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CADET SLOUCH THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, December 13, 1960 by Jim Earle BATTALION EDITORIALS Lasting Effects An experience often ends hur riedly, but its effects are many time lasting. The Sixth Student Conference on National Affairs lasted only three and a half days last week, but its effects will surely be seen in the years to come. SCONA VI presented an op portunity for student leaders from colleges and universities in Canada, the United States and Mexico to meet and exchange ideas on various national and in ternational issues at hand today. This interchange of ideas dur ing the daily roundtable discus sions in the Memorial Student Center was possibly the key to the success of the conference, ac cording to many of the delegates. This success goes back to many factors, starting with the ground work laid by the SCONA VI staff which began work immedi ately after last year’s confer ence, preparing for an even more successful SCONA this year. Various intricate details had to be worked out, with a full year’s work laying ahead for the men on SCONA. With the ter mination of the Conference, it is the general concensus that their efforts were well rewarded in the success of SCONA VI. The immediate effects of SCONA VI are difficult to see, other than a better understand ing of major problems facing our world today which was received by all delegates attending the conference. But SCONA’s effects are de signed to be long range, that through a period of years a gen eration of responsible leaders in national and international affairs might be promoted by serious exchange of ideas among stu dents. Supplementing the discussions have been talks by leaders in foreign affairs, including Horace H. Smith, State Department Ad visor to the War College of the Air University; Aziz Ahmed, ambassador from Pakistan to the U. S.; and Thomas C. Mann, As sistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. These men made invaluable contribution to the conference, speaking on subjects discussed by the delegates. In such an environment of in terest in national and interna tional affairs, the delegates to SCONA VI participated in a re markably successful conference. Within these students, and many others like them, the odds still rest with the side of free dom. “ ... I’m getting more absent-minded every day. I made a note to do something important today and now I can’t re member where the note is.” — Sound Off — Editor, The Battalion: In regard to the problem before the Texas A&M Executive Com mittee of changing the name of our great school so as to include the word “university,” we re spectfully recommend a possible solution designed to avoid the in advertent loss of that intangible element of value which presently surrounds the name of Texas A&M. We refer to the factor known among businessmen as “good will.” Amid the pressure to forsake all in a headlong rush to badly needed funds, we feel that we should not allow with one fell- blow the gloss built up around the college name to be needlessly obliterated. To let a name whose reputation was constructed with such painstaking delibera tion over a period of several generations slip so easily from our grasp, when it can be pre served with a little imagination, would, we submit, be a betrayal of those unsung scholars and sol diers who have gone before. Of these considerations we are sure the committee is fully aware. With that in mind we would first address ourselves to what we be lieve should not be done. Neither the State of Texas, in relation to her sister states, nor Texas A&M itself, in relation to the land-grant colleges, has ever been in the habit of slavishly following others in applying the same solutions to common prob lems merely for the sake of con formity. Quite the contrary, just as A&M has assiduously maintained the Cadet Corps as the keystone of its public sup port, we should for the same reason studiously avoid the adop tion of such trite appellations as “Texas State University,” “The University of Texas at College Station,” “South Texas (or East Texas) University” and the like. To do so would, of course, be but to copy a practice long since ac cepted as normal among other state-supported colleges in gen eral, and other land-grant col leges in particular. -But to none of these latter schools do we bear the slightest resemblance save in our basic curriculum and joint inception under the enabling act of 1862. It is true that “A&M” is not a name which is peculiarly our own. But it is also true that the only A&M with which the general mass of people through out the country is vaguely fa miliar is TEXAS A&M. If we cling to this storied name until jar.:: AND MAY WE ADD, ^ THANKS FOR EVERYTHING. A&M Since 1891 North Gate College Station VI 6-6721 THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu- lent 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. Publicatioi Truettner, School ot Engineering; Otto McMurry, School of Veterinary Medicine. The Battalion, a student newspaper tion, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, her through May, and once a week during summer school. taper at Texas A.