president, discussed the
projects the club will undertake
this year.
Among these projects is the
formation of a Circle K club for
the college students and a Key
dub for boys at A&M Consolidated
high school. These clubs are service
clubs with functions similar to the
Kiwanis club.
“The Kiwanis club is a service
club and not a. luncheon club,”
Hervey said. “Every man should be
a worker.”
He also expressed hope that Ki-
wanis park would be developed this
year.
Committee chairmen have been
named and separate committee
meetings were held after the meet
ing. Committees and their chair
men are boys and girls, D. M.
Vestal Jr.; underprivileged chil
drens, W. T. Riedel; vocational
guidance, Aden C. Magee; Circle K
and Key club, John B. Longley;
public service and business affairs,
Gibb Gilchrist.
Agriculture and conservation, J.
Rex Johnston; church support,
Otis Miller; attendance and mem
bership, Howard L. Gravett;
finance, W. E. Briles; interclub, K.
A. Manning; Kiwanis education
and fellowship, Charles LaMotte;
Program and music, R. G. Cherry.
Letters to the Editors
Editors o*f the Battalion:
This is in direct reply to the
editorial in Tuesday’s edition of
the Battalion. In my opinion, this
editorial is a perfect example of
the reason that there has been
dissatisfaction with the Battalion
this year.
You received the right to print
your opinions on the editorial ppge
when the student body elected you
as editors last Spring. This sen
tence was a part of Tuesday’s edi
torial: “This paper is free from
those influences which would have
us write our editorials for selfish
Medial Series
Pi "csent Frio
Tonight in MSC
The second program of the Me
morial Student Center recital series
will be given in the MSC Ballroom
at 8 o’clock tonight.
It will be free and is open to the
public.
Artists will be Laila Storch, Max
Winder and Albert Hirsh.
The program will include a trio
for violin, oboe and piano by Tele
man, a group of numbers by Bach
and Saint Saens for oboe and piano
and a group by Beethoven and
Faure for violin and piano.
“This series is intended to give
students an opportunity to hear
music of the highest quality,” said
Boh King, chairman of the MSC
music committee. The scries is pro
vided by the MSC and is furthered
by funds donated by local sponsors.
Miss Storch is the first oboe in
the Houston Symphony Orchestra.
She has been a member of the sym
phony for the last six years. Win
der is the head of the second violin
section of the Houston Symphony
and Hirsh is the head of the piano
department at the University of
Houston.
The next recital will be staged
by the string quartet of the Uni
versity of Texas. A woodwind
group from TCU also may be on
the program.
New Vet Hospital
Will Be Dedicated
A&M’s new Veterinary hospital
will be dedicated Jan. 24, according
to Dr. W- W. Armistead, dean of
the School of Veterinary Medicine.
Dedication ceremonies, which are
expected to attract 1.000 visitors,
will be in Guion hall at 1:30 p, m.
After the ceremonies there will be
an open house in the new hospital
building.
Speakers include Dr, A. H, Quinn
of Kansas City, president-elect of
the American Veterinary Medical
assn.; Dr. J. D. Williams of Colo
rado City, president of the Texas
Veterinary Medical Assn.; and Dr.
D. H. Morgan, president of the
college.
Ag Teachers Meet
Set Here Jan* 8, 9
An Area III vocational agricul
ture teachers conference will be
held in the Memorial Student Cen
ter Jan. 8 and 9, according' to Roy
Dugger, agricultural education in
structor.
About 90 teachers are expected
to attend,
A banquet will be held in the
MSC ballroom Friday, with E. V-
Walton, head of the agricultural
education department as master of
ceremonies.
Saturday morning, the teachers
will be taken on a tour of the
poultry, beef and dairy farms and
the meats laboratory. Staff mem
bers of these departments will con
duct the tours.
purposes.” In my estimation, the
editorial in question was very de
finitely used for a selfish purpose.
It was used as an instrument by
the Battalion to fight any supervi
sory power which the Student Life
Committee might exercise over the
Battalion. There are always two
sides to every story. May I ask
why the other side was not printed
and an objective editorial made
out of the controversy at hand ?
You undoubtedly write the editori
als to be read. You must also ex
pect these editorials to cause some
comment. The editors of any paper
would be greatly disappointed if
their editorials did not arouse some
interest. There is one thing you
cannot control— and I might add
that 1 don’t think that you will
ever be able to—the reactions of
your readers.
I cannot see your reason for at
tacking Spike White. He is secre
tary of the Student Life Committee
and it is his job to place items on
the agenda.
You say we hide in innocence and
work for censorship. There is a di
rect implication that I am guilty
of something. This is not true and
if you feel that I am a member of
any special group I would like to
know which special group that it
is. If you will tell me what I am
guilty of, I will gladly release it
for you to print for your readers. I
certainly do not consider the Stu
dent Life Committee a special
group. If it is, you are members of
this special group. The Student
Life Committee Constitution says
that the Student Life Committee
shall perform the duty of supervis
ing the activities of the editors-in-
chief of all student publications. It
also says that the committee shall
have power to restrict or remove
these officers for improper conduct
or incompetence. As you can plain
ly see, the power already exists.
