THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Tuesday, April 9, 1963
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Education’s Strength
Not Found In Numbers
In conjunction with the Legislature’s marathon to make
all colleges and universities in Texas state-supported, the
Senate Finance Committee included $15 million for the Uni
versity of Houston in. its bill approved Monday.
In early opposition to legislation creating additional tax-
supported colleges, William T. (Bill) Moore pointed out, “Tex
as has 20 four-year colleges now. This is more than any other
state except California.”
Moore rightly accused “a few local Chamber of Commerce
and big corporations and industries who want to escape their
fair share of taxation” of inspiring the legislation that “shifts
the burden of taxation off their backs and places it in the
state’s general fund—to which all taxpayers contribute.”
The crusaders for “improved higher education’’ seems to
be motivated by the idea that the secret to academic success
lies in the quantity of four-year state-supported schools
rather than in the quality of these schools. Lately, the Legis
lature has been bombarded with requests to create more tax-
supported four-year colleges, but little effort is being made
on quality improvement.
It appears that the local “prominent citizens” enjoy the
noise-making that accompanies getting a school established
for their “growing community.” However, when the game
gets underway it is the citizens that cry out for state-support
to their school.
Why should every community in the state which has
begged permission to establish a college in its area be per
mitted to secure state funds to feed their faltering experi
ments ? -
There is no sound reason to be offered. None of these
schools can offer anything in the form of higher education
that cannot be obtained in one of the state’s established
schools.
What is the answer to the sudden increase in the desire
to have a state supported school in every county ?
It’s just possible that some of the “brag abouts’’ who
initiated the educational experiments would like to have the
number of state-supported schools compete with the number
of oil wells in the state.
Sound Off
Editor,
The Battalion:
The series of thefts which has
taken place in Law and Purycar
Halls serves to point up one of
the biggest farces on the campus
—the Campus Security Office.
This aggregation of toff's
bring's to mind the senseless ant
ics of that famous group of the
1920s and 30s — the Keystone
Kops. They make a great show
of seeming to be in hot pursuit
of criminals, yet only succeed in
getting into the way of each
other and other people in the
process.
For weeks now there have been
reports on top of reports of blat
ant thefts of valuables from the
rooms of students on this cam
pus.
Yet the
holidays?”
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Are you sure th’ dean can’t excuse me early for th’
Campus Security offi
cers seem more intent on scam
pering - g - aily about the campus
plastering their parking tickets
on every vehicle in sight than
upon catching the thieves who
have stolen hundreds of dollars
worth of property.
The main talent of these KKs
seems to be their ability to tran
scribe the license number of a
car onto a ticket pad. Their suc
cess at apprehending - the thieves
operating on this campus certain
ly leaves much to be desired.
Maybe the answer to the prob
lem would be to call in officers
of the Department of Public
Safety to investigate the thefts
and leave the KKs to merrily dis
tribute their parking tickets, the
job they do best.
Paul A. Johnson ’63
★★★
Bulletin Board
SERVING BRYAN and
COLLEGE STATION
It’s Time To Reconsider
Line That’s So Definite
There are some things that every student should be able
to determine for himself.
One of these decisions has been taken from the Classes
of ’65 and ’66.
In a meeting held last week the ring committee decided
that in the event of a name-change to Texas A&M University,
these two classes will have that name inscribed on their rings.
The Class of ’64 would be permitted to choose between
the present name and the one that would be adopted.
It is easy enough to see that the line had to be drawn
somewhere, but in this case we question the decision rendered
by the committee. Why deny students presently enrolled
in A&M the privilege of making the decision?
It is true that if the current session of the Legislature
passes HB 755 these classes will be graduating from Texas
A&M University; however, we feel compelled to point out to
the committee that the members of the Class of ’65 and the
Class of ’66 enrolled in A&M under its present name and some
of them might prefer to carry that name on their rings re
gardless of what the boys in Austin select to call A&M.
Of the committee we ask these few questions. Why can’t
the rigid decree be directed at the Class of ’67? Or, if the
name-change were not complete by next fall, why not issue
the order to the first freshman class following the passage of
the name-change bill?
When a line must be drawn it should be definite, as the
line drawn by the committee is. However, it might be wise
of the committee to reconsider the spot they have selected
for their line.
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Room 306 of Goodwin Hall. John
Griffiths will speak.
Marketing Society will meet at
7:30 p.m. in Rooms 2-A and 2-B
of the MSC.
Student Education Association
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the
YMCA Building - . Dean Frank W.
R. Hubert will speak.
Premed-Predent Society will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room, 113
of the Biological Sciences Build
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University of Texas medical
branch will speak.
