The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, April 05, 1960, Image 2

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, April 05, 1960, Image 2

Newspaper Page TextPage 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Tuesday, April 5, 1950 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Job Interviews On Other Campuses By Alan Payne TCU What is known as Greek Week is now in progress on the TCU campus. This week consists of sorpe of the most unusual prac tices and traditions ever heard of. For instance there will be a horned frog race between sorori ties and fraternities in which prizes are also offered for the best decorated frog. Probably the most unusual event will be a fraternity chariot face. Each fraternity will make its own chariot and have it pull ed by two men with one man riding. Each chariot Will have two wheels and an axle that must be not more than 18" from the ground. Points will also be given for' the best decorated chariot. As would be expected, there will be a dance and picnic after wards. Rice A party held by the architects at Rice sounds like it couldn’t have been anything but a blast. The advance advertising on the party included the following- in formation: “Warm, friendly natives will in vade Sylvian Beach at 8:30 p.m. Saturday for the annual Archi- Arts orgy. “This year the theme of the dance will be gay, care-free, hap py, cheery, festive, etc. A Poly nesian atmosphere replaces the dark, morbid sconces of past years, Archi-Arts promises that decorations will include a dense jungle, a beach, and all the other comforts of a typical native is land. “Since the girls will be dressed in grass skirts, all lawnmowers must be checked at the entrance and each person will be searched for weed killer.” SMU A couple of old jokes were pub lished in last Friday’s SMU Cam pus which warrant looking at again. He: “Doing anything Satur day night?” She: “Nope.” He: “Mind if I borrow your soap?” * * * * “What kind of guy is your new roommate ? ” “Well, last night he stubbed his toe on the bed and shouted, ‘Oh, the perversity of inanimate objects.” Baylor The senior coeds at Baylor have really begun getting desper ate over being “old maids.” Just last week they had a group of ROTC cadets complete ly surround one of the girls dormitories at 1:30 a.m. and al low no one to enter or leave the dormitory. This was supposedly done as part of a campaign against bach elor resistance. The regulations set up for the campaign include provisions for bans on the two chief weapons used so far by women in their campaign to trap bachelors. But the two weapons are purposely omitted . Texas An article in the Daily Texan tells about a freshman coed who walked out of an English class with a dazed expression, mutter ing, “Why don’t they practice what they preach?” She had turned in a theme with a blank sheet of paper on top as a cover sheet. The theme had just been returned with a grade of C plus and the words “Don’t waste paper” scrawled across the blank sheet in red letters. * -i- * * Also over in Teasip Land a runoff was deemed necessary for the editorship of the Daily Texan because Hairy Ranger, mythical mascot of the Ranger magazine, received 385 write-in votes and neither of the actual candidates received a majority. Up until this happened, Hairy Ranger had had a weekly column on the editorial page but was then demoted to the back page and came out with the foilwing comments: “Well, oT Hairy has had to •take out an ad back here on the last page in order for Hairy Tales to appear in the Daily Tex an. It seems that your daily snooze-paper is afraid of the Ranger to such as extent that, they have closed down the editor ial page to Hairy’s little Range- roos. However, when the front door is closed, go around back. “Now Hairy, write-in moral victory for Texan Editor, feels that this election if nothing else proved one thing: nobody really gives a damn who is editor of the Texan. So Hairy would just like to take this chance to say to the defeated candidates that he thanks them for taking their de feat so gracefully. It’s not whether you won or lost, etc. “He would also like to point out to Ye Olde Dilly Texanne gang that to blame the Ranger for being made to look so ridic ulous to the student body is wrong. This is simply n case of a hurt dog howling. In other words, Good Buddies, you brought it on yourselves.” t -W SHHf . ./ $ , . .. , . . after all, mid-semester grades don’t really count!” Somebody Out There?--May Be Life on Other Planets By ALTON BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science Writer GREEN BANK, W. Va.