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! Battalion Editorials Page 2 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1954 Students Vs. Professors Let’s look at this Prof Hospitality night realistically—it’s a chance for students to bum some free food, or at the worst some coffee and cookies. No self-respecting Aggie will refuse that chance.' It’s all going to start next Sunday, and last for a whole week; any student who can’t parley that into a lot of free food deserves to have to eat in the mess hall. With a little careful wrangling, you could visit a different professor’s home each night, and get variety as well as charity. Of course, during the process' of this bumming, you’d get to know your professor like he was a people, instead of an animated text book, and you’d probably learn a lot of things you never knew existed, but that’s incidental. You’d also probably have a good time, even if there were no food—you pick up a lot in bull sessions, even if one of the partici pants is a professor. The professors would probably enjoy the week, after a little grumbling about having to take time from making out ambiguous true-false questions and thinking up odd times to give pop quizzes. They’d see that their students aren’t all playboys bent on trying to pick up a few fast grade points between weekends. The professors might even discover that some of the students are down here to learn something. But still, let’s face the real issues—the professor can invite a whole class of students over to his house, keep them there so they can’t possibly study, and then give them a pop quiz the next day. But the students will get that free coffee, so a good time will be had by all. At Other Schools Students Having Parking Worries With football season over, students at the other South west conference schools are turning from football to other outdoor sports, such as trying to find a place to park. Rice Institute Cadet Slouch by James Earle At Last Meeting Directors Accept Gifts Fellowships and scholarships totaling $34,830.10 were accepted for A&M by the board of directors Thursday. Grants-in-aid to the Agricultural Experiment station totaling $22,750 also were approv ed. The board accepted a gift of $944.57 from the senior class of 1954 to be invested by Former Stu dents association according to in structions from the class. Contributions of $1,830.35 to Texas Federation of A&M Moth ers’ Clubs were approved for pur chase of television antenna atop G. Rollie White Coliseum, and for installation of the TV system in Memorial Student Center. The Beaumont A&M College Mo thers’ club donated chafing dish valued at $288.17 to be used with the silver service in MSC. Bell County A&M Mothers’ club gave $5 to be used to purchase a Rely On Us for Superior Service When you put clothes in our hands, you know they’ll be returned clean, well pressed and in top form. Our reputation rests on your satisfaction. OVERS-FURSTORAGE HATTERS .XO.-QIir’jLCO-JTL gift for the browsing library in the MSC. Fellowships at A&M approved were M. T. Halbouty $1,500; Stan- olind Oil & Gas Company $1,027.50; Dow Corning Corporation $450; Humble Oil & Refining Company $5,700; Automotive Safety Founda tion $4,000. Scholarships accepted were East Texas chapter, American Petrole um Institute $400; M. E. Patter son $250; Ft. Worth Mothers’ club $600; Schlumberger Foundation $1,000; C. S. Gainer, Jr., $350; Ohio Oil Company $600; Deep East Texas A&M Club $1,000; Anderson, Clayton and Company $2,994.65; Dick Price $500; J. D. Kirven $1,180; El Cam- po A&M club $300; J. Harold Dunn $300; Baytown A&M club $250; C. H. C. Anderson, Jr., $150; Har ris County Agricultural Youth com mittee $2,700; Paul C. Teas $500; Engineering club of Dallas $125; C. S. Gainer, Jr., $350; Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Foley $500; H. B. Zachry $200; Galves ton A&M club $200; Vidor Ex- Students association $75; Houston Sales Executive club $250;- W. A. Green, Jr., $250; Smith- Douglass company $3,000; Hous ton A&M club $300; Lilly Ice Cream Company $400; Roswell, N. M. A&M club $225; Browning- Farris Machinery Company $1,200; B’Nai B’rith Hillel foundation $300; J. Rodney Tabor $200; Hayes County A&M club $250. Deep East Texas A&M Mothers’ club $100; California company $152.95; General Electric company $500. Gifts to Prairie View A. and M. College were a Lincoln Multiluber valued at $75 from Dick White of Fritz Keller Company, Ft. Worth; $400 from Progressive Farmer for regional training program for ex tension workers, and a Ford in- Entered as 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 dustrial engine valued at $700 from Frank Boudreaux of Ford Motor company in Houston. A grant of $3,210 to Prairie View for the support of Cedric T. Stubblefield’s project in oxidation was accepted from the Research Corporation of New York. Scholarships at Prairie View were accepted