Perhaps an editorial on the Student
Life Committee Constitution would
have been the right place to start.
I also have nothing to hide and
I don’t consider myself a person
with absorbing tentacles that
would suck the life-blood out of
the Battalion for my own selfish
interests. 1 have no selfish interests
and if I did I would not be able to
accomplish a great deal through
control of the Battalion in the re
maining five months that 1 will
be in school.
You have left out one very im
portant point in your whole line
of reasoning. You were elected by
the students of Texas A&M. Col
lege. It is not common practice for
the residents of each large city to
hold an annual election to elect
their editors for the ensuing year.
You mention the thousands of
our countrymen who died in pur
suit of a free press in war after
war. Perhaps that you might also
consider the fact that they died for
the right of Americans to remove
people from office whom they had
elected themselves if they saw fit.
It has never hurt me to have
someone ill a supervisory position
over me as long as I was doing
right. Evidently our present editors
could stand a little supervisory
power to help them along in their
infantile exaggerations and stretch
ing of the truth while they are
tearing down A&M by their opera
tion of the Battalion. Constructive
criticism has never hurt anyone but
when criticism gets to the (joint
that it is destructive, something
should be done about it.
Just who are these people who
want to hide something and what
do they want to hide ?
This is my side of the story. As
far as I am concerned, the matter
is closed unless I can tell the Bat
talion editors what 1 am guilty of
or what special group they accuse
me of belonging to. Perhaps you
are right and I am wrong; perhaps
it is the other way around. It is
my feeling that the Student Life
Committee will take the action
deemed necessary without the help
of the Battalion editorial in ques
tion or my letter to the editors.
Carrol Phillips ’54
Center Needs Funds
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from the student activity fee.
But A&M’s new non-compulsory
blanket student activities fee does
not give any money to the MSC.
If the MSC kept operating as
usual, without these sources of
money, it would be broke by June
of each year.
The cuts are an effort to keep
the Center g'oing, even if it is nec
essary to give up some of the
factors that have earned the Center
the title of the “Living Room of
the A&M Campus” and “The Most
Beautiful Student Center in the
Southwest.”
Still Tight
“Even with these cuts, our budg
et will still be tight,” said J. Wayne
Stark, MSC director. “We can
probably niake our budget, but it
will mean loAvering our standards.”
These are some of the things the
cuts will mean:
The flower arrangements, which
caused much favorable comment by
visitors, will be discontinued. The
Center paid the floriculture and
landscape architecture department
to supply and care for the flowers.
The floriculture department did
not make a profit on the money re
ceived for the flowers. It was
barely enough to pay expenses, ac
cording to Stark.
Loses ‘Class’
No tablecloths in the dining room
will save on both laundry and lin
ens, but it will remove the “class”
atmosphere.
With no cigarettes and candy for
sale in the fountain room, users of
the Center Avill haA^e to go to the
boAvling alley, gift shop or main
desk.
No lunches in the coffee shop
Avill eliminate the middle-price
lunch, but Stark hopes the new
cafeteria counter Avill allow the
MSC to offer middle-priced, bal
anced meals there.
If the furniture is not kept in a
state of constant repair, it will soon
deteriorate. Expensive furniture,
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such as the tables and chairs in
the lounges, gets old quickly.
The effect of no air conditioning
in the meeting rooms, both for col
lege meetings and short courses, is
obvious.
If floors are not cleaned after
night meetings, people using the
rooms the following morning will
have to face the litter of the night
before. Also, the cleaning and
polishing of other areas will have
to be: reduced.
Need Student Fee
“A student fe6 is the only thing
that will allow the MSC to continue
operating as it has,” Stark said.
“Wo need money both for operat
ing expenses and to pay for our
depreciation.”
Stark said the Center needs a
fee of from three to five dollars a
semester per student. The average
student union fee in the United
States is $7.50. The MSC can run
on less because its building is al
ready paid for.
There are two ways to obtain the
fee. The first way, favored by
Stark, is for the state legislature
to legalize a compulsory student
activity fee, including a specific
student union fee.
The other way would be for A&M
to include a provision for the MSC
fee in its student activity fee.
“But this would not work unless
A&M’s fee were compulsory,”
Stark said. “We would have no
way of keeping students who did
not pay their fee out of the Center,
and to let them in wouldn’t be fair
to the ones who paid.”
“Besides,” he said, “the Center
belongs to everyone.”
In cither case, it will take an
act of the legislature to provide
money for the MSC, since it is
now illegal in Texas to make ac
tivity fees compulsory.
Stark hopes the legislature will
act cn such a law when it meets
again in the spring of 1955. If it
doesn’t, he is afraid the MSC will
have to continue to lower its stan
dards.