THE BATTALION
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College Station, Texas
Tuesday, March 5, 1963
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Goal For Public Schools
Puts Burden On Public
In his official proclamation designating- this week as
Public Schools Week, Gov. John Connally commented that
never before in our history has there been a greater need
for educated leadership. The governor added: “Our goal is
to make Texas public schools the finest in the nation.”
During this Public Schools Week, parents and all other
citizens should take full advantage of the opportunity to
visit our schools and be particularly mindful of this for
midable goal of making Texas’ public schools the best in the
U. S.
Unfortunately, visitors this week will more than likely
find that our public schools could stand vast improvement,
not only now but in meeting growing challenges of the future.
In reality, Texas public schools rank no better than mediocre,
at least according to an evaluation by the National Education
Association.
During 1961-62, when public school enrollment jumped
to 40,007,912 across the nation, Texas ranked 26th in average
teachers’ salaries, 28th in per-capita expenditure by the state
for education, 34th in total local and state per-capita expendi
ture, 38th in the number of eighth-grade students who have
completed high school, and, for good measure, 29th in higher
education per-capita expenditure.
The state was not without its bright spots, but overall
the picture was not particularly encouraging. On the brighter
side however, Texas ranked third in the number of ele
mentary school teachers with master’s degrees and fourth
in the total number of teachers with at least a bachelor’s de
gree.
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CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Sound Off
“... If we didn’t go, we’d be admittin’ to th’ world we didn’t
have girls!”
Editor,
The Battalion:
The current trend toward great
er selectivity in admission of
students seems to have been
adopted in a somewhat modified
manner by the administration and
board of directors of Texas A&M.
However, instead of basing the
greater selectivity upon the aca
demic potential of students, it
seems that availability of finan
ces has become the criterion
for admission and continuance in
college.
An example is the proposal to
increase rent of College View and
Project Housing apartments.
It is perhaps significant that
the rent will not be increased in
Hensel apartments.
Common knowledge makes it
plain that the investment of large
sums of money in building the
Hensel housing was not a profit
able one. The college has lost
money year after year since con
struction of these apartments
simply because few students can
Educator Says
Soviet Schools
In Big Crisis
The NEA report did not attempt to rank the states on
education quality, but it did post some directional signs. It
showed, for example, that Utah has the highest average
education and tied for the lowest percentage of Selective
Service registrants failing the mental test. South Carolina
tied for the lowest average education, and led in mental test
failures. I,n the median number of school years completed
by residents age 25 or over, Utah had the high mark of 12.2
years, while South Carolina and Kentucky were at the bottom
of the list with 12.1 years each.
Innumerable studies of the public school situation have
been made, with most results pointing at the quality of
teachers—the area where Texas ranks highest. One of the
most recent studies, by Dr. James B. Conant, president
emeritus of Harvard University, resulted in this three-point
program to improve the quality of teachers:
1. There should be a very large jump in salary for
teachers who have proven themselves after at least four years
of teaching. ^ ,
2. Older skillful teachers should be paid extra for pro
viding on-the-job training for new teachers.
3. State funds should be used to insure that the best
teachers available supervise college students on their practice
teaching assignments.
As in most studies, money is made the answer to all of
public education’s problems. Whether we like to admit it or
not, money is probably the biggest hindrance to a more suc
cessful Texas public education system, bue we wonder if a
more aroused public feeling could not achieve almost the
same results.
The idea for Public Schools Week is an admirable one,
but, on the other hand, it is discouraging that our schools
are visited only on special occasions and not more frequently.
Only an aroused, sincerely interested public can put Texas’
public school program in the spotlight as one of the nation’s
best.
What is known as the Texas legislature is now in session
at the state capitol in Austin. The legislature is made up of
legislators, elected representatives who are supposed to enact
laws and lead the state to great heights.
Last month, however, a few legislators decided they
were too overworked and needed time off for horseplay—
specifically, to. suggest that A&M’s name bechanged to the
University of Texas Agricultural and Mechanical Branch at
College Station.