from Mr. and Mrs. Paul Korbach, Sheffield, Ala., $45 to development fund, and $10 from Idabel Cabaniss of Dallas for fund for students in commercial cook ing and baking. The Agricultural Experiment station received implements valued at $98.08 from the Empire Plow company, Cleveland, Ohio. Grants-in-aid included $1,000 from Merck and Company to sup port studies of ornithosis in tur keys; $1,200 from Spuria Iris so ciety of Houston for studies on the cytology of specimens of Spuria Iris; $2,000 from Central Power and Light company, Corpus Christi, for investigations on grasses and le gumes; $2,000 from Dr. Salsbury’s laboratories, Charles City, Iowa, for work in laying hen diets; $500 from Dr. Salsbury’s laboratories for poultry nutrition studies; $2,300 from Portland Cement as sociation to support studies on con struction techniques for farm build ings; $3,000 from. Southwestern Sugar and Molasses company, New York, for studies on mixed feeds; $2,000 from Corn Products Refin ing company, Argo, Ill., for work in turkey and chicken feed; $4,000 from Texas Poultry Improvement association, Stephenville, for poul try improvement work; $3,250 from Parke, Davis and Company, Detroit, to support stud ies on value of Chloromycetin my celial meal in nutrition of chicks and poults; $1,500 from B. F. Goodrich Chemical company, Cleve land, for studies on laying tur keys’ diet. The Battalion The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represents the Views of the Student Editors The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechan ical College of Texas, is published by students four times a week, during the regular school year. During the summer terms, and examination and vacation periods, The Battalion is published twice a week. Days oi publications are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, and Tuesday and Thursday during examination and vacation periods and the summer terms. Subscription rates $9.00 per year or $ .76 pel month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Fisher Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Fran cisco. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republi cation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin 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 Publication Office, Room 207 Goodwin Hall. BOB BORISKIE, HARRI BAKER Co-Editors Jon Kinslow Managing Editor Jerry Wizig .Sports Editor Don Shepard, Bill Fullerton ^ News Editors Ralph Cole City Editor Jim Neighbors, Welton Jones, Paul Savage Reporters Mrs. Jo Ann Cocanougher Women’s Editor Miss Betsy Burchard A&M Consolidated Correspondent Maurice Olian.. A&M Consolidated Sports Correspondent Larry Lightfoot Circulation Manager Tom Syler, Russell Reed, Ken Livingston, Gus Baker, A1 Eisenberg, Tony Goodwin ....Circulation Staff JOHN HUBER Advertising Manager Charles Ritchie, George Allen Advertising Salesmen The Rice Thresher, which once promised to run an editorial on the parking problem there every day until something was done (they got to number 76 before they gave up), has a new problem. Somebody put a chain across one of their campus streets, and in spite of the students’ protests, the chain is still there. The Thresher claims the chain doesn’t do any body any good, but they can’t seem to find out who put it there or why. The paper also had a long story in it about “the time the Aggies kidnapped ‘Sammy’, a stuffed owl mascot.” It was in 1917, and Rice got Sammy back after sending students up here dressed as ‘bulls’ to inspect cadet rooms. Southern Methodist University Parking and street conditions are worrying SMU stu dent’s too. Their Student Council denounced the bad street conditions, with one council member saying, “My ear is get ting pretty old and just won’t take much more of this bang ing around.” But there’s a happy note on the Hilltop: for parading during the half-time of the SMU-Baylor football game, the SMU ROTC unit got out of a scheduled drill period. University of Arkansas (meicupy f III /Td &PRRBC i ATTg IT ip "v'Ou'd 'vVArr por.1 &OOT|.4 Arkansas is one school that has n’t forgotten about football—for obvious reasons. As someone at the school said, “Arkansas spent 20 years learning how to lose and now they’re having a lot of fun learning how to win.” Planned for sometime in the fu ture is a “Bowden Wyatt Appro priation Day,” to honor the coach that led “the Cinderella team” through the Southwest conference rat-race. Football took a momentary back seat there, though, when the steel framework for a new field house fell, killing one workman and in juring four. For a brighter spot: during the halftime of the Arkansas-SMU game, while the band was lined up on the end of the field, waiting to move on, an unidentified girl in a green sweater rushed out onto the field and gave the drum major a big kiss. When asked later why he pushed the girl away so sud denly, the drum