The Battalion College ^station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Wednesday, February 11, 1959
BATTALION EDITORIALS
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Things are Ripe
Aggieland is lacking in quantity this year compared to
figures of the past few'years, but as for quality it’s better
than it has been for a long time.
Figures released yesterday by Vice President Earl Rud
der indicate that despite early objections of many people,
Grade Point Army may prove to be A&M’s salvation.
Conditions have changed a lot from those facing fresh
men last year, but the figures show they must have been
for the good. More freshmen have returned for the spring
semester.
Of the 1,853 Corps freshmen who enrolled in 1957, only
1,041 were back in the spring semester. This year 1,722
freshmen started out in the Corps and now there are 1,216
remaining.
That’s improvement any way you look at it. A total of
506 freshmen didn’t return for this semester. Last year 812
didn’t return. Sure, a lot of the latter went civilian, which
first-year students cannot do this year due to the compulsory
Corps status. But did those 306 making up the difference
all go non-reg?
With the groundwork laid last semester and with the
added progress that’s sure to come this semester, A&M will
be in a better position than ever to start rebuilding quantity.
This time it will be quantity with quality.
A lot of credit goes to the work leaders in the Corps and
the administration have done to reduce unnecessary harrass-
ment that was thought in years past to be “good bull.”
Another large slice of credit goes to faculty members.
More than 140 volunteered last fall to serve as scholastic
advisors to Corps units, doing their work in the dormitoriesu
They were advised to help the students, not coddle them.
And the scholastic standards were not bent; faculty mem
bers just pitched in a little extra effort to give a lot of fresh
men that extra boost they needed.
After reaching the half-way mark of what has been
termed a “critical” year for A&M, indications are strong that
a lot of people will have to “eat crow” and admit that Grade
Point Army is the best thing to hit the campus in quite a
few years.
But it’s still going to take the unified effort of students,
faculty and administration to make the new program work
even better. We can make more marked progress. What
we do now and in the next four months can mean a lot for
A&M and for ourselves.
Are You a Ripper?
Today the nation is cele
brating Abraham Lincoln’s
birthday anniversary, and
when anyone thinks of Hon
est Abe, they think of the
hardships he reportedly had
getting an education when
he was a youth.
If Lincoln could visit A&M
today and tour the class
rooms, he would no doubt
be abashed. He might re
call the simple school sup
plies he had to work with
and cry tears into the indis
cernible etchings made by
students on the classroom
desks.
Comparing yourself t o
Lincoln, you should realize
that you are lucky to be get
ting an education. Why ruin
it and that of other students
by being a desk ripper?
If this s o u n d s “high
schoolish” to you, remem
ber it is aimed at students
who are conducting them
selves as the worst type of
high schoolers. There’s no
excuse for it. .You certainly
aren’t “getting back” at
some prof you don’t like.
Carving on the ancient
desks such as those found
in Bagley Hall may not be
too much of a crime, if you
can find space to carve. But
to mark up the new desks
such as in Nagle Hall. . . .
So look, sonny, cut it out
(and this doesn’t mean the
wood) ! It’s true, probably
no one will call you down if
you scratch your initials or
a rough facsimile of a fe
male shape into a desk top.
But doesn’t your conscience
bother you?
You’re Out
of Your Mind,
Charlie Brown!
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CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle Who’s Here
Berry Picks A&M Because of Baylor
By JACK TEAGUE
Laban E. (Ed) Berry, 18-year-
old electrical engineering major
from Waco, said living so near
the Baylor campus was ample
reason for coming to Aggieland.
A Squadron 4 fish, Ed said after
he heard the first “Poor Aggies”
chant many years ago, he knew
he was destined to be an Aggie.
A graduate of Waco High
School, Ed played basketball for
three years and was a high-
jumper . in track one year. He
was in the Senior Chorus for
two years which led him to be
selected to the All-State chorus.
Ed was also business manager
of the school annual, Daisy
Chain. At A&M, Ed has kept
up his singing by joining the
Singing Cadets.
Ed had another reason for
coming to A&M other than his
distaste for Baylor. After con
sidering many other colleges, he
decided that A&M offered the
best electrical engineering cur
riculum in the country. “And,”
he added, “I wanted to be a
fightin’ Aggie Cadet, too.”
After graduating Ed plans to
go into the Air Force for his
tour of duty and then enter the
field of electronics-communica
tion. “I guess it could be called
‘outer-space communication’,” he
said. “A good example of this is
our talking satellite.”
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blished...
but our special thanks to Jerry,
who helped us out.
This is our first visit to your
campus, and we are very much
impressed with everything — in
particular, the friendly “howdy.
Mrs. Harold E. Vaughn
Houston, Texas
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Editor,
The Battalion:
Referring to * yohr “Who’s
Here” column in The Battalion
Feb. 3, please add “Good Samari
tan” to the titles which you list
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Our car “went dead” at the
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evening. While trying to locate
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young man who offered to give
us a push. The car still refused
to start, and the push extended
to a garage in College Station.
I am sure that any true Aggie
would have been as thoughtful,
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