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i i Battalion Editorials Page 2 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1955 LETTERS Cooperation Needed The problem of wearing letter jackets from other schools on the A&M campus should be a simple matter, but it is reaching alarming proportions. A large segment of the student body doesn’t like the wearing of these jackets by civilian students, and they have a point. A&M students are Aggies now, no matter what they once were, and letters from high schools or other colleges have no place on the campus. The senior class, the Student Senate, the ‘T’ association, and the Civilian Student Council' have all gone on record publicly as asking students not to wear these jackets. Yet some students persist in wearing the jackets, causing the students who asked them not to, to get all upset and start looking for enforcing methods. Here the pendulum swings to the oppo site side—too drastic methods of enforce ment have been proposed. At the Civilian Student Council meeting last night, a punishment method was pro posed that would probably mean that a stu dent would be suspended the third time he was caught wearing a letter jacket from an other school. This punishment is not in keeping with the offense; the penelty is too severe. But no punishment or enforcement method should be necessary. The civilian students who own these jackets should not wear them, simply out of respect for their present school and for the majority of their classmates who have asked them not to. Cooperation on the part of the few who continue to wear the jackets would ease all the trouble. * Job Interviews • Wednesday, March 2 — Con- vair will interview all levels in degrees of aeronautical, civil, elec trical, mechanical engineering, phy sics, mathematics, for various open ings in the engineering department. Also summer openings for juniors in the above fields. • Wednesday, March 2 — Bell System representatives will interview for Bell Labs., Western Electric, AT&T, Sandia corporation, and Southwestern Bell. Interested in advanced degrees in mathematics and physics, bachelor degrees in business administration and ac counting, electrical, mechanical, and industi-ial engineering. • Wednesday, Thursday, March 2 and 3—Dresser Equipment Co.- IDECO Div., Beaumont, will intei’- view mechanical engineers for openings in the design engineering section, primarily concerning ma chine design. • Thursday, March 3—Granite City Steel Co. is calling for archi tecture, mechanical, civil, industrial engineering and industrial technol ogy majors for openings as assist ant project engineers, sales engi neers, structural engineers. • Thursday, March 3—Connec ticut General Life Insurance Co. has openings for economics, agri cultural economics and business ad ministration majors. • Thursday, March 3—Arthur Young & Co. representatives from Houston and Dallas will interview accounting majors for openings as junior accountants. • Thursday, March 3 — Core Laboratories, Inc. will interview pe troleum, chemical, mechanical and geological engineering majors for openings in the core analysis or well logging operations with the idea that a man can advance into supervisory or sales positions. © Thursday, March 3—Hollo man Air Development center is in terviewing aeronautical, mechani cal, electrical engineering, mathe matics, physics and chemistry ma jors to work with higher grade scientific and professional person nel engaged in development and test work on guided missile and related activities. Lowest salary offered is $4,035 per year. • Thursday, Friday, March 3— Soil Conservation service, U S. Dept, of Agriculture will interview agricultural, civil engineering, agronomy and range and forestry majors interested in the SCS. © Friday, March 4—Universal Oil Products Co. will interview BS and MS degrees in chemical engi neering. • Friday, March 4 — Socony- Vacuum Oil Co. of New York will have a representative at the place ment office to interview geology and geophysics majors for foreign work. Also summer work in Ve nezuela for graduating seniors and graduate students interested in for eign careers. • Monday, March 7 — Radio Corporation of America has oppor tunities in fundamental and applied research, design, development and manufacturing: for all degree levels in electrical, mechanical, industrial engineering, physics and chemistry. Directors Confirm Appointments Here BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY Oldest and largest company of its kind with AAA-1 rating is prepared to train qualified men between 25 and 50 in a perman ent business. Prefer men with livestock feeding and selling ex perience. Good car and moder ate investment required. For Complete Information Without Obligation, Write — Sid