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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, April 18, 1961 BATTALION EDITORIALS What’s In A Name? A&M is A&M is A&M. The A&M System Board of Directors, when reviewing the idea of changing the name of Texas A&.M, guided them selves to two important truths. First, Texas A&M is now, in fact, a university, if not in name. Second, the traditions and the prestige associated with the name Texas A&M are recognized throughout the nation and world. With this to guide them, the members of the Board set about the difficult task of determining what to do about name-change. The first question they asked themselves was if a change in the name were really necessary. The answer was definitely yes. The name must be changed, they agreed, to incorporate the word “university.” The second question, what should the new name be, proved to be a bigger headache. The name “Texas State University and the Agricultural and Mechanical College,” (the name supported by The Bat talion and introduced in the Texas Senate by Sen. W. T. Moore of Bryan), was rejected because the Board felt with this name the school might lose much of the renown that had been associated for many years with Texas A&M. Likewise, “Texas Agricultural and Mechanical Univer sity,” or “The Agricultural and Mechanical University of Texas” were thrown out because of the limiting conotation “agricultural” and “mechanical” place on the school as a whole. The Board felt that, while agriculture and engineering were vital to the school, other departments, such as liberal arts, business administration and veterinary medicine, were equally as important, and their importance should in no way be limited in the school’s name. Texas A&M University was the Board of Directors’ final choice of a new name for Texas A&M College. With this name, the Board felt it could best accomplish its jgoal: “University” would be incorporated into the name. Keeping “Texas A&M” in the name would insure reten tion of all the traditions and remembrance of all the accomp lishments associated with the former name. By use of the symbol “A&M” and not the words “Agri cultural and Mechanical,” no school of the university would be given more recognition than any other. A&M, in this sense, would not stand for Agricultural and Mechanical. It would stand for nothing literal, but rather stand as a symbol of the traditions and accomplishments of the school throughout its history. The name of Texas A&M should and will change. With the new name will come added honor and prestige, greater growth and accomplishment and stronger traditions. No one need feel that a name-change will sever the strong bonds of tradition. The change, what ever it may be, can only mean progress. And progress can only strengthen tradition. , Spring Sale BRAND NEW 1961 FORD SIX PASSENGER SEDANS $1795.00 $295.00 DOWN CASH OB TRADE $11.35 Per Week Cade Motor Co. 1309 & 1700 Texas Ave. 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 1 Truettner, School of Engineering; Otto R. Kunze, School of Agriculture; and Dr. E. D McMurry, School of Veterinary Medicine. 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Mail subscriptions are $3.60 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 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 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle “ .. . must have a pretty good weekend lined up-” Israel Ally. Gen. Recalls Atrocities ’ JERUSALEM — Israel’s Atty. Gen. Gideon Hausner resurrected in terrible detail Monday the ghastly record of Nazi atrocities in a powerful prelude to an ex pected demand for the death pen alty for Adolf Eichmann. Hausner spoke for nearly six hours after Eichmann, former Gestapo officer, pleaded not guil ty 15 times to charges that he slaughtered and tortured Jews by the millions. Pointing his finger at Eich mann, Hausner in his opening statement caller him the “zeal ous executor” of these horrors, the Nazi “specialist in extermi nation,” a man “absolutely de voted to his mission” of exterm inating the Jewish people. “Only one man in history exists who hands were exclusively oc cupied with the extermination of the Jewish people—Adolf Eich- man,” Hausner declared. Eichmann sat without expres- Social Calendar The following clubs and organ izations will meet on campus: Tonight The Institute of Aerospace Sci ences will meet in Room 231 of the new Chemistry Building at 7:30 p.m. Mr. C. K. Whitney of the Thiokol Chemical Corp. will speak on “Internal Rocket Ballis tics and Design.” The officers for the 1961-62 school year will be elected and details of the IAS Banquet will be discussed. The P.E. Wives Club will get together in the Blue Flame Room of the Lone Star Gas Co. at g p.m. Each member is urged to bring a guest. TUESDAY “WHERE THE BOYS ARE” with Dolores Hart Plus “THE SWORD AND THE CROSS” with Gianne Marie Canale NOW SHOWING Ava Gardner & James Mason In “PANDORA THE FLYING DUTCHMAN” LATE SHOW FROLIC FRIDAY 11 P.M. APRIL 21 Adults Only (None Under 18) sion in his bullet-proof glass cage as Hausner cited the grim evi dence left in the wake of Nazi Germany’s “final solution to the Jewish