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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, December 9, 1960 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Give Yourself A Lift. . . Give To The CAMPUS CHEST Social Calendar { The following clubs and organ izations will meet on campus: Saturday The Chemical Engineering Wives Club will have its Christ mas Party Saturday at 7 p.m. on the second floor of the YMCA Building. Sunday The Committee fo*' Organizing a Professional Nurses’ Club of Brazos County invites all Regis tered Nurses to a tea Sunday in the home of Maureen Davey, 1103 Walton Dr., College Station, from 1:30-5:30 p.m. Monday The A&M Student Chapter of the American Meterological So ciety will hold a meeting Mon day at 7:30 p.m. in Room 306 of Goodwin Hall. A 30 minute film entitled “Science and the Sea” will be presented. Refreshments will be served. Tuesday The Fashion Group of the A&M Social Club will have its annual Christmas Party in the home of Mrs. Ben Boriskie, 520 Wayside Dr., on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Each member is urged to bring a home-made gift. The A&M Institute «f Aero- Space Sciences will meet Tues day in Room, 231 of the Chemis try Annex at 7:30 p.m. Mr. Ed French of the Tempo Air craft Corp. will speak on “Ana log Computers and How They Are Used.” Editor, The Battalion: The Religious Emphasis We^lc comes to the Texas A&M cam pus Feb. 19-24. This week is ‘dedicated to deepening the stu dents’ spiritual life from a relig ious viewpoint, and emphasizes the discussion of everyday prob lems and their application to re religion.” W’ith this ironic introduction we would like to ask a few re lated questions about something fast becoming an “everyday prob lem.” On Dec. 6, a senior student and cadet officer was maliciously and unjustifiably relieved of his com mand. No doubt a reprimand and a punishment of some degree was in order for his unforgivable action of cutting the last 15 min utes of drill last Saturday morn ing. A college administration, with its various staffs, is supposedly composed of men of intelligence, standards and good principles. But this action certainly does not reflect any of them. How can an administration seek to “deepen the student’s spiritual life from a religious viewpoint” and still permit such evidently biased ac tion? How can it bring religious educators to our campus to teach us what is right and just and still keep a clear conscience? It is the same old story of “do as I say, not as I do.” The Corps of Cadets and the entire college is under a period of change—some perhaps good and some bad. Such practices as the above are definitely not good and do nothing to instill confi dence in the administration or what it is trying to accomplish. This is not the first such in cident, nor will it be the last. It would seem that the administra tion’s plan is to reduce the Corps of Cadets to just another “Rot- C” unit—its members mere pup pets dangling from strings. There has been talk of doing away with the rank system as we now know it; of ridding the Corps of Ca- dents of Drill and Ceremonies” students: men who are in the Corps only because of their own choosings. All of this serves only to strengthen the puppets’ strings, for a man with an Army or Air Force contract held over his head is much easier to handle. And where do we go from here? It’s very easy to imagine Texas A&M, or rather Texas State, as a co-educational, inte grated “university” with an ROTC group. Is this what you want? Jim S. Denison, ’61; Nevel H. Ehrhardt, ’61; H. A. Harrington, Jr., ’61; R. W. Taylor, ’61; W. H. Smith, ’61; James C. Thigpin, ’61; E. John Francis, ’61; Lowell R. Conder, ’61; Jack W. Fraim, ’61; Robert S. Harris, ’61; Mi chael I. Figart, ’61; John N. Wil kinson, 60; M. D. Browning, ’61; Dock Burke, ’62; Charles E. Brame, ’61; Larry D. Flaherty, ’61; Voris L. Riley, ’61; Howell W. Holland, ’61; Mickey McDon ald, ’61; Tommy Hines, ’61; Charles Lawrence, ’61; O’Neal Munn, ’61; G. L. Gaines, ’61; J. M. Hoyt, ’61; Raymond Dungen, ’61; Robert C. Kyle, ’61; Walter L. Heme, ’61; Larry N. Smith, ’61; Tom H. Hull, ’61; Tony Rex Reynolds, ’61; John K. Neal, ’61; I. S. Dierking, ’61; Grady A. Light, ’61; Lynn A. McKinnie, ’61; Alvin B. Dombart, ’61; Ray E. Whitmire, ’61; R. T. Simmons, ’61; R. J. Reiser, ’61; Wymond F. Burt, ’61; Emil H. Pawlik, ’61; Robert Keathley, ’61; Billy Heck, ’61; Malcolm D. Maxwell, ’61; James A. Spikes, ’61; E. C. Wie- derstein, ’61; J. W. Moore, ’61; Harry H. Price, ’61; James R. Ar nold, ’61; John C. Stevens, ’61; Jack D. Tallman, ’61; Bob Cal kins, 61; John R. Hamilton, ’61. 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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 tiie supervision of the director of Student Publications at rexas A&M College. Truettner, School of Engineering; McMurry, School of Veterinary M The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A.&M. is published in College Sta tion, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, Septem ber through May. and once a week during summer school. once a week during summer Entered matter J In Colle second-class Station, Texas, as matter at the Post Office liege Station, under the Act of Con gress of March 8, 1870. MEMBER: The Associated Press Texas Press Assn. Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los An geles and San Francisco. ipontaneous origin pu in are also reserved. News contributions may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the editorial office. Room 4, YMCA. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6415. Mail subscriptions Advertising College Stali' $3.50 per semi rate furnished on request, on, Texas. ester; $6 per school year, $6.50 per full year. Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA, BILL HICKLIN EDITOR Joe Callicoatte Snorts Editor Bob Sloan, Alan Payne, Tommy Holbein News Editors Sound Off r flcrmp 'k 'k Editor, The Battalion: I have always been taught to dress according to the occasion— and whoever heard of wearing a tuxedo to a Boy Scout Troop meeting ? With no more incentive to dress like a young man than is foster ed around this particular cam pus, I fail to see where anyone has a legitimate gripe. I believe it is an accepted fact of most educated people that the man dresses for the woman,. This eliminates a major incentive real quick. As long as there contin ues to be an unnatural situation on this campus, one should ex pect some unnatural results in such catagories as dressing, eat ing, thinking, etc. Texas A&M is in the middle of a tug-of-war. One end is natur al, one end is military and the middle is satisfied as long as they get theirs. How long it will continue in its present stagnated state remains to be seen. Some factors feel the school should become a university in more ways than by name alone. I feel something should be done even if it is wrong. Every other college and uni versity is growing by leaps and bounds to meet the nation’s edu cational needs? What’s wrong with Texas A&M? Glynn D. Baker, ’63 ★ ★ ★ Editor, The Battalion: Only a few weeks ago, the edi torial column in The Battalion was blasting the usurping of tra dition and demanding that “Rev eille” be taken off the leash at football games. Now the editorials say the only argument for not changing the name of Texas A&M is tradition and that the argument is weak. This school has been Texas A&M longer than “Reveille” has been here. If The Battalion is going to campaign for changing the name of Texas A&M, why not cam paign for co-education? Then Texas A&M could produce the same caliber of limp-wrists that other colleges do, George Lovett, ’63 ★ ★ ★ Editor, The Battalion: In reference to your editorial of December 7, 1960, I have some questions to ask. The editorial stated that Texas A&M is calling itself something it is not. That is a misconception. In the 1960-61. bulletin published by this College, four main schools of learning are listed. They are the School of Agriculture, which has 15 departments; the School of Arts and Sciences with 14 de partments; the School of Engi neering with 12 departments; and the School of Veterinary Medicine with seven departments. The School of Agriculture and the School of Engineering com bined are the largest. I now ask, why isn't Texas A&M calling itself by the right name ? The School of Arts and Sci ences is necessary to any college, The School of Veterinary Medi cine is outstanding but it doesn’t change Texas A&M to a Univer sity status. Again I ask, what foundation is the name change based on? Is it merely prestige, which Texas A&M already has, or other unknown reasons? If the name of this college must be changed, it should be Texas A&M University. In this way, it would be at least partially right. Jimmie A. Kithas, ’63 ★ ★ ★ Editor, The Battalion: The proposed name change is sue seems to boil down to the fact that a few members of our ad ministration feel that they don’t receive enough prestige by being connected with or teaching at Tex as A&M College. Apparently they feel that they will be able to hold their heads higher and no longer feel ashamed to be con nected with a college. In order to gain their ends they took a survey among their es teemed collegues and discovered that they were not alone in their degradation. So far, in a study of their pro posed operation, I find no provis ions for a direct voice from either the students or exes. The question I would now ask: Whose school is this? Who is paying large sums of money only to find themselves railroaded according to the whims of a few who obviously have no interest in Texas A&M save their own personal gains. To the gentlemen of which I speak, both in military and aca demic administrative positions, I say this: If you feel that your personal gain would be greatly enhanced by being connected with a univer sity, then by all means connect yourself with one. There are many such institutions in this part of the country—but gentle men this is not one of those in stitutions. In case you haven’t heard, this is the Agricultural and Mechan ical College of Texas. John K. Marshall, ’63 INTERPRETING World To Face Intense Communist Reiteration? By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst It appears that the world is now to be subjected to a most in tensive reiteration of all the old Communist cliches. Every year since the Korean War, for instance, the Reds have come up with the charge that the United States is blocking the re unification of that country. You wouldn’t think they’d like to talk so much about it, because it’s true. Joe Stalin tried to unify Korea by force of North Korean Com munist arms in 1950,. and the United States blocked that. The Chinese Reds moved in to pull some of the Communist fat out of the fire and thereby became a problem for Soviet leadership. But every year they bring it up, complete with all the faded charges of imperialism, and every year the United States tells them to agree to free elections or for get it. The only new items added to the list of Communist charges of imperialism in recent years have been regarding the Congo and Cuba, which are new issues. But the controllers of the var ious Communist-held countries, except Yugoslavia, have just held a big meeting remindful of the New Orleans Mystery Man Pays Teacher By The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS, La.—An uni dentified New Orleans citizen has made money available to pay the November teachers salaries at two intigrated public schools, School Supt. James F. Redmond said Thursday. Redmond did not identify the donor, nor did he mention the amount involved. Cashier’s checks to cover the salaries of personnel at the Wil liam Frantz and McDonogh No. 19 schools, both integrated by federal court order Nov. 14 were distributed at the schools Thurs day. Both schools have been the scene of boycotts and demonstra tions by those objecting to inte grated classes. pre-war Comintern sessions and decided to try cold war a while longer befor reconsidering the necessity for hot war. They are better organized now than they were in the ’20s and ’30s when the Comintern was lay ing down its blueprint for con quest, and Soviet Premier Khrushchev has a propaganda symphony instead of Stalin's one- string band. Poland and Czechoslovakia are already playing prominent roles in the Red attempt to penetrate Africa and Latin America. The tempo of the Peiping drum has been rising almost daily. One of the great objectives of the new Communist manifesto is to present the party cause as not merely Russian, where the taint of the new imperialism is so clearly discernible, but as a cru sade of “liberated” peoples. 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