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■ - ■ ' .. .. !■ fr.jV-. -«>»4 »»y» i..: THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, January 4, 1962 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle “I had such a wonderful time that two more days would have killed me!” | BATTALION EDITORIALS Why, Not Us? pare Dancers Begin Workshop Here Today Square dancers from all over the nation get together this after noon to kick off the 11th annual square dance workshop with a buf fet supper at the home of. Man ning Smith, local professional dance instructor. These 40 to 50 professionals and hobbyists will meet tonight from 8 p.m. to midnight and tomorrow and Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon, 2 to 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. to midnight for instruction and practice ses sions. Joe Lewis, a nationally known caller from Dallas, will arrive Friday to lead the square dance instruction, according to Smith. Smith and his wife, Anita, will lead the round dance instruction. The number of dancers will in crease to about 150 by Saturday, according to Smith. A final meet ing Sunday morning will end the workshop. T\wo - Ma n Spa ce Sh ip Plans Released By NASA You Too Can Be An Alan The Southwest Conference Sportsmanship Committee met in Dallas this past weekend to vote on the recipient of the 1961 Sportsmanship Trophy. Results of the secret bal loting, based on each school’s conduct at football and basket ball contests during the past year, revealed that Texas Tech had again won the award. Tech’s winning the sportsmanship trophy is significant. This past season was the Lubbock School’s second in SWC football competition—and the second year in a row Tech has carted home the big three-foot “good sport” prize. Why? How can Tech, newest SWC member, jump in and walk off with this coveted award the first time she tries, then come back the next year (and without really trying) walk off with it again? More important, why didn’t we win ? Why has A&M won the award only once in the 14 years it’s been in existence? One A&M student leader brushed off the fact we had again lost the sportsmanship cup by candidly remarking that “we’re Aggies. By nature, nobody likes us and we don’t like anybody. We aren’t expected to be good sports.” No! By nature, Aggies are leaders, and as such ARE expected to be good sports. An example of Aggie leadership is the SWC Sportsman ship Committee itself. The committee was developed at A&M in 1948 by Jimmy K. B. Nelson, ’49, then a co-editor of the Battalion. Working through the Student Life Committee of the Student Senate, Nelson got authority for The Battalion to appropriate from its fuhds enough money 'to buy a three- foot trophy to be presented annually to the SWC school that showed the best sportsmanship each year. Since then, the committee has grown in importance and the Conference’s recognition of good sportsmanship and fair play has increased in proportion. Competition for the 1962 award began with the first basketball game of the season Dec. 1. It’s high time the stu dents of A&M brought our trophy back home. WASHINGTON (£»> — The Na tional Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration released Wednesday the first artist’s conceptions of a two-man space craft designed to rendezvous with other space ve hicles while in orbit. It was given the name “Gemi ni” after the thh'd constellation in the zodiac. Gemini is to be built by Mc Donnell Aircraft Corp., St. Louis, Mo., manufacturer of the one- man Mercury craft in which as tronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr. and Virgil L. Grissom made 115-mile high suborbital flights. Lt. Col. John H. Glenn is scheduled later this month to orbit the earth three times in the capsule. Gemini will have the same shape as the one-ton Mercury capsule, but have 50 per cent greater volume and weight two to three times more. Scheduled for flight tests in 1963 and 1964, it will provide training for the crews that will man the three-man Apollo moon- craft late in 1964 or 1965. Dr. Robert C. Seamans Jr., Na tional Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration associated adminis trator, said Gemini was the most appropriate of many names con sidered, and had been proposed independently by a number of persons. In the zodiac, it is rep resented by the twins Castor and Pollux, two bright stars in the Milky Way. The drawings released by NASA showed two astronauts seated side by side on contour lounges of the type used in the Mercury capsules. Another- drawing showed the huge Titan II Gemini launching Driver Fed Up; So Kids File Out PITTSBURGH <A>> — A Pitts burgh bus driver, fed up with the antics of high school students riding in his bus, halted his ve hicle at a busy Pittsburgh inter section Wednesday and walked off the job. “I can’t stand it anymore. I’ve had it,” Frank Seitz told police at the scene. Seitz, a driver for the Pitts burgh Railways Co. for 15 years, ordered the students off the bus and then telephoned his office to come and get the bus because he was going home. Bulletin Board HOMETOWN CLUBS Lavaca County club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 106, Aca demic Building. Galena Park club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Memorial Stu dent Center main lobby (by the fireplace) for Aggieland picture. POLITICAL GROUPS Texas A&M Conservative Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the MSC Social Room. The film, “The Communist Encirclement” will be shown. Harris Wins Camera Robert E. Harris, ‘62, of D-l-B College View won a Polaroid Land camera in a drawing held Dec. 15 in the Memorial Student Cen ter Bowling Lanes. The drawing was sponsored by Philip Morris Cigarettes, according to Robert Lee, campus sales * representative for Philip Morris. THE BATTALSON 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 journalism laboratory and community newspaper and is under the supervision of the director of Student Publications at Texas A&M College. McMurry, School of Veterinary Medicine. ineering ; Otto rinary Medicir 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 her through May, and once a week during summer school. