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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, September 24, CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Were Students Hunting For Spirit Last Friday? To ask a student to drive to Baton Rouge Saturday night would have been a lot to expect, even though the Aggies were playing their first ball game of the year. However, for all but three freshmen Aggies, it was too much to ask for students just to show up at Henderson Hall last Friday morning to give the football squad a decent send- off. The Battalion’s Sports Editor Jim Butler had sug gested early last week that students show up to let the team know we traveled with them in spirit if not in per son. It shouldn’t have been necessary for this to be sug gested. It should have been automatic for everyone who did not have a class at that hour. Coach Hank Foldberg and his troopers went to Louis iana and made a good showing for themselves, but I don’t think any of their thrust originated at the blast-off spon sored by their fellow Aggies. We will admit that Henderson Hall is off to one side of the campus and that it was a bit warm Friday morning. However, we doubt that the temperature Friday was any thing like the nearly 100-degree weather the footballers practiced in for two weeks before most students set foot on the campus this year. The Battalion is anxious to see if the Student Body has regained The Spirit after two weeks of school. It is apparent from the show last Friday morning that The Spirit had not become a part of the campus life at A&M at that time. The football squad will leave Henderson Hall at approxi mately 6:30 a. m. this Friday to go to Easterwood Airport to fly to Columbus, Ohio. It will be interesting to see how many of our students will be on hand to come forth with a “Gig ’em Aggies” as the team leaves the campus. Nation’s Collegians’ Dress Follows One Basic Style There was a time when a man’s tie would be a dead giveaway as to his college affiliation. Today, were you to take four collegians from four different campuses and put them together, there’d be no way of telling who’s from where. As a matter of fact, regardless of the campus each came from, he’d look at home at most any college. The man from the South, the midwesterner, the northwesterner and the man from the East would each be wearing loafers, crew socks, solid colored slacks, a sport shirt or an oxford button-down shirt, sans tie, and — if the weather were on the cool side — a cardigan or pullover sweater. Hats ? Only if they’re freshmen and are required to wear their “beanies.” “The casual look at most col leges is the accepted thing,” says R. M. Seibert, men’s wear expert at Chemstrand Company. “Actual ly, the trend started over 15 years ago with the end of World War II, dith discharged Gls return ing to complete their educations. These boys — many of whom were mature men — had the fills of khaki regimentation. The result was the revoluation — or evolu tion — of campus wear that we know today. Casual clothing be came firmly favored for campus activities — and clearly will re main so.” Bulletin Board TUESDAY The Soil and Crop Student Wives Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the home of Mrs. Char les Taliaferro at X-l-F Hensel. WEDNESDAY The Aggies Wives Bridge Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Ball room of the Memorial Student Center. The H i 1 1 e 1 Foundation will sponsor a get-acquainted meeting at 7:30 p.m. THURSDAY For dates and other social events at college, however, a new man appears, according to a re cent survey done for Chemstrand.* He may still wear slacks, but with these is a sport jacket. If not this, he’ll be in a business suit, usually with a vest. Loafers give way to cordovan or black wing- The Amarillo Hometown Club will meet in the Lobby of the Memorial Student Center at 7:30 p.m. The Grayson County Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the main lounge of the Memorial Student Center. THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non tax-supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and operated by students as a university and community netvs- paper and is under the supervision of the director of Stu dent Publications at Texas A&M University. The Battalion, a student newspaper at TexasA.&M. is published in Colle tion, Texas daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, i her through May, and once a week during summer school. e Sta- tepem- spontaneous origin I in are also reserved. for republication of all news paper and local news of republication of all other matter here- Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. MEMBER: The Associated Press Texas Press Assn. Represented nationally by National advertisi n a Service. Inc., New Yor City, Chicago, Los An geles and San Francisco. Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester; $6 per school year, $6.50 per full year. ons subject to 2% sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMC A Building; College Station, Texas. All subscription News contributions may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the editorial office. Room 4, YMCA Building. For advertising or delivery call VI 616415. iisaiil, -V' ' : Jill ' \ till ‘When I said ‘Bring your tackle box of equipment’ I meant . Well, I assumed . . . Errr . . . That is . . . !” College Campuses Host More Autos tip shoes (the white buck shoes are now provincial — gone the way of the raccoon coat) depend ing on the clothing worn. The sport shirt is replaced, in most instances, by a white oxford but ton-down, worn with a regimental stripe, knitted solid or small re peat pattern tie. Socks are co ordinated with the tie, and most students’ wardrobes run the ga mut from argyles to solids. The survey also shows a differ ent pattern of dress between men studying in or near large cities and those in the hinterlands. The latter tend to prefer the more casual type clothing throughout — meaning that while they spend as much for their clothing, sport jackets and slacks are preferred to suits. Nearly two million automobiles will work their way through college this year. A survey of the college park ing problem by The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company indicates that 44 per cent of the nation’s 4.5 million undergraduates will report to classes on wheels later this month. Questionnaires sent to colleges, both large and small, in all sec tions of the natidn, revealed that the increase since pre World War II days in the number of student autos parked on campus ranges from 300 to 1,000 per cent. Understandably, the daytime parking problem — not to be con fused with its midnight counter part — poses a problem for cam pus police chiefs as well as deans. Parking facilities are virtually non-existent at many colleges in metropolitan areas, the study found. For example, the 10,000 daytime students and 14,000 night schoolers at the College of the City of New York either ride the subway or race parking meters. A handful of daring faculty com mute through Manhattan streets on motor bikes. In contrast, the University of Minnesota will park automobiles 1,900,000 times in the course of the school year. Minnesota has a “self-supporting” parking set up where everyone on campus pays to park. Most colleges have an annual fee, ranging up to $10. Rutgers, which claims the largest parking facility in New Brunswick, N. J. (3,000) operates 26 buses to shut tle students from parking areas to four school areas. Higher education is not neces sarily conductive to the fight against traffic. violators. Last year Rutgers passed out 10,000 tags to students, faculty members and others. Some of the Ivy League schools, notably Yale and Princeton, do not allow on-campus parking. Col umbia does, but has no parking facilities. Both faculty and stu dents park on Manhattan streets on a “catch as catch can” basis. Dartmouth allows parking, mak ing it easier for seniors and mar ried students by slicing the reg istration fee in half to $5. The college is especially tough on stu- DAN LOUIS JR - EDITOR Ronnie Fann Managing Editor Glenn Dromgoole '. - News Editor Jim Butler Sports Editor John Wright Asst. News Editor j Marvin Schultz - Asst. Sports Editor Juan Tijerina, James Olive Photographers i 1 r A PARDNER You’ll Always Win The Showdown When You Get Your Duds Done At CAMPUS CLEANERS dent auto violations. Last year it suspended a star halfback be cause he was caught owning a car while attending the school as a financial aid student. The play er lost all-east recognition while the football team won nine straight. Dartmouth’s assistant business manager, Jack Skewes, makes the point that seat belts are required in all cars starting this fall. The University of Texas, like many institutions, bans freshmen from parking on campus. To all driv ers, the university hands out an attractive four-color map of the campus — along with a copy of its stringent regulations. Time was when a visitor to the campus could just follow the crowd and wind up in the right place. Not so any more, relates the public relations director at Boston College. One night last winter a Pulitzer Prize winner was on one B. C. dais; a seminar on ethics for local businessmen was held in another hall; a syn opsis on Civil War events in a third; the evening classes were in session and a basketball game was in progress. A stranger drove onto the campus expecting to see the B. C.-Navy basketball game. He parked his car and followed the crowd. He wound up listen ing to James Reston, N. Y. Times Washington correspondent, speak ing on the state of the nation. Estimates of the number of used cars on campus varied wide ly from 45 to 90 per cent of the total number. Surprisingly, the highest percentage of used cars was found at Harvard, generally considered the richest university in the country. College police chiefs, deans and other concerned with parking problems disagreed Avidely on one question posed by the survey: “Is today’s student a better driv er than his father?” The Northwestern respondent said, “We doubt it.” Dartmouth replied, “About the same at com parable age.” Columbia answer ed, “Unlikely.” “Yes, but less cautious,” said Maine. Wiscon sin and Harvard gave an unquali fied “Yes,” while Tennessee write, Perhaps the most succinct ob servation came from Northwest ern’s manager of parking and traffic. At the bottom of his questionnaire he wrote, “Cars are still unnecessary to a college edu cation.” PEANUTS Far Reaching Foresight In Finances Called Vital Financial foresight more far reaching than this year’s w’ater or street project, or next year’s budget, has been cited as the in creasingly vital requirements for municipal leadership in Texas. As part of an address on the responsibilities of city govern ment officials, Steve Matthews, executive director of the Texas Municipal League, presented a thumb-nail sketch of newly de veloped information on the pro perty tax and its growing impact not only on local government fin ance but on business investment in Texas. TML, he said, is currently en gaged in the collection of data to gain a clearer understanding of