THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, January 10, 1968
Finals No Sweat
CVll For You
Colleges and universities are becoming more competi
tive and more crowded than ever.
Each year, thousands of people apply to the Harvards,
Dartmouths, Berkleys, Princetons, and Rices of our nation.
Some are accepted. Even fewer graduate. Many go to
Anywhere City College, feeling inferior for not making the
big time.
But, alas, a ray of hope, a beam of light in an other
wise A and B oriented world. The C+ student may be
saved!
Harold Fitzgerald, in the January 23 issue of Look
magazine, has finally dared to propose a college tailored to
our needs—the C+ student who shall inherit the earth.
He imagines a $100 million complex on two thousand
acres of land where C+ academic excellence can run ram
pant—“Old C+U.”
“C+U will glory in recognizing the ability, the winning
personality and the inventive genius of the Average Young
Men who built this world,” Fitzgerald says.
“They handle nine-tenths of the tough administrative
jobs and bear nine-tenths of the worldly burdens of the
affluent and pompous, and the contrasting problems of the
weak and inept.”
“Modern education has lost its belief in the average
boy and girl. They’re my heroes,” he continued.
Fitzgerald cites a letter to Ohio State President Novice
Faucett from the president of Yale, who noted, “Always
be kind to your A and B students. Someday one of them
will return to your campus as a good professor. And also
be kind to your C+ students. Someday one of them will
build you a $2 million science laboratory.”
The prospects at C+U are promising. Hippies would
be barred and “We’d have no masculine baboon faces with
grisly hair.”
The girls would be “the most exciting co-eds around
the globe,” Fitzgerald says.
“They had so much maculine attention during high
school, they dropped back to C— averages, but they’ll climb
back into the C+ ranks rapidly.”
Those who fail to approximate their best, C+ average,
and earn higher grades “would be summarily dismissed
with the recommendation that they try Harvard, Stanford,
or Cambridge.”
“Those who consistently did their own level best would
be appropriately awarded C+ grades and placed on our
international honor role,” Fitzgerald reveals.
C+U would teach old fashion common sense, teach
lawyers to write wills in language even they understand,
and create “graduates who will be running the nation and
holding the bulk of important jobs.”
Now, sit back, relax, enjoy a movie, sleep. Don’t worry
about those finals. There are men working on C+U for you.
Civilians, Dollar To Discuss Menus
The Civilian Student Menu
Committee will meet with univer
sity food service officials at noon
Tuesday, January 16, for its regu
lar monthly discussion of Sbisa
dining operations, according to
Edwin H. Cooper, director, of
civilian student activities.
Cooper said the group will meet
in the Sbisa office of Col. Fred
Dollar, food service director, and
then have lunch together.
- Any civilian student desiring
to offer suggestions about the
dining operation is invited to con
tact one of the committee mem
bers and attend the luncheon
meeting as his guest, Cooper said.
Permanent members of the
committee are: Civilian Student
Council President Griff Venator,
Room 47, Milner Hall; Graduate
Student Council President Char
les E. Knowles, 302 Live Oak,
College Station; Civilian Student
Council members George N.
Walne, Room 47, Milner Hall, and
Stephen Bancroft, Room 424,
Dorm 15.
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Sound Off
Editor,
The Battalion:
Just before Christmas and. the
Christmas Dinner there was some
discussion in Sound Off as to what
should b e considered “proper
dress” particularly in relation to
the Dining Hall. At the last meet
ing of the Civilian Student Coun
cil the same question was dis
cussed with more emphasis on the
Clothing Regulations and dress
in general.
These regulations were written
by and adopted at the request
of the Civilian Student Council
a number of years ago. It is our
opinion that these regulations
have no place in a true Univer
sity. A University must be an in
stitution which welcomes new and
different ideas. It allows its stu
dents the freedom to learn both
in the class and outside the class.
A University should be the last
institution to judge a man on the
length of his hair rather than
the size of his mind. But alas,
this is not the case at A&M.
What i s considered “proper
dress” in one location is not ac
cepted in another. Even at Texas
A&M University there are ob
vious differences of opinions as
to what constitutes ‘‘proper
dress.”
