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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, October 16, 1962 Budget Decision Due Soon A decrease of $20.2 million in budget requests from the general revenue fund for Texas colleges and universities will be reconsidered next Tuesday by the Texas Commission on Higher Education. This decrease includes a cut of $2.2 million in the 1964- 65 appropriation for A&M. The commission’s reconsideration comes after several protests last week when the budgets were released. Itemized budgets have not been made public. Two budgets are considered by the commission—one by individual colleges and the other by a commission staff. Total budget request by the colleges total $216.3 million, compared to a staff recommendation of $199.5 million. These funds include the general revenue fund, tuition, fees and others. The legislature appropriated $111.6 million for the 1962- 63 biennium. The ’64-65 increase is primarily from the Uni versity of Houston’s addition as a state-supported school. Houston requested $15.7 million, but the staff recommended $13.7 million. A&M is receiving $5.8 million for this year, but requested $16.6 million for ’64-65. The commission staff recommended a $14.4 million appropriation. This trend generally held true for the other larger state schools. All college requests for the ’64-65 biennium were considerably higher than last year’s, with the commission staff’s request a slight bit lower. In no instance did the staff agree with a school’s request. Once the commission’s budget is finalized, more steps will still loom between each school and the actual cash. Separate budgets will also be presented to the legislature by the legislative budget board and the governor’s budget office. Your Coffee Is Coming Dear Company D-3 Fish: We at The Battalion recognize the seriousness of your coffee problem. Having been freshmen ourselves at one time or another, we realize that serving coffee with the evening meals does accomplish two things, First, as you stated in your letter, coffee does comple ment a meal and it most certainly does create a more con genial mood on the table and in the upperclassmen. And, as someone noticed several years ago, “a happy table is a well-fed table.” Secondly, a good dose of caffine would also make it easier to stay awake during Call to Quarters—the three-hour period when Fish eyelids flutter faster than a hummingbird’s wings. As you pointed out, being able to stay awake during CQ just might pay off additional grade points. The Battalion asked J. G. Peniston, supervisor of the dining halls, when coffee would be served with the evening meals. He said it depended on the arrival of cooler weather. Penniston said an experiment several years ago showed that in hot weather most of the coffee would end up being thrown out. So D-3 Fish, that’s why there is no “dope” on your table tonight. Just hang loose—there will be. Get a flying start on Continental! WASHINGTON CHICAGOi Convenient connections at Dallas and Houston with fast | 4-engine non-stops east. For reservations, call your Travely Agent or Continental at VI 6-4789. ! 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 college 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 James L. Lindse; Juire, School of Arts and Sciences ; J. A. Orr, School of Engineering ; J. I School of Agriculture; and Dr. E. D. McMurry, School of Veterinary Medicine. e S McGuire, School of Arts and Scie ire James J. A. 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Address : The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA Building, College Station, Texas. News contributions may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or_ VI 6-4910 or at the editorial office. Room 4, YMCA Building. