Battalion Editorials
Page 2
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1954
Student Factions
Need Perspective
The non-regs are organizing politically to try to get
more voice in A&M’s student government, dhey say that
non-regs have not had proportionate representation in stu
dent life here.
This could be a good thing, in that it will probably get
more voters to the polls and may get the non-regs deserved
positions in student life.
But it could be a bad thing, if the non-regs become so
highly organized that they, as a minority, control student
elections.
Let’s look at the situation:
On the student senate, non-regs have representation in
proportion to their number, just as the states are represented
in the House of Representatives. Non-regs have nothing to
gain here.
The organized non-reg group is obviously pointing to
ward the class elections, coming up next Tuesday. Since
most non-regs are either juniors or seniors, they will want
more voice in these two classes. This is just. They should
have a voice in the activities of these classes. Non-iegs say
that in the past, corps students at these meetings have at
tempted to railroad through things which would be detiimen-
tal to the non-regs.
But, in the meetings this year of the senior and junior
classes, only a handful of non-regs have attended. If they
are interested in their rights, why don’t they defend them
at these meetings ? The class meetings are open to non-regs.
It is good that the non-regs are going to try to get more
of a say-so in student government, but they should also take
advantage of the facilities for expression they already have.
To be a leader in government, a man must be active in
all phases of government. Government begins with the voice
from the floor.
On the part of the corps students there is an attitude
among many cadets that the non-regs are a “necessary evil”
they have to be here because this is a state school, but
they aren’t really a part of A&M life.
Many non-regs have accepted this attitude. I hey have
lapsed into oblivion, not taking part in any student life func
tions.
Both groups seem to have forgotten the basic concept:
all A&M students are Aggies, together.
Nark, Palmer
Will Compete
In IAS Contest
Ted C. Nark, from Corpus
Christi and G. Dan Palmer,
from Amarillo will compete in
the student technical paper
competition sponsored by the
Southwestern section of the In
stitute of Aeronautical Sciences.
They will compete in Dallas with
students from colleges throughout
the Southwest April 21 — 24.
Palmer will enter the graduate
competition with a technical paper
on “Nuclear Shielding of Aircraft.”
Nark will compete in the under
graduate division with his tech-
nical paper on “Survey of Metallic
Creep.”
The winning presentation in each
division will receive $300. Second
and third places will get $200 and
$100.
Palmer’s and Nark’s papers were
selected to represent A&M from
competition held by the aeronauti
cal engineering department.
Last year John Firebaugh won
third place for A&M in the under
graduate division of the IAS meet.
It is almost impossible to swim
in the Dead Sea because arms and
legs protrude from the thick, oily
water.
Dabney Wins First
In Design Contest
Robert L. Dabney, junior arci-
tecture major from Dallas, won
first place in a design contest held
here recently.
The problem was to design a
house for Mr. and Mrs. Keith
Langford of Houston.
Langford is the son of Ernest
Langford, head of the architecture
department.
Second place winner was William
H. Anderson of Houston, and third
place went to Gary G. Bourgeois
of College Station. Receiving
honorable mention were: Joe Bob
Walker, and Walter F. Bell.
The awards were $25 for first
place, $15 for second place, and $10
for third place.
The contest was judged by staff
members of the architecture de
partment.
INEXPENSIVE FIRE
WORCESTER, Mass. <A>> — Al
though firefighters poured on
water for five hours to control a
recent blaze, it was one of the
least expensive in recent history.
The smouldering flames were in a
freight carload of sawdust at a
siding.
The loss—a scorched interior of
a boxcar and some well dampened
sawdust.
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Driver Didn ~l Get Ticket,
Instead He Got A Wife!
NASHVILLE, Tenm, March 31—
(/P)—Sgt. Leonard Schmidt’s auto
mobile overturned near here on the
morning of March 18. And he
might have bled to death from
severe lacerations except for Mrs.
Donna Davis.