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all new* me Associated jrress is entitled exclusively to tne use lor re dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of in are also reserved. all other matter here- Second-class postage paid at College Station, Texas. MEMBER: The Associated Pres* Texas Press Assn. Represented nationally bj National Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los An geles and San Francisco Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester; $6 per school year, $6.50 per full year. All subscriptions subject to 2% sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA Building. College Station, Texas. News contributions may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the editorial office. Room 4, YMCA Building. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6416. BOB SLOAN EDITOR Tommy Holbein - Managing Editor Larry Smith Snorts Editor Alan Payne, Ronnie Bookman, Robbie D. Godwin News Editors Sylvia Ann Bookman Society Editor Bob Roberts Assistant Snorts Editor Ronnie Fann, Gerry Brown Staff Writers Johnny Herrin PViotoyror'he- Robert Burnside Advertising Staff 1962 AGGIELAND Texas A&M College College Station, Texas Civilian Yearbook Portrait Schedule Civilian students will have their portrait made for the AGGIE LAND ’62 according to the fol lowing schedule. Portraits will be made -at the Aggieland Studio between the hours of 8 a. m. and 5 p. m. on the days scheduled. COATS AND TIES SHOULD BE WORN. Sr. and Grad. Civilians Jan. 4-5 8- 9 9- 10 10-11 11-12 15- 16 16- 17 17- 18 18- 19 A-B C-E F-H I-K L-N O-Q R-S T-V w-z (Surnames) “Sports Car Center” Dealers for Renault-Peugeot & British Motor Cars Sales—Parts—Service “We Service All Foreign Cars” 1416 Texas Ave. TA 2-4517 vehicle, a two-stage, 90-foot-tall, 10-foot-diameter rocket. Shown with it was the Atlas- Agena B rocket combination, slightly taller than the Titan II- Gemini assembly, which will be used in practicing space-rendez vous techniques. Other sketches showed how the Atlas would launch the Agena B into an orbit, and after its course had been determined, how a Ge mini would be placed into a sim ilar orbit by the Titan II rocket and the two would be maneuv ered together. This rendezvous techniques is to be developed as a step later in sending Apollo crews around the moon. If the space docking should prove to be impractical, the United States would have to await development of a Nova- type superrocket before attempt ing a manned landing on the moon. If you’ve ever been surprised because you’ve told yourself you wanted to wake at a certain hour and then did, psychologist Jack Arbit of Northwestern University has an explanation for it. You can “set your mind” for a certain waking hour, Arbit writes in the American Medical Association Journal. It is based on an elaborate set of learned cues you’ve assembled from in fancy. One such cue is body tempera ture. When you’ve established ii your mind when you want t wake up, the mind waits for tli body temperature associated ivitl that number of hours or | depth of sleep. Then it fires “wake up” alarm to the waki fullness center and there you an blearily staring at the face your clock and wondering hoi you did it. Read Battalion OassiMs PIONEERING Somewhere out there, beyond the realm of man’s present understanding, lies an idea. A concept. A truth. Gradually, as it comes under the concentration of disciplined minds, it will become clear, refined, mas tered. This is the lonely art of pioneering. In the Bell System, pioneering often results in major breakthroughs. Planning the use of satellites as vehicles for world-wide communications is one. Another is the Optical Gas Maser, an invention which may allow a . controlled beam of light to carry vast numbers of telephone calls, TV shows, and data messages. Breakthroughs like these will one day bring exciting new telephone and communications service to you. The responsibility of providing these services will he in the hands of the people who work for your local telephone company. Among them are the engineering, admimstrative and operations personnel who make your telephone service the finest in the world. BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM. It:: rty:t illiPIllillll iH mm mm® * ^ PEANUTS By Charles M. Schulz ‘PEANUTS I Re Corp: the train Amei an A Pr soeio Agri< logy, univc soutl were ing agric erall; Do agric ed cc incro Then nates and ; J A r nin* is a firs leve test, tear hon< Thi on the m up cor PEANUTS /UJHATDOES ms] OTH/ttAR THINK ABOUT YOUR BRINGING THAT BLANKET TO SCHOOL?/ 5UE DOESN'T LIKE IT SO l'M TRYING TO GET HER TO MARE AN AGREEMENT WITH ME... I TOLD HER ID GIVE UP MY BLANKET (F SHE'D GVE UP BITING HER FINGERNAILS... WHAT DID ■SHE SAY TO THAT? I COULDN'TTELl... SHE HAD HER HEAD DOWN ON THE DESK.'