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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 26, 1963
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Name - Change Decision:
What About Election?
The Board of Directors’ decision Saturday to ask for
college name-change leaves last Thursday’s Student Senate
call for a student body election extremely in doubt.
The senators wanted to conduct an election to find
whether students favor a change, and, if they do, what new
name they would prefer. Apparently the outcome of such
an election would be presented to the directors or to the
legislature as “the feeling of the student body.”
Now, however, the necessity for such an election has
all but been removed. The directors have already decided
that they want a change, and have even selected a name—
Texas A&M University. So, where does this leave the stu
dents and their election?
Apparently a decision on the election will have to wait
until several student leaders return from the Ross Volunteers
appearance at Mardi Gras. But already one high Student
Senator has informally told The Battalion that the election
may not be held.
On the surface, many students may feel that the direc
tors’ action was in unnecessary haste and could have been
postponed until after the student election. One must con
sider, however, that the directors reached their decision
probably Thursday or Friday, but definitely before the
announcement Saturday. And news of any student election
was not known until Friday.
Also the directors probably looked back at the called
student poll last spring where 48.2 per cent of the student
body voted approval of a name-change. Could the board
members expect any drastic change in the results of another
election so close on the heels of last spring’s action?
Ghost Of ’30s Rises Again
The ghost of the “Civilian Conservation Corps” of the
depression ’30s may rise again if Congress sees fit to make
the Youth Employment Opportunities Act, which President
Kennedy asked for last week, into law.
The Kennedy conservation corps would recruit young
men 16 to 21 and employ them in parks and recreation areas.
Beginning with as many as 15,000 males in the first year,
the corps would aim at expansion to a maximum of 60,000
in succeeding years.
While the establishment of the act might serve to take
a few of the “idle youth on our city streets” off the city
streets as the President claims, how will these individuals
fare in the labor market should the demand for park workers
decline in future years ?
The question to be asked is whether or not the act pro
vides merely to employ these young people for the sake of
having a lower unemployment rate or whether these youths
are to receive training that will enable them to obtain a job
after their stint with the conservation corps is over.
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Graduate lecture, Dr. Henry S.
Valk, 4:10 p.m., Room 146 of
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Baylor basketball, there.
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nouncements.
Lecture, Dr. Vaughn Culler, 8
p.m.. Biological Sciences Lecture
Room.
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Managing Editor
Sports Editor
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Professional Societies
Texas Society o f Petroleum
Engineers will meet at 7:30 p.m.
in Rooms 2-C and 2-D of the
MSC. Society president Joseph
M. Parish will speak.
Freshman Agricultural Society
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Ani
mal Industries Lecture Room. A
Dow Chemical Co. representative
will speak.
“ . . . Let’s don’t let this ‘Roman gladiator’ business go to
our head!”
SCIENCE AND MORALITY—9
Scientific Race
In Full Swing
(Ninth of a series)
The Lop-Sided Scientist
America needs more scientists.
There can be little doubt about
that. The race is on between the
United States and the Soviet
Union. The Soviets are formidable
opponents.
When the Russians want some
thing badly enough, they turn
loose all the resources they have
at hand. That goes for an Olym
pic track team or a cosmonaut
like Gherman Titov. The USSR
turns out engineers on what is
almost an assembly line basis.
There are today in America
certain Calamity Howlers who are
demanding that we drop the study
of “useless” subjects and concent-
trate on science. If we can de
velop enough men and women
skilled in electronics, physics,
bionics, cybernetics and chemo
therapy, we’ll have the USSR
licked!
There’s a flaw in their reason
ing, of course. To have citizens
in large numbers skilled in sci
entific and technical knowledge is
fine. But a truly well-educated
citizen must be more than a mere
lab worker or technician. To
serve his country and his fellow-
PALACE
Bryan 2'£$79
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Carrol Baker
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QUEEN
LAST NITE
“BABBIT GOES TO
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men well, he must also have an
understanding of the cultural and
historical background of his na
tion. The complexities of poli
cies, diplomacy and of economics
must be pursued by him along
with his scientific studies. Un
less he has a well-rounded edu
cation, he may turn out to what
we might call a “lop-sided sci
entist” — all his knowledge bend
ing in one direction only.
Isolation is no longer a pre-
rogattive of the scientist. He
cannot retreat from the world to
pursue his studies. In this age
when scientific breakthroughs are
literally shaping the world of the
future, he must assume respon
sibilities on an increasing greater
scale. Leadership has been liter
ally thrust upon him in this sec
ond half of the 20th Century.
