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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 5, 1963
CADET SLOUCH
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Space Fiesta Will Offer
Opportunity For Everyone
The Memorial Student Center is the home of countless
exhibits, but probably no exhibits of the past or future can
compare with the space material now on display throughout
the center. Ranging from a replica of the Mercury capsule
to a full scale model of the Telstar satellite, the current ex
hibits are only a small part of the first Space Fiesta, which
gets underway in full swing Wednesday.
On first seeing the present displays, we were stunned
by the apparent cost of staging such an exhibit. Even more
astonishing is the fact that the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration has 20 such exhibits being shown
throughout the United States.
Regardless of the cost, however, the exhibits are cer
tainly worth the expense and trouble and should be a must
for every citizen, student or otherwise. Whether we like it
or not, we are caught up completely in the race for space,
and such exhibits as the one currently on display offer a
wealth of knowledge and understanding which may prove
invaluable in the future.
Also encouraging is the fact that seven private firms
are sponsoring exhibits along with the government and the
Air Force. And adding a touch of glamour to the Spaces
Fiesta, a Congressional subcommittee will arrive Friday to
view the proceedings and hear an address by Dr. Robert R.
Gilruth, director of NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center in
Houston. Other speakers will be Dr. Herbert Trotter of Gen
eral Telephone and Electronics Laboratories Inc., Gifford K.
Johnson of Ling-Temco-Vought Inc. and Air Force Lt. Col.
Paul Maret.
To many students, the Space Fiesta may have slipped
up during just-completed examinations as a complete sur
prise. Even if that be the case, the exhibits and upcoming
addresses offer much to us all and provide a rare opportunity
for every citizen and student.
by Jim Earle Future Dates
“ It appears that someone punched some new holes in these cards during registra
tion!”
No Informing Mn iTARYS promise pondered
Hurts student Will Peru Really Conduct Elections?
Governments
(By the Intercollegiate Press)
Athens, O. Communications is
the main problem facing student
government organizations at Ohio
University in procuring students
to screen for positions on campus.
This was the genei’al feeling at
a special meeting of dormitory,
fraternity and sorority presidents
and activities chairmen called re
cently to discuss the indifference
of students about screenings.
LIMA, Peru <A>) — Will Peru’s
military bosses permit general
elections next June as they prom
ise ?
Or will they find a pretext to
remain in power?
Peruvians are pondering the
question even as they register to
vote for the election scheduled
June 9.
The country has been ruled by
a military junta since last July 18
when the armed forces cut short
a crisis over the returns in a
regular presidential election by
overthrowing the government of
President Manuel Prado.
Eyery chance it gets the junta
emphasizes that, come what may,
elections will be held June 9. And
it insists, rumors to the contrary,
that none of the junta’s members
has any political ambitions.
Yet despite such repeated as
surances and without any tangible
evidence to support their views
many Peruvians are openly skep
tical.
Representative Questions
Student Cabinet screening
chairman Regina Stanford, who
also served as chairman of the
meeting, pointed out that only
two or three people usually ap
ply to screen for campus chair
manships, and recently she had to
reopen applications for a posi
tion because she had received only
Records Of State Planes
Several ideas, including the
possibility of mock screening com
mittees that would visit all the
housing units, were offered as
solutions to the problem. “The
basic purpose of the mock screen
ing,” said Miss Stanford, “would
be to educate and interest stu
dents in screenings.”
She said that too often stu
dents are afraid to screen for
positions because they have never
screened and do not know the
procedure, or they do not know
enough about the position for
which they want to screen.
(Special to The Battalion)
AUSTIN, TEX. — Rep. James
Gotten of Weatherford — one of
the most militant members of
the 58th Legislature — is examin
ing the flight records of state-
owned planes.
Gotten is concerned about what
he considers frivolous use of state
property — namely, three air
planes which the Department of
Public Safety is supposed to use
for transporting officers to dis
tant scenes of crimes, or to at
tend law enforcement meetings
without missing too many duty
hours.
Gotten says he has discovered
these planes have been used: For
rushing a representative home
for the weekend; for ferrying a
state senator home to make a
speech; for transporting the
state librarian to a monument
on the coast “to get ideas on how
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Gotten wants to know: “How
much did these junkets cost?”
State pilots haven’t answered,
but Austin airport authorities
guess the cost at $26 to $75 an
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is used — plus pilot’s time.
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Weatherford is talking about
grounding all passengers except
those who are entitled to use
state planes for necessary, offi
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He plans to introduce a bill
that would forbid legislators from
hitch-hil'ftng rides aboard the
planes unless they were on offi
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Some say that they just cannot
believe that the military, having
tasted such power and prestige,
will give up a good thing.
