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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Friday, April 14, 1961
BATTALION EDITORIALS
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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.”
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Tonight
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ciety will, meet in the Chemistry
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April 17
The Aero Wives Club will meet
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are urged to be present as this
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April 18
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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-
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