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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas
Thursday, March 14, 1963
BATTALION EDITORIALS
The Idealist On Campus:
Listerners Hard To Find
Every college campus has at least one campus idealist
who, although he may be inspiring in his determination, is a
continual thorn in the side of his friends, fellow students and
professors.
Having just awakened from his state of apathy and
joined the ranks of the pseudo-intellects, he wonders how
the world ever got in such a mess and why someone isn’t
doing something about it. On making the discovery that
people are starving in Southeast Asia, the Russians are pour
ing arms into Cuba, the United States is losing friends in
Latin America and nuclear destruction is threatening to end
civilization, he is mystified that responsible persons can’t
see the evident answers to these clear-cut problems.
He decides action must be taken. With great enthusiasm
he lauches himself into pickets, petitions and verbal harass
ment of those around him. All opposing views are prejudice-
bound and the persons expressing them are narrow-minded.
In fact, they are so narrow-minded that they can’t see his
side of things.
He would take part in campus government but the
illiterates there aren’t interested in the enlightening reforms
which must immediately be made. Besides, these problems
are really too trivial for him to waste his attention on.
His campus newspaper isn’t worth reading because it
only covers things that happen around the campus and
doesn’t contain the news items that the New York Times
does.
He is well aware of his right to protest and is ready to
let everyone know about it. He just can’t understand why his
demonstrations fail and his listeners become irritated.
Challenge This Weekend
Since most of the visitors will be staying in student
dormitories, their impressions of student life are going to
stay with them much longer. This is not only an opportunity,
but a challenge for students to show these visitors what life
and learning at A&M are really like. We owe this much not
only to the visitors, but to ourselves.
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Group must have 25 persons and they must depart together June
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Politics In TMA Rejection
With the stink of shady poe
tics hanging over the House
chamber in Austin Wednesday,
the Texas Maritime Academy '&?,
pushed one step closer 1 va 1
oblivion.
Although TMA boss Capt. Ben
nett M. Dodson and his cadets
are keeping a stiff upper lip, they
are taking a beating in the legis
lature.
Reasons advanced for the eli
mination of the Academy are
numerous, but most of them are
valid, and have probably had more
of an effect than the principals
would admit. Let’s look closer:
1. A political hatchet job on
Sen. A. R. Schwartz of Galveston.
He irked senators and House
members alike when he revealed
the vote on the secret confirma
tion discussion session concern
ing W. St. John Garwood as a
University of Texas regent. The
TMA was to be based in Galves
ton beginning next year.
Capt. Dodson, discounts this
Bulletin Board
He is oblivious to the fact that he might gain more by
producing instead of protesting, by working within the black
and white world we live in instead of the rose-colored one
he wishes to create. If he should wake up to the reality that
he supposes himself to represent, he may accomplish some
thing yet.
-Over 1,000 young, eager high schoolers will swarm over
the campus this weekend during activities of another High
School Career Day. Despite the combined efforts of many
persons to form an impressive program, these future colleg
ians are going to be most impressed or discouraged by the
students themselves, not by the administration or faculty.
“ . . . But sir, you said that anyone could pass your course
without studying, by just paying attention in class, so I
thought I’d cut class today so you’d know that I was study
ing!”
Wives Club
Animal Husbandry club will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in the South
Solarium of the YMCA Build
ing. Mrs. Helen Snyder will
speak.
Hometown Clubs
Milby club will meet at 7:30
p.m. in the main lobby of the
MSC. Pictures will be taken.
Yankee club will meet at 7:30
Editor,
The Battalion:
In your editorial column Tues
day, you stated that opposition
to the continuation of the Junior
ROTC program is justified. I
disagree. As a matter of fact,
I’m all for the proposed expan
sion of the program.
Your reasons for supporting
the elimination of the present
junior program did not really
seen valid to me. I quote: “. . .
the 50-year-old program is not
justified because it does not offer
direct commissions or recruit
young men directly into the serv
ice ... it is a vital question
as to whether or not the program
attracts enough young men into
the service to make its training
costs worthwhile . . . programs
offered by local Reserve and Na
tional Guard units could ade
quately take up any slack result
ing from the abolishment of the
high school program . . . there is
no doubt that the savings to be
had by dropping the present high
school program could fiftd many
alternate uses.”
