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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Friday, April 28, 1961
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle Ring Dance Sale Set
1 BATTALION EDITORIALS
A New Chapter
With this issue a new editor assumes his duties and a
new chapter in the history of The Battalion begins to take
form.
The “new” editorial staff of The Battalion is not really
new. Most of the Battmen have put in. at least one year’s
work on the paper and several have been around two and even
three years. The staff is smaller with the loss of 1960-61
Editor Bill Hicklin, and 1960-61 Sports editor Joe Callicoatte.
The only things really new about the “new” staff are
the new titles, new duties and new responsibilities.
As is the custom, the new editor plans to make some
changes in The Battalion. Some will be minor and may not
§ven be notices; some will be quite evident. We hope all
will improve the overall quality of your newspaper.
A few mistakes will be made at first. But, we trust,
there will be only a few and The Battalion will be the quality
representative of Texas A&M journalism it should be.
The staff has pledged itself to to provide the students
and faculty of Texas A&M and the people of College Station
with complete, accurate, honest coverage of the news. The
editors will endeavor to insure that all the facts of any story
are known before it appears in print.
The editor has pledged himself to an editorial policy in
keeping with the growth and advancement of Texas A&M.
The following months will be important months to the college.
Major decisions are to be made affecting Texas A&M stu
dents—present, past and future. The Battalion will be there
when the decisions are made, reporting and interpreting
them.
Sports, next year, will play an important role in the
activities of the college. The sports staff is ready to bring
all the action of these events to life in the pages of The Bat
talion.
The entire staff is eager. They are ready and willing
to bring to Texas A&M a newspaper everyone connected with
the college can be justly proud.
‘Thanks BilV
Closing out his team of serv
ice in true newsman’s style, Bill
Hicklin edited his last story on
The Battalion Wednesday night
and turned over the reins to a
new regime.
As editor, Hicklin faced many
of the greatest issues ever to
arise on the A&M Campus, bring
ing in letters and comments, hos
tility and praise, “Operation
Abolition,the name-change —
just to mention a few.
His sound judgement, clear
thinking and natural knack for
fairness led The Battalion to ex
perience an action-packed year of
honor and service. The news
paper’s staff flurished under his
leadership, and because of it feels
capable of taking the task in
stride for another year.
Bill Hicklin is no longer edi
tor, but his influence will be felt
on the staff of The Battalion
with each new issue.
‘Thanks Joe’
After a year and a half as
sports editor, Joe Callicoatte is
giving away to the new admin
istration.
Joe has been noted for his
sparkling editorials and columns
during his stay on The Battal
ion.
A man with a tremendous per
sonality and sharp sense of hu
mor, Joe is probably one of the
most pupular men on the campus
because of his interest in sport
ing events.
Callicoatte has been on the
spot and up to date on all of the
sports that the Aggies have en
tered. He was on the spot when
the Cadets lost a hard-fought
basketball game with SMU at'
Dallas and his editorial on this
particular game rocked Texas
A&M.
Callicoatte’s exit from the stu
dent newspaper will be felt on
the staff, and we hope we can
live up to his outstanding stand
ards.
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THE BATTALION
Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu
dent writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax-supperted, 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 Arta 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 for republication of all news
dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited 'in the paper and local news of
spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter here
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
natter at the Post Office
h College Station, Texas,
under the Act of Con-
trees of March 8, 1870.
MEMBER:
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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 $3.50 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.
BOB SLOAN EDITOR
Tommy Holbein Managing Editor
Larry Smith Sports Editor
Alan Payne, Ronnie Bookman News Editor
Gerry Brown, Robert Denney, Rob Mitchell Staff Writers
... of course you’ll lose your friends, you you and you’ll get ulcers, but aside from
won’t have time to sleep, th’ hours are long, that, it’s a pretty nice job!”
you’ll never catch up, people won’t speak to
A&M Journalist Hits At
Critics Of Newspapers:
By The Associated Press
NEW YORK—A Texas editor
hit at critics of the newspaper
industry Thursday and advised
publishers to take the offensive.
“We don’t need defenders in
this business,” said Felix R. Mcc-
A&M’s Stand
On Political
Clubs Known
Political clubs, such as the
Young Democrats and Young Re
publicans, are permitted on the
A&M' campus, however they must
hold their activities off campus.
Dean of Students James P.
Hannigan made A&M’s position
on campus political clubs known
in a letter to the Dean of Men at
Arlington State College.
“We do permit the forming on
campus of such political clubs as
the Young Democrats and Young
Republicans. We do not permit
college buildings or land to be
used for political campaign meet
ings, public rallies, nor to pro
mote any individual for political
office,” he said.
“This requires that the student
political clubs restrict their ac
tivities, to meetings and discus
sions among the students and
that where they desire to actively
participate in political activities
they do so off campus only.
“We believe that the arrange
ments which we have made per
mit the students to gain experi
ence and knowledge which will be
valuable to them after gradua
tion and will at the same time
comply in both the spirit and the
letter with the Texas State laws
and of the administrative orders
of the A&M College System.
Knight, vice president and exe
cutive editor of the Dallas Times
Herald and president of the
American Society of Newspaper
Editors. McKnight is a grad
uate of A&M.
“We need some sluggers who
v^ill make the daily newspaper
the most imperative thing in the
life of troubled citizens who seek
only one thing these days—to be
informed." -
McKnight spoke at the closing
session of the 75th annual con
vention of the American News
paper Publishers Association.
“I believe in the American
newspaper,” McKnight said. “I
believe it is better than it ever
has been.”
He said he was “tired of this
constant carping” by what he
called “park commissioners and
university prdfessors.” He chal
lenged editors “to get off their
seats and do something about
it.”
“We must prove the reasons
for our being,” McKnight said.
The mission of the newspaper,
he said, is “to inform, to en
lighten, to serve.”
“Mediocre newspapers cannot
survive the age into which we
have been swept,” he said. “In
every sense of the word, news
papers must be public servants—
not just purveyors of words.”
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