THE BATTALION
Colleg-e Station, Texas Tuesday, November 6, 1962
BATTALION EDITORIALS
CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle
5 - >ip'rmgrYf 7 ¥^;i| i
WW^:
Short Trip To Registrar
May Prove Life-Saver
rr\
Next spring someone is sure to find his name missing
from the list of those eligible to graduate. It happens every
year and there is no reason for this spring to be an exception.
And there is little that can be done once the list of graduates
is posted.
The time to act is now. Assistant Registrar Luther A.
Harrison issued a warning last week for students planning
to graduate this spring. The warning, and one not to be
taken lightly—be sure and check the registrar’s office be
fore registering for that last semester.
These interviews with the registrar are designed to show
the prospective graduates the exact courses needed to com
plete all degree requirements.
Surely most students know exactly what stands between
them and a degree. Others will admit they have doubts. Only
one record is going to be followed—the one in the registrar’s
office.
f ^1*
N-.
We urge each prospective graduate to look into his
record. The step may prove invaluable and will certainly
not be a waste of time.
; irf>~u"—
Job Calls
“ . . . Very good men, however maybe we should stick to
football signs and leave politics out of it!”
Sound Off-
Editor,
The Battalion:
Getting to the point, I t walk
on the grass because I want to.
Now this desire most of the time
stems from the fact that I want
to get to wherever I might be go
ing as quickly and as easily as
possible. This is because all of
my life I have possessed that
characteristic called laziness.
Having stated my reason for
walking on the grass, it’s only
fair to state an opposing view in
order to evaluate any difference
of opinion. The main point a-
gainst is that if one or more or
all of the students here walked
on the grass, paths formed by
dead or dying grass would mar
the beauty of the campus.
We have at least a pro and con.
Now for the argument! Is this
disfiguration of the campus by
making streaks of dead grass
wrong or bad or something? If
so, why ? Some people claim that
since we have sidewalks and
things to walk on, anywhere else
we walk must not be right, since
we are not following the pattern
of the people who planned this
campus. We do this by not using
their sidewalks ... causing da
mage to the vegetation. Then, ac
cording to them, walking else
where than on planned routes
will destroy the artistic balance.
But then another school thinks
that anything made by man such
as buildings, roads, etc. destroys
the esthetic pattern of a per
fect nature. If this were true
than even sidewalks mar the
beauty of this campus which
would make unplanned paths
but a small evil by comparison.
We all know, though, that
something can be called beauti
ful simply because we impose
beauty upon it by creating some
criterion that some of us might
feel is beautiful. Examples are
certain styles of architecture or
certain feelings about art or
music. This brings us to the
point where we must admit that
perhaps one man’s interpretation
of beauty differs from that of
another man. I don’t always like
the music I hear, I think some
art is stupid, I think some build
ings look ridiculous. Yes, per
haps, I don’t even like sidewalks!
This argument is foolish! But
before getting to the intended
point of this article, which is
not even about walking on the
grass, keeping in mind the is
sue just covered, let me say that
I like sidewalks and occasional
ly even use the ones around here
when I’m not in a hurry.
The point is that we should
stop debating these “complex”
problems of whether or not our
spirit is better than that of
other schools, whether or not we
should say “howdy” to people,
whether or not we should stick
together and impress people,
and one or two others, and con
sider the more basic problems
such as whether or not we as a
nation are following a beneficial
foreign policy, whether or not a
totally free enterprise is bene
ficial and to whom, whether or
not the faculty is harming or
helping the student body, whether
or not the student body is harm
ing or helping the faculty, and
perhaps others.
Webster defines school as “an
institution for teaching children,”
which was not the definition I
was looking for but instead that
of university which he defines
as “an institution organized for
teaching and study in the high
er branches of learning . . .”
Since we’re supposed to be
learning “higher” things, let’s
start speaking and writing a-
bout subjects which require “high
er” thought. Let’s reach the
point, or try to, where we can
consider some of the problems
that will face us after gradua
tion more so than now, form opin
ions based on our reasoning as
well as that of others, and then
be able to express them intelli
gently posing perhaps a threat
or consolation to someone.
Joe N. Wanja
★ ★ ★
HI FI COMPONENTS & ACCESSORIES
STEREO AND L. P. RECORDS
TAPE RECORDERS AND ACCESSORIES
TRANSISTOR RADIOS AND BATTERIES
La Fayette Radio Electronics
Associate Store
3219 Texas Ave.
Editor,
The Battalion:
As a former member of the
Corps of Cadets, I was disturbed
by a recent letter written by an
English professor. This teacher
GARZA’S
Restaurant
GENUINE
MEXICAN & AMERICAN
FOODS
803 S. Main
Bryan
THE BATTALION
Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu
dent writers only. The Battalion is a noyis-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
McGuire, School of Arts and
School of Agriculture; and
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.
