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THE BATTALIOlN Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, March 6, 1962 BATTALION EDITORIALS Wait And See In many quarters, the Student Senate’s decision Thurs day night not to ratify the proposed constitution of the in fant Southwest Conference Student Association came as a surprise. But after close study the decision comes into focus as a wise move, definitely not enacted on the spur of the mo ment. Several well-grounded motives were given for the de cision, which signifies that A&M does not wish to be a mem ber. Most prominent is the fact that the association, if it becomes a reality, will not function as such this year. Therefore the Senate decided to leave next year’s stu dent governing group with the decision. A&M can join the group at any time it so wishes. Another reason, at least as prominent if not more so, is that A&M has found similar groups are not beneficial to the school. For many years the school was a member of the larger Texas Intercollegiate Student Association, which, like the proposed SWC Association, proposes to offer a medium through which schools can discuss and solve common prob lems. Needless to say, problems found at other schools are not found here. On the other hand, what other school in the Southwest has problems similar to A&M’s? And at sizeable sums (the Southwest Conference Student Association charges $25 per year for admittance), it was decided that it would be more profitable if A&M were not a member. Time may prove that the newly-pr<>posed group will be capable of solving problems common to schools in the South west Conference. If so it may prove profitable for A&M to become a member. Before that time comes, however, A&M has lost nothing as a result of the Thursday decision not to ratify the consti tution of the new group. Sound Off Conservatives Answer Alvarado Editor. The Battalion: Thursday, Mr. Richard Alvara do wrote a letter to The Batta lion complaining about the legi timacy of certain window dis plays. Mr. Alvarado also made the ridiculous inference that the Texas A&M Conservative Club was engaging in anti-semitism. I am afraid that Mr. Alvarado has in the process of disagreeing with the Judeo-Christian princi ples of the Conservative Club failed to look at all of the facts. Mr. Alvarado certainly must have failed to make a thorough investigation of the definition of partisan politics before he took to the pen in his complaints. The Texas A&M Conservative Club is a non-partisan educational organi zation dedicated to promoting a- mong college students a better understanding of the philosophy of individual liberty, the genius of the Constitution of the Unit ed States, and the formidable Get a flying start on Continental! WASHINGTON NEW ORIEANS CHICAGO NEW YORK Coevenleat oomwctSons at DaOae and Houston with Im* 4-engine non-stops east. For reservations, call your Treat! Agent or Continental at VI 6-47M. CONTINENTAL AIRLINES 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 of 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. 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BOB SLOAN EDITOR Tommy Holbein Managing Editor Larry Smith Snorts Editor Alan Payne, Ronnie Bookman, Robbie D. Godwin News Editors Ronnie Fann, Gerry Brown, T. S. Harrover /. Staff Writers Sylvia Ann Bookman Society Editor Van Conner Assistant Sports Editor Johnny Herrin Chief Photographer Ben Wolfe, Bill Stripling ,.r.. Photographers CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle 1 ‘ [l “ . . . Music Man last Fridav, Greco last nijfht, basketball tonight, I. T. S. and th’ Combat Ball Friday, and th’ Military Ball Saturday. There so some more grade points!” threat of Communism in our society. Our organization does not en gage in partisan politics. In no way is there any party descrimin- ation or is there any partisan campaigning conducted by the A&M Conservative Club. If Mr. Alvarado disagrees with our Judeo-Christian philosophy, that is his prerogative; however, I suggest that in the future a thorough investigation be made before flagi’ant objections are made. The second complaint of Mr. Alvarado’s concerning the dis play of anti-semitic literature on reading tables is truly a rash one. According to my Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, anti-semi tic means anti-Jewish. The Texas A&M Conservative Club firmly supports the law of Abraham. Moses and the Ten Command ments represent the firmest of conservative philosophies of re sponsibility. Also, Mr. J. Wayne Stark, director of the MSC, had a Jew ish woman look over the litera ture displayed, and she said that it was definitely not anti-semitic. Yes, Mi\ Alvarado’s complaints were certainly unfounded. J. Douglas Cherry. ’62 President, Texas A&M Con servative Club. CIRCLE LAST NITE 1st. Show 6:50 ‘‘ADA” with Susan Hayward & Dean Martin (In Color) “VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA” STARTS TOMORROW STRICTLY A LAUGH AFFAIR I WALTB DISNEY am IMm* bi W(NA VISU O'ltnbufcM C*. IK. 