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4 God Help Us’
Editor,
The Battalion:
In the Tuesday, March 8, Bat
talion an editorial was written
concerning the student protests
sponsored by the United States
National Student Assn. If this
piece of writing is representative
of the eyes and ears of Texas
A&M, God help us for we are
sick The editorial seems to be
an indication of narrow-minded
thinking on a sheltered campus.
First of all, do you know what
the National Student Assn, is?
It is the national organization
of student governments from
campuses across the United
States. You might inquire if
our Student Senate is a member
of NS A for it may be an edu
cational piece of information.
Next, you stated the purpose
of the demonseration of the NS A:
“The purpose of the demonstra
tion was to show support to the
battle now being fought by south
ern Negro students for equality
of education, facilities and treat
ment; and to show student con
cern with the civil rights prob
lem in America.”
Yes, the NS A is attempting to
solve the segregation problem
by showing that students are con
cerned about equal rights and
opportunities. Our generation
has been called “silent,”- “beat,”
“uncommitted” and “unconcern
ed” more than once. Yes, stu
dents across the U. S. are rebel-
lin against the conservative gen
erations ahead of us who have a
hundred years to take the issues
into account in debate and ses
sion, but have refused to allevi
ate the problem.
Oh? This is a nation where
revolts and demonstrations are
frowned upon ? Thumbing
through nearly 200 years of
American history tells us that if
Americans cannot gain their “un
alienable rights; that among
these, life, liberty and the pur
suit of happiness” (Declaration
of Independence, July 4, 1776,
by debate, they will then revolt
even more vigorously than Amer
ican students in 1960. Was re
volt and demonstration frowned
upon in the American Revolution
for Independence, the War of
1812, the revolution of 1828 for
universal manhood suffrage in
the U. S., the Civil War against
slavery, the revolt for equal
rights for women, the demonstra
tions in the rise of labor move-
edit lette
id a better chance
etters will not be published.
Unsigned
ment: world war I and II? Prob
ably! But as long as human
rights are denied, there are go
ing to be revolts! What do you
think is happening on Saturday
afternoon in Kyle Field when we
yell, “Beat the ?”
Are we too sophisticated at
Texas A&M to have little or no
concern over “immature” revolts
of students? If you will sit up
I and take notice, students of Te
as A&M have hardly even asked
the question of equal opportunity
for men and women, much less
for all human beings! If you are
so sure America is aware of the
civil rights problem and is cur
rently doing something about it,
it has been six years since the
Supreme Court passed on the
segregation of schools, so look
around you to see the progress
you say we are making.
It is a pity when our editorial
writer feels it is below our dig
nity to support fellow students
who are seeking truth, equality
and dignity in the universities
and colleges of the United States.
Regardless of race, section of the
country or size of the campus,
as future leaders of this nation
and the world, we have a lot in
common with those revolting stu
dents. Good luck to them!
David M. Wallace, ’61
Robert C. Wakefield, ’62
Paul F. Yan Nieuwenhuize, ’62
A. A. Hunzieker, ’61
Wendell Koenig, ’59
William G. Shenkir, ’60
Malcolmn D. Maxwell, ’61
Dick Simpson, ’63
James L. Wolfe, ’60
Bob Campbar, ’60 •
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Students Ask Why
Editor,
The Battalion:
Your editorial of March 8, en
titled “Immature”, makes us ask
why student demonstration to
show concern for a vital issue
should be frowned upon. We
feel that too little expression of
opinion by students is prevalent
on the university campus and
that any attempt to help other
students, Negro or white, should
be commended. Probably the
reason such action is frowned
upon by the public today is that
people are afraid of being called
upon to take an open stand on
any issue. At a time when the
United States Senate is probing
this important issue, if it is prob
ing it at this particular time, a
student demonstration to show
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concern for it should be very
much in older and definitely not
immature. It seems imperative
that the legislators should know
the opinion of those who their
decision will most vitally affect,
i.e. the students.
We commend the USNSA and
any student who takes an open
stand on what he believes and
wonder how many students at
A&M would be willing to take
such a stand.
Barry Wilder, ’61
Ben Marshall, ’59
Larry Robbins, ’60
Rill Pipe, ’60
Danny Loyd, ’62
Don Brenner, ’61
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4 Easy To Sit Back’
Editor, •
The Battalion:
.... It is easy to sit back and
be critical, and I may be in this
spot as I raise questions about
your Tuesday editorial. Surely
it is naive to suggest “the US
NSA is evidently attempting to
solve the racial problem by con
ducting and sponsoring student
revolts.” Doesn’t your second
paragraph suggest what the US
NSA is attempting to do? And
what is so unusual about the. as
sociation’s methods to focus at
tention on our inter-racial diffi
culties ? They are a far cry
from the covering of eyes, ears
and mouths practiced by many
student groups and students
' when urgent matters demand at-
1 "tention! Why shouldn’t the Sen
ate be prodded, irritated, provok
ed and impressed with a bit of
needed solidarity and common
concern from college students?
