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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.
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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!”
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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.
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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
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