THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, March 28, 1963
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Unfortunate, But Necessary
It seems unfortunate that college libraries have had to
resort to a security-check to guard against loss of material.
Director Robert A. Houze has installed the new system
of searching everyone to try to cut down on an increasing
loss of books and magazines this semester. This system will
begin next week in Cushing and the Engineers Library.
Houze defends his measure by saying that the libraries
'want things there when they are needed. Certainly this is
a necessary measure.
He explained that this is not a shakedown such as
searching a man for alcohol, but an inspection by students
to be sure all library material was properly checked out.
Guards will be stationed at each door to check armloads
of books and brief cases.
This system of checking losses is not new. Cushing
is one of the few major academic libraries not already using
some sort of security sytem. One such check was used here
about 15 years ago, but was discontinued.
There is no question about the need of a security
system, but why has the need become so great just this
semester? Houze attributes many of the losses to absent-
mindedness as oposed to outright theft. What makes stu
dents so absent-minded now, when they weren’t a few years
ago?
“We want students to understand this is a guarantee
that the things they ask for will be there when they want
them,” Houze says.
There should be very little legimitate oposition to the
system forced upon the libraries. Some delay will be incurred
by those leaving the libraries at rush times, but better that
than not having material available to students when they
need it.
CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle
. . We expect this civilian weekend to be our best one yet!”
—Job Calls- bybookman
Holley, Inc. — Industrial dis- lllf/S O F
tribution. JL
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cal engineering 1 , mechanical engi
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business administration and eco
nomics.
Department of Commerce —
Aeronautical engineering, chemi
cal engineering, civil engineering,
electrical engineering, industrial
education, industrial engineering,
mechanical engineering-, petro
leum engineering, chemistry and
physics.
When I was a sophomore I had
the pleasure of dumping about
2,000 copies of The Daily Texan’s
Thanksgiving edition into the
Colorado River. A friend of mine
had the responsibility of deliver
ing the papers, and since it was
early and he hadn’t recovered
from the night before, we took
advantage of a thick fog to toss
the papers into the river.
It’s too bad that the Texan’s
staff didn’t have the foresight to
destroy Tuesday’s issues before
Security Boost For LBJ
Indicates Weight Of Job
WASHINGTON <A>) — A Trea
sury Department request for
$322,000 to hire 35 more secret
service agents to guard Vice
President Lyndon B. Johnson and
his family is ample evidence of
the increase in the responsibilities
of that office.
Only two agents are now as
signed to Johnson. The others
would be available starting July 1.
Soon after President Kennedy
took office he made it plain that
Johnson should share some of the
administration’s responsibilities to
an unprecedented degree.
One of the first things Kennedy
did was to appoint Johnson as
chairman of his Space and Aero
nautics Council. Then he was
named chairman of the Presi
dent’s Equal Employment Oppor
tunity committee, and chairman
of the Peace Corps advisory coun
cil. He also is a member of the
National Security Council.
Johnson attends all meetings of
the Security Council’s executive
committee, all Cabinet meetings,
the weekly White House confer
ence of congressional leaders and
meetings that the President holds
with advisors prior to his news
conferences.
Johnson has visited 20 nations
on what have been described as
“negotiating missions for the
President,” not just good will
trips.
The added responsibilities of the
vice president is underscored by
the fact that John Nance Garner,
during his tenure, had two aides,
his wife and a young Texan by
the name of Louis Friday.
Johnson has almost a score of
employees, some at his office on
Capitol Hill and some in his of
fice in the Executive Building ad
joining the White House.
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Uent writers only. The Battalion is a non^-tax-supported, non
profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and op
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and is under the supervision of the director of Student
Publications at Texas A&M College.
they were delivered, because all it
can do is focus the spotlight of
irresponsibility on college news
papers.
Firing a typically Texan edi
torial salvo at A&M, the UT
journalism school’s plaything be
moaned:
1. The exclusion of females and
nonwhite males from A&M.
2. The narrow and weak curri
culum found at Aggieland.
3. Compulsory ROTC on the
A&M campus.
I do not intend to answer for
these “shortcomings.” I am in
complete agreement with their
views on some of these points.
But I do disagree with their me
thod of using a legitimate peg —
the rumored coeducation vote at
the next directors meeting — to
attack a scholastic program of
which they know little or nothing.
This is the third recent editor
ial in the Daily Orange Rabble
Rouser to attack A&M. The first
was an illogical appeal for inte
gration, and the second was the
insane piece calling for A&M’s
abolition after the UT-sponsored
riot with outnumbered Aggies.
The Daily Texan’s habit of con
stantly jumping, being pushed
or falling into other people’s bus
iness too complex for it to com
prehend, is rapidly becoming of
fensive to other parties involved.
UT, where Long Star snobs are
allowed too root freely for four
years before being presented a
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The Texan could tackle if it
wanted to help its own academic
community.
The publication had wailed that
A&M’s SCONA received more
state funds than did UT’s “Chal
lenge” program. They failed to
state that SCONA’s money is
raised privately by students.
But all The Texan could do was
gripe, instead of helping get a
potentially worthwhile project
on its feet.
The Texan, hoary and wise in
its own eyes, should stick to its
own backyard, and make sure its
primary obligation to students at
UT is taken care of before it
flits off as a spastic do-gooder.
AGGIELAND ’63
A&M College of Texas
College Station, Texas
ATTENTION: Hometown and
Professional Club Representative
In order to meet our deadline
we must require that president’s
pictures, sweetheart pictures,
activity pictures, club write-ups
(not to exceed 200 words) all be
submitted to the Student Publi
cations Office, on the ground
floor of the YMCA, no later than
April 5, 1963.
You are also requested to con
tact John Finks, Dorm 4, Room
206, for professional club group
picture identification, and Joe
Cancellare, Dorm 4, Room 207,
for hometown club group picture
identification.
Those clubs with % page in
the AGGIELAND are reminded
that they may have either a
president or a sweetheart’s pic
ture but not both on the page.
If the required information is
not submitted by April 5, your
page will be printed with avail
able information.
Sincerely,
John Finks, Editor
Professional Clubs
and
Joe Cancellare, Editor
Hometown Clubs
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Hometown Clubs
Odessa club will meet at 7:30
p.m. in the lobby of the MSC.
Deep East Texas club will meet
at 7:30 p.m. in the Art Room of
the MSC.
Big Thicket club will meet at
7:30 p.m. in the MSC.
Milby club will meet at 7:10
p.m. in the lobby of the MSC.
Brazoria County club will meet
at 7:30 p.m, in Room 108 of the
Academic Building.
Port Arthur club will meet at
7:30 p.m. in the lounge of the
YMCA Building.
El Paso club will meet at 7:30
p.m. in Room 107 of the Academic
Building.
Orange club will meet at 7:30
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