—(A 3 )— Once upon a time, man believed he lived in the very center of the universe, supremely alone. But today’s astronomers are pretty confident intelligent life and civilizations thrive on hun dreds or millions of planets. And somebody out there, they think, could be astonishingly far advanced by having lived and in vented for hundreds, thousands or even a billion years longer than man has on earth. Scientists here just recently de veloped sensitive antennae and radio amplifiers which could pick Faculty Devotional Planned Tomorrow A morning faculty devotion will be held beginning at 6:50 a.m. in the All-Faith’s Chapel Wednesday. Dr. Murray Brown will provide organ music for individual medita tion from 6:50 to 7, after which Dr. Bardin H. Nelson will lead the group meditation on the subject “The Christian’s Place in Social Modivation” from 7 to 7:20. Following Brown’s meditation, coffee and doughnuts will be served in the YMCA Solarium until 7:45 All faculty members planning to attend should notify J. Gordon Gay, coordinator of Religious Activities, at his office in the YMCA. Your Boots should have “That Certain Look” Dependable and Trouble Free! Tops In Style and Quality! Time’s A Wastin’! Get your order in as soon as possible for delivery for Final Review. ^JJolicL 6 A&M Since 1891 NORTH GATE College Station THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu- ient 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. Otto R. S. D. McMurry, School of Veterinary Medicine. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A.&M. Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, am Eeptember through May, and once a week during summer school. is published in College and Monday, and holiday periods. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office In College Station, Texas, lege Station, 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, City, Ch City, geles and San Francisco. i n a 1 Advertising Inc., New York hicago, Los An- dispa ipontaneous In are also origin publish reserved. !WB of lere- News contributions may be made by telephoning VI 6-S618 or VI 6-4910 or at the l ditorial office, Room 4, YMCA. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6416. JOHNNY JOHNSON - -- EDITOR Bill Hicklin Managing Editor Joe Callicoatte Sports Editor : Nolhlbs Like It , .. VANYWHtRtl Sports % Fair of I S«SO Newest BOATS - FISHING TACKLE Hundreds of Products For Outdoor Fun PRIZES • DEMONSTRATIONS • SAMPLES Spectacular STAGE & TANK Show You’ll Roar ot ^ V A FISCHER aHl TESKE u/Jl U.s. Champions ' Trick and Fancy Log-Rollers rJL> tf'Shcw of Champions"-8 Headline Acts •SF Golfing Wizord * Wonder Dogs •5F Diving Demon * Trick Casting N ■Sfr Talking Crow * Canoe Fighters * Log Rollers Rifle Experts Performances at 2:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Daily Stage Show Tickets 50< etfsasasBass*-' Auditorium Open 1:00 to 11:00 p.m. Doily General Admission — 50< — Anytime EASTER WEEKEND-AFRIL15-19 5 Big Days - FRIDAY thru TUESDAY TODAY AND WEDNESDAY KENNETH MORE • DANA WYNTER up signals beamed our way from planets thousands of billions of miles away. . These are prime reasons fop attempting now to listen for sig nals from space, using the gleam ing radio telescope — 85 feet in diameter—-at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory here. Special equipment for this first vigil has cost only about $10,000 in taxpayers’ funds, through the National Science Foundation which supports the observatory. There are compelling reasons for hoping for success ultimately if not immediately, explains Dr. Frank D. Drake, astronomer di recting Project Ozma. Man lives and is warmed by one rather ordinary star — our sun. Our sun is one of perhaps 200 billion suns or stars making up a great galaxy, the Milky Way. The Milky Way is only one of billions of galaxies, some with more and some with feWer stars. Many astronomers now think that somewhere between one and fifty per cent of all stars have planets wheeling around them. To support life, a planet must be neither too close nor too far from its star. Earth is fortunate this way, and life developed here. But possibly millions of stars have favorable-located planets, mm LAST DAY “COMMANCE STATION” STARTS WEDNESDAY METR0-G0LDWYN-MAYER presents a NEW Tarzan! -Tarzan M THE APE MAN I slarrina ! starring DENNY MILLER as tarzan, CESAREDMMMOM BARNES, ROBERT DOUGLAS miiTi LAST DAY “SOME LIKE IT HOT” & “HOLE IN THE HEAD” STARTS TOMMORROW mvv years... ^ anything j|fv liks SoiflMQju Sheba j and have shone long enough at constant intensity to develop in telligent life. Many of these could be in the Milky Way, potentially close enough for radio contact de spite the vast reaches of space between almost all stars. There’s little hope of ever hear ing from planets in other galax ies, for the galaxy closest to us is 1V2 million light years away. A message woud take 1 % million years to reach us, our reply another 1M> million years to speed back. But there is reasonable hope of communicating with planets in the Milky Way, itself so vast it takes light or radio waves 100,- 000 years to cross its expanse. But many stars are relatively nearby. Many stars and planets could be older than we, and pos sess highly intelligent life. This all involves a theory that stars are continually being born and continually dying over cos mic time, Dr. Drake explains. By this theory, our Milky Way began some 25 billion years ago as a vast cloud of hydrogen gas. Many whorls of gas condensed into the first, and oldest, stars. Such stars aren’t thought to have planets, because