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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, April 6, 1960 Intercollegiate Reports Prof Proposes Omitting College Health Education Dean Earle M. Bigsbee of the College of Education at the Uni versity of Bridgeport, Bridge port, Conn., recently proposed that health education be dropped from the courses required for a degree. Bigsbee said he felt the course has become obsolete and colleges within the University should be allowed to delete the course at their discretion. “Elimination of the course would give the new student an easier first year,” said Bigsbee. A recent survey of alumni dis closed that of the 1959 gradua- ( ting class, 79 per cent said their experience in health education made no change at all in their health habits, 18 per cent said it made moderate changes and only 2 per cent said it had Vnade any substantial change. The Georgia Tech Air Force ROTC unit has had approved a revised curriculum scheduled to go into effect starting with the .summer quarter of this year, ac cording to Dean of Faculties Paul Weber. The cadets wrote the re vision and presented it to the faculty themselves. “The recently approved curric ula requirements only recognize nine hours of advanced ROTC to ward graduation and call for an increase of six hours in social sciences and humanities,” Weber said. At the basic cadet level, class room requirements have been re duced from 18 to' 6 hours a week and the present two drills per week will be reduced to one. “The six credit hours which have been eliminated by the re vision will be subtracted from the total number of credit hours required for graduation,” Weber concluded. Princeton University’s Gradu ate School is creating a special program in the history and phis- osophy of science which will be offered for the first time during the 1960-61 academic year, ac cording to Princenton president Robert F. Goheen. The new course of study will lead to the , degree of Doctor of Philosophy. “In recognizing the growing interest in this field with the de velopment of the sciences them selves during the last decade, the COURT’S SHOES SHOE REPAIR North Gate program will treat the two fields as social, cultural, epistemologi cal and logical demensions of sci ence considered as an intellectual undertaking,” Goheen said. “And among its other aims, the new graduate program will equip its students to teach general history or philosophy,” he added. Two new programs, a “com mon core” program for all fresh man business students and an “independent study program” de signed to encourage qualified stu dents to undertake study and re search beyond the immediate re quirements o f their regular course of study, have been an nounced by the undergraduate di vision of Pace College at New York. The new “common core” bus iness program is designed to pro vide a solid core of business sub jects' so the student can more wisely choose between accounting and marketing as his field of concentration by the end of his freshman year. It consists of courses in accounting, marketing and liberal arts. The other new program, the “independent study program,” may extend throughout the sen ior year and be assigned a max imum of three ■ credits toward a degree. Students in the first half of their junior year with an aver age of “B” or better are eligible to apply. During the last half of their junior year, the student must submit an outline of the propos ed area of study, a bibliography and a brief description on the re search to be undertaken in con nection with the study. Once his project has been approved, the student will work under other su pervision of a faculty member .qualified to oversee work in that particular area. The Pomona College, (Clare- mone, Calif.) Faculty Fraternity Review Committee recently pub lished its 27 page report. The committee began by recognizing that fraternities must be consid ered not separately but as part of the whole social life of Po mona College, admitted that “this is not a particularly friendly cam pus, nor has the best practical provision for easy social relation ships outside of fraternities been made,” and “on the whole .... fraternities serve a useful func tion in the campus social life.” What’s Cooking Knights of Columbus Council 3205 will meet tonight at 8 in the St. Mary’s Student Center. A film, “Noble Heritage,” dealing with the purposes of the Knights of Columbus will be shown. The film will be open to the public. NOTICE TO SENIOR MEN STUDENTS If you require funds to complete your education, apply to the undersigned. STEVENS BROS. FOUNDATION INC. 610-612 Endicott Bldg. St. Paul 1, Minn. Phone CApital 2-5184 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. Duewall, director of Student Publications, chairman; Dr. A. L. Bennett, School of Arts and Sciences ; Dr. K. J. Koenig, School of Engineering; Otto R. Kunze, School of Agriculture; and Dr. &. D. McMurry, School of Veterinary Medicine. 