The Battalion College Station (Brazos County/, Texas
PAGE 2 Wednesday, February 26, 1958
An Editorial
A Citizen’s Choice
Next week the improvement of College Station streets
will be in the hands of the people.
Monday night the city council took the first step to
ward the sorely needed improvements. After studying
possible solutions for the past two years, obtaining the ad
vice of experts in the field and making comparisons between
the situation here and that of other cities where improve
ments similar to those they propose have been made, the
council screened the few they believe best for the city and
its citizens.
Next week a complete summary of the proposed plans
for financing the improvement measures will be mailed to
every family on the city utility list, for them to choose the
plan they think best.
It will be the citizens who make the final decision on
what is to be done. Any plan is going to mean a tax rise,
but the improvements must be made.
Each citizen owes it to himself and his community to
read the plans submitted by the council, think about them
and then vote wisely for the plan he thinks best for the
future of College Station and its citizens. (—GM)
Letters To The Editor
Editor,
The Battalion:
I have followed with interest
the various controversial issues
that have been brought to the
pages of the Aggie newspaper
since I first set foot in Aggieland
almost two years ago.
, In the span of a few weeks I
have read in your newspaper—
highly enlightening—a stream of
so-called letters to the editor,
which are nothing but a pitiful
showing of moronness on the
part of laggers trying vainly to
entrench themselves behind the
ludicrous argument which is the
protection of illegitimate “tradi
tions.”
There is no legitimacy in any
tradition pertaining to an educa
tional establishment, unless that
tradition is linked to its cardinal
function of education excellence!
These laggers, in a desultory
fashion, are veering away from
the gist of the issue.
Girls will add to A&M—which
should be an organic nucleus of
a modern technological society—
a completeness which it now
lacks. In a college where sup
posedly the highly qualified citi
zen of a country, (now entering
the outerspace era), is being pre
pared, a boy cannot achieve whole
maturity, unless he is goaded for
ward by the complementary stim
ulus from the opposite sex in the
progress.
There is an issue of survival at
stake, and girls cannot be left out
from the milieu in which the out-
erspaceman must grow up. The
petty arguments branished by
these morons, such as that skirts
and lipstick do not match the
martial garb of the Corps of Ca
dets at a football game, are child
ish and too utterly immature to
stand up, let alone prevail in the
denouement of the controversy.
This matter of coeducation can
no longer be dismissed as a case
of seasonal teenagers’ spring fe
ver and can no longer be looked
upon perfunctorily. Once some
exes—irresponsibly sporting their
shortsightedness—took the floor
to attack coeducation on the
ground of preserving what they
call “tradition,” which is really
nothing more than costumes
glamorizing their memoirs. It
is, to my view, high time for the
sensible part of the people of Tex
as to repolish their glorious past
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Jim Neighbors Managing Editor
Gary Rollins Sports Jiditor.
UffLE MAN ON CAMPUS
by Sick Bible?
Decision on ROTC Armory
Rests With A&M Directors
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Job Interviews
The following job interviews
will be held in the Placement Of
fice:
Thursday
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Kansas City, Mo., inteiwiews
chemical, electrical, industrial
and mechanical engineering ma
jors.
Factory Mutual Engineering
and replenish the heart of the na
tion with a deed to be remember
ed.
I repeat that we must bear in
mind the critical aspect of the
controversy as a major part of
an issue of survival, which de
mands not just technological su
premacy but wholeness of char
acter. What we, Texas Aggies,
are confronted with is too great,
too important for us to shun it
by silence. This is the reason
why as a citizen of the free world
I dare to write this letter.
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mechanical engineering and in
dustrial technology majors.
Geophysical Service Inc., Hous
ton, interviews electrical, me
chanical and petroleum engineer
ing, geology, geophysics, mathe
matics and physics majors.
Thursday and Friday
Texas Electric Service Com
pany, Fort Worth, interviews
electrical, mechanical, civil and
industrial engineering, industrial
technology, accounting and busi
ness administration majors.
The National Supply Company,
Pittsburgh, Pa., interviews civil,
electrical, industrial and mechani
cal engineering majors.
By FRED MEURER
It will take more for A&M to
get an ROTC armory than a Con
gressional bill giving federal aid
to colleges and universities for
ROTC improvements.
It will require approval of the
armory by the A&M Board of Di
rectors. Recently the board tabled
a military department proposal for
an armory because it chose to
withhold action until Congress was
given a chance to pass such a bill
during its present session.
Surely a bill of this kind could
speed up action toward building
the armory but there is no de
finite indication it would.
According to a top officer in
the military department, the
armory bid was submitted to the
board long before the bill was
originally discussed in Congress
last year. The proposal was
ignored then. Now it has been put
off until the college is assured of
some financial help for the build
ing.
What’s wrong? Has military
training become so insignificant in
the directors’ eyes that they won’t
consider improving ROTC facili
ties? This seems doubtful since
they recently passed a measure
making the Corps compulsory next
fall.
But the Corps is not getting a
square deal by any means. It is
no secret that compulsory Corps
will function on a trial basis for
some time after it gets started.
It faces a difficult task of proving
itself, considering its improper
facilities. It is probably harder to
find a better example of inade
quate facilities than A&M’s mili
tary training classrooms, the
Shacks.
Looking at it from another
angle, the Corps of Cadets repre
sents the largest school on the
campus—the military department.
There are about 2,800 cadets at
A&M. Yet they are given the con
sideration of a minority group by
being stuck in the only available
place on the campus—the wooden
Shacks.
It’s difficult to compare the
military department with other
schools on the campus without
causing friction with the latter.
But consider this as an example.
A new athletic dorm is being built
to accommodate 90 football play
ers. Yet 2,800 cadets, the leaders
of tomorrow, are attending classes
in shanties.
The Board of Directors should
act now rather than wait for a
Congressional bill-which may
never come. Let’s face it. A&M’s
enrollment has to keep rising in
stead of falling. Every future stu
dent will be confronted with at
least two years of military train
ing—a program which is wonder
ful in itself. But they can’t be
expected to come here facing life
in a cadet Corps which is long
overdue for improvements.
A&M’s reputation has been a de
termining factor for new students
in the past but it needs bolstering
for the new and bigger job ahead.
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Old Army Lou Says,
“Army, If You’re Going To Be A Proud
Fightin’ Texas Aggie Next Year You’ve Got
To Get That 1.00 G.P.R. Now. Study Hard And
Get That Etftra Bit That Will Raise Your
Grade To The Next Letter. Start The Semes
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Major Quizzes”
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Opp&htuniti£A Loit G-lwwtk
Buhl Hulsey, Texas ATM ’39, is superin
tendent of transmission of Texas Electric
Service Company, supervising the operation
of the company's high voltage electric trans
mission lines and substations.
...INA GROWING COMPANY
Capable young men and women have extra opportunity
in a growing company serving a growing area. During
the past ten years, Texas Electric Service Company has
increased its power generating capability to more than
seven times that of 1947, has constructed more than
1100 miles of high voltage transmission lines and 2800
miles of distribution lines, along with related substation
and other facilities, more than doubled the number
of employees, and serves more than twice as many
customers.
And the company is continuing to build its organization
as it plans and constructs new electric transmission and
distribution facilities to serve our rapidly developing
area. New career opportunities are opening for quali
fied men and women.
Mr. Burl Hulsey and other representatives of Texas Electric
Service Company will interview graduates:
Thursday and Friday
February 27-28
ENGINEERING — Electrical, Mechanical and Civil
An appointment can be arranged through your Placement Office.
TEXAS ELECTRIC SERVICE COMPAHY
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