Well, first of all, had you
bothered to check, you would have
found that the mission of jun
ior ROTC is “ to lay the founda
tion of intelligent citizenship
within the student and give him
such basic military training as
will be of benefit and value to
him and the military service, if
he becomes a member thereof.”
The logic in the statement con
cerning Junior ROTC’s failure to
offer direct commissioning or re
cruiting is analogous to that of
a statement such as automobiles
are not justified because they
don’t fly. Why condemn some
thing when it doesn’t do what it
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Sound Off
was never intended to?
Next, I fail to see the “vita
lity” of the question of whether
or not the program attracts
enough young men into the serv
ice. I always figured that it
was up to our annoyingly effici
ent Selective Service Bureau to
“attract” enough young men into
the service, not Junior ROTC.
Further, the comment that the
Reserve and National Guard pro
grams could fill in the void
created by the elimination of
Junior ROTC suggested to me
that the author of the editoral
was somewhat confused about the
requisites of the various pro
grams in question. If I am cor
rect, the minimum age for enlist
ing in either the Reserve or Na
tional Guard program is 17, with
parental consent. Also, those en
listed in these programs are full-
fledged members of the U. S.
Armed Services, fulfilling their
military service obligations.
Minimum age for enrollees of
Junior ROTC is 14. Membership
in this program does not give
the cadet any credit whatever to
ward his military service obliga
tion, although completion of the
junior program is considered equi
valent to the first year of basic
Senior ROTC and credit for this
is given.
Junior ROTC is, or rather was,
designed to prepare high school
boys for service in the Armed
Forces, not substitute for it. Your
equation of Junior ROTC and the
Reserve or National Guard pro
gram is absurd.
If it’s any consolation, I sup
pose you were correct in stating
that the savings to be had by eli
minating Junior ROTC could find
many alternate uses. With the
money saved in five years with
out Junior ROTC, we might even
accumulate enough to buy a whole
PT Boat for the Navy, if it were
on sale.
I personally would be hard-
pressed to come up with a better
use for the Army’s phased-out
OD uniforms, M-l’s and other
training equipment. What bet
ter use could be made of this
material than to help “develop
intelligent citizenship, character,
self-discipline and loyalty” in
high school youths, “instill in
them a feeling of dedication and
responsibility toward our coutry”
and give them “such basic mili
tary training as will be of benefit
and value to them and to the
military service?”
If the American taxpayer is
getting his dollar’s worth any
where in government spending,
in my opinion he is getting it
in the Junior ROTC program. It
would take a considerable amount
of convincing to alter my opinion
on this, because, all considered,
I think we as a nation would be
getting a real bargin in Junior
ROTC at twice the cost, and any
one who advocates expansion of
the program has me on his side.
T. S. Harrover, ’64
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p.m. in the Gay Room of the
YMCA Building.
Houston-Reagan-Waltrip club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room
226 of the Academic Building.
St. Thomas chib will meet at
7:15 p.m. in the lounge of Dorm
5.
Big Thicket club will meet at
7:30 p.m. in oom 2-C of the MSC.
Abilene club will meet at 7:30
p.m. in Room 208 of the Aca
demic Building.
San Angelo-West Texas club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room
2-A of the MSC.
El Paso club will meet at 7:30
p.m. in Room 102 of the Acade
mic Building.
Brazoria County club will meet
at 7:30 p.m. in Room 108 of the
Academic Building.
reason, but a member of tie
House’s appropriations .commit
tee has admitted that it was con
sidered.
2. A move on the part of House
politicians to get a tax increase
this session. Rep. Bill W, S.
Heatley of Paducah, chairman of (d
the appropriations committee toll
the House yesterday if memta
were unhappy with the bill tliej
could raise some more cash.
3. A blow against Rep. Dot
Brown and Rep. Ed Harris of Gal
veston who are known not to ke
on House Speaker Byron Tut-
nell’s “team.”
4. A move by a land-lockd
short-sighted committee that
doesn’t realize the value of a
maritime academy for Texas, A
majority of the committee is from
areas which do not see the im
portance of the maritime industry
as related to other industries,
Our lawmakers are overlooking
the only question that should te
considered: is this a worthy
program ?
If the answer is yes then there
should only be one course of ac
tion. If the answer is no then
is likewise one choice. This de
cision was supposedly reachel
two years ago.
Now, after Capt. Dodson has
made committments to his stu
dents, the federal government an!
the people of the state, our to'-
makers have changed their minds,
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