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Battalion Editorials
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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.
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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
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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”
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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
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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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