The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Tuesday, April 15, 195&
Man to Man
By JOE TINDEL
Since “Man to Man” appeared last in The Battalion, the
Easter holidays have come and gone and once again the long
grind starts..
Many will be finding out in the next few weeks whether
they will graduate on time or not or if they will graduate this
semester.
Now’s the time to hit the books harder than ever.
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Two more columns remain before I’ll be handing the
reins of The Battalion over to Joe Buser, next year’s editor.
For many who have disagreed with me this year it will be a
welcomed event. It’s too bad it has to be that way, but an
editor can’t agree with everybody.
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When I returned to the campus yesterday after a week’s
stay in Liberty publishing the weekly newspaper there and
a short stay in the hospital, the news greeted me that several
obscene and disrespectful signs had been placed on the
campus.
Regardless of feelings about the person whose picture
appeared on the signs, the instigators were acting in poor
taste and not as educated men.
More civilized and practical means can be found to show
disagreement with the president of the college than the use
of this type sign.
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Many have been asking the question lately, “What has
happened to the student publications program?”
In the next few days The Battalion hopes to be able to
completely explain the changes which have taken place. We
are exploring the administrative minds for the answer.
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Congratulations from the writer and The Battalion to
the two newest student leaders for next year—Don Cloud
and Hugh Wharton. Don was named Corps sergeant major
and Hugh was appointed Memorial Student Center Council
president.
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Ross Strader, recently ousted Student Publications direc
tor, was called to Oklahoma this weekend by the death of his
father. The Battalion’s deepest sympathy goes to Mr. Strader
and his family.
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non-profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and
operated by students as a community newspaper and is gov
erned by the student-faculty Student Publications Board at
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The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A.&M., is published in College Sta
tion, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, Septem
ber through May, and once a week during summer school.
Faculty members of the Student Publications Board are: Dr. Carroll D. Laverty,
d D. Burchard ; Prof. Robert M. Stevenson ; and Mr. Bennie
s are W. T. Williams, John Avant, and Billy W. Libby, Ex-
officio members are Mr. Charles A. Roeber; and Ross Strader, Secretary and Director
of Student Publications.
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JOE TINDEL Editor
Jim Neighbors Managing Editor
With mid-semester madness
out of the way and the long road
to graduation becoming shorter
with every day (logically enough),
it seems in order to outline some
of the time tested methods of
cramming bits of obscure infor
mation gleaned in the classroom
into one’s head.
Rule No. 1. Avoid regular
class attendance. (Personal re
flection on the problems of the
world is by far better than hav
ing it spoon-fed by a prof.)
2. See lots of good movies.
(Or bad movies—if that’s all
that’s playing. This provides the
mind with a celluloid filter for
knowledge and also furnishes a
wealth of material for filler in
themes and reports.)
3. Develop the attitude that
sack in the morning, sack in the
evening, sack anytime is the best
way to prepare for a quiz. (Young
minds need rest.)
4. Turn all assignments in late.
(Late papers get special atten
tion.)
5. Take long extended trips to
parts known and unknown on
weekends. (The gasoline industry
is depending on us.)
6. Check to see how much it
costs to have the date on the
big black one changed. (In case
graduation plans are altered.)
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It could only happen to RV’s at
Buccaneer Days in Corpus Christi
on Saturday.
That’s the only day they were
there.
Seems like a Randy Curtiss and
a Davis Ford, both members of
the wearers of white suits,
stopped traffic in the streets of
that city.
The two were enroute to the
rendevous point for the parade
and became ensnarled in the traf
fic that was ensnarled every
where. After several desperate
attempts to cross a busy inter
section, these two—white suits
and all—fell out of their auto and
waved the traffic to a halt— Lon
don Robert (Bobby) fashion—al
lowing a third member to drive
their car across the street.
... If I don’t graduate this se
mester my name isn’t John Senior
—Anon.
AUSTIN, Tex.—Next summer’s
campaigners are tuning up to
play from a familiar score—the
conservative vs. liberal melody
Texas voters have been hearing
for years.
But, like the rock ’n roll ver
sion of a Stephen Foster song, it
may sound different. Campaign
pitches will have to keep time to
the fast beat of 1958’s new issues.
Such as “curing the recession”
an “catching up in education.”
On the federal level, talk is of
cutting taxes to give the people
more money to spend. Here in
Texas, it’s raising taxes to give
the state more money to spend.
In a situation like this, a voter
can get confused.
CIRCLE
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
“Shake, Rattle & Roir
With Fats Domino
Plus
“Runaway Daughters”
With Marla English
For each issue, there’ll be
several choruses—more or less
drowning each other out. Some
will chant of scaring away re
cession with large-scale govern
ment spending. Others will say
the only way is to give business
a break.
For schools, some are calling
for a nationwide program to re-'
quire more work from students,
provide better teachers at better
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On how to get money to bail
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