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The Battalion PAGE 2 College Station (Brazos County)] Texas Tuesday, January 14, 1958 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Man to Man By JOE TINDEL Batt-burning, Bab-o bombing, coach searching and numerous other things can be quite time-consuming this kite in the semester. Especially with some grades as low as they are. The abolishing of dead week this, year has raised quite a bit of controversy especially among graduating seniors who can see little difference. They still must attend classes. ★ ★ ★ In an ad running in The Battalion classifieds, a local woman is advertising for a nursery class. She ends the ad by saying, “We’re co-ed.” ★ ★ ★ The other day on WTAW, Toby Hughes got off a good joke on The Battalion. He mentioned all the controversial material within and then said he would read some of the very interesting material. He started out, “In Peanuts to day. . . ★ ★ ★ This is the last “Man to Man” column before the end of the semester. It presents a good opportunity to wish every Aggie luck on his finals. You’ll need it! AUSTIN, Tex.—Education has been a prime concern of Texas government for more than a cen tury and a quarter. But seldom, if ever, has the subject loomed so large in public discussion as now in the satellite age. In the past few months, since Sputnik, statesmen have taken up this theme in different words, but with greater - than - ever urgency. They’re saying, in ef fect, that unless the tempo of training can be stepped up im mediately to train more people better, democracy is doomed. In Austin this challenge has set off lively debates and given heavy new significance to the planning conferences of those who set edu cational policy. Current examples in the news: SCIENCE AND MATH study in Texas public schools will get a critical examination by a group of school principals with advice from business and industry leaders. State Board of Education set up the study group which is to complete its project by end of 1959. Goal is to find means to enrich the schools’ curriculum in Uern SirtvforaL some areas, set standards in others. Board has previously raised graduation standards in Texas high schools, taking away from the students the chance to pass up math and science in favor of “snap” courses. This action, taken before the current science em phasis, was “somewhat pro phetic,” commented one board member. POOR PAY FOR PROFS was hit even harder by a University of Texas faculty member in an Austin talk. He cited salary in centives as crucial in comparing Russian and U. S. school systems. According to Dr. B. H. Arm stead, an American college pro fessor can expect to double his salary in a lifetime; his Russian counterpart can achieve 15 times his beginning wage. American teachers make 10 percent less than factory workers, said Dr. Armstead, Russian teachers 2%' times more. Proposed federal scholarships will be useless, he opined, unless there’s also more money to attract people to run schools. Letters To The Editor "I DOM'T CAPE WMETWEG OQ WCT TM' PLACE GrOES COED, I JUST LUCE M06 DEMOWSTRATlOWS/" Students Favor Sharing Science WINTER CLEARANCE SALE SPORT SHIRTS Two For The Price Of One Plus $1.00 ALSO ON SALE # Sport Coats ® Sport Jackets # Slacks ® Sweaters Sale Good Until Final Exam Week BUY NOW AND SAVE! American college students generally tend to favor the idea of having the United States share scientific information with friend ly countries. Nearly half of the students interviewed by the Associated Collegiate Press Poll of Student Opinion favored such a plan. ACP asked the following question of a cross-section of college students in the nation: “Since Russia launched its first Sputnik, there has been talk of giving top secret United States scientific information to our allies for the purpose of speeding up work on missiles and satellites. Do you think this is a good idea or a bad idea? Why?” Over half of the men interview- TUESDAY “House of Numbers” With Jack Balance Plus “Until They Sail” With Jean Simmons ASM MEN'S SHOP 103 North Main YOUR IVY LEAGUE CENTER Dick Rubin, ’59 North Gate THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent writer's 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. Station, Texas, daily except Satui September through May, and Saturday, Sunday, ani once a week during si -- — is published in College d Monday, and holiday periods, ummer school. Faculty members of the Student Publications Board are Dr. Carroll D. Laverty, Chairman: Prof. Donald D. Burchard; Prof. Robert M. Stevenson; and Mr. Bennie Zinn. 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 8, 1870. MEMBER: The Associated Press 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 republication 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 In are also reserved. all other matter here- News contributions may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 the editorial office, Room 4, YMCA. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6415. or at 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 Robert Weekley, David Stoker, Johnny Johnson, John Warner, ^ Ronald Easley, Lewis Reddell Reporters ! CIRCLE LAST DAY Tob HUNTER Natalie WOOD "the Oirl He Left Behind ’ Also “Hunchback Of Notre Dame ,, Anthony Quinn How to SHINE At Party Time Let our experts put new life into your party clothes .... CAMPUS CLEANERS ed thought it would be a good idea, while just slightly more than forty percent of the coeds agreed. Coeds split just about even on the question. Forty-two percent in favor, and forty-three percent against. But the majority of men interviewed supported the sharing of scientific information. Fifty-one. percent of the' men thought the idea was good and thirty-six percent thought it a bad idea. Editor: The Battalion It seems that again the idea of coeducation at A&M has erupted into headlines. I lived around A&M and its traditions for too many years, and my family and I have felt its spirit for too long to believe this would ever happen, either as a revolution, or in an evolutionary manner, but I would still like to express some reasons I have for my opinions. Some of the reasons given for such a change this time are for increased trade for merchants in the area, easier recruiting of coaches and athletes, and to en able A&M to fulfill its duty for the State more completely. I feel that most of the many Bryan and College Station businessmen that I know personally would not be able to visualize A&M as a co-ed school, either. A&M is most certainly “doing its duty” to’the State of Texas on its all-male basis. Its academic reputation speaks for that as does the mean ing of a degree from A&M. (This was first demonstrated to me by my brother’s experience as an E. E. major, in the class of ’52.) There is a wonderful school, at which I am a student, called T^x- as Woman’s University, to fulfill these needs for the women of Texas. (This fine university would also lose the long time tradition of being A&M’s sister by such a move.) I know little of the difficulties in obtaining "coaches, or the dif ference that co-education would make in this matter, but it seems that the Spirit and the greatness of A&M could comince (as it did past and present Aggies) most athletes worth having; others probably should cookie- push elsewhere anyway. Aside from the fact that neither the man building unit, the Corps, or the Civilian students would be stronger units due to the addition of ladies to the curriculum, there are far too many traditions at A&M that would have to be dis continued. The factors which moved me most to write this letter of com ments were mental pictures of the possibility of jumpy little gills “majoretting” with the Aggie Band, and jumpy little girls lead ing the Corps in a new set of cheers which would replace some P. S. ment times, of the Aggie yells. These thoughts were just too much. I guess I’m Corps-happy. Sincerely, Box 2962 University Hill Station Denton, Texas I would like to com pi i- you on your daring, at to express your opinions in the Batt. I think yon aroused enough comment to prove to everyone that this kind of journalistic expression increases circulation and importance of your paper at A&M. I think you have good coverage of the entire college which keeps even us read ers that ai’e many miles away informed. I enjoyed the apparel description of Jon Hagler’s wed ding in the Tuesday, January 7, issue especially. Editor: The Battalion The rather pointed remarks of an individual whose opinion I more than respect and whom I think a great deal of personally set me to thinking during the Christmas holidays about the con tinual controversy which has raged over some of the editorials in The Battalion. Some say, ‘‘Why does the editor always pre sent one side? Why doesn’t he give our side—the Corps side— for a change?” Well, for those of you who don’t know me, I’m in the Corps and I like it, and maybe I, too, haven’t always liked the edito- ri a is. But I’ll he the first to tell the members of the Corps who have complained the loudest, that I would not give two cents for any editor of any publication, college or otherwise, who would write “one side” and then the other. And neither would any I other person who really paused to consider the matter. An editor’s function is to make people think, and whether one likes or dislikes the editor or what he says makes no differ ence. The only thing anyone has a right to demand and fully ex pect to receive is consistency and good journalism, and I believe that is what Aggies, military and Civilian alike, have been getting. This letter is not primarily in tended to be a vote of confidence and I do not wish it to be re garded as such. I simply feel + haii if Aggies and everyone in the United States would start thinking, we would all be better off and our problems would be .•loser to being solved. Don R. Fisher ’58 And the topic is still girls. And the possibility of NROTC. But the number one song on the Aggielnnd top 2,000 is “Don’t Bug Me, Baby—Like Don’t Even Come Near Me.” Or something. ★ ★ ★ • Seems like there’s a faction on the campus that would like very much to sing this song to the fairer sex: “Don’t Come to See Us . . , We’ll Come to See You.” ★ ★ ★ Parking facilities still seem to be crowded. Last week a late model Ford was found parked on the band’s drill field. It’s driver was pretty shaken up over the whole matter ... he still maintains he left it in the parking lot Cramming makes the mind play tricks, eh ? Something New For A Delicious Treat? TRY OUR— SPUD SUNDAE The TRIANGLE 3606 So. College Winner of 1st Prize in ' U. S. Bootmakers Contest “Biltrile” Boots and Shoes Made By Economy Shoe Repair and Boot Co. Large Stock of Handmade Boots Convenient Budget & Lay-Away Plan $55.00 a pair Made To Order Main Office: 509 W. 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