Dairy Science Club will meet
at 7:30 p.m. in Room 114 of the
Herman Heep Building. Two
films will be shown.
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Editor,
The Battalion:
It is our understanding that
the senior rings of the classes of
1965 and ’66 will be required to
have the name-change on them.
If this is true, it does not seem
quite fair to us. We enrolled in
the A&M College of Texas, and
we believe we are entitled to have
A&M College of Texas on our
senior rings.
solely from his own personi
point of view, as we have not)?
talked to one sophomore who In
in any way been consulted i
this matter.
We, the classes of ’65 and'8
will wear these rings proudlyfe
the rest of our lives, so we a;! 1
it is “our” choice, not the adiiii:.|i" ei 'i can ^
istration’s, as to what will ij.fty by Ca.
pear on our ring. lie Memori
■ Plans for
From available sources, we
have found that the only people
on the ring committee who voted
to make the choice optional were
Paul Dresser, ’64, and Bill Milli-
kin, ’66. What about James Love,
our sophomore class president?
It seems he has voiced an opinion
We hope some member of®
representative (?) ring corai;
|m Club.
|The local
tee sees this and does someth I held Ap
I promote
about it. If not, it is up to is
the classes of 1965 and ’66, toil Pan Am
something about it. What dop L studer
say?
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David A. Franklin’S jgpECI AI
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(Author of “/ Was a Teen-age Dwarf,’’ “The Many
Loves of Dobie Gillis,’’ etc.)
FILLING A WELL-NEEDED GAP
Although my son is a college freshman, I am glad to say that
he is still not too old to climb up on my lap and have a heart-
to-heart talk when things are troubling him. My boy is enrolled
at Harvard where he is studying to be a fireman. From the
time he was a little tiny baby he always said he wanted to be
a fireman. Of course, my wife and I believed that he would
eventually grow out of it, but no sir, the little chap never
wavered in his ambition for one minute!
So here he is at Harvard today taking courses in net holding,
mouth-to-mouth breathing, carbon tetrachloride, and Dalma
tian dogs. It is a full schedule for the young man, and that, in
fact, is exactly what we talked about when last he climbed
upon my lap. - * ■
He complained that every bit of his time is taken up with bis
major requirements. He doesn’t have so much as one hour a
week to sample any of the fascinating courses outside his major
—history, literature, language, science, or any of the thousand
and one things that appeal to his keen young mind.
I am sure that many of you find yourselves in the same
scholastic bind; you are taking so many requirements that you
can’t find time for some appealing electives. Therefore, in to
day’s column I will forego lev’ty and give you a brief survey in
a subject that is probably noi included in your curriculum.
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I have asked the makers of Marlboro Cigarettes whether I
might employ tills column—normally a vehicle for innocent
merriment—to pursue this serious end. “Of course you may,
crazy kid,” they replied kindlily, their grey eyes crinkling at
the corners, their manly mouths twisted in funny little grins.
If you are a Marlboro smoker—and what intelligent human
person is not?—you would expect the makers of Marlboro to
be fine men. And so they are—wonderful guys, every man-jack
of them—good, generous, understanding, wise. They are each
tipped with a pure white filter and come in soft pack or Flip-
Top box.
But I digress. We were going to take up a topic you are
probably unable to cover in your busy academic life. Let us
start with the most basic topic of all—anthropology, the study
of man himself.
Man is usually defined as a tool-making animal, but I per
sonally do not find this definition entirely satisfactory. Man is
not the only species which makes tools. The simians, for ex
ample, make monkey wrenches.
Still, when you come to a really complicated tool—like a
linotype, for instance—you can be fairly sure it was made by
Homo sapiens—or else a very intelligent tiger. The question one
should ask,
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v, therefore, is not ivho made the tool, but what did
he do with it.
For example, in a recent excavation in the Olduvai Gorge a
large assortment of hominoid fossils was found, all dating back
to the Middle Pleistocene Age. Buried with the fossils was a
number of their artifacts, the most interesting being a black
metal box which emitted a steady beeping sound. Now, of
course, zoologists will tell you that tree frogs make such boxes
which they employ in their mating activities (I can’t go into
detail about it in this family newspaper) but the eminent an
thropological team, Mr. and Airs. Walther Sigafoos (both he
and she are named Walther) were convinced that this particular
box was made not by tree frogs but by Neanderthal men. To
prove their point, they switched on the box and out came
television, which, as everyone knows, was the forerunner of fire.
If there is anything more you need to know about anthro
pology, just climb up on my lap as soon as my son leaves.
© 1963 Max Sliulman
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with trepidation, are not anthropologists. They are tobacconists—
good ones, I think—and I think you’ll think so too when you sample
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