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1 The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas CjCldct Slouch PAGE 2 Friday, December 6, 1957 4 l Art for Aggies’ Sake BY WELTON JONES Some time ago, this column promised some comments on the two-man show of paintings currently in the Memorial Student Center. A few random impressions were also con tained with the promise. Since that time, the “two-man” show has become three fold in nature and another medium has been added with the first public viewing of the work of Josef Tompa, the Hungarian sculptor who immigrated to College Sta tion last year following the revolts and disturbances in his own country. It has come to the attention of this column that certain of the innocent “random comments” in cluded last time have been re ceived with distress in some quarters. In this vein, let this column stress again the fact that reviews of any performance or creation by this column are the honest and sincere views of this column and are not meant to be anything more or less. PAINTING—Joseph Donaldson Jr., of the A&M Architecture De partment contributed the lion’s share of work to the current showing. As noted previously, he drew inspiration for his wild abandon with color from years spent in New Orleans, the Virgin Islands, Haiti and other such exotic areas. Donaldson’s works seem to fall into three loose groups. The first contains the traditional “scapes,” or impressions of landscapes, sea- i&capes and other bits of scenery. These are best typified by the dewey-eyed “Remembered City,” a drawing “View from my Win dow” and the lush, bold “Haitian Fantasy”. His group of faces follows. These include “Prophet and Bird”, perhaps the most striking work on exhibit, the less complicated “Solemn • Men” and the almost realistic “Portrait Impression (Robert Boyce)”. All his faces seem either to be brooding and silent or screamingly insane. The final, and perhaps the most significant group, is that containing the “Wanderers.” Brooding, bleak, unfriendly, these works seem to reflect a vague self pity. Never, it seems, can the wandering spirit find comfort. Mrs. Emalita Terry, MSC art director, is familiar to local view ers, but displayed as they are with Donaldson’s works, her deli cate water colors and ghostly pastel caseins are seen in a new light. The two personalities are ob vious. Mrs. Terry is at her best with a whispy subject such as “Marsh Reflections” to which Donaldson could hardly have done justice. Likewise Mrs. Terry would never attempt anything like “Garden Masquerade.” Perhaps she nears Donaldson most in “Portrait of Zana,” which still lacks the completed feeling of his treatment of similar sub jects. The six works by Mr. Tompa, all completed since his arrival here last year, reveal an artist of great sensitivity and obvious ac complishment. His two wood plaques, “Veil Dancer” and “Still Life”, while perfect to the min ute detail, may be considered a bit too archaic and “old-worldish” for the American viewer. His wooden replica of a re flective monk (“Meditation”) is well suited to the bold but deli cate style of carving he used. His two plaster heads seem about to speak. But it is in his wood-carving “Anonymous” that he reaches heights. Perhaps it is his reac tion to experiences in Hungary showing through, but the speech less power of the figure makes it the best work of art in the MSC today. As a monument life-size, it would be frighteningly over powering. MUSIC—The Fine Arts Quart et, a most accomplished string quaidet, will be presented by the MSC Recital Series in the MSC Assembly room tonight at 8. The group promises an enjoyable evening for admirers of chamber music. They will perform Beethoven’s C minor quartet, the first work that master composed when he realized he was soon to become totally deaf. Also on the program are Dvorak’s Quartet No. 6 in F major and Ravel’s Quartet in F major. Letters To The Editor ^suooUffor (he CHOOSE YOUR SPOUT COAT From Our Smart Collection Dress Right — You Can’t Afford Not To! A&M MEN'S SHOP YOUR IVY LEAGUE CENTER Dick Rubin, '’59 103 North Main North Gate THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent 'writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax-sup ported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and operated by students as a community newspaper and is gov erned by the student-faculty Student Publications Board at Texas A. & M. College. