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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Tuesday, February (3, 19G2 1 BATTALION EDITORIALS tjAJJET SLOUCH by Jlttl Earle If Disarmament iCome- What Than! Student Opinions It is deplorable but true that solid student opinions on the Texas A&M Campus concerning- world affairs are as hard to find as needles in a haystack. It is equally dis heartening- to note that many students on campus have no definite opinions formed about any single event or situation occuring outside a local radius. Narrowing this statement down, a few questions are in order: How many students on the campus have a concrete opinion about the crisis in the United Nations? How many would call it a crisis? And why? How many have solid opinions backed bv reading and insight about the trouble spots of the world ? How many really know what has happened in South Viet Nam ? In Berlin? In Algeria? In the Congo? Even as close as Cuba? Many students do not profess any interest whatsoever in foreign affairs; their reading of a daily newspaper is limited to the sports page and comics, if they read one at all. Most students on the campus could intelligently discuss the Aggies’ standing in SWC basketball. But how many have neglected an “equally important” area of new«—the front page stories—since arriving as a student at A&M? A standard answer by those who are not ashamed of their ignorance is, “Well, we can’t do anything about the world situation; why should we sweat it?” This “defeatism” philosophy has been kicking around for thousands of years, and history has proven those who practiced it usually wound up being defeated. If this is the paramount attitude while in college.—the years of presumed question, of searching for the meaning of incidents and situa tions, then what will be the “carry-over” effects once grad uated ? The change from apathy to intense concern was a prompt one for many of the college men among the first troops going into Korea; their painful transition came from stark reality. What will it take for students of A&M to experience a change, from apathy to concern? Thus far, no credit has been given to the small number of students who have openly shown interest in foreign and national affairs through participation in clubs dedicated to these interests on the campus. These include the United Na tions Club, Model U.N., the Student Conference On National Affairs, and others. These clubs are here to provide the climate and environ ment for insight into many of the world’s situations, although membership in them isn’t absolutely necessary to gain this knowledge. A simple daily reading practice can offer an adequate base of thought: it’s application is through discus sion, but the basis is primary. Will national and international issues weave their way more into the typical Aggie’s conservations in the MSC cof fee shop? Or any other place, for that matter? This question cannot be answered with a direct “yes” or “no”. But it is correct to say that if the students of Texas A&M worked more with a few factions on campus who pro mote and stimulate thought in these areas, keeping abreast of the daily changing world situation would become a much easier task fori most students. In fact, it woiilch change from task to pleasure, from druggery to iritefest,'and consequently ignorance would be come enlightenment for many A&M students in the field of world affairs. ■ M j # f tM (> J> Yhry rv- It By LEWIS GULICK WASHINGTON—(JP)—What if an international miracle happens and the great powers agree to general disarmament? One result would be a heavy jolt to the U. S. economy—but such a blow could be cushioned by careful advance planning by the government and private en terprise. This conclusion was "reached in a study on disarmament economic impacts released Monday by U. S. Disarmament Director William C. Foster. He described the study as the first comprehensive j quiry into the effect big aa cuts would have in this con The study was undertaken li year by a panel of nine govt!] ment and nongovernment ex;*,a They made no claim that c armament is just around t| corner. But they were assip the study as part of the contii ing U. S. effort to find ama to end the spiraling arms ra A new, 18-nation, general i armament conference starts Geneva March 11. I A r m Head Battalion Classified ' Get a flying start on Continental! WASHINGTON NEW ORLEANS CHICAGO NEW YORK Convenient connections at Dallas and Houston with fast 4-engine non-stops east. For reservations, call your Travel Agaui or Continental at VI 6-47 M. CONTINENTAL AIBUNES THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent writers only. The Battalion is a now-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 X. Truettner, School of EngrineerinK ; Otto R. Kunze, School oi' Agriculture; and Dr. E. D. McMurry, School of Veterinary Medicine. 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. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all new* dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter here in are also reserved. lass p at College Station, Texas. 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 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 editorial office. Room 4, YMCA Building. VI 6-4910 or at the For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6415. BOB SLOAN Tommy Holbein Larry Smith EDITOR Managing Editor Sports Editor J ' . . sj. pm n L^rf, ^ ^W^LrrTflfH 1 “ ... no trouble at all! All you have to do to add this course is get the approval of your faculty advisor, clear it with the dean, change your English section to leave an opening, and drop history and that’s all there is to it!” Sound Off Editor, The Battalion: Recently we have heard grum blings from all corners of the campus concerning a state of censorship and lack of freedom of thought involving controversial issues existing on this campus. After considering the actual in terests which exist here, we say let’s have censorship. Aggies are widely known to possess essen tially no knowledge or interest in national and international affairs. We show it. Many examples can be cited— the student body interest in such programs as SCONA and Great Issues and the educational in test which prevails. Two specific examples have particularly per turbed us-n—whenever President Kennedy gives a speech on tele vision, the channel is quickly changed, and secondly (the one thing which drove us to write this), the fact that last Friday night Gov. Daniel gave a speech of great importance to Texans. The interest of the students grouped around the various TV sets on campus was so great, that on all sets a frantic search was quickly made to find some other program. We find great confidence in the products of this school when aver age Texans show little or no concern for their current state issues. Possibly Texans deserve a government run by lobbyists and vested interests. So we say “yes” to censorship on this campus—let’s satisfy the real interests and concerns of this student body by filling The Battalion with comics, suspend classes and have one big continu ous football game with bonfire and yell practice, let’s replace SCONA with a rodeo and Great Issues with a burlesque show. Obviously the censors would have seems to know or care about to be outsiders since no one here current issues when they are not limited to the campus perimeter. Perhaps we at A&M need in tellect as a companion to intel lectual freedom. Reed Armstrong, ’62 W. Brian DeFacio, ’62 j^gw Students Alterations WELCOME TO ZUBIK’S Experienced Tailors To Alter Your Issue Or New Clothing The Way It Should Be —WE CARRY— Khaki Shirts — Regulation Socks, Ties, Belts, Insignia. —One Stop Service For Purchasing and Alterations- ZUBIK'S Uniform Tailors North Gate WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT FAU- OUT Eight years ago, scientists be gan to investigate the effects of world-wide fallout from nu clear tests. “The results,” says physicist Edward Teller, “were reassuring.” In this week’s Sat urday Evening Post, he tells how much radiation the body cart absorb. 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