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• The Battalion
Page 2
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1956
A Lack of Logic
There is a definite lack of logic in the action taken yes
terday by the NCAA Council.
According to the Council, we were placed on probation
for violation of NCAA rules, thus affecting all of our sports.
But the examples of violation listed by the Council were
done on the football end of our sports program.
Since there is no NCAA post season competition for
football, this means the remaining sports will suffer for
violations in the football program. This doesn’t leave much
incentive for the team members of swimming, baseball, track,
tennis or basketball.
How can they justify their penalizing our entire sports
program for the misdeeds done in football ?
However, it is very probable that the football team itseJf
will be directly affected by the ruling. The NCAA listed the
Southwest Conference Athletic Association as helping them
in the investigation, which probably is the same evidence
used against us by the SWC last May.
Taking note of this and the fact that the SWC Associa
tion pays high tribute to all NCAA utterances, it is very
probable the SWC will not lift our probation, as has been pre
dicted, when it meets May 11, 12. It would be too much to
ask them to be self sufficient in passing down their judg
ments.
It will be interesting to see whether the SWC committee
thinks enough of itself to act independently as to the con
tinuance of the probation levied by them last May.
Al Other Schools
UT, TCU Elect
’56-57 Editors
News of the World
By The ASSOCIATED PRESS
MONTGOMERY—Expressing - fear of “race riots” and other vio
lence, Montgomery officials have gone into court in an effort to force
city buses to comply with segregation law r s. The privately operated
bus company, Montgomery City Lines, announced a week ago, after
the U. S. Supreme Court banned segregation on intrastate buses, that
drivers would no longer enforce separate seating arrangements for
■white and Negro passengers.
★ ★ ★
JERUSALEM—The old Arab-Israeki dispute over waters of
the Jordan River arose again yesterday to plague Dag Hammarsk-
jold’s search for peace. The U.N. secretary general cancelled plans
to fly to Rome today and will return to Damascus for another round
of talks with Syrian officials.
★ ★ ★
DALLAS—U. S. Sen. Lyndon Johnson last night, called Allan
Shivers a “frightened, frustrated and fearful” governor “who seems
obsessed with the delusion that someone is closing in on him. I do not
know what is closing in on him unless it is his own conscience. I
have not closed in on him,” Sen. Johnson said in his state-wide tele
vision speech from KRLD-TV at Dallas at 8:30 p.m.
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Every once in a while, w r e like to take a look around the other fair
campuses in this league and see wdio else is not doing what they are
supposed to do. Here is a panorama of news—from the state capital
school to the stockyards of Fort Worth.
University of Texas
Something has happened at the Forty Acres that never, never
(could it?) happen at A&M. We still hold our distinctive niche, and
we’ll never be faced by what is faced by the University of Texas. The
citadels of the A&M fortress are forever protected against such an
occurinence; our masculine virtue cannot be stormed. What happened?
Why, Willie (College Yell) Morris, controversial editor—some say he
even writes for such magazines as The Nation—of The Daily Texan is
to be succeeded by a (blush, all you he-men) GIRL!
Miss Nancy McMeans, the new editor, collected 583 votes moi - e
than her male opponent in a runoff election.
Another story in The DT is about the expanded activities of Arab
women. The story begins, “Arab women are competing with men in
many industries . . .”
Say, is Nancy an Arab?
Texas Christian University
The Horned Froggies also have a new editor. We’ve ceased to
blush, having decided from the new editor’s name that it must be a he
—a male, that is. Another hint given us is that the TCU Skiff, weekly
campus newspaper, said Jim Hendricks has announced his staff for
next year.
Only other thing happening around Cowtown U. is that dormitory
space has proved to be so scarce that girls living in dorms will have
three to a room. “An apartment house near the school, which must
remain anonymous for the benefit of the owners, has been leased to
take care of a portion of the overflow,” says the Skiff.
How will a girl ever explain to her parents why she has been moved
off-campus to an anonymous house?
Southern Methodist University
An enticing headline in the SMU newspaper, The Campus, reads
as follows: “Books, Who Needs ’Em?’ Students Ask.”
We’d like to suggest the headline writer try one, especially a
spelling book. Apparently, he meant “Them,” certainly not “ ’Em.”
At least not a such a classy institution as SMU.
Baylor University
Journalism Day was held last week at the Baptist school in Waco
Putting out t?Te paper were about 250 high school students. In cele
bration of the annual event, the Laiiat staff composed a series of
articles concerning the old and honorable profession known as the
“fourth estate.” The estate aimed at by the Lariat was the Lariat, it-,
him- or her-self, whichever a lariat be. One of the stories was
especially appealing, with a headline reading, “It’s Amazing, The
Presses Keep Rolling Despite Laiiat Confusion.”
Now that kind of propoganda is no way to sell the values of jour
nalism to impressionable young high school journalists. The writer
should take the course described in another article on the journalism
page. This is: “Public Relations Major Added To Department.” We
like the definition of public relations that an Aggie journalism major
once made: “A short course in hypocrisy.”
Rice Institute
Our files on The Rice Thresher are about three weeks out of date,
but still a few things of interest (to Owls, we guess) have happened
at the Houston school. One of the “biggest” introductions in the world
surely is to be held there, or has been by now, for the lead story is
headed, “Biology Building To Be Announced.” Maybe it’s a “debby-
taunt.”
In the same issue was a story about “U.S. Navy Offers Career to
Girls.” Well, gee whiz; Aggies have been offering careers to girls
for years.
