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* Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Thursday, May 30, 1963 CADET SLOUCH BATTALION EDITORIALS Bargains Are Expensive “By and large we are not evil. By and large we are not even stupid. But we would rather do almost anything than think.” This statement was directed to the Class of ’63 Saturday by Jenkin Lloyd Jones, editor of the Tulsa Tribune. The statement would probably have more profitable when pre sented to those of us who are left to toy with most valuable possession we have, our minds. \ There are many on this campus who, as Jones put it, “are living upon the fringes of their brains.” This idea should be a challenge to each and every stu dent on this campus to move from the suburbs of his brain into the downtown business section. Probably any one of us can see this week more than any other in the semester that we have been out shopping for bargains. However, when it comes to our educations we are dealing in a commodity where bargains turn out to be expensive goods. Now is the best time for us to make plans to pay the price for the quality of education we expect to get. The paying doesn’t stop when we walk out of Sbisa after we register. Most of us would probably agree that we have little use for a cheat. However, we are all cheating ourselves when we fail, or even refuse sometime, to take advantage of the education that is our’s if we are willing to pay the price. To the students who feel that they might have gotten cheated during this semester, we ask you to look back deter mine who it was that did the short-changing. by Jim Earle jyy School Head Cttlls For Intellect Development Editors Note: The following article first appeared in E^st Texas, the official pu'olic jti n of the East Texas Chamber of Commerce, as an editorial com ment by Fred Pool. It is re printed here because The Battal- lion holds wholeheartedly to what has been said here. One of the most encouraging notes in the field of education within recent months has come from the superintendent of schools in New York, Dr. Calvin E. Gross, when he called for a return to “intellectual develop ment” in the schools of our na tion. under closer supervision than is ever possible in college. Able students can learn virtu ally anything in high school if they are properly motivated, and if the teachers have the wit and the energy to keep up with them, Gross feels, but he also insists that there should be more concentration on those who are very bright and on those who are quite dull — or who merely appear to be dull because their intellectual potential is masked by the ravages of sub-standard living. A year’s college work in high school is already par for as: percentage of our most ablci ambitious students, and the b step should be a move to crease their numbers marts They could certainly move® faster than they have in the is The tendency on the pan too many teachers to pass; student on to the next grade! resulted in a grossly inadeip foundation, and no student ski be moved on into any salj until he has mastered the fui mentals. It is unfair to then dent, and it is unfair to a teacher who receives him. “I’m writin’ a letter to th’ editor in reply to another guy’s letter.—But before I mail it I’m gonna check on how big he is!” Sound Editor, The Battalion: It seems to us that with the Board of Director’s decision breaking a tradition, most people on this campus have lost in terest in all traditions; most noticeably, Silver Taps. We have spent quite a while on this cam pus and we can honestly say that all of us were ashamed of the attitude of our fellow stu dents during the most recent ceremony. We are specifically re ferring to the flagrant display of irreverence shown during and after what used to represent an Aggie’s “last rite.” The first thing that struck us was the lack of participation by the student body: It appeats as if many students, both corps and civilian, either lack the interest or do not see the point in Silver Taps. We firmly believe that everyone on this campus can take a half hour out of their studies to pay last respects to a fellow student. A person who regards himself as an Aggie cannot give us any reasonable excuse for his lack of participation. custom to assume a position of attention or reverence. Yet we saw many of the people present with their arms folded, on their hips, or in other nonchalant posi tions. This, to us, is not the proper attitude anyone should display toward one who is de ceased. Although the preceding’ inci dents were bad enough, the worst came after the ceremony. While we were returning to our dorm, we noted several people talking among themselves and a few who had the audacity to light ciga rettes. To us and every other true Aggie, these are the worst sins of all. But, to add to these, the majority of the dorms flag rantly blared their lights, show- tioning considerable lack of con sideration to those students who still regard Silver Taps as a solemn ceremony. To top it all, firecrackers or Babo bombs were deliberately exploded just a few hours after our return. In our opinion, this was the ultimate in irreverance and disrespect. The second thing that we ob served was the lackadasical at titude of many of the students present during the ceremony. In the past, it has been the Aggie In the past, we have been proud to call ourselves Aggie. But, if our fellow students themselves choose to disregai’d one of the most important traditions of this school, then we can see no point in preserving the other sacred Southwestern States Telephone THE BATTALION Ovinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent writers only. The Battalion is a non tax-supported, non profit, self-supporting educationul enterprise edited and op erated by students as a college and community newspaper and is under the supervision of the director of Student Publications at Texas A&M College. The Battalion, a student ne' tion, Texas daily except Saturda; ipaper at Texas A.