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THE BATTALION CADET SLOUCH
College Station, Texas Thursday, July 15, 1965
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Liberal Arts At A&M
Gets Needed Boast
Two significant developments for liberal arts at A&M
were announced during - the past week. One is the creation
of an Institute of Human Resources and the other is the
division of the College of Arts and Sciences into individual
colleges.
The new institute will presumably be patterned after
existing ones at the University of California and at Co
lumbia. They are being used to conduct extensive research
in the fields of behavioral and social sciences.
These areas have suffered neglect both at A&M and
on a national scale since the emphasis on the physical
sciences began and this program has the potential to great
ly increase A&M’s prestige and contribution in both of them.
The other move is an administrative one, one that
should also produce beneficial effects for liberal arts.
Under the new setup, administration will rest with men
who have devoted their careers to these areas and who
should possess the understanding and desire to upgrade
their quality at A&M.
Both of these steps are greatly encouraging for the
development fo liberal arts on the campus. Not only for
the tangible benefits they will provide but also for the
attitude in the higher echelons of administration which
they reflect.
Evaluations of the school from outside sources in
variably rate liberal arts as the area in which A&M needs
most to improve. Obviously, generalizations of this sort
are difficult to make with accuracy because there is a dif
ference in the strength of various departments within this
general category.
Still, the observation has been a frequent one and is
one that A&M cannot and should not ignore if it is truly
committed to a program of overall excellence. These two
recent steps are highly encouraging. It is our hope, how
ever, that this will be looked upon as an important stride
toward a distant goal and not as an end unto itself.
by Jim Earle An Aggie Abroad
Last Week Eventful#
“It makes my blood run cold to know that if we don’t figure
out a system quick, we’ll hafta study for this final!”
Texans
In Washington
Final Exam Schedule
Increases Pressure
The first session of summer school ends Friday with
the familiar ritual of final examinations.
Final examinations always produce increased pressure
on the students but this schedule is particularly devas
tating. Some finals will be held Thursday night and the
others during the day Friday.
This means that the student taking a full load attends
lectures up until the day of the finals, without even a single
day of respite. Then he in most instances faces both
finals on the same day. In the case of those having
seven and nine o’clock classes, the situation is really dis
heartening. They take their first final at 7 p.m. and it is
scheduled to last until ten. Sharply at ten their second
final begins, with no break in between exams, and it is
scheduled to end at 1 p.m.
We realize that the entire concept of summer school
is founded upon the possibility of completing what is nor
mally a semester - long course in a much shorter
period. Still, the severity of this exam schedule seems
unwarranted and will present both an academic and emo
tional hurdle to an obstacle course which was already suf
ficiently difficult.
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LANI PRESSWOOD EDITOR
By TEX EASLEY
Associated Press
WASHINGTON, 6P) — Texas
members of congress are con
cerned as to which lakes in their
state will be directly affected by
the user-fee provision of the 1964
land and water conservation act.
The big reservoirs built in Tex
as by the army engineers come
under the new law, and the Tex
ans who enjoy fishing and boat
ing on them may soon find they
have to pay a fee to do so.
Rep. Jim Wright, (Dem) Fort
Worth, who actively opposed the
fee portion of the act when the
bill was passed, has asked the
chief of the army engineers and
the director of outdoor recreation,
to tell him which lakes they pro
pose to designate for collection
of fees, how much, and how they
propose to enforce regulations.
The law is being put into effect
not only on the federally built
reservoirs but also on national
forests, national parks, and fish
and wildlife refuges, as quickly
as the mechanics of such a pro
gram can be formulated. A $7
annual fee will permit an indi
vidual to enter any of these
federal areas as often as he
wishes.
A one-day permit will be avail
able for various individual rec
reational areas, many of them
as low as 25 cents. Weekly per
mits also will be available.
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“I feel that when such fees are
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“Even though the fee would be
charged only to enter land recre
ation areas, anyone desiring to
participate in water activities
would be, in effect, paying for use
of a federal water area if he had
to pay to go through the land
enroute to the water.”
By HERKY KILLINGSWORTH
COPENHAGEN, Denmark —
No week goes by uneventful in
Europe. None of that trudging
through finals only to find an
other semester and another book
the following week. Copenhagen
is going stronger than ever.
Many things have happened
since last week at this time.
1. It's still raining and trying
to hit a high of 65 degrees.
2. Danish Princess Anne Marie
had a baby and you should see
the celebrating.
3. I visited in the home of a
friendly couple getting many
ideas.
4. And . . . but that's another
story.
Every since I alighted in Lon
don on that cold wet day a month
ago, I have had trouble with
water—commonly known as HiO.
