THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, April 12, 1961
| BATTALION EDITORIALS ~
Once More
“We can still go to college on hereditary knowledge.”
That statement was used last fall by The Battalion in
expressing the attitude that the lack of a ‘Dead Week” has
on a student entering final exams. And this spring, as final
exams roll ever closer, the same attitude will doubtless be
employed again by students ip preparation for final exams.
The Battalion has argued that the student^ find them
selves faced with an array of important exams less than a
week from final exams. It seems to leave an atmosphere of
“education in a hurry.”
After spending more than four months in absorbing the
material presented in a course, it seems rather ridiculous
for a student to attempt to review such material in the span
of one weekend. And for ROTC students this ‘span’ is less
than a weekend, since many of these students are faced with
a Saturday morning final exam the Monday before the re
mainder of the exams begin.
The appeal by The Battalion to reinstate ‘Dead Week’
is not an effort to make it easier for the student in his never-
ending quest for the almighty grade point, but rather to bene
fit the students in getting as much as possible out of a course
during a semester.
The Battalion maintains that a ‘Dead Week’ is incidental
to successful and comprehensive completion of college work.
Ah, but ‘Dead Week’ on the Texas A&M campus is dead.
A ‘Dead Week’ could be a boon, however, to better results in
college level courses, even if it is necessary for students to
be exposed to less material and then learn that portion
thoroughly.
★ ★ ★
CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle
: -•
“celebratin’ Pan American Week! What did you think I
was doin’?”
Second Time
The Campus Chest needs $3,000—less than 50 cents
from every Texas A&M student—to reach its 1960 goal.
Three thousand dollars is not much to ask from a student
body boasting nearly 7,000 men. But when the same amount
was asked in the first Campus Chest Drive this fall, only
$293 was collected.
The Chest blamed poor timing for the failure of the
fall campaign. Now they have determined to try again tomor
row and Friday nights.
They hope no excuses will be needed this time, after the
money is counted.
In 1958 slightly less than $2,000 was netted by the Cam
pus Chest. In 1959, under the banner “A dollar from an
Aggie for an Aggie,” only $1,490 was collected. The showing
this fall was the most disappointing yet.
Yet no Texas A&M student will deny the worth of the
Campus Chest. They are glad when the Chest makes blanket
contributions to such charitable organizations as The Col
lege Station Community Chest, The Brazos County Tuber
culous Association and the March of Dimes, keeping solicita
tions from private charities at a minimum. And they are
glad to see the Chest offer assistance to them or their fellow
student in time of need.
We hope the students of Texas A&M remember this
when the Campus Chest begins its second drive of the year
tomorrow.
★ ★ ★
Another Chance
A second opportunity for students to participate in the
election of class officers will be offered tomorrow; this time,
the results will be final.
Yet comments on campus, instead of illustrating interest^
in obtaining satisfactory results from the elections, have been
quite the contrary.
The idea that “My candidate didn’t make the runoffs,
so I’m certainly not planning to help anyone else win” seems
to have imbedded itself within many prospective voters.
More predominating is the consideration that “I don’t
know who’s running, or anything about them, so why should
I vote?”
Passive resistance to any situation can many times be
more dangerous that its counterpart, direct rebuttal; As
more students participate in student elections, understand
ing of what they really involve grows.
One can barely go to the Memorial Student Center and
vote without learning something of the election at hand;
more than likely he will encounter at least one candidate
on the way.
The voting machines will be available tomorrow, and
will be used by those students interested in strong student
government.
Are there more than 1,825 of these students?
THE BATTALION
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BILL HICKLIN EDITOR
Joe Callicoatte - Sports Editor
Bob Sloan, Alan Payne, Tommy Holbein News Editors
Jim Gibson, Bob Roberts Editorial Writers
Larry Smith Assistant Sports Editor
Bob Mitchell, Ronnie Bookman, Robert Denney,
Gerry Brown - — Staff Writers
Johnny Herrin Photographers
Jim Earle Cartoonist
Sound Off
Editor,
The Battalion:
Let’s not become a laughing
stock to the rest of the nation—
and especially to the rest of the
academic world!
A name that stands for nothing
is worse than no name at all.