There is something deadly ser
ious about young people who are
willing to accept taunts, threats,
ridicule, fines, beatings, expul
sion from school and pail senten
ces . in order that they may wit-
. ness for their belief in the in
herent rights and dignity of all
persons! How far afield this is
from some of the foolish whoop-
la I sometimes learn. about and
hear about in this vicinity. How
Boy Scoutish can we be?
The word “revolt” some how
fails to describe the demonstra-
■ tions and actions of the istufignts
in the South and in Washington
Square during the past weeks.
Students of American Revolution
days and students in South Amer
ica or in Africa would - consider
such a term ludicrous. But if
this is a revolt, then it shows a
maturity and powerful restraint
that cannot but bring changes
for the better, What a dark day
it will be when students in this
country become so mealy-mouth
ed, brain-washed, self-contained
and frightened of the great white
fathers in the high places of our
society that they no longer re
volt against injustice, double
talk and the status qou doctrines
of racists, politicians and the
ignorant demagogues, . . .
f Tom Shepherd, Pastor
A&M Christian Church
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“It’s always th’ guys you least suspect that make out!”
On Other Campuses
By Alan Payne
TWU
TWU hosted a “beat poetess”
from Dallas last Wednesday in
two crammed psychology classes.
The 19-year-old, who has been
featured for the last 45 weeks in
the Interlude in Dallas as the
“beatific lady,” read a few poems
and expressed her views concern
ing the current beatnik craze.
In expressing these opinions,
she stated, “Every generation has
its ‘bohemians’,” referring to the
Flaming Youth period of the ’20s.
“In the present case, ‘beatnik’ is
just another term for the indi
vidual in society,” she stated.
She concluded by saying, “The
individual, or ‘beatnik’, does not
reject everything or accept every
thing. He accepts only what is
applicable to himself and de
termines his own values.”
NORTH TEXAS
North Texas students concluded
their DUTCH week activities last
week with the election of the
Ugliest Man on Campus from six
likely candidates. The UMOC
reigns for the entire year follow
ing his election as one of the big
shots on campus. This undoubtedly
must be quite an honor but what
would the winner do when con
fronted with all the faces he
would run into down here. He
wouldn’t have a chance.
BAYLOR
Baylor University police ar
rested two young men last week
on charges of theft in the college
dormitories. They were alertly
tracked down by a group of Bay
lor students and turned over to
the police.
The police expressed the be
lief the men may be professional
thieves traveling across the coun
try posing as janitors in various
college dormitories. In their short
visit at Baylor, they made off
with seven billfolds, $50 and a
watch valued at $100.
Well, the tea-sips, trying to
be like everybody else, decided
they’d have a High School Day
last week.
And with their huge student
body of approximately 18,000,
they managed to get a total of
500 high school students out for
the event. This total includes
both boys and girls and shows
every 18 students had a high
school student on campus.
As you undoubtedly remember,
the total for our High School
Day was approximately 1,000—a
ratio of seven to one.
Slightly better—right ?
* * *
The tea-sips are also having all
kinds of trouble with the question
of integration on campus. Stu
dents, with nothing better to do,
have been picketing the campus
for quite some time. Can you
imagine anybody having enough
spare time to walk around carry
ing a silly sign?
SUMMER JOBS
The following companies will
interview juniors for summer
work Wednesday in the Place
ment Office on the third floor
of the YMCA:
Union Carbide Chemicals Co.
will interview juniors who do not
have to attend summer military
camp, majoring in chemical, elec
trical, industrial and mechanical
engineering and industrial tech
nology.
U. S. Naval Ordnance Test
Station will interview juniors and
advanced degree candidates
majoring in, and faculty mem
bers in aeronautical, chemical,
civil, electrical and mechanical
engineering and chemistry,
mathematics and physics.
OVEN FRYING
When you “fry” chicken in the
oven, you’ll need to use about a
quarter pound of butter for bast
ing. Roll the chicken pieces in
seasoned flour and arrange in one
layer in a shallow baking pan.
April 3 Deadline
Set for Who’s Who
Who’s Who seniors have until
April 3 to have their pictures
made at the Aggieland Studio,
Sam Barranco, Who’s Who ed
itor for The Aggieland ’60, said
today.
FABULOUS DRESSING
You can concoct a fabulous
thousand island dressing by add
ing chili sauce, drained pickle rel
ish, sieved hard-cooked egg and
diced canned pimiento (drained)
to plain mayonnaise.