The 28-year-old widow, on her
way to work in the Federal Build
ing was the first person to reach
the scene. She applied first aid to
stop the flow of blood and accom
panied the 33-year-old Air Force
sergeant to the hospital.
After he was transferred to the
nearby Sewart base hospital, Mrs.
Davis visited him and brought
flowers. She told him she had taken
Rodeo To Have
20 Colleges
Represented
Twenty Colleges and uni
versities will be represented
here in the fifth annual in
tercollegiate Rodeo Thursday,
Friday and Saturday sponsor
ed by the Rodeo club.
A cutting horse contest, approved
by the National Cutting Horse
association, will be held this year
for the first time. Other events
are bareback and saddle bronc rid
ing, Brahma bull riding, bull-
dogging, and ribbon and tie down
roping. Girl’s events are barrel
racing and goat tying.
Rodeo stock producer will be
Duke Gibbs of the Triangle Bell
ranch at Belton. Judges for the
cutting horse contest will be Leon
Locke of Hungerford and Floy
Saxon of College Station. All other
events will be judged by Johnny
Bowen and Johnny Mellon, both of
Belton. Rodeo announcer will be
Blake McCreless, radio farm di
rector for station KONO in San
Antonio.
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Vet Fraternity Sets
Initiation April 1
The Eta chapter of Phi Zeta,
scholarship and research fraternity
for the veterinary profession, will
hold its annual initiation and ban
quet at 6:45 p.m. Thursday at
Maggie Parker’s dining room in
Bryan.
The speaker will be Dr. W. W.
Armistead, dean of veterinary med
icine. The invocation will be given
by the Rev. Orin G. Helvey, pastor
of St. Andrews Episcopal church.
New members to be initiated are
William Henry Smith and Lloyd
Melvin Reedy from the veterinary
class of 1954, and Tommy Foy Ab
bott, Edward Leland Tieken, Rich
ard Wayne Moore, Billy Ray West
brook, Jerry James Hosek and
Ralph Weir George from the vet
erinary class of 1955.
Chapter officers are Dr. John H.
Milliff, president; Everett D.
Besch, vice president; and, E. W.
Brucks Jr., secretary-treasurer.
Other members of the Eta chap
ter are Dr. I. B. Boughton, Dr. P.
W. Burns, Dr. J. P. Delaplane, Dr.
R. C. Dunn, Dr. L. W. Gibbs, Dr.
F. P. Jaggie Jr., Dr. A. A. Lenert,
Dr. R. J- Beamer.
Dr. A. A. Price, Dr. Hubert
Schmidt, Dr. H. A. Smith, Dr. R. D.
Turk, Dr. F. K. Wills and N. P.
Clarke, J. G. Fish and L. N. Sprin
ger from the veterinary class of
1954. _ . •
her first aid test the night before
the accident, and had passed with
a perfect score.
“It was love at the beginning
for me,” Sgt. Schmidt said today.
“I knew I was in love,” the comply
brunette smiled.
They’ll be married Friday night.
WhaVs Cooking
WEDNESDAY
5:30 p. m.—Pre-Med, Pre-Den
club meeting, in front of the main
door, MSC. Club picture will be
taken, all members be there.
THURSDAY
5 p. m.—Pre-Med, Pre-Den so
ciety meeting, room 107, Biologi
cal Science building. Call meeting
concerning lecture of Dr. Alex
ander, of St. Louis University of
Medicine.
7 p. m.—Kawfman county club
meeting, reading room, YMCA.
Runnels county hometown club
meeting, room 206, Academic build
ing.
7:15 p. m.—Houston A&M club
meeting, room 301, Goodwin hall.
Discussion of Easter dance.
East Texas A&M club meeting,
room 227, Academic building. East
er party plans.
IE Seniors Set
In spec! ion Trip
Industrial engineering seniors
will have their annual inspection
trip to plants and industries in the
Dallas—Grand Prairie—Ft. Worth
area April 12, 13 and 14.
A. R. Burgess, head of the in
dustrial engineering department,
will accompany the seniors on the
trip.
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