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1 N THE BATTALION CADET SLOUCH Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, April 18, 1967 Old - Fashioned Demonstrations Texas A&M has a serious -in deficiency. Not a single sit-, teach-, lie-, or be-in has been staged in the entire history of this university. In this era of LSD, happenings, and campus demon strations, A&M is an anachronism. The most serious dem onstration is likely to be a furtive sign at a disliked prof, and the dunking of an upperclassman in the fishpond is classified as a happening. Why is A&M so old-fashioned? Mainly because no body has ever taken the initiative to organize the usually apathetic student body. In the interest of a progressive, forward-looking uni versity, this newspaper has been investigating the possi bilities of bringing a progressive, forward-looking dem onstration organizer to the campus. Two possibilities have been suggested. One is the poet Allen Ginzburg, who has been known to become so moved when reading his poetry that he removes portions of his apparel. The A&M clothing regu lations would rule him out. The other is Timothy Leary, who Ramparts magazine calls a “self-styled guru to tens or is it hundreds of thous- sands of turned-on people.” But drugs and Lysergic Acid Diethlamide are currently in disfavor on this campus. Our only hope will be if some new leader should arise from the faceless, nameless masses at A&M, or more precisely, numbers 580134 through 662962 inclusive. Naturally the demonstrators would have to begin slowly and advocate something mild like world government, but eventually they could work up to the really important is sues, such as cush portions at Sbisa. Some very good causes could be helped by demonstra tions. A sit-in could be staged at Sbisa, where everyone who criticizes the food but hasn’t eaten there for three years tries what he has been criticizing. The same principle could be applied for a read-in, where everyone defies tradition and reads the Battalion. by Jim Earle Airlift Is To Be Available Instructions for airlifting de pendent students via military air craft during the approaching va cation season have been provided major commands. The students, most of whom will rejoin military families at overseas locations, are authorized one space-available round trip annually aboard mili tary aircraft. Approximately 5,000 students take advantage of this privilege, either in the summer vacation months or during the Christmas Marketing Majors Get Scholarships t-^ruLc “It doesn’t hurt, but I can’t sleep in this position until my sunburn goes away!” Course In Elementary School Art Education Being Planned Andy Tice of Rockport and Mike Norris of New Braunfels are recipients of $250 H. W. Peters Memorial Scholarships to Texas A&M next year. The junior marketing majors were selected for the Houston Sales Executive Club scholar ships at the 18th sales clinic at A&M. Joe Giardina, chairman of the Houston club’s educational com mittee, made presentations. Tice, Norris and Acting Mar keting Department Head Herbert G. Thompson attended a Houston meeting in connection with the awards. holiday period. Focal points for the mass exodus in the United States are Military Airlift Com mand aerial ports at Travis AFB, Calif., and McGuire AFB, N.J. Students enjoy a Category II priority on the space-available lists, boarding behind emergency leave travelers, but ahead of heavily populated Category III, ordinary leave passengers. Special flights for transporting students are prohibited. With space-available seating a rarity as the result of computer ized manifesting and improved forecasting, the flood of students requires much patience and un derstanding on the part of both the traveler and terminal person nel, officials emphasized. Most students are moved on MAC passenger aircraft. Others are airlifted on Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve or com mand organizational aircraft, if configured for passenger use. Male students also are permitted to travel on some cargo flights. Students must have required travel authorizations, identifica tion credentials and sufficient funds to maintain them while waiting for transportation. Each student is permitted 66 pounds of baggage. When Brazil recently plaj an international soccer to ment, the sale of transistor rail soared and business ground to halt. PALACE Brqan 2-$M LAST DAY Walt Disney’s “BULLWHIP GRIFFIN’’ STARTS TOMORROW Cancer Control Deserves Support Mrs. Sue Loew of Bryan will instruct a three-week course in elementary school art education at Texas A&M this summer. The course for elementary teachers and education majors will offer child art theory and practical work relating to child April is Cancer Control Month by Presidential proclama tion. During- the month the American Cancer Society is asking the public to take three important actions. If you do not know cancer’s warning signals, learn them. If you have not already had an annual health checkup, have one. Support the Society’s programs of research, education and service. The first two are for your protection now; the third for possible protection in the future . Only 69 per cent of the public can name one of cancer’s several warning signals. A better record is urgent. Going to a doctor at a first warning signal usually can lead to early diagnosis if cancer is present, and early diagnosis followed by proper treatment greatly enhances the chance of cure. An annual health checkup, coupled with response to any of cancer’s warning signs, is the best possible protec tion against death from cancer. A doctor can often detect cancer before a person is aware something is wrong. And the doctor can sometimes find conditions that hight lead to cancer if uncorrected. Remember that only ten years ago one-fourth of those who developed cancer were saved; now it is one-third; it could be one half, without adding an iota to our