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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, February 19, 1963
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Where Were The Fans?
And As For Tonight.
Twice last week the doors of G. Rollie White Coliseum
opened for Aggie basketball games. Twice the Cadets de
feated Southwest Conference powerhouses to remain in con
tention for the SWC title. And twice only every other seat
in G. Rollie White Coliseum was occupied.
You ask why? So do we.
Were the disappointing crowds due to bad weather?
Were students too snowed under with quizzes? Were stu
dents present, but townspeople conspicuously absent? Were
other activities keeping students away ? Or were many fans
discouraged after the home-court loss to the University of
Texas ?
There are several possible answers, but standing out
above the others is the fact that many fans—both students
and townspeople—might simply have given up. We find it
hard to forget this statement made by an athletic department
official as the stands were filling up for the Texas game:
“And weTl pack ’em in like this for SMU, too!” Unfor
tunately, he was mistaken.
Of course other factors might have cut down attendance.
The FYeshman Ball undoubtedly hurt attendance Saturday,
and fewer townspeople and out-of-town fans have been in
attendance since the Texas loss.
As for students, they will have opportunity tonight to
show they haven’t given up. The Aggies play Texas in Austin
tonight . . . need we say more?
Wednesday
Charles Pfizer & Co., Inc.—
Agricultural economics, agrono
my, biology, business administra
tion, entomology, chemical engi
neering and chemistry.
Wednesday and Thursday
General Dynamics / Astronau
tics — Aeronautical Engineering,
civil engineering, electrical engi
neering, mechanical engineering,
mathematics and physics, BS,
MS, Ph.D.
Linde Co.—Aeronautical engi
neering, electrical engineering,
industrial engineering and me
chanical engineering.
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“ . . . Have a good time at th’ Fish Ball?’
SCIENCE AND MORALITY—5
Titov Couldn’t See' God
(Fifth of a series)
‘ I Saw No God’
When the Russian cosmonaut,
Gherman Titov, visited the Uni
ted States in the spring of 1962,
he was interviewed by newspaper
reporters at the Seattle World’s
Fair. The question most persist
ently put to him was this: Had
his twenty-five hours in space
changed his philosophy or his
way of thinking?
Through an interpreter, Titov
gave his reply: “Some people
say that there is a God out there.
But in my travels around the
earth all day long 1 looked around
and did not see him. I saw no
God or angels. Up to our first
orbital flight by Yuri Gargarin
no God helped build our rocket.
The rocket was made by our
people. I don’t believe in God.
I believe in man, his strength,
his possibilities and his reason.”
Titov, in this statement, was
using the sorriest and most in
fantile type of argument: If I
do not see a thing, it does not
exist. If this were the ultimate
criterion, we would have to reject
the existence of the atom since
no scientist has ever seen one!
We would have to reject the very
existence of ideas!
The affirmation of the exist
ence of God outside the world
of sense is more than a childish
fancy. The greatest intellects in
all ages have come to the conclu
sion that a Supreme Being exists,
since there is no other explana
tion for the complexity and har
mony of the universe.
Eevn a professed unbeliever
like Charles Darwin, in writing
on the descent of man, said, “The
question whether there is a Crea
tor and Ruler of the universe has
been answered in the affirmative
by the highest intellects that have
ever lived.”
While Titov may be admired
for his courage and his skill in
orbiting the earth seventeen
times, his standing as a scientist
will always be a question. No
scientist with a thought for his
reputation would ever reject the
existence of something—even of
God—because he didn’t “see” him.
This would be the weakest of all
arguments for the establishment
of atheism.
Padre Prospects Brighten
(Special to The Battalion)
AUSTIN — Prospects are
brig-hter for passage of Padre
Island National Seashore legisla
tion by the House.
An impressive parade of sup
porting witnesses went before
State Affairs Committees in both
the House and Senate and a sur
prising about-face occurred on
the part of Land Commissioner
Jerry Sadler.
Similar testimony was heard
by the House ^tate Affairs Com
mittee . . . studying bills by Reps.
Menton Murray of Harlingen and
Ronald Bridges of Corpus Chris-
ti. A single opposing spokesman
stated that he just did not like
the idea of creating a national
seashore area.
