THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, December 2, 1966
A Student Strike
Against Vietnam?
The Battalion recently received an invitation to at
tend a conference at the University of Chicago whose
purpose is to “end the war in Vietnam . . . end the draft
. . . end university participation in the war effort . .
In a four page pamphlet included with the letter,
180 sponsors from all over the U. S. indicate their ap
proval and support for the conference to plan for a Na
tional Student Strike for Peace. The list includes seven
people from Texas; three instructors in a Texas uni
versity, two students from that university, and three
people from one of Texas’ largest population centers. At
the end of the list was printed:
“There are additional sponsors.
The list is available on request.
In addition to the list of sponsors for the confer
ence, the booklet contained an article attempting to explain
the reason for a national student strike.
The article began:
“Every escalation of the war in Vietnam by the
Administration in Washington brings us closer
to a third world war . . . Everyday American sold
iers are being asked to kill and be killed in this
brutal, unjust and illegal war . .
Perhaps further escalation would bring the situa
tion in Vietnam to a climax. And perhaps it will result in
a final showdown with Communist China. But if the U. S.
pulled its troops out of Asia, a showdown would eventually
come somewhere else. If not in Asia, perhaps our own
Americas. Communism threatens daily to explode in the
face of every free country on earth. Its potential force
must be met before it does explode, and the force must
be smothered. Communism, especially in Communist China,
must be dealt with now.
“. . . American educational institutions will not be
centers for recruitment of cannon fodder ... or de
velopment of refined types of killing.”
This comment is interpreted as an objection to our
ROTC schools. As for “Fodder,” which is defined as a
food for domestic animals, how can the loss of an Ameri
can life in defense of country be compared to in such a
low vein? And when Americans begin to regret the
existence of their military, whether ROTC or active force,
then they will be subject to the most refined killer of all:
the killer of the spirit of democracy.
Continuing, the article says:
“For the first time, students . . . have opportunity
to participate in one unified action against the war,
the draft, and the insttrusion of the military into
their daily lives.”
It is our position that the war, the draft, and the
intrusion of the military into our lives are not the happiest
of moments. But it is the duty and privilege of an Ameri
can to serve his nation. We are not pleased with a draft
notice, but we were sobered by it. We do not become ecstatic
at the idea of fighting in Vietnam, but we understand
its importance to all free peoples.
As to attending the Conference to plan a Student Strike
for Peace, we cannot participate. Not because we are op
posed to a nationwide student strike, but becauses we
are opposed to a letdown of this nation by its university
students and educators. The responsibility of the university
campuses is to stand for America — not against it.
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle —Job Calls —
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“I’ll tell you my secret of good grades—and you’re th’ first
I’ve told! I find it helps to study like mad! ,,
Town Hall Presents
Fred Waring Dec, 7
Monday
Dixie Form & Steel Company—
Civil Engineering (Structural
emphasis)
Employers Casualty Company
—ACCTG, AGECO, ECO, FIN, I
DIST, MGMT, MKTG, MATH
Link-Belt Company — Mechan
ical Engineering.
General Foods Corporation —
ECO, FIN, MGMT, MKTG
Southern Pacific Company —
Civil Engineering (also summer
employment for Juniors and Sen
iors)
Stauffer Chemical Company —
ChE, EE, ME, CHEM, (also sum
mer employment for Juniors and
Seniors.
United Carbon Company —
ChE, CHEM, EE, ME (also sum
mer employment for Sophomores
and Juniors)
U S A F Auditor General
(AFAUD-SC) — Accounting
Monday and Tuesday
U. S. General Accounting Of
fice — Accounting
Black, Sivalls & Bryson, Inc. —
ChE, ME, Pet E
Cities Service Oil Company,
Research and Development Dept.
— ChE, EE, PET E, MATH,
PHYS, Phisical Chem, Geophys
Employers Mutuals of Wau
sau — ECO, FIN, MGMT, I ED,
I ENG, ME
General Aniline & Film Corpor
ation — Chemistry (Ph.D) An
alytical, Organic, Physical
Forest Service, U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture—CE, Landsc,
Arch, Forestry
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“The First Fifty Years,” Fred
Waring’s 50th anniversary show
starring £he Pennsylvanians, is
scheduled Wednesday at Texas
A&M’s G. Rollie White Coliseum.