present knowledge and skills. Much of what happens depends on your personal responsibility and your financial investment in programs of research, education and service through the American Cancer Society. Aggies Rate High On Recent Tests Texas A&M students scored well on recent foreign service examinations, a report from a col lege relations official of the U. S. State Department indicates. Dr. J. M. Nance, head of A&M’s History and Government Depart ment and campus adviser on State Department matters, said actual scores were not announced. “The report from William B. Kelly, College Relations Program director, revealed that both un dergraduates and gr aduates scored considerably above the na tional passing averages,” Dr. Nance commented. “Ten A&M undergraduates and two gradu ates took the examination.” Kelly reported the passing rate for undergraduates who listed Texas A&M as their school was 50 per cent higher than the un dergraduate national average. And Kelly noted that the two graduate students who took the examination fared three times better than the national average. THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non tax-supported non profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or n< otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneox origin published herein. 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Advertising to 2% Texas A&M is The Battalion, a student newspaper at published in College Station, Texas daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, September through May, and once a week during summer school. Publisher Texas A&M University Editor Winston Green Jr. Managing Editor Lee Moreno MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association News Editor Reporters Bob Borders Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising yices, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los isco Servici Francisco. os Angeles and San Sports Editor . Sports Writer Pat Hill, Bill Aldrich, Randy Plummer, Bob Galbraith Gary Sherer Staff Photographer . Jerry Grisham Russell Autrey MAKE A SMART MOVE... BUY YOUR SPRING WARDROBE AT LOU'S LOUPOT'S NORTH GATE development and curriculum. Stu dents will work in two and three dimensional art employing numer ous media and methods. Art director of Bryan Public Schools, Mrs. Loew has served six years as visiting professor of art in summer college assign ments. She holds a master’s de gree from Texas Woman’s Uni versity and the art director pro fessional certificate from Col umbia. The three semester hour course for undergraduate or graduate credit is scheduled weekday morn ings, Aug. 7 to Aug. 25, through the Education and Psychology De partment. LET US ARRANGE YOUR TRAVEL... ANYWHERE IN THE U. S. A. ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD Reservations and Tickets For All Airlines and Steamships — Hotel and Rent Car Reservations Tickets Delivered —Call 822-3737— Robert Halsell Travel Service 1016 South College Avenue Bryan 20th CentufyFo* iry M esen □raSniKiB FUNT (MMASCOfU fob byte QUEEN ADULT ART SERIES 7:15 - 9:15 P. M. ‘TORTURED FEMALE” cmm LAST DAY Michael Caine As “ALFIE” STARTS TOMORROW Anthony Quinn In “25TH HOUR" , 0WIW uNDtB 12 VFABS fRfl STARTS TOMORROW “THE UNDERTAKEK & HIS PALS’’ COMING TO THE TEXAS A&M CAMPUS TOWN HALL EXTRA THE ORIGINAL DON COSSACK CHORUS and DANCERS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 8:00 P. M. G. ROLLIE WHITE COLISEUM The virtuoso ensemble of 24 uniformed white Russian Giants— led by diminutive 4’ 10” Serge Jaroff—has been singing its way around the non Soviet world since 1923. Just back from Europe, the group whose members are all naturalized American citizens, is now making its 35th annual coast-to-coast tour of the United States and Canada. Following is a New York Times review on the April 1 Cossack performance in Carnegie Hall: “Serge Jaroff first brought his Don Cossack Chorus to Carnegie Hall thirty-seven years ago rousing the audience to enthusiastic applause. Saturday night he did so again with the same results. The choir is still most impressive in its power to excite, almost hypnotize an audience. The thrilling climaxes, the fantastic range of the singers, their ability to shift in a flash from overwhelming masses of sound to sustained pianissimos that sound like a faint echo rolling across the Russian plains”. Tickets on sale at MSC - Student Program Office beginning April 10. Tickets will be on sale from 9:00 A. M. to 5:30 P. M. Monday - Friday. TICKET PRICES: General Admission only — $2.00 and $3.00 Season tickets and student activity cards will be valid. AN MSC - TOWN HALL PRESENTATION The Back Porch Majority also Skeeter Davis SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 6:30 P.M. G. ROLLIE WHITE COLISEUM BACK PORCH MAJORITY: Originally designed as a back up group for the New Christy Minstrels, the Back Porch Majority has since developed into a unique group that won the billboard D. J. poll as “the best new folk act” in the U. S. They have appeared numerous times on TV (Hollywood Palace, Hullabaloo, Tennessee Ernie Ford, etc) and have logged 200,000 miles in less than 2 years making successful appearances across the nation. SKEETER DAVIS: Skeeter gained fame in the Grand Ole Opry and has been one of America’s most popular vocal artists ever since. She sings both country and western and “pop” music. In addition to making hit records, Skeeter is a familiar personality on TV. A&M CIVILIAN STUDENTS! Be sure and take a date to this outstanding civilian weekend performance. THIS IS A TOWN HALL EXTRA! Student Activity Cards and Season Tickets will not be valid for this performance. Everyone must purchase a ticket. Tickets will be on sale at the MSC Student Program Office. Students $1.50 — Patrons $2.00 PEANUTS By Charles M. Schufe DO YOU REALIZE THAT StMHERE THIC V£f?V MOMENT A CHILD 15 BEING DORN? 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