The Battalion College Motion (Brazos bounty/, Texas
PAGE 2 Wednesday, March 4, 1959'
BATTALION EDITORIALS
. . . Our Liberty Depends on the Freedom of the
Press, And It Cannot Be Limited Without Being
Lost . . . Thomas Jefferson
Age of Reason
The Age of Reason has been slow arriving at Texas
A&M. Yet it must surely come if the college is ever to com
pete with other state schools. It must come if A&M is to sur
vive in the deadly struggle with the other 17 state-supported
schools for state monies.
“We cannot keep a school here (A&M) with decreasing
enrollment,” as John Newton, new Board member from Beau
mont said.
It was with this in mind that changes in the Corps were
suggested. Yet these changes have been labeled heresy and
have been hooted down by cadets on the defensive about
their training methods.
This is amazing since the only concrete recommendation
made thus far has been to re-examine current practices of
handling underclasmen in the light of reason rather than in
the shadow of tradition.
Indications are only a few Corps students have looked
at the problem in the light of reason. Too many have re
fused—they shrug off the possibility that anything could
be wrong with “01’ Army” and are frantically searching for
ways to defend the old system rather than looking for ways
to enlarge and improve Corps training.
• Principal among this misconceptions about “Reason
able Army” as it may come to be called, is that it calls for
destruction of every present condition and practice. This is
not the case at all. Everything done to date can and will be
kept so long as it can be justified reasonably. Again, this
seems logical and one wonders how it can be refuted intelli
gently.
• Another basic contention of those who would keep
A&M unchanged is that “Old Army” trained good men—
they are the foundation for our reputation today. And Cer
tainly this is true. For it’s day, the training program 20
years ago was most effective.
But this is 1959 and the raw material sent from Texas’
high schools is different, their training at home is different
and most important of all, the world they will graduate into
is radically different. Consequently, the Corps’ program must
be slanted for problems—it must condition the young men
mentally and physically for the tests they will meet today,
not the tests they would have met if they had been born
20 years ago.
• A third false idea of the changes suggested is that
it will destroy discipline. Nothing could be more erroneous.
If anything, the interjection of thinking rather than being
content to ape the past would surely improve discipline.
It all hinges on the meaning of discipline. If one be
lieves it to mean the ability to take any sort of unorganized
foolishness (as some seem to suggest) then maybe it would
strike the death blow to “discipline”, if that be the word.
However, if the discipline they seek is truely training
which molds, strenthens or perfects, it will withstand the
examination and will be perpetuated.
Basically, to keep every ridiculious, Phi Beta Corps policy
now employed to belittle and discourage freshmen and to
terminate it in a reasonable length of time—say Turkey Day,
for example,—would be a start in the right direction. This
might appease both groups. For the die-hards that insist
that a man must prove himself able to “Take It and Dish it
Out” it would allow an excellent opportunity for just this
sort of training. By terminating it early in the year, it would
allow the freshmen who have measured up to these standards
to be accepted rather than force them to qualify over and
over, again until they see no incentive in doing well a job
they must do over again.
The net effect would be well screened freshmen yet they
would become real members of Corps as soon as they merited
it rather than after they were exhausted.
Certainly this is not the only answer to the problem.
There are others equally as feasible for putting the Corps back
together as a single unit of Texas Aggies rather than four
groups of boys hassling over which group is more manly
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Better Parking Facilities-!
Students Want to Know
Where Fee Money Goesr
Social Whirl Wee Aggies
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is
the first in a series of stories de
signed to answer students 1 ’ ques
tions concerning the parking lot
situation on the campus. All
phases of the problem will be dis
cussed.)
By BILL REED
Battalion News Editor
What was the $35,000 accumu
lated last year from parking fees
and fines used for ? When are
the student parking lots going to
be paved ? Why are we getting-
tickets at 2:30 in the morning?
These are just a few of the
questions being asked every day
by students on the campus. The
whole thing may be boiled down
to just one question that was
overheard the other day. Why
do we have KK’s?
Students on every corner »f the
campus are very concerned and
upset about the whole parking lot
situation at A&M. They want
to know what is being done to
better conditions for their cars.
They want to know what the
money they pay is being used
for.
Rumors have started circula
ting on the campus insinuating
that the money collected is being
used for things other than what
it is supposed to be used for.
A committee has been set up
by the Student Senate to investi
gate the situation. At the pres
ent time the committee is making
proposals to better the parking
lots with the hope of making Ag
gies happy.
Several student lots on the
campus have been paved, but the
majority have not. College offi
cials have said that in the near
future the rest of the lots will
be paved.
Fred Hickman, chief of Cam
pus Security, said yesterday, “We
don’t know when these lots will
Interpreting
Berlin Situation Indefinite
As Mac, Nikita Halt Talks
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
Prime Minister Harold Mac
millan has ended his exploratory
trip to Moscow without being
able to map new territory.
