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THE BATTALION
College Sation, Texas
March 14, 1961
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BATTALION EDITORIALS
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THE BATTALION
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dent writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax-supported, non
profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and op
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Texas A&M College.
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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.
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CADET SLOUCH
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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.”
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“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
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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.
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“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.
Single Title List Less 5%
Two .Titles List Less 10%
Three or More List Less 15%
Better Homes & Gardens Diet Book $2.50
Better Homes & Gardens NEW Cookbook 3.95
Better Homes & Gardens Junior Cookbook 2.95
Better Homes & Gardens Meat Cookbook 2.95
Better Homes & Gardens Dessert Cookbook 2.95
Better Homes & Gardens Barbecue Cookbook 2.95
Better Homes & Gardens Holiday Cookbook 2.95
Better Homes & Gardens Salad Book 2.95
Betty Crocker’s Picture Cookbook 4.95
DeGros Candy Cookbocik 2.50
Adelle Davis: Let’s Cook It Right 3.50
Snack & Party Cookbook 2.50
PIE Cookbook 2.50
O’Connon: Barbecue Cookbook 2.50
Food For You 1.25
PETER PAUPER PRESS
ABC of Desserts $1.00
Holiday Party Casseroles 1.00
ABC of Wine Cooking 1.00
ABC of Chafing Dish Cookery 1.00
ABC of Salads 1.00
Holiday Cookies 1.00
ABC of Barbecue 1.00
Holiday Candies 1.00
LET’S COOK BETTER AND LIVE BETTER
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Read Battalion Classifieds Daily
On Campus
with
MaxMman
(Author of “I Was a Teen-age Dwarf", “The Many
Loves of Dobie Gillis", etc.)
BOOM!
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.
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