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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, March 27, 1962
BATTALION EDITORIALS
CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle ] 0 K Calls
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Federal Help
The House of Representatives again is making it very-
clear that it does not like the idea of federal scholarships.
In February the House rebuffed President Kennedy by
passing a college aid bill containing federal aid for construc
tion of academic buildings, but no scholarships. The Senate
on the other hand approved scholarships as well as construc
tion aid. The bill now is awaiting a House-Senate conference.
The President’s request for medical and dental school
scholarships as a means of rectifying the shortage of these
practitioners induced in considerable degree by high cost
courses was turned down by the House Interstate and Foreign
Commerce committee, which on March 8 approved instead a
bill containing a student loan fuijd as well as grants for con
struction of medical school facilities.
The House position shows that there has been little
change since 1958, when President Eisenhower’s proposal for
federal scholarships in the National Defense Education Act
was rejected and a student loan fund was approved instead.
There appear to be two basic causes for these rejections
by the House. The colleges themselves, the most likely
sources of support, are deeply divided on the issue, partly
because of many colleges improved buildings and better paid
teachers have higher priority. Without meeting these prob
lems first, they say, there is little point in trying to attract
more students.
A deeper reason l^>r the failure of college groups to pro
vide strong support for federal scholarships is the rivalry
between colleges for top students, apparent in a division of
opinion over how the President’s college scholarship program
should be administered.
The large public colleges wanted the program to be ad
ministered through the colleges, along the lines of the NDEA
loan funds plan, with each school permitted to award a num
ber of scholarships to its applicants.
Behind the large schools’ opposition was the fear that it
would concentrate the winners in the “prestige” schools.
Many in Congress and elsewhere feel that a federal
scholarship weakens an individual’s character, denying him
the right to fight his way up the educational ladder. But
the same thing could be said of scholarships from non-federal
sources, of which there are thousands. The views of many
in Congress appear to be affected by the fact that they
worked their way through college and believe today’s stu
dents should do the same, but the two situations are hardly
comparable with today’s very much higher costs. The U. S.
Office of Education estimates that the current average cost
of a four-year college education is $7,000, nearly doubled
since 1950.
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view graduating seniors in the
Placement Office of the YMCA
Building:
Victor Hugo was rejected four Red and yellow hunting cl
times by the French Academy be- are among the least visible of a*
fore he was finally admitted, wearing dpparel, according to tea
Emile Zola was nominated 19 times run by the Massachusetts Depatt.
and w r as never admitted. .ment of Natural Resources.
Wednesday
Tennessee Gas and Transmis
sion Co.—Accounting and busi
ness administration (B. B.A.,
M.B.A.).
National Lead Company, Bar-
oid Division—Chemical and pe
troleum engineering, geology and
chemistry (B.S.).
National Starch and Chemical
Co.—Chemical engineering (B.S.,
M.S.), and chemistry (all degree
levels).
Philco Corp.—Electrical and
mechanical engineering and phys
ics (all degree levels).
Shell Oil Co.—Accounting
Southland Paper Mills Inc.—
Chemical, civil and mechanical
engineering.
U.S. Air Force Recruiting
Service—Aeronautical, electrical,
mechanical and nuclear engineer
ing, business administration, ed
ucation and psychology, and
physics (all degree levels).
Summer Jobs
Tennessee Gas and Transmis
sion Co. will interview juniors in
accounting for summer jobs.
Bulletin Board
The President’s plan, supported by many private schools
and by most scholarship backers in Congress, was for the
scholarships to be awarded on the basis of state-wide con
tests, with the winners permitted to go to any college which
accepted them. The Senate approved the President’s, proposal.
“ . . . I wonder if it’s possible to resign from th’ Corps for
a weekend!”
Professional Societies
Dr. Lloyd C. Taylor will speak
to “Ye OJde Noble Society of
English Majors (116th Regi
ment.)” Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.
in Room 3-C, Memorial Student
Sound Off
Center.
English Prof
Dislikes “Cowtrails”
Editor,
The Battalion:
I think it’s about time some
one called attention to what’s
happening to the grass in the
area west of the Academic Build
ing.
In spite of a complex network
of broad sidew r alks, many stu
dents are regularly tramping
across the grass, apparently to
save a few steps. A number of
quite noticeable cowtrails are
forming, which, as spring ad
vances, w T ill become, real blem
ishes on the beauty of this cen
tral part of the campus. One
such trail actually parallels the
main concourse from Military
Walk to the Sul Ross statue.
There seems no justification for
this, even in Euclidean geometry.
We all take a justified pride
in the work that has been done
in recent years to beautify the
campus, for the pleasure of vis
itors as well as of those of us
who are here right along. It’s
difficult to understand why stu
dents who take such pride in
other aspects of their college
should be so thoughtless, or lazy,
or both, as to mar one of the
principal beauty spots of the
campus. The “grass-walkers”
seem more numerous this year
than ever before, and I’ve been
particularly distress to see Corps
members among them, unlike
previous years.
I am informed that it is a
senior “privilege” to w r alk on the
grass. In my opinion, this is
one privilege that w^ould be
“more honored in the breach
than in the performance.”
E. E. Stokes
Associate Professor
Department of English
honorificabilitudinity and spizer-
inctum, though not always free
from the inebriation of the ex-
huberance of your verbocity, we
are delighted to elucidate that
“in short”—Splash Days will be
on April 27, 28, 29.
If you ever become discomboo-
berated again, pleas let us know.
Thomas W. Purdy Jr.
Assistant Manager,
Galveston Chamber of Commerce
Farmers in Kashmir tend float
ing gardens anchored on lakes.