major said, “What would you do if you had a whistle in your mouth?” Texas Christian University TCU doesn’t have too many problems now—they got the clocks on their campus fixed. All the campus clocks had a different time, and the students couldn’t tell when to go to class. So they didn’t. The TCU board pf directors recently confirmed a policy of not allowing what they call “subversives” to work for the college. They define a subversive as anyone who advocates changing either the national government or the Texas gov ernment by illegal means. They said the resolution was passed to assure the community, the students, and the faculty that the university is “pure.” Yep, that’s the word they used—“pure.” Baylor University Somebody goofed at Baylor—four coeds were initiated into the local chapter of a national band fraternity for men. The chapter is now claiming it has four of the prettiest mem bers in the country. And another Baylor student was all upset because they wouldn’t let him and his buddies sing “That Good Old Baylor Line” in the dining hall. He said that he considered the song “sacred as a hymn.” University of Texas Job Calls • Dec. 3—-Pratt & Whitney Air craft will interview January and June graduates in aeronautical, me chanical, electrical, and chemical engineering and physics (engineer ing) for various openings as jun ior engineers. • Dec. 6—Shell Oil (production and refining) and Shell Chemical Corp. will interview accountants and business administration majors interested in finance. January graduates are preferred but June graduates will be accepted. ® Dec. 6 — Montgomery Ward will interview for nation-wide op portunities in retail management training, retail merchandising training and accounting. Majors calfed for are accounting, business administration, economics and ag economics. Cadets To Tour Fort Hood Soon Col. Harry L. Phillips of the military department will accom pany a group of 25 senior cadets from A&M Dec. 16 on a tour of post • transportation facilities at Fort Hood. The cadets will be ‘briefed on commercial traffic activities, rail yard and warehouse procedures, motor pool operations and the ar my aircraft field maintenance shop. Texas’ try at usurping an A&M tradition failed. The administra tion turned thumbs down on a stu dent petition asking for a holiday if Texas beat A&M in the Thanks giving game. The administration invoked the mighty name of Southern Associa tion of Secondary Schools, and said Texas’ accreditation might be en dangered if the holiday was grant ed. There were about 2,000 names on the petition. A poll taken on the Texas cam pus showed that 43.5 per cent of the students polled favored segre gation, 51.2 per cent were against segregation, and 5.3 had no opin ion. Questioned were 1,491 out of the school’s 16,015 students. And it’s a good thing no A&M students tried to invade the UT campus before the game last week. Stories and pictures in The Daily Texan showed that Texas studnetS were waiting with shotguns loaded with salt. At least they said they were loaded with salt. Service Ball Reset For Next April The service regiment ball origi nally scheduled for Dec. 11, has been postponed until April. A survey made among the serv ice units by Warner P. Louvier, commander of the third battalion second regiment staff, showed 101 students out of 235 wanted the dance in December. Most of the cadets felt that it should not be held between the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays because so many other activities are planned for that period. -* According to Louvier, having the ball in April would afford the extra advantage of holding the dance out of doors. Wehrman’s Cafe HOME COOKED FOODS 1009 West 25th St. BRYAN T O D A Y RELEASED THRU UNITED ARTISTS COMING Thursday & Friday NERVE- T1NGUNG! BREATH TAKING! and TRUE! (Continued from Page 1) town of Tiflis, for instance, there are 19 institutes, each specialized into an institute of foreign lang uages, institute of medicine, insti tute of science and many others. About 21,000 students are regis tered at the University of Moscow with about 94 per cent of them attending on government scholar ships. Last year, for example, Russian colleges graduated 54,000 engineering students, compared with only 20,000 in this country, Fisher said. The students are not as anti- American as one would expect, he said. On several occasions they asked Fisher to take back to the students of America “our greet ings and good wishes.” After the talk which was spon sored by the Saddle and Sirloin club, Fisher was asked if he agi'eed with the stand Secretary of State Dulles took on a suggested block ade of Red China. “We can get along better with those people by retaliating in some appropriate manner, with some us urious interest added, for every insult and illegal act directed at us and our people,” he said. 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