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
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CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle
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“ . . . 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.
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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
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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
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