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Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, April 26, 1961 Sound Off THE BATTALION Cuban Says CADET SLOUCH by JimEarl (Editor’s note: Following are three more letters from candi dates seeking election to various Student Senate posts. The elec tion will be held tomorrow in the Memorial Student Center.) Editor, The Battalion: 4 . . . objectives’ As a candidate for vice presi dent of the Student Senate, I would like to take this opportun ity to discuss some questionable points in our student government. According to the 33rd edition of the College Regulations, is sued in September, 1960, the ob jectives of tjie Student Senate are: a. To act as the official voice of the student body. b. To democratically represent the various interests in the stu dent body of the college. c. To provide opportunity to train students in the responsibil ity and mechanics of democratic government and citizenship. d. To promote sound leader ship in the formulation of stu dent body attitudes. e. to promote the welfare of the student body. f. To provide a liason between faculty, administration and stu dents. These objectives are very im pressive, but are they being car ried out? Was the Student Sen ate the official voice of the stu dent body during the name change controversy ? Has the Student Senate democratically or dictatorially represented the interests of the student body ? Has the Student Senate trained students in governmental respon sibilities and mechanics ? What has the Student Senate done this year to promote sound leader ship in student body attitudes. And under what issue has the Student Senate provided a liason between faculty, administration and students ? Perhaps our Student Senate has been performing miracles. But unless you are a member of the Student Senate, or unless you are wire-tapping the lines at the MSC, you just don’t know what is going on. Our “governing body” is either working under cover or simply taking up space in The Aggieland. What is our Student Senate doing ? What issues do they con sider? What are their issues and^ how are they voting? If you put me in the office of vice president Thursday, I will consider that keeping the stu dents informed is not secondary to anything. I will not only act as a messenger, but as a true public officer, whose supreme ob ligation is to those who have put him in office. I hope to see you at the polls. Rick Graham, ’63 Candidate for Vice President of Student Senate ★ ★ ★ . . fullest extent’ Editor, The Battalion: What are the qualifications for the office of vice-president of the Student Senate? Under the rules set by the election commission a 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. Member? 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. in are also reserved. 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 k» College Station, Texas, under the Act of Con gress of March 8, 1870. MEMBER: The Associated Press Texas Press Assn. Represented nationally by National Advertising 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 $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 person must have a 1.50 overall grade point ratio and be a class ified junior next year. But to me there are numerous qualifi cations, probably the most im portant one is having an interest in student affairs. Moreover, not just a personal interest, but an interest in getting the students to take an active part in the fine student program that the Memor ial Student Center offers. Another qualification is that the candidate should have a work ing knowledge of how the differ ent branches of the Student af fairs are related and what power belongs to which group. I have worked intimately with the MSC directorate and other branches of the MSC Council. I agree with the present Sen ate leaders about changing the rules for campaigning so that the men running can present their platform to a majority of the students. Under our present system most students do not know what type of programs the indi vidual candidates are supporting. Only a very few who have the opportunity of meeting him per sonally on the campus. I believe the student body has a right to know what the man that they vote for believes in rather than just blind voting. Also I believe that if an active campaign could be made a larger number of the students would get out and vote. Upon these few words I rest my platform for the office of vice-president of the Senate. If I am elected I will make a consci- encous effort toward expressing the opinions of you the student body, and I will work toward a better, more publicized, and more efficent type of student govern ment. I will sincerely appreci ate the vote of you the indivi dual voter. Ronald Fix, ’63 Candidate for Student Senate Vice-President ★ ★ ★ 6 ... qualifications’ Editor, The Battalion: The Student Senate can repre sent the students of Texas A&M. But does it? Yes, it dqes to an extent, but not to the fullest ex tent. There is room and need for improvement. There must be a better means of communication between the students and their senate representatives. A senator cannot be expected to represent his constituents if he does not know what they want. Convers ely the constituent can’t be ex pected to voice their opinions on of its best Favored in university circles for its handsome appearance, its true comfort. A classic white oxford from our Cum Laude Collection is this Arrow University Fashion B.D. with back- button and box pleat. Available in long and MENS WEAR • INC! t999 5RYAN t TEXAS subjects before the senate if they aren’t informed of the subject until after it is voted on. It is my platform as candidate for chairman of the Student ‘Sen ate Public Relations Committee to increase the communication be tween students and their repre sentatives. I propose to do this through releases to The Battalion concerning the organization and functions of the Student Senate, such as the purpose of the Cam pus Chest, and the functions per formed by the different commit tees. I would also have publish ed in advance, issues to be pre sented before the Senate so that the student body could have a chance to let their feelings on the subject be known. I would further challenge the students of Texas A&M to let their opinions be known to the Student Senate by means of let ters to The Battalion or directly to the Student Senate. All stu dents have their own ideas of how the student government of Texas A&M should be run, but unless the Senate is told of these ideas, the Senate must go on its own initiative. I also believe there should be a closer relation ship between the class officers and the Student Senate on items of mutual concern. I would therefore do everything within the power of the position of Public Relations Committee chairman to change the Student Senate from a ‘farce” to a gov erning body which represents and serves all the students of Texas A&M. Jimmy Carter, ’63 * Candidate for Chairman of Public Relations Committee U.S. Would Attack Cuba By The Associated Press KEY WEST, Fla. — A man in terrogated on Cuban TV said Tuesday night that U. S. intelli gence agents told him the United States would intervene in Cuba | if the rebels’ invasion failed. The man, described by Havana propagandists as a captive from the ill-fated invasion on April 17, said FBI and Central Intelligence Agency officials told him direct | intervention in Cuba was neces sary because Soviet rocket bases had been established there, only 90 miles from Florida. The witness’ name came ■ through to monitors in Key West only as “Pablo.” He said the statements were made to him by ; a man named Comas, whom he | called an aide to CIA Director Allen Dulles, and Francis Ryan, described by Pablo as the FBI’s second in command in New York. He said he was impressed into the U. S. intelligence service on a threat of being deported to Cuba. He said CIA agents were with the invasion force and that the rebels had instructions to shoot themselves if in danger of capture because Fidel Castro’s men would “pull out our nails.” ‘Sports Car Center’ Dealers for Renault-Peugeot & British Motor Cars Sales—Parts—Service ‘We Service All Foreign Cars”I 1416 Texas Ave. !>■ o am « ■ ■ « » ■ g_»ILM TA 2-4517 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. 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A ROBE BY ANY OTHER NAME 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—is 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 — r ' : - : —- Address. City .Zone. .College State. AIR* 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 legion 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. Todhunter, 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 his 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.) - © mi Max snuiman And today Californians, happy among their Guernseys and 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! PEANUTS PEANUTS By Charles M. Schulz VOU HAVE TO DlRfCT YOOR THINKING...FOR INSTANCE, YOU HAVE TO DECIDE (WHETHER you're goins to ae a LIBERAL OR A CONSERVATIVE... YOU HAVE TO TAKE SOME SORT OF STAND... YOU HAVE TO ASSOCIATE YOURSELF CUlT/T SOME SORT OF CAUSE... TIXAS