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
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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
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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
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A NEW START
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“ . . . 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
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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
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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
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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.
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