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The Battalion College Station (Brazos County)', Texas PAGE 2 Wednesday, February 19, 1958 Editorials Write Letters Saturday two Aggies appear before the Board of Direc tors to plead for the long-run best interests of their college. These men will be asking the board to reconsider its decision to make the Corps of Cadets compulsory for quali fied entering students next year. While they might influence the board to some degree, these men could be aided by a letter-writing campaign con ducted by those opposing compulsory Corps. Students, faculty members, former students, wives, sweethearts, mothers, fathers and other interested persons might be persuasive if they directed letters to any of the five board members known to have voted for compulsory Corps. These men are L. H. Rideout Jr. of Dallas, H. B. Zachry of San Antonio, Price Campbell of Abilene, Jack Finney of Greenville and Eugene Darby of Pharr. Besides being the men who gave little consideration to the Academic Councirs 49-1 vote against compulsory Corps, some were members of the famed athletic committee dis solved by W. T. Doherty of Houston, board chairman, during the coaching muddle. These board members should be given some reasons for maintaining optional Corps. Following are a few to stim ulate thinking: 1. No qualified Texan should be prevented from enter ing A&M to study any course offered merely because of a compulsory military training ruling. 2. Corps problems lie not in the fact that it is non- compulsory. When closely investigated, these problems will be seen to only magnify themselves under compulsory Corps. Books Aren’t All Why do young men come to A&M? Is it because they want the social prestige of saying they went here; because their father made them; just to be an Aggie—or the old standby answer—to get an education. Whatever the reason, it results in a broadening and developing of the mind. Usually a man has developed physi cally before entering college and the required physical educa tion courses serve to round out this development. But neither physical nor mental development in itself is enough to makd a well-rounded individual capable of being a leader of men. Spiritual growth is also necessary and is every bit as important as physical and mental growth. A course in spiritual development is not a required part of the Aggie’s curriculum, however. He must develop him self spiritually in his own way and if he neglects building the right spiritual attitude he is not getting the full benefit of a higher education. Religious Emphasis Week is proof that most Aggies recognize this need. Some of the best teachers and leaders in religion are now on the campus to lead the program. At no other time of the year does the A&M student have the chance for spiritual growth that is now present. Classes are dismissed for the morning services, caus ing the Aggie no loss of free time to attend them and the evening discussions take no more than a few minutes away from books. Aggies’ appreciation for such an opportunity is shown each day by the number that turn out for the services and join in the discussion groups. However, there are many Aggies who do not take ad vantage of the program, as evidenced by the crowded coffee shops and students streaming back to dormitories during the services. They can only be hurting themselves in doing so. Every Aggie owes it to himself to give Religious Em phasis Week a chance to help him. This he can do by attend ing at least one of the programs. Very likely he won’t want to miss another. (—GM) THE MSC TABLE TENNIS COMMITTEE Is Sponsoring A Doubles Table Tennis Tournament SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22 1:30 P. M. Jack Wallace, Chairman • Trophies and Medals Will Be Presented • • Entry Deadline • Saturdajq Noon Games Room, MSC ONLY A and M STUDENTS ELIGIBLE 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 neiospaper 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 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; 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. 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Advertising rates furnished on request Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA, College Station, Texas. JOE TINDEL Editor Jim Neighbors Managing Editor Gary Rollins Sports CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle ....MEM, SOMEBODY'S COMMA UAP' TA TT?Y IT op WE'LL NEV£F? RMOW WUAT IT 1C.' Job Calls The following job interviews will be held in the Placement Office: Wednesday THE TEXAS COMPANY will interview geology and geophys ics majors who are interested in geophysical exploration work such as the interpretation of seis mic and gravity data in terms of subsurface structure. Wednesday and Thursday THE TEXAS COMPANY will interview accounting and busi ness administration majors and petroleum, mechanical, civil, elec trical, industrial and chemical en gineers. Thursday MAGNOLIA PETROLEUM COMPANY will interview chem ical, mechanical and petroleum' engineering majors for work in their natural gas department. RADIO CORPORATION OF AMERICA will interview electri cal and mechanical engineers