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3 r r p The Battalion College Station (Brasos County), Texas PAGE 2 Thursday, May 9, 1957 I m w I w iri fi LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler Editorials Letters to the Editor s and fori A grab See (i Hat YM ed Mai Buil 195' ject any Bus of l for P six ocul A Coll: May VI f Sf WA Br nishi off , Oi Unit ers. in^ Com Ur at 2l Co homr convi tioni: indef bedrt Cons mont La stair! Park On first TA 3 On Nortl Ga 3. L and < nishei Nic ment Inqui Adam Turn way. Cod apart: Adult Sev Shop. Fur for g (2 eh: ust. W. 7ti Editor, The Battalion When you took the job as editor of The Battalion you said you would hold no prejudice. After reading your editorial “Vote for the Future” we have the opinion you are a man with two faces. John Wood ’58 Larry Downs ’58 John McCarty ’58 Edward J. Mikulenka ’58 Julius L. Hammack ’57 Vernon F. Taylor ’58 Charles Dosch ’58 W. Kent White ’58 Gerald A. Kramer ’58 Sonny Ellen ’58 Roy Powell ’58 James M. Warren ’58 Rollins Bilby ’58 Carl Series ’60 Joe Gooden ’60 Editor, The Battalion It is our understanding that The Battalion is a student publication As such we would like for the editor of our Battalion to take an impartial view on controversial is sues on the campus. If you haven’t alreday guessed, we are referring to your issue of May 7, 1957 in which you try to influence the voters to vote for the reserved seating plan in the coming general election. In this issue you present ed three specific items that made an attempt to influence the voters. We appreciate very much your trying to get voters out for any student election!, but we don’t appreciate any one-sided argu ments presented in a paper that is supposed to represent us all. It seems to us that this issue of the (See LETTERS, Page 3) Hope Still Exists Despite the crushing defeat of the Senate’s plan for integrated reserve seats for juniors and seniors in yester day’s election, a big step was taken toward better relations between Corps and Civilians. Proposal of the seating plan showed that campus leaders feel a real need for a solution to the problem of Corps and Civilian cooperation. Most encouraging of all was the large part which some Corps members took in trying to get the plan accepted. These men stood out above all others because they re alized that the future of A&M depends largely on how well the Corps and Ciilian understand each other. Defeat in this initial attempt for cooperation should not cause any student to rest in his attempts to build better Corps-Civilian relations. The ground has only been broken for the building of an outstanding Civilian student body which will merit the re spect of the Corps and be as much of a pride to the College as the Corps has been in the past. Building of such a strong Civilian group need not mean the weakening of the Corps if cadets strive to make their organization the best it can possibly be. Even though well organized and good to a point, the Corps may die if the cadets themselves don’t do something to make it live and coexist with Civilian students. Many problems and weaknesses still exist in Corps and Civilian organizations which, if not remedied, could lead to either of those groups’ ultimate downfall. What A&M students should be interested in and work for earnestly is not a school of all Corps or all Civilians but a school where these two groups cooperate and show the people of Texas and the nation as well that they are all wor thy of being called Aggies. N Voting Important A&M’s Corps of Cadets showed yesterday what organ ization can mean in getting students to vote in campus elec tions. Regardless of how the election ended, their concerted effort shows a real interest in the affairs which affect them. If every student would take as much interest in the future, the result could be better student government. Debaters Finish Year With 3-7 The Aggie Debate Team finish ed the year with a 3-7 record at the Southwest Conference Tourna ment held in Dallas last weekend. Negative debaters, E. M. Huitt and John Warner, won over Rice Institute, Southern Methodist Uni versity and Texas Christian Uni versity. However, they lost to Tex as Tech and Baylor University. Jay Hirsch and David Dannen- baum, on the affirmative, lost all five debates. Rice won the tournament, re taining possession of the confer ence trophy. The negative team from Rice won the negative trophy with a 5-0 record. Vrooman Accepts Architect Position Richard Vrooman has been added as architect and principal in the Martin Lemmon & Merrell, Archi tects Engineers Inc, of Bryan. Vrooman has served for the past eight years with the A&M Division of Architecture. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oberlin College, a Bachelor of Architecture from Western Reserve University and a Master of Archi tecture from A&M. KEYS made while you wait Truck Hits Prof C. M. Hohn, agricultural engi neering professor, was released from a Houston hospital yesterday after having been hit by a truck in Houston, according to F. R Jones, head of the department. Hohn was not seriously injured in the accident, Jones said. LOUPOT’S On Campos with MaxQhuJman ; Mil llWIN wnohH ? vnvvv ’ f RIT The Greenland ptarmigan, grouse type of bird, has black and yellow feathers in the spring, gray in the fall and white in the win ter. Id,! fiY«l £ Bryan Z-SS79 TODAY thru SATURDAY to help you HONOR MOM on her day with a CORSAGE see your dorm representative or come by Thru SATURDAY “For Whom the Bells Toll” Gary