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The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Friday, February 7, 1958
CADET SLOUCH
Art for
Aggies' Sake
BY WELTON JONES
A great deal of this column’s space this year has been
devoted to encouraging - existing artistic endeavors in the
area and to urging and suggesting expansion of and ad
ditions to these endeavors.
One of the biggest obstacles confronted by any crusader
on behalf of culture is a propensity by local citizens to shrug,
raise their eyebrows and say
“too bad but it just can’t be
done.”
People like Mrs. Emalita
Terry, the MSC’s artist, will
bear this column out here.
Added to this hopelessness, of
course, is the normal apathy and
indifference which slaps any tiny
flame of activity like a large wet
blanket.
But now the area is about to
witness an event prepared under
the above difficulties and count
less others, too numerous to men
tion here, which nonetheless, has
survived preparation and is now
ready to occur.
Keference is being made to the
forthcoming Aggie Player pro
duction of Shakespeare’s “Mac
beth”, which opens a five-night
run Monday in Guion Hall.
The production will be a monu
ment, finally, to the efforts of a
small group interested enough to
shelter and nourish their parti
cular flame in spite of whatever
wet blankets that have been
thrown.
But since the proprietor of this
column has the personal and vest
ed interest in the play that any
member of the cast should have,
little more will be said about it.
It does serve well as an ex
ample of what can ,and should be
done in the area.
An incidental line in a movie of
Charles Lindberg’s life expresses
the sentiment nicely. Talking
about the perils of hi.s pending
flight to Paris alone, Lindberg
(James Stewart) says “Sure it’s
dangerous and I might fail, but it’s
got to be tried and tried again
until someone succeeds.”
The present interpretation of
“Macbeth” may be a dismal
failure. It is in the realm of
possibility. But flop or success,
the important thing is that it is
being tried. And a good, healthy
try it is, too.
MUSIC—While on the subject
of Macbeth and the necessity of
trying, it might be well to show
one endeavor that apparently suc
ceeded nicely.
Allen Schrader, a first-year
English instructor, examined his
music backgi’ound in the U. S.
Army and on the West Coast be
fore accepting the job of com
posing and arranging background
music for Macbeth. He decided he
could do the job if musicians could
be found to play the score.
There were those who scoffed
at the very idea of music of any
kind for the play, much less
original compositions. And the
idea of finding the minimum 10
musicians to execute the pieces
was absurd.
Then Thursday night in the
Music Hall, The 10 were as
sembled with several to spare and
the score (very nicely done, inci-
dentaly) was sight-read to a de
gree of proficiency that seemed to
please even Schrader.
The musicians were from the
Aggie Band, the A&M Consoli
dated and Bryan High School
bands and some were merely
local people who liked to play
their instruments.
The talent was there, all that
was needed was the opportunity
and industriousness to assemble
it. Thus Macbeth has its music.
The situation would conceivably
repeat itself on a more ambitious
scale, if tried.
And it must be tried, again and
again.
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officio members are Mr. Charles A. Roeber; and Ross Strader, Secretary and Direc
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JOE TINDEL ..Editor
Jim Neighbors Managing Editor
Gary Rollins ...........Sp.orts
Joy Rotier — Society. Editor
Gayle McNutt, Val Polk City Editors
Joe Busjer, Fred Meurer News Editors
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Ronald Easley, Lewis Reddell .........Reporters
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“Now that you’ve solved our athletic problem, Coach Myers,
I hope you settle th’ coed squabble!”
Town Hall Music
Charms A udience
Accompanied by 74 competent
musicians and a folio of light,
romantic-school music, a pleasant
little man with a military bearing
on the podium blew in to White
Coliseum last night and, while he
didn’t make musical history he
certainly charmed the apprecia
tive audience.
Victor Alessandro, who in seven
years has built the San Antonio
Symphony Orchestra into one of
the top three and possibly the top
two in Texas, chose his program
well and served up a bonus of
three encores after advising the
crowd to “save the blisters on
their hands.”
The San Antonio Orchestra,
though however suited it may be
in a proper auditorium, was lost
in the vastness of the cavern that
is White Coliseum. The lack of
acoustics was particulary felt dur
ing the principal work of the
evening, Peter Tschaikowsky’s
Fifth Symphony.
Tschaikowsky scored the Fifth
in a range from “ppp” to “fff” in
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volume, and, although most con
ductors take the flashy composer’s
moderations with a grain of salt,
Alessandro was forced to stay
within a much closer range than
usual, fearing the vibrations of a
fff and the complete loss of sound
at ppp.
Pointing toward the San An
tonio Grand Opera Festival in
March, the group played a suite
from Bizet’s “Carmen”, the first
opera of their proposed series and
added another selection during the
encores.
