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.
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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.
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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)
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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
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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
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stration, economics, agricultural
economics, math, education,
chemistry and^ccounting majors
and electrical, mechanical and in
dustrial engineers.
MAGNOLIA PETROLEUM
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civil, electrical, geological and
mechanical engineers and geo
physics, chemistry, math and
physics majors.
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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
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apply now for sufficient time
to secure Russian visa. Write
today for descriptive folder.
See your travel agent or
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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
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