The Battalion -i- College Station (Brazos County)', Texas
PAGE 2 Thursday, March 6, 1958
An Editorial
Leaders Trained
By Responsibility
All students and faculty members at A&M should be
worried about the future of the Corps of Cadets if it con
tinues to fall more and more into the hands of the military
departments.
Feeling appears to be strong that the Corps cannot
survive if it is patterned after military academy cadet Corps
organization.
From conferences with former students and others who
lived in “old army” days, it has been learned that the Corps
of Cadets formerly was more of a brotherhood of students
living under a semi-military organization.
Since the Corps was consolidated in 1954, more empha
sis has been placed on the military aspects of Corps life
and less each year on the academic and leadership training
of its members.
Reports have been coming from the services and sum
mer camps that Aggie cadets and officers are not showing
up as well as their predecessors.
Many in the Corps feel that this is due to taking the
leadership responsibility from the students and putting it
into the hands of tactical officers and other military of
ficers.
It formerly was well-known that freshmen and sopho
mores learned to take orders and juniors and seniors learned
to give them and take leadership responsibilities within the
Corps organization.
Many cadets have emphasized that this is no longer
the case. They say it is well-known that many Corps orders
come not from the Corps staff originally but from the
Military Science Building.
These same cadets are concerned over Corps grades,
the regimented minds of many and the acceptance of “seep
ing militarism” by many underclassmen.
They feel that the best leaders, either in military or
civilian life, are educated .minds and that fostering educa
tion should be the prime objective of the Corps of Cadets
in addition to training leaders.
Putting the leadership of the Corps of Cadets into the
hands of a representative governing board of students seems
agreeable to them. They feel an advisory board of military
officers and faculty members counseling them before they
make final decisions would be the only necessary seipervision.
However, these men need to know if a majority of the
Corps favors such a move. It would be well if any and all
students in favor of such a move make it known to sup
porters of a Corps re-organization movement.
Remember that leadership training is fostered only
through placing responsibility in the hands of those who
would learn to lead.
WhaVs Cooking
7:15
Winters Hometown Club meets
in room 125, Academic Building
to discuss Easter party.
7:30
Abilene Hometown Club meets
in room 204, Academic Building'.
Yankee Hometown Club meets
fourth floor, Academic Building'
for Aggieland picture.
Southwest Texas Hometown
Club meets in room 128, Aca
demic Building.
Wichita Falls Hometown Club
meets in System Administi'ation
Building to have Aggieland pic
ture taken.
Austin Hometown Club meets
in room 128, Acadepiic Building.
Spring Branch Hometown Club
meets in room 227, Academic
Building.
Grayson County Hometown
Club meets in room 20(5, Academic
Building.
Red River Valley Homctowm
Club meets in room 104, Academic
Building.
Marshall Hometown Club meets
at the YMCA.
Waco-McLennan County Home
town Club meets in room 101,
YMCA.
Williamson County Hometown
Club meets in the Gay Room,
YMCA.
San Antonio Hometown Club
meets in room 127, Academic
Building.
Aggies -
Try Youngblood’s
Fried Chicken
Yz Chicken - Trimmings $1.00
Barbecue — Steaks — Seafoods
Rock Building
South College
Midway Between
Bryan & College
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Meanwhile, back in the steam
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“Let me remind you once more that we have the honor
system! Now let’s all keep our eyes on our own quizzes—
please ?
tunnel. . . .
★ ★ ★
The jungle around the new
Corps area the other day had a
couple of new beasts in it—farm-
type beasts—donated by “moles”.
It is good that someone has
noticed our acute need for a zoo
on the campus.
★ ★ ★
Sully got a coat of highly need
ed paint this week—this, too is
good. Without paint, he’s going
to rust. Besides, it just wouldn’t
be Sully without a gob of paint on
the top of his head.
★ ★ ★
And the song of the week is:
“Moly, Maroonie”—or maybe
“Catch a Falling Mole and Put
Him in Confinement . . .”
Letters To The Editor
Editor,
The Battalion:
I am writing this letter in
answer to the latter that appear
ed in your paper on Wednesday,
Feb. 26, 1958. The last sentence
of the letter was a very brave
statement by the author about
how he dared to write this letter.