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6415. ALAN PAYNE ; EDITOR Ronnie Bookman Managing Editor Van Conner Sports Editor Dan Louis, Geri’y Brown, Ronnie Fann — News Editors Kent Johnston, Karl Rubenstein, Ted Jablonski Staff Writers Jim Butler. Adrian Adair Assistant Sport Editors Dale Baugh Photographer CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle FOR RECONCILIATION Reds Pay Back Visit By GENE KRAMER WARSAW, Poland (/P)_Wlady- slaw Gomulka’s current visit to East Germany seems to be a Communist bloc answer to French President Charles de Gaulle’s September journey of reconcilia- Future Dates “ . . . I had no idea they’d take the game so seriously or I wouldn’t have let them listen on my radio!” Job Calls The following firms will inter view graduating seniors in the Placement Office of the YMCA Building: Wednesday F. W. LaFrentz & counting, BBA. Petro-Tex Chemical Chemical engineering and chem istry, BS, MS. Arthur Young & Co.—Account- Co.—Ac- Corp. — PALACE Brtjan Z-SS79 NOW SHOWING ing, BBA, MBA. Phillips Petroleum Co.—Archi tecture, BS, MS; architectural engineering, BS, MS; chemical engineering, BS, MS, PhD; civil engineering, BS, MS; electrical engineering, BS, MS, PhD; geol ogy, BS, MS; geophysics, BS, MS; industrial engineering, BS, MS, PhD; nuclear engineering, BS, MS, PhD; mechanical engi neering, BS, MS, PhD; petroleum engineering, BS, MS; chemistry, BS, MS, PhD; mathematics, BS, MS, PhD; and physics, BS, MS, PhD. TODAY Great Issues, William L. Shir- er, Guion Hall Junior College Conference Ross Volunteer Initiation Ban quet WEDNESDAY Town and Country Church Con ference THURSDAY President’s reception for fac ulty and staff South Texas Milk Producers Association Freshman football, Baylor, there. FRIDAY Town Hall, Smothers Brothers and Leon Bibb ' Executive board, Association of Former Students Farmer’s Home Administration Conference . Cafe Rue Pinalle SATURDAY Football, TCU, here All-College Dance Advisory Council, Accounting Conference Instrumentation • Symposium Steering Committee SUNDAY Management Seminar, Texas Power and Light Co. MONDAY Agricultural Extension Service Quarterly Conference Municipal Police School. tion to the Bonn Republic. The Polish Communist party chief is to address a session of the East German Parliament Fri day. Warsaw citizens wondered where Gomulka would speak in German, as De Gaulle did flu ently throughout his tour of West Germany. De Gaulle’s comradely ap proach to the former enemy dis mayed Poles, many of whom had considered France their best friend in the West. Premier Jozef Cryankiewicz, who accompanied Gomulka to East Berlin, has desctils Gaulle’s visit as a grimssij and shock. Walter Ulbricht, Com® chief of East Germany, ij ently has long wanted® leaders to return his 1S5S visit to Warsaw. The I Communists, well recog* popular aversion here tol m any — East or West- seemed in no hurry. De Gaulle’s trip to Bom haps convinced them thahi of solidarity with their the West was overdue. I ars to Wr Wc ate tra ’66 mu stu no: sh< 19( On Campus {Author of “I Was a Teen-age Dwarf”, “TheMwj Loves of Dobie Gillis”, etc.) with Mk HIGH TEST, LOW TEST, NO TEST M-G-M presents \IJ01gf3lfts J jRoJhin&on j 2 zv&efis irt another Ikitvn € yjrtlCJtariHKe QUEEN LAST DAY “INVASION OF THE ANIMAL PEOPLE” & “TEHROR OF THE BLOOD HUNTERS” NOW SHOWING Paul Neuman In “ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG MAN” FRIDAY NITE PREY. 12:00 P. M. After Yell Practice Mcqueen ~ P fSlBY n FBS aKASry .nmt st"£~e0£ $kfh MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS sfvac&tfftk t&tauyli yowi (foMeye Sfow PUBLICATION SCHOOL TERM RATE 1 YEAR Atlantic Monthly 3.50 (8 mo.) 8.50 Downbeat 3.50 (8 mo.) 5.00 Ebony 2.00 (8 mo.) 3.50 Esquire 2.00 (8 mo.) 6.00 Fortune 1.80 (6 issues) 7.50 Holiday 3.60 Life 2.00 (6 mo.) 2.98 Look 2.00 Negro Digest 2.40 (8 mo.) 4.00 New Yorker 3.00 (8 mo.) Newsweek 2.75 (34 wks.) 3.50 Reader’s Digest 2.97 Reporter 2.50 (8 mo.) 2.00 (25 issues) 4.50 Saturday Eve. Post 3.00 Sports Illustrated rates go up 1-1-63 4.00 Time 3.00 (8 mo.) 4.00 A NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE STORES SERVICE To: THE EXCHANGE STORE CAMPUS Please enter my order for the following magazines on the current Student Rate. I am including the 2% State Tax current ly collectable. NAME St. Address or P. O. Box Number City State School .... Year of Graduation Amount The Exchange Store “Serving Texas Aggies” Just the other night I was saying to the little woman, “Dtiyoi think the importance of tests in American colleges is beinj overemphasized?” (The little woman, incidentally, is