I Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Tuesday, October 23, 1962 Present Sweetheart Study Has Unlimited Possibilities Poet Looks At Freshman Poet Dilys Laing’s portrait of a “Freshman,” from the Oct. 11 issue of The Reporter: His face is like a girl’s, heartshaped and beardless. He would like to seem more weathered than he is. But how? Puppies betray with silky coats and bungling paws they are not dogs. Grandmothers see their sons in him, grandfathers their own early strife, matrons would love to pamper him, girls to marry him, and teachers to shine their honor through his mind. But he is wary of them all. Only one thing can help him: Time that hardens saplings into logs and wrings the girl-face of a boy into the old man’s anguished mask. Get a flying start on Continental! WASHINGTON CHICAGO Convenient connections at Dallas and Houston with fast ] 4-engine non-stops east. For reservations, call your Travels Agent or Continental at VI 6-4789. CONTINENTAL] AIRLINESj 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. ers McGuire, School of School of Agriculture ; The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A.&M. is published in College Sta- i, Texas daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and hi ber through May, and once a week during summer school. tion. ay, and Monday, and holiday periods, Septem- The Associated Press is entitled dispatches credited to it or ous origin published pontaneou i are also reserved. ntitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of herein. Rights of republication of all other matter here- Second-class postage paid at College Station, Texas. MEMBER: The Associated Press Texas Press Assn. presented nj National A d v Service, City, C Represented nationally by Advertising Inc., New York Jhicago, geles and S: Los An- an Francisco. Mail All subec Address: 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 CADET SLOUCH ir mm I : : : The first constructive steps to form a new procedure of selecting the Aggie Sweetheart have been initiated—with a great deal to gain and very little to lose. Members of the Student Senate student life committee have begun to probe into two aspects of the selection pro cedure—a criteria for TWU students to use in naming semi finalists and a student selection group from A&M to choose finalists. The action really comes as little surprise. Students on both campuses have voiced disapproval of the two factors being probed. At TWU, where semifinalists have long been chosen by a student vote, many girls have complained that they really have no way of knowing just what type finalist A&M really wants. This, indeed, is a valid point. Actually A&M has never really outlined what it considers proper qualifications for a finalist. The result—what many TWU girls will admit has become a popularity contest. The qualification situation offers other problems as well. Should freshmen girls be included? Should men join TWU girls in naming semifinalists? Should semit'inalists be divided equally among the top three classes at TWU ? Or even, should A&M, and not TWU, also select the semifinalists ? Aspects of the problem are nearly unlimited, which only adds to the burden of the student life committee. Then there is the finalist selection dilemma. For the past three years a group of MSG staff members has interviewed the semifinalists and named the finalists. This won immediate approval over the past plan of using photographs, but still has caused concern among at least half of the A&M student body. But if these men do not choose the finalists, who will? Students should pick them, everyone agrees, but which stu dents ? And how should these students be chosen ? Are inter views the best method? If interviews are agreed upon, how long should they last? What should the interviewers look for ? And, most important, what standard will the interview ers use in selecting finalists ? We don’t envy the student life committee. Their task is surely formidable and many will be dissatisfied, regardless of the final recommendations. But at least something is being done. Few will disagree that this isn’t the proper step at this time. h A J i™_ Ea _L l .° Author Believes Student s Should Leave Universitm i (Special to The Battalion) NEW YORK—In order to cor rect the ills of education, stu dents and teachers should secede from their universities and set up their own schools. This is the plan proposed by Paul Goodman, author and teach er, who, having-visited nearly 40 colleges, concluded that they were Bulletin Board “ . . . Do you mean it’s taken you all this time to say ‘good bye’ to your date? Today is Tuesday!” Professional Societies Society of Automotive Engi neers will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 228 of the Chemistry Building. Collegiate FFA Chapter will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 231 of the Chemistry Building. Guest speaker will be Ray Fiedler. Wives Clubs Agronomy - horticulture - flor iculture club will meet at 8 p.m. in the home of Mrs. Don McMan- aman, 305 Highland, College Sta tion. Mrs. J. M. Nance will speak. University Dames Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the South Solarium of the YMCA