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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, December 4, 1962 | BATTALION EDITORIALS Result Of High Costs: Many Students Say i No y The mere existance of a college or university seems to create problems, but the most perplexing may be the fact that the cost of a higher education is continually rising. A&M students have had a dose of this medicine during the past weeks with the raising of dormitory rent and the possible increase of state tuition costs Studies show, however, that this problem indeed can be found elsewhere The sad result is that many capable stu dents are losing the chance of obtaining a higher education. One can’t help but wonder how many students A&M would have if costs prevented not a single student from enrolling. The National Science Foundation, in a study made in the early 1950s, found then in the top 30 per cent of high school graduating classes, less than 45 per cent of the boys and 30 per cent of the girls completed a college education. The main reason given by these students for their failure was excessive costs. Many critics would counter this fact with proof that the number of scholarships available for undergraduates is increasing. This is true, but the problem is far from solved. Increased enrollments throughout the country have almost cancelled out the increase in available student aid. During most of this period of increase, A&M has been able to watch from the outside as costs here stayed low. This time is ending, however, and steps of some type are going to be needed in the future to alleviate the problem. The time to begin planning these steps is now, not after certain fees have been increased. (Editor’s Note: The following- letter is addressed to the Class of ’66.) Wednesday will be a lever pulling day for our class. It will be for us to step into the elec- —Job Calls— The following firms will inter view graduating seniors in the Placement Office of the YMCA Building: Wednesday Immigration and Naturaliza tion Service — Agricultural eco nomics, business administration, history and government, indus trial technology, physical educa tion and wildlife management. Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Mont gomery—Accounting, BBA, MBA. Missouri Pacific Railroad Co.— Civil engineering, electrical en gineering, industrial engineering and mechanical engineering, BS; business administration, BBA. Pure Oil Co.—Chemical engi neering, geology, mechanical en gineering, petroleum engineer ing and geological engineering, BS, MS. tion booths, pull down the elec tion levers and choose the candi dates to be forwarded to the run off elections. But an exception must be made for the vice pres idency. It will be for you to write-in your candidate for this office. My name is Mike Beck. I am running for our class vice pres idency as a write-in candidate. If you will make the exception of writing my* name in for this office, you will have taken a great step toward making an ex ception of our class. I run for this office, not be stating a long list of high school accomplish ments, for I feel these mean nothing and cannot measure up to the trials and decisions that lie in the future, but rather on plans to unify and excel the fighting Class of ’66. If plans like these interest you, do me, you and our class a favor by writing in Mike Beck for vice president Wednesday. Michael O. Beck ’66 ★ ★ ★ Editor, The Battalion: The purpose of the Student -FRESHMEN- VOTE FOR Paul Gardner For Secretary of Fish Class. He Has A Lot Of High School Experience. Thank You. THE BATTALION /ymunus expressed m The Battalion are those of the stu- mt writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax-supported, non- < ''fit, 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 Publications Board are James L. Lindsey, chairman ; Delbert McGuire, School of Arts and Sciences; J. A. Orr, School of Engineering; J. M. Holcomb, School of Agriculture; and Dr. E. D. McMurry, School of Veterinary Medicine. 