THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesdty, September 18, 1963
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Student Insurance
Can Save Semester
Many causes have been at the bottom of students’ hav
ing - to leave A&M during a semester. However, there is one
reason that occurs more frequently than one would imagine
that could be easily avoided.
Any number of students are forced from school each
year because their bank account or their parents’ bank
account is drained to pay the expense of doctor and hospital
bills after an accident. Inexpensive accident insurance of
fered by the student welfare committee of the Student Senate
can prevent such unfortunate event.
Committee chairman, Allan Peterson, has expressed
concern that the number of students taking advantage of
the insurance has fallen during the past two years.
There are probably many students who feel that it is
not necessary for them to purchase the inexpensive student
accident insurance, because they are insured under a policy
held by their family. However, if these students will check,
some of them will probably learn that because they have
reached a certain age or for other reasons, they may no
longer be included in the family policy. This is often true
of group policies set up within offices or plants for the con
venience of employees.
It would be a tragedy for some student to have to drop
from school, because he didn’t have insurance that could
have been obtained for the price of a few cartons of cigarettes
or a couple of dozen malts.
Silver Taps
There are few places in today’s world where 8,000 will
stop to observe the memory of one, even if the one had been
known by all of the 8,000.
It is not important that we know who he was or from
where he came. It is only important to know that he was
one of us—a Texas Aggie.
We felt the importance of this fact when we heard two
Aggies discussing the Silver Taps of Tuesday night. One
asked the other if he had known the Aggie. They both said
they had not. However, they both had been standing tall and
straight as the rifles were fired and Silver Taps floated across
our campus. It had been enough that the ceremony was for
an Aggie.
‘Discussion Break ’ Tried
Among University Group
whom serve a co-leaders. Co
leaders are chosen upon the basis
of their previous experience in
the program. The role of the
participating leaders is to probe,
summarize and help the group
evaluate its progress.
The leadership function, how
ever, is shared by everyone in the
group. Consequently, the partici
pating leaders perform the role
of participant observers. They
acquire the various functions of
leadership which are required as
the group proceeds in its discus
sion.
An integral aspect of the over
all program is the participating
leaders’ workshops. These work
shops are conducted weekly for a
period of six weeks and are at
tended by group leaders. They are
designed to explore some of the
problems encountered by partici
pating leaders during group ex
periences.
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Intercollegiate Press
BOSTON — It will probably
never replace the “coffee break,”
but at Boston University a uni
que “discussion break” has cap
tured the interest of a small but
- . enthusiastic group of students,
faculty and staff personnel. The
- informal education program, as
the break is know officially, is a
plan designed primarily to create
a broad intellectual environment
and bring down some of the bar
riers to communication between
students, faculty and administra
tive personnel in areas not usually
considered academic.
For six consecutive weeks, pro
fessors and students meet in in
formal discussion groups on a
first-name basis. Each weekly
meeting is for 90 minutes. Sub
jects of discussion are chosen by
members spontaneously. Each
group has 12 members, two of
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
“How can I be whistle-jock if I don’t practice?”
Admission Requirements
Raised For UT Students
AUSTIN (IP) — Admission
changes which went into effect
at the University of Texas this
year require that a student’s high
school record contain somewhat
more “meat” in academic sub
jects.
In the College of Arts and Sci
ences, two years of a foreign
language will be required for
registration. However, a student
who satisfies all entrance require
ments except the one in foreign
language will be admitted with
a “deficiency,” to be made up
under rules prescribed by the
registrar.
Arts and sciences students also
will have to present credits for
two years of natural sciences and
two years of social studies. The
previous requirement allowed a
student to enter the College of
Arts and Sciences with two cre
dits each for two of three groups
— foreign language, natural sci
ence and social studies.
In the College of Business Ad
ministration, three years of math
ematics, instead of two, will be
necessary for admission. In the
College of Engineering, four
years of mathematics, instead of
three and one-half, will be an
enrollment prerequisite. New en
gineering students also must have
completed two years, instead of
one, in natural science.
Students entering the College
of Arts and Sciences and the Col
lege of Fine Arts may present
only two, instead of four, credits
in high school vocation courses.
A slight change in College of
Fine Arts admission standards
will call for the addition of from
one-half to one credit in some
fine arts subjects.
The University’s freshman class
of 1963 was the first required to
present 16, instead of 15, credits
of high school course work. The
Texas Education Agency has ap
proved 16 credits as the gradu
ation standard in every accredited
Texas high school.
Profs Petition
For More Work
An unusual request, more work
for the same pay, has been grant
ed to teachers at Shimer College
of Mount Carroll, 111., by the
school’s trustees. Shimer faculty
members petitioned trustees to al
low each teacher the right to
determine his own teaching load.
At the same time, trustees also
approved a faculty petition that
classes should average 19 stu
dents, with a maximum of 22.
At Shimer, where the discussion
group method of teaching is pre
dominant, teachers have been con
cerned about some classes in
which enrollment has reached 30.
Under the new system, each
student will increase his course
load to about nine class periods a
week, but will have fewer stu
dents in each class.
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Timeless Program
CHICAGO (IP) — Undergrad
uate programs should embody
“the timeless idea of a liberal
education,” be susceptible to
change, challenge the student, and
avoid pressures to adopt practices
which are “preposterous ... in
the sober light of our real busi
ness,” Alan Simpson, dean of the
College at the University of Chi
cago.
Liberal education, said Simpson,
is a matter of intellectual tools,
literary skills, some breadth of
knowledge, some grasp of stand
ards, and some sense of style. He
said he would “cheerfully sacrifice
any number of interdisciplinary
courses in the senior year for one
successful course — or experi
ence — in English composition.”
Stressing the need for “a liber
al education at the college level,”
Simpson warned of the “squeeze
produced by the college-level
courses in high schools and the
pre-graduate courses in college.
Let them (the colleges) by all
means build on better standards
from below; but let them also
defend their duty to civilize both
the precocious specialist and the
future citizen. And let them in
sist that, in the future as in the
past, it will noramally take them
four years to discharge this
duty.”
On the role of change in educa
tion, Simpson said course content
will change as a result of in
creases in knowledge; and teach
ing methods may change as a re
sult of technical advances. How
ever, he noted that the College
at UC has so far been affected
“very little” by the “proliferation
of tubes and tapes and teaching
machines,”
Education must also be con
cerned with and aware of the
larger, more general problems
of a changing world, said Simp
son. One of these problems is
“the domestication of science
within the general culture.”
Another major issue is “educa
tion for an emerging world com
munity.” Here Simpson suggest
ed that “the systematic study of
some culture other than our own
(be) made a perscribed part of
everybody’s general education. ’
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