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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, March 12, 1963
CADET SLOUCH
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Reconsideration Needed
On TMA Fund Rejection
On The Junior ROTC:
Opposition Is Justified
Pentagon authorities decided to switch horses in the
middle of the stream last week by abandoning their plan to
abolish the high school Reserve Officers Training Corps and
proposing the expansion of the present junior ROTC program.
The junior ROTC program has been criticized as being
outmoded. Its opponents have pointed out that the 50-year-
old program is not justified because it doesn’t offer direct
commissions or recruit young men directly into the service.
Expansion of the present junior program is based on the
premise that the plan “will develop discipline, leadership and
physical conditioning of the high school student.” A bill
recently introduced into the House of Representatives would
make junior ROTC available to up to 2,000 high schools. The
program is presently offered by only 255 high schools. «
The new bill for expansion will probably be faced with
heavy opposition in Congress and rightly so.
It is a vital question as to whether or not the program
attracts enough young men into the service to make its train
ing costs worthwhile. In addition, it appears that the pro
grams offered by local Reserve and National Guard units
could adequately take up any slack resulting from the abolish
ment of the high school ROTC program.
Abolishment of the junior ROTC program would not
mean the end of all military training in high schools. Secre
tary of Defense McNamara has favored the transfer of the
ROTC units to the National Defense Cadet Corps, a program
under which the schools would bear most of the costs.
There is no doubt that the savings to be had by dropping
the present high school ROTC program could find many
alternate uses.
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by Jim Earle
Capt. Bennett M. Dodson, superintendent of the Texas
Maritime Academy, certainly wasn’t the only person who was
shocked to hear that the House appropriations committee had
eliminated funds for the academy from the Legislative Bud
get Board’s spending recommendations for 1964-65.
The committee’s decision was indeed a shock to us and
we would urge both the House, and later the Senate, to take
another look into the matter before making a decision that
could wipe out the infant academy before it really gets
started.
Several reasons behind the committee’s move are appar
ent, but also hard to understand. Probably foremost is one
committee member’s quote, “We had to cut down Somewhere.”
This seems to stem from the hard fact of political life that
a big spender doesn’t win votes, and also from Texas’ constitu
tional provision calling for pay-as-you-go spending. But why
did the committee choose to completely eliminate the acad
emy, while on the previous day Gov. Connally gave higher
education particular stress in his own budget? If the gover
nor sees fit to seek $14 million for higher education, how can
the committee deny the academy only $222,000?
Another big reason behind the refusal may rest with
political overtones resulting from Sen. A. R. Schwartz’ un
popular fight against secret sessions. Schwartz is both an
A&M graduate and a resident of Galveston, where the acad
emy is located. Unfortunately, citizens of any democracy
must live with such political manuevering t but it surely
seems outrageous when a newly-formed educational institu
tion must die as a result.
Another reason cited for the refusal was the academy’s
“failure to draw students.” True the academy only has 25
carets at present, but only 17 students first appeared when
A&M opened its doors. And the federal government has dis
played enough confidence to give the academy a $10 million
ship, $75,000 a year and $600 for each student. What has
Texas to lose?
The most admirable aspects of the matter have been
displays of confidence by both Capt. Dodson and Schwartz.
Both have refused to give up and are actively making plans
to fight for what they believe is right.
We would hope that both the House and Senate will
muster this same show of confidence and reconsider the
committee proposal. Texas would have a hard time finding
a better use for its money.
ALAN PAYNE
EDITOR
Ronnie Bookman
Van Conner
Managing Editor
Sports Editor
.Associate Editor
Gerry Brown
Dan Louis, Ronnie Fann News Editors
Kent Johnston, Glenn Dromgoole, David Morgan, Clovis
McCallister, John Wright Staff Writers
Sound Off
Editor,
The Battalion:
On Feb. 27, a meeting of the
freshman class was held in Guion
Hall. This meeting was obvious
ly a serious attempt to determine
why so many freshmen are leav
ing the Corps of Cadets. The is
sues under discussion certainly
seriously affect the future of the
college and the Class of ’66.
Because of the serious nature
of this meeting, the behavior of
i
many members of the freshman if all Aggies would act more ft
class was quite inappropriate, mature college men on such (I
“Cat-calling” and “hissing” seem casions and less like high sctol
to be Aggie traditions, but at a children,
meeting of this sort they are
highly unnecessary and uncalled-
for.
We would be much better off
Bulletin Board
Professional Societies
Student NEA will meet at 7:30
p.m. in the YMCA Building. Of
ficers will be elected.
