THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, May 13, 1964
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Election Day
Brings Trouble
Thursday is election day again, and if the Student Senate
candidates conduct campaigns in any way like the ones held
for the general election, bring your lunch to the MSC and
enjoy the excitement.
Unfortunately, both for the school and for the student
body, the last election was one of the most bitterly fought
in A&M’s history, and this one promises to match it. In
some cases, officers were elected on a Civilian or Corps basis
only, with little regard to the student’s qualifications.
It might seem a bit facetious, but isn’t the progress of
the school and the bettermen of the student body the aim of
both factions? Apparently not.
Believing that running too many candidates for each
office split their block vote in the last election, the Corps
has already conducted several “primaries” to pick the best
man to run and to insure him total support. The Civilians,
fearful of the same situation, have started circulating cards
promoting “approved” candidates. Who they are approved
by is not stated.
The situation is not to be condemned as a whole. Until
recently, very few students took an interest in student body
elections, and could care less about who was representing
them in the Student Senate.
Undeniably though, blind, prejudicial voting is un
warranted. It would be unfortunate if 8,000 rubber stamps
went over to the MSC to vote a certain candidate just be
cause he was “approved.”
Dead Week
Dying Fast
Next week a mysterious, confusing tradition will occur
on the A&M campus which will probably leave more bitter
feelings between faculty and students than all the pop quizzes
of the semester could possibly achieve. This is, of course,
that Old Army custom of yesteryore—“dead week.”
Like most all other traditions, this one has never, and
probably will never,'become a regulation. In its own ethnic
style, dead week “is, because it is, because it is.” But what
is it?
Essentially this interesting phenomena consists of a
contemporary “7 Days in May” which precede final examina
tions and are supposed to be reserved for final studying ex
clusively. In other words, professors are supposed to abide
by the unwritten rules and not assign major quizzes. Un
fortunately this is not the case.
Regardless of its illegal validity, dead week is a good
idea. To be enforced it need not become a written statue,
but only a gentleman’s agreement between student and
professor that plans for that one last major quiz be worked
out well in advance. This will also mean some concessions
by the student. Instead of many quizzes on dead week, he
might have to cope with many the week before.
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RONNIE FANN EDITOR
Glenn Dromgnole Managing Editor
Bob Schulz, Jim Butler Associate Editors
Maynard Rogers Sports Editor
John Wright News Editor
Clovis McCallister, Mike Reynolds Asst. News Editors
Lani Presswood Asst. Sports Editor
Ray Harris, Larry Jerden, Tom Hargrove, Ted Gentry Staff Writers
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
“I’m sure coach Chandler and th’ team appreciate your sup
port, but on th’ other hand they wouldn’t want you to flunk
out because we won th’ championship! Let’s go back to
class!
Batt Represented
In Latin America
The Battalion will have a for
eign correspondent this summer
when J. Donald Deliz tours Latin
American and the West Indies
for his doctoral
in preparation
studies.
The Depart
ment of Modern
Languages pro
fessor will relate
his adventures
through a column
in the Summer
Battalion. Fea
tured will be in
sights into local
traditions arid
customs, and tra
vel hints for Aggies planning to
take a limited-budget tour of the
South American countries.
DELIZ
standing of modern Spanish to
aid in the translation of complex
scientific data.
“Each country has its own dif
ferent shades of Spanish which
are constantly changing,” Deliz
comriiented. “We get a lot of
specialized translation to do here,
and we soon discovered how dif
ferent it was from everyday
Spanish.”
This will be the second series
of articles for The Battalion
written by Deliz. The professor
related his travels and studies in
France two summers ago in his
column entitled “Howdy From
Paris, France.” He presently
plans to depart after the first
session of summer school, and
travel for about six weeks.
Purpose of the tour, Deliz ex
plained, was to better his under-
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COMPROMISE NEAR?
Civil Rights Bill Stalled;
GOP Leaders Optimistic
WASHINGTON <A>) — Senate
Democratic leaders on Tuesday
told President Johnson that pro
gress on the civil rights bill is
nil. Then they went before the
Senate to plead with Southern
foes of the measure to permit
some votes.
The Senate Republican leader,
Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois,
painted a more optimistic pic
ture. After the weekly luncheon
of GOP senators he told nev/s-
men he believes a compromise
bill could be passed in about
five more weeks.
Dirksen said full accord was
reached on the 70-amendment
package he offered to the Sen
ate leadership and Atty. Gen.
Robert F. Kennedy last week.
He said that after “a final look-
see” Wednesday he will put the
package before a conference of
Republican senators.
Earlier in the day, Southern
forces met in caucus and agreed
not to permit any voting until
they feel they have enough to
support to write in their version
of a jury trial amendment.
All this came amid emotional
speeches on the floor with some
senators taking their colleagues
to task for letting the debate
drag into its 53rd day.
There were demands from sev
eral for an attempt to invoke
cloture to shut off further talk,
at least on the jury trial issue.
Some wanted cloture on the en
tire bill.
Majority Leader Mike Mans
field of Montana said he hasn’t
tried this because “in all hon
esty we did not have the votes.”
It takes a two-thirds majority
of senators voting a limit de
bate.
After meeting at the White
House with Johnson, Mansfield
told newsmen he would keep the
Senate in session all year if
necessary, with recesses for the
national political conventions, to
get Johnson’s program passed.
Dirksen would not say he is
certain enough GOP senators
would accept his package. He
said it probably would require
25 votes from his side to attain
the 67 needed for cloture, if all
100 senators voted.
Asked if the package would
produce cloture, Dirksen re
minded the newsmen he has been
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WEDNESDAY
The Aggie Wives Bridge Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the
Memorial Student Center. They
will play bridge and then elect
officers.
THURSDAY
The Laredo Hometown Club
will meet in Room 3-C of the
MSC at 7:30 p.m.
The Amarillo Hometown Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the
Anderson Room of the YMCA
Building. Officers will be elect
ed.
The Lavaca County Hometown
Club will meet at 8 p.m. in Room
204 of the Academic Building.
The Bellaire Hometown Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room
206 of the Academic Building.
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Last of The Town Hall Series
8 P. M.
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Aggie Date Ticket $1.00
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