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Battalion Editorials Page 2 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1954 More Streamlining Another proposed step in the over-all or ganizational streamlining of the college was announced last night—the elimination of the board over the Memorial Student Center. This change, like most of the others pro posed in the last few months, is sound, and will make for more efficiency. As an example of the comparative use lessness of the MSC board, few people have ever heard of.it; it’s functions seemed main ly to be just a link between the MSC council and the Academic council. If the Executive committee’s recommen dation is approved by the Academic council, the MSC council will handle all the business and operational functions of the Center. The MSC council, by its more represen tative student and faculty composition, is much better qualified to run the Center than the board, with its five appointed faculty or staff members. And so another organizational change is proposed. The conservative would say that the college is going too fast—all these chan ges, some of them big and radical, should be spaced apart, to allow people to get used to them. But A&M was behind in changes; there were many things wrong with its organiza tion, and it had to run to catch up. So far it hasn't stumbled, and we don’t think it will. The people concerned with the changes, whether students, faculty, or staff, have tak en them well, and followed along with the trend. So let’s keep going—not change for the sake of change, but change to make a better A&M. May the powers that be keep casting around for more things that need improving, and act directly on them. Sauter-Finegan Town Halt Has Surprise No telling what’s going to hap pen when the Sauter-Finegan or chestra comes to Town Hall next Monday. The fun-loving rovers of music believe that the sound’s the thing in a song, and they’ll play anything to get the effect they want. Their 25-member band includes five saxophonists who dduble on such unlikely band instruments as the flute, piccolo, oboe, English horn, and recorder, and ancient woodwind instrument mentioned in Shakespeare’s plays. And that’s not all—they have a special percussion section, to “add color and broaden the musical spec- trum” of their arrangements. Included in this section are a xylophone, marimba, chimes, tri angle, glockenspiel, tambourines, kettle drums, thunder drum, street drum and toy snare drums. Ed Sauter and Bill Finegan started as arrangers for Benny What’s Cooking TUESDAY 7:30—The Petroleum Engineer ing club meets in room 140 of the Petroleum Engineering building. The secretary and treasurer will be elected. The Building Products Market ing club meets in room 2-B of the MSC. The Journalism club will hold a very important meeting, especially for freshman, in building J. The Agricultural Economics club will have a “get acquainted night” in room 208 of the Agricultural building. Refreshments! The Austin Hometown club will meet to discuss and oi’ganize the club for the coming year in the lobby of the YMCA. The AIEE—IRE will meet in the Electrical Engineering building. THURSDAY 7:30—The Red River Valley Hometown club will meet in room 2-D of the MSC. The El Paso A&M club will elect officers in the Academic building. Goodman, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Woody Her man, Ray McKinley and other bands, during what was called the “golden age of jazz.” Now they’re on their own, using their own original ideas to create a “mood” for their music. “The music of our new band can be summed up in two words—color and mood,” they said. “Every thing we write will attempt to create a certain mood that is con sistent with the composition and a certain color that blends in with the mood.” Some of their records so far are Doddietown Fifers, Azuire - Te, Rain, Moonlight on the Ganges, April in Paris, Love Is A Simple Thing, and Midnight Serenade. Born in Brooklyn, Ed Sauter at tended Nyack high and Columbia university. While still in high school he played trumpet and drums in Teachers College sym phony. His first professional job was at 17 with Archie Bleyer, and later he played trumpet with Charlie Barnet and Red Norvo. When he was 23, he gave up the trumpet to concentrate on arrang ing for Norvo and Mildred Bailey. With Benny Goodman from 1939 to 1944, he has also written for Clark Appointed Head of Economics Dr. Clark L. Allen, newly ap pointed head of the department of economics, James M. Buchanan and Marshall R. Colberg, two of his former colleagues at Florida State university, have collaborated to produce an entirely new text for elementary economic principles. The text, Prices, Income, and Public Policy, has been introduced into Economics 203-204. According to Dr. Allen the book is an attempt to reduce the number of objectives and the content of the elementary course. The new text will also give students more training in the use of analytical tools. Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Woody Herman and Ray McKinley. Sauter studied theory at Julliard in 1935, with Louis Gruenberg in 1936, and under Bernard Wagenaar and Stefan Wolpe from 1945 to 1950. Bill Finegan was born in New ark, N. J. and raised in Ruipson, N. J., and studied music at Rumson High. He played in the school band and also had his own 9-piece group. His first professional job was at 16, when he played piano with a trio in a restaurant. Turning to arranging shortly after leaving high school, Finegan joined Glenn Miller in 1938. He next joined Tommy Dorsey and was responsible for very many of the Dorsey arrangements be tween 1942 and 1952. Finegan became fast friends with Ed Sauter after they met at a Benny Good man opening in New York in 1939. He studied composition under Stefan Wolpe in 1947-48, and the ory and composition at the Paris Conservatory under Valerie Sou- dere in 1949-50. Council (Continued from Page 1) take the course at Consolidated and when completing it, be given a license. Another suggestion was to have the youngsters take a driv ers test, in cooperation with au thorities at CHS before they could get their license. An ordinance receiving portions of tracts 7 and 8 of Woodland es tates into the city limits was pass ed. A study of the traffic conditions at the intersection of Spence street and Sulphur Springs road was made by the council. It was de cided to ask college authorities to close Spence street from the park ing lot behind the Petroleum build ing to Sulphur Springs road im mediately. The council set their next meet ing for Oct. 18. A special meeting has been set for Monday night to discuss the proposed bond issue. Chairmen Named For Aggie Rodeo Committee chairmen for the Ag gie rodeo, sponsored by the Saddle and Sirloin club, have been named and plans are now under way, said Samuel D. McAnally, president. Lowie K. Rice was named chair man of the rodeo and George Vin cent, co-chairman. Other commit tees and their chairman are Bob Kemp, arena repair; Buddy Black, stock handling; Frank Parker, tick ets; Ed Harvill and Ken Killion, publicity; James Durham, prizes and Charles Cypert, concessions. The jcpdeo will be Oct. 29 and 30. Oct. 2 Is Drop Day The final day for dropping cour ses is Saturday, Oct. 2, said J. P. Abbott, dean of the college. Cour ses dropped after Oct. 2 normally carry a grade of “F” except in certain cases where a student is forced to drop out of school for special reasons he said. The stu dent will then receive a “no grade”. The Battalion The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represents the Views of the Student Editors The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Meehan leal College of Texas, is published by students four times a week, during the regular school year. 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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 Jerry Wizig Sports Editor Ralph Cole, Don Shepard News Editors Nora Burge ...Woman’s Editor Kerstin Ekfelt Assistant Woman’s Editor Betsy Burchard A&M Consolidated Correspondent Maurice Olian A&M Consolidated Sports Correspondent John Huber.. Advertising Manager Larry Lightfoot Circulation Manager Tom Syler, Russell Reed, Ken Livingston Circulation Staff Declares Doctor Batchelor SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 28—(A>)_ A Baltimore psychiatrist tpld an Army court-martial yesterday Cpl. Claude Batchelor was living in a “deluded world of his own” when he performed the actions for which he has been charged with aiding the enemy while in Korea. Dr. Leon Freedom testified in a deposition read in the courtroom the Kermit, Tex., soldier was a victim of “induced political psy chosis, and in the legal sense of Now We Can Keep The Ashtrays The wheels are now in pro gress to make smoking in the Memorial Student Center ball room legal, in case those of. you who have been doing it for years have been worried. A college regulation pro hibits smoking in “any public place used for large gather ings,” which would include the ballroom. The ballroom has had well- u s c d ashtrays convicniently placed in it since the Center opened. Now the Executive commit tee of the Academic council is recommending that the rule be changed to allow smoking in the MSC ballroom. Duped the word could not distinguish be tween right and wrong.” The Army countered with two psychiatrists who said Batchelor was free of mental defects both while in captivity and at the time of his return to U. S. forces. Freedom testified that a letter written to the Winkler County News in Kermit in which Batchelor accused the United States of parti cipation in germ warfare was a “product of illusional thinking.” “This lad was deluded into be lieving he was the political savior of humanity,” Freedom said. He said Batchelor’s first political edu cation was entirely Communist and that he came to believe that what he was doing was in the best in terests of his country and world peace. Blame for Batchelor’s psychosis was placed on brainwashing by the Communists, Freedom’s deposition said. He defined brainwashing as a planned concentration with the use of every known device from simple persuasion to clubbing, for the radical remaking of the human mind. He called it “perverted psy chiatry, used to unbalance normal minds.” Batchelor became “mentally ill” shortly after he became a prisoner of war and was still mentally ill when he returned to U.S. control, Freedom’s testimony said. He said a significant factor in Batchelor’s case was his lack of a sense of guilt. Cadet Slouch , . . /,y- James Earle WUEM TI4E ACC1ES WIN fis QMAE j i DOW'T REMEMBGe I WHO WE played,~ but we rweASuet WHEN. TUB ACC SEE LO&E A CAME +<8>tf WELL BEAT looe. PROBLEM, i'•EM MEXT YEAR/ j MOW Its \ -w 7 —— ^ DRowmac, ou® BORROWS/- THAT'S A LIE.7^ I'M A REAL OCTOPUS.'/'-I'M JUST A LITTLE. MORE. AFFECTIONATE THAN THE AVERAGE f.' 9 KEEPS HAIR COMBED FROM MORNING TILL WITHOUT GREASLNESS.^ LFIi ABNER By A1 Capp LI’L ABNER By A1 Capp ‘ P O By Walt Kelly