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Battalion Editorials
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1954
Penberthy Bends Rules
Into Badly Warped Justice
W. L. Penberthy, dean of men, has set
a precedent which not only can be but is
highly dangerous.
He suspended three students for confess
ed thefts amounting to about $2,500. The
Battalion learned that this was the punish
ment recommended by Col. Joe E. Davis,
commandant.
Davis too might be blamed for such ac
tion, but the burden of responsibility rests
on Penberthy’s shoulders.
The articles of the cadet corps, incorpora
ted in the college regulations, specifically
state, under article 44 of the Discipline code
on pages 16 and 19 of this year’s book, twen
ty-seventh edition:
“The following offenses are punishable
by dismissal unless strong mitigating cir
cumstances warrants a less severe penalty.
(Dismissal means permanent separation
from the College.)
“(a) Misbehavior punishable under the
State of Texas Criminal Code.”
Then again in item “f’’ under the same
general heading:
“(f) Theft or Forgery.”
We asked Penberthy what the “strong
mitigating circumstance’ was?
His only answer was that the students
said, “We think we got what was coming to
us.”
Is this a strong mitigating circumstance
when a man is caught with the stolen prop-
ery in his room, confesses to the crime, then
says he got what was coming to him when
he gets off so lightly?
To us, this merely is a go-ahead signal
to any student who wanted to take something
which he wants. This means throw away
the rules and regulations of the college, and
let Penberthy hand down the justice as he
sees fit.
Let’s face it. That’s exactly what he did
in this case.
Penberthy told The Battalion recently
that if he had only the first page (general
requirements) of the blue book to go by,
“My job would be a lot easier.”
No doubt his job would be easier.
But cover-all rules in the hands of some
men are bent and twisted until there finally
are no rules at all. This appears to us to be
exactly the system which exists today.
And why can it exist? Perhaps it is
because the student body and administration
just don’t care. It takes something shock
ing to awake some people. How much more
shocking can our system of justice be? •
One administrative official recently said
the college regulations are a “guide.”
What kind of guide is it, we are asking,
which will allow men who have stepped out
of bounds so far to get away with a crime
comparable on “the outside” to a felony—
grand larceny?
This is the kind of guide it is:
It is a guide which has been bent, twisted,
warped, tangled, loosely interpreted when de
sired, strictly interpreted when desired, until
it no longer is the rules and regulations, but
a 78 page booklet with a blue cover not worth
even the paper it is printed on.
* Job Interviews *
® Feb. 17—18—Goodyear Tire &
Rubber Company, Goqdyear Atomic
Corporation and ..Goodyear Air
craft Corporation - will intfervjj^K.
aeronautical, chemical, mechanical,
electi’ical, industrial and civil engi-
March 8 Is Deadline
For Test Applicants
Students who plan to take the
Selective Service qualification test
April 22 must apply befox-e March
8, Selective Seiwice national head-
quai'ters announced Monday.
neex’ing, chemistry and physics
majqi-s at all degi'ee levels. They
have openings in such fields as,
plant engineering, product develop
ment, machine design, research,
technical sales, stress and Weight
analysis, etc.
® Feb. 18—19—The Dow Chemical
Company will inteiwiew chemical,
mechanical, civil and electrical
engineers, chemists, physicists,
physical chemists and oceanogx-ap-
hex-s. They have opening ixx x’e-
seai-ch, ox-ganic and inorganic pro
duction, design, control, and in a
few of their staff gx-oups.
® Feb. 18—19—Boeing Ail-plane
Company will recruit graduating
students with bachelor’s degx-ees
or higher in aeronautical, electrical,
civil and mechanical engiiieering as
well as those with advanced' de-
gi-ees in mathematics and physics.
Jobs will be in design, x-esearch and
production.
® Feb. 18—The Intel-national Paper
Company will i-ecinxit mechanical,
chemical, electrical, civil and in-
dusti'ial engineers. Openings ax-e
in their mill opex-ating depart
ments, maintenance and design,
utilities opex-ation, pulp and paper
pi-oduction, quality and pi-ocess
control.
News Briefs
An application and a bulletin of
information can be obtained at any
local draft boai'd, the headquai'tei’S
said. Special envelopes ax-e px*ovid-
ed for mailing the applications.
Results of the test will be i’e-
ported to the student’s local boax-d
for use in considering his defex*-
ment as a student, the headquai’ters
said.
The tests are administered and
pi-epared by the Educational Test
ing service.
Although night ti'affic is less
than day ti’affic, thx-ee out of five
fatal accidents occur at night.
W. MARCUS WEATHERRED,
past grand master of the Gi'and
Masonic Lodge of Texas will be
the principal speaker for the
George Washington dinner to be
held at 7:30 p. m. Friday in Sbisa
dining hall for Masons only.
