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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Thursday, September 14, 1961 BATTALION EDITORIALS Port In A Storm Try It First Fishers’ Fischer Says Cricket Best ROBSTOWN, Tex., — In case you ever need to know, it takes 1.5 million crickets to fill a 55-gallon barrel. That’s what Ernest Fischer says, and he should know, for he raises millions of worms and crickets for fishermen. “A wholesale biological survey house wanted that many, and I figured it out,” he said recently. “But I couldn’t fill the order. Didn’t have enough crickets.” But Fischer wasn’t worried about that, for a market for his products is found in almost ev ery part of the United States but South Texas. Down here, because so many people ^ish in salt water, they’re wedded to shrimp and artificial bait, but he thinks that will change, with more and more fresh water fishing available at Lakes Falcon and Mathis. In the meantime Maine, Wis consin and all the Yankee states in between are clammering for Fischer’s worms and crickets. His crickets are not the com- WELCOME PACK TO SCHOOL, AGGIES From ROBERT HALSELL TRAVEL SERVICE YOUR COMPLETE TRAVEL HEADQUARTERS Air Reservations and Tickets Steamships — Hotels — Rent Cars — Tours CALL US TODAY ROBERT HALSELL TRAVEL SERVICE 1411 Texas Ave. TA 2-3784 Robert Halsell Idaleene Fuqua Complimentary Ticket Delivery THE BATTALION CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle “Everything ha& certainly been wonderful!” These words expressed the gratitude of hundreds of Hurricane Carla refugees who werd shown shelter and hospi tality by students arriving at school to help with early fresh man orientation. Students in Dorms 14, 15, 17, Puryear, Law & Walton Halls were overworked trying to get families settled in their assigned rooms, along with hundreds of new Corps freshmen moving in over the weekend. Through the difficulties of extreme inclement weather, taking care of evacuees, offering encouragement and infor mation to anyone in need, these men showed the people of the stricken Gulf Coast area that Aggies are naturally courteous. Their efforts in coping with the situation have been told and retold by persons who were the beneficiaries; the name of A&M rates much higher in many peoples’ minds because of them. Maybe the new Aggie Honor Code with its honor councils and formal terminology won’t work. But then again, maybe it will. The only way to find out if the new code, which looks good on paper, will work in actual practice, is to give it an honest chance. Pessimism in the face of something new can lead only to its defeat. Optimism, while not guaranteeing complete success, at least assures it a fighting chance. And honor is something worth fighting for. Dormitories Due Code Explanation A booklet explaining the “Ag- ft'ie Code of Honor” has been placed in every dormitory room —both Corps and civilian. The booklet explains in very general terms the workings of the new code. To further explain the honor code, new only in that it has been formalized and written down, ten representatives from lo help in the understanding **f the new honor code. The Bat talion will publish a series of questions and answers concern ing the code, with examples ex plaining how it would work in certain cases. The first of the series appears on this page to day. “I dont’ think there’s any danger in goin’ in! All the hurri cane refugeesi are gone by now—but on th’ other hand . . .” Sound Off the student body will meet with ( orps outfits and civilian dorms next week. They will explain the code and answer questions. I ramers of the written code maintain it is nothing new. It is simply “an Aggie doesn’t lie, cheat or steal, nor does he toler ate those who do” written down and formalized. mon or garden variety of black ones that are such pests on their annual invasions, but a smaller gray cricket that he thinks was originally imported from China or Japan. He makes about as much mon ey from his cricket and worm ranch in an old barn as he does off the 300 acres he farms, and “with about a tenth as much work.” Editor, The Battalion Will you kindly help me pub lish my name and address in the next issue of your paper? I am an African boy seeking a pen pal at A & M. I am 18 years old, five feet six inches tall and weigh 135 pounds. I would like to exchange some African items for US products. From Africa I have beautiful ebony carvings in the shape of humans and animals, hand-bags, slippers, daggers, knives, bows and arrows, masks, walking sticks, ladies wallets, decorated calabases, tiger skins and other skins. From the US I would like t- shirts, sport shirts, sweaters (size 14-14^), medium khaki and blue-jean pants, ties, belts, socks, underwear and trinkets. Everyone overseas should seize the opportunity of writing me. I will be pleased and will make sure that they have a good friend. To make friends with ourselves is evidence of good liv ing. I will be very glad if my obli gation is favorably granted and considered. Lots of luck to ourselves. God be with you. Rafiu Kaleyaiye 81 Simpson Street Ebute—Mettera Lages, Nigeria West Africa P. O. Boxes Available College Station Postmaster Ern est Gregg said there were approx imately 1,500 post office boxes yeti to be rented at the main College | Station post office, now in a tem porary location on Church St., two ! blocks north of the old post office building, which is being remodeled. 