Bulletin Board
PARDNER
You’ll Always Win
The Showdown
When You Get
Your Duds Done
At
CAMPUS
CLEANERS
Several hundred seashore
boosters journeyed to Austin . . .
largely from Nueces, Willacy and
Cameron counties ... to pack the
mid-week hearings.. A total of 27
witnesses testified in favor of
Sen. Bruce Reagan’s Padre pro
posal, with no one appearing in
opposition.
Wives Clubs
Civil Engineering club will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Gay
Room of the YMCA Building.
Entomology club will meet at
7:30 p.m. on the second floor of
the YMCA Building for a bridge
party. Contestants have been
asked to bring partners.
Airline
Reservations
and
Tickets
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And Pleasure Trips
Call TA 2-3784
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Travel Service
1411 Texas Ave.
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Associate Editor
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LAST DAY
Richard Eagen
In
“300 SPARTANS”
STARTS TOMORROW
Peter Ustinov
&
Robert Ryan
In
THEHEM!
THE MUTINY!
THE MIGHT!
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MMom
Ol M em AScO PEE .
CIRCLE
LAST NITE
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In
“WAR LOVER’ 5
&
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In
WACKIEST SHIP
THE ARMY”
PALACE
Bry an 2'S$79
LAST DAY
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In
“A CHILD IS
WAITING”
STARTS TOMORROW
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THE LION”
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LAST NITE
“PEPE”
&
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Wednesday-Friday
Humble Oil & Refining Co.—
Accounting, BBA, MBA; chemi
cal engineering, civil engineering,
electrical engineering, geology,
geophysics, geological engineer
ing, mechanical engineering, pe
troleum engineering and physics,
BS, MS, PhD.
Union Carbine Chemicals Co.—
Chemical engineering, chemistry,
AGGIELAND PORTRAIT
SCHEDULE
CORPS JUNIORS AND
SOPHOMORES
All juniors and sophomores in
the corps will have their portrait
made for the AGGIELAND ’63
according to the following
schedule. Portraits .will be made
in Class A winter uniforms.
Portraits will be made at the
Aggieland Studio between the
hours of 8 a. m. and 5 p. m. on
the days scheduled.
Feb. 18-19
Feb, 19-20
Feb. 20-21
Feb. 21-22
Feb. 25-26
Feb. 26-27
Feb. 27-28
,Feb. 28-March 1
March 4-5
March 5-6
March 6-7
A, B, C, D-l
E, F, G,-l
A, B, C, D-2
E, F, G-2
A, B, C, D-3
E, F, G, H, 1-3
Maroon-White
Band
Sqdns. 1-4
Sqdns. 5-8
Sqdns. 9-12
Sqdns. 13-16
ATTENTION CORP SENIORS
After Friday Feb. 22 absolutely
no Aggieland pictures will be
made. If your picture is not
made by then it will not appear
in the Aggieland.
Class Section Editor
CIVILIAN MAKE UP
from Feb. 18 - 22.
The Discount House
2 Doors from Campus Theatre
WHERE YOUR DOLLARS HAVE MORE CENTS
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LADIES SKIRTS ALL MATERIALS AND STYLES
$3.95 skirts $2.98
$4.98 skirts 2.98
$5.98 skirts 4.98
MEN’S BOXER SHORTS AND T SHIRTS
3 pair $2.05
MEN’S SWEATERS AND JACKETS
25% OFF
The Discount House
two doors from Campus Theatre
USE OUR CONVENIENT LAY-AWAY PLAN
Job Calls
‘PRE
The following firms will inter
view graduating seniors in the
Placement Office of the YMCA
Building:
electrical engineering and me
chanical engineering, BS, MS,
PhD.
Summer Employment
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Chemical engineering, ci
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geology, geological ei
mechanical engineering I
troleum engineering. I
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K. K. Dodger says: By Eugene Rush*
"To heck with the Coll.
regulations! Buy your
policy from a man who is
ollege.
life in
£
and its
surance
smart enoug
without gettin:
sneak into your room without gett
caught.”
♦Insuranceman, North Gate
(By Th
PALTO
quiet coll
1963 —SUMMER SESSIONSlf$F r()uncli
University of San Frutia 1 centers oi
GUADALAJARA, Mexico—JuntM gpd preSS
$240.00 includes tuition, bd a r
room, and activities. BLt'k, dll'
LENCIA, Spain—Jun.28.,M Ung an(
ICWI
Several plans to fit ini
quirements from $615.M i: ai «tp-„ ft,
tuition, board and room, j:®; r 01 L
and ROUND-TRIP BY P* „ r hi five i
YORK-MADRID-VALENClA d .
