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The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Thursday, April 17, 1958
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
Editorials
S tuden tAuth ority
Should Remain
Student Publications at Texas A&M, one of the most
respected programs in college journalism, stands today at
a crossroads.
During the last week, movements in the direction of
the censorship “road” have been evident, yet that path
has not yet been taken.
Until last week the Student Publications Board was con
sidered a governing board subject to the Dean of Student
Personnel Services. Now it has been labeled “advisory” by
the administration.
Formerly the director of Student Publications was sub
ject to the board’s authority. Now he is subject to the vice
president’s authority directly.
Before last week the student editor was the last man
to see the material published in The Battalion and was
directly responsible for that material. Now the Student
Publications director is checking the material before it
is published.
The administration has assured the editors that they do
not want censorship. They say they will not prevent editorials
or stories from appearing in The Battalion if they are factual
and comply with libel and postal laws and ethics.
But the one thing that will keep the publications from
following along the road of their previous success is the
placing of final authority in the director’s and administra
tion’s hands.
by Dick Bib,e ; What’s Cooking Dates Needed For College Calendar
'Yes I'M GOING TO PASS YOU BECAUSE I'M TIRED OF HAVING
TO MAKE UP NEW TESTS FOR THIS COURSE El/ERV YEAR!"
After 3 Months
San Angelo Hometown Club
will meet in room 203, Agricul
ture Building, to discuss High
School Day.
Abilene Hometown Club meets
in room 204, Academic Building.
Milby Hometown Club meets in
room 2-C, MSC.
Amarillo Hometown Club
meets in the Gay Room, YMCA, to
plan High School Day.
Panhandle Club meets in room
3-D of the MSC.
Southwest Texas Hometown
Club meets in room 122, Academic
Building.
Port Arthur Hometown Club
meets in the MSC lobby to make
group picture.
A meeting to decide all im
portant dates to be entered on
the 1958-59 all-college calendar
will be held at 5 p. m. next
Wednesday in room 101 of the
YMCA, C. G. (Spike) White,
recreation and entertainment
manager, said yesterday.
officers—should be present at the
meeting, White said.
All persqns concerned with ar
rangement of events on the
calendar-—such as class and club
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If the director and administration are the final authori
ties concerning what will or will not be printed, they
become the editors and not the duly appointed students.
When this happens, the student editors no longer have
the opportunity to learn executive direction of a newspaper,
but instead continue to take directives from it higher authori
ty. Their opportunity for leadership training through abso
lute responsibility is squelched.
It is an utter fallacy to say that students can learn to
lead by following. If leadership is never experienced, the
ability to lead will not be cultivated.
Also it is illogical to say that 21 and 22-year-old
students are too young and immature to assume responsi
bilities in printing a newspaper or magazine.
This nation, during wartime, has often put men who
were 19 or 20 years of age in charge of heavy bombers loaded
with high explosive or in charge of large numbers of troops
facing murderous enemy gunfire.
If these “youngsters” can come through and face their
responsibilities, so can juniors and seniors at Texas A&M
who have been trained and carefully screened for their posi
tions.
Positive proof of the value of the program so far
comes from editors over the state who have hired former
Battalion staffers. They say that these men when placed
in executive positions show more responsibility and
leadership qualities than men from other schools.
The Battalion feels that unless the publications program
remains completely in student hands, it will no longer be
STUDENT operation but instead will be a college operation
with students employed.
In the interest of future student leadership on the A&M
campus, similar opinions from both faculty members and
students should be expressed to vice president Rudder.—JT
Chest Almost Empty
Last Fall, the Student Senate set up the Campus Chest
to replace the tubs set up around the campus for contributions
several times a year. The purpose was the same—the means
a little more efficient.
Aggies have always helped one of their number in need—
it is one of the best kndwn characteristics of the school.
The original goal of the Chest was set at $7,000, a dollar
an Ag. The December fund raising drive fell far short of this
goal.
To date, 1,261 of the 1,800 Campus Chest dollars raised
in the December drive have been sent to Ags in need or to
worthy organizations. This leaves about $550 in the Chest,
which may be enough for the rest of the year, barring any
tragedy.
If $550 isn’t enough, the Senate will have to put out the
tubs again and the purpose of the Campus Chest will be lost.
The small contributions in December certainly can’t be
considered disregard by Aggies for one in need. More likely,
the need for the money, at that time was just hard to see.
The need has been apparent in the last few months.
Injury and disease have made it so.
Next year, it would be well to plan in advance. Tragedy
may strike more than once. And it doesn’t always strike the
“other” fellow.—JB
THE BATTALION
Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu
dent writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax-suppofted,
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
Texas A. & M. College.
The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A.&M., is published in Collefre 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 arc: Dr. Carroll D. Laverty,
Chairman ; Prof. Donald D. Burehard ; Prof. Robert M. Stevenson ; and Mr. Bennie
Zinn. Student members 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
Gary Rollins Sports Editor
Joy Roper Society Editor
j Gayle McNutt City Editor
Joe Baser, Fred Meurer ....News Editors
Robert Weekley Assistant Sports Editor
David Stoker, Johnny Johnson, John Warner Ronal
Easley, Lewis Reddell r Reporters
Raoul Roth News Photographer
George Wise Circulation Manager
Ag Meets Girl
He’s Been Writing
By HOLIM KIM
Friday was a day of extra
ordinary happiness for Joe
Parter, a German-born sopho
more from Kingsville. He met the
girl he’s been writing for three
months—for the first time.
The girl, Lorraie Schlote, is a
senior chemistry major at In
carnate Word College in San An
tonio. Joe began writing her
through a German publication in
January.
Joe and Lorraie were supposed
to meet at the TAGS (Texas As
sociation of German Students)
convention at Baylor last week
end, but they did not write about
how to recognize each other.
Joe strolled into the Waco Hall
on the Baylor campus, where the
University of Texas Players
were to present a drama that
night. He walked back and forth
along the aisle about twice, and
half-disappointedly came to stand
at a corner. Then a girl stood up
from a seat and walked back to
the door; she turned around and
passed Joe again. In all the ex
citement amidst girls and people,
the Aggie just could not recall
the profile of the girl he once
saw in a picture. Fortunately,
Lorraie had a better memory.
She finally decided to address the
Aggie.
Joe’s heart was bouncing, he
said. His usual fast talking was
accentuated by tension and shy
ness—he now talked like a ma
chine gun. His face was as red as
it could be—from his neck to the
top of his head.
On his way back that night he
confided to his companion, “Boy,
I’m a happy man.”
He rates brain higher than
beauty, and in Lorraie he found
both, he said. He receives letters
from her twice each week, and
corrects mistakes if written in
German. (She is a third year
German student at the Incarnate
Word.)
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