not, s you might think, my wife. My wife is far from a little woman, She is, in fact, almost seven feet high and heavily muscled. She is a full-blooded Chiricahua Apache and holds the world’s hammer-throw record. The little woman I referred to is some one we found crouching under the sofa when we moved into our apartment several years ago, and there she has remained ever since. She never speaks, except to make a kind of guttural clicking sound when she is hungry. Actually, she is not top much fun to have around, but with my wife away at track meets most of the time, at least it gives me somebody to talk to.) But I digress. “Do you think the importance of tests in American colleges is being overemphasized?” I said the other night to the little woman, and then I said, “Yes, Max, I do think the importance of tests in American colleges is ’ ’ overemphasized.” (As I have explained, the little woman does not speak, so when we have conversations, I am forced to do both parts.) Jhe cfnoi {pomdifafaMSB:, To get back to tests—sure, they’re important, but let’s not allow them to get too important. There are, after all, many qualities and talents that simply can’t be measured by quizzes. Is it right to penalize a gifted student whose gifts don’t happen to be of the academic variety? Like, for instance, Gregor Sigafoos? Gregor, a freshman at the New Hampshire College of Tanning and Belles Lettres, has never passed a single test; yet all who know him agree that he is studded with talent like a ham with cloves. He can, for example, sleep standing up. He can don perfect imitation of a scarlet tanager. (I don’t mean just do the bird calls; I mean he can fly South in the winter.) He can pick up B-B’s with his toes. He can say “Toy boat” three times fast. He can build a rude telephone out of two empty Marlboro packs and 100 yards of butcher’s twine. (Of all his impressive accomplishments, this last is the one Gregor likes to do best —not building the telephone, but emptying the Marlboro packs. Gregor doesn’t just dump the Marlboros out of the pack. He smokes them one at a time—settling back, getting comfortable, savoring each tasty puff. As Gregor often says with a winsome smile, “By George, the makers of Marlboro took their time finding this fine flavor, this great filter, and by George, I’m going to take my time enjoying ’em!”) Well, sir, there you have Gregor Sigafoos—artist, humanist, philosopher, Marlboro smoker, and freshman since 1939. Will the world—so desperately in need of talent—ever benefit from Gregor’s great gifts? Alas, no. He is in college to stay. But even more tragic for mankind is the case of Anna Livis Plurabelle. Anna Livia, a classmate of Gregor’s, had no talent no gifts, no brains, no personality. All she had was a knack fa taking tests. She would cram like crazy before a test, always get a perfect score, and then promptly forget everything she had learned. Naturally, she graduated with highest honors and degrees by the dozen, but the sad fact is that she left college no more educated, no more prepared to cope with the world, than when she entered. Today, a broken woman, she crouches under my sofa. „ ©jaezntasM®' And speaking of tests, we makers of Marlboro put our cigarette through an impressive number before we semi it to the market. But ultimately, there is only one test that counts: Do YOU like it? We think you will. PEANUTS rsnisiSjsi By Charles M. ^ GlKCLE OH, PUT TH E DROPS ON A SU6AR CUBE; AND I CHE0JED (T RIGHT UR..0F COORSE,TH1S (JAG AFTER I GOT INTO THE ARGUMENT WITH THE NURSE.. (JELL, IT (JAGNT EXACTLY an argument...it ojas MORE OF A DISCUSSlOM.... MY DENTIST IS AGAINST EATING SUGAR CUBES. 1 > PEANUTS “CAPE FEAR” & “THIS EARTH IS MINE” THIS IS THE TIME OF YEAR TO WRITE TO THE (GREAT POMPfONy ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT HE RISES OUT OF THE PUMPKIN PATCH, AND FLIES THROUGH THE AlR WITH HIS m OF TOYS FOR ALL THE CHILDREN j (M WRITING TO HIM NOW...DO YOU WANT ME TO PUT (N A GOOD WORD FOR YOU, CHARLIE BROWN ? BY All means..j can use All THE INFLUENCE I CAN 6HI (N HICK PLACES/ an, Co cej H. Co tor an, Wi pk stv in cai of ofl Gr To vie go ] «h loo thi coi die pla the Ga (V 1 hoi Ch rat Ter Nu