The expedition found itself in
a cul-de-sac surrounded by shegr
precipices, confirming that the
Soviet Union is unwilling to give
up any of its objectives for the
sake of a better peace.
At the same time, when Mac
millan indicated he had almost
broken off the talks soon after
their beginning because of Soviet
Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s un
diplomatic treatment, the Krem
lin leaders did do enough of an
about face to suggest that they
don’t want war, either.
Aside from confirmation that
the Communists are determined
to perpetuate the partition of
Germany, perhaps the most sig
nificant result of the meeting is
the new projection of the shadow
of cold war far into the future.
For a time it appeared that
the conference might actually
contribute to the danger of war,
by opening the door to expres
sions of animosity on all sides.
In the end, however, some good
may have been accomplished by
the Allied display of unity and
determination in the face of
Khrushchev’s repeated threats.
To that extent, tough talk in
the United States about what
would happen if the Reds tried
.another Berlin blockade may have
provided Macmillan with a per
suasive background for his warn
ing about the danger of unilateral
action.
At least Khrushchev is on the
record, for whatever it is worth,
as relying on negotiations rather
than force for settlement of in
ternational issues.
Macmillan says he is convinced
the basic aim of both sides is to
prevent a war.
If that is true, then the basic
problem for the West remains as
it has appeared for several years
—how to prevent the interna
tional Communists from grabbing
the fruits of war without actu
ally fighting.
be paved, but we are hoping to
have them done in the near fu
ture.”
Moon Rocket
Stops Climb
Begins Orbit
NEW YORK (A 3 )—Before noon
today, the new U.S. space probe
reached the top of an invisible
gravity mountain in space.
. Then the little gold-plated sat
ellite and its companion rocket
approached their closest to the
moon — perhaps within 38,000
miles.
Their long climb against the
gravity attraction of the earth
became less taxing, less import
ant. Gravity weakens greatly
with distance.
At 3,000 miles, the earth’s grav
itational attraction for Pioneer
IV was about a fourth what it
had been at blastoff, astrono
mers say.
Nine-tenths of the way to the
moon, the earth’s gravity be
comes so weakened that other
forces are more important. First
the moon’s gravity predominates.
Then the sun’s gravity—the ma
jor force of the solar system—
takes over as the major influ
ence on the course of Pioneer IV.
It’s as if Pioneer had to climb
a mountain to the neighborhood
.of the moon—steepest as it left
the earth but becoming nearly a
plateau in the region of the moon*
Beyond the moon would lie a
sort of downhill slope—and it is
here that Pioneer would gather
speed as it hurries into an orbit
around the sun.
The big Juno II rocket gave
Pioneer a kick of some seven
miles a second, insuring that the
space cone had enough speed to
conquer the earth’s gravity
mountain.
ij The earth’s gravity slowed
Pioneer with each succeeding mile
—but could not slow it enough
to bring it back to earth.
Civil Engineering Wives Club
meets tonight at 8 in the South
Solarium, YMCA. Mrs. Fred Hale
will present a talk on “Tips on
Buying a Home.”
Geology Wives Club meets to
night at 8 in Room 2-C, MSC.
Tickets Available
For Prof Banquet
Tickets are now on sale for the
annual banquet of the A&M Chap
ter, American Association of Uni
versity Professors in the Assembly
Room of the Memorial Student
Center on March 11.
The tickets may be purchased
from members of the chapter or
through their departments for $2.
Speaker for the banquet will be
J. W. Riehm, Assistant Dean,
Southern Methodist University
School of Law.
The purpose of the AAUP is to
stimulate interest in furthering ed
ucation. A&M’s chapter has a
membership of 125 and is one of
537 chapters in the United States.
We Aggies like to read about Wee Ag
gies. When a wee one arrives, call VI
6-4910 and ask for the Wee Aggie Edi
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Mr. and Mrs. Malvern G. Mc-
Farlin, ’58, are the proud parents
of a future Aggie sweetheart.
Patricia Ann, weighing in at 5
pounds, 14 ounces, arrived Sat
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Louisiana Hospital, Shreveport,
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Next Thursday and Friday, March 5 and
6, officials of these five Bell companies will
be at the Placement Office to talk to Texas
A&M men about a career when they graduate.
• Western Electric . . . manufacturing
unit of the Bell System. Also develops,
makes, and services electronic products
for the armed forces.
• Southwestern Bell . . . builds, main
tains, and operates the Southwest’s vast
communications system.
• Bell Laboratories . . . largest indus
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Electronics and communications
research is fascinating.
• Sandia Corporation . . . applied
research, development, and design on
ordnance phases of atomic weapons.
• A.T.&T, Company . . . builds, main
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Fred Meurer Managing Editor
Gayle McNutt Executive News Editor
Bob Weekley Sports Editor
Bill Reed, Johnny Johnson, David Stoker, Lewis Reddell....News Editors
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