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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, December 3, 1964 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle KULTURE Kansas City — They’ve got some crazy little women here. This is truly a bachelor's para dise. Lounges, strip shows and women are found in great quan- ity. Pepe’s, Can-Can, Burlesk and Ivan’s all bid for tourist squad- rous funds and from the looks of things, they get quite a hit. Kansas City is quite large. It claims 1,200,000 inhabitants but confidentially I think they are fudging a little. However, Kan sas City does have a large down town area, perhaps larger than Houston. At any rate — more entertaining. Oh yes, I’ve forgotten to men tion why we are here. No, we haven’t flunked out of school and we’re not playing hookey. We’re here for the National Sigma Delta Chi Convention, which starts Thursday. So it’s eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we convene. Food here is tremendous. Kan sas City has always been famous for its stock yards and that has an overwhelming influence on the food served, especially beef. Wed nesday we induldged in a sirlion steak that was, as they say about Southern fried chicken, finger lickin’ good. Only we didn’t get any on our fingers. Later in the evening, we ac companied some profs and pro fessional journalists to a bur lesque show. They spell it Bur lesk. There may a difference in spelling but not in type of per formance. If you’ve seen one, you’ve pretty well seen them all. This show had four female per formers plus a couple of male extras for joke telling and time filling. There were two acts, each identical except for the cos tumes worn. But one of the profs in our party (he’s not from A&M, but is from a well known Texas college 90 miles west of College Station) decided the two acts were not enough. When we left, he moved up to the front row for a closer view. Kansas City’s top newspaper, the Star-Times greeted us upon our arrival today with an editor ial. Later we toured the news paper plant. Funny thing about this paper. It is one of the mid west’s top publications and is quite bulky, but it had no inside index. To find sports news or the editorial page, one must look through the entire paper. I ask ed them about this on the tour and they could offer no explana tion. We are scheduled to tour the Truman Library in Independence Friday and the former president might guide us. Harlan Cleveland, Assistant Secretary of State, will bring the convention closing address Satur day night. When the three-day meeting is completed we should return as better journalists, en tertained Aggies and tired. KORNER Emphasis Change Needed By JIM HUNT In the eyes of most of the faculty and students, the admini stration is an evil — but a nec essary one. The faculty have nei ther the inclination nor disposi tion to run a university and are primarily concerned with advance ment and research in their own fields. The necessary evil of the ad ministration is that someone has to maintain a certain cohesion and cooperation among the com munity of scholars who make up a university. If the powers that be fail to achieve the maximum coordination among parties that agree to disagree, with the mini mum of restraint, then the ad ministration is existing for its own sake and is a detriment to the community it was created to serve. A&M possesses a bundle of worn out traditions of which no one remembers the origins or purposes and a rapidly develop ing scientific community which may soon lead the southwest in research and development. It has nothing in the artistic and hu manistic fields to speak of except those individuals who have fur thered the arts in spite of, rather that with the help of, the pre vailing atmosphere. mal and Machine school andr continue to manufacture prt cessed diplomaed mass menr to fit into their sociological! and never know they were die ed out of a university education! If an educated man cannot a plore fields other than thatof| vocation he will find little: for the tools of his trade and? continue to be nothing more ti a technician. There is an increasing utilitar ian orientation in education, and in this respect A&M is right up to date; in the areas of Ars Gratia Artis A&M hasn’t even started. “Whad’ya say you take those fatigues to th’ cleaners! Be cause of them th’ whole dorm smells like bonfire!” Practically all administrations tend to be monolithic and con servative with a marked reluct ance to change and innovation; this is true of A&M, with the administration allowing tradi tion and precedent to influence their judgements and by the pre servation of a state of mind and concepts which deny the purpose of a university. An institution cannot allow any ideas or opinions to be arbi trarily excluded from the realm of inspection, discusion and con troversy and call itself a univer sity. Bulletin Board We traveled to this Midwestern City via Santa Fe Railroad. They surely rolled out the red carpet for us young journalists, provid ing a special chair car and lounge for the SDX’ers. THURSDAY Geological Society will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Geology Building main lecture room. El Paso Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 3-B of the Memorial Student Center. Mid-County Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 206 of the Academic Building. Aggieland pictures will be taken. Brazoria County Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 225 of the Academic Build ing. Wichita Falls Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the lec ture room of the Biological Sci ences Building. Angelina Hometown Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. in front of the MSC. Galveston Island Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Brooks Room of the YMCA Building. Pasadena Area Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the MSC Social Room. Abilene Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 208 of the Academic Building. Odessa Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Gay Room of the YMCA Building. Orange Hometown Club will Ferreri’s Triangle Restaurant Friday’s Featuring Our FISH SPECIAL All the fish you can eat for $1.00 at 12:00 noon and from 5:00 p. m. to 8:00 p. m. Book Your Banquets and Special Parties Early. 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Room 4, ay be made by telephoning VI 6.6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the YMCA Building. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6415. EDITOR RONALD L. FANN Managing Editor ’’Glenn Dromgoole Day News Editor Lani Presswood Spohts Editor Michael Reynolds Night News Editor Clovis McCallister Asst. Sports Editor Bob Spivey Asst. New Editor Gerald Garcia Staff Writers Tommy DeFrank, Jerry Cooper meet at 7:30 p.m. in the lobby of the Academic Building. Brazos County Democrats will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the banquet room of the Triangle Restaurant. Brazoria County Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 225 of the Academic Build ing. Centex Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 308 of the Academic Building. Port Arthur Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the YMCA Building. Spring Branch-Bellaire Home town Clubs will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 206 of the Academic Building. Marshall Hometown Club will meet at 7:45 p.m. in the YMCA Building. Matagorda County Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the lobby of Hart Hall. Bay Area Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 3-C of the MSC. Rio Grande Valley Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 108 of the Academic Build ing. NOW SHOWING A woman could feel him across a room. YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE JAMES FRANCISCOS-SUZANNE PLESHETTE GENEVIEVE PAGE C >PRESENTED BY WARNER BROS,! SATURDAY NITE SPECIAL Midnight Preview 12 P. M. I CHANGED THECOIOROF MY SKIN! NOW (KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE BLACK f' CIRCLE TONIGHT 6:30 P. M. ‘GOOD NEIGHBOR SAM’ & “2 Rode Together” Baytown Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 11 of the YMCA Building. Christ mas party plans will be discussed. In allowing the main body of tradition and the nostalgic image of the “old army” days at Ag gieland to remain, and by merely backing and filling and patching here and there instead of formu lating a new philosophy of edu cation, the administration has helped A&M remain in its retard ed state. Such acts are mostly prompted by a desire to preserve an image of Aggieland which corresponds more closely to that of the “old army” days. An exaggerated con cern with the outward form and facade of an institution causes many people, even in the acade mic hierachy, to be more concern ed with the number of persons in a classroom than with what is being taught in that classroom. Fortunately, this is not true in all areas of the university but it is the case in too many. If the atmosphere of anti-intellectual- ism and the suppression of con troversy is allowed to persist, Texas A&M will remain an Ani- QUEEN TONIGHT 6:30 P. M. “Gidget Goes To Roit"| and “TWINKLE & SHINE'1 Toy Walkie Talkie pair $3.89 NESTLE’S Giant Chocolate Bars, Almond, Crunch or plain 49each Value 3 bars (27% oz.) for $1 T FOR LESS' Large Size LISTERINE ANTISEPTIC & choke of RICHARD HUDNUT comb, value $2.75 GIBSON’S LOW PRICE 16 oz. SHAMPOO, 8 oz. RINSE, or 8 oz. SHAMPOO, 16 oz. 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