A lack of enthusiasm over the
scheduled election is seen in the
slow pace of registrations. Only
a relative handful of the nation’s
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estimated 1.7 million eligible vot
ers has registered so far as the
Feb. 12 deadline nears. Peru has
a population of 11 million.
The head of the junta, Gen.
Ricardo Perez Godoy, is a man
who looks much like the Soviet
Union’s Premier Khrushchev—
bald, round-faced and stocky. But
there the resemblance ends. Perez
Godoy is anti-Communist, anti-
Castro and pro-United States.
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TODAY
Space fiesta exhibits, MSG
Varsity and freshman basket
ball, Texas, here.
Graduate lecture, Dr. Richard
T. Arnold, Chemistry Building
Executive development course
Plant protection course
Municipal police school
WEDNESDAY
Space fiesta, Lt. Col. Paul
Maret and Dr. Herbert Trotter
Jr.
THURSDAY
Space fiesta, Col. Maret and
difford K. Johnson
Student Senate
Faculty-staff dinner danti|
Chapel speaker, ‘ Dr,
Smith
Brazos Valley tax assefl
conference
FRIDAY
Space fiesta, Col. Man§
Dr. Robert R. Gilruth
SATURDAY
Varsity basketball, TCU,ti|
Space fiesta exhibits
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{Author of "I Has a Teen-age Dwarf,” "The Many
Loves of Dobie Gxllis,” etc.)
THE CURSE OF THE CAMPUS: NO. 1
Hate me if you will, but I must speak. We college types are
far too complacent. Sure, we’ve got plenty to be proud of.
We’ve got atom smashers, we’ve got graduate schools, we’ve got
new peaks in scholarship, new highs in academic honors. And yet,
in the midst of these triumphs, we have failed dismally to make
any progress in solving the oldest and most horrendous of all
campus problems: we’ve still got roommates.
To be sure, all roommates are not bad. Thefe is the well-
documented case of Hilquit Glebe, a student at the Manhattan
College of Agriculture, majoring in curds and whey, who ad
mitted publicly that he actually liked his roommate—an odd
admission when. you consider that this roommate, Mervis
Trunz by name, was frankly not too winsome a fellow. He
practiced his tympani in his room, he kept an alligator, and he
collected airplane tires.
But, on the other hand, Mervis bought two packs of Marlboro
Cigarettes every day and gave one of them to Hilquit and—I ask
you—who can stay mad at a man who gives you Marlboro
Cigarettes? Who, upon tasting that flavorful blend of Marlboro
tobaccos, upon drawing through that pure white Marlboro filter,
upon exulting in this best of all possible cigarettes, Marlboro-
who, I say, can harden his heart against his neighbor? Certainly
not Hilquit. Certainly not I. Certainly not you, as you will find
when you scurry to your nearest tobacconist and buy a supply.
Marlboros come in soft pack or Flip-Top Box. Tobacconists
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fear they always will be, so we better learn how to get along
with them. It can be done, you know. Take, for instance, the
classic case of Dolly Pitcher and Molly Madison.
Dolly and Molly, roommates at a prominent Midwestern
girls’ school (Vassar) had a problem that seemed insoluble. Dolly
could only study late at night, and Molly could not stay awake
past nine o’clock. If Dolly kept the lights on, the room was too
bright for Molly to sleep. If Molly turned the lights off, the
room was too dark for Dolly to study. What to do?
Well sir, those two intelligent American kids found an an
swer. They got a miner’s cap for Dolly! Thus, she had enough
light to study by, and still the room was dark enough for
Molly to sleep.
It must be admitted, however, that this solution, ingenious
as it was, had some unexpected sequelae. Dolly got so en
chanted with her miner’s cap that she switched her major from
18th Century poetry to mining and metallurgy. Shortly after
graduation she had what appeared to be a great stroke of luck:
while out prospecting, she discovered what is without question
the world’s largest feldspar mine. This might have made Dolly
very rich except that nobody, alas, has yet discovered a use for
feldspar. Today Dolly, a broken woman, squeezes out a meagre
living making echoes for tourists in Mammoth Cave.
Nor has Molly fared conspicuously better. Once Dolly got
the miner’s hat, Molly was able to catch up on her long-lost
sleep. She woke after eight days,, refreshed and vigorous—more
vigorous, alas, than she realized. It was the afternoon of the
annual Dean’s tea. Molly stood in line with her classmates,
waiting to shake the Dean’s hand. At last her turn came, and
Molly, full of strength and health, gave the Dean a firm hand
shake—so firm, indeed, that all five of the Dean’s knuckles
were permanently fused.
The Dean sued for a million dollars, and, of course, won. To
day Molly, a broken woman, is paying off her debt by walking
the Dean’s cat every afternoon for ten cents an hour.
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