It is our opinion that the Cloth
ing Regulations should be rewrit
ten. Specifically, paragraph 1 of
Section II. Article 68 should be
reworded, while paragraphs 2, 3,
4, 5, 6, and 9 should be ommitted.
The University Regulations also
state that, “Every student has
rights which are to be respect
ed ... . No custom or regulation
in conflict will be allowed to pre
vail.” It is our opinion that for a
student to determine his own
standards of “proper dress” is
such a right and that the present
Clothing Regulations should not
prevail.
We are sure that these opinions
will not meet overwhelming ap
proval. The Civilian Student
Council will meet January 11, at
7:30 p.m. in room 3-D of the
M.S.C., and the question of cloth
ing regulations will be discussed.
The President of the Council in
vites all students to attend that
meeting and to inform your rep
resentative on the Council of your
views on this and any other is
sue. Some have charged that stu
dent government is merely an
echo for Administration policy,
but this need not be the case. To
affect a change, however, the
Student Body must be interested
enough to take part in its own
government.
Griff Venator
George Walne
George DuPont
Don Parr
By JUDY FRANKLIN
The story of glass blowing com
monly bogs down in some “vid-
riero’s” hut in Southern Mexico.
Where the craft oncq centered
around the self-employed blower,
now it is actually “big time” busi
ness.
Glass blowing has climbed from
the Commercial level of ornaments
for tourists to the scientific level
of glassware for laboratories.
A brother team—Jack and Jer
ry Shannon—is playing a part in
this glassware expansion as blow
ers at Texas A&M. Under the De
partment of Chemistry, they fab
ricate most of the specialized re
search glassware used on cam
pus.
AT THE university level and
under commercial glass compan
ies, glass blowing has become
“big” in numbers.
“The scientific glass blower,”
Jack explains, “is concerned more
with individual items than with
groups. We can work here in a
year and not build the same thing
twice.”
The blowers take drawings
from A&M researchers and fab
ricate the glassware, 90 per cent
of which is handblown. Glass used
includes quartz and borosilicate
(pyrex).
Glass tubing—two millimeters
to seven inches in diameter—is
heated to a plastic state. Glass
ware is formed by pressure, lack
of pressure or mechanical pres
sure (with forming tools and car
bon paddles). Depending on the
type of glassware, tubes can be
fused together.
SIMPLE glassware (like py
rex) is sent through the anneal
ing oven, elevated to 560 degrees
C. for two hours and cooled over
night.
Large bottles are not shaped by
hand because the intense heat that
is radiated would blister the
hands. A lathe secures the glass
and rotates it on rollers.
“We stock items like glass
joints that we buy from large
glass companies,” Jack says.
“We couldn’t begin to compete
with their machinery in producing
numbers.”
Together the 6-foot blower and
his 6-foot-1 brother could move
like a bull in a lab full of glass.
Actually, the glass couldn’t be
safer. Coordination and precision
are the balancing tricks.
JACK, 39, has handled glass
since 1951, when he worked at
Dow Chemical Company in Free
port. He and Jerry, 27, who fol
lowed him to A&M in 1962, say
that it is impossible to blow glass
without coordination.
“One hand has to know what
the other is doing,” Jerry ex
plains.
“When welding two pieces of
tubing,” he adds, “you have to
be able to turn both pieces at
the same speed.”
Outside his work, he has blown
a ship and is now working on an
airplane. As delicate as the ship
appears, it actually requires less
coordination than a piece of
scientific glassware.
Jerry comments:
“In making the ship, you’re
not concerned with precision and
two pieces of moving glass.”
THE ORNAMENT actually in
volves no blowing. It is based on
heating the rod and weaving the
glass in symmetrical points. Steps
include obtaining a perfect weave
—where it looks proportional—
and pulling it.
Such coordination did not come
naturally.
It had to be learned, Jack says.
“It was a matter of practice—
eight hours a day, five days
week. It takes an apprentics
minimum of three years to I*
come a skilled glass blower."
He calls glass "peculiar."
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bang it without breaking it if n
know what you are doing,"
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The craft has its assets, too,
“One is that glass blowing
very diversified,” Jack says.
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to every job we do. Jerry an;
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