I would like to say to Mr.
“Name Withheld Upon Request”,
that any true Aggie would not
need to “dare” to write a letter
in support of his beliefs. He
would write it and sign it and
he proud that he had the intes
tinal fortitude to speak his mind
and let the world know that it
was his work.
That is one the traditions that
have prevailed on this campus
for a lot longer than the four
years that I have been here. One
of the many traditions that said
author says are not to be fol
lowed unless they are in strict
adherence with the cold educa
tional excellence of our school.
This boy author has the du
bious distinction of being a mem
ber of the faction on this campus
that does not believe in the edu
cation that teaches a man to give
and take, to not be afraid to let
others know who he is, to get
along with other people, to
develop his personality, and above
all to be a man in his own right.
And this type of education is
what is brought about by the
traditions that Mr. “Name With
held Upon Request” wants to cast
off as being unnecessary in our
society. Not only do these tradi
tions help' to form a man, but
they are the basis of what every
other school wishes they had; that
being the biggest, mightiest and
closest fraternity of men in the
world.
Anywhere you go there are Ag
gies. Anytime you are in need
of help, an Aggie buddy whether
he is Class of ’08 or ’58, will give
you that help and more. Anytime
you need a friend, Aggies are the
best you will ever have. And, I
can speak from experience when
I say that as an Aggie I have
been trusted on my word where
others have not.
If this is brought about by any
thing other than the traditions
that have prevailed here at A&M
over the years, I have failed to
see it in the last four years. And
this includes the fact that this
has been an all male school for
the period of its existence. A&M
is a school built on traditions,
traditions that have made it the
(See LETTERS Page 3)
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A Campus-to-Career Case History
Roy Vaughn (left) discusses a central office power installation with Switchman R. F. Heider.
“I like (and get) ‘start-to-finish’
engineering assignments"
“When it comes to making a j oh inter
esting, I think the assignments a man
gets are more important than the size
of the project he’s working on,” says
Roy Vaughn of Illinois Bell Telephone
Company. “I found that out soon after
I graduated. My first job was with an
organization where the projects were,big,
but the individual engineering assign
ments lacked variety and scope.
“After this experience I looked over
power engineering opportunities in a
number of companies. I joined Illinois
Bell because it promised the most inter
esting and challenging work. That was
three years ago. My work with IBT has
everything that I was looking for.
“My job is to engineer the power re
quirements for telephone central offices.
The work never gets routine. One job
may be for a new building, the next for
expanding existing plant. And power
needs vary tremendously from little rural
dial offices serving a few hundred tele
phones, to big metropolitan telephone
plants serving hundreds of thousands.
“But what I like best is that I generally
handle the job from start to finish. I de
termine the operational and emergency
power requirements of the facilities to
he served, and order the equipment
needed. And I’m usually on hand during
installation to see the job through.
“Not only does this kind of engineer
ing assignment keep work interesting,
but I find it is helping me become a
better manager. And that improves my
chances for advancement.”
Ror L. Vaughn, Jr., graduated from Illinois Institute of
Technology in 1954 with a B.S. in E,E. degree. He is one
of many young men who are finding interesting and re
warding careers in the Bell Telephone Companies. Find
out about career opportunities for you. Talk with the
Bell interviewer when he visits your campus, and read the
Bell Telephone booklet on file in your Placement Office.
BEL.L
TELEPHONE
COMPANIES
At Other Schools
Student Leaders
Face Conflicts
By JOHNNY JOHNSON
Despite the fact that many Aggies feel A&M is the
only school in the Southwest Conference having its troubles,
other SWC schools are having their share of campus con
flicts and disputes.
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY
SMU Student Councilmen have all but killed a proposed
honor code for the Dallas school. At a recent meeting the
planned honor code was
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tabled by the student coun
cil following an attempted
revision by one of the group’s
committees. According to
the student council president, the
tabling killed the honor code.
The Mustangs and Aggies
both face the problem of scho
lastic honor code, but the Ags
seem about to put theirs
through via the Corps indoctri
nation plan.