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 Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter here in are also reserved. Second-class postage paid at College Station, Texas. MEMBER: The Associated Press Texas Press Assn. Represented nationally bj National Advertising Service, Inc , New York City, Chicago, Los An geles and San Francisco. Mail spbscriptions are $3.50 per semester; $6 per school year, $6.50 per full year. All subscriptions subject to 2% sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address; The Battalion. Room 4, YMCA Building, College Station, 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, Gerry Brown, Ronnie Fann News Editors Kent Johnston, Karl Rubenstein, Ted Jablonski Staff Writers Jim Butler. Adrian Adair Assistant Sport Editors Dale Baugh Photographer CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earls Future Dates FO. TODAY Varsity basketball, Lamar Tech, there Collegiate National Science Foundation conference Refrigerated Storage of Farm Products conference Aggie Players, “The Lady’s Not for Burning,” Guion Hall WEDNESDAY Freshman primary elections District IV American Alumni Council meeting State Comptroller conference THURSDAY Student Senate Mobil Oil Co. banquet Graduate lecture, Dr. Leslie A. Bulletin Board Geddes, Baylor Medical College Baptist Student Union all sports banquet FRIDAY Air Force Ball Graduate lecture, Dr. Carroll M. Williams, Harvard SATURDAY Varsity basketball, Memphis A NEW YEAR A NEW START Winter term begins Jan. 2 Day School Jan. 3 Night School Pick the Modern Road to Success Quick, practical training leads to TOP OFFICE POSITIONS McKENZIE-BALDWIN BUSINESS COLLEGE Bryan, Texas Dial TA 3-6655 State, here Graduate record examinatk for graduates and January g® uates MONDAY Texas Turfgrass conference GARZAS Restaurant Jan Resea Dallas the E initial GENUINE MEXICAN & AMERICAS FOODS 803 S. Main Bryn “ . . . Yeah, it’s a little early for Christmas decorations, hut it was either this or clean up my room!” Professional Societies ASME will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Rooms 3-B and 3-C of the MSC. Institute of Aero-Space Sci ences will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 229 of the Chemistry Building. Marketing Society will meet at 7 p.m. at Aggieland Studio and at 8 p.m. in Room 202 of Francis Hall. Wives Clubs Civil Engineering club will meet at 8 p.m. in the YMCA Building. Sound Off Senate is to serve as the official voice of the student body and to democratically represent the var ious interests of the students. The job of the student senators is to promote the welfare of the student body. Therefore an of fice of such responsibility re quires a person willing to devote time and energy to serving the students. Since I have been at A&M, I have observed many problems concerning the student body, and the freshmen in particular. If I am elected, I will use every means at my disposal as a stu dent senator to bring these prob lems out in the open and woi'k to solve them. I will also do everything in my power to in crease the privileges of the freshman class. Your vote for Mike Raybourne for student senator will be ap preciated. Michael L. Raybourne, ’66 ★ ★ ★ Editor, The Battalion: As long as everyone else is making statements about the Corps and civilians, I would like to put in my “two cents” worth. My complaint is simply this— when the American flag is low ered in the evening, why don’t, we as Americans stop and pay reverence to it ? I am speaking mainly of the civilian students who do not stop when the flag is being lowered. Most of them do, but there are a few who come out of the dorms laughing and NOW SHOWING “CHAPMAN REPORT” ADDED ATTRACTION “FLORIDA SPORT CAR RACES CIRCLE LAST NITE “CHILDRENS HOURS” & “HORIZONTAL LT.” PALACE ftryan2'$1l79 raising all sorts of . . . noise. It only takes a few seconds to stop, after all doesn’t the Amer ican flag stand for more than a mere joking tradition? I am not trying to start an other “Corps vs. civilian” cold war, but am trying to .remind each of us as Americans of our duty to our country. America is great because of its great men, its traditions and its democracy. Let’s not tear it down, but add to it and build an even better America. I challenge each of you to stop and stand at attention the next time the American flag is low ered . . . this evening. Thomas A. Cardwell. ’65 STUDENT MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS PUBLICATION SCHOOL TERM RATE 1 YEAR Atlantic Monthly 3.50 (8 mo.) Y 8.50 