This is an age that has little
room for the lop-sided scientist,
or the lop-sided anything. *
K. K. Dodger s?iys: By Engene Rush*
“Buy your life insurance on the Black
Market. I ' '
heard one of
paying off a few
it’s fun
Gig ’em
*Insuranceman, North Gate
these policies
off a few years ago. Besides,
to violate College regulations.
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Wives Clubs
Mechanical Engineering club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the
Brooks Room of the YMCA
Building.
Soil and Crop Sciences club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the
Sheer Beauty Salon, 3613 Texas
Ave.
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. 20-21
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-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.
ATTENTION
May Graduates!
Deadline For Ordering
Graduation Invitations
Feb. 28.
Orders Taken From 9-4,
Monday - Friday, At The
Cashier’s Window
Memorial Student Center
BESIDE MEXICAN FOOD
ZARAPE RESTAURANT
will serve Mrs. Andert’s Weiner Schnitzl,
Chicken Fried Steak and Austria Style
Fried Chicken.
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GLAD RAGS
The hounds of spring are on winter’s traces. Soon bni
crocus, soon trills the giant condor, soon come the new
fashions to adorn our lissome limbs.
And what will the American college student wear this
Gather round, you rascals, and light a Marlboro Cigarette
enjoy that fine mellow tobacco, that pure white filter,
possess your souls in sweet content, and listen.
As everyone knows, campus fashions have always beencs
This spring, however, they have gone beyqpd being*
casual: they have become makeshift.
The object is to look madly improvised, gaily spur-oil
moment! For example, why don’t you girls try wearig
peasant skirt with a dinner jacket? Or matador pants fii
bridal veil? Or Bermuda shorts with bronze breastplates!:
rakish! Be impromptu! Be devil-take-the-hindmost!
And, men, you be the same. Try an opera cape with si:
pants. Or a letter-sweater with kilts. Or a strait jacket c
hip boots. Be bold! Be daring! Be a tourist attracts
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But all is not innovation in college fashions this spring, t
fact, one of the highlights of the season turns time backward
its flight. I refer, of course, to the comeback of the powdetft
wig.
This charming accoutrement, too long neglected, has aW
caught on with in undergrads everywhere. On hundredss |
campuses the bossa nova is giving way to the minuet,
patriotic undergraduates are dumping British tea intoff
nearest harbor. This, as you may imagine, does not sit well ^
King George III who, according to reliable reports, hastes
stamping his foot and uttering curses not fit to reproduce*
this family newspaper. For that matter, a lot of our own pea| :
are steamed up too, and there has even been some talk aboutts
American colonies declaring their independence of Englaw
But I hardly think it will come to that. I mean, how can®
break with the mother country when we are dependent onto
for so many things—linsey-woolsey, Minie balls, taper snufta
and like that? She, on the other hand, relies on us for turkey
Marlboro Cigarettes, and Route 66. So I say, if Molly Pitctef
and those other Radcliffe hotheads will calm down, awH
gentlemen will cry “Peace! Peace!” we may yet finds'-
amicable solution to our differences. But let not our Brite
cousins mistake this willingness to negotiate for weakness. •
fight we must, then fight we will! Paul Revere is saddled®
the rude bridge arches the flood, and the ROTC is arnrf
But I digress. We were smoking Marlboro Cigarettes-4
splendid cigarette! O, good golden tobaccos! O, pristinep®
wliite filter! O, fresh! O, tasty! O, soft pack! O, flip top bos'
O, get some!—we were, I say, smoking Marlboros aud talki*!
about spring fashions.
Let us turn now to the season’s most striking new feature'
pneumatic underdrawers. These inflatable garments make ever)
chair an easy chair. Think how welcome they will be wheny®
sit through a long lecture! They are not, however, without
certain dangers. Last week, for example, Rimbaud Sigafoos.*
sophomore at the University of Pittsburgh, fell out of a W-
story window in the Tower of Learning. Thanks to his put 1 '
matic underdrawers, he suffered no injury when he struck tff
sidewalk, but the poor fellow is still bouncing—his seven*
consecutive day—and it is feared that he will starve to death
© 1963 Mai Stall*
Fashions come, fashions go, but year after year MarlW
Cigarettes, sponsors of this column, bring you the tastid 1
tobaccos and a pure white titter too. Try Marlboro soon.
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