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itc ■tool’s amir done etj. >ant HERKY KILLINGSWORTH p e event COPENHAGEN, Denmark — ^etic proJpIe in London and other parts c the onlj England, I felt strangely at Would p. tne. I was seeing the sights u Hity to ( th Ifive other Aggies, and my 'time cpJg'uage was spoken by all even West (V>ugh everyone sounded like ^ itself j oies Bond, Pussy Galore, and winners ! rm an ’s Hermits. But I was at l g for ttffne; in old mother England and l ’t that Ik sr ything was going smoothly. Of coursAfter ferrying across the Eng- be soi{;h Channel onto the continent feby all pfelt insecure, lost and unable wouldn't C0 P e with the problem of the 1 IfV •le set:; I enough athletics b Traveling In An Aggie Abroad Europe Not Always A Joyride language barrier. My Aggie bud dies had spread out over the con tinent and I was by myself in a foreign land. Not knowing the language was bad, but even worse was not reading the language. How do you find a restaurant or hotel without signs? How do you or der a meal when neither you nor the waitress can understand the other’s language ? It’s a horrible feeling, one that at first makes you feel like climbing back in bed and pulling the electric blanket over your head. Luckily, a cute brunette showed me the train into Brus sels, bought me a ticket, and even put me on the train before she went on her way. Without her and others like her one would never be able to travel in a foreign country. You seldom find a cute brunette but you learn to ask at least once a block for information. How? When? Where? What? The youth nearly always speak broken English, the adult tries— and everyone is eager to lend a helping hand. In Brussels a man I met on the train took me through cust oms and found me a cheap hotel for the night. Then came an experience which has followed suit in every coun try I’ve visited. I’ve stayed in cheap places on Corps Trips, but European hotels are in a class of their own. No hot water, no shower, and a long, cold walk to the bathroom. Hazing at A&M could be set back 20 years by taking away a freshman’s hot water privileges. Tomorrow morning try shaving without hot water and feel the torment of cold steel on your face. My room measured approxi mately twice the width of a sin gle bed with a couple of spare feet at the end. The small rooms found throughout Europe are quite adequate for the few clothes with which I travel. Hitchhiking from Brussels to Amsterdam I met a radical Swede (male) whose only thoughts were of politics—and subsequently his talk too. We discussed the subject at great length no matter how hard I tried to change the subject onto the institution of the Swedish Blonde. He was beyond arguing with so I listened and rode quiet ly. He felt Sweden was more American than the United States because of the welfare of the state caused by socialism. Under his idea of socialism the people work for an idea, not for money (is that living?). The strong should care for the weak. He also said that over a third of his salary went into taxes but he was secure in Sweden no matter how Lady Luck treated him. I roomed with him for two days and came to know all about the greatness of Europe and the poverty of the U. S. I had seen the riches of Europe (ha!) and felt it time to bow out of the Amsterdam scene so I headed east up to Hamburg and from there to Copenhagen, where I plan to work for the rest of the summer. Cbe Battalion Texas A&M University /Glume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1965 Number 189 Stop The Presses By LANI PRESSWOOD l[ was talking with a friend at V liner the other night and a W l)ic came up that college stu- j Bits never seem to tire of other ' lieges. e, rattled off the names of two three universities that he ught had top graduate schools his field and began comparing l^^fir individual merits. 'Si asked him why he thought ise were the best and he said nething to the effect that pro- sors from these schools were i most frequent contributors i technical journals he read. n IJ figured that they must be do- aii J ‘ the most important research ■ ' 1 therefore had the best edu- ion to offer a student. , Phis is an idea that you hear the time but it’s still hard for \ to swallow. Ajlrhe slogan is “publish or per- T ” and there’s not a professor the country who can’t tell you at it means. J (fhe department heads who fol- ’l \j\ r this motto may have some / at researchers under them but fonder sometimes what kind of chers they have. Of course I ■ t’t mean that a person can’t ^'iboth, because many do a good j in both areas. ^IJiut the lectures of some bril- i it researchers are as dry as gWest Texas drouth and just >ut as productive. Taking these individuals out of laboratory and the library l putting them into the class- m is actually taking them out their natural element, phis is bad enough but reject- effective teachers because of ir lack of scholarly publica- i is even worse. Yet this axe :r the heads of faculty mem- s is most definitely a reality -v its use seems to be a more I more common practice. Actual dismissal is one possi- ty but what happens more fre- mtly is the deceleration of the feicement process. In either gL > e, pressure is still exerted and iTT underlying principle is still ^ I same. fcj/ ' This thing didn’t just rise up t week and begin attracting t e n t i o n, though. It’s been irrfifrr >und for a good while now and l >ws every intention of becom- • a permanent fixture. |1pS t’s not a question of Is It ere? but a question of Is