Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Tuesday, December 18, 1962 ' 'f V% | 1 ''f# r ; , ^ BATTALION EDITORIALS Disqualification Wheels Move—And For Nothing The Battalion was more than a little taken aback Mon day night to hear the election commission recommend the disqualification of a freshman class officer candidate for the violation of a campaign rule that doesn’t exist. That’s correct. A candidate for freshman secretary- treasurer was disqualified for violating a non-existent rule. We are only glad that the disqualification isn’t final, but has to be verified by the Student Senate. The accused freshman, who tied his opponent in Fri day’s run-off election, was accused of campaigning in the Memorial Student Center. No where in the official College Regulations is campaigning in the MSC forbidden. The disqualification action was based on what several election commission members called “precedent.” Also it was brought out that special mention was made of the “rule” during a pre-election meeting of all freshmen candidates. The accused attended this meeting and, along with several other candidates present, says he does not recall mention of the “rule.” Meetings to clarify questions from any candidate, especi ally freshmen, appear to be a good thing. We feel, however, that all effectiveness is lost when new rules are thrown in and not included in the College Regulations. In reality, a candidate for any campus position should be able to turn to the College Regulations and find exactly what me may do and what is prohibited. As has been illus trated in the past, the last time during general elections last spring, candidates often cannot find the exact rules written in the College Regulations. Last spring, for example, the newly-elected Student Senate vice president was disqualified for putting campaign posters in classroom buildings. This is prohibited in the College Regulations, but The Battalion sincerely feels the ousted candidate simply didn’t understand the passage. A sizeable minority of the Student Senate group that disquali fied the candidate also agreed that the passage could be mis interpreted. Maybe these two instances will eventually prove bene ficial—at least a committee has been formed to study and possibly revise the College Regulations’ passages concerning student election campaigning. But the cost of progress, if there is to be progress, has been terribly high. Already one election winner has lost his position and another has two big strikes against him. We would hope this second candidate is not disqualified. As the College Regulations states: “Any violation of the rules will disqualify candidates.” This candidate did not violate a rule, only a “precedent.” JFK MEETS MACMILLIAN West Seems Bogged Down Before Talks In Nassau By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst Last week’s conferences among the Western allies in Europe ap pear to have produced little firm ground from which British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and President Kennedy can take off in their talks at Nassau this week. In one matter which has be come a major issue despite its relatively minor and tactical na ture, the two chiefs of state are having' to take with them their defense ministers who were sup posed to have covered the ground —Skybolt—last week. “ . . . Sir, would you give me th’ class assignment for the next class meeting—my grandmother is sick and I have to leave. I’d like to have th’ assignment for th’ first class after Christmas, too, cause Grandpa is looking sorta bad also!” Such information as is avail able on another major problem— the European Common Market— suggests that Macmillan failed to form with French President Charles de Gaulle, any sufficient ly concise premise to give him self and Kennedy a firm hand hold in their own discussions. Sound Off Editor, The Battalion: We are two little sisters of eight and ten years of age, named Margaret and Virginia. We live in a small country—Uruguay— where, without the great re sources you have, we must face however, our daily existence and our education. Here there are few opportuni ties for little girls to earn money, and that is why we ask for your help. We sell collection of ten colored postcards about Spanish monuments, landscapes, seasides and Uruguayan customs for $1. We also offer a collection of 30 stamps of Uruguay for $1. We need not only your contri bution, but your friends’. Please tell them about this kind help. If you accept our offer, please send a money order by the near est post office, your name and address, as soon as possible. By return mail you will receive the collections. Thank you very much for the attention you could pay to our request. Margaret and Virginia Fernandez Cobas, Casilla de Correo 1060, Sub Central, Montevideo, Uruguay, South America ★ ★ ★ ■ Editor, The Battalion: Something seems definitely awry to me when an organization such as the Memorial Student Center at an all-male school such as Texas A&M refuses to stock such normal magazines as Play boy, Nugget and Gent in its bookstands, but instead makes available such abnormal maga zines as The Demigods, The Young Physique and Modern Build. Take a close look at them. One thing we don’t need is male pin ups. Bob Hipp, ’63 More and more—and more and more unhappily—it appears that Europe is arriving at a policy of protectionism such as the United States began slowly to abandon 30 years ago. Following the De Gaulle-Mac- millan talks there is now open talk—with both sides more or less accusing the other of starting it —of a three-way grouping of trade spheres in the West, in stead of the two-way harassing with which the United States had hoped to confront the Communist sphere. The British-European market disagreement and the U.S.