property and non-property tax use in Texas and throughout the nation. Research conclusions of TML and other agencies were listed to show a trend toward over-dependence on the property tax in this state. “Investment capital will be de terred from locating in the fast growing urban areas of our state if archaic tax policies mean that such investments will have to carry an unrelieved and unreal istic share of the burdens of local growth and expansion,” Matthews stated. Here are extracts from his texts pertinent to the local revenue problem: Only a very short time ago— less than three years ago, in fact —many voices were being raised in our state about the adverse consequences to our “business climate” if we did not broaden the tax base for state govern ment. That base was broadened. Study after study by commis sion after commission has pre sented us with facts about the property tax — and its use at the local level in Texas' — but we have not yet reacted effective ly to the clear and compelling meaning of those facts. Let me list just a few such facts for you: 1. The property tax is the larg est tax collected in Texas except for Federal income taxes on in dividuals and corporations. 2. Since World War II, the pro perty tax has increased in mag nitude nearly fivefold — from $161 million in 1945 to $735 mil lion in 1960. 3. In the last five years of the pre-war decade, property tax col lections increased an average of $3.1 million annually. In the last CORPS FRESHMEN YEARBOOK PORTRAIT SCHEDULE FRESHMEN IN THE CORPS will have their portrait made for the “AGGIELAND ’64” according to the following schedule. Portraits will be made at the AGGIELAND STUDIO, one block north of the intersec tion at North Gate, between the hours of 0800 and 1700 on the days scheduled. Uniform will be winter blouse. BLOUSES AND BRASS WILL BE FURNISHED AT THE STU DIO. EACH MAN SHOULD BRING HIS OWN SHIRT AND TIE. GH cap may be used for optional personal portraits. September 23-24 24- 25 25- 26 26- 27 October (PLEASE will have El, FI, & Gl A2 & B2 C2 & D2 E2, F2 & G2 30-1 Oct. A3 & B3 1- 2 C3 & D3 2- 3 E3, F3 & G3 3- 4 H3 & 13 7-8 Maroon Band NOTE: The studio NO BAND BRASS. Band members are requested to bring OWN BRASS) October 8-9 9- 10 10- 11 14- 15 15- 16 16- 17 17- 18 BLOUSE & White Band Squadrons 1-3 Squadrons 4-6 Squadrons 7-9 Squadrons 10-12 Squadrons 13-14 Squadrons 15-17 DENT TO QUITE A FEU) I VE NEVER HEARD VOD SM I HAVE A CUTE SMILE, SCHROEDER...D0 V0U THINK I HAVE A CUTE SMILE? five years of the 1950 decade, pro perty tax collections increased $53.1 million annually. 4. While the property tax has declined in relative importance as a percentage of state-local tax revenues combined, it has in creased in importance at the local level. In 1932', property taxes raised 91 per cent of all local tax revenues. Today, the level is 92 per cent. 5. The rate of increase in pro perty tax collections is outrun ning our population growth. In 1960, the property tax collections were 100 per cent greater per per son than in 1950, despite the dra matic population explosion in Texas during that decade. 6. Property tax collections are also outrunning the increase in personal income payments in Texas. In 1950, property tax col lections amounted to 3 per cent of such income payments — but by 1960, had climbed to 4.1 per cen.t 7. The Texas State Tax Study Commission reports show that 56 per cent of our Texas property taxes are paid by business and these taxes — on state-local bases combined — accounted for about one-half of the business tax bill in Texas prior to adoption of the sales tax. 8. Property taxes levied on homes, personal property, etc., are about equal in importance to Tex as families as to Texas business- Jl ¥■ es. 9. Because of the great “proli feration” of local units of govern ment with taxing authority, Texas has more tax administrators than any other state — all work ing with and on the same pro perty tax base. 10. The disparity from area to area in property tax burdens has much more effect on our compet itive position tax-wise with other states than any of the revenue measures levied at the state level The challenge presented to us HAPPINESS REALLY IS A WARM NEW PEANUTS BOOK! YOU CAN DOIT, CHARLIE BROWN! by Charles M. Schulz 6/i/y ff At your college bookstore now. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. in Texas is clear and urU ^ . able. In the future, nn» ‘ 1 ^ past, new business k, f 1 ' will be attracted to Texas) 1 concentration of population, rather than [«| 8 , posits of natural resourc vestment capital will be iH from locating in the fast urban areas of our state if; tax mean that such iS^K m ^t will have to carry an ui)iB, ia j ] e; and unrealistic sharejf tlBpmg> s dens of local growth aniff" foettr s * on • lljBi'e-colle Exclusive reliance uponti P ! U 'T S perty tax will equally di Cil ^ ^■lidancr families and individuals. not expect to realize thej; P' of our growth if we rest s ; 1 local taxing policies to 1U industry we need to pro™ and to the homes of the 5) for whom those jobs area Certainly, the property U( .continue to be work horsp«l ccn T as JE 1 i Basons s goals of Hthe ■nning; I Elmer of JETS Eng revenues for cities, couil school districts. Butthetil come when we must eal seek to broaden the base if enue support for our growing Texas cities. Bo 11801 - of Prof birs 59 sllate. b|en ad< JETS high sc ^^Heater p;. rticul; st idy of English. ^Hce am rien, a cl nr '.1 fie ty unde school i mathem; WThe p ■nt’s ii engineer portunit learned j afctual <. Rejects. 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