THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, May 9, 1961
Shepard Is Cool;
Wash ingtonPanics
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON —Up in outer
space or down on solid earth
Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard Jr. is a
cool customer.
The first American to look
down on his country from outer
space had his chance Monday to
look in on President Kennedy,
Congress, a mammoth, cheering
crowd, and a mammoth news con
ference.
He turned out to be the calmest
man in town.
Curiously, the day’s goofs —
and there were quite a few of
them — were all made by some
one else.
First Kennedy dropped the spe
cial medal he was about to pre
sent to the astronaut. Then he
just handed it to Shepard and
Mrs. Kennedy had to remind her
husband that on such occasions
that the President actually pins
the thing on the hero himself.
You kind of got the idea that
it was just as well the scientists
and not the politicians were in
charge last Friday, or we might
still be tumbling around Cape
Canaveral.
At the Capitol Shepard was pre
sented to congressmen, and more
showed up than one usually sees
on the! floor of the House or Sen
ate.
But the Senate droned on as
usual. Neither time nor tide, nor
wind ever disturbs our beloved
legislators.
The reception room was pack
ed.
“It’s tighter in here,” said Sen-
Jennings Randolph, D-W. Va.,
“than the capsule he was in.”
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counts will be the Elec
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after the elections are
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onstrations will be permit
ted.
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proper disposal of all cam
paign materials the day
following the election.
g. If a candidate wishes to
charge an opposing candi
date for the same office
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lations, this charge shall
be in the form of a chall
enge to the Election Com
mission, who will investi
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porter of a candidate shall
remove, destroy, or in any
way molest an opposing
candidates material.
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rules will disqualify candi
dates.
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• or whose supporters violates,
any of the provisions of this
regulation shall not hold any
office filled by a student
election that school year.
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— Sound
(Editor’s note: The following
letters were sent to The Battal
ion office by candidates seeking
election in the Student Senate
School election Wednesday.
Editor,
The Battalion:
Are you a sophomore in the
School of Arts and Sciences ? If
so, you should be concerned
enough about your school to read
this letter, and if you are not a
sophomore or a member of our
fine school, you should read it
to be well informed.
It is election time! Time to
elect your student senator for
next year’s school term. You
should want a man who is lik
able, who is willing to work, who
will stand up for his own opin
ions and fight for what is best
for his fellow students and his
school.
You want your senator to knj/w
and understand the workings of
the Senate, you want to be able
to depend on him to attend each
and every meeting" all through
the year and you want to be able
to say that he is capable of hand
ling the responsibilities of the
job.
With a year’s experience be
hind me as the sophomore sen
ator of the School of Arts and
Sciences, I know first hand of
all the activties of the Senate. I
realize the responsibilities of rep
resenting my classmates in im
portant issues that come up be
fore the Senate, the responsibil-
ties of working on a Senate com
mittee and any other duty that
a student senator is called upon
to do.
It is my wish that you as a
sophomore and a member of the
Schodl of Arts and Sciences con
sider me once again in my bid
for my second term as your sen
ator. I am anxious to represent
you to the best of my ability on
next year’s Senate.
George A. Wiederaenders, ’63
Candidate for Junior Senator
School of Arts and Sciences
★ ★ ★
Editor,
The Battalion:
Tomorrow the Class of ’62 will,
in order to bread a tie, vote once
again for the class representative
to the MSC Council.
For three years I have been
interested and active in the Me
morial Student Center program.
My freshman year I was a mem
ber of Great Issues, last year I
served on the MSC Directorate
as a Directorate Assistant and
was chairman of a special com
mittee on awards set up by the
Council and this year I’m serv-
Off —
ing as vice-chairman of the Film
Society.
These experiences have given
me a desire to work more closely
with the overall student program
next year. It is through these
experiences also that I have gain
ed an insight into the adminis
tration of MSC activities that I
believe can be put to good use
on the Council.
Jeff Wentworth, ’62
Candidate for Class
Representative, W^SC Council
★ ★ ★
(Editor’s note: The college
regulation refered to in this let
ter is contained in paragraph 63-f
of the 1960 College Regulations,
which reads:
“An academically classified
senior, an academically classified
junior and an academically classi
fied sophomore, to be elected by
their respective classes in the
schools of Agriculture, Arts and
Sciences, Engineering and Vet
erinary Medicine” . . . Will com
pose part of the governing body
of the Student Senate.)
Editor,
The Battalion:
As a candidate for senior rep
resentative to the Student Senate
from the School of Agriculture,
I would like to discuss with you
the qualifications for this im
portant responsibility.
As stated in the college regu
lations, the holder of this posi
tion which I am seeking must be
an academically classified senior
with a minimum grade point
ratio of 1.25.
I believe that a member of the
Student Senate should be vitally
interested in student affairs and
democratic government. He
should be willing to work and to
try to represent to the best of
his ability the body which elects
him.
In order for him to represent
his scho&l well, the representa
tive should exert every effort to
obtain the ideas of the group he
represents. This responsibility,
however, lies just as much on
the shoulders of the student as
it does on the student senator.
I feel that I meet the necessary
qualifications, and, if elected, I
Will strive to represent the
School of Agriculture to the full
est extent of my ability.
Remember, however, that the
important thing is to get out and
vote!
Melvin C. Young, ’62
Candidate for Student Senator
School of Agriculture
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