The
dispatch
Associated
credited
spontaneous origin published
in are also reservi
of all new
local news
matter here-
EVS
of
Second-class postage paid
at College Station, Texas.
MEMBER:
The Associated Press
Texas Press Assn.
Represented nationally by
t i s i n
lew
Ihicago, Los A
•presented n
National A d v e r
Inc., Ne
1 S
■rk
Service.
City, C
geles and San Francisco.
Mail spbscriptions are $3.50 per semester; $6 per school year, $6.50 per full year,
xiptions subject to 2% sales tax. Advertising rate furnished
The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA Building, College Stati
All subscriptions
Address :
ite furn ished on request,
on, 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, Gierry Brown, Ronnie Fann News Editors
Kent Johnston, Karl Rubenstein, Ted Jablonski Staff Writers
Jim Butler. Adrian Adair Assistant Snort Editors
Dale Baugh Photographer
LADIES
for
SKIRTS, BLOUSES,
LINGERIE, DRESSES
at a DISCOUNT
visit
The Discount
House
2 Doors From
Campus Theatre
BLACK LEATHER
GLOVES
Unlined, Lined
& Fur Lined
From $2.45 to $4.95
WOOL OVERSEAS
CAPS
$2.45 and up
LOUPOT'S
North Gate
Editor’s Note: The above-
mentioned letter, published by
The Battalion on Oct. 1, was
originally addressed to Cadet
Col. of the Corps Bill Nix and
has received Nix’s endorse
ment.)
SHOP
A&M MEN’S SHOP
“Home of
Distinctive Men’s Wear”
North Gate
College Station
NOW SHOWING
“LOLITA”
CIRCLE
LAST NITE
“COUNT OF MONTE
. CRISTO”
&
“SUSAN SLADE”
STARTS TOMORROW
Elizabeth Taylor Nite
‘CAT ON A HOT TIN
ROOF”
&
BUTTERFIELD 8”
The following firms will inter
view graduating seniors in the
Placement Office of the YMCA
Building:
Wednesday
Allen-Bradley Co. — Industrial
engineering and mechanical en
gineering, BS; electrical engi
neering, BS, MS.
Ford Motor Co. — Electrical
engineering, mechanical engineer
ing, chemistry and physics, BS,
MS, PhD; mathematics, BA, MA,
PhD; industrial engineering and
industrial technology, BS, MS;
economics, BA, MA; and account
ing and marketing, BBA, MBA.
Texas Instruments Inc. —
Chemical engineering, electrical
engineering, mechanical engineer
ing, physics and chemistry, BS,
MS, PhD.
Texas Power & Light Co. —
Civil engineering, electrical en
gineering and mechanical engi
neering, BS; business administra
tion, BBA.
Robert H. Ray Co. — Electri-
Future Dates
was a witness to an instance that
must happen on this campus at
least a 100 times every day,
that is the correcting of a fish
by an upperclassman. Along with
thousands of other Aggies I have
gone through the same type of
disciplinary training without any
ill effects. If the freshman was
as humiliated as the professor
said he was, it was only because
he, the professor, had stuck his
nose where it certainly did not
belong.
One of the big problems on this
campus is the butting-in of out
siders who do not understand
the Aggie way of life, and who,
because of this, attempt to change
the traditions of Aggieland.
I could go on like this for
page after page but realizing
that my comments will fall on
deaf ears and that the outsiders
are here to stay, I must be con
tent to think back to the “good
old days” when this school turned
out men who were real Aggies
and Texans and not the by-pro
duct of a “new Army” led by
English professors.
Bill Lang, ’62
TODAY
Town Hall, Bernstein Gala, G.
Rollie White Coliseum
Electrical Metermen's Short
Course
Municipal Police School
Aggie Players, “The Male Ani
mal,” Guion Hall
WEDNESDAY
Special speaker, All-Faiths
Chapel
Turkey Industry Day
THURSDAY
Football, Fish vs. Rice, here
Civilian Student Council
SATURDAY
Corps trip, varsity vs, SMU,
Dallas
MONDAY
Mid-semester grade reports
Texas Beekeepers Association
Bulletin Board
Profesional Societies
Pre-Vet Society wifi meet at
7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of
the School of Veterinary Medi
cine. Dr. J. H. Boring will speak
ori a trip to South Africa.
American Nuclear Society will
meet at 5 p.m. in Room 211
of the W. T. Doherty Building.
Dr. C. F. Squire will speak on
nuclear magnetic resonance.
Industrial Education Society
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room
107 of the ME shops.
PALACE
Bryan Z’SS79
LAST DAY
Roy Calhoun
In
“ADVENTURES OF
MARCO POLO”
(In Color)
STARTS TOMORROW
E AtVl y.'ilSa'*
MGM SUSAN PETER
'SHAYWARD-FINCHfew
mm
IAA IN V— T r\ 1
Cll FNTfHIISACK
QUEEN
'BEST PICTURE!"
