77ic Battalion .... College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Wednesday, September 19, 1956
Students Poor Voters
According To Survey
College Students rate only a lit
tle higher as voters than the aver
age citizen, says a recent survey of
1,300 Students by Look Magazine.
The poll, taken at 24 colleges,
shows that only two out of five
college students eligible to vote
for the first time in the coming
presidential election plan to do so.
The survey, in the October issue
of Look, discloses that 24 per cent
of students are undecided as to
party choice, while 34 per cent
showed no interest in who will be
the next vice president.
Even more striking are figures
that list three out of 10 students
with no presidential choice.
The survey in Look also came up
with these findings:
Most first voters—71 per cent
—admitted that their choice of a
candidate would be “strongly in
fluenced” by the candidate’s per
sonality and appearance.
The students’ views were
“nebulous” on the political ef
fectiveness of television and radio
—22 pei 1 cent of them were “com
pletely in the dark” as to whether
television and radio influenced
them or not.
When queried on their chief com
plaint about the Democratic and
Republican parties, almost 50 per
cent of the students “found this
too remote or complicated, or plain
political” to express an opinion.
Thirty-eight per cent of those
polled, didn’t seem to know, or
care, what there was to admire
about either the Democrats or Re
publicans.
Volcanic Hot Foot
HILO, Hawaii / OP>—A tourist
from Los Angeles stuck his foot in
the mud and came up with a
volcanic hot foot here. While tour
ing the site of last year’s volcanic
eruptions on this largest of the
Hawaiian Islands, the visitor’s
right foot sank into a mud puddle
and he came up with first and
second degree burns. . Hawaii
volcanologist Dr. Jerry Eaton said
the volcano-heated mud in the
area still percolates at 200 degrees
some 18 months after the eruption.
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Represents the Views of the Student Editors
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JIM BOWER Editor
Dave McReynolds Managing Editor
Barry Hart Sports Editor
Bernice Schnerr Society Editor
Welton Jones City- Editor
Connie Eckard, Leland Boyd, Jim Neighbors, Joe Tindel News Editors
Kenneth George Circulation Manager
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CADET SLOUCH
by James Earle
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Earle Produces
New ‘Slouch’ Book
Jim Earle, originator of the fa
mous Slouch cartoon character has
produced another book of cartoons
which is now on sale.
The book has 88 pages and 200
cartoons. Local places handling
these new books are the Memorial
Student Center Gift Shop and the
Exchange Store.
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WEDNESDAY
‘CAROUSEL”
with GORDON MacRAE
— plus —
TIGHT SPOT’
with GINGER ROGERS
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Bryan 2'8879
LAST DAY
HYPNOTISM..
CAN IT
DRIVE
A MAN
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MURDER?
STARTING THURSDAY
20th Century-Fox
presents
MARILYN
MONROE
in
BUS STOP.
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BUDDY ADLER
Directed by
JOSHUA LOGAN
Screenplay ^
GEORGE
AXELROD
DON
MURRAY
with ARTHUR O’CONNELL
BETTY FIELD
EILEEN HECKART
Queen
last day
What’s Cooking
The following clubs will meet
tonight at 7 p. m.
The A&M Pistol Team meets
at the Pistol and Rifle Range
under Kyle Field.
Meeting Rooms
Student Clubs and organizations
may apply for meeting room reser
vations in the Memorial Student
Center tomorrow from 8 a. m. to
noon and 1 p. m. to 5 p. m., ac
cording to Mrs. Ann Keel, social
director. Applications may be made
in the Social and Educational of
fice.
A&M was the first school in the
United States to offer and confer
a Ph. D. degree in Range Manage
ment.
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