The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas*
PAGE 2 Wednesday, October 23, 1957
An Editorial
Cadet Slouch
Civilian Goals
Early this month, the Civilian Student Council was is
sued a challeng-e by Bennie Zinn, head of Student affairs
to strive for improvement in the Civilian student program
and A&M.
The challenge was not only issued to the council but
to the Civilian student body as a whole.
Now that the plan has been carried back to the dormi
tories by Civilian councilmen, it might be well to check to
see if most of the suggestions offered by Civilian leaders
last year are being observed and efforts made to carry them
out.
First in the list of suggestions was developing pride
in dormitories. This means keeping them clean, attractive,
quiet and orderly. It also means knowing fellow residents
and providing assistance to new and old students both in
academic and extra curricular activities.
Second was recommended encouragement of participa
tion in dormitory functions and extra-curricular activities.
Such participation includes social affairs, religious ac
tivities, clubs, music activities, student publications. Me
morial Student Center activities, yell practices, class func
tions, school elections and intramural sports.
Third recommendation consists of furthering such good
traditions as yell practice, athletic contest conduct, speak
ing and introductions, silver taps, clean and neat clothing.
Memorial Student Center conduct, hitchhiking courtesy and
the bonfire and Thanksgiving game.
Fourth recommendation includes suggestions by stu
dents concerning college policy which affects students.
Fifth includes planning special Civilian participation
events such as Civilian weekend, talent shows, sports shows,
marriage-family relations conferences, athletic contests and
game tournaments.
Financing council activities is the sixth recommenda
tion. Fostering friendly relationships on and off campus
and developing dormitory councils are recommended for
seven and eight.
Results of the recommendations can be seen all over
the campus. These are apparent in higher morale among
Civilian students.
Another great factor influencing forming a better Civ
ilian student body is the obvious benefit freshmen gained
from the week of planned orientation started this year.
These freshment are speaking and meeting better than ever
before.
Speaking and introductions throughout the whole Civ
ilian student body have improved greatly probably because
of the morale increase.
The Civilian student body has a great future on the
A&M campus. Its future can be brighter if all students
strive to improve and leaders continue to provide incentive
for greater progress.
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THE BATTALION
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Libby. Ex - officio members are Mr. Charles Roeber, and Ross Strader, Secretary.
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JOE TINDEL Editor
Jim Neighbors Managing Editor
Gary Rollins Sports Editor
Joy Roper Society Editor
Gayle McNutt, Val Polk ‘ ^City Editors
Joe Buser, Fred M'eurer t5. e ' vs
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John Warner, Ronald Easley, Lewis Reddell Reporters
Raoul Roth, Buddy Rogers News Photographers
Francis Nivers Sports Photographer
Johnny Barger CHS Correspondent
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Highlights and Sidelights
From Your Slate Capitol
By VEUN SANFORD
Texas Press Association
Who gets the water?—This
legislative session’s statewide
water planning measure is al
ready caught in the same swift
currents that have capsized many
previous water measures.
Mostly, it boils down to a fear
by -each individual lawmaker that
the overall plan might benefit on<j
area by taking water from his
area.
Governor Daniel asked the law
makers to set up machinery under
the.State Water Board to-draw up
a statewide master plan for
water. Measures to this effect
were introduced in the House by
Rep. W. N. Woolsey of Corpus
Christi and in Senate by Sen. |
George Parkhouse of Dallas.
Sponsors have repeatedly reas
sured that the bill would not take
away “any vested right of any
water user in Texas.” But Rep.
W. A. Stroman of San Antonio
objected to giving the Water
Board planners “law - making-
powers.”
Rep. Leroy Saul of Kress with
drew as House sponsor of the bill
because he said he believed its
passage would “lead to deficit
financing.”
State Practice Act—A closed-
watch and possible , limitation of
practice before state agencies i£
proposed in a House hill.
Sponsoring a bill to regulat6
representation before state
agencies are Representatives L.
DeWitt Hale, B. G. Forsyth of
Corpus Christi and J. C. Day of
Brookshire.
Their bill would require each
agency to register those who ap
pear before it. This bill also
would bar lawmakers from such
practice entirely if the constitu
tional amendment raising their
salaries to $7,500 annually is pas
sed.
This was one of the bills re
quested by the governor. -
LETTERS
Editor:
The Battalion
I recently read an article in the
Oct. 14 edition of Life magazine
on the hazing methods used at
West Point. This article set me
to comparing our system of “ori
entation” with their system of
hazing.
I also tried to figure out the
purpose of the hazing system and
this is what I came up with.
The hazing system is used to
(1) mature the mind of a young-
high school boy to that of young
college adult, and (2) to teach a
young- man who is to some day
become an officer in our armed
forces to think under pressure.
Now if I’m wrong, I would like
to be corrected, and if I’m right,
I would like to ask military de
partment and the college admin
istration this question: Are we
accomplishing this goal with oili-
present system of “orientation”?
Wayne E. Long ’60
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TCU ■Roys’ Find Aggie
Competition Too Tough
By Joe Buser
Texas Tech’s Toreador hand,an interesting bit of news
in its Oct. 17 issue.
