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Page 2. College Station, Texas Thursday, January 12, 1961
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Unnoticed
Texiis Tech may not win a
Southwest Conference champion-
ship’.this year, but they do have
one item for their trophy case.
The ,E,ed Raiders won the South
west Conference Sportsmanship
Trophy.
That Tech should be the recip
ient of the award *was the gen
eral opinion of the Southwest
Conference Sportsmanship Com
mittees. A committee, composed
of four student leaders from the
eight ..schools in the conference,
voted this honor to the Raiders at
a meeting in Dallas before the
Cotton Bowl game.
, Tech thus became the 14th win
ner of the trophy, which we would
Tike to call “coveted”. But it
seems this award does not hold
the distinction it should across
Southwest Conference campuses.
As far as the meeting in Dallas
with the respective committees
went, much was accomplished.
They talked. They argued. They
accused each other of poor con
duct at athletic contests this fall.
They lauded each other for ex
cellent displays of sportsmanship.
Even after Tech was voted the
most sportsmanlike school in the
SWC the committee continued to
discuss the intricate problems of
sportsmanship and intra-school
rivalry. Virtually all the student
leaders agreed there was a con
siderable lacking in the Southwest
Conference Sportsmanship Tro
phy setup itself. Texas A&M stu
dent leaders felt the same way.
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After studying the structure
the A&M committee found these
four major problems:
'"'l. Interest in the Sportsman
ship Committee at the various
schools in the Southwest Confer
ence is lacking. The student bod
ies of the schools seemed to have
a feeling of apathy toward the
work of the committees — or to
ward the idea of sportsmanship
in general. This is especially true
at the schools that have never, or
seldom, won the award.
Texas Christian University has
by far the most outstanding rec
ord, carting home the trophy five
times during the 14 years the
award has been in existence. The
University of Texas and Baylor
University are the only South
west Conference Schools who
have never copped the award.
2. This lack of interest in the
work of the sportsmanship Com
mittee and sportsmanship may be
attributed to a failure to keep the
student bodies informed of sports
manship status.
Most Conference schools do not
write letters of criticism or ap
proval following athletic contests
to opposing schools, and when
they do, the student bodies sel
dom learn of the content of the
report.
3. Some schools seem to think
the awarding of the trophy is
rigged — that the school desig
nated as “Committee Chairman”
each year will automatically take
home the award, regardless of
which school is cited for excellent
sportsmanship. It is true in some
instances the “Chairman School”
may be selected the winner of the
award. But not always.
4. The voting procedure is not
uniform. The standard of voting
gives “4” points for excellent
sportsmanship displays and as
low as “0” points for poor sports
manship displays. But each school
seems to have their own defini
tion of “excellent” arid “poor” in
their voting evaluations.
At the Dallas meeting early
this year the Sportsmanship Com
mittees took these steps to im
prove the program. Next year
each school will send a brochure
containing information on tradi
tions, personnel and special equip
ment that will be at the games to
allow the host school to make
proper arrangements. The Com
mittees also asked member
schools to ask radio, television
and newspapers in their area to
be less pungent in their remarks
concerning visiting schools.
Many revisions in addition to
these going into effect and those
suggested above are necessary to
make the Southwest Conference
Committee truly effective. Other
SWC schools doubtless have con
structive suggestions. As it
stands now, the SWC Sportsman
ship Trophy lacks prestige and
competition. Few schools really
want it.
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It might be well to add that
basketball season is included in
sportsmanship evaluations. The
next meeting will be held this
spring and if continued advance
ment and a much needed display
of competition becomes evident,
the award may become effective.
But if it doesn’t, the Southwest
Conference Sportsmanship Tro
phy could easily remain in its
virtually unnoticed position.
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SLOUCH
by Jim Earle INTERPRETING
Proposed International Meet To Seek
Laos Solu t ion Rem inds Of Two Fa Hum
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tuition
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By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
A proposal for a new large-
scale international conference to
seek a solution of the civil war in
Laos reminds that twice before—
when the pro-Communist forces
were weaker than now, and when
the Communist bloc was not sup
plying arms—such solutions have
been reached and failed.
Both failures have accompanied
acceptance by Western negotia
tors of the false premise that
Communists can take part, in
stead of just trying to take over,
in a government.
In 1954 the Laos Communists,
ing the Communist sphere, hag-
occupying a border area adjoin-
gled and haggled over terms of
the Geneva agreements to pre
vent integration of the country,
CRITICISM FROM COLORADO
Atmosphere Of SCONA
Called ^Straight-Jacketed’
(Editor’s Note: the Student
Conference On National Affairs
is called one of the finest events
yearly held on the Texas A&M
campus. We agree, and we have
heard very little criticism of the
event.
But we noticed in the Jan. 6,
1961 edition of The Colorado
Daily, the student newspaper at
the University of Colorado, where
grievances against the effect of
SCONA have been expressed.
