The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Thursday, April 10, 1958
Letters To The Editor
Iittle Man on campus
By tffcfc Bffcter
Editor
The Battalion:
I would like to take this oppor
tunity to holler some. My gripe
is about the parking- lots and
ticket situation that exists at
present. We appear to have a
school that has been “blessed”
with a bountiful number of mud-
pots called parking lots.
Now I am sure that no one, ca
det or non-reg enjoys getting mud
all over their shoes, least of all
me; and don’t start hollering
“gutless”, etc. at this point, be
cause I’ve got four years of mud
just behind me, compliments of
“Uncle”. While I don’t have
facts to back up my complaint, I
still feel that all the students are
being robbed by the security
force.
Just where is all of the money
they take in going to? I’m no
math whiz, but at two bucks a
car, for about 1500 cars at the
start of each semester, plus all
the tickets they write, it would
appear that they take in some
where around $6,000 a semester.
It is my understanding that the
money is supposed to be used to
fix these so-called pax-king lots.
If I am wrong I stand corrected.
Any way, it would be my sugges
tion to pay this money to the
more desex-ving- professors in the
different departments, or set up
some kind of scholarship since the
money obviously isn’t going- to be
used for the lots.
Well, that’s my stox-y anyway,
whether or not it is a legitimate
complaint I couldn’t say. I just
feel that this would be an easy
solution to keeping some of the
bettex- professors who consider
leaving for better paying posi
tions.
Sincerely yours,
Kurt J. Munser
Editor
The Battalion:
Even though the ruling to ad
mit feixiales at Texas A&M was
passed by an Aggie judge, it does
not mean that they (females)
will be entering the college. If
A&M is willing to continue fight
ing this case in a higher court, it
is my estimation that females
won’t be enrolling at A&M for at
least 10 years.
On my trip home last week, I
had the oppoi’tunity to converse
with a major in the U. S. Air
Force about co-education at A&M,
and even though he was a grad
uate of a co-ed school he felt as
a lot of Aggies do. He was
against co-education here be
cause he knew that a great many
traditions would be broken if fe
males were to enroll here.
He also told me that at the
base he was stationed a great
many more felt the same way.
His last words to me were, “You
Aggies have a great deal to fight
for—so don’t stop now.”
Ruben Carrera
Class ’61
Job Calls What’s Cooking
V NOW TH' LOSING COACH COMB Off W FI£LP ON TH'SHOULDERS OF “
ROTC Problem
Friday
Touche, Niven, Bailey & Smart,
of Houston, will interview ac
counting majors for junior ac
counting positions.
U. S. Army Audit Agency,
Southern Region, Fort Sam Hous
ton interviews accounting ma
jors.
Monday
Liquid Carbonic Corporation,
Chicago, 111., interviews business
administration, chemistry, chem
ical engineering and mechanical
engineering majors.
General Telephone Co. of the
Southwest, San Angelo, intei'-
views agricultural econoixxics,
economics, business administi'a-
tion, electrical engineering, me
chanical engineering and indus
trial technology majors.
Tuesday
Ceco Steel Pi-oducts Corpora
tion, Houston, interviews archi
tectural construction, civil engi
neering and mechanical engineer
ing majors.
North Amei-ica Companies,
Austin, interviews business ad
ministration and economics ma
jors.
7:30
Abilene Hometown Club meets
in room 204, Academic Building.
El Paso Hometown Club meets
in room 103, Academic Building.
Spring Branch Hometown Club
meets in room 226, Academic
Building.
Flax County Hometown Club
meets in room 125, Academic
Building.
Magazine Story
Causes Comment
At Other Schools
Students Study
College Drinking
College students who drink did
so befoi'e college.
Drinking behavior is “largely
cultural.”
These were two points uncov
ered by two senior sociology ma
jors at University of Arkansas.
The ARKANSAS TRAVELER
repoi'ted their findings.
The students used as their defi
nition of a drinker “anyone who
had a drink of any alcoholic bev
erage during the past six weeks.”
The six weeks before the study,
no holiday or special schbol func
tion had occurred.
Other findings:
• Most parents disapproved of
their children’s drinking’, but the
majority of students who drink
have parents who drink occasion
ally.
• The majority of non-drink-
crs‘ parents never drink.
• Students with friends who
drink were mostly drinkers them
selves. Those who said none or
only some friends drink were
mostly abstainers.
• Thei’e was some correlation
between frequency of attending
church and probability of abstain
ing.
• Drunk women were xnore
disapproved by both sexes than
drunk men.
• Drinkers have less respect
for drunks than do non-drinkers.
• Topping the list of reasons
for drinking was enjoyment of
taste. Chief I'eason for not drink
ing was because it was contrary
to religious ti’aining.
•Most popular places for dx’ink-
ing wei’e night clubs. Most pop
ular di'ink was beer.
• Few students felt that the
strictest possible enforcement of
rules on student drinking would
decrease di’inking.
The sociology students conclud
ed: “The findings should not be
constimed as final or all-inclus
ive. However, we feel we have
obtained some useful information
and some insight into the customs
and beliefs of college students re
garding drinking.”
LOOK magazine’s recent ar
ticle on ROTC caused comment
in the college press. The national
magazine quoted high military
leaders as considering “drasti
cally reducing or even eliminat
ing” the ROTC program in col
lege. “Failure of ROTC to pro
duce a sufficient number of high-
caliber officers is causing the
sei’vices to take a ‘nervous new
look’ at the system.”
Kansas State’s COLLEGIAN
reports a student council commit
tee there just completed a study
of local ROTC. The group, not
ing a steadily increasing male
enrollment and an equally steady
\ decrease in ROTC commissions,
recommended eliminating com
pulsory ROTC for an optional
progi'am “adequate in quantity,
higher in quality and more desir
able to all students.”
At University of Minnesota,
whei'e ROTC is voluntary, the
MINNESOTA DAILY reported
ROTC officials as being “shock
ed” and not in agreement with
the LOOK story.
One said he knew of no offi
cial actions to indicate any drop
ping of ROTC. “It is true the
number entei’ing ROTC is not as
high as might be desii’ed. . . The
modern generation is apathetic to
the services, and when students
come to college, they are often
immature and thus not capable
of making the decision to I’eceive
officer’s ti’aining. . .”
POSTAL ERA ENDS
OTTAWA, Ohio CP)—An era
ended in nearby North Creek when'
Miss Grace Ball retired after 36
years as postmaster. Her homey
little post office was closed up
forever under a reorganization pi’o-
gram. The post office, in a build
ing owned by Miss Ball, had knotty
pine paneling, lounge chairs, rugs
Wayne State. University air anc j cur t a ins and was a favorite
foi’ce ROIC officials declined com- gathering place for the villagers
ment on the LOOK piece, said
the Detroit school’s DAILY COL
LEGIAN. -
The newspaper noted, “The lo
cal AFROTC has been on shaky
ground before. An economy drive
in 1956 provided for discontinu
ing the school’s program,” but
the order was repealed when the
university’s president made a di
rect appeal to the air force.
Plans were made then for a
period of observation and study
of ROTC’s futui'e at WSU.
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