American Meteorological So
ciety will meet at 7:45 p.m. in
Room 306 of Goodwin Hall. A
panel discussion will be held on
oral and written presentation of
results of scientific investigation.
Wives Clubs
Fashion Group of A&M Social
Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. at
845 N. Rosemary. Mrs. Emily
Ritter will speak.
Soil and Crop Sciences club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. at 704-B
Cross. W. R. Horsley will speak.
. .......
Russell To Speak
At Lecture Series
“ If you’re gonna take up pipe smoking, maybe you’d
better get one with a longer stem!”
Future Dates
TODAY
Graduate lecture, Dr. Harold
F. Breimeyer, 8 p.m.
Baseball, Fish vs. Allen Acad
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Freshman agricultural society
WEDNESDAY
Graduate lecture, Dr. Harold
T. Williams, 8 p.m.
Baseball, varsity vs. Univer
sity of Dallas, 3 p.m.
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Civilian Student Council
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J)r. Dan Russell, a professor in
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will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday
on “Faith and the Sociology of
Religion” in another of the spring
series of the Faculty Christian Fel-
tion of Former Students (through lowship.
Saturday) Music for meditation procedes
SATURDAY the discussion period in All Faiths
Sophomore Ball Chapel, and coffee and doughnuts
Baseball, Fish vs. University will be served afterward at the
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MARKING ON THE CURVE—AND WHAT
TO DO ABOUT IT
Twonkey Crimscott was a professor. Choate Sigafoos was a
sophomore. Twonkey Crimscott was keen, cold, brilliant.
Choate Sigafoos was loose, vague, adenoidal. Twonkey Crim
scott believed in diligence, discipline, and marking on the curve.
Choate Sigafoos believed in elves, Julie London, and thirteen
hours of sleep each night.
Yet there came a time when Twonkey Crimscott—mentor,
sage, and savant—was thoroughly outthought, outfoxed, out-
maneuvered, outployed, and outwitted by Choate Sigafoos,
sophomore.
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It happened one day when Choate was at the library studying
for one of Mr. Crimscott’s exams in sociology. Mr. Crimscott’s
exams were murder—plain, flat murder. They consisted of one
hundred questions, each question having four possible answers
—A, B, C, and D. You had to check the correct answer, but the
trouble was that the four choices were so subtly’ shaded, so
intricately worded, that students more clever by far than Choate
Sigafoos were often set to gibbering.
So on this day Choate sat in the library poring over his
sociology text, his tiny brow furrowed with concentration, while
all around him sat the other members of the sociology class,
every one studying like crazy, every one scared and pasty.
Choate looked sadly at their stricken faces. “What a waste!”
he thought. “All this youth, this verve, this bounce, chained to
musty books in a musty library! We should be out singing and
dancing and cutting didoes on the greensward! Instead we
are here.”
Then, suddenly, an absolute gasser of an idea hit Choate.
“Listen!” he shouted to his classmates. “Tomorrow when we
take the exam, let’s all—every one of us—check Choice ‘A’ on
every question—every one of them.”
“Huh?” said his classmates.
“Oh, I know that Choice ‘A’ can’t be the right answer to
every question,” said Choate. “But what’s the difference? Mr.
Crimscott nnarks on the curve. If we all check the same an
swers, then we all get the same score, and everybody in the class
gets a ‘C’.”
“Hmm,” said his classmates.
“So why should we knock ourselves out studying?” said
Choate. “Let’s get out of here and have a ball!”
So they all ran out and lit Marlboro Cigarettes and had a
ball, as indeed, you will too when you light a Marlboro, for if
there ever was a cigarette to lift the spirit and gladden the
heart, to dispel the shades of night, to knot up the ravelled
sleeve of care, to put spring in your gait and roses in your
cheeks, it is filtered Marlboros—firm and pure and fragrant and
filled with rich, natural, golden tobacco. And, what’s more, this
darlin’ smoke comes in soft packs that are actually soft and
flip-top boxes that actually flip.
Well sir, the next morning the whole class did what Choate
said, and, sure enough, they all got ‘C’s, and they picked Choate
up and carried him on their shoulders and sang “For He’s a
Jolly Good Fellow” and plied him with sweetmeats and Marl
boros and girls and put on buttons which said “I DOTE ON
CHOATE.”
But they were celebrating too soon. Because the next time
shrewd old Mr. Crimscott gave them a test, he did not give
them one hundred multiple choice questions. He only gave
them one question—to wit: write a 30,000 word essay on
“Crime Does Not Pay.”
“You and your ideas,” they said to Choate and tore off his
epaulets and broke his sword and drummed him out of the
school. Today, a broken man, he earns a living as a camshaft
in Toledo.
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