An editorial was written by
John Farrell, a delegate from the
University of Colorado to SCONA
and a member of the Colorado
Daily staff. Here is what he
said).
“The eyes of Texas are upon
you if you go to school at Texas
A&M College in College Station,
Texas.
“Big Brother is watching you,
too.
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“These are the impressions we
bring back after attending the
Student Conference on National
Affairs (SCONA) held recently
on the Texas A&M Campus.
“For two considerations seem
paramount to the officials who
run Texas A&M; pleasing the
sometimes jaundiced eyes of Tex
as, and running their institution
as if a security clearance would
be preferable to an entrance ex
am for incoming students.
“As a result, two essential ele
ments of a university, inquiry and
controversy, are missing.
“When you think of a univer
sity you like to think of a place
that is symbolized by a question
mark. A place where people are
asking questions and hearing a
variety of answers; that’s what a
university should be.
“But Texas A&M is not such
a “market place” of ideas. It’s a
breadline. Like what you get, and
don’t question it.
“This straight-jacketed atmos
phere influenced the SCONA con
ference. The speakers were all of
the non-controversial variety.
One speech sounded like excerpts
from a high school civics text.
“Concerning the speakers, we
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found that two possibilities had
been ruled out by the administra
tion—Harry Truman, because of
Mboya, because of his skin.
“Both, it was thought, would be
his tongue; and Kenya’s Tom
offensive to the local Texas gen
try. Yet, the halls of academe at
Texas A&M are gutted—gutted
by an administration that seems
to think Orwell’s “1984” is “Para
dise Lost.”
“A visit there makes one ap
preciate the University of Colo
rado.
John Farrell,
University of Colorado”
finally came to terms in 1958,
but only temporarily. Fighting
broke out almost as soon as the
commission decided its work was
finished.
After the 1954 agreement, a
part of measures taken to end
part of measures taken to end the
Indochina war between France
and the Communists, the Soviet
Union, co-chairman of the Ge
neva conference, let things sim
mer in Southeast Asia. Now she
is actively supporting the rebels
with supplies, and Red forces in
North Viet Nam and Red China
are on hand for intervention at
any time.
This the United States says she
will not countenance.
To divert activity toward ne
gotiation and away from the field
of threats, Britain suggested re
vival of the International Control
Commission — India, Poland and
Canada. The United States said
yes, provided King Savang Vat-
hana’s government agreed, but
the Soviet Union said no because
a neutralist government is her
choice. Now Cambodia has sug
gested a 14-nation conference, in
cluding Red China, and first signs
suggested the idea might prevail.
Such a conference could hardly
produce a solution, in a situation
where the Communists are deter
mined that there shall be no solu
tion except one that gives them
the country.
It just might, however, gain
enough .time to let the Commu
nists escape from a situation
threatening a large-scale war
which Red China might want but
which the Soviet Union does not.
Observers are pretty much
agreed that the Pathet Lao, the
local Communist organization, is
stronger than ever, due partly to
organizational efforts and partly
to the split between the neutral
ists and the pro-Western faction
of the king. This puts them in
just the position that the Com
munists want, for internal con
quest without international war.
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Editor,
The Battalion:
Poor Aggies! Or rather, poor
Aggies who didn’t go to the ball-
game Tuesday night. For Tues
day night, the “6,500” loyal fans
of Texas A&M were treated to
the best basketball game ever
played at White Coliseum. Or so
said Coach Bob Rogers.
Hem ingway’s
Illness Called
Hypertension
By the Associated Press
ROCHESTER, Minn.—Novelist
Ernest Hemingway’s ailment was
described as hypertension by a
spokesman Wednesday at the
Mayo Clinic, where the 62-year-
old author has been under treat
ment since Nov. 30.
after the next two weeks. His
Hemingway is to be released
condition is, considered satisfac
tory. While he has received medi
cal treatment, Hemingway has not
required surgery and none is con
templated, the spokesman said.
Hypertension generally is re
ferred to as high blood pressure.
It was in this contest with tli
Arkansas Razorbacks that tw
conference leaders showed wit
they are number one. As a teat:
the Aggies took over sole poss&
sion of first place in the Souft
west Conference basketball raft
Individually, Carroll Broussanj
the conference scoring leader, it
creased his point out-put pe:
game by scoring a record Si/
points.
With individual standouts life
Broussard, Pat and Don Stank
Wayne Annett, and Jerry Witt
ham; with a gym that seats oni;
8,500; and with an outstanding
coach like Bob Rogers we wot
der why as many seats a
cant in White Coliseum.
What we need is that It
Man” spirit.
A1 Rainosek, ’60
Lee H. Wilson, ’60
Chuck Haynes, ’62
Eddie Autry, ’63
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