Building. Hometown Clubs Waco-McLennan County club will meet at 7:30 p.m. on thepatio of the Memorial Student Center. in a state of paralyzing tension which made any basic changes in teaching impossible. “A small secession from a doz en colleges and universities would now be immensely profitable for American education,” he writes in an article in the November issue of Harper’s Magazine. “I propose that a core faculty of about five professors secede from a school, taking some of their students with them; that they attach themselves to an equal number of like-minded pro fessionals in the region; collect a few more students; and set up a small unchartered university that would be nothing but an as sociation. “Ten teachers would constitute a sufficient faculty for such a community of scholars. With in dividual classes of about fifteen, there would be 150 students.” Goodman believes that his plan would dispense with the external control, administration, bureau cratic machinery and “other ex- cressences” that have swamped our communities of scholars. 1 V. Cat! view He cites precedents for s> sion as the remedy fori fected communities: the te in medieval universities ajj Church control, the 17th tec rectors and vicars who lef|i ford and Cambridge to <;• their own dissenting acaia the founding of the New Si W or; for Social Research in Mlj, Goodman calls for such: ical plan because he feelsi “for the near future, at least touc prospect of large-scale refsq the great majority of scW and especially in the big oj is dim. The changes tha! most needed are the very-! that the college administrt will resist, for they undtn the administration’s excuses existence and provoke thel troversy it abhors.’.’ Sound Off- Future Dates CON NALL Y for GOVERN! the “Texas needs BIG JOHV stickers, buttons and literth available at Campus Heatt ters . . . North Gate (Upstiia across from Post Office. (Paid Poiitiiil- Tuei A cal Vati roun «c ique D< disci have cons and St grep geth tong have S( chan I leadi Editor, The Battalion: I enjoyed reading the letter about the Aggies who kept quiet 'while being jeered at after the University of Houston football game. I think the married stu dents should stop and think about the noise they make in their apartments. I have never seen people who have so little or no consideration for their neighbors, as the mar ried students who live in the apartments. Especially, the ones who do not have children who take naps in the afternoon. The ones who have children too old (or don’t^ bother making them) to take a nap give them horns, whistles and other things that make noise to play with; while some mothers are concerned about their children’s rest and health. Haven’t they ever heard of quiet games ? I think someone needs to stai't a course in “Living in Apartment Buildings.” I am sure I am not alone in my feelings. Almost everyone where . I live feels the game way and some even sti’ong. Name Withheld TODAY Management Seminar, Dallas Power & Light Co. Municpal Police School THURSDAY Civilian Student Council General conference, Agricultur al Extension Service Research Foundation counsel ors and trustees Texas 4-H recognition commit tee Freshman football, University of Houston, here ★ ★ ★ Editor, The Battalion: BERNIE LEMMONS ’52 quotes a leading magazine, “whether a young executive buys insurance at a relatively young or advanced age, he should keep in mind one basic rule for getting the most out of his purchase. He phould try to buy at one time as much insurance as he can afford.” For more information about a student program call BERNIE LEMMONS ’52 VI 6-5800 EVERY COLLEGE STUDENT CAN BENEFIT by reading this book An understanding of the truth contained in Science and Health with Key to the Scrip tures by Mary Baker Eddy can remove the pressure which con cerns today’s college student upon whom increasing de mands are being made for academic excellence. Free to You for 30 Days Science and Health may be read, borrowed, or purchased for $3 at any Christian Science Reading Room. On request a copy will be mailed to you post paid. After 30 days you may keep the book by remitting the cost or return it to the Reading Room in the mailing carton •"ovided. The Memorial Student Center, as all but a few nexy students know, is a monument to the men of A&M who died in combat for our country. As a tribute to these men, and to those who may someday join them, we observe two traditions: we do not walk on the grass and we removfe our hats upon entering. These are not just traditions of the corps; they are actions in respect of value. R. H. Faulk, ’63 FRIDAY Agricultural Extension Service meetings SATURDAY Varsity football, Baylor, there MONDAY State Extension Service con ference Graduate Engineers are virtually immune to unemployment, the En gineers Joint Council has reported. Continuing shortages in their pro fession, technological complexities of modern living, and the demands of military establishments create this happy picture. Industry pro vides the highest salaries for en gineers, and the government, the lowest. ^Jriunc^fe l^edtaurant 3606 So. College Bryan, Texas LUNCHES from 75^ on . . . That can’t be beat! AGGIE SPECIAL Hamburger Steak Chicken Fried Steak 95