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THE BATTALION
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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-
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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
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EDITOR
Managing Editor
Sports Editor
Dan Louis, Gerry Brown News Editors
The Associated Press’s top ten
news stories of 1962:
1. Russia establishes missile
bases in Cuba, U.S. successfully
blockades.
2. Three-orbit flight of Astro
naut John Glenn.
3. James Meredith enrolls as
the first Negro student in the
University of Mississippi, two
are killed in rioting.
4. 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
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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
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Sure to please or we will exchange it for
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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
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A VERY MERRY
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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<t
among the wishful thinkers, an
subject to a change of heart as
well as a change of tactics.
In the basis 6i hard reality, tj
appears more likely that Conra®
nist retreats are from position
which they undertook primarily a E( j
calculated risks, from which ttief ^
could safely withdraw if the re- j e
action proved too strong.
Both of the main Communist er-.
titles are in trouble. They are n j,
danger of losing the moment®
upon which their existence depends
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