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PAGE 2 THE BATTALION Wednesday, December 16, 1959 BATTALION EDITORIALS . . . Journalism Which Succeeds Best —and Best Deserves Success— Fears God and Honors Man; Is Stoutly Independent, Unmoved by Pride of Opinion or Creed of Power . . . Walter Williams Abolish Trophy? A series of meetings will be held in Dallas prior to the Cotton Bowl Game New Year’s Day to discuss sportmanship among the schools of the Southwest Conference. Originally these meetings of the Southwest Conference Sportsmanship Committee, composed of four student repre sentatives from each school in the conference, were designed to select the school that had displayed the best sportman ship during the preceding year. The trophy would then be awarded to the school during Cotton Bowl halftime cere monies. But not anymore! At a meeting at Texas A&M last fall, the committee de cided that instead of awarding the Southwest Conference Sportsmanship Trophy to the school displaying the best sportsmanship, the Battalion—originated trophy would go to the school hosting the. spring track meet. That school also serves as chairman school of the committee for ,the coming year. The University of Texas was principal supporter of this move. Representatives of the University of Texas claimed that with the large student body at Texas, the cheer leaders couldn’t control their students as well as some of the smaller schools. They claimed this gave them an unfair disadvantage in selection of the school displaying the best sportsmanship. Under this new system of “awarding” the trophy, a school could have its student body incite a riot at each of its athletic contests and still be “awarded” the trophy as the best sportsmen in the conference. The new method appears to us to be a complete farce. Why should a school be presented with the trophy be fore a nationwide television audience at the Cotton Bowl Game, if the trophy doesn’t mean that they are the best sports;? Maybe we don’t have the insight that some of the repre sentatives of the other schools in the conference do, but we don’t think the. Sportsmanship Trophy should be something to rotate annually among the schools in order that every school can have possession of the trophy at least once every three years. We don’t believe the Men of Aggieland need a trophy as incentive to display good sportsmanship, but we do be lieve that if the Southwest Conference is going to have such a trophy, should go to the school that does display*the best sportsmanship. As The Battalion has a representative on this committee, we would like to have the opinion of the Men of Aggieland on this matter before attending the meeting in Dallas. For our part, we are going to move to have the trophy abolished unless a more equitable method of awarding it can be established. If no such method can be found, there is certainly no need in having a Southwest Conference Sportsmanship Trophy. Letters To The Editor The Battnlion welcomes letters to the editor hut reserves the right to edit letters for brevity, clearness and accuracy. Short letters stand a better chance for publication since space is at a premium. Unsigned letters will not be published. .. Editor, The Battalion: We wish to express our sin cere thanks for the fine publicity which you have given to our Christmas Seal Sale this year in The Battalion. It has helped to make the sale a success and we appreciate it very much. We also want to publicly thank L. A. Duewall and Mrs. Cecilia Prihoda for their help in getting the A&M students’ names for our mailing list. We appreciate, too, all the con tributions sent in by the A&M students. Many have sent in more WHEN YOUR TV GOES BAD DON’T, E T/ M A D CURE MOST TV TROUBLES TEST YOUR OWN TUBES on our “SELF SERVICE" tube tester. REPLACE BAD TUBES HERE The Exchange Store “Serving Texas Aggies” than the $1 asked by the TB Assn. To those of you who have not bought Christmas Seals—we will welcome any donation which you care to give. The TB Assn, has aided Aggies in the past and will probably be called on to aid many more in the future. When you buy Christmas Seals ypu help protect yourself and other Ag gies. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Mrs. I. W. Rupel, chairman of Seal Sale Mrs. Otis Miller, executive director Brazos County Tuberculosis Assn. WATCH Jan. 6th Issue of the Battalion for a variety of BIBLE COURSES (-Accredited Courses) for Texas Aggies THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax-supported, non profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and op erated by students as a community newspaper and is under the supervision of the director of Student Publications at Texas A&M College. Members of the Student Publications Board are L. A. Duewali, director of Student Publications, chairman ; Dr. A. L. Bennett, School of Arts and Sciences ; Dr. K. ,J. Koenig, School of Engineering; Otto K. Kunze, School of Agriculture; and Dr. E. D. McMurry, School of ^Veterinary Medicine. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A.&M. is published in College Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, September through May; and once a week during summer school. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office in College Station, Texas, under the Act of Con gress of March 8, 1870. MEMBER: The Associated Press Texas Press Ass’n. Represented nationally by N a t i o n a 1 Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los An geles and San Francisco. Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester, $6 per school year, $6.50 per full year. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion Room 4, YMCA, College Station, Texas. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter here in are also reserved. News contributions may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the editorial office, Room 4, YMCA. