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THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, July 8, 1965
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle Ex-Air FoTCG
BATTALION EDITORIALS
A Welcome
To Journalists, Athletes
Texas A&M will be playing- host to well over a thousand
students of high school age and under during the next week
and a half.
Their presence here is the result of athletic ability on
the one hand and journalistic interest on the other. The
annual High School Journalism Workshop begins Sunday,
the day after the three-day Jaycee Sports Spectacular con
cludes.
To the hundreds of young visitors who will be on the
campus during the next few days we extend a sincere wel
come and a wish that each of you enjoys your stay here.
Some of the finest journalistic potential in the state
will be in evidence during the workshop, and the week's
work here could provide the incentive for a rewarding and
brilliant career in the communications field. The work-
shoppers will compile a yearbook and a tabloid newspaper
here during their visit, and will tour campus publications
facilities and hear several noted authorities speak.
The emphasis will be on the physical during this week,
however, as at least a thousand young athletes pit their
skills against their counterparts in golf, tennis and track.
To the winners will go a berth in the national meet later
in the summer while the satisfaction and enjoyment of
honest competition belong to the rest of the group.
All of the contestants will have the opportunity to hear
Glenn Cunningham, one of the world’s all-time great athletes,
speak in Kyle Field Thursday evening.
And during the actual competition, a future Ben Hogan,
Pancho Gonzales or Randy Matson may step forth and brand
himself for the first time as a rising star on the sports
horizon.
The opportunities available in these two fine events
can be valuable ones if the participants take advantage of
them. The success or failure of the program will not depend
on the total number of participants or upon the amount of
local interest they attract.
Rather, the success or failure must be measured in its
value to each individual. These programs have been set up
to motivate and encourage a certain portion of the youth
of Texas, and comprise two of the many events which fre
quently bring young visitors to the campus.
Once again, we offer a warm welcome to these students
—part of the large majority of teenagers who stay out of
the sordid headlines dealing with juvenile delinquency—and
hope that your memories of this experience will be fond
ones. And if in the future you choose A&M as the school
to further your education, we will welcome you back for
another and this time longer excursion into the realm of
self-improvement.
Cadel Sl “
Academy
Explains Cheating
‘I have the feeling we’re being watched!”
Highlights And
From Youi
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pitol
Noon Classes
Bear Investigation
This summer session, like its predecessors, is proving
at least one thing.
The noon hour can be taken up (at least partially) with
classes without any drastic consequencies for the university
routine.
During the regular term, the twelve o’clock whistle
signals the start of a daily traffic jam which everyone has
grown to consider a normal part of the day.
Within the space of only a handful of minutes, 8,000
students, several hundred faculty members, and a large
number of staff employees all turn out for lunch. And by
1:00 p.m. everyone is back on the job again.
The impact of this many people engaged in an exodus
to their respective dining places—whether it be cafeteria,
home or restaurant—throws the area into a sort of controlled
frenzy which is bad for the nerves and worse for the
digestion.
Most of the local restaurants are packed at this time
and the streets are reminiscent of the Hollywood Freeway.
What has just been described is not a situation peculiar
to A&M, of course. The lunch hour has become a frantic
institution in most parts of the country. The picture here
is similar to that of many other areas, but the fact remains
that the noon congestion is a serious annoyance for those
who leave the campus to eat, and creates a hazardous traffic
situation as well.
At least a partial alleviation of the pressure could be
provided if 12 o’clock classes were scheduled during the
regular session. Students with noon classes would either
eat lunch earlier or later than the majority and thus help
spread out the traffic.
The objection to this, however, is the dining arrange
ment of the Corps and it is a valid one. Care would have
to be taken to insure that the courses scheduled at noon
would not be ones possibly required by a Corps member
which he could obtain at no other time. Within this limita
tion there are still a great number of courses which could
be offered at noon.
This suggestion may not provide the complete solution
but it is one which could bear serious study and consideration.
By VERN SANFORD
Texas Press Association
AUSTIN — State governrrent
will begin the new fiscal biernium
with a surplus of nearly $100,-
000. 000. But it will wind up with
a balance of only $4,200,0’ ?, ac
cording to estimates of the Gov
ernor’s budget office.
In a recap of legislative spend
ing, Gov. John Connally’s staff
totalled all appropriations at $3,-
700,000,000, of which $622,900,000
will come from general revenue.
(Vetoes by the governor of $2,-
600,000 from the spending bills
are deducted.)
Figures put state cost of the
average $553 teacher pay raise
at $70,600,000,000 for the two-
year period beginning September
1.
Total new revenue provided by
the 59th Legislature will come to
$82,500,000, according to revised
figures. Biggest portion of this
comes from the three-cents-a-
pack increase in the cigarette tax.
HOSPITAL TRANSITION
UNDER WAY:
Texas’ vast system for treating
the mentally ill, mentally retard
ed and victims of tuberculosis is
entering a vital transition period
On September 1, realignment
and reorientation of these facili
ties and services, as enacted by
the 59th Legislature, will go into
effect:
Separation of the tuberculosis
hosy
the
sei
the.
wl
ompanies have had more
5,000,000 worth of claims
dl and storm damage. By
ne last year, $9,000,000 had
paid in such claims. Big-
plow came from the Wichita
storm of May 27.
NEW YORK — A former Air
Force Academy cadet, writing in
an article in the current issue of
SAGA magazine titled “The Air
Force Academy Made Us Steal,”
charges that the Academy was
at fault in the recent cheating
scandal.
“The conflict between a family
upbringing that stresses loyalty
to one’s campanions as the Amer
ican way of life, and a code of
honor that requires one to in
form on his companions must lead
inevitably to what is termed
‘cheating,’ ” contends the former
cadet.
Using the pseudonym Nino
Baldachi, famed legendary phan
tom of the Academy, the ex-cadet
asserts that many more than just
the 109 cadets dismissed for
“cheating” were actually guilty
of violation of the honor code at
the Academy.
“At least 600 of the 2,567-man
cadet wing knew of specific in
stances of cheating,” says the
author, “and under the Honor
Code, they are equally guilty.
“However, of the 109 cadets
who were dismissed, two-thirds
of them were guilty of nothing
more than having knowledge that
cheating did exist,” he continues.
“I personally know of one cadet
who ordered another cadet out of
his room when the visitor began
discussing an exam with his room
mate. Still, he had tolerated
cheating in not reporting the in
cident and was forced to resign.”
The Honor Code states:
“We will not lie, cheat or sts
or tolerate those who do."
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Amarillo
day after
Texas A
pital.
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Boys Ear
Under its provisions, "tolti Claude E
tors,” or those who fail to b
in cheaters and liars, are as gi
ty of a breach of the Code
those who do the deeds.
Dr. Dc
“The Academy can’t, on
one hand, have an honor « required
that we must not tolerate die sized tur
ers and must inform on otke
and, on the other hand teach
that we must stick by our buddi-
not rat on them, and have I
proper class spirit,” concludestl
ex-cadet.
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