Berlioz’ “R o m a n Carnival
Overture” lent itself nicely to
the orchestra’s strong lower
strings, and several soloists whip
ped off a presentable “Afternoon
of a Faun”, Debussy’s classic
pastoral.
Enesco’s “Roumanian Rhapsody
No. I” completed the program,
and, although a Mantovani-like
rendition of the traditional
“Londonderry Air” almost put the
audience to sleep as a second
encore, a freight train delivery
of the “Russian Dance” from the
Nutcracker Ballet by Tschaikow
sky woke them up to applaud
warmly.
The following job interviews
will be held in the Placement
Office next week:
Monday
American Oil Company, Texas
City, interviews mechanical, elec
trical, industrial, chemical engi
neering and chemistry majors for
work with hydraulics and tech
nical service.
Amoco Chemicals Corporation
interviews majors in chemical
engineering and chemistry for
work in technical sales.
Celanese Corporation of Amer
ica, Bishop, Tex., interviews ma
jors in chemical and mechanical
engineering and chemistry.
Monday and Tuesday
Shell Oil Company interviews
majors in civil, electrical, mech
anical and chemical engineering,
chemistry, mathematics, geolog
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engineering.
Tuesday
Lone Star Gas Company inter
views majors in chemical, indus
trial, mechanical, and petroleum
engineering and geology for jobs
in production (oil and gas),
transmission, and distribution,
plus research and development.
Petro-Tex Chemical Corpora
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Tuesday and Wednesday
Chance Vought Aircraft, Inc.,
interviews majors in aeronauti
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cal engineering, mathematics and
physics for work in designing
military aircraft and guided mis
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Soil Conservation Service in
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and civil engineering, soil science,
range and forestry and geology.
An Editorial
Closed Doors
Freshman Engineers
To Eeleet Officers
Election of officers for the
Freshman Engineering Society
will be held Monday night at 7:30
in the Chemistry Lecture Room.
After the election of officers a
film will be shown.
The Student Senate closed their
doors to the press last night in
their discussion of the contentions
to be presented to the Student
Publications Board on the recom
mendation that Joe Tindel be
asked to resign as editor of The
Battalion.
This closed session of a legis
lative assembly was done, under
the guise of being in the best
interest of the college.
Yet the very issue they discus
sed and the crux of their conten
tions were that Tindel acted in
bad faith . . . not in the best inter
ests of the college. There seems
to be.a parallel here: if the Senate
can sit in judgment on what is
best for A&M, does not the editor
of The Battalion also have this
privilege ?
But by no stretch of the imagi
nation can a secret meeting of a
representative body be justified.
In the first place, the Senate has
no authority to sit in closed ses
sion; such meetings are not spell
ed out in the new, not yet ratified
constitution for that body.
Secondly, the issue in question
is not between the members of the
Senate and Joe Tindel. From the
outset, they have avowed to be
voicing the opinion of the entire
student body. Yet tonight, that,
body of students was vertually ex
cluded from the discussion. Either
the Senate represents the students
or it doesn’t. There can be no
middle ground.
Thirdly, as a representative
body, the Senate is obligated not
only to serve the people it repre
sents, but to inform them how and
why they act in any session.
Hanging a shroud of secrecy over
the doors of any meeting leads to
only one conclusion: something is
trying to be hidden. But does a
representative body have any
authority to hide their actions
from the people they represent?
The injury in stifling the pro
ceedings of the Senate is not to
The Battalion. News for its own
sake has relatively little value.
The injury is to the readers of
‘The Batt’, for they are the people
that were represented, not a
newspaper.
There is a fallacy in logic that
maintains that it is better for the A
people to be ignorant. *The whole*
concept of democracy and the*
American way of life as we know*
it is based on the single premise •>
that, through education, people jS
will be able to choose for them- ■
selves between right and wrong. I
The Senate holds that the editor I
of The Battalion has too much a
power; he can virtually dictate his I
wishes to readers through the 1
editorial columns of his paper. Yet |
again a parallel is evident: where I
is the distinction between such an 1
editor (if he be just such a one) '
and a representative body which .
can dictate to the group that ap
pointed it, what they should and
should not be told of its proceed
ings ?
The Senate can not be totally
blamed for their action to close
their meeting. The example for
such censorship at the source has
been handed down to them from
various other groups.
And every time it occurs, it is
allowed to pass unnoticed. No
where there seems to be anyone
who desires to know what goes
on behind the "shrouds of secrecy.
And yet, there should be. Be
cause such denial of public right *
to know how their governing body
is functioning is contrary to the
very organization of representa
tive bodies.
Without a choice of representa
tion, only dictatorship can result.
And with dictatorship comes com
plete stifling of everything that
might enlighten the masses and
allow them to see how the
destinies of many are controlled
by a few.
It is unavoidable unless the
people are informed.
The people have a right If
know. (JB)
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