The Battalion College Station (Brazos County)', Texas
PAGE 2 Wednesday, February 19, 1958
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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