Rice’s Student Council seems to have more fun than our Student
Senate. Quote the Thresher, “Student Council, Riot Reports, Party,
Lounge Take Up Time.”
A&M
A statement of policy in Tuesday’s issue of The Battalion in
cludes the following item, which we feel is highly inappropriate for
this column: “Decency—A newspaper cannot escape conviction of in
sincerity if while professing a high moral purpose, it supplies incentives
to base conduct.”
Hey, that’s us!
CHS Honor Roll (Board of Directors O.K. Promotions
Lists 41 Students
The fifth six-week honor roll at
A&M Consolidated High School
was announced Friday by J. J.
Skrivanek, high school principal.
Twelfth grade students axe: Vi
vian Sullivan, Mai-gaxet Berry,
Max-cia Smith, Mike McGuixe, Maid-
lyn Davis, Ann Fleming, Harxiet
Cox, Mary Lynn Haxtung and Nox-
man Floeck.
Eleventh grade include Larry
Leighton, Charles Delaplane, David
Webb, Maux-ice Olian, Ann Hite,
James Couch, Jo Ann Walkex-, Maxy
Beth Hagler and James Martin.
Tenth gxade, Joe Randolph, Pat
Byx - d, Elaine Chalk, Mary Margaret
Hiex-th, Millie Caughlin, Jerry
Mills, Chxisty Kent and Junius
Claxk.
Ninth gi - ade: Johnny Bax-ger,
Maxtha Esten, Mary Vaiwel, Billy
Letbettex-, Saxa Goode, Bill Jones, '
Beatrice Luthex-, Alex Rush, James
Morgan, Pat Jackson, Jeanelle La-
Motte, Joyce Loi-enz, Don Avei'a,
Maxgaxet Dehlinger and Nancy
Rogers.
The Board of Directors of the
Texas A&M College System, meet
ing Fxiday here, appxoved the fol
lowing pxomotions: -
ARLINGTON STATE COLLEGE
Department of English, Cothburn
M. O’Neal, fx - om px*ofessor to pro
fessor and head of the department
of fine arts (effective June 1).
TARLETON STATE COLLEGE
Department of Social Sciences,
O. A. Gi - ant, from associate profes
sor to pi - ofessor; Department of
English, Ruth Hilliard and John
nie Shix-ley, both from assistant
professor to associate px’ofessor;
Biology, Dorothy G. Pittman, from
instructor to assistant professor. _
TEXAS AGRICULTURAL
EXPERIMENT STATION
Gei - ald W. Thomas, from assist
ant professor to i - esearch coordi
nator; Substation No. 4, Beaumont,
Lloyd E. Crane, from associate
agronomist to superintendent.
TEXAS AGRICULTURAL
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Robert J. Dean, Byron C. Pierce,
Geoi - ge L. Roberts and Arthur L.
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The Battalion
The Editorial Policy of The Battalion
Represents the Views of the Student Editors
Tfte Battalion, daily newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical Oollege of
Texas and the City of College Station, is published by students in the Office of Studedt
Publications as a non-profit educational service. The Director of Student Publications
Is Ross Strader. The governing body of ail student publications of the A.&M. College
of Texas is the Student Publications Board. Faculty members are Karl E. Elmquist,
Chairman; Donald D. Burchard, Tom Leland and Bennie Zinn. Student members
are Derrell H. Guiles. Paul Holladay. and Wayne Moore. Ex-officio members are
Charles Roeber. and Ross Slrader, Secretary. The Battalion is published four times
a week during the regular school year and once a week during the summer and vacation
and examination periods. Days of publication are Tuesday through Friday for the
regular school year and on Thursday during tl ■> summer terms and during examination
and vacation periods. The Battalion is not puolished on the Wednesday immediately
preceding Easter or Thanksgiving. Subscription rates are $3.50 per semester. $6.00
per school year. $6.50 per full year, or $1.00 per month. Advertising rates furnished
on request.
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Junction Camp
Will Operate
On New Budget
An operating - budget of
$44,844 for the only pre-col
lege camp of its kind in the
South was approved by the
Board of Directors of the
A&M Collage System, meeting hei'e
Fx-iday.
The budget will provide funds for
opexation of A&M’s Adjunct near
Junction. The Adjunct is a sum
mer camp of two six-weeks terms
designed to help high school gx - ad-
wates in the choice of and prepaxa-
tion foi- college cai’eei’s. Fee« for
each six-weeks term ai’e $102.75.
The Adjunct was opened in 1951,
and operated that summer with a
total of 105 students. This year
and estimated 240 students are ex
pected, the maximum that can be
handled at the camp.
Enrollees ai’e given an intensive
testing program designed to dis
cover areas where they ai’e strong
est and weakest in academic skills,
and also ai’e given tests to aid
them in choice of college courses
and degree plans. Students may
take remedial x-eading, trigonom
etry, algebra, physical education ox-
basic English. They may earn as
many as seven houi’s of college
credit dui’ing a six-weeks tenn.
Lions Club Picks
Three Directors
W. A. Boney, Richaxd R. Bxoach,
and Donald W. Hood were elected
to the boaxd of dii’ectoxs of the
College Station Lions Club at the
luncheon meeting yesterday.
Other business txansacted at the
meeting included the assigning of
jobs by Al Spaxks for the Lions
Club Boxing Touxnament scheduled
for this Fxiday and Saturday, dis
cussion of the district convention
to be held May 6 and 7 in Austin,
and i-epoi-ts by the tournament
committees.
How about ysii? If you’re looking for a life
long, worthwhile career, congenial associates
and a secure future, drop in and see us.
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