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
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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”.
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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
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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.
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