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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas
Thursday, February 14, 1963
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Hassle May Slow Down
Higher Education Hopes
Higher education may have suffered its first setback
of the current legislative session Tuesday when members of a
House subcommittee failed to agree over who should name
the members of a proposed 25-man committee to study Tex
as’ higher education.
Much more serious than this direct action is the fact
that several House members indicated a legislative show
down may be nearing with Gov. John Connally. This show
down, if it materializes, could slow up not only the naming of
a committee to study education, but other education legisla
tion as well.
The question now being debated is just who should name
the 25 members to the proposed committee. Connally wants
to appoint each member, but a House subcommittee recom
mended that Connally select five members, the House speaker
five members and the lieutenant governor five members.
How any hassle between Connally and the House would
effect other legislation is speculative, but little good can be
expected to result. No doubt much debate will accompany
college and university budget requests, and ill will between
the legislative and executive branches will be far from bene
ficial for higher education.
And of the three recommended budgets that the legisla
ture must consider for higher education, one will come directly
from Connally. The others, already submitted, are from the
Commission on Higher Education and from former Gov.
Price Daniel.
Hgher education indeed cannot afford to let a hassle
slow down progressive legislation.
Appropriate Observance
Engineers and engineering students throughout the
nation next week will mark “National Engineers Week.”
General theme of the week, proclaimed by the National Soci
ety of Professional Engineers, will be to present the story
of engineering—past, present and future^—to the public.
If such an observance is to be noted anywhere, surely
it would be here where approximately 15,000 engineering
degrees have been granted throughout the years. During
such a period of national interest in engineering and tech
nology, A&M stands out as one of the top engineering schools
in the nation.
Interesting facts to note:
1. Through 1961, A&M had awarded more engineering
degrees than any other institution in Texas.
2. Through ’61, about 45 per cent of all A&M under
graduate degrees were awarded to engineers.
3. Since 1947 A&M has annually awarded from 24 to
40 per cent of the engineering degrees granted in Texas.
4. A&M ranked 15th in the nation in number of en
gineering degrees awarded in 1959-60.
5. Three of the first four recipients of Distinguished
Alumni Awards were engineering graduates.
As American engineers pause to mark “their week,”
those practioners here can look back and truly feel that they
have had much to do with accomplishments in engineering.
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Ronnie Bookman
Van Conner
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CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle SCIENCE AND MORALITY—3
um ' ;
Everyone Has His Job
ill
(Third of a series)
Where Do We Fit In?
Col. John P. Stapp impressed
the scientific world as he repeat
edly sped down a specially con
structed track to study the ef
fects of deceleration.
Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger Jr.,
made daring high-altitude jumps
to test survival techniques for
pilots of high-flying aircraft.
Lt. Col. David Simons took his
man-high balloon 1914 miles
above the earth.
Maj. Robert White flew the
X-15 to a heighth of 47 miles in
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BY BOOKMAN
Don You Need
Any Insurance?
The phone rings.
I say hello.
“Hello, Ron. Say, got a min
ute? Good. I’d like to check
your insurance coverage with
you if you don’t mind.”
Click.
That scene is repeated at least
a hundred times a day when at
least a 'hundred seniors are
hounded by at least a hundred
insurance salesmen.
Now, I already have life in
surance. And hospitalization and
auto insurance. I don’t want any
more insurance and when I do
I’ll call my insuranceman.
College Station has some re
liable, professional-minded insur
ance agents. But some can’t re
sist the thought of cashing in on
the wallets of Aggies innocent in
the ways of the world.
College regulations prohibit
these scavengers from invading
the dorms and apartment areas
—but that leaves the phone, the
mails and traitors who sell their
buddies’ names for a cup of cof
fee or a tall one.
One shrewd would-be salesman
had nerve enoug-h to send post
age-due letters hawking his bill
of goods. If you’ve ever been
disgusted, it’s when you pay the
postman two cents for a letter
and it’s an ad that would insult
the intelligence of the lowest
frog.
With graduation time gleam
ing ahead, the pace is quickening
and sickening as it becomes*evi
dent to these smoothies that they
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have only a few more months to
soak the seniors.
This isn’t to say juniors and
underclassmen aren’t immune,
but the senior year is the time of
ambush.
These birds work round the
clock, and midnight or noon is a
common time for them to pound
on the day-duck’s door or phone.
Memo to these characters. I
have enough common sense to
know what I need and when I
need it. I do business with a
reputable agent, and when I want
something I call him. Give the
Aggies a break, and let them ask
for insurance when they want it.
Wives Clubs
Animal Husbandry club will
meet at 7:30 p.m. at 700 Thomas
St. A contest will be held to se
lect Mrs. Surpressed Desire.
Hometown Clubs
Corpus Ghristi club will meet
at 7:30 p.m. in Room 3-B of the
MSC.
Marshall club will meet at 7:30
p.m. on the second floor* of the
MSC. Pictures will be taken.
El Paso-Juarez club will meet
at 7:30 p.m. in Room 106 of the
Academic Building.
Brazoria County club will meet
at 7:30 p.m. in the second floor
lounge of the MSC. Pictures will
be taken.
South Plains club will meet at
7:30 p.m. at the main desk of the
•MSC. Pictures will be taken.
Houston-Reagan club will meet
at 7:30 p.m. in Room 226 of the
Academic Building.
Red River Valley club will meet
at 7:30 p.m. in Room 208 of the
Academic Building.
Big Thicket club will meet at
7:30 p.m. in the MSC.
Midcounty club will meet at
7:30 p.m. in Room 224 of the
Academic Building.
Washington, D. C. club will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 105
of the Military Sciences Building
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June 1962,: achieving a speed of
almost 4,000 miles an hour.
The achievements of the astro
nauts have been recorded on film,
TV tape and in print for all the
world to see, hear and wonder
about.
The average American, in re
viewing these exploits, may say,
“Great! But these men are spe
cialists. They work along- with
scientists every day. But where
do the ordinary Joes like us come
in ? How do we help in scien
tific “progress ? ”
You see, we’re all in this
together, not excluding the vj
and children who sit at homez
wait to ask Dad at the enj
the day, “How did things
As we all share in the
of scientific achievement, at
same time we also share it
responsibility. Every timet
administration becomes invul
in the development of defens
weapons, we, the public, arei
involved. Where do we fit
We’re all in this thing togeth
s h u ut o N
Hold it! Hold it! Does anyone
think that the Stapps, the Sim
ons, the Kittingers and the
Whites accomplished their feats
alone ? It took literally thous
ands of people to put them on
their sleds or in their balloons or
in their aircraft. Scientists, en
gineers, manufacturers, tool-mak
ers, technicians; yes, and cooks,
drivers, A.P.’s, clerks, and all the
rest of the military and civilian
workers involved in the projects.
—Job Calk-
m
The following firms will k|
view graduating seniors
Placement Office of the YHI
Building:
Friday
Ernst & Ernst — Accour.il
and industrial engineering.
National Distillers & Cheinii
Corp. — Mechanical engineeiij(
and chemistry, BS; chemical!
gineering, BS, MS.
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