THE BATTALION
Pag-e 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, February 27, 1963
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by Jim Earle
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BIT Votes Down
Coed Yell Leaders
Baylor students failed to ap
prove coed yell leaders in a cam
pus-wide election last Thursday.
Only 60.45 per cent of those stu
dents voting approved the change
to coeds. A 66.7 vote was needed
for passage of the proposal.
The election drew even further
action the next day when the
Lariat, student newspaper, charg
ed nine specific election violations
and stated editorially that:
“The Congress (student con
gress) demonstrated through the
actions of some of its members
its lack of maturity, its lack of
concern for students’ welfare and
its lack of concern for principle.”
An additional proposal to allow
students* other than Congress
members to tally election votes
was also defeated.
classes opened are honors classes.
All activity this semester will be
conducted on an experimental | :;
basis.
NSA Petition
Ruled Invalid
A University of Texas student T ,
petition asking a referendum on
whether the university should re
main a member of the National
Student Association was ruled p
invalid late last week. The peti- §|
tion bore 750 signatures.
Basis for denial of the peti
tion was that an election this f|
week would be impractical.
Sponsors of the petition are
planning to appeal the decision ^
and schedule the election at a
later date. “ ... How does this one sound
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Texas Gladitorial College?”
SCIENCE AND MORALITY—10
SMU Planning I
Library Changes
SMU has announced plans for
an undergraduate library, an open
stack library system and a $75,-
000 remodeling of the present
library.
The undergraduate library will
be established on the first floor
of the present library and contain
books and research material par
ticularly applicable to the needs
of freshmen and sophomores.
The open stacks will be in use
on the upper seven levels of the
eight-story library building, for
both junior and senior under
graduates and graduate students.
Work on all phases of the libr
ary construction is due to begin
in June.
Science-Fiction No Longer
Visitation Program
Opened At Tech
Texas Tech has approved a
class visitation program that will
open specified classes to any stu
dent wishing to attend the lec
ture.
The program is student-spon
sored, with the eventual hope of
opening every class on campus
to visitors. At present, the only
(Tenth of a series)
Jules Verne and Apollo
An author who wrote science-
fiction a hundred years ago has
provided a goldmine of ideas for
Hollywood. His book, “From the
Earth to the Moon,” written in
1965, is a truly remarkable piece
of fiction. In the story, Verne’s
astronauts are launched into
space from a cannon 900. feet
long, weighing 68,000 pounds.
The launch site is in Florida, at
latitude 28 degrees N.
The Air Force Missile Test
Center at Cape Canaveral is in
Florida at 28% degrees N. From
this site have been launched the
men of the Mercury project,
Sheppard, Grissom, Glenn, Car
penter and Schirra. The vehicles
of the Apollo project will be sent
aloft from the same area.
Bulletin Board
Hillel Foundation will meet at
7:30 p.m. at the Hillel Founda
tion Building’.
The Apollo project is schedul
ed as a follow-on to Mercury.
It is planned that three astro
nauts will be launched for flights
in the vicinity of the moon, for
lunar landings and for relaunch
ing for return to the earth. NASA
estimates that manned landings
on the moon should be taking
place in the 1967-69 period.
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THE BATTALION
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EDITOR
Managing Editor
Sports Editor
Gerry Brown Associate Editor
Dan Louis News Editor
Kent Johnston, Glenn Dromgoole, David Morgan, Clovis
MeCallister, John Wright Staff Writers
Jim Bulter, Adrian Adair Assistant Sports Editors
Ronnie Fann Photographer
A disquieting question arises
in reference to the conquest of
space. Will some power use it
to dominate mankind on earth?
While this is a question involv
ing politics, it presents at the
same time a moral problem.
for his welfare and his happiness
—or for his destruction. The
first nation to conquer space has
within its grasp the power to
dominate all other nations.
Science is only a tool. It pro
vides mankind with discoveries
and inventions that he can use
Realizing that this power is
within the grasp of man, it will
be only a high sense of morality
and of dedication that will direct
scientific efforts to peaceful uses.
