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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, February 10, 1965 BATTALION EDITORIALS Former Students Due Confidence Vote The Association of Former Studentts’ recent resolution to the Board of Directors must be termed courageous—if somewhat belated. Non-compulsory ROTC and coeducation have been the nemesis of this organization for three decades, and they should be commended for finally facing the problem head-on and issuing what certainly appears to be an unequivocal decision. This is not to say all former students favor the un restricted admission of coeds and reverting to a volunteer Corps. Certainly the internal conflicts of the association are proof enough of that. What this decision does mean though is that these former students are willing to concede to the abolishment of two very strong and very old traditions so that an improved A&M University may be allowed to prosper. It would be indeed unfortunate if the Board of Directors did not follow the lead set by these men and accept the resolution suggested. Sidewalk Lakes: A Pedestrian’s Horror During September the Building & Utilities Department announced the purchase of a new machine for raising the level of some of the campus sidewalks. Briefly, the machine pumps mud under the concrete to raise the whole structure—hoping to keep student’s feet dry during heavy rains. The method was tried and proven on the Memorial Student Center sidewalks and on several places near the new dorm area. Since then nothing has been seen of the B&U and their marvelous machine; certainly not in front of the new five- acre Nagle Hall lake or the great Mitchell swamp. Either repairs should continue on these very poorly drained areas or B&U should auction off their sidewalk raiser and use the money to issue students rubber rafts. 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Wortham — Chairman Benjamin N. Woodson, CLU, President 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 ; Robert Knight, College of Arts and Sciences; J. G. McGuire, College of Engineering; Dr. Page Morgan, College of Agriculture; and Dr. R. S. Titus, Codlege 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, Loe An geles and San Francisco. Mail subscriptions All subscriptions subj Address: The Bat per full year, on request. Texas. 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 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. News Editor - - Gerald Garcia Asst. Sports Editor - - Bob Spivey Staff Writers Tommy DeFrank, Bob Elmore Photographer Herkey Killingsworth Wire Editor - Ham McQueen CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle ‘Practice Makes Perfect’ Also Improves Vocabulary “Confidentially, I think he’s holding back ’til it’s too late to drop!” Portland Prof Suggests Lighter Academic Loads By Intercollegiate Press Portland, Ore. — Fewer courses at a time but greater concentra tion of study in each will be proposed to the Portland State College curriculum committee by Marko Haggard, associate pro fessor of political science. He thinks students take too many courses at once and he would like to see the college move toward four or five-hour courses. “I think students may be tak ing too many courses and spread ing themselves too thin. The able students I’ve known are taking 18 to 19 hours and they don’t do justice to that.” His plan would be to have stu dents take only three courses and physical education each term, so students and faculty could con centrate in greater depth. Ac cording to Professor Haggard, “this does not mean five class hours, because a five-unit class should also have two or three hours of independent work. He said that just because this is not the present situation in the Oregon State System of High er Education does not mean the Bulletin Board WEDNESDAY Aggie Wives Bridge Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Memor ial Student Center. Christian Science Organization will meet at 7 p.m. in the Christ ian Science Society Building. SENIORS Seniors who wish to add information or activities to their “Aggieland ’65” identification card can do so by contacting Robert Heger (Dorm 7 Room 305) by Feb. 27th. wanted! virile men who wish to earn $5.00 apiece The makers of By George! Men’s Toiletries will pay this magnificent sum if a description of your manly adventures (aided by the persuasive fragrance of By George! of course) is pub lished in this or any other college newspaper. Tell us your tale in 100 words or less. Omit the gory details please. Send it, with permission to reprint in part or whole, to By George! Men’s Toiletries, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10019. Need some success to tell about? See your local druggist. Ask for By George! plan is unworkable. The only problem would be transferring to other schools because curriculum requirements would not be uni form. ORANGE, Calif. (A>) _ Quick now, what’s a pithier way of saying, “An ogled saucepan does not reach 212 degrees Fahren heit?” Answer: “A watched pot never boils.” Or how about, “Lifeless males of the human race communicate negative false truth?” It’s “Dead men tell no tales,” of course. Those are samples of what fifth and sixth graders at West Orange School came up with when assigned to find more ela borate ways of stating familiar phrases. Teacher Lucille Barker hoped it would improve the vocabulary of her advanced reading class. The idea was to reword the proverbs so as to stump other class members. Here are other examples: “Urgency creates useless de struction of things,” for “haste makes waste.” “A solid rotating mass does not accumulate any bryophytic plants” for “A rolling stone ga thers no moss.” “Avoidance of speculative en terprise precludes profit” for “Nothing ventured nothing gain ed.” “Materials which commonly ex hibit luminescent properties are not necessarily symbolically Au” for “All that glitters isn’t gold.” “The most mischievous animal in a group most like man, ob serves and reacts” for “Monkey see, monkey do.” “Frequent or customary action creates perfection” for “Practice makes perfect.” “Perceive no wickedness, ob serve no wrong, communicate no sinfulness” for “See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.” “A feathered vertebrate that soars aloft, held in the carpus, metacarpus and phalanges, is equal to two feathered vertebrate in the shrubs of the third dimer.- sion in porportion” for — 1 See if you can figure it out. 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