It 3S d? and if so, well why don’t r do something about it ? gbwn through history teaching I; been one of man’s noblest Sessions and the gift of im- rting knowledge is so rare that ' rrrTTr should be encouraged and pro- led no matter what the ex- hse may be. llpS harper’s ran an article sever- ■ months ago which they en- |d: “Is There A Teacher On eiStaff ?” ipat simple title is as eloquent wrguement as anyone could Jk forth. uJj^I rr-rfb 1 ' First Summer Plays Open Friday Night The Aggie Players’ Fallout Theater Workshop opens its first summer season tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. in Guion Hall with a classic play by a Swedish mas ter and an original play by an Aggie. The Fallout Theater is located at the rear of Guion Hall. Tick ets are 50 cents at the door. The first play, “The Dance of Death,” written by August Strindberg in 1901, is directed by Mrs. Aileen Wenck. The second play on the pro gram is “Courage, Brother,” by Tim E. Lane, a junior journal ism major from Bryan. Lane is also directing the play. Both directors are students in Theater Arts 383, Techniques of Directing, offered through the Department of English and taught by C. K. Esten, director of the Aggie Players. All stu dents taking the course are re quired to direct a play during the course. Mrs. Wenck is the wife of Rob ert W. Wenck, a graduate assist ant in English who is technical director for the Aggie Players. Lane, preivously directed “Hel lo Out There,” by William Saro yan, presented May 21 in the Fallout Theater Workshop. The cast of “The Dance of Death” includes' Carol Hill as Alice, Bob Hipp as the Captain, Ambassador From Tunisia Visits A&M Campus ACTORS IN FINAL TUNEUP . . . Harry Howell and Carol Hill go over lines for Friday night’s production of “Dance of Death.” Highway Commission Accepts Interchange Bids The Texas Highway Commis sion announced this week that it has accepted a $440,453 low bid on the interchange project at the intersection of Farm-To-Market Roads 60 and 2154 near the northwest edge of the Texas A&M campus. Included in the project is a grade separation that will elimi nate the crossing of the Southern Pacific and Missouri Pacific Tracks on FM 60. Department plans also call for the construction of two bridges and a semi-cloverleaf facility. One bridge will carry traffic on FM 2154 over FM 60 and the second will serve both the Mis souri Pacific and Southern Pa cific Railroads. Cost of the sec ond structure will be shared by the two railroads and the High way Department. $394,000 Grant Awarded To A&M Construction plans for Texas A&M’s $2% million addition to its Biological Sciences Building were advanced this week with announcement of a $394,579 grant from the U. S. Office of Education. A&M Board of Directors, meet ing later this week, will discuss construction dates and review bids for the structure. The 95,000 square-foot addi tion with four levels and a base ment will house graduate class rooms and laboratories for De partments of Biology, Biochem istry and Nutrition, Wildlife Sciences and Electron Micro scopy. The low bids were received from R. Butler Inc. of Bryan and Jarbet Co. of San Antonio. The Texas Highway Commission will award the contracts next week. Completion of construction is expected to eliminate the hazard ous railroad crossing and smooth the flow of traffic to the north and west. The Tunisian ambassador to the United States, Rachid Driss, visited the Texas A&M campus Monday and Tuesday on his way to Washington, D. C. Driss and his wife are return ing to Washington after an offi cial visit to Mexico. The couple were guests of hon or at a luncheon Monday in the MSC at which A&M Chancellor M. T. Harrington served as host. They also toured the campus and attended a reception and dinner in their honor Monday. Tuesday’s activities included a panel discussion with selected faculty members which was taped for radio presentation, an informal luncheon with officers of the Tunisian Students’ Associ ation, and a dinner hosted by A&M President Earl Rudder. While here Driss expressed ap preciation in behalf of Tunisia ew Telephone Director Named * Virgil L. White of Pasadena lP a albeen appointed telephone in- uctor - coordinator for the new le:ihone Technicians’ Training ■gram of Texas A&M’s Tele- ihmunications Training Center, ■fhite is currently attending a wii!o|week course in tele-communi cations training at the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. Later this summer he will attend a refresher course in Raleigh, N.C., sponsored by the Kellogg Tele-communications Di vision of International Telephone and Telegraph. Battalion Statewide The Battalion took top honors in editorial writing and general appearance to sweep its division at the annual Texas Press Associ ation newspaper contest held last weekend in Dallas. Texas A&M’s daily captured two first place awards for out standing editorials and page make-up, a second place award for newswriting, and a general excellence award for being the top TPA daily newspaper in Tex as published in a city with a pop ulation of 15,000 or less. Ronnie Fann, who edited the newspaper during the 1964-65 school year accepted the three bronze plaques and certificates of merit in behalf of his staff and the university. “I am extremely proud of The Battalion’s performance in this competition,” Fann said. “This is the first year we submitted entries and The Battalion won over some of the outstanding small daily newspapers in the state.” The Battalion, College Station’s official