and physics majors for work in de sign, development and research. MOTOROLA, INC. of Phoenix, Ariz. will interview electrical and mechanical engineering and phys ics majors interested in electron ics. GULF STATES UTILITIES COMPANY of Beaumont will in terview electrical and mechanical engineering majors for various types of employment. Well, RE Week leaders are really getting a taste of Aggie life, living in the dorms, eating in the messy halls and every thing. Speaking of a mess, one leader, Maj. John Quick, who is conduct ing the forums in dorm 11 this week, really was one last night. A freshman at the table on which he was eating inadvertent ly tapped a cow top with a fork, spraying the major with milk. After the confusion died away, everyone, including Maj. Quick laughed. Except the freshman, who looked like he had just sprayed milk on a major. ★ ★ ★ Judging from the crowded sidewalks leading to the MSC at 10, coffee sales must have gone over the top yesterday. ★ ★ ^ Red Face Dept—Don Cloud, Frank Nail, others. Russia Has 830,000 Female Engineers By FRANCES LEWINE WASHINGTON, (^—Ameri ca’s leap into space may have to be coed. If we’re going to forge ahead of the Russians, experts think we should stimulate more and make greater use of women in technology and teaching. While the U.S. has been grad uating fewer than 100 women engineers each year, Russia now turns out 1,000 annually. In medicine, 75 per cent of all Russian doctors are women. In the U. S., women make up only about 6 per cent of our physicians and surgeons. About a million Russian women are getting technical training, while “our female enrollment in industrial technical institutes is practically nil. I suspect it isn’t five per cent,” said Robert Boo- her of McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., who visited Russia for the American Society of Engineering Education to observe the tech nical schools. These trained technicians, he notes, serve as supporting personnel for both engineers and scientists. More than half of Russia’^ professionals — those with high er education — are women, to taling about 830,000, according to “Soviet Professional Man power,” a report issued by the National Science Foundation. The author of that report, Nicholas DeWitt of Harvard’s Russian center, has warned that Russia has reached slight numer ical supremacy over the U.S. in the supply of trained manpower in specialized fields. If Soviet effoi-ts continue, he says, “our own policies in the WEDNESDAY “Passionate Summer” Robison WEDNESDAY JACK WEBB asT/SGT.JIM M00RE.U.S.Marines.' Pioduced and Dusclcd by IACK WLBB-A MARK Vll UD.Pioduclioii field of education and in regard to specialized manpower resources will decide whether, within the next decade or so, the scales will be tipped off balance.” The an swer, says DeWitt, is the use of more American women. He is not alone. Noting that “in the USSR wom en are being trained in great numbers as scientists, physicians, mathematicians, engineers and technologists of all kinds,” Alan T. Waterman, director of our Na tional Science Foundation, sug gests : “Our own plans for meeting shortages in these fields should take full account of womanpower as a resource that has been too long neglected.” An idea of our trained scien tific manpower problem is noted in an announcement from the Civ il Service Commission of a con tinuing shortage in the physical and biological sciences. Experts say private and government em ployers could hire 30,000 to 40,000 newly graduated engineers annually. The output in 1955-56 was 26,300. In agriculture, where 39 percent of Russia’s professionals are women, America’s total is 2 per cent. Every student in Russia, girls The BOOK CENTER Aggie Owned, Class ’51 “Where your business is our privilege and is deeply appreeiated.’ , 116 S. Main Bryan WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY & FRIDAY “Run Of The Arrow” With Rod Steiger Plus “The President Lady” With Susan Hayward CIRCLE THRU FRIDAY Also “BAMBI” Wanted as well as boys, takes a program with heavy concentration on math and science. If the girls do not actually become scientists, they may be tapped for teaching on a lower level—a crying need in this country right now. More women should be encour aged to major in science in our schools, Dr. Waterman advises. “By so doing, even if they should not care to continue into graduate study for a research ca reer, they obtain the groundwork for science teaching, which is one of the greatest needs.” Otto Kraushaar, president of G'oucher College in Baltimore, notes that every advance in tech nology raises further demands for advanced scientific training and “since there is not enough manpower to go around, the na tion will have to depend more and more on trained womanpower.” He says science requirements in women’s colleges are too slight and too narrow to provide even a minimum literacy in science. If women are to go into science in greater numbers, though, there (See FEMALE, Page 4) DALLAS 1 hr. 37 mins. LUBBOCK 4 hrs. 15 mins. LOS ANGELES* 8 hrs. 47 mins. •VIA DC-6 AIRCOACH FROM YOU GET THERE FASTER WHEN YOU Uontmental J&XMX. 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