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■ ‘1" Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Friday, April 14, 1961 BATTALION EDITORIALS Of All Things... CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle “ . .. now that’s what I call a bullet pass!” THIS WEEK’S SPECIAL Chicken Fried Steak Hamburger Steak Veal Cutlet With Salad, French Fries, Rolls, Butter, Coffee or Tea 75c Triangle Restaurant 3606 S. College Ave. TA 2-1352 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 and is under the supervision of the director of Student Publications at 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. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in t spontaneous origin published herein. in are also reserved. for republication of all news the paper and local news of Rights of republication of all other matter here- 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 matter at the Post Office h College Station, Texas, under the Act of Con- fress of March 8, 1870. MEMBER: The Associated Press Texas Press Assn. Represented nationally by National Advertising Ni 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. Room 4, YMCA. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6416. Mail subscriptions are fE.50 per semester; $6 per school year, $6.50 per full year. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA, College Station, Texas. BILL HICKLIN EDITOR INTERPRETING Thailand Dim On Laos Talks What manner of nonsense is this? Student run-off elections yesterday produced an un precedented incident when two candidates tied in votes for an office. Since this was a run-off election, another means other than an election is necessary to determine the candi date who will assume the office. So a decision was made, presumably by the Election Commission that—of all things—a flip of the coin would determine which candidate would be declared the victor. There is no concievable reason for employing such a method for selecting a candidate that was supposed to have been put in office by the student body. Even though the vote was again a poor indication of student government on the Texas A&M campus, the students that voted deserve a better decision than that. The two candidates, even more so, deserve more than the casual flip of a coin that will fall haphazardly to the floor. College Regulations, in setting up the framework for student government, does not provide for the event of a time in campus elections. But if the lack of this provision is going to result in methods such as this for determining who will fill an office, perhaps the College Regulations should contain a specific clause to protect the rights of the student body and the student candidates. When rare incidents such as this occur across the United States, much more decisive and stable means are used to determine who should assume office after being involved in a tie. For example, if the election of the President of the United States should result in a tie, the House of Representa tives would be called upon to break the deadlock. A similar situation such as that could be set up on the Texas A&M campus with very little effort. What would be wrong with having a clause inserted into the College Regula tions, designating the Student Senate, the governing body representing the entire student body, to determine who should will the position? The Memorial Student Center Council could also serve well in this capacity; it would be even more appropriate in this instance since the tie yesterday was for a position on the MSC Council. At any rate, the flip of a coin is quite ridiculous. By TONY ESCODA The Associated Press BANGKOK, Thailand — Thai land is making a dim view of big power efforts to negotiate a settlement of the Laos crisis. The general feeling in this pro- Western capital—as reflected in official comments and newspaper editorials—is one of fear mingled with impatience and a dash of gloom. The major fear is that the dip lomatic maneuverings in Wash ington, London and Moscow may end in the partitioning of Laos and leave the Communists with a firm foothold in that jungle kingdom next door tp Thailand. Despite the protestations of Western Allies' like Britain that no Korea-style split is involved in the peace proposals, the Thais find it hard to believe a Laos cease-fire would not result in at least a de facto division of the country. Communist rebels hold the key areas in central and northern The Sensations Of Outer Space By The Associated Press MOSCOW—When you go or biting around the earth, says Yuri A. Gagarin, you float above your chair in the space ship. The sun blazes “tens of times brighter than here on earth.” The earth’s sunny face is sep arated from the black void by a band of delicate blue color. On the descent into the earth’s atmosphere “one’s legs and arms feel as before during weightless ness,” and “I am no longer hov ering over the chair.” The 27-year-old pilot gave this account to the Soviet news agency Tass somewhere in the Soviet in terior Thursday as Premier Khruschchev prepared a tremen dous welcome for him Friday in this excited capital. Salutes in the astronaut’s honor will roar out all over the Soviet Union. No Western correspondent has seen Gagarin. Tass did not say how he stood up under the stresses of accelera tion at blastoff. Dogs shot into space were flattened to the floor and showed great alarm. Gagarin said he came smoothly through the next two stages—the strange sensation of weightless ness and the return of gravity on the descent, Tass reported. In fact, he said he found it easier to do everything when the tug of gravitation ceased on the orbit that took him around the earth in 89 minutes, Tass said. “This is quite natural,” he told Tass. “One’s legs, arms, weigh nothing. Objects float in the cabin. Neither did I myself sit in the chair as I did before that, but hung in midair. While in the state of weightlessness, I ate and drank and everything