THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, December 15, 1967
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
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“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.
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‘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.
Steve Bancroft ’68
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THEY ARE still on the move.
But the emphasis now is on chem
ists and agronomists, biologists
and physicists, engineers and
mathematicians, the thinkers and
doers of the atomic age and space
exploration.
And on physicians, whose min
istrations become more impor
tant as populations multiply.
Britain, with its cultural insti
tutions, its 18th century indus
trial revolution and the empire,
has been a focus of this move
ment for centuries. Now the bal
ance of incoming and outgoing
talents is running against her.
“THE FUTURE prosperity of
the country depends on skilled
manpower,” says the minister of
technology, Anthony Wedgwood
Benn.
He lost his ministerial calm
when Westinghouse Electric ad
vertised here for atomic scien
tists specializing in fast breeder
reactors, a field where Britain
excels.
Britain has doubled in six years.
The loss to the British econo
my through the emigration of a
young engineer of top grade is
put at $72,000. Taking into ac
count higher salaries paid in the
United States, the committee es
timated the engineer’s value to
the American economy at $187,-
200.
“The significant point is that
for every young, high-quality en
gineer who emigrates to the Uni
ted States, the British economy
in effect presents the American
economy with a gift of the mag
nitude indicated in these figures,”
the committee reported.
Higher salaries available in the
United States are an important
factor. Another attraction is the
lower rate of taxation in most
other countries. British income
tax and surtax in the higher
brackets ranges between 40 and
90 per cent.
In an angry letter Benn told
Britain’s scientists:
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“Britain’s economic and politi
cal future depends upon all our
industries applying modern engi
neering technology right up to
and over the frontiers of present
scientific knowledge. That is what
you are doing for us. We depend
on you. And so, indeed, in a real
sense does Europe because it is
British technology within a wide
community that will secure Eu
rope’s future, too.”
A COMMITTEE set up by his
office reported several weeks ago
that the total outward flow of
engineers and technologists from
By English Head
A freshman English textbook
authored by Dr. Lee J. Martin,
English Department head at
Texas A&M, is scheduled for pub
lication March 1 by Prentice-Hall
Inc. of Englewood, N. J.
The 200-page paperback, “The
Five - Hundred - Word Theme,”
stresses basic rhetorical principles
of expository writing, exclusive
of mechanics. Martin said the
book is the result of overhead
transparencies and a television
series being used in teaching
freshman English at A&M.
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