The Memorial Student Center
Town Hall presentation is set
within the frame of Waring’s
familiar “Sleep,” his theme song
for five decades on radio, record
ings, concerts, films and televi
sion.
Nonetheless, the show has some
surprises, says Town Hall Chair
man Sammy Pearson. It features
soloists, skits, choral comedy and
orchestral numbers drawn from
the harvest of Waring’s half-cen
tury musical career.
A company of 50 young and
veteran performers comprise an
orchestra and choral ensemble of
the musical show. Featured as
soloists are the lovely soprano,
Karen Kopseng, Miss North Da
kota of 1965; singing comedy
team Linda Wicker and Jim
Wheeler; Cordovox virtuoso Don
na Dee Anderson; deep-voiced
Leonard Kranendonk and banjo-
humorist Bobby Day; and com
edian-drummer Poley McClintock,
original member of the four-man International Cllib
band that started Waring on his
musical career in Tyrone, Pa.
The range of music for the
A&M performance goes from
popular classics to Broadway
tunes, chorales and folksongs,
vignettes and the latest in novelty
tunes.
Tickets are available at the
MSC Student Program Office.
Season tickets are acceptable.
Elections Tonight
Officers will be elected at a
meeting of the International Club
at Texas A&M tonight, announced
acting president A. A. Quraishi.
The 7:30 p.m. meeting in
YMCA second floor meeting
rooms is open to all persons, he
emphasized.
1967
Graduates
Engineering
Science
Accounting
Computer Science
Business
Electro-technology
Have you made a decision about your future employ
ment? If not, visit our counselors and discuss industrial
assignments and interviews with expanding companies.
Call Memorial Student Center — 846-8721 after 5:00
p. m. on Tue., Dec. 6 or anytime Dec. 7 & 8 for an
appointment. Placement fees are paid by the company.
Employee Relations Counselors
Southwest, Inc.
2427 Humble Bldg. Houston, Texas
Your full choice of our complete buffet,
consisting of 75 to 80 choice selected
items each Sunday,
ADULTS —
CHILDREN — $1.25
Alternating Foreign Specialty Table
Each Week
Bryan - College
Station
846-8811
RAMADA INN
AN OPEN LETTER
Hello Aggies,
For several weeks we have been running our adver
tisement in the Battalion telling you about Aggieland
Recreation Center located behind Betty’s Fashions in the
Redmond Terrace Center, College Station, Texas.
We’ve told you that we have two five by ten billiard
tables, two five by ten snooker tables, sixteen four by
eight billiard tables, seven pin ball machines and other
games. That we are open 7 days each week from 8 a. m.
till midnight. That no alcoholic beverages are sold or
allowed. That we sell billiard supplies, jointed cue sticks,
etc.
Hundreds of Aggies have visited our Recreation
Center, and we believe most of them were impressed. If
you have never visited the Aggieland Recreation Center,
we hope you will very soon. We believe you will like what
you see.
AGGIELAND RECREATION CENTER
Redmond Terrace Center
College Station, Texas
P. S. By the way, the girls play here!
Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
is available at
The World of Books Shoppe - downtown Bryan
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Lets unplug the computer, boys!
Start thinking!”
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A lot of people believe that someday
computers will do all their thinking
for them.
Well, a funny thing is going to
happen on the way to the future:
You’re going to have to think
harder and longer than ever.
Computers can’t dream up things
like Picturephone service, Telstar®
satellite, and some of the other
advances in communications we
have made. Of course, we depended
on computers to solve some of the
problems connected with their
development. But computers need
absolutely clear and thorough
instructions, which means a new and
tougher discipline on the
human intelligence.
And it will take more than a computer
to create a pocket phone the size
of a matchbook, let’s say... or find
a practical way to lock a door or turn
off an oven by remote telephone
control, or to make possible some of
the other things we’ll have someday.
It takes individuals ... perhaps you
could be one ... launching new
ideas, proposing innovations
and dreaming dreams.
And someday, we’re going to have to
find a way to dial locations in space.
Makes you think.
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PEANUTS
By Charles M. Schulz
PEANUTS
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