newspaper, was the only college entry in the contest. James L. Lindsey, director of University Information and Pub lications praised Fann and his student staff for their work dur ing the school year. “The Battalion has earned the recognition it deserves as an out- Sweeps Contest standing daily newspaper,” Lind sey commented. Bronze plaques were awarded the newspaper for: General appearance and make up for editions appearing Oct. 20- 22, 1964. Editorials concerning service clubs, student yelling at football games and statements made against the paper made by a yell leader, appearing Oct. 9, Nov. 18, and Dec. 4, 1964, and General excellence in all cat egories. A second place certificate of merit was presented for general news writing in editions appear ing Sept. 25, Sept. 29 and Sept. 30, 1964. Categories for the competition consisted of general appearance, column writing, editorial writing, news pictures and news writing. Other winners in Division II beside The Battalion were the Waxahachie Daily Light, McKin ney Courier-Gazette, Hillsboro Daily Mirror, Henderson Daily News, Freeport, Brazosport Facts, Kermit Daily Sun, Gon zales Daily Inquirer, Athens Daily Review and Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel. The newspaper competition was sponsored by the TPA in conjunction with their annual convention held at the Baker Ho tel in Dallas. for A&M’s assistance in the es tablishment of a land-grant agri cultural college at Chott Maria, Tunisia. A&M has a seven-man team working in the construc tion and organization of the col lege. Three more men are in training for assignment at Chott Maria. A&M entered into Tunisia’s plans in 1961 after that coun try’s leaders asked the U.S. State (Related picture on page 5). Department for aid in building an American-style college of ag riculture. Rudder told the ambassador that Tunisia had paid the United States and A&M its highest com pliment. “To trust us with the educa tion of part of your youth is a great compliment and a great re sponsibility,” Rudder said. Driss commented on current problems of Tunisian farmers and their attempts to solve them. “Agricultural research is the main activity in our country,” the ambassador explained. “Our country is very small, only about 50,000 square miles, and our process of developing the coun try is different, but we are achieving a true democracy.” “Our aim is to improve the condition of the people. Tunisians are a free people who enjoy lib erty. We want to build democra cy in our own ways,” he contin ued. Driss said the present per capi ta annual income is $75 to $78 a year. In reply to a question asking about the progress of 32 Tuni sian students studying at A&M, Driss commented: “I have had discussions with the students and they are very happy to be here to learn the very noble task of agricultural achievement. They are full of the spirit of coopera tion and friendship. The experi ment is a successful one although it is just beginning.” Harry Howell as Kurt, and Fran ces Flynn as Jenny. In “Courage, Brother,” Ed Rey na will be Kan; Rodney Carlisle, Ux; Harry Gooding, Ceph; and Steve Thurman, Kipp Blair, Al berto Gomez, Jean Reyna, and Lynn Brown, villagers. Cynthia Smith is in charge of lighting for both plays, and Don Truitt is stage manager. The next scheduled presenta tion in the workshop will include “The Boor,” by Anton Chekov, and “The Lady of Larkspur Lo tion,” by Tennessee Wiliams July 6. Other plays are being selected and are to be announced as pro duction dates are set. Several student directors are casting plays for later produc tion, and anyone interested in participating in the theater work shop program in any other ca pacity should contact Esten at his office in Guion Hall. “This theater workshop pro gram is intended to be education al not only for students in our theater course s,” Esten said. “This theater is open to members of the community who are inter ested in participating in and learning about theater.” “We have people in this pro gram with a good deal of experi ence, people with a little, and peo ple with none at all. We need more of each. Anyone with a genuine interest and willingness to learn can find something to do here.” FANN DISPLAYS AWARD . . . last year’s Battalion editor holds up Excellence Award. TPA General Student Jobs Now Available Through Logan Qualified students looking for work-study jobs are currently in demand at Texas A&M. Robert M. Logan, assistant di rector of placement and student aid, said he is seeking 100 to 125 students for jobs paying from 75 cents to $2.90 per hour, depend ing on the job and the previous experience of the applicant. Logan said those who may ap ply at the Placement and Student Aid Office, Room 303, YMCA Building, include students now enrolled at A&M, high school stu dents who have been accepted for enrollment at A&M, or students who were enrolled at A&M dur ing the Spring term and expect to return in the Fall. Applicants must be United States citizens, from low income families, and have satisfactory grade records under terms of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. Low income families are defined as those with three de pendents and income not exceed ing $3,000 annually. The income may increase $600 for each indi vidual dependent as defined by income tax laws. Jobs available include ground maintenance, clerical, library as sistants, janitors, farm workers, food service, draftsmen, graders, and graduate assistants. Logan said students will be as signed to jobs according to their abilities.