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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, December 10, 1064 Rain dampened campus lawns and pavements Wedensday, but the 10th gathering of A&M's Student Conference on National Affairs attracted heavy opening turnouts. Not all the delegates and guests escaped the deluge; however, they should be used to that by now. Time and again in past SCO- NAs, outside events have been forced inside because of this area’s unpredictable, usually tur bulent weather. This year’s conference officials planned in advance. They shift ed a barbecue dinner to the MSC lower level in pre-SCONA pre parations. Their logic: it seems that every year this one event catches the full vent of rain-god fury. A Corps of Cadets review, on tap for Thursday afternoon, was also scratched from the agenda. SCONA officials had nothing to do with this development; actu ally, they were quite perturbed when the Trigon refused to put their sometime soldiers on parade^ But if Thursday afternoon does n’t bring clearer skies and a lower humidity than Wednesday, the review would have been nothing more than a water-skiing contest anyway. What we’re experiencing this week would have been termed "Bonfire Weather” by A&M stu dents two weeks ago. SCONA’s roundup speaker, Jules Dubois, was licking his lips after Wednesday night’s smor gasbord dinner in the MSC Ball room. "This food is as good,” Dubois praised, "as that of any restau rant in which I’ve eaten in Latin America or this nation.” For Frank Nugent, university food services director, this is tru ly one of the highest compliments. If anyone should be an expert on taste, Dubois is that person, since he has traveled widely as a correspondent and has lifted a fork in the best restaurants in the western hemisphere. One of the delegates to SCONA from Texas A&I is John Beasley. A senior from Kingsville, he is a history major, a member of the dean’s list and the owner of the same name as A&M’s basketball whiz — junior center John Beas ley from Linden-Kildare. Students who have never at tended a SCONA session don’t realize that they are missing an opportunity, not only to meet and hear outstanding business and government leaders but also to help round out their college edu cation. SCONA sessions are open to the public, and A&M students are blessed with having national and international leaders on their campus. To not take advantage of this privilege is to shun the responsibility and the opportuni ty of attending a university with an emphasis on tomorrow’s world. Bulletin Board THURSDAY Ft. Bend County Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 224 of the Academic Build ing. Christmas Party plans will be discussed. Brazoria County Hometown Club will meet at 5 p.m. on the steps of the MSC. Aggieland pictures will be taken. Waco Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Gay Room of the YMCA Building. Rio Grande Valley Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Serpentine Lounge of the MSC. Pictures will be taken. Abilene Hometown Club will meet at 8:30 p.m. on the front steps of the MSC. Club pictures will be taken. Amarillo Hometown Club will meet at 8 p.m. in the lobby of the MSC. Pictures will be taken. Brazoria Hometown Club will meet at 5 p.m. on the front steps of the MSC. Pictures will be taken. Garland Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the main lounge of the MSC. Austin Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 125 of the Academic Building. Bellaire-Spring Branch Home town Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 206 of the Academic Building. Party plans will be announced. Ferreri’s Triangle Restaurant Try Our New SECRETARY SPECIAL Monday Thru Friday The SECRETARY SPECIAL is a quick, low calorie meal which gives you time to shop during your noon hour. Book Your Banquets and Special Parties Early. Accomodations From 10 to 200 Persons. 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 news paper and is under the supervision of the director of Stu dent Publications at Texas A&M University. Members of the Student Publications Board are James L. Lindsey, chairman ; Delbert McGuire, College of Arts and Sciences; J. A. Orr, College of Engineering: J. M. Holcome, College of Agriculture; and Dr. R. S- Titus, College of Veterinary Medicine. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M is published in College Sta tion, Texas daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, Septem ber through May, and once a week during summer school. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter here in are also reserved. Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. MEMBER: The Associated Press Texas Press Assn. Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los An geles and San Francisco. Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester; $6 per school year, $6.60 per full year. All subscriptions subject to 2% sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA Building; College Station, Texas. News contributions m editorial office. 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 Sports Editor .... Lani Presswood Day News Editor Mike Reynolds Night News Editor Clovis McCallister Asst. Sports Editor — Bob Spivey Asst. News Editor - Gerald Garcia CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Job Calls J/H&0 “As I listen to a SCONA discussion concerning world affairs, I have difficulty keeping my mind off domestic affairs such as passing my next quiz!” Students Politically Passive Claims Stanford Educator Palo Alto, Calif. (I.P.) — De spite the Peace Corps, the South ern sit-ins, and the excitement of a Presidential campaign year, most American college students remain politically passive, a Stan ford educator contends. But the small minority of so-called acti vists — the ones who inspire talk of a political revival on cam pus — have gained greater re spectability among their fellow students, says Prof. Nevitt San ford, director of the Institute for the Study of Human Problems. "By showing tolerance for the active few, many students as suage their own prickings of con science about not becoming active themselves,” he explains. Stu dents who, a generation ago, might have become "highly poli tical rebels” today have become almost fervently “apolitical and aasocial,” Sanford adds. “Where the old version showed social concern by vehemently critizing existing institutions within soci ety, the new type rejects society in toto. Several factors help explain this change. Among them: College Environment: "Here a host of requirements and exams all too often induce the under graduate to ‘think small,’ to con centrate on clearing each hurdle in the academic obstacle race, ra ther than thinking widely and imaginatively about the world around him. "If he resists the system, to whom can he make complaint? We professors frequently are in accessible to the student, and even more frequently are content mere ly to fill the student full of pro fessional know-how. At the same time, we decry the absence of creative enterprise among stu dents — as if the absence weren’t our fault.” Social Factors: "When a col lege student looks at the vast impersonal processes of our socie ty and humbly asks himself where he can fit in, he is not simply being a conformist. Perhaps he is also being realistic. Perhaps he sees that we live in a society which organizes intelligence ever more closely — a society where opportunities for individual initi ative or for the exercise of talent on one’s own terms have actually decreased. “Modern communication and standardization . . . have had one unhapply effect on college life. "Today the boy from the lower East Side and the girl from Chest nut Level arrive with relatively the same mannerisms and mater ial baggage; differences remain, but it has become harder and much less interesting to tell where a student comes from . . . Today’s students live in a less differenti ated society; there are simply fewer patterns with which to con form.” FRIDAY Texas Merit System Council — accounting, business admniistra- tion, biology, chemistry, mathe matics, physics, economics, Eng lish, history, government, agri cultural economics, sociology, agricultural education, agronomy, animal husbandry, dairy science, entomology, veterinary medicine, engineering, education, psycho logy. ' MONDAY USAF Auditor General Dis trict Headquarters — accounting. Allied Chemical Corporation — chemical engineering, chemistry, civil engineering, mechanical engi neering. AGGIELAND ’65 ' CORPS SENIORS A make up schedule for all seniors to have their picture taken for the AGGIELAND ’65 will be from December 1 to December 11. All seniors are urged to have their pictures taken so it will appear in the AGGIELAND. 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