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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Sation, Texas March 14, 1961 i BATTALION EDITORIALS Tell The Campus Why Fly there It's taster by tar! DALLAS Lv. 11:31 A.M. 6:11 P.M. QUICK CONNECTIOIIS TO EL PASO, ALBUQUERQUE VIA JET POWER VISCOUNT Bl For rwervoffow, coff yecr Tnovef Agee* «■ Cwiiiooaid <rf W 6-4/82, CONTINENTAL AIRLINES THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent 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 ahd is under the supervision of the director of Student Publications at Texas A&M College. Members *f the SUrieot Pnblififitiona Board are L. A. Duewall, director of Student Publications, ebaiitaan; Allen Schrader, School of Arts and Sciences; Willard I. Traettaer, School of Bn grin eerku?: Otte B. Knnze, School of Aifriculture; and Dr. E. D. McMurry, School of Veterinary Medicine. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Bights of republication of all other matter here in are also reserved. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A.&M. is published in College Sta tion, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, Septem ber through May, and once a week during summer school. Entered as second-class waiter at the Ppet Qffioe h College Station, Texas, under the Act of Gon- frees of March 8, 1870. MEMBEB: The Associated Press Texas Press Assn. Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los An geles and San Francisco. News contributions may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the editorial office, Boom 4. YMCA. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6415. Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester; $6 per school year. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalior College Station, Texas. * $6.50 per full year. , Boom 4, YMCA, BILL HICKLIN Joe Callicoatte Bob Sloan, Alan Payne, Tommy Holbein Jim Gibson, Bob Roberts Larry Smith EDITOR Sports Editor News Editors Editorial Writers Assistant Sports Editor CADET SLOUCH - by Jim Earle fllli: Filing opens tomorrow for the spring class elections, and we feel that, as usual, no one will know what’s happening. We have heard complaints in the past years that the class office position—or any other campus election positions —go to the student candidates whose names are found at the top of the list on the ballot, or to the student candidates who are known best across the campus. We have also heard complaints that many times the most qualified student can didates are not elected because there is no common means by which all candidates can be heard by the entire student body. For that reason, The Battalion will offer sufficient op portunity for all student candidates to make known the rea sons in print why they should be elected to the position they are seeking. The College Regulations state that student candidates may have “written solicitation published in The Battalion in the ‘Letters to the Editor’ column or in some other section by arrangement with the editor,” We are not by any means attempting to dispute the election standards set forth in The College Regulations. These standards are necessary and quite adequate. But we do feel that class elections here at Texas A&M, in some instances, are somewhat of a farce. Perhaps it is because of the poor campaign measures taken by the stu dent candidates; perhaps it is because the student candidates feel that campaigning is not incidental to election. As a result, the student voters—those that do take the effort to cast a ballot—are not at all certain of what they are voting for. Therefore, The Battalion will accept any statements for election by candidates to be printed March 30. one week before the election day. We frankly expect some rather ridiculous statements from some student can didates. But we like to think that a prospective class of ficer has very definite reasons and ideas for being elected, rather than simply seeking the prestige that comes with being a class officer. We are also stipulating that these platforms or reasons from student candidates who seek to be elected be held to 50-75 words or less, that they be typewritten, and a signa ture clearly affixed so that there is no doubt who wrote the statement. It is also necessary for each of the student can didates bring in their statements personally before 5 p.m., April 13. The statements will appear by classes in alpha betical order. ‘ Perhaps, through a media such as The ■ Battaalion an^ an extensive effort across the campus by the individual stu dent candidates, the class elections can become more com petitive and more interesting. And, more important, per haps the most qualified student candidates will be elected to office. “... instead of figurin’ th’ cost of weekend dales in dollars —I’ve learned to figure it in grade points.” Social Calendar The following’ organizations will meet on campus: Tonight The American Foundrymen’s Society will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the foundry of the Mechanical Engineering Shops. The Premedical-Predental So ciety will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 113 of the Biological Sci ence Building. Dr. Paul Baur from Hempstead will be the fea tured speaker of the evening. The Fashion Group of the A&M Social Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Gay Room of the YMCA. Mi's. J. W. Batts Jr. will present a program on “Floral Fashions for Your Home.” r~ l i xzx~j T WHERE-THE-BEST-PICTURES-PUV ^ *■ J^^TMEATM L THEATRE A- * ■ „ lqVn*UMDERI2YEARS* f Tuesday “FACTS OF LIFE” with Bob Hope and Lucille Ball plus “IMITATION GENERAL” with Glenn Ford LAST DAY “Wackiest Ship in the Army” STARTS TOMORROW ^ LAST DAY “Jubal & the Attack” STARTS WEDNESDAY 11 ACADEMY AWARDS ^•/■^“BEST PICTURE"! All ued During th formance scon his 1 ADMISSION MATINEE NITE ADULTS $1.00 ADULTS $1.25 CHILDREN .... 