&M. is published in College Sta- y, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, Septem ber through May, and once a week during summer school. The Associated dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter he: in are also reserved. ress 3 it is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all ne exclusively to the u herwise credited in on loc ews of Second-Class postage paid ‘ i. T< at College Station, Texas. MEMBER: The Associated Press Texas Press Assn. Represented nationally by National Advertising using Service, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los An geles and San Francisco. All s Addre traditions, such as the Elephant Walk, the Bonfire and the Aggie Muster. Robert W. Baldwin, ’66 Joe Goldwater, ’64 Andrew Hunaicker, ’60 Tim Donaho, ’65 ★ ★ ★ Editor, The Battalion: Recently I received some un- solicitied material mailed to me by the Beaumont A&M Club con cerning the co-ed ruling. I think it is very clear from this circular why we need to drop this mass hysteria and do some solid think ing. The circular reprinted an article from the Dallas Times Herald stating that ; a wealthy alumnus “was thinking about can celing a $l-million bequest to the colleg’e.” In the sidelines added by the Beaumont Club were these words: “In one week it has cost the college $1,000,000.” In the attempt to carry our think ing for us they are equating “was thinking about” to “it has cost.” From the radio and newspaper reports the alumni are not the only ones that are letting a few do their thinking. The students, in part, are also following. Let me ask this: Will co-eds destroy the Corps? I say what is left in the Corps when accord ing to newspaper articles they booed President Rudder — a Gen eral in the United States Army. I entered the army as a buck pri vate and went up the ranks to a Captain and Gentleman, nobody of any rank boos a General — like him or not. The students yell “tradition.” Fine — but where is the tradition of treating an officer with respect. Perhaps it is now “tradition” to oppose co-education. Shall we close our eyes to the future and say instead “look what A&M used to be. She was a fine school — then.” We in the business world look COACH NORTON’S PANCAKE HOUSE 35 varieties of finest pancakes, aged heavy KC steaks, shrimp, and other fine foods. Daily—Merchants lunch 11 to 2 p. m. to the future and gear our plans to the future. This is a world of cold calculation. Be not sur prised if the employment depart ments of the business world look upon you as one living in the past. Gentlemen, you are writing your own history. Consider this page carefully. J. H. Garrett Cross Plains, Texas Gross feels that every citizen of this country, whether he pounds nails, raises corn, designs rockets or writes poetry, should be taught to know and love his American heritage; to use the language well; to understand the physical universe ahd to enjoy the arts. We agree. Demanding that first place in the curriculum be assigned to English and reading, Gross has hit upon a favorite subject of ours. No matter what trade or profession one may follow, his only mode of expression must be the written or spoken word; and it behooves all of us to see to it that our children are better equipped to do both than is pre sently the case. The so-called “frill’ courses are, in great part, the result of the demands, of parents, or to say the least, they have the blessing of parents. But when these same parents express amazement at the lack of a solid foundation in Committee Calls For Own In Student Governing Boi\ The Student-Faculty Assembly at Boston University recently re ceived a report from its Stu dent Government Research Com mittee recommending the organi zation be dissolved. The commit tee in a 13-page published report, urged the establishment of a student congress in which there would be no voting administra tion members. Congress would have responsibilities in the fol lowing areas: 1. recognition of all univer sity organizations with the ex ception of fraternities, sororities, and student publications. 2. reflection of student opinion on decisions made within the Uni versity and making recommenda tions on these issues. 3. negotiation for student mem- 4. informing and expre: student opinion on local, natia and international issues relra to the student-citizen. Student council and class pis dents would constitute ones ordinating committee to their own affairs and petition! Congress. An Organizations Council wii. be a second coordinating comH tee and would consist of pis dents of all recognized 1 sity organizations. It won! the right of petition in a to its function of internal# ordination. rhetoric and grammar when the J bership on university committees child reaches college, we wonder if, at the same time, they ever| stop to review the activities ini which their child engaged whil passing through high • school,! a period when he was, ostensibly, I I | in the policy areas of calendar, athletics, social regulations, dis cipline, housing, academic stand ards, curriculum, student publi cations, university facilities, and fraternities and sororities. fi^1k HDCfe tbiaaktiftahn A Vta BlTiiiiiiTnif "Sports Car Center” Dealers for Renault-Peugeot & British Motor Cars Sales—Parts—Service “We Service All Foreign Cffi'j ; > 1422 Texas Ave. TA B-lilij ARMY. THANKS FOR YOUR BUSINESS -Hope Everything Is All Right- F ii less You Get Your Money’s Worth At LOU’S, It’s Not A Good Trade For You Or LOU. 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