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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Wednesday, November 7, 1962 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle swc Campus Newsmakers Tech Discovers Dice In Union Disciplinary action has been taken against two students caught betting on a dice game in the Texas Tech Student Union Building. A crackdown by Tech’s chief of campus security and dean of men uncovered the gambling, be ing conducted in the union’s Games Room. The security offi cer reported he was fairly sure much more gambling had been taking place in the union. At least one person, who is not a student, is thought by the se curity officer to have been re sponsible for much of the gam bling. This man, a former stu dent, has been asked not to re turn to the union unless he reg isters as a student. ★ ★ ★ An administration-faculty “self study” at Texas Tech has re leased a broad list of findings and recommendations. Purpose of the study was to establish guidelines “for the ad ministration’s continuing effort to make Tech a better college.” Among - the findings: 1. Tech may best be defined as a multipurpose state univer sity. 2. Tech’s goal should be the achievement of first class univer sity status. The group also rec ommended a new name for the school to “indicate its function as a university.” 3. Administrative functions should be broadened and decen tralized. 4. A department to supervise institutional research should be established. Also coordination on research projects was singled but for imprqvement. 5. Major undergraduate recom mendations were the establish ment of a strong department of philosophy and development in anthropology, geography and fine arts. 6. Each department should pro vide a wider range of courses for majors and avoid excessive re quired courses. 7. Graduate programs should be expanded. 8. Faculty recruiting should be strengthened. Sound Off- Editor, The Battalion: We, the Class of ’66, have been following your advice and waiting patiently for our dope. We were all satisfied to hear that we would get coffee at the evening meal upon “the arrival of cooler weather.” Now we are forced to ask, when does “cooler weather” arrive ? We wear field jackets all day and go to football games in Class A, winter uniforms. It’s Novem ber now. “The Great Pumpkin” has come and gone; one-fourth of our year has passed; there are only 46 more shopping days un til Christmas, etc. In short, it’s getting cold out there! Can’t we have a little warm dope for our cold little bodies? Your interest in this project is appreciated by all classes. Co. D-3 freshmen by Walter Scott, we feel that his stand deserves praise. The increase in tuition of $100 will definitely put a burden on foreign and out-of-state students like us who are not of a wealthy family. For this represents not only $100, but from $200 to $300 more for those of us who' have been here at least a year and plan to graduate from A&M. When The Battalion said that students favoi'ed this hike in tui tion, it made no reference of the specific type of poll taken. To us, interviewing a handful of stu dents, “who all happened to agree in their opinions,” is not a I'epre- sentative poll. Furthermore, it has not been said why this hike in tuition is necessai'y and how the upperclassmen will benefit from this. In conclusion, we feel that if there has to be a hike in tuition that it should apply only to in- “ . . . I bet I can guess who’ll be th’ first man in Dallas for th’Corps Trip!” ★ ★ ★ Editor, The Battalion: In reference to the Letters the Editor of Thursday, Nov. Baylor Okays Filing Fee Baylor’s Student Congress okayed last week a controversial proposal to retain the university’s filing fee for all candidates for student body offices. A two and one-half hour de bate on the proposal ranged from an argument of principle versus practicality to a debate over the congress’ right, power and au thority to enact the fee. Even Baylor’s student newspa per, The Lariat, was involved in the controversy. The Lariat has been a chief advocate of doing away with the fee. PUBLIC LOSES TRUST Censorship Is Slam At Integrity Of Press By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst The business of official distor tion, suppression and deliberate falsification of news is something with which every newsman has to contend from his first day to Now World Looks Closely For Activity In Kremlin WASHINGTON <A>> — What’s going on in the Kremlin has now become more important to the world than what’s going on in Cuba or anywhere else. There has been some specula tion that Soviet Premier Khrush chev got himself out on the last twig of a very long limb because of pressure from more militant segments of the Soviet official family and of the international Communists, such as the Red Chi nese. This impression has perhaps been created by the extent of his wigglings to get off the limb, representing a rapid five-day re treat from one position after an other. There have even been some guesses that Khrushchev was pushed into those Cuban missile bases by his military advisers, and that he had to marshal all his power for a return to coexistence. No Westerner professes to know for sure. However, since the Soviet Un ion obviously was not prepared to risk the ultimate in military results, the evidence still seems to point to the whole thing as a political action, and Khrush- and the chev still is the Soviet political prophet. It seems very likely that he acted against rather than with the better judgment of the prag matic military. It is hardly be lievable that a sane military man would have endorsed such a risk taking for anything except po litical purposes in which a line of retreat was kept fully open. The retreat occurred quickly when it became certain that the Kremlin political mind had under estimated the political mind military determination of United States. Now much depends upon whe ther Khrushchev made the orig inal gambit strictly as a probing action and in an effort to inject a new factor into negotiations with the United States, and whe ther he withdrew only under both American and Kremlin pressures. Khrushchev has backed and filled so often at times of crisis, particularly during the last four years in the self-created quarrel over Berlin, that Washington now figures things could be a lot worse in international affairs with someone else at the helm in the U.S.S.R. AGGIES! 