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% 'Fhe Ballalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas PAGE 2 Thursday, May 23, 1957 Editorials Keep WTAW A&M’s Radio Station WTAW has been put up for sale by the Board of Directors because of the increased costs of operation. During recent years the station has been slowly becom ing less and less a means of education for A&M students. Only a few students have been working while the remainder of the staff has been permanent. Possibly the Board feels that since the station is becom ing more commercial and less educational there is little rea son to pay for its upkeep. Instead of selling the station, it seems unusual that the Board doesn’t take some steps to make it the educational institution it can be. If the station is sold, A&M, as a major educational in stitution in the nation, would be taking a step backward since all forward looking colleges and universities have radio stations, at least, and some have TV stations for educating students. It would be well for the Board of Directors to look over the decision to sell before they clinch a deal with some buy er. One alternate solution to selling the station might be to give it to some department of the college and allow that de partment to use faculty or staff members to direct a pro gram of instruction for any and all students interested in radio work. Under this plan the cost of operation would not mean much since it would be an educational endeavor which need not net a large profit. If the Board lets WTAW slip out of their hands now, chances are slim that the college would ever be able to get another station with as much power and influence as WTAW has built up through the years. Letters to the Editor Editor, The Battalion With reference to the two edi torials in yesterday’s Battalion, I would like to cast my vote on the side of those opposing compulsory membership in the Corps. Com pelling- a man to belong- to the "Corps does not improve either the man or the Corps; it only creates a resentment on his part. This re sentment may cause him to leave, which some would consider a good thing, or it may cause him to criti cize the Corps and A&M in places outside of here, and this is not a good thing. In either case you have a person who is not taking- full advantage of what is offered here. In addition to the above—and this I consider even more impor tant—Institutions of higher learn ing have as one of their major ob jectives that of creating in the stu dent a habit of open-minded inquiry into anything and everything. One of the objectives of military train ing is to promote unquestioning obedience to orders from above. In my opinion these two tend to be incompatible. One loses out, and it is generally the habit of inquiry Another thing I would like peo ple to consider is: Is all this prep aration for armed conflict getting us anywhere ? I think not. If all of the effort and money and thought that has gone into arma ments and wars had been spent on actively seeking peace instead of the mere absence of war, we would really have a world worth living (See LETTERS, Page 3) Take Your Guests For Baccalaureate and Commencement and Final Review to Dine at m ctrmol J Restaurant — Delicatessen — Catering Phone TA 2-4749 2008-10 Texas Ave. (In The Plantation Shopping Center) The Battalion The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represents the Views of the Student Editors The Battalion, dayly newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station, la 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 ar& Dr. Carroll D. Caverty. Chairman; Prof. Donald D. Burchard, Prof. Tom Leland and Mr. Bennie Ziinn. Student members are W. T. Williams. Murray Milner, Jr., and Leighlus E. Sheppard, Jr., Ex-officio members are Mr. Charles Koeber, 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 u aecond-clasa ■setter at Post Office at College Station, Texas, ander the Act of Con- grsas 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 cis co. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republi- eation 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. 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. -Off the Cuff- What Goes On Here Professor R. L. (Flash) Leuzin- ger of the Aeronautical Engineer ing Department has been voted the man with the reddest face in the department since last Saturday. Seems as if Flash was attending the annual Open House Day at Bryan AFB and, like all the kids, was having a big time for him self. The curious prof, who was ob serving a display of F-110C jet fighters, decided to crawl in one and look around. While sitting there fiddling with the controls he inadvertedly pulled the wrong cord and released the drag chute used to slow the plane down for landings. No sweat Prof—But thank good ness it w r asn’t the cockpit ejector! Charles R. Smith Smith Selected RV Commander Charles R. Smith, second regi mental staff sergeant junior from Dallas, has been selected as next year’s Ross Volunteer’s command ing- officer. Smith has a 2.05 overall grade point ratio and is a tentative Dis tinguished Military Student. Plis school activities and honors include Best Drilled Freshman, Intramural Manager, Freshman Drill Team, Outstanding Freshman in the Field Artillery Battalion, Outstanding- Engineering Junior in Field Ar tillery. Other men selected to lead the honor company are J. Paul Costa, executive officer; Donald D. Dun lap, administrative officer; John H. Foster, first sergeant; James R. Groves, Ray M. Bowen and Ray E. Camper, platoon leaders. PALACE KrytnZ-SSW TODAY thru SATURDAY ' A; iiiar jne and - Sister Angela alone on a Pacific Island ... r r a p p e d b ehi n d enemy lines! 