THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, January 18, 1961
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Dead Week... ?
What has happened to dead week?
This question is currently foremost in the minds of
students on the Texas A&M campus. With less than a week
until final exams begin, virtually all students find them
selves faced with a battery of major exams.
It appears to leave an atmosphere of ‘education in a
..hurry,’
The last of the hour quizzes are hardly completed be
fore final exams open. This situation is especially true for
students in the ROTC program who have a final exam
scheduled Saturday morning.
When does a student have time to efficiently review a
- course in preparation for a final exam, especially if he has
to crowd a semester’s review into one weekend ? Compound
*• that problem if a student has two final exams scheduled
Monday, or if most of them fall early in the week.
It goes without saying that a student cannot put forth
his best effort; he cannot effectively absorb all he is ex
posed to in a semester.
Texas A&M students are forced to enter most finals
with the attitude “we can still go to college on hereditary
knowledge” full in their minds.
Ah, but dead week on the Texas A&M campus is dead.
Still, we maintain that a dead week is incidental to success
ful and comprehensive completion of college work.
Visibly Lacking
If the number of letters-to-the-editor received in the
office of a college newspaper is any indication of student,
administration or faculty interest in the workings of the
college, then interest in the workings of Texas A&M is
■ visibly lacking.
So far this year the greatest number of letters received
on any subject on any day has been five. Out of a student
body of 7,200, three students had enough interest to write
letters that day about the proposed name change. The other
" two letters that day were written by former students. At
other colleges, the students have to be told editorially to cease
sending letters on controversial subjects because of the over-
, whelming volume of letters received. Here, we are asking
~ for letters.
Students aren’t the only people on campus who should
have a voice in campus affairs. Complaints are often heard
from faculty members because they aren’t receiving the
attention to which they think they are entitled. And yet,
not one single faculty member has bothered to send a letter
to the student newspaper on any subject since the start of the
fall semester. ,
As far as the administration’s voice in campus affairs
is concerned, it is handled through news releases or other
impersonal methods of communication. In this way seldom
does the individual student feel any kinship with the ad
ministration. Perhaps this method, resulting in the student
body feeling not a part, but a subject, of the administration;
is the reason for the lack of letters from students.
The whole problem boils down to one of communication.
Perhaps if there is a free interplay of information, using
the letters-to-the-editor column as one channel of communi
cation, much of the misunderstanding and suspicion that
exists on the campus can be eliminated.
What have you got on your mind?
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LEGAL HOLIDAY
Thursday, January 19, 1961, being a Legal Holiday, in
observance of Robert E. Lee’s Birthday, the undersigned
will observe that date as a Legal Holiday and not be
open for business.
First National Bank
City National Bank
First State Bank & Trust Company
College Station State Bank
Bryan Building & Loan Association
Community Savings & Loan Association
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Texas A&M College.
Members of the Student Publications Board are L. A. Duewall, director of Student
Publications, chairman; Allen Schrader, School of Arts and Sciences; Willard I.
Truettner, School of Engineering ; Otto R. Kunze, School of Agriculture; and Dr. E. D.
McMurry, School of Veterinary Medicine.
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BILL HICKLIN EDITOR
CADET SLOUCH
by Mm Earle Daniel Takes INTERPRETING
Third Oath
1 Of Office
Call
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How To Improve Your Grades
“ . . . this has been th’ most enjoyable course I’ve ever
taken! Would you please give me some outside assignments
that I can do this weekend?”
ATTORNEY’S SUGGESTIONS
What Can You Do
With Bad Checks?
(Editor’s Note: What can you
do when you find yourself in
possession of a worthless check?
Brazos County Attorney D.
Brooks Cofer, Jr. offers the fol
lowing suggestions to anyone
who finds himself in that pre
dicament.)
First, to come within the pro
visions of the Texas Hot Check
Law, a check must have been
given for cash for personal prop
erty, or for any article or thing
of value. Or the check may be
a paycheck—one given in pay
ment for personal services ren
dered.
The exchange of cash or prop
erty must have occurred at the
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an account, or a payment on a
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which do not come under the Hot
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credit of any nature has been
extended, the law does not apply.
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check fails to make good the
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torney’s office, providing the ad
dress of the person who cashed
the check is correct; the check
is not more than 60 days old, as
determined by the date on the
check, and that the check comes
under the provisions of the Hot
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Social Calendar
The following clubs and organi
zations will meet on campus:
Wednesday
The Civil Engineering Wives
Club will hold a social meeting
at 8 p.m. in the South Solarium
of the YMCA.
Thursday
The Lavaca County Hometown
Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in
Room 108 of the Academic
Building.
The Tyler-Smith County Home
town Club will meet at 7:30 p.m.
in the Social Room of the MSC.
The Wichita Falls Hometown
Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in
Room 3-D of the MSC.
The Panhandle Hometown Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Rpom
204 of the Academic Building.
Pictures will be taken.
By The Associated Press
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Inauguration
Sees Austin
Dressed Up’
By The Associated Press
AUSTIN—The Capitol was all
dressed up in red, white and blue
bunting Tuesday as Gov. Price
Daniel took his oath of office
before some 2,500 Texans.