-Brit ish-French nuclear disagreement now seem likely to crowd what should have been the jnajor Ken- nedy-Macmillan topic into the background. That is how to make the best use of burgeoning Com munist weaknesses. Britain and France are so in tent on duplicating U.S. nuclear power as a part of their own na tional political and military posi tions that they pay little heed to American insistence on the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion as the proper holding com pany for both nuclear and im proved conventional defense measures in Europe. It all ties together, since Brit ain and France would be in a better position for economic com promise if they did not devote so much of their resources to that segment of the military posture already provided by the United States. And the United States would be in a better position to hold back from nuclear war, which no- Outer Seven partners areleftoi in the European cold. England and the United Stats already have reaffirmed thei partnership, this time in arrange ments for defense of India whitl may become more and more for mal as time goes on. TheywJ make their national policies clw on a wide range of common it terests. But the atmosphere hard!; seems conducive to firm decisioiislg r £ It is a time of flux, and vf feel'| ran ing-out operations, in Westenlj 0 i ( affairs. ft, “j flan it The speculation of the last fei weeks over Communist intention and the effect of the Cuban cot 04 frontation on the world’s futurei |, es j beginning to shake down a litb ac ^ ( bit. Communism is not surrendering The secretary-general of United Nations has joined the well! populated ranks of those who thinr there is a leavening in Soviet attitudes, that there have b«:| changes in the Communist worlil front since Stalin which offerroulsj to compromise. He thinks the Wei I is too afraid that compromis | means surrender. The corner store of the currenl belief in the possibility of changi in world affairs rests off-centeij primarily on quick Soviet retrea;! from the Cuban attempt to applfl fear in political, maneuvers againsif^ the United States. '^ Another of the rather shaky sup ports of this theory is that the in- + ternal fissues in the Communist monolith, as displayed in worli party reaction to the split between body wants, if conventional Eu- Moscow and Peking, represent m ^ PRESIDENT WINS FOR THIRD STRAIGHT TIME Kennedys, Cuba Tops Im y 62 News • ropean forces were available to act as a strong deterrent against territorial adventures from the East. The time hardly has arrived for a British inquiry as to the U.S. attitude about an English-speak ing front in case England, the Commonwealth and Britain’s sem The itio oje< etui akei fine g cc By The Associated Press The Kennedy family and Pi-es- ident Kennedy’s historic decision to enforce a Naval blockage of Cuba proved to be the top news personalities and events of 1962, according to the annual Associ ated Press year-end poll. For the third straight year, President Kennedy was named Newsmaker of the Year—primar ily in 1962 for his stands on the Cuban problem and the big steel disputes. Mrs. Kennedy won hands down to be named Woman of the Year. Faced with evidence that Rus sia was building and equipping bases in Cuba which could handle nuclear missiles, Kennedy’s re action was: get them out or else. In a grave TV talk to the na- ★ ★ ★ Top Personalities The Associated Press’s top news personalities of 1962: Newsmaker of the Year—Pres ident Kennedy Foreign Affairs—Fidel Castro Science—Dr. Frances Kelsey Business—Billie Sol Estes Labor—Arthur Goldberg Religion—Pope John XXIII Sports—Sonny Liston Entertainment — Marilyn Mon roe Literature—John Steinbeck Woman—Jacqueline Kennedy. tion Oct. 22, Kennedy outlined a seven-point program for fast military and diplomatic action to stop the Cuban buildup. He also said, “Should these offensive military preparations continue, thus increasing the threat to the hemisphere, further) action will be justified. I have directed the armed forces to prepare for any eventualities.” Russia backed down. With steel, the President used his powers of persuasion to bring- about a new contract which would hold down the inflationary spiral. The contract called for no pay increase, was reached without a strike. But when the major steel com panies raised prices only a few days later, Kennedy went beyond persuasion. Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy threatened antitrust suits and a grand jury investiga tion of price fixing. Big steel backed down. Mrs. Kennedy’s trips to India and Italy were given as devoted reportage as if they were summit meetings. When she rode to the hounds, took a turn on a surf board or appeared with a new coiffure, everybody discussed it. She became a television person ality to reckon with after she con ducted a televised tour of the White House she had refurAshed. No trivia escaped attention. When Leonard Bernstein, the New York Philharmonic conductor, gave her a chaste peck on the cheek at the opening of Philharmonic Hall, the question of the social kiss became a topic of the day. The tense story of the Cuban blockage and Russia’s eventual backdown was an easy winner in the editors’ poll of the top news events. Running neck-and-neck for second were the stories of John Glenn’s orbital flight and Negi’o James Meredith’s admis- ★ ★ ★ sion to the University of Missis sippi. Kennedy’s decision to blockade Cuba left a jittery world waiting while Soviet ships with unknown orders steamed toward the U.S. Naval blockade. The Navy came alongside 55 Cuba-bound ships, then let them pass through. After a series of statements Top News Events THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent writers only. 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The drug thalidomide is found to have caused thousands of babies to be born deformed. 5. Worst stock market dip since 1929. 6. Red China invades India. 7. Steel price rise is rescinded under pressure from President Kennedy. 8. Off-year election. 9. Two Russian spacemen orbit for several days and establish visual and radio contact. 10. Investigation of business manipulations of Billie Sol Estes. Kent Johnston, Glenn Dromgoole Staff Writers Jim Butler, Adrian Adair Assistant Sport Editors Ronnie Fann Photographer ~N PARDNER You’ll Always Win The Showdown When You Get Your Duds Done CAMPUS CLEANERS that began with bluster and mod erated to surprising compromise, Premier Khrushchev agreed that Russia would demolish its missile sites in Cuba, took his rockets and jet bombers home and said a UN team could conduct on-site inspection in Cuba. Cuban Premier Castro balked at on-site inspection, but the high tension had eased. Bulletin Board a guaranteed gift Sure to please or we will exchange it for another from our stock. THE EXCHANGE STORE “Serving Texas Aggies” Professional Societies Pre-Yet Society will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the amphitheatre of the Veterinary Hospital. An op eration will be shown via closed- circuit television. American Society of Mechan ical Engineers will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Rooms 3-B and 3-C of the MSC. Mercer H. Parks will speak. PALACE Bryan Z-SSlt To AH Aggies & Their Families and To All Our Other College Station Patrons The Manage ment and Staff Of The Palace & Queen Theaters Extend A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR NOW SHOWING SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE” QUEEN LAST NITE “TRAPEZE” & ‘THE VIKINGS” important weakening of anticapl talism. The Red Chinese punchpullingii ^ indexing related to the Soviti punchpulling in Cuba. The Communists, as a worli force, are off balance, and s