Downbeat 3.50 (8 mo.) 5.00' Ebony 2.00 (8 mo.) 3.50 Esquire 2.00 (8 mo.) 6.00 Fortune 7.50 Holiday 1.80 (6 issues) 3.60 Life * 2.00 (6 mo.) 2.98 Look 2.00 Negro Digest 2.40 (8 mo.) 4.00 New Yorker 3.00 (8 mo.) Newsweek 2.75 (34 wks.) 3.50 Reader’s Digest 2.97 Reporter 2.50 (8 mo.) 4.50 Saturday Eve. Post 2.00 (25 issues) 3.00 Sports Illustrated rates go up 1-1-63 4.00 Time 3.00 (8 mo.) 4.00 A NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE STORES SERVICE THE EXCHANGE STORE CAMPUS Please enter my order for the following magazines on the current Student Rate. I am including the 2% State Tax current ly collectable. NAME St. Address or P. O. Box Number City .State ..School Year of Graduation ...Amount . The Exchange Store ‘Serving Texas Aggies” Oafeiijms with MccShuhan {Author of “J Was a Teen-age Dwarf’’, “The Many Loves of Dobic Gillis”, etc.) DECK THE HALLS When you think of Christmas gifts you naturally think of Marlboro cigarettes, leading seller in flip-top box in all fifty states—and if we annex Wales, in all fifty-one—and if we an nex Lapland—in all fifty-two. This talk about annexing Wales and Lapland is, incidentally, not just idle speculation. Great Britain wants to trade Wiles to the United States for a desert. Great Britain needs a desert desperately on account of the tourist trade. Tourists are always coming up to the Prime Minister or the Lord Privy Seal or like that and saying, “Fm not knocking your country, mind you. It’s very quaint and picturesque, etc. what with Buckingham Palace and Bovril and Scotland Yard, etc., but where’s your desert?” (Before I forget, let me point out that Scotland Yard, Britain’s plain clothes police branch, was named after Wally Scotland and Fred Yard who invented plain clothes. The American plain clothes force is called the FBI after Frank B. Inchcliff, who invented fingerprints. Before Mr. Inchcliff’s invention, every body’s fingers were absolutely glassy smooth. This, as you may imagine, played hob with the identification of newborn babies in hospitals. From 1791 until 1904 no American parent Eta ty foi )rs. J point iy. for tl Engin Mai the fi engim id aft The tin, ai devek and d educa The in the ng at quet ; Sen zatior Mara! "Jack tand I Jun BA mier i order ; ports, not essen BUS .. o( ever brought home the right baby from the hospital. This later became known as the Black Tom Explosion.) But I digress. England, I was saying, wants to trade Wales for a desert. Sweden wants to trade Lapland for Frank B. Inch- cliff. The reason is that Swedes to this day still don’t have fingerprints. As a result, identification of babies in Swedish hospitals is so haphazard that Swedes flatly refuse to bring their babies home. There are, at present, nearly a half-billion un claimed babies in Swedish hospitals—some of them well over eighty years old. But I digress. We were speaking of Christmas gifts which naturally put us in mind of Marlboro cigarettes. What could be more welcome at Christmas time than Marlboro’s flavor, Marlboro’s soft pack, Marlboro’s flip-top box? What indeed would be more welcome at any time of year—winter or sum mer, rain or shine, night or day? Any time, any season, when you light a Marlboro you can always be certain that you will get the same mild, flavorful, completely comfortable smoke. There are, of course, other things you can give for Christmas besides Marlboro cigarettes. If, for example, you are looking for something to give a music lover, let me call to your atten tion a revolutionary new development in phonographs—the Low-fi phonograph. The Low-fi, product of years of patient research, has so little fidelity to the record you put on it that if, for instance, you put “Stardust” on the turntable, “Melancholy Baby” will come out. This is an especially welcome gift for people who have grown tired of “Stardust”. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night. © 1962 Max Shulmaa The makers of Marlboro cigarettes, who take pleasure in bringing you this column throughout the school year, wish to join old Max in extending greetings of the Season. PEANUTS By Charles M. Schiib PEANUTS LAST DAY “MIRACLE WORKER” STARTS TOMORROW Elvis Presley In “GIRLS-GIRLS-GIRLS” QUEEN NOW SHOWING Frank Sinatra In “MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE”