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The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas PAGE 2 Tuesday, February 18,1958 CADET SLOUCH Man to Man By JOE TINDEL Time has a way of passing- without people realizing it and that is certainly true as the third week in the spring semester rolls around. Certainly graduating seniors are eagerly awaiting the end of their final semester but the cold facts that graduation comes only after completion of courses this semester is too much of a reality. it '■k -k Not long from now, the first signs of spring will be ap pearing. Already, dances have begun and indications that the year is almost over are all around. Sadly enough, the cold, cruel world is waiting and once again Aggieland is preparing to say goodbye to friends it’s made in the last few years. ROTC Armory Up to Congress by FRED MEURER During - the current session of the U. S. Congress there is a lingering possibility that a bill asking for federal aid for ROTC programs in colleges and univer sities throughout the nation may be introduced, probably by Sen. Hill of Alabama. If the senator, or any other congressman makes this bid, he will center his argument around the growing importance of ROTC programs today, according to A&M College President M. T. Harrington. The bill had its foundation in the last session of Congress when Sen. Hill asked for federal aid for higher education. Another con gressman added aid for ROTC programs onto this request but the measure was postponed until the current session. How does A&M fit into the picture? Probably no campus in the nation is in greater need of or more deserving of improve ment in its ROTC facilities than A&M is. This is especially true since compulsory Corps goes into effect next fall. And there’s a greater reason. Enrollment figures dipped dras tically at A&M after the fall semester indicating something was wrong. It is getting harder and harder today for young men to see the long range benefit of an A&M training in the face of other schools who offer the same commissions on a part time basis. A&M MENS SHOP 103 MAIN — NORTH GATE AGGIE OWNED ■A" --’A, , To Aggies & Faculty Plan Your Banquets NOW For Spring. Banquet Room With Reservations For 250 Or Less Call TA 2-1353 The TRIANGLE 3606 So. College Ave CIRCLE LAST DAY NATALIE WOOD KARL J Warner COLOR • CinemaScope MALDEN Also I RORY CALHOUN * AM FRANCIS I They tend to look only at what they can see “right now”. Ap parently a lot of the young men who dropped from the rolls didn’t believe they were getting enough. A&M needs more surface induce ments, more fringe benefits. The military department here submitted its proposal for an ROTC armory at about the same time the federal aid for ROTC bill was discussed by Congress in its last session. Such an armory would take care of all military training. It would re place the run-down Shacks, pre sent ROTC classrooms. The Board of Directors listed the proposal along with those bids from other schools on the campus and decided to withhold action on it until the current ses sion of Congress considers the new bill, when and if it comes. E. L. Angell, vice president of the A&M College System, said apparently the board would be willing to approve the proposal with fedei-al help and perhaps without. Presently then the situation in brief is this. The Board of Di rectors will give ample consider ation to the military department’s proposal and it looks like almost a sure thing if Congress passes a bill giving federal aid to ROTC programs. Meanwhile, all indi cations are that the bill will appear in Congress anytime be tween now and the end of the session. If it passes, the federal aid program will be set up under the Department of Defense. If Congress doesn’t pass the bill, the A&M armory proposal will still be on the Board of Di rectors’ list and will be placed in some order of priority with other (See Armory Page 4) pctlvi IN TUESDAY “Baby Face Nelson” With Mickey Rooney Plus “Pick Up Alley” With Victor Mature TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY asT/SGT.JIM MOORE.U.S. Marines. Tifti*: WARNER BROS. Screen Play by IMS 111 BAMII' Piofaed and Bitected by IACK WtBB-A MARK Vli LlO.Ptoiiuclioa THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent writers 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., is published in College lay, and Monday, September through May, and once a week during summer school. on, Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sands and holiday periods, Faculty members of the Student Publications Board are Dr. Carroll D. Laverty, Prof. Donald D. Burchard; Prof. Robert'M. Stevenson; and Mr. Bennie nt members are W. T. Williams, John Avarit, and Billy W. Libby. Ex- officio members are Mr. Charles A. Roeber; and Ross Strader, Secretary and Direc tor of Student Publications. Chairman; Zinn. Student members are W. T. iliams, John Avarit, and B n; z illy 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 all other matter here in are also reserved. 