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College Station, Texa
Friday, February 11, 1966
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What Others Say
Kiss Vs. Tooth Decay
From the University of Miami comes news
which may revolutionize the dating habits in
America.
Dental researchers there have discovered that
tooth decay is a highly contagious disease rather
than a hereditary defect.
At first, this may seem insignificant. How
ever, upon closer examination, who would know
ingly destroy his ivory smile or earn himself a
premature set of false teeth simply because he had
been kissing the wrong girl?
Dr. Doran D. Zinner, one of the researchers,
confirmed that tooth decay was caused by certain
types of mouth bacteria. The dentist-microbiologist
asserts that these bacteria are transmitted by di
rect contact, using case histories of rats, hamsters
and humans to prove it.
A person will now need to check a prospective
date’s dental history as well as other vital statis
tics. The question arises of how this may be done
without arousing suspicion.
Zinner announced that the best tooth decay
protection comes from the use of flourides. Here
is a positive area for discrimination. Once a person
knows where his date is fi^om, he need merely check
his pocket guide of flouridated water supplies in
the United States. If the local supply is flourid
ated, then he can be sure by subtly plying her
with water.
With this social problem exposed, one can
with proper precaution be sure before saying
“Pucker up.” — The Louisiana State University
Daily Reveille.
Lost Freedom
For all practical purposes, the members of
the U. S. population under 21 have lost their free
dom.
Freedom is defined as Salado De Madariage
defined it: “He is free who knows how to keep in
his own hands the power to decide at each step,
the course of his life and who lives in a society
which does not block the exercise of that power.”
Are the U. S. government and the mass media,
inspired by the chauvinistic tensions of the Ameri
can people, sacrificing the freedom of a huge por
tion of the younger generation? We think so.
Last year the Berkeley protestors (Free
Speech Movement) were given fines and sentences
for exercising civil disobedience.
The peace march on Washington in December,
made up mostly of students, was labeled by the
mass media, carte blanche, as “fringe radicals”
and “pinkos.’
That burning of draft cards, a symbolic ges
ture of disagreement with the administration’s
policy in Viet Nam, can now be punished by five
years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
A young Texas airman was sentenced to two
years at hard labor by a military tribunal for
participating in a peace march, even though he
was off duty and in civilian clothes.
Reader’s Digest, Look and Life magazines
have efficiently assured the American patriot that
the whole Viet Nam protest movement is controlled
by Communist agents.
The whole American ideal confirmed the right
of the individual to speak his mind and pursue his
own reality, as long as he was not threatening
someone else’s right to do the same. What has
happened to the ideal ?
We are free as long as we keep our mouths
shut, stay in step and join a few clubs.—Colorado
State College Mirror.
Value Of Grades
The times is at hand when the high school
graduate in the lower half of his class will en
counter great difficulty in finding a major college
that will accept him.
Most colleges want to help the youngsters
who want to be helped, and they know that some
low grades among high school graduates are due
to laziness and unconcern which are inexcusable.
Then, too, it is reasonable to expect that those
who made the best grades in the secondary school
will be most able to receive higher education.
Further than that, it is believed by many that
students who make high grades will be the bene
factors of society throughout life, but this is not
always the case, and the Standard raises a ques
tion about the wisdom of allowing grades to be
the primary determinant in selecting students for
college work
Evidently the native intelligence of a student
does not always show up during his school days,
and it is even more evident that demonstrated in
telligence and high I.Q.’s are often over-rated in
modern education circles. The young man who has
intelligence and nothing else is frequently a danger
to society. The world has suffered too often from
undisciplined intellectual ability. The current idea
that an education for everyone will cure the ail
ments of this generation is absurd.
Learning the what, the why and the how of
material matters makes mean people more danger
ous and good people more helpful. The value of
educating the masses, then depends on two things:
What they are before the education and what kind
of an education they receive The Baptist
Standard. -
grab bag
By Glenn Dromgoole
It’s sometimes quite amusing to read the pub
licity releases sent by organizations ignorant of
A&M’s nearly all-male status.
The latest chuckle came from the typewriters
and mimeograph machines of Cypress Gardens,
Fla., where the fourth annual Miss Cheerleader
USA contest — scheduled April 10 — was ad
vertising for entries.
