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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.
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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.
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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.’.’
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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
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Editor,
The Battalion:
BERNIE LEMMONS ’52
quotes a leading magazine,
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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
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