Cooper CIRCLE THURSDAY & FRIDAY “Love Me Tender” Elvis Presley —Also— “Silver Star” STUDENT FLORAL CONCESSIONS Across from main entrance to New Area TODAY thru SATURDAY — Double Feature — THURSDAY & FRIDAY “OVER EXPOSED” with CLEO MOORE — Also — “FEMALE JUNGLE” with KATHLEEN CROWLEY THURSDAY & FRIDAY WILD AS THEIR MUSIC! CRAZY AS THEIR LOVE! (Author of "Barefoot Boy With Cheek,” etc.) THE THUNDERING MARCH OF PROGRESS Today, as everyone knows, is the forty-sixth anni versary of the founding of Gransnaire College for Women which, as everyone knows, was the first Progressive Education college in the United States. Well do I recollect the tizzy in the academic world when Gransmire first opened its portals! What a buzz there was, what a brouhaha in faculty common rooms, what a rattling of teacups, when Dr. Agnes Thudd Siga- foos, first president of Gransmire, lifted her shaggy head and announced defiantly, “This here is no stuffy, old- fashioned college. This here, by gum, is Progressive Education. We will teach the student, not the course. There will be no marks, no exams, no requirements. We will break the iron mold of orthodoxy, hey.” "Well sir, forward-looking maidens all over the country cast off their fetters and came rushing to New Hampshire to enroll at Gransmire. Here they found freedom. They broadened their vistas. They lengthened their horizons. They unstopped their bottled personalities. They roamed the campus in togas, leading ocelots on leashes. And, of course, they smoked Philip Morris. (I say “of course.” Why do I say “of course”? I say “of course” because it is a matter of course that anyone in search of freedom should naturally turn to Philip Morris, for Philip Morris is a natural smoke, with no filter to get in the way of its true tobacco taste.) But all was not Philip Morris and ocelots. There was work and study too — not in the ordinary sense, for there were no formal classes. Instead there was a broad approach to enlarging each girl’s potentials. MIC «/*£?' JOHN SAXON / LUANA PATTEN with FAY WRAY A UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL PICTURE 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 la 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 W. T. Williams. 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. 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. Entered as second-class ■natter at Post Office at College Station, Texas, wader the Act of Con- 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, Lot Angeles, and San Fran cisco. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republi- catton of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Call (A News contributions may be made by telephone (VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910) or at the editorial office room, on the ground floor of the YMCA- Classified ads may be placed by telephone (VI 6-6415) or at the Student Publications Office, ground floor of the YMCA. K & JOE TINDEL ... Editor Jim Neighbors .. Managing Editor Jim Carreil Sports Editor Gayle McNutt » City Editor Val Polk, Fred Meurer, Joe Buser News Editors Jim Bower, Dave McReynolds, Barry Hart, Leland Boyd Has-beens Joy Roper - ..Society Editor Jerry Haynes, Ronald Easley Reporters John West, C. R. McCain Staff Photographers Don Collins : ..Staff Cartoonist George Wise Circulation Manager Maurice Olian CHS Sports Correspondent ^ AGGIE SPECIAL ^ Chicken Fried Steak YOUR p an Fried Steak CHOICE Breaded Veal Cutlet Hamburger Steak with Onions With Baked Potato or French Fries and Salad — Only 75^ — Also Featuring Our Very Special PRIME RIB STEAK, 1 FULL POUND Charcoal Broiled With Baked Potato, Onion Ring and Home Made Pie Coffee or Tea — $2.00 — TRIANGLE DRIVE IN DINING ROOM MIDWAY the course edited 3#$ic Motor dkUtz Take, for example, the course called B.M.S. (Basie Motor Skills). B.M.S. was divided into L.D. (Lying Down), S.U. (Standing Up) and W. (Walking). Once the student had mastered L.D. and S.U., she was taught to W. — but not just to W. any old way! No, sir! She was taught to W. with poise, dignity, bearing! To incul cate a sense of balance in the girl, she began her exercises by walking with a suitcase in each hand. (One girl, Mary Ellen Dorgenicht, got so good at it that today she is bell captain at the Dinkler-Plaza Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.) When the girls had walking under their belts, they were allowed to dance. Again no formality was imposed. They were simply told to fling themselves about in any way their impulses dictated, and believe you me, it was quite an impressive sight to see them go bounding into the woods with their togas flying. (Several later joined the U. S. Forestry Service.) There was also a lot of finger painting and gourd rattling and sculpture with coat hangers and all like that, and soon the fresh wind of Progressivism came whistling out of Gransmire to blow the ancient dust of pedantry off curricula everywhere, and today, thanks to the pio neers at Gransmire, we are all free, every man-jack of us. If you are ever in New Hampshire, be sure to visit the Gransmire campus. It is now a tannery. ©Max Shulmati, 1957 And be sure to light a Philip Morris when you visit Gransmire, or anywhere else for that matter, because Philip Morris is ahvays a naturally perfect companion and brings you this column each week and is ignitable at either end. LFL ABNER Capp iBKOMMCNDED FC&amiUS.ONl By Charles M. Schulz HE'S BEEN TAGGING AFTER ME ALL MORNING!EVERY TIME !'D TURN AROUND, THERE HE'D BE! y