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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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
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Photographer Herkey Killingsworth
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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.
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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
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