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6415. JOHNNY JOHNSON EDITOR David Stoker Managing Editor Bob Weekley Sports Editor Bill Hicklin, Robbie Godwin News Editors CADET SLOUCH ■?; ■ >■.' N.PnbY ‘ '3 - ) V b * Jim Earle Sleeping at Wheel May Be Last Sleep ASBURY PARK, N. J. (A 1 ) — There is a sad decline in the once prosperous art of beachcoming. •'’‘V / i ff ) jfkmm • \ v «,v. ;■ / : - \ " I / \ it “ . . first aid kit, gauze, crutches, identification of next of kin, insurance policy, safety belt, crash helmet .... What else do we need when we leave Friday?” On Other Campuses By Alan Payne TCU An editorial suggestion in the TCU school paper suggests that frat pledges need to work to gether on projects to help build morale. Looks like there wouldn’t be any sense in even having fra ternities if they have to get out and do something like that to build up morale. But, oh well — you know how those frat boys like to do things. ’ U of H The vice-president of Columbia, in a speech down at Couger High indicated that he felt a fraternity system offered great opportuni ties in leadership and an insight into the responsibilities of self- government. Wouldn’t this world be quite a mess if we had-to de pend on leaders with such “sub stantial” backgrounds ? Couger High also had their bon-fire burned prematurely. It was scheduled to be burned on a, Wednesday night but was burned instead early Tuesday morning. It was so small that they had enough time to rebuild it and have it ready by Wednesday. The Army ROTC unit, some frat vol unteers apd some downtown mer chants managed to have it back up in only a little more than one day. TU TU had a “fussbudgeting con test” last week. It seems that it’s no more than an opportunity to kill time with senseless discuss ions. Some of their “intellectual” topics included: “The Inherent Dangers of Signing Something Unthinkingly,” “We Need More Pencil Sharpeners,” “The Stu dent Health Center Regards Pa tients as Statistics, Not Patients,” “We Should Abolish Final Ex ams,” “The Daily Texan is In accurate and Uninteresting” and “There Should Be no More Frat Hazing.” TU’s Aqua Carnival, a 25-year old traditional event, has been done away with because it is too much trouble. The Tea-sips ap parently take hardly little inter est in the event, the attendance is even poor. CBS Places Eight On Regional Band Eight members of the A&M Consolidated High School band will travel to Rockdale Jan. 30 after being named to the Region 3 Band in tryouts at Belton. The College Station members of the band are Judy Rasmussen and David Bailey on clarinets, Tommy Ledbetter and Leslie Brusso, saxophones; Jay Pruitt, cornet; Pat Ozment, baritone horri; and Furman Isbel and Richard Rasmussen, trombones. By DAVE STOKER Battalion Managing Editor Statistics have shown over a period of years that falling- asleep at the wheel is the largest single cause of traffic accidents, accounting for 53 per cent of all fatal accidents and 49 per cent of the non-fatal type. Falling asleep at the wheel has acounted for several Aggie deatus. A great majority of Aggies who leave the campus Friday and Saturday will do some night driv ing. Sometime during the trip, the driver will probably feel sleepiness creeping up on him. The best thing to do in such a case is to pull off the road and take a short nap or change driv ers. To avoid falling asleep at the wheel and risking the uncertain results, the driver should take the following tips in mind. He should avoid heavy foods, great amounts of liquids and so called “antisleep” pills. Of course, liquor and other alcoholic bever ages should never be consumed while driving. Several light meals or snacks are better than one heavy meal when driving. Heavy, greasy meals are contributing factors to drowsiness. Consumption of liquids should be curtailed. Drinking great amounts of soup, beer or coffee will slow down kidney functions. Taking drugs to stay awake is not advised. Such drugs will keep the driver awake, but at the same time will slow down the driver's reactions. Getting out of the car and stretching is also a good method to avoid sleepiness. At such stops the eyes can be rested by looking up and down, to the right and left. It is also advisable to mas sage the eyelids with your fingers. Social Whirl Wednesday Civil Engineering Wives Club will meet at 8 in the YMCA South Solarium. A talk on “Tra dition and Christmas Customs in the Phillipjne Islands” will be given. Members are urged to bring their donations for the Christmas basket. Aggies Wives Bridge Club will meet at 7:30 in the Memorial Student Center. Thursday The Student Chapter of the American Veterinary Medicine Assn. Auxiliary will meet in the YMCA South Solarium. The freshman class wives will be hostesses. Even though another hour may be added to the trip by taking- such precautionary measures, trained drivers have proven by their safety records that by fol lowing them they can avoid ac cidents. Presentation Set By Kindergarten The Wee Aggieland Kinder garten will present “The Toy Shop Window” in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom Thurs day night at 7. LIGHTHOUSE MUSEUM HIGHLANDS, N. J. <7P) — Twin Lights Lighthouse, abandoned since 1951, is open again as a nautical museum. The old stone towers were first opened in 1862 and housed the first U. S. life saving station. Guglielmo Marconi conducted wireless experiments here at the turn of the century. T h e lighthouse-museum’s chief attractions are seafaring momen- toes and a 200-foot-high observa tion tower. Civilian Student Portrait Dates Set Civilian Students will have their portrait made for The Ag gieland ’60 at the Aggieland Studio between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. according to the following schedule. Coats and ties should be worn. All Sophomores and Jun iors (Civilian) must have their pictures taken before Dec. 17th. 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