Winner of 10 Academy Awards
NOW
SHOWING
Feature
7:30 P. M.
Umt UHfTCO MTISK
cal engineering and physics, BS;
geology and geological engineer
ing, BS, MS.
Standard Oil Co. of California
— Chemical engineering, petro
leum engineering and mathema
tics, BS, MS, PhD; electrical en
gineering and mechanical engi
neering, BS, MS.
Bureau of Reclamation — Civil
engineering, electrical engineer
ing, mechanical engineering and
geological engineering, BS, MS.
Wednesday and Thursday
Western Electric Co. — Elec
trical engineering, industrial en
gineering and mechanical engi
neering, BS, MS; economics, BA;
business administration and ac
counting, BBA.
NASA-Flight Researclfi
Aeronautical engineering,i
cal engineering, meek::
gineering and physics, Bi
PhD; mathematics, BA,5!i
Well Spoken says
BERNIE LEMMONS
“It is simply not true d
person has to die in ora
collect on his life ins?
Throughout the United s
a total of 4.8 billion ii
benefits was paid by li
surance companies to,
behalf of policy holders’
selves during 1960. This
of living benefit paymer/.
more than in any previou
BERNIE LEMMON’S
On Campus
with
M
(Author of “/ Was a Teen-age Dwarf”, “The Mm)
Loves of Dobie Gillis”, etc.)
t
GLOOM AT THE TOP
Oh, sure, you’ve been busy, what with going to classes, dob;
your homework, catching night crawlers, getting married-
but can’t you pause for just a moment and give thought to tbi
dear, dedicated, lonely man in the big white house on the i!
I refer, of course, to the Prexy.
(It is interesting to note here that college presidents are si
ways called “Prexy.” Similarly, trustees are called “Trixie'
Associate professors are called “Axy-Pixy.” Bursars are caW
“Foxy-Woxy.” Students are called “Algae.”) .
But I digress. We were speaking of the Prexy, a personages!
once august and pathetic. Why pathetic? Well sir, considerbuJ
Prexy spends his days. He is busy, busy, busy. He talk»
deans, he talks to professors, he talks to trusteees, he talks to
alumni. In fact, he talks to everybody except the one group
who could lift his heart and rally his spirits. I mean, of cook,
the appealingest, endearingest, winsomest group in the enta
college—you, the students.
It is the Prexy’s sad fate to be forever a stranger to you
laughing, golden selves. He can only gaze wistfully out tke
window of his big white house on the hill and watch you at you
games and sports and yearn with all his tormented heart to bask
in your warmth. But how? It would hardly be fitting forPresj
to appear one day at the Union, clad in an old rowing blasei,
and cry gaily, “Heigh-ho, chaps 1 Who’s for sculling?’!
No, friends, Prexy can’t get to you. It is up to you to get to
him. Call on him at home. Just drop in unannounced. Hed
naturally be a little shy at first, so you must put him at ki;
ease. Shout, “Howdy-doody, sir! I have come to bringaW
sunshine into your drear and blighted life!” Then yankh
necktie out of his vest and scamper goatlike around him until
he is laughing merrily along with you.
Then hand him a package and say, “A little gift for you, sir.'
“For me?’! he will say, lowering his lids. “You should:i
have.”
“Yes, I should,” you will say, “because this package?
a carton of Marlboro Cigarettes, and whenever I think to
Marlboro, I think of you.”
“Why, hey?” he will say curiously.
“Because Marlboros have taste, and so do you,” you $
reply.
“Aw, go on,” he will say, blushing furiously.
“It’s true,” you will say. “Moreover, Marlboro has a If
and so do you.”
“In my swimming pool, you mean,” he will say.
“Yes,” you will say. “Moreover, Marlboro has a soft psA
and so do you.”
“My limp leather brief case, you mean,” he will say.
“Yes,” you will say. “Moreover, the Marlboro
flip-top, and so do you.”
“But I don’t have a flip-top,” he will say.
“But you will,” you will say. “Just light a Marlboro, an:
taste that tasty taste, and you will surely flip your top.’ 1
Well sir, you will have many a good chuckle about ihal, ft
may be sure. Then you will say, “Goodbye, sir, I will retuTa
soon again to brighten your lorn and desperate life.”
“Please do,” he will say. “But next time, if you canpossHj
manage it, try not to come at four in the morning.”
© 1982 MuSkiW
Prexy and undergrad, male and female, late and soon,hi'
weather and foul—all times and climes and conditions
right for Marlboro, the filter cigarette with the unlilttrd
taste, '
PEANUTS
ONLY 41
MORE DAYS
UNTIL ,
Beethovens
BIRTHDAY!
I
By Charles M. ^
PEANUTS
I LdOOLOMT 5PEA1CTO VOJ [FI
MET Yoa ON THE STREET OH TKE
OCEAN, IN THE AIR OR ON THE MOON'
T
HOOJ A60UT IF IUERE „
OWING THROOOH THE