The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, March 30, 1955, Image 2

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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1955
Cadet Slouch
by James Earle
More on Elections
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The Civilian Student Council is on the
ver^e of starting a small uproar over its re
quest that civilian students be allowed to ac
tively campaign for offices.
The council has requested that the Stu
dent Life Committee allow civilian students
to use posters, cards, and signs for campaigns
within the civilian areas.
This is in opposition to a Student Senate
ruling of a couple of years ago, which said
that no campaign methods other than per
sonal contact would be used by anyone. The
Student Life Committee upheld this ruling.
The corps is adamant in its refusal to al
low campaign material to be used. The corps
reasoning is something like “every Aggie is
supposed to know every other Aggie, so signs
are unnecessary. Besides, signs and posters
are childish and tea-sippery.”
The civilian students say that they are
not forced to know every man in their unit
or dormitory as corps students are, therefore,
some means of publicizing elections and can
didates must be used.
The tradition of every Aggie knowing
every Aggie, although an admirable idea and
noble goal, is obviously unattainable. There
are too many Aggies; it would be physically
impossible to know 6,000 persons well enough
to say which would make the best elected
officers.
Also, this idea of having elections as
quietly as possible, without stirring - up un-
Aggie-like fuss that would smack of a coed
school, is probably one of. the reasons there
has been so little participation in student
elections.
(If the filings that closed yesterday are
any indication, participation has improved
somewhat this year. Perhaps this controver
sy between civilians and corps, or between
army corps and air force corps, will stir the
lethargic voter now.)
If campaigning were allowed, in both the
civilian and corps areas, it would probably
make both elections and the elected officers
better.
Of course, the campaigning would have to
be kept in good taste, and designed so as not
to absolutely litter the campus with objec-
tional material. Two years ago, when cam
paigning was allowed, college rules kept it
within bounds.
The civilian students, because “meeting” « Wednesday, March 30—Fac-
is not as firmly entrenched among them as : tory Mutual Engineering division
it is among the corps students, would prob- ! (Boston)—interviews for field en-
ably use more campaign material, but the gmeering staff. Texas work and
corps students probably would use some too, j ; ocation a f t«- about a year of
. 1 training* at St. Louis oflice—chem-
it gl\ en the chance. i ical, mechanical, industrial
After all, elections are a part of the life
students will lead when they get out of A&M,
and America’s elections are definitely not
conducted on the no-publicity principle.
A man running for election must be will
ing to put himself, his qualifications, and
his beliefs before the people.
Why shouldn’t A&M students be willing
to do the same thing?
Definite Plans Adopted
For Civilian Activities
Definite plans for the Civilian
Btudent weekend were formulated
yesterday, but the committee plan
ning' the activities decided against
having 1 “yell practice” on the
Thursday before the weekend.
The coinmittee, composed of rep
resentatives from each dormitory,
permanently set the dates for the
weekend as May 13-14.
The group also planned beard
growing contest and adopted sev
eral rules for the affair. Civilian
students who want to enter the
contest must register with floor,
ramp, or row representatives in
their area beginning Tuesday,
April 5. An entrance fee of 10
cents will be charged.
Prizes for the winners of the
contest are being donated by local
merchants. First and second place
winners will be picked in two di
visions—fanciest beard and scroun-
giest beard. Finalists in the con
test will be judged at a barbecue
May 13.
An ugly man contest will be
judged at the Civilian Student
dance May 14. Rules for the con
test are simply “anything goes for
those who want to enter.” The
group felt any kind of makeup
“short of a face mask” would be
allowed.
The next meeting of the plan
ning group will be at 4 p.m. April
19 in the YMCA assembly room.
MUSIC
5^ Musical setting—Sons of the Pioneers
"Chant of the Wanderer”
■A- Famous Hardin-Simmons University Cowboy Band
★ Redd Harper . . . "Wide Rollin Plains"
-A Cindy Walker . . . "Beloved Enemy"
Ar Cindy and Redd . . . "Each Step of the Way"
■A George Beverly Shea . . . "Just a Closer Walk"
A Fort. Worth 1000 Voice Crusade Choir ...