problem” and set out to shatter in advance Eichmann’s anticipated defense that he di rected it on orders. “We will prove,” Hausner told the three judges, “that the ac cused went far beyond his orders and carried out functions for which he had been given no or ders at all.” He charged Eichmann with per sonally beating a Jewish child to death for stealing fruit from a peach tree in a garden of a home he once owned in Budapest, Hungary. The day started with a defeat for Eichmann’s defense attorney, Robert Servatius. The three-judge panel overruled challenges to its authority raised by Servatius on grounds the court might be, prej udiced and that the law under which Eichmann is being tried was passed after the crimes with which he is charged. Then Eichmann stood at atten tion, his hands straight by his sides, to plead. To each of the 15 counts in the indictment he gave the answer: “In the spirit of the indictment, I am not guilty.” It was the same answer given by the top Nazi criminals tried at Nuernberg. PALACE Bryan 2-Sm LAST DAY “HOODLUM PRIEST” STARTS TOMORROW The Sins of Rachel Cade TECHNICOLOR® Presented by WARNER BR< QUEEN LAST DAY “THE ALAMO” STARTS TOMORROW ® HUMANS OF ALL t AGES WILL HOWL WITH ? WALTDiSNEYS . NEW ALL-CARTOON FEATURE • > mOm 1 r taSsei § ^ TeCBfJlCOLOR' //en/ . owraoV-few 3>*{AAUS/C/ INTERPRETING SCH By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst In the first hours of meager information about the Cuban counterrevolution it appeared that its possibilities of success lay not in the hands of a few hundred or a few thousand invaders, but in the extent to which anti-Castro elements on the island can assist. Cuban exiles have frequently bolstered their own spirits during more than two years with the thought that if Prime Minister Fidel Castro could do it against Batista they can do it against Castro. There is a difference, however. The Fulgencio Batista regime was thoroughly disliked by all except those who profited directly from his dictatorship. Castro had the well-wishes of a vast majority of Cubans, and in the last days of his revolution he was fighting a regime which knew it was through. He still retains a hold on vast segments of the peasantry, seg ments interested in their pitiful so-called land and industrial own ership despite the lack of man agement and the failure of so many promises of reform. These segments have no faith in coun terrevolution promoted primarily by the middle class and prose cuted in the name of so many among the exiles who were mem bers of the Batista regime. They have little knowledge and little fear of communism. Job Interviews The following firm will inter view graduating seniors on cam pus: April 19 The Rowan Drilling Co. will talk to seniors majoring in busi ness administration, geology, in dustrial technology or petroleum engineering in the Placement Office. Job opportunities are available to work on drilling rigs. The company wants men to work as crew men on drilling rigs in order to learn drilling operations and to learn about the operating end of the firm’s busi ness. Applicants must be cap able of hard physical labor (“Roughnecking”). Have a ball in Europe this Summer (and get college credits, too!) Imagine the fun you can have on a summer vacation in Europe that includes everything from touring the Conti nent and studying courses for credit at the famous Sor- bonne in Paris to living it up on a three-week co-educa- tional romp at a fabulous Mediterranean island beach-club resort! Interested? Check the tour descriptions below. FRENCH STUDY TOUR, $12.33 per day plus air fare. Two weeks touring France and Switzerland, sightseeing in Rouen, Tours, Bordeaux, Avignon, Lyon, Geneva, with visits to Mont-Saint-Michel and Lourdes. Then in Paris, stay six weeks studying at La Sorbonne. Courses include French Language, History, Drama, Art, Literature, for 2 to 6 credits. Spend your last week touring Luxembourg and Belgium. All-expense, 70-day tour in cludes sightseeing, hotels, meals, tuition for $12.33 per day, plus Air France Jet Economy round-trip fare. STUDENT HOLIDAYS TOUR OF EUROPE, $15.72 per day plus air fare. Escorted 42-day tour includes visits to cultural centers, sightseeing in France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, Den mark, Sweden, Norway, Scotland, England, Holland and Belgium. Plenty of free time, entertainment. Hotel, meals, everything included for $15.72 per day, plus Air France Jet Economy round-trip fare. CLUB MEDITERRANEE, $13.26 per day plus air fare. Here’s a 21-day tour that features 3 days on your own in Paris, a week’s sightseeing in Rome, Capri,, Naples and Pompeii, plus 9 fun-filled, sun-filled, fabulous days and cool, exciting nights at the Polynesian-style Club Mediterranee on the romantic island of Sicily. Spend your days basking on the beach, swimming, sailing—your nights partying, singing, dancing. Accommodations, meals, everything only $13.26 per day complete, plus Air France Jet Economy round-trip fare. MR. JOHN SCHNEIDER c/o AIR FRANCE 68 683 Fifth Avenue, New York 22, N. Y. Gentlemen: Please rush me full information on the following: □ French Study Tour □ Student Holidays Tour Q Club