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Burrrrrr! That’s about all we care to say concerning the weather. Except maybe “Keep your doggone hands away from my ears!” Frostbitten ears remind us of that old saying “necessity is the mother of invention.’’ Aggie ingenuity really blossoms forth when it comes to keeping ears warm. Caps, ear-muffs, parkas, hoods, turbans and skullcaps appeared, but the most common ear warming device seems to be towel babushkas. Classrooms took on the appearance of gym locker rooms with towels of every size, shape, color and hotel scattered around the chairs. Our prize for the most ingenious method for keeping the ears intact from dorm to desk goes without hesitation to the civilian student we saw striding across the frozen tundra, his notebook strapped to his back like a knapsack leaving his gloved hands free to cover his ears. ★ ★ ★ It says in the paper (on page one) that all Bryan and Col lege Station public schools were closed yesterday and today. But on the A&M campus profs and students alike were right there, trying to cram in that last little bit of knowledge be fore finals. This year, as usual, professors found they had a good deal of course material to cover before the end of the semes ter. “So much to learn, so little time.” And the familiar refrain from the students: “He. as signed us the last 8 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica (Mush - Zygo) for Friday with major quiz ‘N’ coming up next Tuesday. When does he think we are going to study for his final?” Well, the J-Tac, “official student newspaper of Tarleton State College” at Stephenville (a part of the A&M System) has an answer. “Don’t Study” proclaims an editorial in last week’s issue of the J-Tac. “Don’t cram for tests is standard advice from teachers,” the editorial went on. “And we agree. But not for the same reason. Cramming does have its merits in certain cases. But don’t study unless you feel the urge. We need to get rid of some of our students. Our dormitories are overcrowded, our facilities strained, our teachers overworked. So don’t study. And goodby. “This is in keeping with our editorial policy of serving the Tarleton students. Adios.” A real public spirited newspaper, that. 'A' ★ 'At Parting Shot—from George Fuermann’s, (class of ’41) column “Post Card” in the Houston Post. “Title of a Texas A&M student’s thesis for a master’s degree: ‘The photoelastic Determination of the Stress Distri bution Across a Horizontal Cross Section of a Circular Plate Having a Square Hole and Subjected to a Diametral Load Applied Along a Diagonal of a Square.’ ” Hometown Clubs The following hometown clubs will meet in the Academic Build ing: Corpus Christi club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 224. Hill Country club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 205. Bring pictures for sweetheart selection. The following hometown clubs will meet in the Memorial Stu dent Center: Rio Grande Valley club will meet at 7:30 p.m. on the second floor of the MSC for Aggieland picture. Bring pictures for sweetheart selection. Cen-Tex club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Art Room for Aggie- Wee Aggies Mr. and Mrs. Winfred Greer, 403 Sulphur Shprings, on Dec. 30. Mr. and Mrs. Ernesto Uribe, A-12-Y College View, on Dec. 31. Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Maddox, W-3-B Hensel, on Dec. 29. Mr. and Mrs. Ashley Rugh, Old Highway 6, on Jan. 4. Mr. and Mrs. Hershell R. Ball, B-9-W College View, on Dec. 30. I “I told you to wear more clothes didn’t I?” Sound Off THE BATTALION 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. Members of the Student Publications Board are L. A. Duewall, director of Student Publications, chairman; Allen Schrader, School of Arts and Sciences; Willard I. Truettner, School of Engineering ; Otto R. Kunze, School oi 1 Agriculture; and Dr. E. D. School of Veterinary Medicine. McMurry, 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. use for republication of all news of ere- in are also reserved. Second-class postage ] at College Station, Te: ostage paid txas. MEMBER: The Associated Presn Texas Press Assn. Represented nationally by 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 reauest. 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 6-6415. 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 Roberta Assistant Sports Editor Ronnie Fann, Gerry Brown Staff Writers RE Week Locater Returned ‘Obscene’ Editor, The Battalion: By now, most of you know what the interest locater for Re ligious Emphasis Week is. For those who don’t know, it is a list of topics selected by the Inter faith Council and distributed to the dorms so that students might indicate which subjects they would prefer to discuss in dorm meetings during R.E. Week (Feb. 19-23). I was assigned to distribute and tabulate these forms in one of the civilian dormitories re cently. When I picked them up, one of them had a particularly ob scene and sacriligeous notation on the back, written, probably, after the person filling out the form had left it oh the door. This was not the kind of work SIS /f/c/i Negroes: a new force in American iife America has about 25 Negro mil lionaires. And hundreds more are in the $50,000-and-up bracket. In this week's Saturday Evening Post, you'll meet these new Negro lead ers. Learn how they made their fortunes. And how they’re fighting discrimination in highest society. The Saturday Evening JANUARY 13 ISSUE NOW ON SALE BIG JANUARY CLEARANCE SALE SAVE FROM 25% TO 50% 1—Lot Of Shirts 3 For $5.00 All-Wool Suits 33 1/3% Off Sport Coats and Sweaters 33 1/3% Off Shirts 25% Corduroy and Flannel Shirts HALF PRICE USE YOUR CHRISTMAS MONEY TO STOCK UP ON CLOTHES AT THESE TREMENDOUS SAVINGS! v “SHOP EARLY AND CHOOSE THE BEST” loupots you find on the walls of public restrooms; it makes those writ ings look like the work of kinder garten students. Have we sunk so low as to tolerate one of us who would curse God in such a depraved manner? The most atheistic among us should be honorable enough and grown up enough to know better than to write such things. How can we call our selves Aggies when we know that someone of such low and twisted mentality is on the same campus and calls himself an Aggie? I hope the person that wrote the notation is reading this, and that he feels as low as I consider him to be. I don’t think that could have been just a joke; now no one has such bad taste in jokes. If I were him, I’d keep it to myself; I couldn’t face my friends knowing that they knew I was the author of such sacriligeous obscenity. This boy is just one of some 7,000, yet he reflects on the whole school, not just the civil ians, but the Corps as well. What can we do to counteract this influence ? Better yet, what can we do to erase it? Allan Dees, ’64 YMCA Representative Interfaith Council 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. 8-9 C-E 9-10 F-H 10-11 I-K 11-12 L-N 15-16 . 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