"The Railroad Song"
A Hour of Decision Choir ... "Wonderful Peace"
Supported by:
BILLY GRAHAM
CLIFF BARROWS
Grady Wilson Jerry Beavan
George Beverly Shea
Paul Mickelson and Tedd Smith
— Sponsored By —
Brotherhood of First Baptist Church
College Station
FRIDAY NIGHT - APRIL 1st
7:15 P. M.
EVERYONE INVITED *
Journalists
To Publish
Conroe Paper
Students in journalism 306
will take over and publish the
Conroe Courier during the
Easter holidays, said Wesley
Calvert, instructor of the
course.
This will be the first time that
such a venture has been undertak
en here, Calvert said.
The students will perform all
operations of planning, editing and
selling advertising for the April 14
issue.
The Courier is a weekly newspa
per in Conroe, 63 miles southeast
of College Station.
The students were offered the |
opportunity at the invitation of ;
Mr. and Mrs. Rigby Owen, owners I
engi
neering majors to be interviewed.
©Wednesday, March 30—Great
Southern Chemical corporation —
(Corpus Christi)—interviews for
chemical engineering majors for
the position of laboratory assist
ant. The person employed would
! be required to become familiar With
ilaboratory tests and procedures
j and develop new procedures, and
assist in scheduling laboratory
Work.
©Wednesday, Thursday, March
30, 31—Owens-Corning Fiberglass
Corp. (Toledo, Ohio)—mechanical,
chemical, electrical engineering,
physics, chemistry, accounting,
business administration majors for
plant engineering, process engi
neering, process control, product
development, manufacturing, qual
ity control, fundamental research,
sales, purchasing, cost control, per
sonnel.
® Thursday, March 31—Chicago,
Rock Island, and Pacific railroad,
El Reno, Okla.) — representatives
will interview for the Rock Island
railroad training- program. Majors:
civil, mechanical, electrical, indus
trial engineering.
WhaEs Cooking
THURSDAY
— Circle K club, 2nd floor
MSC, organizational meet-
5:00
lounge
ing.
7:15 — Houston hometown club,
301 Goodwin, discuss Galveston
and publishers of the Courier. Owen i beach party.
is recognized as one of the most j Guadalupe hometown club, 125
progressive weekly newspaper pub- ; Academic, special meeting to dis-
lishers in Texas. cuss Easter party.
Calvert said the trip will provide j Cen-Tex hometown club, room
much needed actual experience in ( 3C, MSC, film: 1948 class A foot-
coping with the problems of pi-o- j ball championship, Monahans vs.
ducing and selling a paper. The ' New Braunfels.
course, newspaper production and , j 11 - —■
management, is designed to teach |
the fundamentals of printing a |
weekly newspapei', he said.
Editor for the week will be Billy j
Fullerton from Houston; managing I
editor, Donald Shepard from Gra- !
ham; advertising manager, Jim j
Collins from Barstow; assistant
advertising manager, Phil McNem-
er from Beaumont; farm editor,
George Smith from Breckenridge;
and sports editor, Bill Thomas from
Lewisville.
Other students making the trip
will be Ed Fries, Dolph Moten, Paul
Savage, Bill Holloway, David Mc-
Reynolds, Charles Parker, and
Ralph Cole.
® Thursday, March 31—^National
Lead company—Titanium division
(South Amboy, N. J.)—all degree
levels inorganic and physical chem
ists for basic and applied research
on titanium oxide pigment pro
cesses, organic chemists for re
search on synthesis or organic-me
tallic compounds; analytical chem
ists for research on methods of
analysis for titanium ores and pig
ment processes and non-routine
analytical determinations with par
ticular emphasis on' instrumenta
tive methods; chemical engineers
for research and development of
pigment processes and application
of pigments in paint systems.
