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THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, May 16, 1961
| BATTALION EDITORIALS"
Dead Week Again
“Dead Week’’ is only six days away.
For many students, this week before final exafns repre
sents five days of solid endurance, trying to cope with the
last major examinations before the termination of the semes
ter.
A primary explanation for quizzes during Dead Week is
that it is impossible to plan a semester’s course without
their falling in this period of time, if adequate time is allotted
between other letter exams during the semester.
However, even with the brunt of major exams during
Dead Week, students are still expected to adequately review
for the next week’s final examinations.
The negative camp against Dead Week says that this
time, if spent in complete freedom from class, would only
serve to increase coffee sales in the Memorial Student Cen
ter; also, that students have a tendency to “cram” for finals
no matter what study opportunities are provided for them.
However, the' positive camp, representing the majority
of the student body, feels that this week before finals should
at least be spent in organized review in the classroom, if not
a time totally free from classes.
This period of review would not go against the minutes
of the Academic Councils meeting of Dec. 5, 1957, which an
approved removing all restrictions against assigned work
during the last week.
In organized review, students are able to conduct their
own review much better, and are not burdened by the neces
sity of “finishing up the course” by having to cram a bulk
of subject material and be quizzed on it.
If professors would organize their courses with this last
week of review in mind as ‘some do, the prior purposes of
Dead Week could be reclaimed.
But this year, students will be coping with major exams
during the week before finals, as they have for the past three
years. As a result, reviewing for finals will be limited, again.
Dead Week as it is now observed, encourages lower grades.
Something should definitely be done to improve the situa
tion one way or another; either providing time for students
to review on their own, or instituting organized review con
ducted in the classroom.
Professors can help alleviate the situation.
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle Revolutionaries Overthm
Government In Seoul
SEOUL, Korea (A > ) — Troops
drove into Seoul with a blaze of
gunfire before dawn Tuesday and
their Military Revolutionary Com
mittee announced it had taken
over the government in a swift
coup. The revolutionaries imme
diately proclaimed they were pro-
American.
There were two heavy outbursts
of shooting but no announcement
of any casualties.
The military committee an
nounced over the Seoul radio that
its aims were strongly anti-Com-
munist and strongly pro-Western.
The revolt apparently came as
a surprise to officials in Wash
ington and neither the State De
partment nor the Defense Depart
ment had any comment.
Troops seized major government
buildings and took over direction
of traffic. Trucks filled with
singing marines roared through
the streets.
There was no immediate won!
from or about Prime Minister
John M. Chang, who was reportd
in the downtown Bando Hotel witk
his wife. The hotel was unde
heavy guard by soldiers.
Most members of Chang’s Cabi
net were reported under arrest.
The Revolutionary Commife
declared its action was a complete
success.
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Because of the strictly un
official existence of “Dead
Week” at A&M, students have
no legitimate complaint concern
ing major quizzes given during
the week before final exams, a
representative of- the Academic
Council said last night.
Capt. Joseph M. Bennett, Jr.,
assistant professor of Air Sci
ence, quoted the official minutes
of the Council from a meeting
held Dec. 5, 1957, as saying, “The
Council approves removing any
restrictions against assigned
work, including letter quizzes,
during the lafet week of the se
mester before final examinations.
“Therefore, teachers are with
in their rights to give quizzes
during the last week. Students
tend to abuse dead week and
cram before exams, anyway,”
said Bennett.
Controversy between students
and professors' has raged since
the Council’s ruling in 1957. In
a poll taken last year by The
Battalion, • nine out of ten stu
dents intendewed had at least
four major examinations during
dead week.
As one distraught student put
it, “The only -thing dead about
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Dead Week are the students,
once it is over.”
The answer given by profes
sors explaining why major exams
are necessary during the last
week of the semester before fi
nals was that it is extremely dif
ficult to plan a course for the
semester without their falling at
this time, if the proper amount
of time is allotted between
exams during the semester.
Also, often a class will be be
hind in the study material, and
in ^order to cover the content of
the course, and receive credit for
having learned it, these last
exams are necessary toward add
ing to the final grade, instructors
have explained.
