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The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas PAGE 2 Tuesday, December 11, 1956 Student Or Secret? Just what the “S” in SCONA stands for is a matter to be questioned. Supposedly it means Student in the title Student Con ference on National Affairs, but in actual practice it comes closer to meaning- secret. Coming- down to the common man level just a little, the SCONA powers have agreed to let the public in on a few of the more important sessions in hearing two panel discussions and three speeches. After this, though, the sessions go behind closed doors as far as the general student body is concerned. According to some of the SCONA planners, the round table discussions are open to the public for the record. But they say “don’t print that because we don’t want a whole lot of students coming in and crowding the conference rooms.” It is understandable that students wouldn’t be allowed to take part in the discussions since they are necessarily or ganized and planned around a few. But for students to be discouraged in viewing and hearing these discussions is com pletely intolerable to the purposes of SCONA. Why not have a continuous schedule of the discussions in some place such as the Coliseum, Guion Hall or the Ball and Assembly rooms in the MSC so students may at least have a chance to witness some of the sessions? SCONA lists its purposes as being to “conduct informa tive and stimulating discussions on the role of the United States in foreign affairs; “To provide an appreciation of the complexities of the foreign policies of the United States to an increasingly large representation of college students in the South and South west ; “By a serious exchange of ideas between students over a period of years and to help promote a generation of re sponsible leaders in international affairs.” The phrases sound nice anyway. But how can a gen eration of leaders be produced with limited participation and knowledge ? Everyone realizes the impossibility of mass participa tion in the discussions by actual voicing of opinions, but how can any of the purposes of SCONA, which indeed are noble, be fulfilled unless more than just a few select students benefit from the discussions and the conclusions reached. WhaVs Cooking The following organizations will meet tonight: 7:30 Southwest Texas A&M Club will have an important business meet ing in the YMCA. Accounting Society meets ii room 3C of the Memorial Student Center. Judge Hoyle will speak. Before the meeting a group picture will be taken on the front steps of the MSC. Uniform is class A and seniors will wear boots. Civilians will wear coats and ties. Education and Psychology Club meets in room 103 of the Academic Building. Fish and Game Club meets on the third floor, rear, of the Agri cultural Engineering Building. Slides of summer field trip will be shown and Christmas party dis cussed. Agriculturist Joins The Agriculturist, magazine for the school of Agriculture, was un animously voted a member of the Agricultural Magazines Associated at the annual convention recently in Chicago. LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler "iHATt MK. HAWCK—HE'SlNCHAfee Of fEBHUAAN ORIENTATION.' Confusion Rules In CS Traffic Circle By JIM BOWER Contrary to popular belief, cars entering the traffic circle at the intersection of Farm road 60 and College Avenue do not have the right-of-way. The confusioh as to just who is right in entering the circle seems to have grown from the idea that because it is a traffic circle and cars entering it are coming from the right, the drivers of these cars think they have the right-of-way. This means that a large number of more-or-less highly educated people are playing the high school automotive game of “chicken” without advantage of pre-arrange ment. But according to officials here in College Station, those cars already in the circle are in the right and should not have to stop. The fact that the right way of traffic flow into the circle is not known is proven when Bryan city police are seen, stopping their car to allow other cars to enter the circle. Both city and state police regard the intersection as a dangerous “hot spot” because so few people Pack 802 Meeting Cub Scout Pack 802 will meet at 7 tonight in the parish hall of St. Thomas Episcopal Chapel. The opening ceremony will be by Den 3, under the direction of Mrs. Earl Logan. Den 7, directed by Mrs. Joseph Nemec, will be in charge of the program, and the closing cere mony will be conducted by Den 6, Mrs. Oscar Murphy, den mother. seem to know who has the right- of-way. During August, lightest month for travel in the College Station area, the State Highway Depart ment made a survey which revealed that more than 10,000 cars used