* The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas PAGE 2 Tuesday, December 10, 1957 Man to Man BY JOE TINDEL Hark, the weary Aggies shout! Just 10 more days and we’ll be out! That’s not exactly the popular version of the old cry from the chow halls at A&M but it’ll have to suffice. Everywhere you can see thoughts are already wander ing to that Christmas tree at home with all the gifts, that wonderful girl and large quantities of turkey and parties. In keeping with traditional A&M holiday spirit, the profs are seeing how many quizzes they can squeeze into the remaining days. * * * Browsing around the Memorial Student Center these days, a person can really see the success of the lost articles auction held the night before the Thanksgiving game. In the main lounge, stands an almost lifelike replica of old St. Nick. At other places decorations of all types add more to the Christmas spirit. Wayne Stark, MSC director, said the other day that an Aggie approached him and said all the St. Nick needed to be any more lifelike was to say, “Howdy!” * * * On this page you’ll probably note that pleas have been made for the parole of Bascom Giles, former Land Com missioner. It seems to me that despite his good behavior in prison, he owes a debt to society and can only pay it by at least sering the three years. Why not let the Parole Board know your opinion? * * * That’s 30 for now, but remember Christmas still starts with Christ. Job Interviews The following interviews will be held in the Placement Office: Wednesday The Prudential Insurance Co. of America interviews business administration majors. Price Waterhouse & Co. inter views accounting majors inter ested in public accounting careers anywhere in the United States. Alford, Meroney & Co. inter views accounting majors for op portunities for junior accountants. Are Your Grades Low? Here’s help tor you freshmen. See Ole’ Lou. Tutors are available in chemistry, biology, algebra, trig, and history. Special tutoring classes will be set up de pending on the number who apply. No cost involved. Work will be concentrated on your next majoi^ quizzes. Refreshments will be served. Three-fifths of your grade is yet to be made. Let’s get with it! THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent ivriters only. The Battalion is a non-tax-supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and operated by students as a community neivspaper 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., ts 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 Dr. Carroll D. Laverty, Chairman; Prbf. Donald D. Burcliard; Prof. Robert M, Stevenson; and Mr. Bennie Zina. Student members are W. T, Williams, John Avant, and Billy W. Libby. Ex- officio members are Mr. Charles A. Roeber; and Ross Strader, Secretary and Direc tor of Student Publications. Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester, S6 per school year, $6.50 per full year. Advertising rates furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA, College Station, Texas. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office in College Station. Texas, under the Act of Con gress of March 3. 1370. MEMBER: The Associated Pi’ess Texas Press Ass’n Associated Collegiate Press Represented nationally by N a t i o n a 1 Advertising Services. Inc., New York City,- Chicago. Los ■ An geles. and San Francisco. The-Associated Press is entitled' exclusively to the use for-repubheatiorr of alt "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 here in are also reserved. News contributions may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618; or VI 6-4910 on 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 Joe Buser, Fred Meurer News Editors Jim Carre 11 Assistant Sports Editor Robert Weekley, David Stoker, Johnny Johnson, John Warner, Ronald Easley, Lewis Reddell Repoyters Raoul Roth N.ews Photographer Francis Nivers Sport Photographer Johnny Barger CHS CorTespor.'dent George Wise Circulation Manager Letters To The Editor "WOW THAT WE DOUT MM/fi TO GO TO YELL PRACTICE , MAKE POUBU -BULLY , GtO OM CORPS TRIPS BUILD SOUP IRES - AW WAVE TIME TO ‘STUDY IT'e. TOO LATE TO PASS' Thursday First National Bank of Fort Worth interviews business ad ministration, agricultural eco nomics and economics majors for positions with their firm. Friday Union Oil Co. of California in terviews chemical engineering, mechanical engineering- and petro leum engineering majors for posi tions with their company. AUSTIN, TEXAS —Pleas for Bascom Giles’ release are mount ing. Latest activity is a petition signed by 103 Austin citizens, filed with the State Board of Pardons and Paroles. Earle Ed Burkhalter, Travis County Parole Board member for the past five years, submitted the request. Giles is serving a 6-year sen tence, in Huntsville for his part in the veterans land scandals. He was eligible for parole last April. However, the Pardons Board con tended that this release “would LAST DAY JOEL MARK McCREA • STEVENS JOAN WELDON fflllli Shock-by-shock jy# drama of W Special Agent ||| Si/ Vew Sbriforct not meet with community accept ance.” Burkhalter’s petition is the re sult of that statement. He said that he knew Giles only casually and had not consulted any of Giles’ friends or relatives when he started the petition. He did say, however, that he felt that Giles’ wife and family were be ing punished beyond the intent of the law. In commenting on the petition, Rogan Giles, the former land commissioner’s son, indicat ed the petition “confirms reports we have been receiving from all over the state, that Dad should be treated just like anyone else and be paroled.” Three of the nine members of the corrections board, the policy making group for the prison sys tem, recently said that Giles should be paroled. As a trusty he (Giles) earns double time. Therefore, without parole, he will be discharged Jan. 21, 1959. Also he has made sev eral blood donations, each of which entitles him to a 30-day commutation. Editor The Battalion: What has happened to the Ag gies that, after each loss, would say, “Wait until next year?” Have they all been replaced by the two per centers that say, “The Aggies didn’t want to win” or “What’s wrong "with the Ag gies?” Has the 12th man really changed to the “Support your team while they win, but cut their throats if they lose?” This supporting your team does not only take place while the team is oh the field. Any team’s spirit is high when they are winning. It takes that real Aggie spirit to stay behind that team whether they win or lose. If your best friend was down, you wouldn’t kick him to make him get up, would you? Every Aggie in the world is an Aggie’s best friend. So why ride the Ag gie team just because they were outscored in two games? Any man that won’t stand behind his team when it is losing doesn’t de serve to be caked an Aggie and all the four gates are wide open. If it takes running your team down to make you a good sport, then I think it would be an insult WhaVs Cooking The following organizations will meet tonight: 7:30 The Society of American Mili tary Engineers meets in Room 328, Physics Building. Col. Wells of Fort Worth’s Corps of Engi neers discusses the “Role of Corps Engineers in Civil Works.” to each and every Aggie for us to win the “Sportsmanship Trophy.” Charles W. Sadler ’59 Editor The Battalion: I believe that, the time has come for discrimination of minority groups here at A&M to cease. The minority group of which I am speaking is the collection of non-regs who are not veterans, physically disabled and those who never have been a part of the Corps. I know the value of being a member of the Corps, and I re spect and regard them highly, but I sincerely believe that it .is un democratic to force a student to be a member of the Corps in or der to attend A&M. I know a few students who fall in this minority group that be lieve in and respect its traditions, but (Colonel Joe take note) these same students do not like the military. Let us look to the future and prepare for more of these Texas high school graduates who would like to get an education at A&M, but who do not wish to be in the military. Let the incoming students make their choices and let the Corps gain strength by having as its members only those students who sincerely desire to be in the Corps. I am for a growing educational institutional, the great Texas Ag ricultural and Mechanical College. Donald M. Godwin ’55 See Our Fine Selection Of Leather Goods For Your Christmas Gift Ideas COURT’S Shoes — Shoe Repairs North Gate * . 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