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PEANUTS t /0U KNOG0, IT'S \/ERV 5TRAN6E. (JHEN I FIRST GOT M GLASSES,THEV KIND OF POTHERED ME... Fireston^ Tire and Rubber Co. — Business administration, ac counting and economics. Texas Electric Service Co. — Electrical and mechanical engi neering (B.S.). U. S. Army Engineer District Corps of Engineers — Civil, elec trical and mechanical engineering (B.S., M.S.). Wednesday — Friday Jones and Laughlin Supply Di vision — Agricultural economics, business administration, econo mics; chemical, electrical, indus trial, mechanical and .petroleum engineering and industrial edu cation. A Memo fnim... Mr. 4 /o “Life insurance is largely a matter of dollars and sense.” Albert W. Seiter Jr. 2601 Texas Ave. Bryan, Texas TA 2-0018 § Representing On Campos with Maxfihulman (Author of “ Redly Round The Flay, Boys", "The Many * Loves of Dobie Gillis”, etc.) UNITED WE STAND The entire academic world is agog over the success of the Associated Colleges Plan—ACP, for short. I mean, you go to any cainpus in the country these days and you will see students and faculty dancing on the green, blowing penny whistles, grabbing each other by the elbows and yelling, “About that ACP, Charley—like wow!" And who can blame them? Tlie ACP is a plan not only simply brilliant, but also brilliantly simple. All it is, is a loose regional federation of small colleges. Let’s say, for example, that in a given region we have a group of small colleges, each with its own academic specialty. Small College No. 1, let’s say, has a fine language department; Small College No. 2, let’s say, has a fine science department; No. 3 has a fine music department; etc., etc. Well sir, under the ACP these various colleges federate. A student in any one of the colleges can bike courses in the spe cialty of any of the other colleges and—here’s the beauty parti —he will receive credit for the course at his home college. Thus he enjoys all the advantages of a big university without losing the comfy coziness of a small college! Well sir, you can see what a good idea the ACP is. I respect fully submit, however, that just because a thing is good is no reason not to try to make it better. Like, for instance, Marlboro Cigarettes. Marlboros were good from the very beginning, and people found out quickly and sales zoomed. But did the makers of Marlboro say, “Okay, we’ve got it made. Let’s relax”? Well sir, if that’s what you think, you don’t know the makers! They did not relax. They took their good Marlboros and kept improving them. They improved the filter, improved the blend, improved the pack. They researched and developed tirelessly, until today Marlboro is just about the most admirable cigarette you can put a match to. There are, in fact, some people who find Marlboros so admirable they can’t bear to put a match to them. They just sit with a single Marlboro in hand and admire it for ten, twelve years on end. The makers of Marlboro are of course deeply touched by this—except for E. Rennie Sigafoos, the sales manager. But I digress. The ACP, I say, is good but it can be better. Why should the plan be confined to small colleges? Why should it be confined to a limited region? Why not include all colleges and universities, big and small, wherever they are? Let’s start such a federation. Ixit's call it the “Bigger Asso ciated Colleges To Encourage Richer Intellectual Activity”— BACTERIA, for short 1 aqvAPO| I IO O'CLOCK CIA$$, HAWAII -few MQm ill fAcfeziA What a bright new world BACTERIA opens up. Take, for example, a typical college student—Hunrath Sigafoos (son, incidentally, of the Marlboro sales manager). Hunrath, a bright lad, is currently majoring in hurley at the University of Ken tucky. Under the BACTERIA plan, Hunrath could stay at Kentucky, where he has made many friends, but at the same time broaden his vistas by taking a course in constitutional law at Harvard, a course in physics at Caltech, a course in frostbite at Minnesota and a course in poi at Hawaii! I admit there are still a few bugs in BACTERIA. How, for instance, could Hunrath attend a 9 o’clock class at Harvard, a 10 o’clock class at Hawaii, an 11 o’clock class at Minnesota, and still keep his lunch date at Kentucky? It would be idle to deny that this is a tricky problem, but I have no doubt American ingenuity will carry the day. Always remember how they laughed at Edison and Fulton—and particularly at Walter Clavicle who invented the collarbone. * * * © 1962 Mux Shulman Three cheers for American ingenuity, which gave us the ACP, the collarbone and MGM . . . that’s the Mighty Good Makin’s you get in Marlboro, the Utter cigarette with theun- filtcred taste. Settle back and enjoy one. You get a lot to like. By Charles M. Schulz HEVi TUI'S 15 TOO LIGHT I IT'S HARDLY SINGED! evgEuj m don't expect ME TO EAT RAW TOAST?' NOLO.l'M COMETlMEC NOT EVEN AWARE I HAVE THEM ON' /