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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Friday, January 11, 1963
CADET SLOUCH
| Looking Back ...
I At This Week
by Jim Earle
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ROTC Shake-Up
Causes Concern
Students and the administra
tion began the week with an ef
fort to interpret a weekend deci
sion by the Department of De
fense to eliminate compulsory
ROTC at land grant colleges and
to reduce enrollment in all ROTC
programs.
President Earl Rudder finally
announced Monday that A&M
won’t be affected by the program
because of its status as a mili
tary school.
The plan, released by Secretary
of Defense Robert S. McNamara,
calls for an end of ROTC in high
schools, elimination of compul
sory ROTC in land grant colleges
and reduction of the four-year
ROTC program in most colleges
and universities to two years. •
Rudder’s announcement seemed
to ease most feelings among stu
dents on the subject. In a cross-
section poll made Thursday, The
Battalion found that a good per
centage of the student body is,
not really concerned about the
proposal. Many students said
that since Rudder’s announce
ment, there has been little dis
cussion of the change.
the tests on their academic rec
ord.
PM
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Officials Seek
Stolen Paintings
The Battalion learned late
Wednesday that college and MSC
officials are seeking to find four
paintings stolen from the second
floor of the MSC in late Novem
ber.
Two students have confessed
taking the paintings, valued at
$500 each. In later developments 1 ,
charges have been filed against
the students. (See Page 1)
MSC Director J. Wayne Stark
said the students dumped the
paintings on a North Gate side
walk when they found out how
much the pictures were worth.
Now the paintings cannot be lo
cated.
Stark said the exact date of
the theft and the date the paint
ings were abandoned is not cer
tain.
African Nations Favor I l>s
Not Choosing In Congo ^
One huj
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
The president of the United
Nations General Assembly, visit
ing- far away Kenya, has made
a point which goes directly to
the attitudes of the Western
powers regarding the Congo.
He said United Nations Congo
policy is largely determined by
its African members and “they
should know the situation and
needs.”
They desire, said Sir Muham
mad Zafrulla Khan, of Pakistan,
“that the unity of the Congo
should be maintained on a terri
torial basis within the boundaries
drawn by the former Belgian ad-
Bulletin Board
. I get th’ feeling these graduating seniors are rubbing
it in!”
Permanent School Fund
Gives Over $21 Million
Graduate Exams
Made Compulsory
Dean of Instruction W. J. Graff
announced Wednesday that the
Academic Council has made the
Graduate Record Examinations
a requirement for graduation.
The examinations, first given
here last year, are currently on
a voluntary basis. The compul
sory ruling goes into effect in
1964. Each senior takes the ex
amination during the semester
immediately prior to his gradua
tion.
Graff said the primary purpose
of the tests was to evaluate in
structional programs with other
schools and with norms estab
lished here in the past. Also
most students entering graduate
school will be required to have
FRIDAY
“ISLAND IN THE SUN”
With Harry Balafonte
and Joan Fontaine
Plus
“COMMANDO CODY”
SERIAL”
(Special to The Battalion)
Texans who created a Perma
nent School Fund more than 100
years ago left a memorial every
Texas tax payer can understand
and appreciate today.
In size of the fund and money
earned, no other state in the na
tion has a comparable source of
non-tax funds dedicated solely
to public education.
The fund provided more than
$21 million of non-tax money for
use in public schools in 1962,' a
sharp increase of about $3 million
more than in 1961.
The increase in revenue is at
tributed to investment in corpor
ate securities, the refunding of
certain treasury bonds and nor
mal growth of the investment ac
count.
Investments in the Texas Per
manent School Fund totaled more
that $477 million at the end of
November, 1962, and current rate
of return from the fund has been
increased from 3.38 per cent to
3.51 per cent.
In the past 25 years, the fund
has earned in interest more than
$162,000,000, not including mon
ey transferred from the principal.
In the next 10 years, interest
earned should exceed $200 million
if the current rate of growth and
returns continues.
SATURDAY
“DESERT RATS”
With James Mason
Plus
“PORTRAIT IN
BLACK”
With Lana Turner
and Anthony Quinn
LATE SHOW SATURDAY
AND ALSO SUNDAY
‘MY FAVORITE SPY ,
With Bob Hope
and Hedy Lamar
For this period this sum would
represent a tax savings of more
than 40 per cent of the current
total valuation of $477 million.
The money will be needed as
the scholastic population of the
state is increasing rapidly, about
65,000 to 70,000 children each
year.
The problem of financing pub
lic education is not new since the
rapid increase in the number of
school children was the object of
concern as far back at 1856 when
Gov. H. R. Runnels addressed the
seventh legislature.
Runnels said, “As each year
passes, there will be more (chil
dren). In the wise provisions of
God, to whom He grants no
riches, He grants children in
abundance.”
The Permanent School Fund
has proved to be a rich and prof
itable leg-acy from the early Tex
ans, but it is doubtful if even
they could have dreamed that by
1972 Texas will have an estimated
three million school children to
share in the benefits of men who
planned to make certain, “equal
educational opportunities for all.”
Churches
Hillel Foundation will conduct
services Friday at 7:30 p.m.
Unitarian Fellowship will meet
at 8 p.m. Sunday in the home of
Allan Schrader, 723 Inwood in
Bryan. Mrs. Joyce Luke of the
Brazos County Youth Counseling
Service will speak.
Wives Clubs
Aggie Wives Council will meet
at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the
Brooks Room of the YMCA Build
ing.
Campus-Wide Clubs
Aggie Players will meet at 7:30
p.m. Monday in the Music Hall.
Casting will be conducted for the
group’s major spring production.
United Nations Club will meet
at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the YMCA
Building. Robert D. Thompson
of the Department of Business
Administration will speak.
ministration.”
An overly loose and partial
translation of this attitude is that
all of the new African countries
have enough trouble without be
ing forced, by politics or econom
ics, to make an eventual choice
between two governments in the
Congo.
What a good many of the po
litically more sophisticated Afri
can leaders would like to see is
some peace within which to work
out viable economic arrange
ments for the continent to over
come the results of arbitrary
non-ethnic boundaries established
during the period of European
colonialism.
Whether some Katangan tribal
leaders have asked for U.N. and
Leopoldville protection as re
ported and denied by the con
tending factions, the reception
given to the U.N. convoy between
Elisabethville and the Rhodesian
border Thursday does suggest a
Aggieland
Pic Scheduled
Civilian seniors, freshmen and
graduate students will have
their pictures made for the Ag
gieland ’63 according to the fol
lowing schedule. Portraits will
be made in suits and ties at the
Aggieland Studio between 8
a.m.—5 p.m.
January 9-10 — A-E
January 11-12 — F-J
January 14-15 — K-0
January 16-17 — P-S
January 18-19 — T-Z
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EDITOR
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Sports Editor
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Kent Johnston, Glenn Dromgoole Staff Writers
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By Charles M. Schub
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