Seems like the girls there have surrendered their Ivy
type clothing for “more traditional West Texas apparel,”
namely levis. According to the article, “femmes of the cam
pus will get into the style as rules against jeans are shelved.
Coeds may wear levis on the hint3 for overconlins . this ignoble
urge and pointed out that one
might even convert the problem
of waiting- in line into a pleasant
and profitable experience.”
Well, the irate author of the
letter observed- said Jay Brown
stride down Wednesday’s eve
ning’s long line of valiant hunger-
riddled students and CUT IN.
Yes, even at the front.”
And down in the annals of
history, along with such famous
quotes as “people who live in
glass houses shouldn’t throw
stones” will be recorded “edi
tors who write nasty things
about line-cuttei-iners should
campus Friday but Bermuda
shorts are out.”
Don’t take it too hard, fel
lows. You can wear your
Bermudas, even if the. girlies
can’t.
And at the degree mill at
Fort Worth some noteworthy
comments from their Skiff.
Seems that the non-coed fac
tion at the school is having- a
hard time coping with Aggie com
petition.
The article said, “TCU men
find themselves dateless as the
female specie deserts them for
the booted horde . . . true cam
pus romances shrivel on the vine,
as fickle coeds fall victim to
gleaming boots, brass and saber
of Aggies.”
At last. The problem has
come to a head. There is no
shortage of girls here—it’s just
a lack of men there.
Down SMU way, their Campus
had a delightful letter to the edi
tor well worthy’of mention.
Seems one Jay Brown penciled
an editorial asking- that the need
less cutting in the cafeteria line
be stopped, and even offered some
not
. . . cut in.” Shame.
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(By the Author of “Rally Round the Flag, Boys! "and,
“Barefoot Boy with Cheek”)
SCIENCE MADE SIMPLE: No. 1
Though this column is intended to be a source of inno
cent merriment for all sexes and not to concern itself with
weighty matters, I have asked my sponsors, the makers
of Marlboro, whether I might not, from time to time,
use this space for a short lesson in science. “Makers,” I
said to them, “might I not, from time to time, use this
space for a short lesson in science?”
They agreed with many a kindly smile, the makers of
Marlboro, for they are the most agreeable of men. Their
benevolence is due in no small measure to the cigarettes
Jiey smoke, for Marlboro is a cigarette to soothe the most
savage of breasts. I refer not only to the flavor which, as
everyone knows, is a delight to the palate, but also to
the Marlboro container. Here is no fiendishly contrived
device to fray t)ie fingernails and rasp the nerves; here,
instead, is a flip-top box that opens like a charm, and
inside you find a handy red tape to lift out the cigarettes
with ease and dispatch. Add to all this the best filter ever
made, and you can see that you get a lot to like.
Let us begin our series of science lessons with chemis
try. It is fitting that chemistry should be the first, for it
is the oldest of sciences, having been discovered by Ben
jamin Franklin in 468 B.C. when an apple fell on his head
while he was -shooting the breeze with Pythagoras one
day outside the Acropolis. (The reason they were outside
the Acropolis and not inside was that Pythagoras had been
thrown out for drawing right triangles all over the walls.)
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They had several meetings outside +he r~
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They had several meetings outside the Acropolis, but
finally Franklin said, “Look, Pythagoras, this is nothing
against you, see, blit I’m no youngster anymore and if
I keep laying around on this wet grass with you, I’m
liable to get the breakbone fever. I’m going inside.”
Pythagoras, friendless now, moped around Athens for
awhile, then drifted off to Monaco where he married a
girl named Harriet Sigafoos and went into the chuck-a-
luck business. (He would certainly be forgotten today had
not Shakespeare written “You Know Me, Ah”)
But 1 digress. We were beginning a discussion of chemis
try, and the best w r ay to begin is with fundamentals.
Chemicals are divided into elements. There are fou
earth, fire, and water. Any number of delightful con
tions can be made from these elements, such as firei
dacron, and chef’s salad.
Chemicals can be further divided into the classes of
explosive and non-explosive. A wise chemist always
touches a match to his chemicals before he begins an
experiment.
A variety of vessels of different sizes and shapes are
used in a chemistry lab. There are tubes, vials, beakers,
flasks, pipettes, and retorts. A retort is also a snappy come
back, such as “Oh, yeah?” and “So’s your Uncle bscar.”
I have now told you the most important aspects of
chemistry; but there are many more—far too many to
cover in the space remaining here. However, I am sure
there is a fine chemistry lab on your very own campus.
W by don’t you go up some afternoon and poke aroynd?
Make a fun day out of it. Bring ukeleles. Wear humorous
hats. Toast frankfurters on the Bunsen burners. Be gay.
Be merry. Be loose .. . For chemistry is your friend!
© Max Shulman, 1957
The makers of Marlboro, who bring you this colurnn regu
larly, are tobacconists, not scientists. But here’s an equa
tion we do know: Marlboro plus you equals pleasure.