Mediterranee Name — — Address. City College— .Zone State. AIHDFRANCE JET Castro’s armed forces, too, are* far larger than those he had to 1 ■ overcome after his own landing, though there is no way to esti mate their cohesion and their loyalty to him, or even their ability to fight, until the test of the next days. That, and that only, will demonstrate whether this is actually a contest between the dictatorship and the people of Cuba. This counterrevolution, as is so often the case in Latin Amer ica, is being conducted by patri ots, by adherents of Batista, and by soldiers of political fortune. As it continues—if it contii. ues—one of the most diffinli problems of the United State will be to classify the indivitei elements in this leadership as to their motives toward the welfare of the Cuban people, and not, fit third time in recent years, to plump for the wrong group. •I Appro: jty an< snded t test Rei [echnica iaturday Expediency is association maj be all right for the real patriots among the counterrevolutionaris in the urgency of. the moment, but the United States is going to, have to live for a long time m the impression she makes iw on all of Latin America. The P 1 lopularlf iterest : :areers. sred pi ;iub me One of is. Dr. ihancello On Campus uith MaxWman (Author of “I Was a Teen-age Dwarf,” “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis,” etc.) (Hi A ROBE BY ANY OTHER NAME Dr. D. Medicine till pres on indus As Commencement Day draws near, the question on everyone’s lips is: “How did the different disciplines come to be marked by academic robes with hoods of different colors?” Everybody- but everybody—asking it. I mean I haven’t been able to walk ten feet on any campus in America without somebody grabs my elbow and says, “How did the different disciplines come to be marked by academic robes with hoods of different colors, hey?” This, I must say, is not the usual question asked by collegians who grab my elbow. Usually they say, “Hey, Shorty, got a Marlboro?” And this is right and proper. After all, are they not collegians, and, therefore, the nation’s leaders in intelligence and discernment? And do not intelligence and discernment de mand the tastiest in tobacco flavor and smoking pleasure? And does not Marlboro deliver a flavor that is uniquely mellow, a selectrate filter that is easy drawing, a pack that is soft, a box that is hard? You know itl But I digress. Back to the colored hoods of academic robes. A doctor of philosophy wears blue, a doctor of medicine wears green, a master of arts wears white, a doctor of humanities wears crimson, a master of library science wears lemon yellow. Why? Why, for example, should a master of library science wear lemon yellow? Well sir, to answer this vexing question, we must go back to March 29, 1844. On that date the first public library in the United States was established by Ulric Sigafoos. All of Mr. Sigafoos’s neighbors were of course wildly grateful—all, that is, except Wrex Todhunter. Mr. Todhunter had hated Mr. Sigafoos since 1822 when both men had wooed the beauteous Melanie Zitt and Melanie had chosen Mr. Sigafoos because she was mad for dancing and Mr. Sigafoos knew all the latest steps, like the Missouri Compromise Mambo, the Shay’s Rebellion Schottische, and the James K. Polk Polka, while Mr. Todhunter, alas, could not dance at all owing to a wound he had received at the Battle of New Orleans. (He was struck by a falling praline.) Consumed with jealousy at the success of Mr. Sigafoos’s library, Mr. Todhunter resolved to open a competing library. This he did, but he lured not a single patron away from Mr. Sigafoos. “What has Mr. Sigafoos got that I haven’t got?” Mr. Todhunter kept asking himself, and finally the answer came to him: books. So Mr. Todhunter stocked his library with lots of dandy books and soon he was doing more business than his hated rival. But Mr. Sigafoos struck back. To regain his clientele, he began serving tea free of charge at his library every afternoon. There upon, Mr. Tc-dhunter, not to be outdone, began serving tea with sugar. Thereupon, Mr. Sigafoos began serving tea with sugar and cream. Thereupon, Mr. Todhunter began serving tea with sugar and cream and lemon. This, of course, clinched the victory for Mr. Todhunter be cause he had the only lemon tree in town—in fact, in the entire state of North Dakota—and since that day lemon yellow has of course been the color on the academic robes of library science. (Incidentally, the defeated Mr. Sigafoos packed up bis library and moved to California where, alas, he failed once more. There were, to be sure, plenty of lemons to serve with his tea, but, alas, there was no cream because the cow was not introduced to California until 1931 by John Wayne.) © mei Max stmLun * * * Hall Lot Pap The B tricaii S las anm mrs of per cont Isb-C if the I sponsibil fineer.” 2nd—i tion of lege,” 3rd—J tie Meti In adt sinners Raba tie fina Section Apr. 20- He wi ether d Chapter, Evans, ! % ■ try to lip-servi their ins A few letter fi i960, sti “Again of my a for unif my accc “You w enjoy h ANIC0. policy v let to i coverag sith yo ment. 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