Texas Christian University
TCU’S Student Congress has
been asked to endoi’se a move to
raise the pay of student workers
on the campus and particularly in
the student cafeteria. At present
the workers receive a minimum of
60 cents an hour and a maximum
of 75 cents an hour.
A leader for the student work
ers has asked the minimum be
raised to 75 cents an hour with a
maximum of 90 cents. Protest
was filed by a representative of
workers in the cafeteria.
University of Texas
Teasip seniors may soon get a
privilege—that of being exempt
from final exams prior to gradua
tion. At present all graduating
seniors of the 40-acres are i'e^
quired to take final examinations
but a plan by the Student As
sembly, now being studied by a
committee, will exempt graduat
ing seniors from the exams.
A&M could give the ’Sips some
pointers in this matter. Aggie
seniors have enjoyed this privi
lege for quite some time.
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Job Calls
Friday
Container Corporation of
America will interview business
administration, industrial tech
nology, and industrial and me
chanical engineering majors.
Ernst & Ernst of Houston will
interview accounting majors.
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with
Max2hu]man
(By the Author of "Rally Round the Flag, Boys! "and,
"Barefoot Boy with Cheek.")
SCIENCE MADE SIMPLE: NO. 2
Though this column is intended solely as a vehicle for well-
tempered drollery, the makers of Marlboro have agreed to let
me use this space from time to time for a short lesson in science.
They are the most decent and obliging of men, the makers of
Marlboro, as anyone can tell from sampling their product. Only
from bounteous hearts could come such a lot to like—such filter,
such flavor, such flip-top box. The filter works; the flavor pleases;
the box protects. Who can resist such a winning combination?
Surely not I.
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Today let us take up the science of medicine, which was in
vented in 1066 by a Greek named Hippocrates. He soon gathered
around him a group of devoted disciples whom he called
“doctors.” The reason he called them “doctors” was that they
spent all their time sitting around the dock and shooting the
breeze. In truth, there was little else for them to do. because
disease was not invented until 1477.
After that, doctors became very busy, but it must be admitted
that their knowledge of medicine was lamentably meagre. They
knew only one treatment—a change of climate. For example,
a French doctor would send all his patients to Switzerland.
A Swiss doctor, on the other hand, would send all his patients
to France. By 1789 the entire population of France was living
in Switzerland, and vice versa. This later became known as the
Black Tom Explosion.
Not until 1924 did medicine, as we know it, come into being.
In that year in the little Bavarian village of Pago-Pago an
elderly physician named Winko Sigafoos discovered the hot
water bottle. He was, of course, burned as a witch, but his son
Lydia, disguised as a linotype, made his way to America where
he invented the Mayo Brothers.
Medicine, as it is taught at your very own college, can be
divided roughly into two classifications. There is internal medi
cine, which is the treatment of interns, and external medicine,
which is the treatment of externs.
Diseases also fall into two broad categories—chronic and
acute. Chronic disease is, of course, inflammation of the chron,
which can be mighty painful, believe you me! Last summer my
cousin Haskell was stricken with a chron attack while he was
out picking up tinfoil, and it was months before the wretched
boy could straighten up. In fact, even after he was cured,
Haskell continued to walk around bent over double. This went
on for several years before Dr. Caligari, the lovable old country
practitioner who treats Haskell, discovered that Haskell had
his trousers buttoned to his vest.
Two years ago Haskell had Addison’s disease. (Addison, curi
ously enough, had Haskell’s.) Poor Haskell catches everything
that comes along. Lovable old Dr. Caligari once said to him,
.“Son, I guess you are what they call a natural born catcher.”
“The joke is on you, Doc,” replied Haskell. “I am a third
basemen.” He thereupon fell into such a fit of giggling that the
doctor had to put him under sedation, where he is to this day.
But I digress. We were discussing medicine. I have now told
you all I can; the rest is up to you. Go over to your med school
and poke around. Bring popcorn and watch an operation. X-ray
each other. Contribute to the bone bank . . . And remember,
medicine can be fun! , © isss. Max shuimaa
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