Kashmiris harvest from boats,
picking tomatoes and pumpkins
that grow on a solid but buoyant
bass of topsoil, grass and weeds.
★ ★ ★
PALACE
Bryan Z‘SS79
LAST DAY
Tina Louise
In
“SIEGE AT
SYRICUSE”
STARTS TOMORROW
tils is an
Parents should
exercise discretion
in permitting
the immature to see it
WALK
iss
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■SIDE
No Children
Tickets Will
Be Sold
QUEEN
LAST DAY
“3 STOOGES MEET
HERCULES”
&
“UNDER WATER
CITY”
Galveston’s Ready
(Editor’s note: This letter
was addressed to Leo W. New-
land, Y-l-E Hensel Apartments.
Newland had written the Galves
ton Chamber of Commerce re
questing information concerning
Splash Days (Apr. 27-28). New
land admits he was rather pro
lix.)
Dear Mr. Newland:
We are eagerly awaiting the
arrival of you indefatigable Ag
gies.
Knowing that you all possess
Jim PiersalTs wife asks:
“Why do they call
my husband crazy?”
To the fans Jim Piersall is a hot-
tempered screwball. But to his
wife, he’s “calm and sensible, an
understanding husband.” In this
week’s Post, Mary Piersall tells
how the fans made Jim “a marked
man.” Says how close he came to
a breakdown in 1960. And why
she's confident about this season.
The Saturday Evening
TUESDAY
“ERRAND BOY”
with Jerry Lewis
Plus
“DARK AT THE TOP OF
STAIRS”
with Robert Preston
Also
Cartoon — “Contary Condor”
LAST DAY
“HELLIONS”
&
“BELLE SOMMERS”
STARTS WEDNESDAY
Maria Schell
&
Stuart Whitman
(Nominated Best Actor)
In
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“MIDNIGHT LACE”
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“RAINS OF
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“Life Insurance Is largely a matter
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2601 Texas Ave. Bryan, Texas
TA 2-0018
Represontlng
Jefferson StanM
"Jj UM INUIKANCI COMFANT J 0#<* 6m*t
On Campus
with
Maxfihulmaji
(Author of "/ Was a Teen-age Dwarf”, “The Many
Loves of Dobie Gillis”, etc.)
EDUCATIONAL TV: ITS CAUSE
AND CURE
A groat deal of nonsense has been written about educational
television. Following is my contribution:
It has been said that television allots no desirable viewing
hours to educational and intellectual programs. This is simply
not so. For instance, you can see “The Kant and Hegel Hour”
every day at 4 a.m. This excellent show is followed at 5 a.m.
by “Kierkegaard Can Be Fun.” For such lazy scamps as lie
abed beyond that hour, there is a splendid program on Sunday
mornings at 7:15 called “Birds of Minnesota, Except Duluth.”
So much for the myth that TV gives no prime time to educa
tional programs. Now let us deflate another canard: that TV
is not eager to inject intellectual content in all its programs.
If you have sat, as I have sat, with a television planning
board, you would know that the opposite is true. I was priv
ileged recently to witness a meeting of two of TV’s topmost
program developers—both named Binkie Tnttcrsall.
“Binkie,” said Binkie to Binkie, “if there is one thing I
am bound and determined, it’s that we’re going to have intel
lectual content in next season’s programs.”
“Right!” replied Binkie. “So let us put on our thinking
caps and go to work.”
“I forgot my thinking cap in Westport,” said Binkie, “but
I have a better notion: let us light a Marlboro.”
“But of course!” cried Binkie. “Because the best way to
think is to settle back and get comfortable, and what is the
, cigarette that lets you settle back and get comfortable?”
“I said Marlboro,” answered Binkie. “Weren’t you listening?’}
“A full-flavored smoke is Marlboro,” declared Binkie.
“Rich tobacco, pure white filter, a choice of pack or box.
What is better than a Marlboro?”
“A Marlboro and a match,” replied Binkie. “Got one?”
Binkie had, and so they lit their good Marlboros and settled
back and got comfortable and proceeded to cerebrate.
“First of all,” said Binkie, “we are going to avoid all the old
cliches. Wc will have no domestic comedies, no westerns, no
private eyes, no deep sea divers, no doctors, and no lawyers.^
\ “Right!” said Binkie. “Something offbeat.”
“That’s the word—offbeat,” said Binkie.
They smoked and cerebrated.
“You know,” said Binkie, “there has never been a series
about the Coast and Geodetic Survey.”
“Or about glass blowers,” said Binkie.
They fell into a long, torpid silence.
“You know,” said Binkie, “there’s really nothing wrong with
a clichd situation—provided, of course, it’s offbeat.”
“Right!” said Binkie. “So let’s say we do a series about a
guy who’s a family man with a whole bunch of lovable kids
who play merry pranks on him.”
“Yeah, and he’s also a cowboy” said Binkie.
‘‘And a deep sea diver,” said Binkie.
“With a law degree,” said Binkie.
“Plus an M.D.,” said Binkie.
“And he runs a detective agency,” said Binkie.
“Binkie,” said Binkie to Ilinkie, “we’ve done it again!”
They shook hands silently, not trusting themselves to speak,]
and lit Marlboros and settled back to relax, for Marlboro is a
cigarette not only for cerebration, but for settling back with— j
in fact, for all occasions and conditions, all times and climes,
all seasons and reasons, all men and women.
© 1962 Max Sliulmao
This column is sponsored—sometimes nervously—by the
makers of Marlboro, who invite you to try their Tine filter
cigarettes, available in king-size pack or flip-top box at
tobacco counters in all 50 states.
PEANUTS
By Charles M. Schulz
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