The notion that A&M stands for
nothing is nonsense. To say that
Baylor and Rice stands for no
thing is to rob the 4 venerable
gentlemen who bore imose names
of their unique identity as indi
viduals.
n’t mean anything, and that your
saying so makes it so. It still
isn’t so, no matter who argues
to the contrary. 1
This institution means too
much, has meant too much, and
will mean too much to be saddled
with a name that doesn’t mean
anything.
Let’s quit talking nonsense and
give this institution a name
worthy of its heritage as well as
as its future.
J. E. Redden,
Department of Journalism
If a name is to be meaningful,
it MUST stand for something.
Either A&M stands for Agricul
tural and Mechanical or it has
no meaning at all. You don’t
just, ipso facto, say that it does-
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By HENRY S. BRADSHER
The Associated Press
NEW DELHI, India—The In
ternational Control Commission,
which Britain and the Soviet Un
ion may recall to supervise a
cease-fire in Laos, was a far
from perfect instrument its first
time out.
India was chairman of the com
mission which functioned from
1954 until 1958. The main prob
lem was checking on arms coming
into Laos. Britain says the job
now should be “to verify the ef
fectiveness of a cease-Tire.”
The commission was hamstrung
by refusal of the Pathet Lao to
permit it to inspect territory con
trolled by pro-Communist forces.
India is waiting with restrained
eagerness to reconvene the com
mission and send inspection teams
into Laos. Prime Minister Nehru
has always felt the commission
could best keep cold war conflicts
out of Laos.
The United States, a major ele
ment in any Laos situation, has
been skeptical. It felt the com
mission was biased by its Polish
member while the Indian chair
man acquiesed and the other
member, Canada, was overruled.
Job Interviews
The commission was estab
lished by the 1954 Geneva con
ference which ended the Indo
china war. Laos’ royal govern
ment was • given permission to
import some weapons for de
fense. The Pathet Lao was for
bidden to bring in arms.
The following firms will inter
view graduating seniors in the
Placement Office:
April 14
The Johns-Manville Sales Corp.
will hold job interviews for sen
iors majoring in agricultural eco
nomics, business administration,
building products marketing and
industrial distribution, for posi
tions as field representatives.
The job calls for making con
tacts with retail lumber dealers,
building contractors and archi
tects; and those applying should
have no ROTC obligations.
★ ★ ★
April 18
The Waco Independent School
District will talk to seniors ma
joring in education and psychol
ogy, electrical engineering, in
dustrial education or mathemat
ics. Teacher vacancies in the
following divisions are available:
elementary education, mathemat
ics, industrial arts and electron
ics.
★ ★ ★
The Ector County Independent
School District will interview
seniors who are majoring in edu
cation and psychology, industrial
education, English, mathematics,
biology, chemistry, physics or
modern languages. Positions are
now open in these divisions: ele
mentary and secondary, language
arts, mathematics, science, for
eign languages and industrial
arts.
★ ★
April 19
The West Texas Utilities Co.
will hold interviews for seniors
majoring in electrical engineer
ing for employment in the Abi-
lene-San Angelo area.
★ ★ ★
April 25
The Bankers Life Co. will
talk to seniors majoring in ac
counting or business administra
tion. The positions available
would be in selling life insurance
and would involve family plan
ning insurance, business insur
ance and estate planning. Even
tually, the job could lead to su
pervision work in agency man
agement and home office employ
ment.
“The International Commission
for Supervision and Control in
Laos” was created to insure that
the Geneva terms were carried
out and to help unite the country.
After a few frustrating years,
the commission reported; “It was
evident that complete supervision
and control of the land border of
Laos of about 4,000 kilometers
was quite beyond the resources
in men and material at the dis
posal of the commission.” It had
about 325 men, including Indian
army troops to support the in
spectors.
The commission complained
that the royal government, sup
ported by the United States, gave
information on weapons convoys
which “was inaccurate and not
susceptible to checking.”
The government protested in
1955 that the commission was re
stricting itself “to the checking
of war material imported by the
royal Laotian government while
it took no action to carry out sim
ilar checks in the case of the
Pathet Lao how checks could be
made, there was no answer.
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