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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Friday, May 17, 1963
CADET SLOUCH
fey Jim Earle
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Astronauts Turn Us
To Renewed Search
' Faith 7 is the name he selected for the craft in which
he was to make history or meet failure, where failure would
be fatal.
The man, Maj. Gordon Cooper, holds the record for
number of orbits completed and length of time spent in space;
but, he is only typical of the seven men who made up the
first team of astronauts for the United States. These seven
men, together with their families, represent the ultimate in
what the American man and the American family can be.
Probably the name given to Cooper’s spacecraft—Faith—
best describes the one element that makes these people a
group which can be respected by all people of these great
United States of America.
While the accomplishments of the astronauts have been
enough to stop the average American, we believe that it has
been the manner in which these people have conducted them
selves during the past months that has awed the nation and
a large part of the world.
When the three ladies of the Cooper family were asked
Thursday if they had been afraid any time during their hus
band and father’s historic flight, they all said they had not.
Why not?
Faith was the answer they would always come back to.
Faith in Cooper’s abilities, faith in everyone associated with
the program and then just plain old fashion FAITH.
We can all hope that the same men who have turned
our eyes to the stars in search of satellites might also lead
the way for the nation to turn its hearts to FAITH and the
God behind that faith.
Youth Group OKs
Educational Bill
By The Collegiate Press
WASHINGTON — A national
youth and student conference on
the subject of federal* aid to edu
cation held in Washington re
cently generally supported Presi
dent Kennedy’s National Educa
tional Improvement Act of 1963.
The conference, sponsored by
22 national youth and student or
ganizations, drew more than 100
delegates from all sections of
the country. The assembly of
students was addressed by Com
missioner of Education Francis
Keppel and by Members of Con
gress interested in the education
bill.
The students voted to support
all sections of the Kennedy bill
(HR 3000), but asserted that in
some areas, the bill is inade
quate. The group recommended
expansion of many of the aid
programs when possible. How
ever, the students recognized the
difficulty of getting the current
smaller proposals through Con
gress, and did not ask for more
federal assistance immediately.
One of the major floor debates
came over the issue of the inclu
sion of an anti- discrimination
rider in the federal aid to edu-
FRIDAY, MAY 17
“ATTILA”
With Anthony Quinn
and Sophia Loren
SATURDAY, MAY 18
“OPERATION
AMSTERDAM”
With Peter Finch
Also
“D-DAY”
With Robert Taylor
SUNDAY, MA* 19
“OUR MAN IN
HAVANA”
With Alec Guinness
and Maureen O’Hara
lUs Time To Turn Around
We are happy to see that the Student Senate is concerned
about the amount of time spent in lines by those students
who care enough to vote.
While we fail to see how the proposed system will greatly
decrease the time in line for voters, we encourage the senators
in their efforts.
However, we sincerely hope that the Senate of next year
will devote much of its attention to getting more students to
turn out for our elections and stand in line. This year has
been a depressing one as far as student elections are con
cerned.
What steps might be taken to improve the number of
voters ? This is one question that some student office holders
have approached with real concern. We feel that they might
have been looking in the wrong place for the answers.
The things that would probably do the most for our
student government elections is for the leaders of our organ
izations to make an abrupt return to student government.
It appears, as we look back at the year, that there has
been some neglect of the drudgery that accompanies any
government position.
< There have been many brilliant events in the life of A&M
come about this year. Some student leaders have fallen to
the temptation of stepping into the bright lights of these
events. However, the bright lights might have been obtained
at the expense of some normal campus functions which were
expected to take care of themselves.
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