The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, May 01, 1962, Image 2

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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, May 1, 1962
CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle 3,000 ’62
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BATTALION EDITORIALS
Thursday General Election
Most Important Of Spring
Twenty-eight students completed filing Monday for
positions on next year’s Student Senate and for civilian yell
leader. The decision is now up to the remainder of the student
body to fill these positions in Thursday’s general election and
the following run-off.
Only last week, the student body elected class officers
for the fast-approaching new year. Doubtless, many feel
these are the most important positions to be filled in next
year’s list of student government participants.
The Student Senate, however, easily is far more im
portant than the officers of any class. All matters pertaining
to student government, regardless of class, must first be
approved by the Senate. Also annual occasions, such as
Muster, Mother’s Day and Corps trips, are planned and co
ordinated by the Senate.
Heading the Senate is the newely-named Student Body
President, who not only presides over the Senate, but is the
official A&M representative in all Southwest Conference af
fairs.
Heads of each committee are equally important in the
functioning of the Senate. Matters are handled by commit
tees in the over-all functioning of the Senate, therefore each
committee head will have a direct hand in’ at least three or ;
four important issues during the school year. In addition he j
' will have his influence and vote in all other matters regard- j
less of the committee that works up the final details’
The other positions on Thursday’s ballot can be viewed L
with no amount of lesser importance. Results of each win- i.
ner’s work will constantly be brought to light next year and A ^ ^ imtsmmuz
no one can rightfully complain or praise the result of an “ . . . let’s agree right now to keep our mouths shut! Our
issue it he didn t help elect, or vote against, the person in reputations will be shot if anyone finds out we weren’t
question. thrown in jail!”
Grads Sought
By Insurers
Special to The Battalion
The nation’s property and cas
ualty insurance companies have
jobs for some 3,000 men gradu
ating from colleges and univer
sities this June.
This need for personnel was
disclosed in a recent survey of
recruiting needs in property and
casualty insurance. The industry
wide survey, first of its kind, was
conducted among companies af
filiated with the American Mu
tual Insurance Alliance, the In
surance Information Institute and
the National Association of In
dependent Insurers.
Questionaires returned by 157
companies and groups of com
panies with a total of 225,001 em
ployees indicated that these com
panies hope to hire 2,898 men
graduating from colleges and un
iversities in the Class of 1962.
This would amount to nearly one
per cent of the total number of
1962 male college graduates.
Bulletin Board
Departmental Clubs
History Society will meet at
7:30 Tuesday night in Room 3-B
of the Memorial Student Center.
Election of next year’s officers is
on the agenda.
Sound Off-
(Editor’s Note: Letters from
general election candidates will
be printed in The Battalion Tues
day and Wednesday. None will
be accepted for publication after
7 p.m. Tuesday.)
Vice President
Position Sought
Editor,
The Battalion:
I, Bryom T. Wehner, am privi
leged to be a candidate for vice
president of the Student Senate.
If elected, I will fairly re
present the various interest
groups in the student body, striv
ing to effectively promote the
welfare of the student body. In
so doing, I will strive to bring
needed representation to civilian
students and earnestly attempt to
better civilian-Corps relations. I
will maintain the integrity of the
student body and defend students’
rights in any possible way. I will
greatly appreciate the support of
my fellow students.
I believe that I, Jimmy Carter
student — civilian or Corps —
to vote in the general elections.
Students government affects
every student in some way. There
fore, each student is responsible
for its actions or inaction.
Byrom T. Wehner, ’61
Carter Wants
Parliamentarian
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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 Arte and Sciences; Willard I.
Truettner, School of Engineering:; 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.
Editor,
The Battalion:
The office of parliamentarian
of the Student Senate demands
a person of the highest qualifi
cations. He must be thoroughly
familiar with the Student Senate
and its constitution, as well as
the rules of parliamentary proce
dures. Since the parliamentarian
is also a voting member of the
Senate and the Senate executive
committee, he must be in close
contact with all aspects of stu
dent life in order to democratical
ly represent the various interests
in the student body of the college.
Finally, he should sincerely want
to work in and for student gov
ernment.
I beliveve that I, Jimmy Carter,
adequately fulfill all. of these
qualifications. I have served for
the past three yeai*s on the Stu
dent Senate, during which time
I have served on the issues com
mittee, student welfare commit
tee, public relations committee
and the executive committee.
This past year I served as
chairman of the public relations
committee, and in that position
I worked for the Southwest Con
ference Sportsmanship trophy,
conducted guided tours around
the campus, worked for the re
cruiting of high school students
of academic achievement and am
at present working on the Facul
ty Distinguished Achievement A-
ward Program.