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JOHNNY JOHNSON^ EDITOR Bill Hicklin Managing Editor Joe Callicoatte Sports Editor Robbie Godwin News Editor Ben Trail, Bob Sloan, Alan Payne Assistant News Editors Nelson Antosh, Ken Coppage, Tommy Holbein, Bob Saile and A1 Vela Staff Writers Joe Jackson .’. Photographer Russell Brown CHS Correspondent LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Biblei WANT ANY OF TVlE^E PP0FST0 RSCO0NIZE ME.'' Aggies on Duty Army Sp. 4. C. Edward L. Kas per, ’59, 24, recently participated with other 1st Cavalry Division personnel in Exercise Trooper Turnout in Korea. During the special three-day exercise, personnel repaired and improved such main battle posi tions as weapon emplacements and fortifications in the area manned by the 1st Cavalry Divi sion. A pharmacy technician in Com pany B of the division’s 15th Medical Battalion, Sp. 4. C. Kas per entered the Army ip June, 1958, completed basic training at Fort Chaffee, Ark., and arrived overseas last September. ★ ★ ★ Army 2nd. Lt. Willbern J. Wil liams, 23, recently completed the four-week airborne Course at the Active War Participation On Program A discussion of the question “Should Christians be Active Par ticipants in War?” will be the program at the A&M Wesley Foundation Wednesday evening at 7:15. George Willoughby and Maj. Robert Peach will participate in the program. There will also be discussion from the floor, follow ing the comments of the speak ers. Bill Lipe, senior horticulture major from Las Fresnos, Tex., is program chairman. The program is sponsored by the Wesley Foun dation and Disciples Student Fel lowship. Maj. Peach is an instructor in the Department of Military Sci ence and Tactics and Willoughby is executive secretary of the Cen tral Committee of Conscientious Objectors in Philadelphia. The program is open to the public. lator,” E. N. Roots; April 28, LOVE-AFFAIR WITH A FRENCH FLAIR! M-G-M. DEBORAH KERR - ROSSANO BRAZZI MAURICE CHEVALIER COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS Show Opens At 6 p. m. Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga. Lt. Williams qualified as a par achutist and received training in the duties of a jumpmaster. The lieutenant entered the Ar my last November. ★ ★ ★ Army 2nd. Lt. Larry L. Smith, ’59, 22, of San Juan, Tex., recent ly completed the four-week air borne course at The Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga. Lt. Smith qualified as a para chutist and received training in the duties of a jumpmaster. He was employed by the Boe ing Airplane Co. in Wichita, Kan., before entering the Army. Social Whirl The Civil Engineering Wives Chib will have a business meet ing at 8 tonight in the YMCA South Solarium. “Building Meals with Meat” is the title of a demonstration that will be presented to the Archi tects Wives Society meeting to night at 7:30 by Mrs. Nadine Copeland. Held at the Lone Star Gas Co., the business meeting will follow the home demonstra tion. A general meeting will be held by the Aggie Wives Bridge Club at 7:30 p.m. on the second floor of the MSG. Barbecue tickets costing $1.50 for adults and $.50 for children will be sold at the 8 p.m. meet ing - tonight of the Student Chap ter of the American Veterinary Medicine Assn, in the Social Room of the MSG. NOW SHOWING NOW SHOWING Special Student Price 60c Victory Fails To Give Kennedy All He Wanted WASHINGTON <#>—Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) took a measured-hut not decisive-step toward the Democratic president ial nomination by winning Tues day’s Wisconsin Democratic pri mary. Vice President Richard M. Nix on favorably surprised some of his closest supporters by his a- bility to draw a party vote in an unexciting unopposed Republican primary in which he refused to campaign. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D- Minn.) kept himself politically alive in the Democratic contest. He pointed his future campaign toward a bone-crushing show down in the May 10 West Virginia primary. The political ingredients that go into the crucible there may be far different from those in Wisconsin. For Kennedy, his evident cap ture of 20 of Wisconsin’s conven tion votes furnished satisfactory evidence he could command party support in the crucial Midwest as well as in his home New England stamping ground. But it was not the sweep that Kennedy would have liked. Hum phrey ran behind, but respectably so. Humphrey proved he is the champion of the kind of farmers who inhabit the western areas of Wisconsin which adjoin his home state of Minnesota. Kennedy got the industrial First Wisconsin District, a trib ute to his apparently superior pull with organized labor. He took the eastern side of Wiscon sin where the Roman Catholic vote is strong. He ran well in normally Republican areas. This division of the spoils did Kennedy no good in his attempts to mute the issue raised by his Catholicism. Instead, it empha sized that he was strongest where the Catholics are most numerous. It generated the suspicion that Republicans ignored their own primary and