The Battalion
Page 2 TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1956
The Hardest Choice
One of the hardest decisions that a senator or representative in
a government—whether state, national or cqllege—has to face is where
to draw the line on politics.
This is the line between doing the “safe” thing and doing what
actually is the individual’s heritage: an honest attempt to do right by
man, to try to ameliorate man’s inhumanity to man.
Our A&M Student Senate, and the individual senators, tried to do
this in their decision on segregation. For taking action, The Battalion
salutes them. For their decision, The Battalion pledges its wholeheart
ed support.
On Campus
MaxShuJman
(Author of "Barefoot Boy With Cheek,” etc.)
ADVENTURES IN SOCIAL SCIENCE: NO. 3
Today, ranging again into the fascinating world of social
science, let us take up the subject of anthropology — the study
of man and his origins.
The origin of man was indeed a vexing question until the
Frenchman, Jean-Louis Sigafoos, discovered the skull and shin
bone of Pithecanthropus Erectus in Java in 1891. (What Siga
foos was doing in Java is, incidentally, quite an odd little story.
Sigafoos was a Parisian born and bred. By day one could always
find him at a boulevard cafe, sipping Biere de Racine and ogling
the girls; each night he went to a fashionable casino where he
gambled heavily at roulette and jacks; in between times he
worked on his stamp collection.
\\ie ttutfy of (tictti da/ Jv't flrigitfo,
(Well sir, one summer Sigafoos lost his entire fortune gam
bling at the casino, and he was seriously contemplating suicide
when a ray of hope appeared in an unexpected quarter. It seems
that Sigafoos, through the international stamp collectors jour
nal, had long been in correspondence with a girl in Java, a
mission-educated savage named Lotus Petal McGinnis, herself
an enthusiastic stamp collector. The nature of their correspond
ence, though friendly, had been entirely philatelic. Now, sud
denly, a new kind of letter came from Lotus Petal. She declared
that although she had never laid eyes on Sigafoos, she loved
him and wanted to marry him. She said she was eighteen yeai’s
old, beautiful, and her father, the richest man in his tribe, would
give half his' fortune to the husband of her choice. Sigafoos,
in his reduced cii’cumstances, had no alternative; he sold his
last few belongings and booked passage for Java.
(The first sight of his prospective bride failed to delight
Sigafoos. She was, as she said, beautiful — but only by local
standards. Sigafoos had serious doubts that her bright i'ed
pointed teeth and the chicken boxxes hanging fi’om her ear lobes
would be considei'ed chic along the Champs Elysees.
(But sobering as was the sight of Lotus Petal, Sigafoos had
an even greater disappointment coming when he met her fathei\
The old gentleman was, as Lotus Petal had represented, the
richest man in his tribe, but, unfortunately, the medium of ex
change in his tribe was prune pits.
(Sigafoos took one look at the mound of prune pits which
was his dowry, gnashed his teeth, and stomped off into the
jungle, swearing vilely and kicking at sticks and stones and
whatever else lay in his path. Stomping thus, swearing thus,
kicking thus, Sigafoos kicked over a heap of old bones which —
what do you know! — tui'ned out to be the skull and shin of
Pithecanthropus Erectus.)
But I digx-ess... Fx*om the brutish Pithecanthropus, man
evolved slowly upward, gi'owing more intelligent and resoui’ce-
ful. By the Middle Paleolithic period man had invented the
leash, which was a remai’kable technical achievement, but
fi’ankly not terribly useful until the Mesolithic peiuod when man
invented the dog.
In the Neolithic period came far and away the most important
development in the history of mankind — the discovei'y of agri-
cultui'e. Why is this so impoi’tant, you ask? Because, good
fidends, without agricultui'e thei'e would be no tobacco, and
without tobacco there would be no Philip Morris, and without
Philip Morris you would be without the gentlest, mildest, sun
niest, pleasantest, happiest smoke that money can buy, and I
would be without a job.
That’s why. ©Max Sluilman, 1056
To their I\eolithic ancestors, the makers of Philip Morris extend
a grateful salute. And so tcill you ivhen you try today's new gentle
Philip Morris in today's new pack of red, while and gold.
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Letters To The Editor
Editor, (To Mr. J. W. Osborn):
In regard to your letter to The
Battalion editor of Wednesday
March 14, I would like to point out,
for your benefit, the order of sen
atorial elections by the student
body, according to Article 3, Sec
tion 2 ,of the Constitution of the
Student Body of the Agricultural
and Mechanical College of Texas,
(as amended) August 26, 1954.
There is no distinction between
corps and civilian students in elec
ting senators from the separate
classes. There is a civilian sena
tor to represent each civilian dor
mitory; the corps dormitories do
not have this privilege. The other
members of the Senate are elected
by a general class election in which
both civilian and corps members
vote.
ARTICLE III The Student Senate
Section II Representation
1. There shall be elected two
student senators from the
day students.
2. There shall be one student
senator from College View.
3. There shall be one student
senator from each non-mili
tary dormitory.
4. The Vice-President from each
class shall be a member of
the Student Senate.
5. There shall be fifteen (15)
senators elected at large from
the Senior Class, by the Sen
ior Class.
6. There shall be ten (10) sen
ators elected at large from
the Junior Class, by the Jun
ior Class.
7. There shall be six (6) Sena
tors elected at large from the
Sophomore Class, by the
Sophomore Class.
8. Any Texas A&M students
who are officers of the TISA
will, by virture of their of
fice in TISA, become ex-of
ficio mebers of the Stu
dent Senate, representing the
student body in excess of the
numbers listed above.
Thank you, Mr. Osborn for your
interest in the operation of the
Student Senate. I wish that more
students would take a more active
interest in their school, such as
you have.
John D. Cunningham, Jr., ’56
John Petty, ’56
Editor, The Battalion:
The Student Senate met Thurs
day night to decide the student
body’s view on integration. To
you I presume, the decision was
most pleasing. But was this really
CADET SLOUCH
by James Earle
the way the student body feels?
Or was this the feeling of the in
dividual senators ?
The puipose of the Senate is to
represent the students in making
policies for the student body. But,
how many senators ask the stu
dents they represent for the stu
dents’ ideas and viewpoints ? Only
one of the senators that I know
has ever asked me what I thought
about something and that was
Thursday morning in the MSC bar
bershop. This senator told me that
they were going to discuss inte
gration at the Senate meeting that
night. He then asked me if thei'e
was anything I wanted him to say
at the meeting on integration. I
told him that there was but since
he knew I pro-segregation he prob
ably would not say it. This sena
tor then said, “That’s right!”
Also to my knowledge in one of
the dox'ms preceding the Senate
meeting thei'e was an accurate
straw vote to determine how many
students were for, or against in
tegration. Despite the fact that
the vote went in favor of segrega
tion two senators from this dorm
voted that night at the Student
Senate meeting for integration.
What good does a Student Sen
ate do a student body if the sena
tors refuse to carry with them to
the senate meetings the views of;
the students they represent. It it
destroying the ideal we are look
ing for by having a Student Sen
ate.
If the Student Senate is going to
act in this manner this campus
would be in a better position if
there was not a senate.
James C. Blackmon, ’58
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