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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.
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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,
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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.
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“B. C. GOES TO COLLEGE!”
The following companies will
interview graduating seniors on
Wednesday in the Placement Of
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YMCA Building:
Foley’s will interview account
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personnel, retailing, economics
and industrial distribution degree
candidates for positions in ex
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training.
Hess & Clark will interview ag
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career opportunities.
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— 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
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