Carney, Jr. 4100 South 4th St. Brownwood, Texas The A&M System board of di rectors confirmed the following A&M appointments at their Satur day meeting. School of Agriculture Agricultural engineering, Mary A. Ragland, stenographer; animal husbandry, Thomas D. Watkins jr., professor, both replacements; poul try husbandry, Lloyd D. Matteson, visiting professor, new position. School of Arts and Sciences Chemistry: Patricia F. Cato, stenographer; economics, John H. Mudie, acting assistant professor; education and psychology, Helen Miller, stenographer; history, Shir ley Sanders, stenographer: journal ism, Susan H. Shannon, steno grapher; modern languages, Joy Rea, stenographer; oceanography, j Henry Albert Brown, part time in- i structor, Kilho Park, graduate teaching assistant and graduate re- [ search assistant, George W. Rey- ' nolds, instructor part time and ; Malcolm Eugene Ennis,, associate j professor, all replacements. School of Engineering Architecture, James C. Walden ] jr., acting instructor, replacement.; Schol of Veterinary Medicine Veterinary parasitology, El I Sayed Gaafar, instructor part time; ] veterinary physiology and pharma- ; cology, Edgar D. McMurray, as- ! sistant professor, replacement. Staff Positions Athletic department: John U. j DeWitt, assistant basketball coach, replacement; building and college ! utilities: William C. Arnold and Robert Butler, oilers, power plant ! and Freddie L. Honeycutt, assist-; ant machinist, replacements; col- < lege information office: Nora W. Burge, clerk-typist, replacement; commandant’s office: Elsie Mc Pherson, receptionist-typist, James Alton Terry and John H. Stevenson jr., tactical officers, replacements; Exchange store: Ruth E. Allen, record clerk, replacement; fiscal department: Dorothy L. Imel, as sistant payroll clerk, Marie C. Ri- singer, clerk, replacements; Hospital: Gladys Dworsky, gen eral duty nurse, replacement; li brary: Polly W. Boaz, science ref- ei*ence librarian, Patricia Z. Day- hoff, Barbara Frances Moody, typ ist-clerks, June L. Landrum, libra ry assistant, Kathleen M. Rowin, secretary, replacements; military property maintenance: Dolores Norsworthy, stock record account ant, replacement; school of military sciences: Monette Carpenter, clerk- typist, replacement; physical plant office: Raymond L. Rogers, assist ant manager, replacement; presi dent’s office: Geraldine Hott, sten ographer, replacement; registrar’s office: Elise Collins, Juanita Emily Malone, recorders, Anne M. Cow ing, Barbara S. Maris, stenograph ers, Estelle I. Stevens, admissions assistant, Barbara Jean Williams, transcript examiner, replacements; student activities: George Ann de- Marrais, secretary, Ethellee Swil- ley, activities bookkeeper, replace ment; student publications: Ross Strader, manager, replacement; J YMCA: Joanne Makar, secretary, replacement. Dear Editor, After a radio program, you some times hear the announcer say, “This story- is true, but the names have been changed to protect the innocent.” Well, today we are faced with an opposite situation. The name of this college is the same, but the policies have been changed to protect the “mother’s boys and babies.” You said, in your editorial, that it looked like the corps needed to do some housecleaning. It has, but not the kind you’d like. Five or six freshmen with “undesirable” atti tudes quit the corps this week, probably running your total up to three-fifty-some-odd. Well, I’m just sorry we have to say the corps has done some “housecleaning,” in stead of saying A&M has done some “housecleaning.” I’ll never be able to forgive the ones who made it possible for someone to leave A&M without first learning to “take it like a man.” Don’t get the idea that 1 believe all non-regs are “undesirable.” Far from it!!! I know lots of men who are non-regs because (1) they did not have a chance for a contract, (2) they are veterans, or (3) they had to leave A&M for various rea sons but came back to the school they love to try to get their de gree. All of these men I deeply respect. Some of these men who lost their contracts are the ones you forgot to mention in your editorial about the 340 who quit the corps. It’s not their fault that they had to quit the corps. Ask them and they will tell you that. Well, I’ll tell you, I haven’t shed any tears over any freshmen I knew who went non-reg. I just feel pity that they haven’t got the guts it takes to stick it out. When I think of the men who built this corps, and gave it a name which will be remembered longer than any of us will live, I feel sick inside about the way it has been changed. They made men out of boys at this college, and they originated that old stick-together policy which will probably help the editor of The ^Battalion in many ways after he leaves A&M. I