Is Frat System Dying?
(Special to The Battalion)
NEW YORK — The traditional
way of fraternity life at Amer
ican colleges now faces extinc
tion, a national magazine declar
ed this week.
According to an article appear
ing in the current issue of Look
Magazine, fraternities, for the
first time, must prove they belong
on the campus — or get off.
The Look article, “College
Fraternities: The Perils of Big-
Brotherhood,” notes that “a re
volution is under way in j^T. S.
education, and for the first time
in this century, fraternity men
are being swept along with all
the other students.”
Focal point of the articles is
a picture report on the life of a
Phi Gamma Delta pledge at the
University of Illinois, where “he
must view nearly every move he
makes — from taking a test to
getting a date — in light of what
it does ‘for the house’ — a term
so familiar at Illinois that it is
abbreviated to ‘FTH.’ ”
In an accompanying text re
port, “Will Fraternities Sur
vive?”, Look senior editor John
Poppy cites fraternity trouble
spots on various campuses, pre
sents the views of disgruntled
fraternity men and predicts that
fraternities — minus the rituals
— may eventually become “a
chain of boardinghouses.”
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.
This Week’s Special
Wash and Grease
$2.00
With Fill Up
Used Tires $1.50
Brown’s American
Highway 6 & Jersey
Bill’s American
South College and
North Avenue
The article also includes an in
terview with businessman Joel
W. Reynolds of the National In
terfraternity Conference who in
sists that fraternities are “in our
heyday” and perform a construc
tive role in college life.
Eld i tor.
The Battalion:
I have just read with mixed
chagrin and disgust recent news
reports of the deplorable conduct
of a minority of a fine student
body following Tuesday night’s
basketball game at Austin.
As an ex-student with a maroon
citation signifying 25 years of
uninterrupted contributions to
A&M, I hope you will permit me
a little space to try to convince
a few “rowdies” that athletic
events are not settled by brawls
and that great institutions do not
raise their prestige through such
notoriety.
A&M is at this time undergo
ing a centennial program to raise
all of its standards. This means
that the student body, as well as
the alumni, must do everything
within its power to make for
better public relations. Gang
fighting will never sell our best
products. Oh, I raised my share
of hell when I was a student;
even saw one of my classmates
killed in one of those crude and
pointless exhibitions and 35 years
have mended that wound very
little. So I think I know where
withall I speak. Don’t tell me I
am a softie. We really got it
the hard way in those days, could
n’t even sit down in class some
time. These luxuries that you
now enjoy were put there by peo
ple who wanted it to be better
for you fellows.
I wonder how many of you
hoods that think you are so tough
are out for athletics. Maybe
Hank Foldberg could see some of
you and let you get rid of a little
of your excess energy that way,
provided of course, you grow up
a little.
I still love A&M and always
will. That’s why we care enough
to try to explain to a few of
you misfits that your school de
serves a better break. Don’t you
realize that your conduct in Aus
tin is all the excuse our enemies
want or need? You are down
there supposedly to learn to
think. Why don’t you try it
just once and prove to the tax
payers and dues-paying ex-stu
dents that our money is not all
wasted.
Now if this shoe fits you, wear
jt; if it doesn’t I’ve gotten
something off my chest that’s
been eating on me for a long time.
William C. Haley, ’27
Dallas
—Job Calls—
The following firms will inter
view graduating seniors in the
Placement Office of the YMCA
Building:
Thursday
Universal Oil Products Co. —
Chemical engineering, BS, MS.
Thursday and Friday
Atlantic Refining Co. — Chem
ical engineering, electrical engi
neering, geophysics, petroleum
engineering, chemistry and phy
sics, BS, MS, PhD; mechanical
engineering, BS, MS.
The Western Co. — Petroleum
engineering, BS.
K. K. Dodjrer says: By Enjrcne Rush*
“Sorry, Joe, that I didn’t get in to
deliver your policy last night. But the
moon was shining too bright to take a
*Insuranceman, North Gate
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