* WKERE-TW-MST-PICTURES-PUCn
TUESDAY
“LIL ABNER”
With Peter Palmer
Also
“KING OF THE WILD
STALLIONS”
With George Montgomery
CORPS SOPHOMORES
Yearbook
Portrait
Schedule
All sophomores in the corps
should have their portrait made
for the yearbook according to
the following schedule. Portraits
will be made in class “A” win
ter uniform, at the Aggieland
Studio, between the hours of
8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on the
days scheduled.
March 14-15 Company I-M,
Maroon & White Bands
March 16-17 Squadrons 1-8
March 21-22 Squadrons 9-17
PALACE
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NOW SHOWING
Richard Burton
&
Angie Dickinson
(Star of Rio-Bravo)
In
“BRAMBLE BUSH”
These companies will interview
graduating seniors Wednesday in
the Placement Office of the
YMCA Building:
Continental Can Co. will inter
view B.S. and M.S. degree candi
dates in chemical, industrial and
mechanical engineering and chem
istry.
Dallas Power and Light Co.
will interview candidates for de
grees in electrical engineering.
Gulf States Utilities Co. will
interview degree candidates in
mechanical and electrical engi
neering.
Hercules Powder Co., Inc. will
interview B.S. and M.S. degree
candidates in engineering and
chemistry and physics.
Southwestern Electric Power
Co. will interview candidates for
degrees in agricultural economics,
business administrtion and eco-
nomics.
U. S. Naval Ordnance Labora-
tory (Corona, California) will j n .
terview candidates for degrees in
engineering, chemistry, mathe
matics and physics.
U. S. Naval Ordnance Test
Station (China Lake, California)
will interview candidates at all
degree levels for degrees in aero-
nautical, chemical, civil, electrical
and mechanical engineering,
chemistry, mathematics and
physics.
Union Carbide Chemicals Co,
will interview candidates for de
grees in chemical, electrical, in
dustrial and mechanical engin
eering and chemistry (organic).
OntanpB
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(Author of “I Was a Teen-age Dwarf”,“The Many
,Loves of Dohie Gillis”, etc.)
EAT, DRINK AND BE MARRIED
On a recent tour of seventy million American colleges, I was
struck by two outstanding facts: first, the great number of
students who smoke Marlboro, and second, the great number
of students who are married.
The first phenomenon—the vast multitude of Marlboro
smokers—comes as no surprise for, as everyone knows, the
college student is an enormously intelligent organism, and what
could be more intelligent than to smoke Marlboro? After all,
pleasure is what you smoke for and pleasure is what Marlboro :
■delivers—pleasure in every puff of that good golden tobacco.
If you think flavor went out when filters came in —try a
Marlboro. Light up and see for yourself... Or, if you like, don’t
light up. Just take a Marlboro, unlighted, and puff a couple of
times. Get that wonderful flavor? You bet you do! Even with
out lighting you can taste Marlboro’s excellent filter blend.,
Also you can make your package last practically forever.
No; I say, it was not the great number of Marlboro smokers
that astounded me, it was the great number of married students.
You may find this hard to believe but latest statistics show that
at some coeducational colleges the proportion of married under
graduates runs as high as thirty percent! And, what is even
more startling, fully one-quarter of these marriages have been
blessed with issue!
Here now is a figure to give you pause! Not that we don’t
all love babies. Of course we do! Babies are pink and fetching
rascals, given to winsome noises and droll expressions, and we
all like nothing better than to rain kisses on their soft little
skulls. But just the same, to the young campus couple wdio are
parents for the first time the baby is likely to be a source of
considerable worry, Therefore, let me devote today’s column
to a few helpful hints on the care of babies.
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First of all, we will take up the matter of diet. In the past,
babies were raised largely on table scraps. This, however, was
outlawed by the Smoot-Hawley Act, and today babies are fed
a scientific formula consisting of dextrose, maltose, distilled
water, evaporated milk and a twist of lemon peel.
After eating, the baby tends to grow sleepy. A lullaby is very
useful to help it fall asleep. In case you don’t know any lulla
bies, make one up. This is not at all difficult. In a lullaby the
w'ords are unimportant since the baby doesn’t understand them
anyhow. The important thing is the sound. All you have to do
is string together a bunch of nonsense syllables, taking care
that they make an agreeable sound. For example;
Go to sleep, my little infant,
Goo-goo moo-moo poo-poo binfant.
Having fed and serenaded the baby, arrange it in the position
for slumber. A baby sleeps best on its stomach so place it that
way in its crib. 1 hen to make sure it will not turn itself over
during the night lay a soft but fairly heavy object on its back—
another baby, for instance. @ 1960 Mai Sbulmaa
And when baby is fast asleep—the little angel!—why don’t
you relax and give yourself a treat? With Marlboro-or if you
like mildness but you don’t like filters—with Philip Morris
made in long size and regular by the sponsors of this column.
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