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A & M., is published in College Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, September through May, and- once a week during summer school. Faculty members of the Student Publications Board are Dt. Carroll D. Laverty, Chairman; Prof. Donald D. Burchard; Prof. Robert M. 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News contributions may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI- 6-4910 or at the editorial office, Room 4, YMCA. For Advertising ’ or delivery call VI 6-6415. JOE TINDEL Editor Jim Neighbors . ..Managing Editor Gary Rollins Sports Joy Roper Society Editor Gayle McNutt, Val Polk City Editors "\JB DOM'T WECD A COACH-WB UE£D MOee JOHM CROW *6 /* Job Calls The following interviews will be held in the Placement Office: Tuesday P. G. Bell & Company., Inc., Houston, interviews architectur al construction majors for jobs as estimator and job expeditor and work in cost accounting. Columbia Southern Chemical Corporation. A subsidiary of Pitts burgh Plate Glass Company) in terviews chemical, civil, electri cal, industrial and mechanical en gineering, accounting' and chem istry majors. Dresser Industries, Inc., Dallas, interviews aeronautical, chemi cal, civil, electrical, geological, industrial, mechanical, petroleum and architectural engineering, geology and geophysics majors. Tuesday and Wednesday U. S. Soil Conservation Ser vice interviews agricultural, and civil engineering, agronomy, plant and soil science, range and for estry, animal husbandry, dairy production and entomology ma jors. It also interviews the above majors for summer employ ment. leaped out of his chair and dash ed for a door, screaming, “I left my ring, my senior ring, in the ‘restroom’ .” He found it. With all the buzzing on the gcampus and the rush to go out and buy soldier suits, several intei’esting things have turned up in class. In one class in particular, dur ing a heated discussion on the subject, one soon-to-be-compelled type student said, “Let’s hear something from the Boy Scouts.” Wherein, the instructor of the class comented to the un-look-a like that “that was a little be low the belt.” But he indicated that it would be all right if one of the “scouts” spoke to the class and even of fered to maintain order, as sen ior patrol leader. ★ ★ ★ A small riot almost started last night at the Senate meet ing. The meeting was about to begin when ope Jim Bradyish senior CIRCLE FRIDAY G!NsmaScoP£ EASTMAN COLOR starring TONY CURTIS MARTHA HYER Also nt tw FRIDAY “Band of Angels” With Clark Gable plus “Attack” With Jack Balance CIRCLE DRIVE-IN THEATER SATURDAY ONLY 3 BIG FEATURES! CONQUEROR of the UNIVERSE! Science Fiction Shocker! A REGAtSCOPE Picture I 1II s? | » !jpf 7EFF MOBROW • BARBARA Also “Dance With Me Henry” Abbott & Costello Also “Quineannon, Frontier Scout PEANUTS Editor: The Battalion The biggest thing that makes the Corps look bad in the Battal ion isn’t editorials by the editor but letters from Corps members who seem to think anyone who doesn’t agree with them should keep quiet and not express his thoughts. Bringing out both sides of any question is the only way to come to any intelligent conclusion about anything. That’s the Am erican system. Freedom of the press is one of the things we have a Corps to protect. Are we in the Corps afraid of criticism ? Are we afraid to look at our organization or have any one else look at it for fear they might find something wrong ? I don’t think the majority of us are. Anything worth a darn won’t be hurt by criticism. A far more dangerous situation is hold ing something up as a sacred cow not to be touched by anyone. If the Corps hasn’t matured us enough by the time we’re juniors and seniors to take crit icism with an open mind or hear either side of the argument in telligently even if we don’t agree, then something’s wrong some where and we might as well go coed and be done with it. Kenneth Haggard ’58 Editor: The Battalion I kinda feel sorry for you as I wonder how you are going to get along in this world with your one-sided ideas! There are many on this campus who are getting sick and tired of reading day after day your prejudiced views expressed