crossed over to- vote for him as the man they regard as the easiest Democrat to beat in November. It seemed implicit these issues would continue to plague Ken nedy until he tests his strength in nearly solid Protestant terri tory such as West Virginia. In that state only Democrats will vote their preference between Kennedy and Humphrey. Repub licans there cannot obtain Dem ocratic ballots as they did in Wis consin. Truval ALACE il'Alil) if \\'h jw specially designed to fit ' TALL MN only $435 New...full comfort for taller men in a Truval tailored sport shirt. Longer sleeves and longer bodies for correct fit. In color ful woven wash and wear cotton checks and plaids. See these outstanding values to-daw! iJlie chancy e Store “Serving Texas Aggies” Job Interviews The following organizations will interview graduating seniois Thursday in the Placement Office on the third floor of the YMCA Building: Cravens, Dargan & Co. will in terview graduates in insurance, banking, marketing and finance for career opportunities. Tyler Pipe and Foundry Co. will interview graduates in elec trical and mechanical engineering for jobs in design and fabrica tion. New England Mutual Life In surance Co. will interview gradu ates in all degree levels of ac counting, business administration, economics, education and psychol- ogy, English and physical educa- tion for opportunities to enter their management training pro. gram. United States Gypsum Co. will interview graduates in building products marketing and industrial distribution for sales trainee po sitions. OnCarapw mh Ma&Mnan , (Author of “I Was a Teen-age Dwarf”, “Th* Many Loves of Dobie Gillis”, etc.) "NO PARKING’ , As everyone knows, the most serious problem facing American colleges today is the shortage of parking space for students’ cars. Many remedies have been offered to solve this vexing dilemma. For instance, it has been suggested that all students be required to drive small foreign sports cars which can be carried in the purse or pocket. This would, of course, solve the parking prob lem but it would make double dating impossible—unless, that is, the boys make the girls run along behind the car. But that is no solution either because by the time they get to the prom the girls will be panting so hard that they will wilt their corsages. Another suggested cure for our parking woes is that all students smoke Marlboro cigarettes. At first glance this seems an excellent solution because we all know Marlboro is the cigarette -which proved that flavor did not go out when filters came in—and when we sit around and smoke good Marl boros we are so possessed by sweet contentment that none of us wishes ever to leave, which means no gadding about which means no driving, which means no parking problem. But the argument in favor of Marlboros overlooks one im portant fact: when you run out of Marlboros you must go get some more, which means driving, which means parking, which means you’re right back where you started. Probably the most practical suggestion to alleviate the campus parking situation is to tear down every school of dentistry in the country and turn it into a parking lot. This is not to say that dentistry is unimportant. Gracious, no! Dentistry is im portant and vital and a shining part of our American heritage. But the fact is there is no real need for separate schools of den tistry. Dentistry could easily be moved to the school of mining engineering. Surely anyone who can drill a thousand feet for oil can fill a simple little cavity. This experiment combining dentistry with mining engineer ing has already been tried at several colleges—and with some very interesting results. Take, for instance, the case of a dental student named Fred C. Sigafoos. One day recently Fred was out practicing with his drilling rig in a vacant lot just off campus. He sank a shaft two hundred feet deep and, to his surprise and delight, he struck a detergent mine. For a while Fred thought his fortune was made but he soon learned that he had drilled into the storage tank of the Eagle Laundry, miter P. Eagle, president of the laundry, was mad as all get- out and things looked mighty black for Fred. But it all ended well. When Mr. Eagle called Fred into his office to chew him out, it so happened that Mr. Eagle’s beautiful daughter, Patient Grisha, was present. For years Patient Griselda had been patiently waiting for the right man. “That’s him!” she cried upon spying Fred-and today Fred is a full partner in the Eagle Laundry in charge of pleats and ruffles, ©io6oMaxsimimaa Speaking of laundries reminds us of cleanlino** t • turn reminds us of filtered Marlboros an,l rn W} f lch m Morris-both clean and fresh o the m a P in soft pack and flip-top b ox . taste ~ b °th available “B. C. GOES TO COLLEGE!” f/fcr tNT£RCGU.E&AT£ SPCRXlMb B/SMT '. CAVE PACKING, PEANUTS By Charles M. Schull 1 HOPE YOU MAKE 600D USE Or IT BY TAKING OUT ALL THE BOOKS YOU CAN READ.. i suppose thatT MORE WOULD BE PRACTICAL MORE PRACTICAL, / THAN WOULDN'T IT? tOHAT? —h “i n