* * *
LT. COL. ANDREW CHEEK of
Bend has been assigned Armored
officer of the training section at
Thixd Anny headquarters, Ft. Mc-
Phei’son, Ga. Cheek, graduated
from A&M in 1938, is the son of
Mi', and Mi’s. J. D. Cheek of Bend.
* H*-
CAPT. EDWARD HALL, ’48, is
a pilot with a jet fighter bomber
squadron at Atsugi, Japan. Hall’s
parents live in Beaumont, and his
wife lives in Liberty.
■ * =i-. *
JUDGE MALLORY B. BLAIR of
Austin, former member of the state
court of appeals and of the Ger
man war crimes trails, was the
principal speaker during the Ir
rigation Service and Suppliers
short course held at A&M, Feb.
11 - 12.
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COMBAT BALL committee
chairmen will decide Tuesday if
non-combat seniors will be allowed
to attend the Combat ball March 5.
It was suggested previously that
only non-combat seniors contribut
ing to the dance fund be allowed to
attend.
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First RE Talk
Evans Says Man
MustHa ve Religion
“A man can be a man without
knowledge, but no man can be a
whole man and not know God” was
the main point emphasized by Dr.
Louis H. Evans yesterday in his
first Religious Emphasis week
message.
Speaking to an audience which
packed Guion hall, he said “I thank
God for scientific developments,
but we are doomed when those
developments are divorced from
God.”
Dr. Louis Evans, RE week
principal speaker, will talk on
“What Do You Mean —
Christian?” at 10 a. m.
Wednesday in Guion hall.
Classes will be excused at that
hour so all students can attend
the talk.
“Today we have a collegiate
mind in science, and a third grade
mind in religion. True education in
volves the development of all three
normal faculties of man—body,
mind and soul,” he went on.
Dr. Evans then pointed out that
many of the leading men in our
country are beginning to realize
that the soul needs to catch up with
the mind. “All areas of research
and vocation are turning to the
spiritual,” he said.
“Leaders in the field of medicine
now realize that the body and
soul are so close together that they
catch each other’s diseases. “In
£act”, he said “80 per cent of all
physical diseases have their origin
from matters other than physical
—worry, fear, or frustration.”
“Scientists believe that we can’t
afford to have strong mechines
without strong motivations to
guide those machines. Science with
out religion gives us a lot of smart
devils” he said.
“In the field of law, the con
sensus is that man must feel the
guilt more than the punishment be
fore our system of laws will be
come effective.” “Unless we do
this,” he said, “we shall be spend
ing another generation making
laws for old sinners to cheat by.”
It was in the home, that Dr.
Evans believed the whole man was
most needed. “Although in former
years a divorce was rare, it is, a
tragic fact of today that onb out of
every three marriages ends in
divorce,” he said.
“The home should be a triangle
with three equal sides—the hus
band, the wife, and God as the
base to hold it together.”
In conclusion Dr. Evans said “No
man is a whole man when he has
merely an AB degree—these are
but the first two letters of the
alphabet. Let him add to these the
C of Christ, D of duty, F of faith
and the G of God. The university of
today must educate men who will
add soul to science, spiritual in
tention to scientific invention, God
to gold, Christ to commerce, mercy
to might, pity to power, and love
to limbs of steel.”
After Rev. Everett Seale led the
song service Ide Trotter Jr., corps
chaplain, gave the prayer for the
morning. Roger Q. Landers, senior
range and forestry major from
Menard, presided during the ser-
What's Cooking
TUESDAY
7:15 p. in.—Student American
Chemical Society, Chemistry build
ing. Dr. Isbell will speak.
7:30 p. m.—Institute of Aero
nautical Sciences, room 208, Engi
neering building. Film to be shown.
Business Society meeting, room
2A and 2B, MSG. Program: Mr. C.
M. Reed, district manager, Houston
division, Continental Oil Corp., will
speak on “Marketing in the oil in
dustry”. Refreshments will b,«j
served.
A&M student chapter, American
Society of Heating and Ventilating
Engineers, room 203, Mechanical
Engineering building. Anyone in-J
tercstcd in becoming affiliated with
this group are requested to attend,
WEDNESDAY
6 p. m. — Old Squadron 7 (1950- :
51) meeting, main entrance, MSC,
To take picture.
New Library Room
Nears Completion
The new curriculum library,
housed in the required reading
room of the Cushing Memorial
Library, is almost completed, said
Robert A. Houzc, college librar
ian.
The library was started by Dr.
Grady P. Parker of the education
and psychology department in 1949.
The object of the library is to
acquire copies of all text books
used in public schools in Texas,
Houze said. The books will be
available to faculty members, stu
dents, and the surrounding school
areas.
Lowrey to Visit
Vocational Clubs
Mark Lowrey, teacher trainer
with the Engineering Extension
service, will help the Pasadena
Vocational Industrial club prepare
for the state meet in April at
Austin.
Lowrey will go to Pasadena Feb.
27 to judge contests in the use of
machine tools, auto mechanics,
electric and building trades and
technical information about indus
trial occupations.
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