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The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas PAGE 2 Friday, March 14, 1958 Art for Aggies 9 Sake By WELTON JONES This column extends its congratulations and best wishes to Joe Buser, who was selected this week as the editor of The Battalion for the coming year. Buser is a conscientious worker and, more than a little, a friend of the arts. While on the subject, this column will have to be passed on, albeit with some regret, to a new proprietor for next year. Whoever he is, and he should be a student due to the nature of The Bat talion, he should be well versed in the rather wide field covered by the column. Anyone interested in applying’ or recommending someone for the position should contact either Bu ser or myself. VARIETY—Tonight at 7 the Memorial Student Center Music Group will unveil its seventh an nual Intercollegiate Talent Show, and if past efforts and the pro gram for this one are any indica tions, it will be a healthy success, as usual. Included on the program this year are acts ranging from a bal lad singer to a ventriloquist and a romantic duet to a chorus line. A&M will be represented by John Warner, a pianist who sur prised even his close friends this year with his proficiency. Undoubtedly the program will be worth seeing, for it seems to contain something for everyone. The MSC Group sponsoring it, and its advisor Miss Rosalie Spencer, deserve a great vote of thanks for their efforts in at- tracting such a group of talent here. MJJSIC—Bill Turner and his 1958 version of the Singing Ca dets will be heard in concert at Guion Hall Tuesday night. The Cadets have been heard by this column only once this year, and accounted for themselves marvelously on that occasion, the Christmas program sponsored by the Student Senate. DANCE—The biggest news in dance, of course, is the Jose Greco troupe due here for the last Town Hall program of the year March 24. Greco, considered generally as one of the finest male dancers of the Spanish idiom in the world, and cei«tainly the best touring the United States, is no newcomer to A&M. Last year, in a triumphant per formance at Guion Hall as a Town Hall “extra,” he and his band of flamenco dancers brought forth a second act shower of tu lips, picked between acts from the adjoining flower bed and used in lieu of roses. In another field of dance an artist of no less stature, Miss Ce lia Franca, paused here Wednes day in the midst of preparing for her National Ballet of Canada’s Town Hall debut to make some observations on the state of bal let today. “Isn’t it marvelous,” she ex claimed, “that we can have a prima ballerina named Smith and a primier danseur named Adams. Thirty years ago, no dancer had a chance without a mysterious, preferably Russian name.” Miss Franca’s own real name was “Franks” until it was changed for her first job. She was speaking of Lois Smith and David Adams who danced the lead roles in “Le Carnaval” hei'e. But the whole company is rath er phenomenal. Made up of “99 per cent” Canadian nationals, they show a polish and coordina tion which is unusual for a 7 year old company. Usually the real poise of a ballet group comes when its chor us begans to fill with dancers trained in the company’s own school. However, Miss Franca and sev eral able assistants have been able to stage acceptably an aston ishing repertoire of ballets in the relatively short span of seven years. “It makes your dancers so ver satile,” is the characteristic com ment of this product of the fabu lous British Royal Ballet (former ly the Sadler’s-Wells). i See 1 I STL Golfers — Golfers See Us Before You Buy — Shoes 12.95 STUDENT CO-OP STORE ATTENTION SENIORS! 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Williams, John Avant, and Billy W. Bibby. Ex- Chairman ; of. Donald D. Burchard; Prof. Robert M. Stevenson; and Mr. .avei ty, Bennie 1; Prof. Robert M. Stevenson; Williams, John Avant, and Billj officio members are Mr. Charles A. Roeber; and Ross Strader, Secretary and Direc tor of Student Publications. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office In College Station, Texas, under the Act of Con gress of March 8, 1870. MEMBER: The Associated Press Texas Press Ass’n Associated Collegiate Press Represented nationally by N a t i o n a 1 Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los An geles, and San Francisco. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter here in are also reserved. Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semeste year. Advertising rates College Station, Texas. e : T er, $6 per school year,, $6.50 per full rates furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA, JOE TINDEL Editor Letters To The Editor Editor, The Battalion: During my four years at Texas A&M; there has always been a crisis ranging from probation to co-education, and each year a number of letters are printed in the Letters to the Editor in which the public expresses its views on the issues of the day. The issue at hand is co-educa tion and a lot of letters have been printed, some of which hold merit both pro and con. How ever, some letters printed are signed anonymously. A cute little high school girl wrote about the American heri tage and covered wagons and then spoiled the whole thing by signing her name as “name with held for obvious reasons.” Anoth er person signed his name as “a true Aggie”. These are the peo ple who turn my stomach. This is the type of person who loves to start a fight in a bar room and then step back and watch the fun. The person who had his letter printed in the Feb. 26 issue of The Battalion falls into this cate gory of cowards’; and it is to him that I direct this letter. First of all I would like to com mend you on your usage of the English language; however, your knowledge of American history is deplorable. If you are a citizen of the free world, why did you sign your masterpiece with “name withheld upon request?” This suggests one of two things to me: (1) You know nothing of what you are talking’ about, or (2) You are ashamed of your name. Which is it my friend ? You call those who disagree with your ideas “morons,” but at least they will stand up and tell everyone how they feel about the issue and then sign his name. Why not follow suit “citizen of the free world?” I believe we still enjoy freedom of the press. I have served a hitch in the Armed Forces and saw some good men die for this freedom to speak and print their ideas without ■fear. It’s a shame that you will make their sacrifice a mockery. If this anonymous letter writ ing keeps up, Aggies, this college we are so proud of will soon be come decadent because of a hand ful of misinformed people. Proud to be an American, a veteran, an Aggie, and a Corps senior, I sign this letter. Robert M. Dickey, ’58 "1 <oTIU_ eAY TWAT IP WE ■START A 'LETTERS TO THE EDITOR' COLO>AM , WE'U. get so- maln Lrrrefss, we wowr PAVE ROOM to PEiur AUiWMG fclSE?* Job Interviews Monday Temeo Aircraft Corporation in terviews mathematics and phy sics majors and aeronautical, civil, electrical, and mechanical engineers. Humble Oil & Ref. Co. inter views accounting majors. Arkansas Fuel Oil Co., Shreve port, interviews geology, business administration, and marketing majors and chemical, civil, geological, industrial, mechanical, and petroleum engineers. U. S. 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