The only throwback is that this “joke,” as they call it,
was not enacted during off hours, but during a regular com
mittee session.
This means that while we were all laughing, we were
also paying ... if not for the lawmakers’ time at that very
moment, then possibly for the called sessions that such
horseplay could eventually lead to.
PITTSBURGH <JP) —
schools are involved in a
crisis stemming from 1958 re
forms which stressed vocational
training at the expense of the hu
manities, an expert said Tuesday.
Nicholas DeWitt of Indiana
University and formerly at the
Russian Research Center at Har
vard University said, “There is
now a wide outcry among Soviet
educators that preparation in lan
guages and literature has been
undermined and should be
strengthened again.”
In the pre-reform era, DeWitt
said, the Soviet >high school stu
dent spent about 50 per cent of
this time on languages, literature,
the humanities and social science,
and about 9 per cent on techno
logical subjects.
Since 1958, he added, only 20
per cent of the time is spent on
the humanities, and 44 per cent
on vocational education.
Bulletin Board
Wives Clubs
Graduate Biology club will meet
at 7:30 p.m. at Pruitt’s Beauty
Shop at Southside.
Architecture Club will meet at
7:30 p.m. in the Art Room, MSC.
Professional Societies
Pre-Veterinary Society will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in the vet
school theater. Dr. L. H. Russell
will speak and officers will be
elected.
Freshman Engineering Society
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the geo
logy lecture room. Officers will
be elected.
Agricultural Economics Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room
146 of the Physics Building.
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.
March 4-5
March 5-6
March 6-7
Sqdns. 5-8
Sqdns. 9-12
Sqdns. 13-16
PARDNER
You’ll Always Win
The Showdown
When You Get
Your Duds Done
At
CAMPUS
CLEANERS
Job Calls
Soviet
serious
The following firms will inter
view graduating seniors in the
Placement Office of the YMCA
Building:
Wednesday
Alcoa — Chemical engineering,
electrical engineering, industrial
engineering and mechanical engi
neering.
Phillips Petroleum Co. — Arch
itectural engineering and civil
engineering, BS; chemical engi
neering, electrical engineering and
petroleum engineering, BS, MS,
PhD; mathematics, BA. MA. PhD;
chemistry, MS, PhD; geology,
geological engineering, geophy
sics and industrial engineering,
BS, MS; physics, PhD.
Western Union — Electrical en
gineering and mechanical engi
neering, BS, MS.
U. S. Army Material Command
—A eronautical engineering,
chemical engineering, electrical
engineering, industrial engineer
ing, mechanical engineering,
chemistry, mathematics, physics
and entomology.
NASA Flight Research Center-
Aeronautical engineering, electri
cal engineering, mechanical engi
neering and physics, BS, MS,
PhD; mathematics, BA, MA, PhD.
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will serve from March 2 on Mrs. Andert’s
Wiener Schnitzel, Chicken Fried Steaks and
Austrian Style Fried Chicken.
afford the $65 per month rental.
Yet all funds taken in from
rental are lumped together, and
the college must find some way to
make up for the money lost from
the unoccupied Hensel apart
ments.
So, it must have seemed logi
cal to increase the rent on the
popular Project Housing and Col
lege View apartments to balance
the ledger.
Now, $10 per month may not
seem like an unreasonable sum.
But coupled with the increase in
tuition (especially for non-resi
dent students), this will
severe strain on the al:
budgets of married
this college.
It seems that a more
of balancing the loss of
venue due to unoccupied
apartments could be food
The deadlim
. , . , “Bions for
At any rate, k should ■ for ad
the families who live in <iuring . abrc
View and Project Housin' ^ Nance
ments, the one who can am j
ford a rent increase, who I !
have to make up the deffc^ 1 ^ 10 ” 8
ed by the luxurious apaiB Fe
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On Campos
rious Latin
pril 15.
"’Nance said
Mt]) e SEATO ]
M8&fcr ailab,e -
encoura;
{Author of “/ Was a Teen-age Dwarf’, “
Loves of Dobie Gillis’’, etc.)