PALMA de MALLORCA, Sptiihi| iftination
Several plans to fit indiij Ureter silT
quirements from $695,00 £ 0 obtain
tuition, board and room, irfei.
nnd ROUND-TRIP BY PUWhO IS a
INFORMATIONf l Dr. P C L ario A sG,J if 1 # P rofe
University of San FrinJ va3t nurr
San Francisco 17, Calm
cent of
problem i
A.B. but
On Campus
(Author of “I Was a Teen-age Dwarf’, “The Mm)
Loves of Dobie Gillis”, etc.)
with
Max
professioi
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out are :
tions, as
us were ii
aceeptabl
charge fr
eonvictioi
I Twentj
As was pointed out last week, one would think that wityj 1
the progress we have made in the education game, sometM ttlose vv
might have been done by now about roommates. But no. Tk 01 ' tome
roommate picture has not brightened one bit since Elk everybod;
Goodpimple founded the first American college. ing
THE CURSE OF THE CAMPUS: NO. 2
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(Contrary to popular belief, Harvard was not the first, Mil The resu
Goodpimple started his institution some 75 years earlier. Ali| ^ enge ^
quite an institution it was, let me tell you! Mr. GoodpimpliL,
built schools of liberal arts, fine arts, dentistry, and tanniiif p
He built a lacrosse stadium that seated 102,000. Everywh®
on campus was emblazoned the stirring Latin motto C4FI
MUSS/—“ Watch out for moose.” The student union contains!
a bowling alley, a clock, and a 16-chair barber shop.
My
qgjii
> TYPINC
!( 40c per pi
(It was this last feature—the barber shop—that, sis! ri/page.
brought Mr. Goodpimple’s college to an early end. The studtil I. fi 1 ' 1 ' Worl
body, being drawn from the nearby countryside, was compose!I student
chiefly of Pequots and Iroquois who, alas, had no need of l| Iiuin e- v
barber shop. They braid their hair instead of cutting it, ands
for shaving, they don’t. The barber, Tremblatt Follicle byname.
grew so depressed staring all the time at 16 empty chairs tb
one day his mind finally gave way. Seizing his vibrator, he®
outside and shook the entire campus till it crumbled to dust
This later became known as Pickett’s Charge.)
But I digress. We were discussing ways for you and yoifl
roommate to stop hating each other. This is admittedly d®
cult but not impossible if you will both bend a bit, give alittlf-
I remember, for example, my own college days (Berlitz, '0|
My roommate was, I think you will allow, even less agree#
than most. He was a Tibetan named Ringading whose natif!
customs, while indisputably colorful, were not entirely endear
ing. Mark you, I didn’t mind so much the gong he struck on
the hour or the string of firecrackers he set off on the half-hom
I didn’t even mind his singeing chicken feathers every dusk ail
daybreak. What I did mind was that he singed them in my hat
To be fair, he was not totally taken with some of my liafe
either—especially my hobby of collecting water. I had nojafi
at the time and just had to stack the water any-old-where,
Well sir, things grew steadily cooler between Ringading a»! i
me, and they might have gotten actually ugly had we not '
happened to receive a package from home one day. Ringadr'
opened his package, paused, smiled shyly at me, and offei
me a gift.
“Thank you,” I said. “What is it?”
“Yak butter,” he said. “You put it in your hair. In Tibcta!
we call it gree see kidstujf.”
“Wellhow, that’s mighty friendly,” I said and offeredfiiffli
gift from my package. “Now you must have one of mine,”
“Thank you,” he said. “What is this called?”
“Marlboro Cigarettes,” I said and held a match for him,
He puffed. “Wow!” he said. “This sure beats chickenfeather#
“Or anything else you could name,” I said, lighting my off!
Marlboro.
And as we sat together and enjoyed that fine flavor#
Marlboro tobacco, that pure white Marlboro filter, a gloffcf
good fellowship came over us—a serene conviction that hi ;
quarrels exist between men that will not yield to the warmth of
honest good will. I am proud to say that Ringading and Ire
main friends to this day, and we exchange cards each Christina!
and each Fourth of July, firecrackers. ©isosMststuiw:
713 S.
Wherever you or your roommate may be—on any campiU
in any city, town, or hamlet in any state of the Union—p
will find Marlboros at your favorite tobacco counter—soil
pack or flip top box.
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