The platform was jammed with
state officials and their wives
numbering approximately 1,000.
The formalities and festivities
began Tuesday morning,j and
ended with the Inaugural Ball
Tuesday night.
Gov. and Mrs. Daniel and Lt.
Gov. and Mrs. Ben Ramsey were
given a misfired 19-gun National
Guard artillery salute but few
noticed the error. Arrangements
had been made for three howit
zers to fire at five-second inter
vals as soon as Daniel’s party
appeared. When one of the big
blanks failed' to fire, the next
gun took up the beat while the
faulty round was replaced.
The official party marched to
the platform under the crossed
sabers of the Ross Volunteers,
a drill team from Texas A&M.
Mrs. Daniel was dressed in a
sage green wool suit with a green
velvet hat frosted with white
violets.
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AUSTIN—Gov. Price Daniel,
four turbulent years with the
Texas Legislature behind him,
Tuesday moved forward into a
third term dedicated to cleaning
up the unfinished business of his
administration.
As a bright sun warmed the
small inaugural crowd, Daniel
repeated the oath of office in a
firm, clear voice in front of the
Capitol.
The 50-year-old governor is
the second man in Texas history
to win three consecutive two-year
terms.
Lt. Gov. Ben Ramsey moments
earlier took his oath to a sixth
term from Supreme Court Chief
Justice Robert W. Calvert. No
one has ever come close to the
winning streak of the durable
East Texan for the job of presi
dent of the Senate.
Both men indicated a tone of
urgency to the tasks ahead for
the legislature. Daniel Wednes
day will outline his taxing and
spending recommendations to a
joint session.
Both Houses went through
short sessions to permit members
and their wives to join the doz
ens of state officials seated near
the rostrum set up- outside the
Capitol. State Highway Patrol
men estimated the crowd at 2,500
with about half of the turnout
in the reserved seats.
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
The incoming Kennedy admin
istration has a far better idea
of what its problems are going
to be and what can be done about
them than did the Democrats
■who returned to power in 1932.
Franklin D. Roosevelt knew
about the depression and took
some early steps, hut the major
book of economic knowledge,
what causes recessions and what
to do about them, has been writ
ten since then. It incorporates
many things which had to be
learned at that time through ex
periment. The book is still in
complete, but of vastly greater
aid how.
Insofar as the world is con
cerned, mighty little was known
in the United States. While
Roosevelt was experimenting
here, Hitler and Mussolini were
experimenting in Europe.
The foreword was being writ
ten for the book of unbridled to
talitarian aggression, against
the background of world depres
sion of which the United States
recognized hardly more than her
own part. President Hoover’s
secretary of state, Henry L.
Stimson, had seett-the stagehands
of war working behind the scenes,
but others had.
Britain and France, which usu
ally acted as the feelers for
American foreign policy, had
their perceptions dulled by troub
le at home, too.
Roosevelt and Secretary of
State Cordell Hull were not wor
ried about war in those days.
Now John F. Kennedy and
Dean Rusk know about the dan
gers of the world—a world in
volved in a new kind of eco
nomic war and threatened by a
new kind of military war.
Whatever economic problems
may develop at home cannot be
handled solely on their face. The
economic and financial integrity
of the United States is too much
Involved in the new kind of war.
In this war, every weakness
which develops at home will be
advertised by the enemy as a
weakness of method and of ide
ology.
For instance, India and China
are competing for ascendency of
their systems in Asia. Develop
ments in the United States will
be used as measures for the In
dian idea of preserving fn, At
terprise alongside the St, committe
development of industry, ajUmted (
ture and business by g, Calhoun
ment. coming :
In the 30’s a fewofthet as c d a i 1 ' 1
done by the United States.
as restricting the ownersli; sponsible
sale of gold and the beg c
of the most-favored-natioi cellor fo:
program, affected the wot!; College
the ’60s, every social atj In the
nomic development broaden treasure
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A&M can only hurt a pro; j[^ y ^
vigorous school. The L
Texas A&M is well t
throughout the nation e
many lands. The name'
University” is commonpln
entirely lacking in spiri;
fire for which Texas Ail
become known. Do not I
the careful work of n®
century just to please i
fessors and legislators.
1st Lt. Charles B. Sanders
Editor,
The Battalion:
It seems tha!t with each issue
of The Battalion there is more
and more agitation for changing
the name of Texas A&M. Most
of this agitation seems to be gen
erated in your editorials.
You continually cry that we
are calling ourselves something
that we are not, and that we are
identified with the “land grant
complex.” Since most of these
land grant schools have changed
their names to “Something State
University,” you want us to
meekly follow just so we will not
be different. Texas A&M is by
no means identified with the
“land grant complex,” other than
by being established under the
same acts of Congress. Texas
A&M College is the name of an
institution. Only harm can come
to that institution by calling it
Texas State University. If a
prospective professor or support
er of an institution is so short
sighted as to look no further
than the name of a school, then
that man is not possessed of
very much perception.
To change the name of Texas
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