20th CENTURY-FOX presenti Deborah Robert KERR - MITCHUM Heaven Knows. Mr. Allison’’ PLUS COLOR by DE LUXE PLUS McGOO” C!NEJV1A£>C©p£ McGOO” TODAY thru SATURDAY JOE TINDEL Editor Jim Neighbors Managing Editor Jim Carrel 1 Sports Editor Gayle McNutt City Editor Val Polk, Fred Meurer, Joe Buser News Editors Jim Bower, Dave Mc-Reynolds, 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 Spurts Correspondent X'/'k \ Clark ” Spcnccr T 'GABLE-TMCr - Claudette Hedy COLBERT* LAMARR OGAA TOWN AN M-G-M MASTERPIECE REPRINT 4 f Little Man on campus by Dick Bibfer feetVew- Itprtea* SET NO SPEC! I- Pf?\VLF6e3 T^rS SCHOOL fC50T(ZAU- OAVCG'* - gdUffTiN gOAPCP fad. clock Winder FURNACE tVATCHed 2(0. ST^Ptae MtfA/TFP 300. Ptx Towpr CltECKEK, 2ao. f’On. , (voey. oojt'f) M0 n CUTS HEY,COACH, WHAT£THI£ 1 H£AK A0OLIT A ’W/NN/A/6 PRO^FBCT'SCU ftPUNP 7 THIS What’s Cooking The following clubs and organi zations will meet tonight: 7:15 Tyler-Smith County Hometown Club Will meet in Room 225 of the Academic Building. Fannin County Hometown Club will meet in Room 108, Bagley Hall. Fayette Colorado Counties Club will meet in room 3C in the Memo rial Student Center. Wheeler-Collingsworth Club will meet in room 101 of the YMCA to plan transportation home and to discuss their annual function. An election of next year’s officers will be held. 7:30 Panhandle Club will meet in Room 305, Academic Building. Bell County Hometown Club will meet in Room 125 of the Academic Building for final barbecue and end of school party planning. An elec tion of next year’s officers will he held. Lower Trinity Valley Hometown Club will meet in Room 203, Aca demic Building for an election of club officers at this final meeting. Lubbock-South Plains will meet in Room 108 of the Academic Building for an election of officers. Northeast Texas Hometown Club will meet in Room 110, Bagley Hall to plan an after school party. Panhandle Club will meet in the Anderson Room of the YMCA. An LSU football movie will be shown. Holdredges Host M.E. Wives Club Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Hold- redge entertained Friday evening with a lawn party honoring grad uating seniors of the Mechanical Engineering Wives Club. Dr. C. M. Simmang, acting head of the de partment, presented the Ph. T. de grees. Zeckendorf Speaks Tonight In MSC William Zeckendorf, world re nowned real estate developer from New York, will speak on “The Re lationship between Architecture and Real Estate Economics” to night in the Memorial Student Cen ter Ballroom at 8. The address is open to the pub lic and those interested in real es tate, urban planning, construction promotion, architecture and fi nance are urged to take advantage of this opportunity, said Charles R. Colbert, head of the Division of Architecture. Zechendorf, who is president of Webb and Knapp Inc., New York, world’s largest real estate develop ment company, is currently taking part in a large Zeckendorf-Wynne industrial development project be ing built between Dallas and Fort Worth. CIRCLE THURSDAY & FRIDAY “REPRISAL” Guy Madison — Also — Russ Tamblyri “YOUNG GUNS” THURSDAY & FRIDAY 'K.lCl-IAHP 4 IJEO IBaSehxirt Gewi IN THE John Huston PRODUCTION OF HEKMAN MELVILLE’S COLOR BY TECHNICO!_OS« a MOULIN picrunr . Y BRADBURY AND J( OIRlCrtD I • JOHN HUSTON UjW. , s, WARNER BROS. 'H Z' Cadets Can Mi ss Class For Flying Cadets with proper certification from their flight instructor will be authorized to miss the equivalent of one day’s class work during this week so that they may make up flying time, President D. W. Wil liams said. The action was taken at the last meeting of the Executive tee last week. „ KEYS made while you wait I Ol POPS vwm L# 0ttlVE IN ^THEATBI tiiiiw vInpi ej? vt xcv vun THURSDAY & FRIDAY TOWARD THE UNKNOWN’ with WILLIAM HOLDEN —Plus—• “CAPTAIN LIGHTFOOT” with ROCK HUDSON LAST DAY RANDOLPH SCOTT RIDES THE ’ ' - . ’ RANSOM TRAIL OF KIDNAPPERS! TECHWICOILOR Richard BOONE Maureen O’SULLIVAN A COLUMBIA PICTURE ‘ ! N\ // Jd LAST CALL FOR STICKLERS! We’re still shelling out $25 for every Stickler we accept—and we’re still accepting plenty! But if you want to cut yourself in, you’ve got to start Stickling NOW! Sticklers are simple riddles with two-word rhyming answers. Both words must have the same number of syllables. 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