50c CHILDREN „ 50c Students (All Shows) 80c Perfo rtormances DAILY 2 p. m. & 7:30 p. Job Interviews The following firms will hold job interviews in the Placement Office: The Minneapolis-Honeywell Co. will talk to seniors majoring in electrical engineering, mechan ical engineering or physics for positions in design and develop ment engineering, applied re search, sales and quality control. Applicants should have electronic background and extra electronic courses. ★ ★ ★ Swift and Co. will hold inter views for seniors majoring in chemical engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineer ing, mechanical engineering, ag ricultural economics, agi'icultural education, agronomy, animal hus bandry, dairy husbandry, ento mology or poultry husbandry. Positions in meat sales, agricul tural chemical sales, provision de partment or sheep department are available. ★ ★ ★ The U.S. Naval Air Test Center will interview seniors majoring in electrical engineering who are interested in work in the test and evaluation of naval aircraft and missiles. The San Antonio Air Materiel Area will talk to seniors major ing in aeronautical engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering or mechanical engi neering for employment in the re-design and modification of air craft and other equipment cur rently in use by the Air Force. ★ ★ ★ The Proctor and Gamble Dis tributing ..Co. will hold inter views for seniors majoring in agricultural economics, business administration, economics, indus trial education, industrial engi neering or mechanical engineer ing for positions in the sales management field. The initial assignment will be in the south west unless otherwise requested. m “Sports Car Center” Dealers for Renault-Peugeot & British Motor Cars Sales—Parts—Service “We Service All Foreign Cars”! 1416 Texas Ave. TA 2-4517 ^people are^ nf-ad minded! Housewives, if your family is tired of Sunday’s roast, Monday’s left overs, Tuesday’s chicken, Wednes day’s hamburgers, Thursday’s hash, Friday’s fish sticks and Saturday’s “clean out the refrigerator” regimen, here’s your chance to reclaim TOP BILLING as “queen of the kitchen”. During the week of March 14-20 we offer the na tionally known best selling cookbooks listed below at the following discounts. 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Today, foregoing levity, let us turn our keen young minds to the No. 1 problem facing American colleges today: the population explosion. Only last week four people exploded in Cleveland, Ohio—one of them while carrying a plate of soup. In case you’re thinking such a thing couldn’t happen anywhere but in Cleve land, let me tell you there were also two other cases last week— a 45 year old man in Provo, Utah, and a 19 year old girl in Bangor, Maine—and in addition there was a near-miss in Klamath Falls, Oregon—an eight year old boy who was saved only by the quick thinking of his cat Walter who pushed the phone off the hook with his muzzle and dialled the department of weights and measures. (It would perhaps have made more sense for Walter to dial the fire department, but one can hardly expect a cat to summon a fire engine which is followed by a Dalmatian, can one?) I bring up the population explosion not to alarm you, for I feel certain that science will ultimately solve the problem. After all, has not science in recent years brought us such marvels as the transistor, the computer, the bevatron, and the Marlboro filter? Oh, what a saga of science was the discovery of the Marlboro filter! Oh, what a heart-rending epic of endless trial and error, of dedication and perseverance! And, in the end, what a triumph it was when the Marlboro scientists after years of testing and discarding!one filter material after another—iron, nickel, lead, tin, antimony, sponge cake—finally emerged, tired but happy, from their’laboratory, carrying in their hahds the perfect filter cigarette! What rejoicing there was that day! Indeed, what rejoicing there still is whenever we light a Marlboro and settle back and enjoy that full-flavored smoke which comes to us in soft pack or flip-top box at tobacco counters in all fifty states and Cleveland! Yes, science will ultimately solve the problems rising out of the population explosion, but in the meantime the problems hang heavy over America’s colleges. This year will bring history’s greatest rush of high school graduates. Where will we find class rooms and teachers for this gigantic new influx? Well sir, some say the answer is to adopt the trimester system. This system, now in use at many colleges, eliminates summer vacations, has three semesters per annum instead of two, and compresses a four year course into three years. This is good, but is it good enough? Even under the trimester system the student has occasional days off. Moreover his nights are utterly wasted in sleeping. Is this the kind of all-out attack that is indicated? I say no. I say desperate problems call for desperate reme dies. I say that partial measures will not solve this crisis. I say we must do no less than go to school every single day of the year. But that is not all. I say we must go to school hours of every day! The benefits of such a program are, of course, obvious. First of all, the classroom shortage will immediately disappear be cause all the dormitories can be converted into classrooms. Second, the teacher shortage will immediately disappear because all the night watchmen can be put to work teaching calculus and Middle English poetry. And finally, overcrowding will immediately disappear because everyone will quit school. Any further questions? © 1961 Mai Shulman Yes, one further question: Have you tried Marlboro’s newest partner in pleasure—the unliltered, king-size Philip Morris Commander? If not, by all means come aboard. You’ll be glad you did. PEANUTS By Charles M. Schuli PEANUTS pea!? pencil pal, WE flAVE A new GIRL Is CUR NEieMftfcHood. He£ (VAM& [5 ffa£PA,AND ^HE MAS WAWAUv' CMYHAiR THAIS NOT WHAT I MEANT TO SAV!!! ir A DOS (OHO EXERCICE5 AS LITTLE AS HE DOES, REALLY DOESN'T NEED MUCH TO EAT! 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