In past years I have worked on
the 12th Man Bowl, Aggie Mus
ter, Mother’s Day program, Ag
gie Blood Drive, Students’ Ac
cident Insurance Plan and the
Campus Chest. My other activi
ties include the history society,
election commission, Distunguish-
ed Student and Air Force Re
serve.
I believe that this background
plus my major in history and
government gives me the quali
fications to be parliamentarian
of next year’s Student Senate.
Your support and vote will be
sincerely appreciated.
James W. Carter, ’63
★ ★ ★
(See SOUND-OFF On Page 3)
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Your Vote and Influence Appreciated
RE-ELECT
B. H. DEWEY, Jr.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE
Brazos County
LAWYER, VETERAN AND LEGISLATOR WITH SENIORITY
Member of Legislative Budget Board, Southern Regional Educa
tion Board, and Vice-Chairman of Appropriations Committee.
B. H. DEWEY’S RECORD SHOWS:
Average salaries at A&M raised from $4100.
to $7400. in 1963.
in 1952
A&M Consolidated School received credit from A&M
College land lying within district.
Passed bill validating warrants for underpass on
Sulphur Springs Road.
Helped obtain Bryan Field, Texas Maritime Acadey
and formula approach for legislative appropriation.
Subject to the Democratic Primary, Sat., May 5, 1962
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CRAM COURSE NO. 4: BATHYMETRII
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Continuing our series of pre-final exam cram courses, today
take up bathymetry — the study of ocean depths,
Admittedly, this is not a terribly popular course on n
campuses. And small wonder. In the whole world thereisa
one bathyscape, and only two people can get into it.
Nevertheless, the study of ocean depths is of great im
tuner. Why, do you realize that the ocean is by far the ’
largest biological environment? The ocean has more thanli
humlred times as much living room as all the continentis
islands combined! Unfortunately, only fishes live in it.
And small wonder. Who’d want to live some place wheif:
couldn’t smoke? Surely not I! I wouldn’t give up my?®]
Marlboro Cigarettes for the Atlantic and the Pacific
gether. Nothing could induce me to forego Marlboro's f
mellow flavor, Marlboro's clean white filter, Marlboro’s I
box that really flips, Marlboro’s soft pack that’s really s
I>et others repair to the spacious deeps. Me, I will sticks
my Marllioros and the tiny garret I share with a tymp
But I digress. Back to the oceans. The largest, as we knp|
is the Pacific, which was discovered by Balboa, a Spams
great vision. To give you an idea of Balboa’s vision, he!
saw the Pacific while standing on a peak in Darien, which»
in Connecticut.
Even more astounding, when Balboa reached San Francis
he clearly saw the Hawaiian Islands! Being, as we know,!
friendly cuss, Balboa w’aved merrily to the Hawaiians i
shouted, “Great little ocean you got here, kids!” The Hawaik
also, as we know, friendly cusses, waved back, declared 81
holiday, organized a luau, built a cheery fire over which thcy|
prepared several gallons of poi, a suckling pig, and Capte[
Cook. This, of course, was the origin of Cooking.
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But I digress. The Pacific, I say, is the largest ocean and also
the deepest. The Mindanao Trench, off the Philippines, measures
more than 5,000 fathoms in depth. (It should be pointed out
here that ocean depths are measured in fathoms—lengths ol
six feet—after Sir Walter Fathom, a noted British sea measurer
of the seventeenth century who, upon his twenty-first birthday,
was given a string six feet long with which he used to ?o
scampering all over England measuring sea water until he was
arrested for loitering. A passion for measuring seems to have
run in the family; Fathom’s cousin, Sir Sol Furlong, spent all
his waking hours measuring race tracks until Charles II had
him beheaded in honor of the opening of the London School of
Economics.)
But I digress. Let us, as the poet Masefield said, go down to
the seas again. (The seas, incidentally, have ever been a favorite
subject for poets and composers.) Who does not remember
Tennyson’s “Break, break, break”? Or Byron’s “Roll on, thou
dark and deep blue ocean, roll”? Or the many hearty sea chanties
that have enriched our folk music—songs like “Sailing Through
Kansas” and “I’ll Swab Your Deck If You’ll Swab Mine” and
“The Artificial Respiration Polka.” My own favorite sea chanty
goes like this:
A girl loved a sailor and he. did jiU her,
A nd she did weep and roar-hal
Until she found a perfect filter, ■.
And a perfect smoke—Marlboro!
Sing hey, sing ho, sing ring-a-ding-ding.
Sing tars and spars and, patches,
Sing pack and box and lots to like.
And don’t forget the matches! © iguSMasMau
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The landlocked makers of Marlboro wish you smooth kail-
ing through your final exams and smooth smoking—with
Marlboro, of course. Have YOU settled back with a Marlboro
lately?