The May 14 Daily Texan, from
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The qrticle read, “In 1986 a
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PROFESSIONAL CLUBS
The A&M Chapter of Sigma
Dela Chi will meet at 7:30 p.m.
in the Journalism Library.
The Agronomy Society will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 107
of the Agronomy Building. Of
ficers will be elected and plans
for the annual barbecue will be
completed.
The Society of Automotive
Engineers will hold their annual
spring barbecue Thursday, May
18, at 5:30 p.m. at the Rafter
Ranch.
the University of Texas, carried
an article entitled “Dead Week
group of petitioners wanted to
turn Dead Week into another
week of final exams.
“But Dead Week at Texas did
not die. It began today and ends
with the first day pf finals,
Tuesday, May 23.”
At A&M it isn’t finals during
Dead Week, only major exam
inations.
Penberthy To Lead
Faculty Meditation
Dr. W. L. Penberthy, Depart
ment of Physical Education, will
lead the group meditation at the
Faculty Christian Fellowship, to
morrow at 6:57 a.m. in the All-
Faiths Chapel. Dr. Murray Brown
will be at the organ.
Coffee and doughnuts will be
served in the South Solarium of
the YMCA from 7:35-7:45 a.m,
Gordon Gay,, coordinator of relig
ious life and general secretary of
the YMCA, announced.
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TILL WE MEET AGAIN
Seven years now I have been writing this column for the
makers of Marlboro Cigarettes, and each year when I come to
the last column of the year, my heart is gripped by the same
bittersweet feeling. I shall miss you sorely, dear readers, in the
long summer days ahead. I shall miss all you freckle-faced
boys with frogs in your pockets. I shall miss all you pig-tailed
girls with your gap-toothed giggles. I shall miss you one and
all—your shining morning faces, your apples, your marbles,
your jacks, your little oilcloth satchels.
But I shall not be entirely 1 sad, for you have given me many
a happy memory to sustain me. It has been a rare pleasure
writing this column for you all year, and I would ask every
one of you to come visit me during the summer except there is
no access to my room. The makers of Marlboro Cigarettes,
after I missed several deadlines, walled me in. All I have is
a mail slot into which I drop my columns and through which
they supply me with Marlboro Cigarettes and such food as
will slip through a mail slot. (For six months now I have been
living on after-dinner mints.)
I am only having my little joke. The makers of Marlboros
have not walled me in. They could never do such a cruel thing.
Manly and muscular they may be, and gruff and curt and direct,
but underneath they are men of great heart and sweet, com*
passionate disposition, and I wish to take this opportunity to
state publicly that I will always have the highest regard for
the makers of Marlboro Cigarette^, no matter how my lawsuit
for back wages comes out.
I am only having my little joke. I am not suing the makers
of Marlboros for back wages. These honorable gentlemen have
always paid me promptly and in full. To be sure, they have not
paid me in cask, but they have given me something far more
precious. You would go far to find one so covered with tattoos as I.
I am only having my little joke. The makers of Marlboros
have not covered me with tattoos. In fact, they have engraved
no commercial advertising whatsoever on my person. My suit,
of course, is another matter, but even here they have exercised
taste and restraint. On the back of my suit, in unobtrusive
neon, they have put this fetching little jingle:
Are your taste buds out of kilter?
‘ Are you bored with smoking, neighbor?
Then try that splendid Marlboro filter.
Try that excellent Marlboro jleighbor!
On the front of my suit, in muted phosphorus, are pictures of
the members of the Marlboro board and their families. On my
hat is a small cigarette girl crying, “Who’ll buy my Marlboros?’!
I am only having my little joke. The makers of Marlboros
have been perfect dolls to work for, and so, dear readers, have
you. Your kind response to my nonsense has warmed this old
thorax, and I trust you will not find me soggy if in this final
column of the year, I express my sincere gratitude.
Have a good summer. Stay healthy. Stay happy. Stay loose.'
© 1961 Max ShuUnaa
The makers of Marlboros and the new unfiltercd king-size
Philip Morris Commander have been happy to bring you
this uncensored, free-wheeling column all year long. Now, if
we may echo old Max: Stay healthy. Stay happy. Stay loose.
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By Charles M. Schuli
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