know of quite a few men it has already helped, and I know it will help eve- ry Aggie from now on. I’ll say .one thing. If I should ever have to fight for my country, which I am perfectly willing to de fend, I won’t be afraid to stand and face the enemy if I have some men who are real Aggies by my side, because I’ll know I am fighting with the cream of the crop. Lynn Pixley ’57 P.S. According to last night’s “Batt” there are some thieves at Aggieland. Some showed up last year. When a person as low and cowardly as a thief can take the treatment necessary to go through A&M, things are getting too d—n soft, Army. Lynn Pixley ’57 CIRCLE TODAY thru FRIDAY frLINN V OLORIA GRAHAME BHOOfUICK CRAWFORD HUMAN PESIRE — ALSO — ‘•Call Me Madam” Ethel Merman Cadet Slouch Texas Exes Meet The Battalion The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represents the Views of the Student Editors The Battalion, newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station, is published by stu dents four times a week during the regular school year. During the summer terms The Battalion is published twice a week, and during examination and vacation periods, once a week. Days of publication are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, Tuesday and Thursday during the summer terms, and Thursday during examination and vacation periods. The Battalion is not published dn the Wednesday immediately preceding Easter or Thanksgiving. Subscription rates The Brazos County Texas Ex club will meet tonight at 7 for its annual March 2 banquet, at Maggie Parker dining hall in Bryan. Speak ers for the evening will be John A. McCurdy, executive secretary of the ex-students’ association of the University of Texas, and Charles Dishman, UT student, who will speak on “Student Life at Our Al ma Mater.” LFL ABNER by Earle Social Whirl Wednesday The Chemical Engineering wives club will meet in the social room of the Memorial Student Center at 8 p.m. It will be a business and social meeting. Hostesses for the evening will be Mesdames Vickie Ratcliff, Lois Isiminger and Laura Mittle. The Newcomers club will meet at 3 p.m. to hear a book review to be given by Mrs. Frank Coulter. The meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Frank Anderson, 501 Fair- view. Mrs. Francis J. Bloom is chairman of the hostess commit tee. Thursday The Aggie Wives Bridge club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in room 2B of the MSC. Monday The Mechanical Engineering Wives club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the cabinet room of the YMCA. An instructor of the ME depart ment will show slides taken in var ious parts of the country. Refresh ments will be served following the program. Tuesday The Dames club will meet at 8 p.m. in the YMCA and have Mrs. Charles Campbell as guest speak er. Mrs. Campbell will give the humorous side to the history of Texas A&M. Dinner At Felix’s Featured By Club LAST DAY Story mt tW Old GONE WITH THE WIND l> TF.CHMrJM.OII «.rn*c Clark GABLE •• Mtrii Batlrr I r«Jir OH rim HOWARD* (V1IA V I1AA.ND — Features At — l : 0() — 5:00 and 9:00 P.M. “Dinner at Felix’s” was the fea tured restaurant at the last din ner of the Foods Group of the A&M Soeiali club. The dinner was Mexican dishes. Hostesses were dressed in color ful blouses and skirts. Small paper sombreros were given to members for name tags. The center table was covered with a Mexican tablecloth, on which stood miniature people and burros of Old Mexico. A large Mexican pitcher filled with ivy was at one end, and a potted plant at the other end. Individual tables held Mexican vases, filled with ivy as their centerpiece. The vases were surrounded with miniature Mexican burros, jars of cacti, and' men. Committee members for the day were Mrs. W. M. Potts and Mrs. Fred Jones, co-chairmen; Mes dames Stanley Wykes, J. W. Sor enson, D. R. Fitch, C. M. Taylor and William Whittington. TODAY thru SATURDAY STEWART *" Tt * ROMAN CORINNE CAE VET -&L Country starring WALTER BRENNAN Scholarship Blanks Mailed To Schools Opportunity Awards application blanks for high school seniors have been mailed to all high school prin cipals in the state, according to J. P. Abbott, dean of the college. Each of the scholarships is for four years, and will be granted through statewide competition bas ed on each candidate’s character, scholarship, evidence of leadership and need of financial aid. The awards range from $800 to $1,600. 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BOB BORISKIE, HARRI BAKER Co-Editors Jon Kinslow Managing Editor Jerry Wizig Sports Editor Don Shepard, Ralph Cole News Editors Bill Fullerton City Editor Wed. — Thur. — Fri. “HI MAN JUNGLE” WED. — THUR. — FRI. — with — Jan Sterling Gary Merrill — ALSO — Charlton Heston “RUBY GENTRY”