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Wednesdays M. S. C. his last. About the best he can do is try to develop a smell for it, produce the true facts if possible, or at least handle his report so that the ultimate blame will lie where it belongs and not involve the integrity of the press. At the same time he must consider the national interest. In this most portentous of all America’s wars since independ ence, as in all wars, the line is very hard to draw. Arthur Sylvester, Pentagon spokesman, says “News gener ated by actions of the govern ment as to content and timing are part of the arsenal of wea ponry that a president has in the application of military force and related forces to the solution of political problems or to the ap plication of international pres sure.” Defending against charges that official reports were misleading on the Cuban crisis prior to the President’s official announcement to the nation, Sylvester added: “The results, in my opinion, justi fied the methods we used.” The press certainly does not de sire to weaken the national ar senal. But the next time the Presi dent cuts short a trip because he has a real cold, how many people will immediately jump into bomb shelters ? How much vital news from the Pentagon—how much of all news—will be discounted? The major question, ( of course, goes to method and judgment. During World War II a second- echelon executive of the Office of War Information, upon whom the people were expected to rely for much of their information about the great struggle, told a former Associated Press colleague that Gen. Eisenhower was being brought home for consultation. It was only a brief time before the scheduled date of the inva sion of Africa. Unsuspectingly, the AP man filed a story through editors who could not know that Eisenhower would really be head ing in an entirely different di rection. The story was quietly quashed by other editors who were in the government’s confi dence. The OWI was disappointed at the failure of one of many con certed efforts to obfuscate the enemy about the invasion. Why, some of its men wanted to know, did the AP decline to “cooperate.” Having been responsible, I re plied. The answer was that in a time of crisis, even more than at other times, the confidence of the public in its free press was not only the best but almost the only means of general mobiliza tion behind the war effort. If that confidence was damaged, the ability of the government to reach the people or of the people to reach the government was diminished. In conducting cold war or hot war the government must pre serve some* secrets, and the free press of the United States in World War II cooperated to an almost unbelievable extent. It still intends to cooperate. The following firms will inter view graduating seniors in the Placement Office of the YMCA Building: Thursday B.J. Service Inc.—Chemical en gineering, petroleum engineering, chemistry, mathematics and physics, BS. Columbian Carbon Co.—Chem ical engineering and mechanical engineering, BS. Westinghouse Electric Corp.— Electrical engineering, industrial engineering, mechanical engineer ing and physics, BS, MS; nuclear engineering and -oceanography, MS. Thursday and Friday Esso Research and Engineering —Chemical engineering, BS, MS, PhD. General Electric—Aeronautical engineering, chemical engineer ing, electrical engineering, indus trial engineering, mechanical en gineering, chemistry, mathemat ics and physics, BS, MS. Well Spoken says BERNIE LEMMONS ’52 “It is simply not true that a person has to die in order to collect on his life insurance. Throughout the United States, a total of 4.8 billion in living benefits was paid by life in surance companies to, or in behalf of policy holders them selves during 1960. This total of living benefit payments was more than in any previous year. BERNIE LEMMONS ’52 Welcome To COACH NORTON’S PANCAKE HOUSE featuring Special Lunches Monday Thru Friday 11:30 til 2:00 Also Steaks, Shrimp and Other Fine Foods. East Gate Highway 6 So. m OPEN WIDE and SAY A-H-H-H!, Get that refreshing new feeling with Coke! Bottled under authority of The Coca-Cola Company by i Bryan Coca-Cola Bottling Co. coming freshmen, so that will be able to plan accori Juan G. Domingiit and 10 others Drive Underm To Erect Slum At Historic Sp —Job Calls— (Special to The Battalia AUSTIN—A statewide dr underway to raise $951 “Cerama Star” Shrine at f ington-on-the-Brazos, whet! Republic of Texas was tat The campaign was a* by Gov. Price Daniel afteis ing with Mrs. Mary Wood; then of Galveston, Holier Thornton of Dallas and te Wortham of Houston, Kk chairman the project, “Cerama Star," as vis by designer Clyde E. Gnt Woodville, will be a star-i! concrete building coverii? acres of ground at the hisli site near Brenham. It will contain more than! square feet of ceramics, ta Texas history. An elevator will take pas gers to the top. 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