Tk Mu!
tarch of soc
HAIL TO THE DEAN!
il, cultural,
^onal prograi
^idlhe South
A SEATO
onlhly alio
Today let us examine that much maligned, widely miaindstonomy-class
stood, grossly overworked, wholly dedicated campus figiu -ie|country
the dean. mfeh.
The dean (from the Latin Deanere—to expel) is not, as m?-—
think, primarily a disciphnary officer. He is a counselor anik
guide, a haven and refuge for the troubled student. The (kill/ gUi<
(from the Greek Deanos—to skewer) is characterized chiefjiip I fi- I
sympathy, wisdom, patience, forbearance, and a fondness ini
homely pleasures like community singing, farina, spelldowsrl jl
and Marlboro Cigarettes. The dean (from the German JlCu I'D
machi—to poop a party) is fond of Marlboros for the s®
reason that all men of good will are fond of Marlboros—becaiBpP rman( ^
Marlboro is an honest cigarette. Those good Marlboro tobaras 16 A&M Sys
are honestly good, honestly aged to the peak of perfection, bublications
estly blended for the best of all possible flavors. Marllxifefdent of
honestly comes in two different containers—a soft pack Club T
is honestly soft and a Flip-Top box which honestly flips. Till He replace;
too will flip when next you try an honest Marlboro, which, (Bllbert McGi
honestly hopes, will be soon. Rment of
Other offi
1 iceting at th
y,tere Bob Si
reele
i/ll Joan Me
armation OJ
Main speak
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prmation
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tyld&vy eve h lli
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But I digress. We were learning how a dean helps pW
troubled undergraduates. To illustrate, let us take a typical
ease from the files of Dean S of the University of Y...
(Oh, why be so mysterious? The dean’s name is Sigafoos ate
the University is Yutah.)
WORE
Wise, kindly Dean Sigafoos was visited one day by a
man named Walter Aguincourt who came to ask permissiont'h my°home. il
marry one Emma Blenheim, his dormitory laundress. To^lL
dean the marriage seemed ill-advised, for Walter was only IS Student wife
years old and Emma was 91. Walter agreed with the dean, Wj
said he felt obligated to go through with it because Emma b' FEMALE
invested her life savings in a transparent rainhood to proWL,
her from the mist at Niagara Falls, where they planned to spend no\
their honeymoon. If Walter called off the wedding, what iUp ai op ^ g |
would the poor woman possibly have for a rainhood in YutaH jp- p. o. Boa
The wise, kindly dean pondered briefly and came up
brilliant answer: let Walter punch holes in the back of Emmak
steam iron. With steam billowing back at the old lady, M
would find a rainhood very useful—possibly even es»I
Whimpering with gratitude, Walter kissed the dean's FH:
Beta Kappa key and hastened away to follow his advice-a»d
the results, I am pleased to report, were madly successful!
Today Emma is a happy woman—singing lustily, wearinff
her rainhood, eating soft-center chocolates, and ironing clottej
—twice as happy, to be candid, than if she had married Waite' |
And what of Walter? He is happy too. Freed from hism-; C S
iioic<s\rY xiriFK IT t rvrv tyi o y***i r»/-l m rd rv» 11 /-»L Tvnnrar 111'B ^
wanted liaison with Emma, he married a girl much nearer if
own age—Agnes Yucca, 72. Walter is now the proud father-; T. V., Rad
stepfather, to be perfectly accurate—of three fine, he# I Transis
boys from Agnes’s first marriage—Everett, 38; Wilhelm, $ IL „ ~ .
and Irving, 55—and when Walter puts the boys on a lead ate | ’ iai
takes them for a stroll in the park on Sunday afternoon, you ^ —
may be sure there is not a dry eye in Yutah.
And Dean Sigafoos? He too is happy—happy to spend Ion?'
tiring hours in his little office, giving counsel without stint and
without complaint, doing his bit to set the young, uncertain
feet of his charges on the path to a brighter tomorrow.
© 1963 MmSWe*
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