Too much of it, not enough of it,
too hot, too cold . . . it’s always
in the wrong place at the wrong
time in the wrong way. It’s rain
ed three-fourths of the time I’ve
been here, which is definitely
the wrong place. However, when
I want a drink (of water) it’s
impossible.
When I do find a drink of
water it’s too hot, but . . . when
I take a bath it’s ice cold.
A bellhop, let’s call him Johnny
X although he is no kin to Mal
colm, Cassius or Madam, in the
Grand Hotel invited me to visit
in his home (to watch the Flint-
stones on TV). He’s my age (39)
so I graciously accepted, hoping
for a home cooked Danish meal.
I must admit that I was un
comfortable in my strange sur
roundings but he and his girl
friend immediately began talking
of my favorite subject—sex.
Now to keep this column clean,
I’m not going to record the pro
ceedings of our discussion but I
would appreciate it if you could
send my few belongings to H.K.—
Grand Hotel, Copenhagen.
Several visits later we switched
to other favorite topics that all
Europeans talk of: rock and roll
singers, segregation and Texas.
We sat around their dining
table munching pastry and I'd
tell them how about once a month
we’ll saddle our horses, form a
posse and try to find some poor
Easterner lost amongst the cac
tus. If they were still listening
later I’d tell about how a couple
of years ago while we were
branding cattle on the north 1000,
a party of Indians approached
us demanding food which we
over-obligingly gave them (I
added the last to give it mk d ate
Then I’d wait around for tip! the ji
top that—they’d switch to] el
and I would be a beaten mo:. J er
I might just as well tel Calif
that other Story while I'miii e ^^ lt
Let me put it delicately, |
week I journeyed over to Sn,
for the day to get a look at t
universay images, the Swedi
woun
Ma
immediately fell in love will;
and brought her back to f
hagen with me, quite legal;
course.
She’s dark, (blue to be eso
has neat lines, and a blad
terior. I’m speaking of a to:
course, a Ford Anglia. Iwe ArC
find a motor scooter (prices* rp -i
cheap over there) but it; 1 O J
rainy, and cold so . . . pi a
Cost me $45 but she nuu Archi
a top and is in perfect coni jal L
The only trouble is you havi Acadi
open the hood to start it, i nounc
I’ve only had one flat so far: ford,
(this is true) being witk be m
jack I lifted it while a fr, Th*
changed the tire. will 1
No more hitch-hiking, nor new
trains, no more money. But provb
a blast and seems to be a e collec
word around here, as far
girls are concerned. Iwjp
Got to get this in the mail-:
sides it’s Saturday night,
Du
SCHOOL OF CHRISTIAN STUDIES
July 22 - August 19
at the
METHODIST STUDENT CENTER
(Church and Tauber Sts.)
THURSDAY EVENINGS 7:30 P. M. - 9:30 P. M.
Courses for second Summer Term
THE MEANING OF REVELATION (not the Book of Revelation)
Instructor: Walter Allen, First Christian Church
THE BOOK OF JOB: A Case Study in Suffering and Faith
Instructor: Phil Kirby, Methodist Student Center
ANY TEXAS A&M STUDENT (OR STUDENT WIFE), FACULTY OR STAFF Iprepa
MEMBER, OR ANY INTERESTED ADULT OF THE COMMUNITY IS INVITED Pmba
TO PARTICIPATE. ith
Cost: Student (or wife) : $1.00 plus cost of Text.
Any Other Adult: $2.00 plus cost of Text.
If interested, pre-register by calling 846-6014 or 846-6639
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PROOF: MUSTANG HAS THE ‘GO’ TEXAS GOES FOR
Mustang proves true
sports car performance
at Indianapolis!
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Mustang Hardtop at Indianapolis Raceway Park, March 30, 1965
You get all this ‘go’ power... and economy, too!
ELAPSED TIME, QUARTER-MILE ACCELERATION TRIALS—
INDIANAPOLIS RACEWAT PARK
FIRST
TRIAL
SECOND
TRIAL
THIRD
TRIAL
Mustang
18.52
18.67
18.57
Imported Sports Car A
18.17
18.24
18.19
Imported Sports Car B
20.63
20.17
20.50
Imported Sports Car C
21.15
21.07
21.34
Leading American Competitor
20.23
20.06
19.92
Lowest-priced six-cylinder Mustang gallops away from
two out of three best-selling sports imports —and
beats its leading American competitor—in U.S.A.C.-
supervised drag races at Indianapolis. Proof that we
Texas Ford Dealers can give you real sports-car per
formance at a bargain price. Test-drive Mustang.
Mustang in test was stock, standard lowest-priced 3-speed stick
model. It ran just 35/100 of a second behind one foreign sports car
that sells for approximately $300 more, weighs 800 pounds less! The
Mustang cleanly outran two other best-selling sports imports Plus
its leading American competitor!
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