the cii-cle daily. It was pointed out, however, that most of this was at 8 a. m., 12 noon, 1 p. m. and again at 5 p. m. One of the problems holding up the correction of this “hot spot” is that there seems to be some con fusion as to just who has the responsibility. It is on Farm road 60 which is the responsiblity of the state but is inside the city limits of College Station and borders on the campus of A&M. One of the more prominent sug gestions as to the cure of the circle traffic condition is to place “Yield Right-of-Way” signs at the four approaches to the circle and since two lanes are used in each ap proach, have signs on both sides of the road. Texas A&M is the college Of the people of Texas charged with re sponsibility for education in agri culture, engineering, classical and scientific studies and military science. Jack Kent Elected Jack T. Kent of A&M’s Mathe matics Department, has been elected vice chairman of the South west Region of the American Association of University Pro fessors. The group met this year at the invitation of the University of Oklahoma Chapter, Biological Substation of the university at Lake Texoma, near Kingston, Okla. Sir Winston Churchill retired as England’s prime minister in April, 1955. The Battalion The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represents the Views of the Student Editors The Battalion, daily newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station, is published by students in the Office of Student Publications as a non-profit educational service. The Director of Student Publications Is Ross Strader. The governing body of all student publications of the A.&M. College of Texas is the Student Publications Board. Faculty members are Dr. Carroll D. Laverty, Chairman: Prof. Donald D. Burchard, Prof. Tom Leland and Mr. Bennie Zinn. Student members are John W. Gossett, Murray Milner, Jr., and Leighlus E. Sheppard, Jr., Ex-officio members are Mr. Charles Roeber, and Ross Strader, Sec retary. 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 the summer terms and during examination and vacation periods. The Battalion Is not published on the Wednesday immediately preceeding Easter or Thanksgiving. Sub scription rates are §3.50 per semestei', §6.00 per school year, §6.50 per full year, or $1.00 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. If you’re planning to be an ENGINEER • PHYSICIST MATHEMATICIAN \UJhjxt feXvuL dUQewLdvuis'? Douglas dehorns your dilemmas . .. gives you the kind of work and associates you’ll like and a future unlimited. Its $2 billion backlog keeps careers humming. Big new Air Force contracts make the grazing particularly good for Douglas engineers, physicists and mathematicians in the Tulsa plant. Promotion opportunities are excellent in all categories. 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The Jefferson Chemical Com pany, Inc. of Houston is supporting research on the control of plant parasitic nematodes by nemato- cides with their grant for $1,000. The Department of Plant Phys iology also received a grant from the Pittsburgh Coke and Chemical Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsyl vania. The $500 grant will be used to study the effects of fungicides in the control of cereal rusts. The Phillips Petroleum Company of Bartlesville, Okla., has made $2,000 available' to the Department of Agronomy for research on the factors that influence the nutrient availability of soils. The Perlie Institute of New York City has made available a grant for $1,075 for research in the use of lightweight aggregates in flor- icultural practices. Your... AGGIE PICjURES Color or Black & White Ellison’s Dregs Bryan and North Gate Stores Dr. Win. Gottlieb CHIROPODIST Foot Specialist will be in Bryan this Wednesday, Dec. 12 at the LaSalle Hotel for the treatment of foot conditions. ' OFFICE HOURS 9 to 4:30 LOOKING FOR XMAS PRESENTS ? It’s always a problem to decide what to give Grandmother, Cousin Alice, Uncle Jim and the assorted Small Fry for Xmas. *- This year we’ve made an honest attempt to help you. One of our buyers has recently returned from New York where he went through the stocks of several of the nation’s Large Remainder Houses. Books on almost every subject were selected and they are . . . NOW ON SALE These books — covering everything from Adam to Zebras — are priced at a fraction of their original price. EXCHANGE STORE SERVING TEXAS AGGIES P O G O By Walt Kelly Entered aa second-clasa matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Con- srres* of March 8, 1870. Member of: The Associated Press Texas Press Association Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., a t New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Fran cisco. 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