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. l 2' J t ^ — Letters To The Editor VIE. OOCUTA fet PAR 'NOPP OUT TO &AT TUV CAKE MOK ME WITHOUT HAVIN'To CIGUT OFT TU' AdClES/ Job Interviews Editor, The Battalion: After reading about the coed controversy, in the Batt, I feel it is my duty, as an Aggie-ex, to express my opinion. My memories of the three years I spent at Aggieland are still with me from the beginning to the end. They will stay for a long time to come if changes at the college are not too great. In 1954, I went there as a boy WhaUs Cooking 7 p. m. Student Chapter A.G.C. meets in the Memorial Student Center tonight to discuss the scheduled field trip, plan and schedule a so cial function and movie, and out line a tentative schedule of pro grams. Scuba Diving Short Course on safety methods will begin to night at 7 in Room 306 of Good win Hall. 7:30 p. m. ASME will meet tonight in the Memorial Student Center Social Room. Refreshments will be served. MAUPINT0URS/1958 ADVENTURE! EDUCATION! The following job interviews will be held in the Placement Office: Wednesday LINDE COMPANY will inter view chemical, civil, industrial, electrical and mechanical engi neers and chemistry and physics majors for work in research, de velopment, sales and promotions. Wednesday and Thursday PROCTOR & GAMBLE COM PANY interviews chemical engi neer- general business, chemistry, physics, biology and psychology majors and civil, electrical, in dustrial and mechanical engi neers. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES of Houston inter views physics, business admini stration, economics, agricultural economics, math, education, chemistry and^ccounting majors and electrical, mechanical and in dustrial engineers. MAGNOLIA PETROLEUM COMPANY interviews chemical, civil, electrical, geological and mechanical engineers and geo physics, chemistry, math and physics majors. TRAVEL! SUMMER 1958! Join a special American-dlrecteLl, student/teacher tour through the Soviet Union. Choose from six departure dates . . . travel to seldom-visited cities such as Kiev of the Ukraine, Stalingrad, Odessa, Yalta, Sochi. Tbilisi of Soviet Georgia, Kharkov . . . enjoy a Volga River or Black Sea cruise ... see Leningrad and Moscow. Visit Warsaw, Prague and the Brussels’ World Fair . . . plus extensions to the European Capitals. Inclusive rate from $1369, from New York. Reservations limited, apply now for sufficient time to secure Russian visa. Write today for descriptive folder. See your travel agent or Tom Maupin [(11 j-lj.TOUR associates XmMWMJ 1236 Massachusetts Lawrence / Kansas with self-confidence close on my heels. In 1957, I left as a man with full control over my inde cisions. It wouldn’t have re sulted this way if A&M was co ed. That is why I didn’t acquire as much when I went to Ala bama (a coed college). In talk ing to the men on the campus, traveling with them, and study ing with them you get more knowledge about relations with other people thqn from any book. I’m sure many boys go to A&M to learn to be men. That is Avhy I am against co-education there. The experienced men would have or find no time to talk with you and give you the inspiration you need. They would like to talk to the girls more—it is second nature in all males. I’ve seen it happen when I visited TU and Baylor. Out of the 20 years of living in Alabama, I have never been happier than the three years I was at A&M. It was a thrilling- experience. Other men will re gard their years there the same as I do. I remember the night I talked with an Aggie freshman. He told me straight from the shoul der: “I came to A&M to learn to be a man. There are other colleges between here and Brownsville, my home town, but I chose Aggieland because of the desire to be a man when I’m through with college.” This talk inspired me so much, it will be hard to forget. Other boys have the same idea. If any member of the Board of Directors or President Harring ton read this letter, I ask them to oppose coeds from going to A&M. Congratulations on your get ting Jim Myers to be your head coach. I wanted him too. A boy wouldn’t travel 800 miles during exam week to persuade a coach to come to his college. But a man would! I salute the men at Texas A&M. Your Aggie Joe Delatte buddy. How to SHINE At Party Time Let our experts put new life into your party clothes .... CAMPUS CLEANERS {epZ' CORSAGE i Wedding Ring $75.00 ■ SANKEY PARK Jewelers 111 N. 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