Battalion Editorials
Page 2 THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1954
All That Can
The official announcement from the board
of directors on the proposal of consolidation
is that they “have received and will study” it.
And that’s about all anyone can expect.
For the men who have the responsibility
for the control and guidance of A&M and the
rest of the system, putting freshmen back in
outfits is a big step.
The board was the one who separated
the freshmen, in 1948. It took them a year
and a half to reach that decision. They had
to weigh all the advantages and disadvan
tages.
And that’s what they are doing now —
weighing. The proposal was presented to
them Friday night. Saturday morning was
too early to expect a decision. We’re not
suggesting that it take a year and a half,
again. The facts are readily available for
study, if the board will ask for them.
We believe they will decide at their July
meeting, and we hope they will decide for
consolidation.
The board could not have taken formal
and legal action on the proposal last week
end anyway. Because it was not presented
early enough to be placed on the agenda, all
they could have done was express an opinion.
Items have to be put on the agenda two
weeks before the meeting for legal action to
be taken.
So the board will think about it. In the
mean time, A&M should continue to carry on
its plans. The school doesn’t stop just be
cause one thing doesn’t come out the way it
was supposed to. The military department
and the cadet officers are going ahead with
their planning for next year.
If the board decides in favor of consoli-
Be Expected
dation at the July meeting, the plans can be
adopted to that. If not, we can try again the
next year.
If consolidation is worth having, it is
worth waiting for.
Are Politics Bad?
The college administration, faithfully car
rying out college and system regulations, has
kept the Young Democratic club from meet
ing on the campus.
We don’t question the legality of stopping
the meeting, planned for last Thursday. We
do question the advisability of the rule that
was being enforced.
Many years ago, a political group on this
campus actively backed a losing candidate for
governor of Texas. The winner got mad.
Shortly after, this regulation came into be-
ing. „ . .
Once again, we have the authorities
afraid that because a thing happened once,
it will happen again, without fail. This rul
ing prohibits the formation of simple discus
sion groups^ as well as the more active polit
ical groups.
We are not campaigning particularly for
the Young Democratic club. We are, how
ever in favor of any organization that stimu
lates thought among the present generation.
Other colleges in Texas, both state and
private, allow students to organize political
clubs. Why not A&M? Is the A&M system
trying to stifle controversial thought among
its students, or is the A&M system just
afraid of politics?
News Briefs
THREE STAFF MEMBERS of
the - agricultural education depart
ment will go to the Southern Re
gional Conference for vocational
agriculture in New Orleans May
2-6. Dr. E. V. Walton, head of the
department, Dr. M. N. Abrams and
R. N. Craig will attend.
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THE BEXAR COUNTY Veteri
nary Medical association has given
the School of Veterinary Medicine
A&M To Buy
$5,000 Bond
For Equipment
At the request of the mili
tary services, A&M will buy
a $5,000 surety bond for safe
keeping of military equip
ment here.
The A&M system board of di
rectors approved the bond Satur
day, but they requested that the
chancellor write a letter of pro
test to the services. They felt that
the services themselves, not the
college, should be responsible for
the equipment.
Previously, the state w r as respon
sible for the equipment. The bond
will relieve the state of responsi
bility, but it will make the college
responsible.
The board also recommended that
all unused military equipment here
be sent back to the services, to
lessen the amount of responsibility.
According the service letter re
questing the bond, A&M has
$1,123,181 .worth of military equip
ment. This figure does not include
uniforms and other expendable
items.
an electric dental instrument
valued at $100.
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HENRY ENGELBRECHT of the
horticulture department will go to
San Antonio this week to collect
tomato marketing data.
* * *
JAMES B. HETH, ’52, has
been awarded his wings at the
corpus christi naval air station.
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DR. I. I. PETERS of the dairy
husbandry department took his
dairy husbandry 324 class on a
field trip recently to south central
Texas. The class studied butter and
cheese plants in the area.
* * *
TWO TALKS by Dr. H. C.
Kernkamp on swine diseases will
highlight the Swine Growers’ pro
gram to be completed today. The
program began yesterday.
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R. E. LEIGHTON conducted his
dairy husbandry 418 class on a
tour of dairy farms in the Houston
area last week. The class studied
methods of milk production.
* * *
THE EDITOR of the Engineer
will be selected May 17 at a
special meeting of the Engineer
ing council in the home of H. W.
Barlow, dean of engineering.
* * *
COLLEGE STATION Lions club
members saw a movie on mental
health at their weekly meeting yes
terday in the Memorial Student
Center. L. S. Richardson, super
intendent of College Station
schools, made a brief talk on the
current drive for funds to aid men
tally ill persons.
