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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Wednesday, February 22, 1967
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Newspapers Look
For New Image
Today American newspapers are on the threshold of
a new metamorphic era. That is, they are changing- their
role in society to coincide with the changes in society itself.
When social norms and mores change enough to accept
boys wearing shoulder ?length hair, girls wearing less-than-
knee-length skirts and waitresses wearing little or nothing
at all, the newspaper must update its style also in order
to maintain its status as a molder of public opinion in
this youthful world.
Twenty years ago only one-third of the high school
graduates went to college. Now more than half do.
Ninety per cent of all the scholars and scientists who
have lived are alive and working today. Their reports and
discoveries are pouring in faster than any editor can hope
to read and understand them.
Within five years, half the people of the United States
will be under twenty-five.
So the problem facing today’s newspapers is how to
report to this increasingly youthful, well-educated and high
ly sophisticated readership.
The new role of the American newspaper may be that
of thoughtful analysis, synthesis, and explanation — not
just one of giving facts.
According to William B. Dickinson, former president
of the Associated Press Managing Editors, most columns
of “our newspapers’’ are “filled with spot news — much
of it trivial to the point of absurdity. We deluge our
readers with undigested facts. We report the events —
we overlook the causes and the consequences of those events.
AEC Gives A&M
$9,900 To Assist
In Nuclear Study
A $9,990 matching grant from
the U. S. Atomic Energy Com
mission will be used by the Chem
istry Department to add nuclear
instructional equipment for
courses in radiochemistry and
special problems, announced Dr.
A. E. Martell, department head.
Two multi-channel analyzers,
Mossbauer drive spectrometers
and related components will be
installed, noted Dr. Fred Sicilio,
grant director.
“Procurement of this fairly
sophisticated equipment is part of
expanded department efforts to
upgrade chemistry programs and
give students more up-dated ex
perimental work,” Dr. Sicilio
said.
Radiochemistry is a branch of
the discipline dealing with radia-
Engineers Council
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“We cover the violence in the streets, but not the
conditions that are responsible for that violence,” he con
tinues. “We cover the wars, but not the threats to peace.”
The newspapers now find that they must redefine the
meaning of news. They must somehow take a broader view,
see events and people in a larger sense, and paint their
words and pictures on a wider canvas according to Dickinson.
As the newspapers move through this period of tran
sition, they begin to fit more comfortably into their even
more responsible and demanding new role — the role of
increasing man’s understanding of man.
Company H-2 Wives Present Panel
The Company H-2 Wives Club
is presenting again this year a
panel discussion and coffee for
all wives, girl friends and fiances
of Army junior and senior ROTC
students March 4, at 10:00 a.m. in
Room 201 of the Military Science
Building Annex.
The discussion, entitled “Imag
ine Life as an Army Officer’s
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Wife,” will include such things as
the first day on base, party giv
ing, and in general, some of the
requirements of an Army offi
cer’s wife.
The panel, composed of four
Army officers’ wives, Mrs. G. J.
Harber, Mrs. C. W. Zipp, Mrs. C.
K. Simmons and Mrs. R. L.
Brooks, will be available for a
question-and-answer session fol
lowing the discussion.
Mrs. D. L. Baker will be the
guest of honor.
The dress is Sunday dress (no
hat or gloves) and there is no
charge. For more information
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or Mrs. Ronald L. Amox.
Officers and two new members
of the Engineering Faculty Ad
visory Council at Texas A&M
have been elected, announced Dr.
D. R. Tidwell, chairman.
New members elected for three-
year terms are J. H. Caddess,
mechanical engineering professor,
and Dr. M. G. Rekoff, electrical
engineering professor.
Other officers to serve during
1967 are Vice Chairman Dr.
James H. Earle, head of engi
neering graphics, and Secretary
Dr. T. J. Kozik, mechanical en
gineering professor. Prof. S. H.
Lowy of aerospace engineering
was elected to fill out the 1967
term of John Denison, acting
head of electrical engineering.
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