&M. is published in College Sta- Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, Septem- Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office In College Station, Texas, nnder 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 onal Advertif City, Chicago, Los An geles and San Francisco. BILL HICKLIN. EDITOK it is abandoned by the lesser lights, we shall then stand alone in fact as well as in fame. If, on the other hand, we fol low the others in substituting for “A&M” some pretentious cognomen thought to be more appropriate for remaining in step with current trends, we shall by an equal measure lose our invaluably unique image in the public mind. As a result of the competitive situation created by the vast horde of new colleges and uni versities which have sprung up in recent years, the young man of today is faced with a multi plicity of college choices; and at this point he begins to look around for features setting one apart from the rest. Once we capitulate to the forces of conformity, even if it is only to the extent of adopting some common-place name, or one which is already closely as sociated with some other insti tution, it will become increasing ly difficult to maintain any ves tige of the identity which now singles out Texas A&M as offer ing alternatives distinguishable from the other medium-sized midwestern and southern colleges and universities. We would therefore recommend that, if the legislature insists on a redesignation before making enlarged appropriations avail able for needed salaries and projects, we look in another and different direction. Our propo sal is to adopt a plan which has, through the test of time, found eminent success in retaining alumni as well as public support, along with an overall reputation which is unsurpassed. We have reference to the di chotomy between “university” and “college” which exists in at least two of the country’s finest schools, Harvard and Columbia. To use Harvard as an example, the undergraduate student is known as “Harvard College,” and this unit is embraced within the overall institution, which includes graduate and professional schools, known in its aggregate form as “Harvard University.” Accordingly, the “Harvard Man,” in his most precise definition, is confined to the undergraduate student in “Harvard College;” the senior ring he wears is in scribed “Harvard College;” the athletic teams are comprised en tirely of men from “Harvard College;” the school esprit and traditions are all centered around that relatively small per centage of students at “Harvard University” who are in “Harvard College.” Yet the entire organi zation is known collectively as “Harvard University,” of which one of the writers as a law stu dent is as much a part as the undergraduate at the college which forms ‘its core. By similarly adopting the name “A&M University” for the com bined graduate, professional and undergraduate student bodies, and preserving the name “A&M College” for the “Aggies” or un dergraduates in the Corps of Ca dets, it would seem that the deeper values would be saved while at the same time accomp lishing the objectives of obtain ing increased appropriations and grants. Bruce Sterzing, ’54 Dale Dowell, ’54 Fly there. it's taster by tar! DALLAS . ,i '.S'ft Lv. 11:31 A.M. 6:11 P.M. QUICK CONNECTIONS TO EL PASO, ALBUQUERQUE VIA JH POWER VISCOUNT D! for rewrvoffow, edf yoor Trove/ Aged «r Conlineatal at W 6-4789. CONTINENTAL AIRlINtS, Social Calendar The following clubs and or ganizations will meet on campus: Tonight The American Foundrymen’s Society will meet in the Foundry at 7:30 p.m. The Pre-Med, Pre-Dent Society will meet in Room 113 of the Biological Science Building at 7:30 p.m. The A&M Student NEA will hold a meeting in Room 211 of the Petroleum Engineering Build ing at 7:30 p.m. The Physical Education Wives’ Club will meet in the home of Mrs. Joe Wilson, 610 Montclair, at 8 p.m. The J. T. L. McNew Student Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the CE Building Lecture Room. Guest speaker will be Dr. S. R. Wright, head of the Department of Civil En gineering. The University Dames Club will have a Christmas Work Par ty at 6:30 p.m. in the South So larium of the YMCA. The Aggie Wives’ Bridge Club will meet in the Ballroom of the Memorial Student Center at 7:30 p.m. The Geology Club will meet in the Geology Building at 7:30 p.m. * Dr. Jack Burst will be the guest speaker. Remember TONIGHT ATS Guion Hall Morocco, Guinea Troops Taken From UN Forces By The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS — Troops of Morocco and Guinea are being withdrawn from the U.N. Congo forces, those countries’said Mon day night, in protest against the course of the U.N. operation. The United Arab Republic and Indonesia had previously an nounced withdrawals. Ismael Toure of Guinea an nounced withdrawal of that na tion’s 749 soldiers In a speech to the U.N. Security Council. He said Guinea’s President Sekou Toure had notified Secretary- General Dag Hammerskjold and demanded that the soldiers be repatrated at once. Toure said his government had acted to pro test the way the U.N. was carry ing out its Congo operation. On the heels of Guinea’s an nouncement came official word from Rabat that the Moroccan