Oct. 31 marked the end of the
year for the DrUids, ancient re
ligious order in Fratice, England
and Ireland.
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Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
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BOB BORISKIE, HARRI BAKER Co-Editors
Jon Kinslow Managing Editor
Chuck Neighbors Sports Editor
George Manitzas City Editor
Barbara Rubin - Womans Editor
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Board Okays
System Budget
The A&.M system board of
directors has approved a
$14,254,291.28 budget for
A&M for the fiscal year be
ginning Sept. 1, 1954.
This includes $5,081,179.97 for
educational and general use, and
$9,173,111.31 for all other purposes.
“Educational and general” in
cludes instructor salaries and all
other items pertaining directly to
academic work, “All other pur
poses” includes the facilities, such
as maintainence of the dormitories
and buildings, street repair, and
other items that are not directly
concerned with academic work.
A budget of $30,071,933.88 for
the system, including A&M,
Prairie View, Arlington, Tarleton
and the other branches of the sys
tem, was approved.
A&M’s summer school budget for
this summer will be $208,000. The
budget for the Junction annex this
summer will be $45,288. This does
not include instructor salaries,
which are in the overall burget.
A budget of $548,489.12 for the
athletic council next year was ap
proved. /
A&M’s half of the budget for the
Texas Petroleum Research council
will be $50,000. The University of
Texas, which operates part of the
council, will pay the other half.
WhaVs Cooking
7:15 p. m.—Kream and Kow
Klub meeting, room 211, Ag Build
ing. Election of officers.
P. E. club meeting, room 230,
New gymnasium. Election of of
ficers and planning for barbecue.
Student ACS meeting, Chemistry
building.
7:30 p. m.—Institute of Aero
nautical Sciences, New Engineering
building. Final spring function
plans — possibly a film will be
shown.
B. A. Wives meeting, assembly
room, YMCA. Picnic plans to be
discussed.
Save Your Money!
Save Your Clothes!
CAMPUS
CLEANERS
More Than 9,000 See
* We Are the Aggies' Film
By PAUL SAVAGE
Battalion Staff Writer
The Aggie’s own film, “We Are
the Aggies” is proving to be a big
hit.
The movie has been shown to
more than 9,000 people since its
premiere and is expected to be
shown to at least twice that num
ber of people before schools starts
in September.
One student, Buford Dobie, sen
ior from Cotulla, took a copy of
the film home during Easter and
showed it to 863 persons in 12
showings.
There are 26 prints of the filni in
circulation. The Office of Student
Activities has nine copies, the
athletic department has three and
the photography and visual aid de
partment one. The rest are scat
tered out in the different depart
ments of the college.
Former students clubs have
purchased eight copies of the film
and are helping the office of stu
dent activities in showing it.
Requests for the film have come
from all over the state, and from
as far away as Puerto Rico, where
the movie will be shown June 1
to a group of high school students.
The registar at Prairie View A&M
has asked for a copy of the film
to show the students there.
Many comments about the film
have been received. From Dainger-
field one person wi-ote, “The film
is in most cases a deciding factor
in helping a boy choose a school.”
Mrs. O. T. Jarvis of the Brown
County Mother’s club said, “A pic
ture that makes a fellow glad he’s
from A&M.” From McAllen came
this one, “Informative and inter
esting.”
Cudlipp To Speak
At Joint Banquet
A. E. Cudlipp of Lufkin will be
the speaker for the joint banquet
of the Business and Marketing so
ciety May 10 in the assembly room
of the Memorial Student Centei’.
Tickets are $1.50 and can be ob
tained from any officer of the
Business or Marketing society,
said Richard Harris, society re
porter.
Ail The Things Mother Likes Best...
FOR
MOTHER’S DAY - MAY 8
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• Miniatures
• Vases
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GIFT SHOP
Memorial Student Center
Creative Writing
Offered in Fall
English 325, creative writing,
will be offered next fall, said
Harry Kidd, instructor for the
course.
Students interested in short story
writing, novelets, novel writing,
and magazine feature article writ
ing and who- think they might be
interested in taking the course
should contact Kidd during May, he
■ said.
The course is approached from
the practical side with an eye for
publication, he said.
Finalists Speak *
On Mothers Day
Preliminaries for the Mothers
Day speech competition contest'
were held April 28, and six finalist'
were chosen to speak on the moth
ers Day program.
They were W. R. Hudson, M, D.
Woodruff, C. E. Walker, J. P.
Sutton, L. L. McCelvey, and R. E,
Lee.
Co-sponsored by the English de
partment and the Brazos Bar as
sociation, the final contest will be
held on May 8 at 2 p.m. in the
social room of the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
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