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
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College Station
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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one of our customers now—please call again. We ap
preciate your business. We are .located at 3410 South
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Christmas and Happy New Year.
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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
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