THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, December 15, 1967 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle i I—i HUM&IJi “I understand you had trouble with your quiz!” Will A&M Vote In Choice 68? You say that you’re under 21 years old and would not normally be able to vote in the next Presidential election. You’re old enough to fight, you’re intelligent about politics and feel that college students should have the opportunity to express their choice of candidates. Now you can. But would A&M students take the time and have the interest to vote in a college Presidential pri mary ? The Battalion received a letter from a group calling themselves “Choice 68.” Their Board of Directors consists of student body presidents and student newspaper editors. They included a prospectus about the proposed election, and indicated that they also sent a copy to the student body president—Jerry Campbell. “Never in the nation’s history have so many college students been so well informed about the major issues of the day. Yet, to a large extent isolated from their society, they have little opportunity to express their political views in a unified, coherent manner,” says the group. Choice 68 indicates that participation in their national Collegiate Presidential Primary is open to all colleges, uni versities and junior colleges, and will be “a major political event sufficient to merit the nation’s attention and con sideration.” This is a constructive form of student action and par ticipation in national affairs. TIME magazine has agreed to underwrite the national administrative costs, and on each campus a major non partisan organization would ensure maximum student par ticipation and provide finances. The colleges and universities which have already in dicated that they will participate include almost every major university in the nation and have enrollments totaling more than two million students. Clearly, this is a well supported, and constructive method of student participation concerning the views and candidates of today’s politics. We believe that A&M should also participate in such a Collegiate Presidential Primary, and should receive the attention and support of the students. We are interested to know what you feel about the success of such an election on this campus. What about it Aggies? Bulletin Board MONDAY The M S C Travel Committee will conduct a special meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the Assembly Room of the Memorial Student Center to explain opportunities for A&M students to live, work, study or travel abroad in Europe this summer. The Ag Eco and Sociology Wives Club will have a handi craft program at 7:30 p.m. at Bi-City Hobbi-Kraft, 1001 S. Col lege Ave. TUXEDO RENTALS At fr Thm Starnes ^ w men's tuear I HJJMJI l . HH\ \\. I 822-3711 Read Classifieds Daily ‘Brain Drain 9 Hurts India, Europe, Africa Economies By LYNN HEINZERLING Associated Press Writer LONDON (AP) — This is the “brain drain:” India needs doctors for a des perate campaign to reduce the country’s birth rate. But 1,600 Indian doctors are practicing abroad. Spain needs 3,000 chemists for its developing chemical industry; at least 7 per cent of the gradu ates emigrate. Switzerland is short of engi neers. Its Federal Institute of Technology says about 2,500 Swiss engineers and scientists live in the United States. Germany lost more than 4,000 scientists and engineers to the United States in 1956-66. Ten per cent of the 34,000 doctors in Ger man hospitals are foreigners, mostly Asians. GHANA HAS only one doctor for each 15,000 inhabitants. About 100 Ghanaian doctors practice in Britain, Canada, West Germany, the United States and Ireland. Britain has lost an estimated 2,000 doctors to the United States while 4,000 doctors from Asia and Africa help maintain the British National Health Service. Britain lost 2,700 engineers, technologists and scientists through emigration last year and the flow continues. As far back as the Renaissance artists, architects and scholars were on the move in Europe. Sound Off TUESDAY The American Marketing So ciety will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Rooms 3-B and C of the Memorial Student Center. Guest speaker will be E. E. Galloway, manager of gas marketing with Texaco Oil Co. in Houston. FRIDAY The DeWitt - Lavaca County Hometown Club will meet at 8 p.m. at the American Legion Hall in Yorktown. Editor, The Battalion: I am writing this letter about a problem on our campus because I think it is a definite problem that concerns a large number of students. The problem is the ap pearance of many of our civilian students. I’m not just talking about hair cuts, because whether I dislike the length some boys (?) wear their hair, it is their right, I guess I’m talking about clothes and general appearance and com mon courtesy, especially in the dining- hall. It is gener ally accepted as com mon manners to remove one’s hat while eating. It is also common courtesy to wear acceptable cloth ing while eating in the company of other people, that is to say not wearing T - shirts, athletic clothing, and other sundry items to meals. Also it is considered polite to eat with acceptable table manners, not as if you were ba bies who turned over and made a mess of anything you didn’t like. These are things that I am sure every one»of us knows yet it seems a large number of us have forgotten these simple yet basic ideas of good taste. Everyday contact with these neglected poli cies should be enough to convince people that there should be a change of thought on the existing dining hall habits. However, if there is a need to site an example I suggest the past Thanksgiving meal. This is a special meal and it has been accepted policy to dress up for that meal and the upcoming Christmas meal. Since there seems to be a ques tion as to what constitutes proper clothing on this campus, I will give my definition to “dressed up” clothing—a coat and tie! (and for the “wise-guys,” that includes slacks, socks and yes—shoes.) At the Thanksgiving meal people showed up in everything except what was proper for the occasion. The few people that did show up in proper attire were the ones that seemed out of place. There is something wrong with our sense of values if this is the real case. Our Christmas meal is coming up, this is the chance to see if we are mature enough to see fault with our present policies and correct them to meet proper and decent standards. Are Aggie jokes just something to laugh at or are they the bitter truth? Only we can answer that ques tion. 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