The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, May 03, 1956, Image 2

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THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1956
Preached But Not Practiced
Ayrg-ies don’t lie, cheat or steal.
Not one of these qualities is 100 per cent true at A&M.
Yet you hear the phrase echoed and boasted to every fresh
man and visitor who steps on this campus.
The investigation being made by the Air Science De
partment proves that our “proverb” of integrity has become
just so many words, sounding great, but falling pitifully
short in practice.
First, the fact that quizzes were stolen brought about
the investigation. Second, the stolen quizzes were used to
cheat in the course. And third, students have lied to either
protect themselves or someon%else.
By no twist of the imagination can such action be justi
fied. The purpose of college is education, which is more,
much more, than just getting a degree. This problem, not
unique to A&M, has gained such momentum as to be almost
recognized as being accepted practice. Supporters of this
belief say that it is a contest between student and professor
as to who wins—and everything is fair in deciding the victor.
It is hard to believe that any courses are set up in con
test fashion. Professors are here to teach and you are here
to learn.
In stopping to think, most students realize that we have
a problem in such an attitude on the part of those who want
to just slide under the academic wire. Yet many of these
same students refuse to help in eliminating the cheating be
cause they “can’t squeal on an Aggie buddy.”
A true buddy—or Aggie—will never be in danger of be
ing squealed upon.
No one enjoys revealing the dishonest side of another
person. But then, who wants to be dragged further down
by protecting a practice that not only is hurting you but is
destroying every principle this school was built upon.
All boils down to whether you consider the feelings of
one individual more important than his actions which influ
ence the growth and development of the entire school—both
academically and in prestige.
Shivers, Johnson Clash
In Bare-Fisted Round
Be Safe ?
PET SHOP
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High Schoolers
Will Compete
For Awards
More than 500 high school
boys from all over Texas will
compete in College Station
this weekend for 70 Oppor
tunity Award Scholarships to
A&M College, valued at from $800
to $1,600.
Examinations will be given on
the two Saturdays to allow all ap
plicants a chance to take advan
tage of one of the dates. A total
of 509 applications were reported
up to April 16 at the office of R.
G. Perryman, assistant registrar
of the college, who will be in
charge of giving the examinations.
Winners of the scholarships are
selected by the A&M Faculty Com
mittee on Scholarships, after coo-
sideration of each candidate’s
scholastic record, character, evi
dence of leadership in high school,
financial circumstances and grade
on the annual competitive examin
ation.
The scholarships carry from $200
to $400 in aid each year for four
yeais, plus part-time employment
at the college if needed. They are
renewed each year as long as the
holder’s academic and conduct rec
ord is satisfactory.
The program started here in
1946. Since that time 712 Oppor
tunity Awards have been made—
305 students at the college are cur
rently enrolled on these scholar
ships.
NEW SENATE PRESIDENT OFFICE—Byron A. (Scot
ty) Parham is apparently taking it easy in the new office
of the Student Senate president now located on the second
floor of the YMCA. The office opens into the main lobby
of the Office of Student Activities and is on the left as you
enter the door.
‘If we get out of this alive. Stupid
I Believe .
Uy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Both sides tossed bare-knuckle
blows yestei'day in the Texas Dem
ocratic Party leadership fight be
tween Gov. Allan Shivers and Sen.
Lyndon Johnson.
Shivers told his precinct work
ers at Baytown Johnson is getting
so politically thin-skinned, “he
doesn’t even want to be questioned”
about things like the Southern
Manifesto, federal aid to educa
tion and “whether the Texas dele
gation should represent Texas
thinking or Washington thinking.”
Johnson said Shivers is “ranting
about states rights without saying
anything about states wrongs. The
Senator again challenged Shivers
to “call a special session to inves
tigate insurance and land scandals
and to take action on interposi
tion.”
The first big test of strength on
whether Johnson or Shivers will
head the Texas delegation to the
Democratic National Convention
comes Saturday at precinct conven
tions. This will be followed by
county conventions Tuesday, with
final decision May 22 at the State
Convention in Dallas.
At a rally of about 200 support
ers in Waco, Johnson said if Shiv
ers “would spend as much time
talking about states wrongs as he
does about states rights, he would
run the crooks from the temple at
Austin.”
Johnson accused Shivers of con
niving in a plot to destroy the
Democratic Party by turning
over to “hotheads and Republi
cans.”
it
He called for selection of a Tex
as delegation composed of “mod
erates who can pick the best Dem
ocrat in the nation for the nomina
tion.”
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The Battalion
The Editorial Policy of The Battalion
Represents the Views of the Student Editors
Tne Battalion, daily newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of
Texas and the City of College Station, ia published by students in the Office of Student
Publications as a non-profit educational service. The Director of Student Publications
» 5 oss s,rader - T,ie governing body of all 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 Celand and Bennie Zinn. Student members
Guiles, Paul Holladay. and Wayne Moore. Ex-officio members are
Charles Roeber, and Ross Strader, 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 published on the Wednesday immediately
preceding Easter or Thanksgiving. Subscription rales are $3.50 per semester $6.00
per school year, $6.o0 per full year, or $1.00 per month. Advertising rates furnished
I believe in regular church at
tendance because one of the fund
amental and universal needs of
the human race is the need to lean
on a power greater than we are.
No matter how great our stature
in the office, shop, business, or
classroom, there are times when
we are faced with problems that
are beyond human resources —
problems that make us feel our in
significance. Religion provides us
with the power that makes us cap
able of achieving that which we
cannot achieve alone.
There is within us an inherent
need to be dependent on a stronger
being. In some situations we want
to dominate, in others we are ready
to lean. A belief in a Supreme
Being satisfies that desire for sub
mission since it gives recognition
to a force stronger than ours which
is ready to protect us. The abil
ity through faith to lean on God
releases tensions.
The cathardic value of worship
with the spirit of confident fellow
ship, including prayer, should not
be minimized as it is good for us
under normal conditions as well as
when we are in trouble. It helps
to clear mental conflicts. There
is a strong therapeutic influence
in church attendance since basic-
illy, in spite of the rational foun
dations and intellectual content of
religion, religous response i s
strongly emotional.
I believe in regular church at
tendance because the individual re
ceives positive assets that can de
velop a personality capable of with
standing tensions 4 and of absorb-
ng shock arising from modern liv-
ng. The individual gains a bet
ter perspective of his problems and
>f himself. With relief of the
emotional stresses, he gains
strength through clarity of
thought in meeting the particular
problems so that their solutions
will be on a higher and nobler
plane, removed from human weak
nesses of bias, prejudice, and in-
II dividual desires—so that one’e life,
I even though the contribution may
I be infinitesimal, has been of bone-
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