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. ,
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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
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.
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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,
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includes visits to cultural centers, sightseeing in France,
Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, Den
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everything included for $15.72 per day, plus Air France
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CLUB MEDITERRANEE, $13.26 per day plus
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nights partying, singing, dancing. Accommodations, meals,
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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.
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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.
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(Author of “I Was a Teen-age Dwarf,” “The Many
Loves of Dobie Gillis,” etc.)
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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
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Holsteins, are discovering a great new cigarette—the un
filtered, king-size Philip Morris Commander—and so are
Americans in all fifty states. Welcome aboard!
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