1 He said about 2,200 boxes still i remain to be rented at the south i sub-station in the Memorial Stu-1 dent Center. All 2,485 boxes at the main post office and 3,098 boxes at the south ! station are expected to be rented I when school starts, Gregg said. I The five articles of the code say simply: • An Aggie will net make any false statements—He won’t lie. ® An Aggie will not take things that do not belong to him —He won’t steal. • An Aggie will not give or receive help in his school work that would give him or another student an unfair advantage— He won’t cheat. • An Aggie will not use eva sive statements or technicalities to shield his guilt—He will take what is coming to him 1 i k e a man. • An Aggie will report viola tions of honor to a regular or ex- officio member of the Student Honor Council—He won’t let a single person’s actions endanger the honor of the student body. In all its simplicity, however, questions still arise. The man ner in which the Student Honor Council will operate puzzles many people. Basically there are two honor councils, one Corps and one civi- ban. They are nothing more than “watchdogs," and can do noth, ing more than recommend cer tain corrective measures for hon or violations. Probably the one greatest point in the new code is this— it is a student honor code, ad ministered by and for students. Ex. CS Fire CM Dies WednesdtyK& Idi Ye; Virgil B. Phipps, 43, empk; the College for 23 yean. Wednesday about 10 p.m. Joseph Hospital in Bryan. He had been in ill heali some time, and entered th pital Wednesday. ; ^ jBfrh 6 Rosary will be recited i n ( > unce( p.m. today at Memorial 1 cial P r< Chapel. Burial will be at J: fir°t V vary Cemetery Friday: during Mr. Phipps began woduH^jI he ] the College as a teenager. Hrjslsche a plumber with the Dm by tht of Building and Utilities fo C h a P years. He became chief oft Cluncul lege Fire Department in ‘ tipn ar ber, I960, retiring ('hristi^Bcion. I960 because of ill health. ^^The Survivors include his rjOct. Evelyn ('abler Phipps; tw in the David and Bernie Ray, bmffiNov. Bryan; his mother, Mrs. 1 Stntisr Phipps of Bryan; i Hugh Sessions of Well: brothers, I). Burt, an with the Engineering Service, and Jack, both sistsr Dec. Is, six To war in *, ophies’ Ext* 4, Jan. vance cation m Fob. If You Have A |M th ■ Mar Hard Foot To Vfe’’ K Apr Fit For Shoes pfe” B Mai Visit Life” COURT’S SaI North Gate m RUBBER BASE PAINT SPECIAL |8.49 gal. 7” ROLLER & FAN ONLY D8c CHAPMAN’S PAINT STORE Bryan Next To Poat Office All you need, he says, is a box about four feet long, three feet wide and three feet deep. Line it with aluminum foil to make it tight and keep other insects from entering or the crickets from es caping. Then put half a dozen cylinders of rolled screen wire in the box for the crickets to climb upon, and you are all set to care for 4,000 crickets. Honor Code Queslons Feed them chicken growing mash and slices of Irish pota to, and be sure that the temper ature in the box doesn’t drop be low 45 degi’ees or climb above 95. A light bulb burning in the box can solve this. 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. Publications, Truettner, School of Engineering: ; Otto McMurry, School of Veterinary Medicine. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A.&M. is tion, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, ber through May, and once a week during summer school. published in College Sta- and holiday periods, Septem- is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter h< in are also reserved. The Associated Pre dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in lere- Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office In College Station, Texas, of Coi under the Act or uoi 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. Mail subscriptions an Advertising College Station, Texas. ire $3.50 per semester; $6 per school year, $6.50 per full rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YM year. VLCA, News contributions may be made by telephoni editorial office. Room 4, YMCA. For advertising ng VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the 11 VI 6-6415. delivery BOB SLOAN EDITOR Larry Smith Sports Editor Alan Payne News Editor (Editor’s note—The new Ag gie Honor Code—what is it? How will it work? We will try to answer as many questions as possible. Address them to The Battalion, College Station.) Why didn’t the student body vote on whether we would have an honor code yr not? “We certainly are not going to vote to see if we are going to be honorable or not.” — Dean of Students James P. Hannigan. If I drink beer on the cam pus, am I honor bound to turn myself in? No. Drinking beer on the cam pus is a violation of college reg ulations, but it is not a violation of honor in itself. However, if you denied drinking beer on cam pus, you would be lying, and that is a violation of honor. 'P'UtttecC : BOSTON, LOS ANGELES LONDON The Christian Science Monitor AN INTERNATIONAL DAILY NEWSPAPER Interesting • Accurate Complete International News Coverage The Christian Science Monitor One Norway St., Boston 15, Mass. Send your newspaper for the time checked. Enclosed find my check or money order. □ 1 year $22. □ 6 months $11 ms months $5.50 Name Address ' City Zone State . 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