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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1955
Congress, Schools, andROTC
The omission of the collegiate ROTC
program from Secretary of Defense Wilson’s
proposed National Reserve Plan was a ser
ious one, -but the colleges are going to gang
up and do something about it.
The last part of this month, three col
lege organizations will ask Congress to in
clude something about ROTC in the plan,
and will make recommendations about what
they think the inclusion should be.
The groups are the American Council
on Education, the Association of Land Grant
Colleges and Universities, and the Council
of Military College Presidents. A&M is a
member of all three, but the last group best
represents A&M’s stand in the matter, for it
will make recommendations for students who
go to military colleges, like this one.
The National Reserve Plan, as proposed
by Wilson for consideration by this session
of Congress, provides basically that high
school graduates be given six months of mil
itary training, then put on reserve status.
No mention is made of the ROTC program.
Arthur S. Adams, president of the Amer
ican Council on Education, wrote Wilson af
ter the plan was announced last month, ask
ing vyhy ROTC wasn’t included in it.
Wilson’s answer was, essentially, that
ROTC wasn’t in it because ROTC was doing
all right.
Obviously, ROTC is not doing all right.
Ask any cadet here, or at any other school,
who has had the military change its mind
about him several times.
ROTC doesn’t seem to have a definite
policy, either nation-wide or in individual
schools. Some definite policy is necessary,
to improve the morale and training of the
ROTC students, and most important, to make
ROTC a valuable part of the national defense
scheme.
This Congress is going to be charged
with formulating a policy on national de
fense. Any policy that leaves out the ROTC
is sadly incomplete.
LETTERS
Dear Editors:
1 read where T.C.U. again won
the Southwest Conference sports
manship trophy. A&M was in
fifth place. We could have been
first if it hadn’t been for the
T.C.U. hat stealing acts and other
things.
It will make everyone think the
Aggies are tops in sportsmanship
if we win the trophy next year.
When we *vin the trophy three
years in a row it will be ours to
keep.
It is a ti'ophy worth getting,
and it won’t take a single bit of
work. All it takes is good sports
manship. So why not all of us
make it our goal to win that
trophy ?
John Ellis ’58
Student Accepts
Wildlife Position
James R. Dixon, graduate wild
life management student, has ac
cepted a position with Ross Allen
Reptile institute in Silver Springs,
Fla. as assistant curator.
He will lecture on various types
of vei'tebrate animals. His duties
will also include milking venom
from rattlesnakes, wrestling alli
gators, and conducting toui’s of
the institute.
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At Other Schools
I I T Girls Discover
Charm of Stogies
By JON KINSLOW
Battalion Managing Editor
From the looks of our files of papers from other Texas
schools, it seems that all the students are still gone for the
holidays. However, a few of the papers were left and this
is what is going on at some of the other schools:
North Texas State Colleg®
The girls at North Texas have decided to renew a tra
dition begun in 1948—that of Dutch Week. Maybe it’s
something we could try down here the next time we have a
date down.
University of Texas
Those of you who thought the have the biggest instruments, but
women pipe-smokers craze was we still say A&M has the big*-
surprising have another shock gest band,
coming from the lassies in Austin.
Believe it or not, they have taken
to smoking- stogies. It all came
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A couple of articles in the UT :
paper give a brief poll on (1)
What’s Cooking
THURSDAY
7:15 — Waco - McLennan County
club, SGI Goodwin, plan for Aggie-
land picture, cookies and coffee.
Yankee Hometown club, 113 Bag-
ley, business meeting.
Guadalupe Valley Hometown
club, 125 Academic.
Bell County club, 123 Academic,
discuss Aggieland picture.
7:30—Panhandle club. Academic
building, discuss high school day
and Aggieland picture.
El Paso Hometown club, 3rd
floor Academic.
Edwards Plateau club, 204 Aca
demic.
Hill Country Hometown club,
106 Academic.
Southwest Texas A&M club,
room 2C MSC, report on Christmas
dance, bring unsold tickets, foot
ball movies—1941: A&M-Fordham,
1939: A&M-Arkansas.
Dallas - A&M club, 107 Biology
Science, report on Christmas dance.
Beaumont A&M club, room 2D
MSC, important report from For
mer Students Association.
San Angelo Hometown club, Ag
riculture building, return unsold
tickets and money.
Rusk County Hometown club,
room 3D MSC.
Permian Basin club, cabinet room
YMCA, discuss Aggieland picture.
Red River Valley A&M club, 223
Academic.
Wise County Hometown club, 126
Academic.
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about as a plot by members of what students dislike most about
Theta SigTna Phi, who were pass- P 10 ^ s > an d (2) what profs dislike
ing out the cigars as an adver- most about students. Among the |
tisement of their annual review. thm & s found distasteful about the
Some of the gifts were accepted P rofs was “ the Joking Johnnie”
by the ladies, and there were pic- who J okes ri ^ ht U P to test tlme -
tures in the UT newspaper to sarcasm, mumbling, and not know-
prove the gals smoked them. in £‘ the names of the students.
The UT band is now boasting The profs gripes included inat-
that it has the largest drum in tentiveness, lack of confidence in
the world, an eight foot in diam- the instructor, too much confidence,
eter instrument which was last indifference, and students “who
used to publicize the movie “Stars read newspapers and sleep in
and Stripes Forever.” Texas may class.”
Rice Institute
Rice has been presented a gift “estimated at one million
dollars” which will be used to build a new geology building on
the campus. The gift came from the three daughters of
Plarry Carotheers Wiess, one of the founders of the Humble
Oil ‘and Refining company. The new building will be built
by the fall of 1956.
The Rice Thresher, student newspaper, says “Rice Laun
dry Saves Money, Time, Trouble.” Students who don’t like
the laundry here might try the Rice laundry.
And one last bit of news: A Thresher reporter is all
upset because at the recent meeting of the Student Council,
each chair was equipped with an ash tray advertising a brand
of cigarettes. That’s still better than using the floor.
Texas Christian University
In the TCU paper is a list of bread, boarding students; and mon-
things usually found in the pockets ey, nobody,
of college students. Some of those
mentioned and the majors who
carry them are as follows: cheat
sheets and hands, all students; ore
samples, geologists; pencil stub
and crumpled notepaper, journal
ists; “church key”, no definite ma
jor; thin volume of T.S. Eliot,
English major; mayonnaise and
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