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T Battalion Editorials Page 2 TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1054 Voice* Proposed For Non-Regs Today’s election of class officers promises to result in one of the largest votes recorded here in a long time. The presentation of a non-corps “slate” of officers has precipita ted more interest than usual in the election, and has also led to the start of active friction between the corps and the non- regs. The corps has the idea that the non-regs are trying to railroad through a full slate of officers, in an attempt to control student affairs. The non-regs say that they are only trying to obtain a proportionate representation in student life. Both sides are the victims of misunderstanding. Because of the wall that is built up between the corps and the non- regs, neither knows much about the other. Regardless of the outcome of today’s election, something has to be done about this, before there is a gap so wide it cannot be bridged. Although both sides have to clean their own house, the first thing to be done is to provide the non-regs with a voice backed by authority and a method of organization. The Battalion is proposing the formation of a Non-Mili tary Student Council. In rough outline form, the proposal has been presented to David H. Morgan, president of the college; Bennie A. Zinn, assistant dean of men; and Bob Murray, non-reg dormitory counselor. At a meeting last night, the plan was presented to a group of interested non-military students, who can be con sidered the leaders of the non-regs. The proposal was met with favor by all parties. Morgan said he liked the idea, because he believed it would help the non-regs and make his job easier. Zinn and Murray, who have worked with non-regs for years, said the plan would solve many problems arising in their office and in student life. And most important, the non-regs liked the idea. They said it would help them, and help them to help the school. Here’s the rough outline of the plan, subject to change: Each non-reg dormitory would elect representatives, possibly one to a floor. These representatives would form the Non-Military Council. This council would elect a pres ident, and such other officers as it felt necessary. Here you have a spokesman, the president. Through the elected representatives, you would have a means of both spreading information and determining opinion. This group would be only advisory in capacity. It could make recommendations concerning campus life or problems peculiar to the non-regs. It would not replace the student senate. The student senate handles matters pertaining to the entire student body. The council would handle matters pertaining only to non-regs, just as the corps staff handles matters pertaining only to the corps. The formation of this group would give the non-regs a feeling of belonging. It would make everybody realize that the non-regs are one third of A&M’s student body, and as such are an important part of student life here. WLJv u ■H ■ . m mi m WhaVs Cooking 5:30 p. m.—Institute of Aero nautical Sciences meeting, steps of the MSC. Picture to be made. 7 p. m. — Accounting society meeting, floor of the B. A. build ing. A business meeting will be held in order to appoint committees for the accounting conference. This meeting will not last over 30 min utes. 7:15 p. m.—Agronomy society meeting, room 107, Agronomy building. Final plans for Spring field trip to be discussed. All mem bers should be present. Agricultural Economics club mceeting, room 412, Agricultural building. Pre-law society meeting, YMCA. Business meeting, field trip to Austin will be discussed. Kream and Kow Klub meeting, social room, MSC. Movie. 7:30 p. m. — Journalism club meeting, social room, MSC. Mil lard Cope, editor of Marshall News-Messenger will speak. SOME PARTY!—Herb Cabla, junior veterinary medicine major, dances with his date, Miss Carol Crow from TSCW, on a table at the annual AVMA banquet and ball Saturday. Both students and professors took their turn at dancing pn the tables. Some Aggies Becoming Ministers After Graduation By BILL FULLERTON Battalion Staff Writer Student interest in becoming ministers is a little known side of life at A&M. Some Aggies decide on the mini stry before coming to A&M, but LETTERS Dear Battalion Editors: But the Non-Military Council needs one important thing before it can hope to succeed—the support of every student on the campus, particularly the non-regs. This group would belong to the non-regs; it would be their voice. But it must be supportd by them. Without active support, it would be a waste of time. Any students, non-reg or military, interested in this plan are invited to contact The Battalion, giving their ideas on the subject. For the proposal must have student support from the beginning. Eisenhower (Continued from Page 1) strength being not only economic and military, but spiritual. The President spoke while sit ting on the edge of his desk, with arms folded, over and again em phasizing a point with a pointed finger. The nation sees threats “from all angles, internal and external,” he said. He recalled his early days in the Army, when his regiment in World War I was armed and equipped with the same material as in the Spanish-American Wax'. Now hydrogen bombs have been exploded, he said, and this swift development in a single lifetime illustrates how our scientific ad vances have outrun our social con sciousness. 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, dui'ing 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 Thui’sday during exafnination and vacation periods and the summer terms. Subscription rates $9.00 per year or $ .76 per Inonth. Advertising rates furnished on request. Hntered aa 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, L,o» Angeles, and San Fran cisco. The Associated Pi’ess is entitled exclusively to the use for republi cation of all news dispatches ci'edited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous oi’igin 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. BOB BORISKIE, HARRI BAKER Co-Editors Jon Kinslow ..Managing Editor Chuck Neighbors Sports Editor Geox'ge Manitzas ....City Editor Bai-bai’a Rubin. Womans Editor James Earle '. .....Cartoonist Larry Lightfoot. Circulation Manager Enclosed is an article appearing in your April 1 edition. (Editors’ note: the article is a Battalion editorial headed “UT Students De feat Purpos® by Rash Action.”) I think you are correct in quot ing Voltaii'e and saying “I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” I would like to ask you editors why you pounce on the University of Texas students for their actions, which have done no harm yet, against Sen. McCarthy—-when if you would substitute John Clark’s name and A&M seniors instead of McCarthy and T. U. students you woxxld be tackling a more serious problem and one here at home in which you might have some in fluence in sti'aightening out?? You in your article took the same attitude about T. U. that many editors of leading papers in the state took about A&M. Could it be you did not see the similarity or do you value your newspaper posi tions more than an unbiased opin ion of your own school’s students ? At least the University of Texas students have not harmed Mc Carthy, and I doubt if he is even concerned with their movement. Why should seniox-s at A&M get so upset over a letter to a news paper. Possibly no one would have noticed the article of John Clark if they had said nothing. As it was even Time magazine carried a.story of the happening. Perhaps people only giving his letter enough attention to note that he did not like A&M will wonder if maybe there isn’t something back of his story since it caused such an uproar. Again why don’t you fight your battles at home ? ? James Godfrey 456 Save Your Money! Save Your Clothes! CAMPUS CLEANERS many enter the field after joining a church hei'e. There is no complete record of the number who become ministers because many of them made their decision after leaving school. The College Station Baptist church has a record of 16 former students who have entered the ministry in the last five years, said Cliff Harris, Baptist student union director. Ther ( e are three students now in school who plan to become mini sters, he added. The A&M Presbyterian church has had four Aggies become ministers in the past five years and has 14 students now preparing for full time church vocations, Rev. Norman Andei'spn said, Five or six students interested in the rural ministry have talked to Dr. Dan Russell, head of the rural sociology department. Wyss Addresses Science Meet Dr. Oville Wyss, bacteriolo gist of the University of Tex as, addressed a joint meeting here Friday night of the high school, collegiate and senior divisions of the Texas Academy of Science. His appeal for “the integration of young scientists into the Texas science team” was a highlight of the two-day spring assembly of the Academy which ended Saturday afternoon. Wyss’ topic was the theme adopted for all sessions of the meeting which attracted more than 400 high school and college students, teachers and scientists. About 30 college students and 30 high school students pi’esented ire- search papers during their sepax-ate sessions of the assembly. Institute of Aeronautical Sciences meeting, new Engineering build ing. 8 p. m.—Business Administration wives organizational meeting, south solarium, YMCA. 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