oc curred just as it does here on earth. “I even worked in that condi tion, wrote, jotting down by ob servations. My handwriting did not change although the hand does not weigh anything. Only I had to hold the. notebook. Other wise, it would float away. I maintained communications over different channels and tapped the telegraph key.” The state of weightlessness arises when the outward thrust of a speeding space vehicle strikes a balance with the earth’s gravitational pull. That balance of forces also keeps the vehicle in orbit. Gagarin, an air force man, never before had been more than 10 miles above the earth, Tass said, but then in a five-ton space ship he was whizzing around the earth at 17,000 miles an hour in an orbit that carried him 188 miles away from the earth. “I did not see the moon,” Tass quoted him. “The sun in outer space is tens of times brighter than here on earth. The stars are visible very well. They are bright and distinct. The entire picture of the firmament is much more contrasty than when seen from the earth.” Social Calendar cJ}ttention (^arelul ^riverd! 4#5 STATE FARM POLICYHOLDERS GET DOUBLE-BARRELED SAVINGS s^ing foe S3fe jfjfll/ drivers under ^ the Texss Merit Rating Plan Plus: jtV dividend on Z/j7 §P® wyp expiring policies for eligible members! STATE FARM MUTUAL the company that saved Texans over $4,000,000 in 1959 $24,000,000 in the past 24 years, see how much you could have saved. See your State Farm Agent Now! U. M. Alexander, Jr. 215 S. Alain TA 3-3616 STATE FARM MUTUAL Automobile Insurance Company Home Office: Bloomintton, Illinois STATE FARM The following clubs and organi zations will meet on campus: Tonight The Freshman Engineering So ciety will, meet in the Chemistry Building at 7:30 p.m. Dr. R. L. Whiting, head of the Department of Petroleum Engineering, will speak and a film on the petroleum industry will be shown. All freshmen in any field of engi neering are urged to attend. April 17 The Aero Wives Club will meet in the Cabinet Room of the YMCA at 7:45 p.m. All members are urged to be present as this is a very important meeting. April 18 The Vet Library will hold open house in observance of National Library Week from 4-6 p.m. The faculty wives of the vet staff will serve as hostesses and the public is cordially invited to at tend. The BUCCANEER Dairy Treat ' 1400 S. College Daily—10:30 a. m. - 10:30 p. m. Fri. & Sat. Open Til 11 p. m. Try Our Specialty— SMOKE BURGER (Hamburger With Special Smoke Sauce) Other Favorites HAMBURGERS CHEESEBURGERS HOT DOGS CHILI DOGS ROOT BEER COKES MALTS SHAKES Sound Off ^ ‘Orwellian ring 9 tion and for all Aggies, present and future? Editor, The Battalion: Laos and Thais remark that the Reds are not known for giving up ground. Even if partition were avoided somehow, there is apprehension here about any broad-based gov ernment as a solution to the Lao tian political tangle. Thai Prime Minister Marshal Sarit Thanarat has warned, “A coalition government—with Com munists in it—will lead to a take over by the Communists.” The official Thai view is that this country is apt to be left wide open to the threat of Communist aggression from across the long border shared with Laos. If Thailand has its way, an ul timatum would be served to the Soviet Union demanding that it halt its arms airlift to the Lao tian rebels. Thais are quick to note that the Soviet arms buildup in cen tral Laos has not stopped and the rebels continue to gain even as the talk is going on between the Western capitals and Moscow. So, “In this name (Texas A&M University), ‘A&M’ stands alone, and does not mean ‘Agricultural and Mechanical.’ In this sense, ‘A&M’ is a name by itself and would be used much the same as ‘Rice’ is used in Rice Univer sity or ‘Baylor’ is used in Baylor University.” (THE BATTAL ION, April 11, 1961.) This explanation has a fine Orwellian ring, hasn’t it (War is Peace! Freedom is Slavery! A&M means Nothing! Ignorance is Strength!). And it seems a rather gratuitous insult to those two stalwarts, William Marsh Rice and Judge R. E. B. Baylor, to say that “Rice” and “Baylor” also mean nothing. For the benefit of those people in other parts who may not un derstand the Alice-in-Wonder land logic that prevails here (Humpty Dumpty: “When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”), I respectfully offer the suggestion that, when the change is made official, the let terhead on the school stationary be printed to read a la TIME’S treatment of Harry S. Truman, “Texas A&M (for nothing) Uni versity.” R. W. Barzak, Department of English ★ ★ ★ When A&M is mentioned, which comes to your mind first— Agricultural and Mechanical Col lege or “Fighting Texas Aggies?” In my opinion, the name Texas A&M University will be mean ingful and will do justice to the heritage and future of the insti tution. The names Baylor and Rice do stand for something—two excel lent institutions of higher learn ing. I do not believe that the tow gentlemen who bore those names would object to the loss of their individuality, if. indeed, it has been lost, as a result of the failure to associate the names of the respective universities with the gentlemen’s names. The name Texas A&M also stands for something and that something is considerably more than Agricul tural and Mechanical. In conclusion, if there is any danger of‘our becoming a laugh ing stock to the rest of the aca demic world, I believe it is due to our refusal to make our opin ions known. If you have an opin ion on this matter, voice it to someone other than your room mate. Jerry B. Lincecum, ’63 considerably more Editor, The Battalion: I would like to take issue with the professor who stated in a letter to The Battalion that A&M must stand for Agricultural and Mechanical or nothing at all. I believe he has overlooked a third possible meaning. Why can’t A&M simply stand for the wealth of tradition behind this tradi- DANCE S.P.J.S.T. 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