they con tained no heavy elements like iron and uranium with which to make planets. Wee Aggies 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- Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Brown, ’60, announce the birth of a future Corps Commander, James Russell Brown, 6 lbs. 12 ozs., at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Bryan, April 1. DEBORAH KERR • ROSSANO BRAZZI MAURICE CHEVALIER in Cinemascope and METROCOLOR | Show Opens At 6 p. m. “B. C. GOES TO COLLEGE!” The following companies will interview graduating seniors on Wednesday in the Placement Of fice on the third floor of the YMCA Building: Foley’s will interview account ing, advertising, management, personnel, retailing, economics and industrial distribution degree candidates for positions in ex ecutive sales and junior executive training. Hess & Clark will interview ag ricultural education, animal hus bandry, animal science and poul try science degree candidates for positions in selling and promot ing feed medication and animal health products to feed mills, feed stores and hatcheries. The Cooper-Bessemer Corp. will interview industrial, mechan ical and petroleum engineering B.S. degree candidates for posi tions in application and sale of heavy duty, internal combustion engines. Neches Butane Products Co. will interview chemical engineer ing degree candidates for career opportunities. Union Producing Co. will inter view petroleum engineering de gree candidates for position in drilling and production of crude oil and natural gas. West Texas Utilities Co. will interview electrical, industrial and mechanical engineering and accounting degree candidates for career opportunities. REMEMBER THIS Kitchen arithmetic: When a recipe calls for 1% cups of grated cheddar cheese you’ll need 6 oun ces. Be well groomed for success That “like new” look we give your clothes is sure to make the right impressions whether you’re on the job or on the town. CAMPUS CLEANERS — A LEGEND — One night in ancient times, three horsemen were riding across an open desert. As they passed through a dry river bed, a voice called out of the night, “Halt!” The riders reined in their horses, and then the voice ordered, “Dis mount—pick up a handful of peb- les and remount.” When the horsemen were again in their saddles, the voice said “You have done as I have com manded. Tomorrow at dawn you will be both glad and sorry.” Mystified, the three men rode off into the night. As the sun climbed above the horizon the next morning, they reached into their pockets. A miracle had happened, for instead of the pebbles, the hands were filled with diamonds, rubies and other precious stones. And then they remembered the strange omen. They were both glad and sorry—glad they had taken some, sorry they had not taken more. LIFE INSURANCE IS LIKE THAT. EUGENE RUSH American National Insurance Co. North Gate College Station “Biltrite” Boots and Shoes §F| Made By ■ jli Economy Shoe Repair and II Boot Co. Large Stock of Handmade Boots Convenient Budget & Lay-Away Plan I mm 1 $55.00 a pair Made To Order A ’'wit Main Office: 509 W. Commerce, San Antonio CA 3-0047 CONTINENTAL AiRMMES DALLAS Quick connections there to LUBBOCK AMARILLO MIDLAND-0 DESS A m JET POWER Call your Travel Agent, or Continental at VI 6-4789 Too Many LM0E BILLS ^ for Big Cars? QUARTERS CRAMPED in Small v Cars? ^ ^ ^ ^ ar ^ 0 ° m 3n ^ Comfort, Small Car Economy and Handling. Cut car costs by hundreds of dollars with the compact Rambler... save when you buy, save when you drive, save when you trade again. Get room for six big 6- footers. High, wide doors. Turn more easily, park any where. See Rambler soon . . . first to understand and meet your new motoring needs. Choose 6 or V-8. AMERICA’S LOWEST PRICED CAR Rambler American 2-Door Sedan GET FREE AUTO X»RAY BOOK AT YOUR RAMBLER DEALER’S PEANUTS ITS WHAT IT STANDS FOR 1 . W TRUST ME.' THEY'RE WN0RINS MY DESIRE FOR KNOIDLEDEE WITH THE/R TRUST! IN RETURN IM SHOWING MY FAiTM (N THEIR LIBRARY BY READING THEIR BOOK'S...IT'S A COMMON -^BONDOF TRUST... By Charles M. Schuh You HWr got a library CARD...Y0UVGG0TATREATY! Larg Lil More than A&M facult; play in the brary in ot Library We' day. Also in tl a display of 1959,” se Books Count Division of Assn. All the Cushing placed on d week. The- books elude textbo atory manut other such the textboo for use in ci in several undergone An interei hibit is a to be includ Dillon’s fo “Common B America.” All of the der the Houze, libr; ing to stim use of libn ulty and ity. The slog£ Week, “Wa be seen on biles, boot items in of the “Not available The A& includes Lions Outlii For A Herbert professor ness Adm: College day on pli proposed aging to Kenagy i to the Te> Methodist ing the pro; He gave Weekly Assembly Student Ce; He expls the Method l,o donate $ lion of citizens of 1 $100,000. Kenagy for the for Senii construct near the “The C izens wil persons,” be a non will not table bai He ex] housed the month will be ter it is “A cam£ will begin i beginning “If we have the Texas,” Ul> 1 M Fa

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