® Thursday, March 31—Oil Well
Supply company of Dallas will in
terview accounting majors.
© Thursday, March 31 and April
1—Convair of San Diego, Calif.—
interviews for engineering oppor
tunities — mechanical, electrical,
aeronautical, civil engineering and
physics.
® Thursday, March 31 — Mc
Cullough Tool Co. (Houston)—pe
troleum engineering and geology
majors for radiation logging posi
tions.
® Friday, April 1 — McCullough
Tool Co. (Houston)—physics and
electrical engineering- majors for
electronic research positions.
©‘ Thursday, March 31 — The
Texas company (Houston)—geo
physics, geological engineering,
electrical engineering and physics
majors for geological exploration
work.
©Thursday, Mai-ch 31 — Lone
Star Steel company (Lone Star,
Texas)—interviews for mechanical
and industrial engineering grad
uates interested in design work.
® Friday, April 1—Federal Tele
communication laboratories (Nut-
ley, N. J.)—electrical and mechani
cal engineering and physics grad
uates for research and develop
ment of electrical and communica
tion equipment.
DYERS-F^URSTORAGE HATTERS
Students '. . . Use Our Convenient Pick Up Stations
At Taylor’s Variety Store — North Gate
CIGARETTES
ODERN SIZE
FILTER TIP TAREYTON
gives you the Rill, rich taste
of quality tobacco
and real filtration, too!
PRODUCT OF J&neSuacwv
$25 OFF LIST PRICE
New 1955 Models
Royal and Smith-Corona Portable
TYPE W R1T E R S
Bryan Business Machine Company
429 So. Main Bryan, Texas
PHONE 2-1328
ANNUAL FISHING
CONTEST
Starts
April 1st
— RULES AS FOLLOWS —
Must be caught in 50-mile radius.
Must be caught on hook.
No need to register—Just bring the
fish in to be weighed.
1 Casting Rod.
PRIZES FOR —
LARGEST BASS . . .
$25.00 Heddon-Pal—No.
LARGEST WHITE PERCH . . .
$22.50 Heddon-Pal—No. 470 Spinning Rod.
LARGEST BREAM . . .
$17.50 Heddon-Pal—No. 30 Fly Rod.
LARGEST CATFISH . . .
$17.50—Solid Glass—Salt Water Casting Rod.
Student Co-op Store
Phone 4-4114
North Gate
The Battalion
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
Bummer terms The Battalion is published twice a week, and during
examination and vacation periods, once a week. Days of publication
a. e Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, Tuesday and
Thursday during the summer terms, and Thursday during examination
aad vacation periods. The Battalion is not published on the Wednesday
immediately preceding Easter or Thanksgiving. Subscription rates
are $3.50 per semester, $6.00 per school year, $7.00 per full year, or
$1.00 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request.
H tered as second-class
matter at Post Office at
CoUfege Station, Texas
n der the Act of Con-
fc-esa of March 3. 1870.
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Angeles, and San Fran
cisco.
BOB BORISKIE, HARBI BAKER
—Co-Editors
Lions Club Hears
Speech Therapist
Mrs. Marsha Fletcher, speech
therapist for A&M Consolidated
schools, spoke to the College Sta
tion Lions club Monday on “Why
We Should Have Speech Therapy
in Public Schools.”
The speech handicapped com
prises the largest single group of
handicapped persons in the United
States today, Mrs. Fletcher ex
plained.
“We need a program,” she said,
“to find these students, diagnose
their problems, and correct them.”
Anyone’s speech that is not un
derstandable or attracts unfavor
able attention should have speech
therapy. In 1951 there were about i
16,000 children in Texas who need- |
ed this therapy, hut there were
only i0 therapist in public schools. ■
Now we have 612 speech thera- ,
pasts, but we are still deficient. j