Pag® 2
College Station, Texas
Friday, February 24, 1961
THE BATTALION
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
.......
sir, when is the last day for dropping a course.’
BATTALION EDITORIALS
A&M’s ‘Back Door
East Gate, the main entrance to
the Texas A&M campus, is per
haps as impressive as any other
main entrance to a college campus
in the state of Texas. It could
be ranked equally with the ivy-
covered walls at Rice or the Foun
tain at the University of Texas,
and anyone entering the Texas
A&M campus via the main en
trance and driving down the cause
way toward the System Adminis
tration Building is, without doubt,
duly impressed.
The problem is this: not every
person entering the Texas A&M
campus arrives by that route. A
conservative estimate would be
that 50 per cent or more enter the
campus by way of Texas A&M’s
unattractive “back door,” North
Gate.
Included in this group are such
people as visiting dignitaries, both
of the kind that lend prestige and
notoriety to the College by their
presence here, and who see that
Texas A&M is well endowed fi
nancially. North Gate is the way
many such personages enter the
campus because they come by
plane, and hence from Easterwood
Airport.
Also included in the 50 per cent
or more is a group of vital im
portance to the college, because
they are potential students. These
people, mostly high school seniors,
must be favorably impressed with
the campus if all the publicity
aimed at encouraging them to
visit the College is to have any
lasting effect once they have been
here and seen Texas A&M for
themselves. The reason many of
these potential students enter via
North Gate on their first visit
may be attributed to the great
number of prospective, as well as
former, students that live in the
vast area to the south and west
of College Station.
Not too many t months ago, a
mild attempt was made to im
prove the College side of the Gate
by removing the dense thicket of
shrubs that was growing along the
sidewalk from Sulphur Springs to
Walton Hall. Their removal im
proved the situation somewhat,
but left the whole area looking
rather nude. That is the way
North Gate stands today—a rather
uninviting and misleading ugly en
trance to a campus that can boast
of buildings such the Memorial
Student Center and the Richard
Coke Building. It is an entrance
that, in fact, does not even display
the name of Texas A&M in any
manner.
One solution would be a low
modernistic wall running parallel
to Sulphur Springs from the Post
Office west toward the USD A
Building. An appropriate marker
with the name of the College on it
would enhance it considerably.
With talk in the wind about
building a new highway where
Sulphur Springs Road is now that
would include an underpass at the
railroad tracks, some constructive
planning should be underway to
■improve the drab and uninviting
appearance of Texas A&M’s “back
door.”
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Job Interviews
The following firms will inter
view graduating seniors on cam
pus next week:
Feb. 27
Black, Sivalis and Bryson Inc.
for majors in chemical engineer
ing, mechanical engineering and
petroleum engineering.
★ ★ ★
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★ ★ ★
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for majors in chemical engineer
ing, civil engineering, electrical
engineering, industrial engineer
ing, mechanical engineering, pe
troleum engineering and chemis
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★ ★ ★
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for majors in chemical engineer
ing, electrical engineering, me
chanical engineering, nuclear en
gineering, chemistry, mathemat
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Editor,
The Battalion:
Quite by chance I stumbled
across “A Lesson in Socialism,”
by Thomas J. Shelly, teacher of
Economics and History, Yonkers
Pligh School in Yonkers, N. Y.
This is indeed an eye-opener on
the socialist-welfare state philos
ophy.
“As a teacher in the public
schools, I find that the socialist-
communist idea of taking ‘from
each according to his ability,’ and
giving ‘to each according to his
need’ is now generally accepted
without, question by most of our
pupils. In an effort to explain
the fallacy in this theory, I some
times try this approach with my
pupils:
“When one of the brighter or
harder-working pupils makes a
grade of 95 on a test, I suggest
that I take away 20 points and
give them to a student who has
made only 55 points on his test.
Thus each would contribute ac
cording to his ability and—since
both would have a passing mark
—each would receive according to
his need. After I have juggled the
grades of all the other pupils in
this fashion, the. result is usually
a common ownership’ grade be
tween 75 and 80—the minimum
needed for passing, or for survi
val. Then I speculate with the
pupils as to the probable results
if I actually used the socialistic
theory for grading papers.
“First, the highly productive
pupils—and they are always a
minority in school as well as in
life—would soon lose all incen
tive for producing. Why strive to
make a high grade if part of it
is taken from you by ‘authority’
and given to someone else?
“Second, the less productive
pupils—a majority in school as
elsewhere—would, for a time, be
relieved of the necessity to study
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ConcernForFuture
or to produce. This socialist-
communist system would con
tinue until the high producers
had sunk — or had been driven
down—to the level of the low
producers. At that point, in or
der for anyone to survive, the
‘authority’ would have no alter
native but to begin a system of
cumpulsory labor and punish
ments against even the low pro
ducers. They, of course, would
complain bitterly, but without
understanding.
“Finally, I return the discus
sion to the ideas of freedom and
enterprise—the market economy
—where each person has free
dom of choice and is responsible
for his own decisions and wel
fare.
“Gratifyingly enough, most of
my pupils then understand what
I mean when I explain that so
cialism—even in a democracy—
will eventually result in a living-
death for all except the “author
ities’ and a few of their favorite
lackeys.”
Gerald L. Morrow, ’63
★ ★
due to Communist instigation.
Many of the people involved in
the riot were no doubt loyal
Americans who had legitimate
and legal opinions opposing the
HCUA—this the film failed to
point out. That these loyal
Americans were duped and or
ganized by Communists to par
ticipate in a demonstration is the
whole point of the film.
I do not feel that I am quali
fied to debate the legality of the
HCUA or to refute the protests
against the committee made by
various groups; however, I feel
that any time minority groups,
such as those opposing the
HCUA, impair the proceedings
of a majority elected body
through violence, then something
is needed to control these groups.
As for the right of the Air
Science Department, as a branch
of the Armed Services, to ques
tion the loyalty of a future offi
cer to the American cause, I be
lieve that it is their privilege
and duty. Furthermore, I be
lieve that Don Cook explained his
stand in The Battalion merely to
discredit rumors to the effect
that he was put to a third de
gree by the Air Force Officers.
Charles E. Brame, ’61
★ ★ ★
‘Eye-Opener 9
Bryan AFB
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Theme Questioned
Editor,
The Battalion:
Anyone who has seen “Opera
tion Abolition” should surely
realize that the purpose of the
film is to show the American
public the dangers of Communist
propaganda and instigation right
here in America. The film is not
designed to support the activi
ties of the HCUA as suggested
by the letter from the faculty
members in the Feb. 22 edition
of The Battalion.
True, the film is one-sided, but
it is not fictitious. The presence
of known Communists leading
the demonstrations should be
enough to convince most anyone
that the San Francisco riot was
Special To The Battalion
Sen. William A. Blakley from
Texas reported yesterday that he
has contacted President John
Kennedy asking for a complete
investigation to see if the Bryan
Air Force Base can be reacti
vated.
No word came if there had
been any success in the move
but Blakley stated, “I am doing
all that I can to see that the base
has every opportunity to be uti
lized.”
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Editor,
The Battalion:
Please be assured that I ap
preciate and share your concern
for the future of our country that
prompted your recent editorial,
urging continued support of the
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