A $200 scholarship will be awarded the winner
and she will receive a trip to Cypress Gardens
during Easter vacation along with the four other
finalists.
Too bad, Joe. Last year’s winner, according
to the realease, “was judged on both her ability
to lead cheers and enthuse a crowd.”
If those were the only requirements, you’d have
a chance. But you weren’t blessed with the right
qualifications required of entrants.
The way things are going, A&M will have to
wait ’till next year or not long thereafter.
★ ★ ★
With air travel soaring to popular heights
(no pun intended), American Airlines has devel
oped a special plan for youth.
The program offers half-fare travel for anyone
age 12-22 that purchases an identification card
from the airlines for $3.
This is how the plan works:
1. Students must purchase Youth Plan Cards
from an American Airlines ticket office or write
the airlines’ Youth Plan Headquarters at 644
Third Avenue in New York. Legal proof of age
must be validated before the cards may be used.
2. Card holders may purchase a ticket, at half
the jet coach fare, for travel anywhere on the
airlines’ nationwide route on a standby basis —
in other words, they may board after regular
revenue passengers and military standbys.
3. Youth Fare plan will not be in effect on a
few days of the year when heavy passenger loads
cut the availability of seats for standbys, includ
ing April 7 (Thursday before Easter); Nov. 23
and 27 (Wednesday before and Sunday after
Thanksgiving Day), and Dec. 15-21.
The plan is a good one, both for the airlines and
the student. It offers students a cheaper, faster
means of transportation, and provides the airlines
with potential adult customers.
Other airlines have possibly arranged similar
programs. One that has been in effect for several
years on a smaller scale is offered by Trans-Texas
Airlines for in-state travel.
★ ★ ★
In case you’re interested in a law enforcement
career, the Texas Department of Public Safety is
looking for young men between 21-35 for the
Highway Patrol, License and Weight Division,
Motor Vehicle Inspection and Driver Licensing
branches.
Trainees attend a 16-week program at the
Law Enforcement Academy in Austin and receive
a salary while training.
June 6 is the deadline for receipt of applications
for the June 11 examination. The next training
school opens August 9.
Further information can be obtained from:
Personnel and Training, Texas Department of Pub
lic Safety, Box 4087, North Austin Station, Austin.
★ ★ ★
The draft, one of today’s hottest campus con
versation pieces, receives special notice Saturday
when CBS Radio carries a national telephone call
up program, “Ask CBS News About The Draft.”
The program, scheduled from 3:05-4 p.m., will
host Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of the
Selective Service System, and Douglas Edwards,
CBS News Correspondent.
College students will be invited to telephone
CBS in New York collect during the program and
question Gen. Hershey about any aspect of con
scription.
Students of the University of California at
Berkeley will assemble in the Student Union
building there, and two student leaders — one
representing the anti-draft faction and one sup
porting the system — will speak for the group.
Draftees in Viet Nam will also question Her
shey and the Berkeley student leaders.
★ ★ ★
Sen. Ralph Yarborough says Texas has re
ceived more than $41 million in funds for the War
on Poverty. Included in this total are:
—$14 1/3 million for 147 Neighborhood Youth
Corps Projects. More than 28,000 Texas youth
have been given training through the projects.
—$1,600,000 for Adult Basic Education Pro
grams which provide reading and writing lessons
for low-income adults. More than 43,000 Texans
have participated in the program.
—Almost $2 million for 1,100 loans to low-
income farm families.
—Almost $20 million for Community Action
Programs including 170 Head Start Programs
for low income children entering the first grade.
According to Yarborough, Texas is not receiv
ing its share of poverty funds.
“Texas ranks number one in the nation in the
number of poor, but we rank only fifth in the
amount of funds we have received,” the Texas
senator said.
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EDITOR GLENN DROMGOOLE
Associate Editor Larry Jerden
Managing Editor : Tommy DeFrank
Sports Editor — Gerald Garcia
News Editor Dani Presswood
Lani Presstvood
Tech Incident Distasteful
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
“Surprise! When I’m through you’ll have th’ only room
on th’ campus decorated for Valentine’s Day!”
State Capitol Roundup
By VERN SANFORD
Texas Press Association
AUSTIN — Flotorial districts!
You’ll hear these two words used
often between now and the No
vember election. And probably
a long time thereafter.
What are flotorial districts ?
They are voting areas created
by combining counties, or parts
thereof, to comply with the Su
preme C o u r t’s edict that all
states must have districts of
equal population.
In Texas, this has resulted in
rural counties sharing represent
atives with metropolitan coun
ties, or vice versa.
A three-judge federal court at
Houston has just upheld the 1965
Reapportionment Act of the
House of Representatives, with
the exception of 11 flotorial dis
tricts.
These flotorial districts are
areas around Austin, Browns
ville, Corpus Christi, Tyler, Wa
co, Sherman-Denison, Lubbock,
Abilene, Temple, Odessa and An-
gleton.
So this November, voters will
select representatives on the bas
is of the original reapportion
ment draft.
Texas A&M has more enemies
than Napoleon Bonaparte in his
heyday and the incident at the
Tech basketball game Tuesday
night played right into their
hands.
I walked away from that game,
on the surface a tremendous vic
tory for A&M, with a lousy taste
in my mouth.
When you think of the gallant
legions of honorable fighting men
A&M has produced, the sight of
that mob trying to steal a bell
from a handful of visiting stu
dents has to make you a little
sick.
Some of the state’s top sports-
writers witnessed that fine scene,
as did other visitors to the cam
pus. It chalked up a big black
mark both on the A&M Image
and on our page in the SWC
Sportsmanship Committee record
book.
Actually , to me the word
‘image’ has become one of the
shabbiest in our language and
for all I personally care the
“sportsmanship committee” can
award their shiny trophy to the
Folsom Pheasants.
No, it’s not how the episode
‘looked” that really bothers me,
but instead, why the thing hap
pened at all.
The word ‘sportsmanship’ has
been kicking around for some
time now but maybe that sounds
corny to some of our super-so-
phistocates.
To them I’d like to say one
thing: When we get to the point
where sportsmanship becomes a
secondary consideration, then it’s
time to hang up our uniforms
and get out of competition.
All through football season,
the A&M student body symbol
ized genuine spirit, and not poor
sportsmanship, better than at any
other time since I’ve been here.
Then basketball season rolled
around and with it the old routine
of yelling during enemy free
throws and blasting the horse
laugh into the referee’s ears
whenever one of his decisions
against us appears obviously mis
taken.
You think of creating a roar
of noise and distraction during
free throws is an Aggie tradi
tion? Talk to some of the local
people who have followed basket
ball here over the years. It’s
a comparatively recent innova
tion, and a regrettable one.
It’s no excuse to point to other
schools and say “look how we're
treated over there.” When the
conduct of other schools determ
ines A&M’s actions then our
claims of individuality and lead
ership ought to be summarily
tucked away in moth balls.
Ironically, this year’s Aggie
basketball team is very likely the
cleanest in the league, yet that
doesn’t keep them from being a
scrappy, hustling ball club which
comes to play and play hard.
We’re fortunate to have a
squad like this representing us
and we ought to try to keep our
standards as high as theirs.
Admitting these things is a
bitter dose for some but not for
anybody who geneuinely care
for the school and its future.
There is also most definitely
another side of the coin and II
be the first to admit it. Unfavor
able incidents involving Aggies
over the years have been exager-
rated, distorted and some haw
even been outright fabrications,
In the last couple of years
we’ve been falsely accused it
print of killing Baylor’s bear,
TCU’s horned frog, and SMU'i
pony. The instances of shoddy
treatment we’ve received at tli
hands of other schools forms s
mighty long list, but one whicl
most outsiders like to ignors
when they indignantly rail aboii
A&M’s behavior.
So be it.
Their continuing and irrationi
hostility toward A&M in itsel
shows that there is something (
substance here, something whirl
has endured and which is t«
stong to be ignored.
That intangible something
called the Spirit of Aggielani
It can’t be precisely defined u
described, but it’s real, very real
And it’s far too great a thing fo
us to ever allow the blight i
poor sportsmanship to tarnish it
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