The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, April 06, 1960, Image 2

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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Special Student Price
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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.
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“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.
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, (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
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