THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, September 20, 1962
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BATTALION EDITORIALS
Student Interest Lagging
On Three Current Projects
If student interest in the new insurance plan, trip to
Florida for the University of Florida football game and to
night’s senior class steak fry for the football team is any | -
indication, A&M may be in for a pretty dull year.
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In other words, student interest in the three projects |'
has been sadly lacking and almost non-existent.
Tonight’s steak fry by the senior class, for example, had |||^
to be limited to 150 persons because of space and facility
shortages. Yet all 150 tickets have not been sold and chances U>
are they will not be. *
Even worse, as of Tuesday night, not a single person had f ^
purchased a ticket for the bus trip to Florida.
And a sum total of 112 student insurance policies have
been sold among the entire student body.
Explanations for these failures are hard to find. Various ; .
students behind the project have put in innumerable hours
making plans and trying to sell their programs.
In the case of the football trip to Florida, initial plans
were made last spring before final exams—for the sole pur
pose of giving students the entire summer to make a decision
and raise the $30.10 required for the trip.
With the senior class steak fry all arrangements were
completed before registration and all senior class officers
have had tickets since the first class doors opened Monday
morning.
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. . . “Sir, you’ve got to excuse me to see th’ LSU game!
After all, we’ve got an undefeated, untied and unscored
on team!”
Sound Off-
The insurance policy, however,
matter.
admittedly is another
Plans were not completed until late summer to use a
policy issued by National Home Life Assurance Co. in St.
Louis, Mo.
This delay resulted in the omission of annual mailings
made to students during the summer and naturally accounted
for the slump in sales.
However a campaign has been in full swing since before
registration to make up for the lost time and sell as many
policies as possible. The 112 now sold were purchased during
registration and policies are still available in the fiscal office.
The deadline, however, is Oct. 6, little more than two weeks
away.
In the case of the steak fry, for all practical purposes
it is too late to remedy the pathetic situation. With the other
two, though, it is not too late and a final surge could give
the projects that distinct flavor of success.
This surge won’t be felt, however, if the present student
attitude prevails. A change is needed and there is little time
to waste.
Editor,
The Battalion:
On behalf of the Student Coun
cil of Social Activities, I would
like to invite all of the Aggies
up for our first all-campus dance
this Friday.
Starting at 7:30 each dormitory
will be hostess to a reception that
will provide a pleasant way for
us Tessies to meet you Aggies.
Di’ess is to be informal (sports
shirts even) and Shep Fields will
provide the music beginning at
8:30.
Marilyn Jordan,
Vice President;
Student Council of Social
Activities
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Decision Appears Best
The decision Tuesday night to temporarily cancel the
college’s Type III Sabin oral vaccine anti-polio drive seems
to have been made in good taste and with an eye toward the
well-being of the student body.
It has been emphasized many times that the govern
ment’s doubts on the vaccine are not definite and extensive
studies will be made before a final decision.
Surely it will be best to wait and see. Nothing can be
lost and much in the long run may be gained.
Bulletin Board
Hometown Clubs
Baytown Club will meet at
7:30 p.m. Thursday in Room 3-C
of the Memorial Student Center.
All freshmen are especially
urged to attend.
All-Campus Clubs
MSC Radio Committee will
meet at 7:30 p.m. next Monday
night in Room 2-D of the MSC.
Visitors have been invited to at
tend and see the club’s facilities
above the bowling alley in the
MSC. Message blanks ai’e avail
able on the desk outside the
bowling alley.
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