government had decided to pull out its contingent of 3,100 men, biggest single unit in the Congo command. The United Arab Republic had announced the pullout of 519 men and Indonesia the withdrawal of 1,150 troops. The Rabat announcement said the Moroccan foreign ministry notified Hammerskjold it was withdrawing because the U.N. “is passively watching the drama resulting from the arbitrary ar rest of Patrice Lumumba. SELL-AND-BUY We’re All Ready For Christmas Now Let Us Help You — Books which You Don’t Need Can Pay For Your Christmas Shopping. ' Bring In What You Have For Sale and Take Out What You Need To Buy. LOU WILL ALLOW 25% MORE IN TRADE OR WILL BUY YOUR BOOKS FOR CASH! LOUPOTS je May we use this means of thanking you Aggies and others in the surrounding area for your patronage dur ing- the past year. We strive to serve the very best of foods at the lowest possible prices. Our menu offers — the best fried chicken, choice cuts of barbecue beef, pork, and chicken, the very best northern corn fed steaks and a variety of seafoods that you will enjoy — sandwiches and drinks. For you convenience we are prepared to fix any order to go in special boxes — Just Call TA 2-4557 So may we ask—please give us a try. If you are one of our customers now—please call again. We ap preciate your business. We are .located at 3410 South College—the rock building midway between Bryan and College Station. To you all our most sincere wish for a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. The Management 8 P. M. Admission 25c OnCampM with MaxShulman (Author of “I Was a Teen-age Dwarf’, “The Many Lorn of Dobie Gillis”, etc.) DECK THE HALLS The time has come to make out our Christmas shopping lists, for Christmas will be upon us quicker than you can say Jack Robinson. (Have you ever wondered, incidentally, about the origin of this interesting phrase “Quicker than you can say Jack Robinson”? Well sir, the original phrase was French— “Plm vite que de dire Jacques Robespierre.” Jack Robinson is, as everyone knows, an anglicization of Jacques Robespierre who was, as everyone knows, the famous figure from the French Revolution who, as everyone knows, got murdered in his bath by Danton, Murat, Caligula, and Aaron Burr. (The reason people started saying “Quicker than you can say Jacques Robespierre (or Jack Robinson as he is called in English- speaking countries) ” is quite an interesting little story. It seems that Robespierre’s wife, Georges Sand, got word of the plot to murder her husband in his bath. All she had to do to save his life was call his name and warn him. But, alas, quicker than she could say Jacques Robespierre, she received a telegram from her old friend Frederic Chopin who was down in Majorca setting lyrics to his immortal “Warsaw Concerto.” Chopin said he needed Georges Sand’s help desperately because he could not find a rhyme for “Warsaw.” Naturally, Georges Sand could not refuse such an urgent request. (Well sir, Georges Sand went traipsing off to Majorca, but before she left she told her little daughter Walter that some bad men were coming to murder daddy in his bath, and she in structed Walter to shout Robespierre’s name when the bad men arrived. But Walter, alas, had been sea-bathing that morning on the Riviera, and she had come home loaded with sea shells and salt water taffy, and when the bad men came to murder Robespierre, Walter, alas, was chewing a big wad of salt‘water taffy and could not get her mouth open in time to shout a warning. Robespierre, alas, was murdered quicker than you could shout Jacques Robespierre (or Jack Robinson as he is called in the English-speaking countries). (There is, I am pleased to report, one small note of cheer in this grisly tale. When Georges Sand got to Majorca where Chopin was setting lyrics to his immortal “Warsaw Concerto,” she was happily able to help him find a rhyme for “Warsaw,’} as everyone knows who has heard those haunting lyrics; In the fair town of Warsaw, Which Napoleon’s horse saw, Singing cockles and mussels, alive alive o!) But I digress. We were speaking of Christmas gifts. What we all strive to do at Christmas is, of course, to find unusual, offbeat, different gifts for our friends. May I suggest then a carton of Marlboro Cigarettes? What? You are astonished? You had not thought of Marlboros as unusual, offbeat, different? You had regarded them as familiar, reliable smokes whose excellence varied not one jot or tittle from year to year? True. All true. But at the same time, Marlboros are unusual, offbeat, different, because every time you try one, it’s like the first time. The flavor never palls, never gets hackneyed. Each Marlboro is a fresh delight, a pristine pleasure, and if you want all your friends to clap their hands and exclaim, “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus!” you will put them at the very top of your Christmas list. © i 9 eo Mai shuimaa * * * And for further Yuletide joy, give Marlboro’s nonfiltered companion cigarette, mild, flavorful Philip Morris—in regu lar size or the sensational new king-size Commander. You’ll be welcome aboard! PEANUTS By Charles M. Schulz PEANUTS LAST NI6HT l LEFT AV/ FOOTBALL IN THE PACK VARD, AND THIS M0RNIN6 IT'5 IN THE FRONT VARD...