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4 Columns • Editorials • News Briefs Che Battalion Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, February 3, 1966 • Opinions • Cartoons Features Mike Reynolds New Quiz: Test Your Stupidity Now that everyone has had a week off from finals, I would like to present my own little idea for a quiz. It is called the I Was Stupid Enough To Stay On Campus During The Break Quiz. It deals with appropriate ma terial. 1. The campus is completely deserted. There is only one person besides yourself in the dormitory. He is: a. very fond of singing cowboy songs in the shower b. very fond of singing cow boy songs in the shower at 3 in the morning 2. You get out of bed Sunday morning. Every eating establish ment within walking distance of the campus is closed except a drug store. You decide to eat there. For 75c you get: a. one medium raw egg b. one growl from the waitress c. taken 3. Since the university exists for its students, you decide to take in the sights at Cushing Memorial Library. You fail to get in-because: a. someone forgot to tell the library that it exists for the stu dents and it is closed. b. you lose your way because you have had no reason to visit it before. You are a B.A. major. c. contractor has dug a moat around the building and the rains have filled it. 4. Monday at noon you decide to eat at the Memorial Student Center. The coffee shop is closed. It exists for the students, re member. You must stand in line to get into the cafeteria. Who gets served in the cafeteria? a. 3,245 delegates to a conven tion being held in the MSC. b. 4,567 secretaries that decided not to go home for lunch. c. no 5. Monday night you decide to find something entertaining to A&M Humor Specialist Returns To Duties Dr. John Q. Hays is anxious to resume teaching his specialty, American humor, at Texas A&M after a year in South Africa on a Fulbright-Hays teaching grant. Hays returned this week from the University of Cape Town where he was Visiting Professor of American Literature via a U. S. State Department appoint ment. On the A&M faculty since 1929, he is a professor of English. The professor cited differences in education of the U. S. and South Africa. “In the undergraduate classes there, I did all the talking,” Hays said. “Students were afraid to ask questions. There students consider the professor or lecturer apart from themselves. They con sider him a VIP.” “Oftentimes, the professor him self feels that he is treated with as much respect as he could ever ask,” he chuckled. “The title of doctor is insulting if a faculty member has a professor’s rank. They content that a doctor may be a mere surgeon.” “A professor is usually a de partment head,” he continued. “A dean is called professor. So is the university president if he is entitled to that rank.” Hays spoke of an extreme case of the royal treatment of pro fessors. “I had been to another uni versity for a few days, and on returning learned that the world- famous Vienna Choir Boys were to give three performances in Cape Town,” he explained. “I jokingly remarked to the man ager of my apartment hotel that he should have reserved tickets for me. He called the French consul, then the French ambassa dor. A short time later, he gave me three tickets on the fifth row. One of the tickets was for oar driver.” Honours classes, for outstand ing fourth-year students, are big features of British universities. Hays taught two such classes, one with five students at Cape Town, another with seven stu dents at Rhodes University in Grahamstown. “The first and third students at Tom Thomsen wanted challenging work He found it at Western Electric T. R. 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Sport « Larry Jerden MEMBER News Editor - Tommy DeFrank The Associated Press, Texas Press Association Photographer — —-— Herky Killingsworth Cape Town are now Rhodes Scholars,” he noted proudly. “Three of the Rhodes University students were of the same cali ber.” “Aggies would like the South African universities,” Hays smiled. “They have more national holidays, class periods are 45 minutes, and a student takes only nine courses in three years to earn a bachelor’s degree.” “Their honours course is equiv alent of our masters, but they have to go to the masters after honours courses,” he explained. “Their masters is a more ad vanced degree than ours.” The 59-year-old Arkansas na tive discussed another facet of education in South Africa. “They practice segregation with a vengeance,” he said. “Europeans and non-Europeans are the two general classes. I was listed as European. Non- Europeans are required to carry a card with their racial classifi cation. They have to produce it at a moment’s notice.” “Their segregation in schools is called separate development,” Hays continued. “Newspapers note editorially that ten times as much is spent on the average white education as on the non white.” do. Which of the following are open? a. the steam tunnel grates b. a left-wing government prof’s mind. c. that same paper-back book you have read ten times before. 6. You sent your overcoat home with your room-mate to get it cleaned. The climate for the en tire time since he left has con sisted of: a. rain b. rain c. rain d. etc. 7. You decide to call the one single girl that you know in Col lege Station. She has: a. gone home for the semester break b. a virus infection c. too much homework d. a room-mate with an inven tive mind. 8. Your entire fees for the spring semester amount to $312.67. You get a statement from your bank. Your balance is: a. $300.56. 9. You can’t understand why your final schedule was so easy. 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