in a publication representing Teras A&M. Who are you to the ask the board of directors to reconsider their decision? Does our Editor think he is qualified to “request” one way or the other? Jim Burke ’57 Editor: The Battalion After reading your editorial concerning the announcement of a compulsory Corps dated 4, De cember, 1957, I was finally con vinced of what your attitude has been since you have taken the reins of The Battalion. Since your editorials always expressed the views of the non-reg, I feel that it is necessary to express what I know are the feelings of the Corps of Chdets. First of all the function of the Coi’ps of Cadets is not primarily to mass produce military offi cers like those of West Point. The function of the Corps is to train and produce men who after leaving this college can cope with problems that will face them. This means the Corps is THRU SATURDAY 'Pfu ROBERHAilGHN \ Jrw ALSO ’ms we»s Saturday Prevue Sunday Thru Tuesday €wiisi§: Still Joel McCREA Mark STEVENS Joan WELDON __ A UNITED ARTIS1S PICTURE trying to teach discipline and in still in every Aggie a certain quality that in the past has been easily noticed by the people of Texas and the rest of the United States. There is nothing in the Corps that you can claim to be detrimental to the life of a clean cut American male. Teaching a man to schedule his time and to take the best advantage of it is something non- reg life does not teach you. Living off of the reputation built by the Corps of Cadets is something non-reg life does teach you! The Corps is what sells the college and is the same organization that backs it to the hilt. Almost every structure on this campus has been built by the cooperation and finances oof Aggie Exes, all of whom were in the Corps. Just what progress has the Civilian Student body made? The only progress that I have seen is the path that is being worn across the drill field and MSC grass. It seems to me that the reason that you so violently object to a compulsory Corps is that your non-reg followers might have to cope with something more in the future. They might have to put up with their fellow men and learn what it is to be an Aggie. They might have to learn how to show respedt where respect is due and also learn how to humble themselves when necessary. You say that a man should have a choice of whether or not he should be in the Corps. I say NO, he should have a choice all right, the choice being whether or not he wants to be an Aggie. Let’s not let a four-year mistake mar an 81-year record which the Corps has built for A&M. Nick Courtney ’59 James Hataway ’59 Don Weinacht ’59 Bob Skupin ’59 Editor: The Battalion Well, what can we say after the Turkey Day game? We were all there tearing our hearts out for that Fightin’ Texas Aggie Team, but they must not have heard us. We could tell, too, that the whole team was playing their hearts out, but to no avail. We were glad to see that good ole’ Twelfth Man defend the goal posts after the game. We would have been very disappointed if those Aggies would have sat there and let those sorry Tea- sips tear down our goal posts. But of course, we know Aggies better than that. We are now looking forward to Dec. 28, when the Aggies will really give that Gator Bowl crowd a real thrill. Wo hope that Jacksonville, Fla., will survive all the Aggie victory parties. The password around here now is, “Beat ole’ Tennessee!!” Wo here at SHSTC hope that all of you have a very Merry Christmas and a real Prosperous New Year. A group of loyal Aggie Fans from Sam Houston Slate. MU CATERING =7 ' i fji, - ^Jor M Social special Occasions ★ OUTFIT PARTIES ★ CLUB BANQUETS MAGGIE PARKER DINING HALL W. 26th & Bryan TA 2-5089 200 Congress TA 3-4375 FRIDAY ‘Battle Cry' , Jabi .... Hunter and Matalie Wboo [‘Rebel Without i a Cause' Sat. Nile. Preview 11 p. m. Starts At Queen Sunday 5»J- Or •The Burning mo-Warner BROS..~ CINemaScopC WarnerColor IRVING W»ll»CC • S.ChMO whom • SIU»HI HUSlE# SATURDAY STARTING SUNDAY r y ' Q & ) 2o th CCnr ^ry. F IV' TODAY & SATURDAY Double Feature “ Spoilers Of The Forest” With Rod Cameron and “Man In The Road” By Charles M. Schulz TECHNICOLOR’ also IrotT CONFESSION ofshahl. will it save him.- m flfr , Preview 10:30 Saturday Nile Also Sunday & Monday p..,. 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