THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, March 28, 1968
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Sound Off
“I’ve never campaigned so hard in my life!”
Mass Info Requires
Improved Reading
To read this page of the Battalion may take you 10
minutes; to read a chapter of a novel, an hour; to read a
chapter of Government, three hours; to read a chapter of
Math or Physics, six hours; to read the daily newspaper;
an hour; and to read all of the magazines, posters, leaflets
and handouts several more hours.
In other words you are being bombarded with hundreds
of sources of information daily, and to be able to read it
all and gather the necessary facts is becoming more and
more the impossible.
If you are like most college students you may read 250
to 300 words per minute, may be able to go for an hour
without interruption, and may even have understood what
you read—then again you may not.
In Tuesday’s Battalion, special writer Vancy Manning
noted a new speed reading course which is being offered to
graduate students only.
Dr. Mario DiNello, the instructor, noted that the course
is offered “to help graduate students read more efficiently
in terms of rate comprehension.”
The course is not a clip-out-of-the newspaper-read
10,000 word-a-minute-course. It strives for a modest in
crease in reading speed while maintaining good comprehen
sion.
Dr. DiNello said that if a student now reading 250
words per minute increased his reading speed by only 125
words it would mean he could do the same reading 30 per
cent faster.
Imagine how much less time it would take to cover the
same material or how much more time you would have to
cover more reading- Thirty hours of study could be cut to
20.
Through the use of films, rate pacers, timed articles,
and the important information needed to avoid time con
suming mind and eye errors any student can increase his
reading skill.
College is a world of books. And the world is an “in-
basket” of information.
To be expected to cover a chapter a day in English
or 300 pages for the next sociology test or 50 problems in
chemistry has cost everyone grade points.
And it’s simply because the student has never learned
to read. And reading and understanding a mountain of new
information will be every student’s job for the next four
years or forty years.
This university has made Speech 403 a requirement
for graduation. Any language is of course how it is spoken,
not how it is written, and each individual should be able
to speak clearly and intelligently.
But this nation and the world is also the printer^
dream. Staff personnel leave stacks of paperwork on their
desk when the five o’clock whistle sounds as a tribute to
the difficulty of being able to read fast enough.
Students often scan material which needs closer atten
tion. And with school work, although important world
events are taking place, far too many students do not even
have time to read a daily newspaper or mull over a “Time”
or “Newsweek.”
Education suffers, understanding suffers, even “horse
sense” suffers.
Industry spends millions of dollars each year to send
j unior evecutives to reading classes to improve their reading
skill.
The military sends its officers for special courses along
the same line and wishes that more men could read and
comprehend the material necessary to know the facts and
make an appropriate decision sooner.
Inessence, reading is the basis for almost all continu
ing education.
A much larger and broader program for improved read
ing skills can only result in an overall improvement in the
ability of each student and a better qualified graduate.
Editor,
The Battalion:
“TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
CHANGES NAME TO TEXAS
A&M HIGH SCHOOL.’' Yes, I
can see the headlines now. Al
though such an announcement
might seem a bit far-fetched, in
reality we only need a few more
high school type rules and we
could make those headlines come
true.
It would seem that a Senior or
even a Junior in college would
be mature enough, and know how
to study well enough to be allowed
to live off campus if he so de
sires. However, apparently Mr.
Zinn does not think so. I refer
to the article on student housing
policy appearing in the March 20
issue of The Battalion.
In the article, Mr. Zinn states
that in order for some of the
dorms to pay for themselves,
they must be filled to capacity.
I would like to know why such
rat-holes as Milner, Dorm 13, and
Leggett Hall have to be filled to
capacity. Aren’t these “dorms”
paid for yet?
Why not let some seniors move
off campus if they want to and
let the people living in worst of
the “older” dorms move into some
thing decent. Every semester we
see the headlines: HOUSING
OFFICE FACES SHORTAGE OF
ROOMS, and yet Mr. Zinn seems
to think that the A&M campus
Bulletin Board
TODAY
The Polo Club will meet at 7:30
p.m. in Room 203 of the Animal
Industries Building.
The Peace Corps Club will
organize at 5 p.m. in Room 2D
of the Memorial Student Center.
All return volunteers and any
one who has applied for the Peace
Corps is invited.
The Corpus Christi Hometown
Club will elect officers for next
year at 7:30 p.m. in the Memorial
Student Center.
The Bell County Hometown
Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in
Room 205 of the Academic Build
ing.
The Lubbock - South Plains
Hometown Club wil make plans
for an Easter party at 7:30 p.m.
in Room 3B of the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
The Garland Hometown Club
will meet in the Lounge of the
Memorial Student Center at 6
p.m. and go to Willow Grove for
dinner.
The Mechanical Engineering
Seminar will hear John M.
Pierce of the Johnson & Johnson
Manufacturing Plant in Sher
man at 10 a.m. in Room 303 of
Fermier Hall. Pierce will speak
on the role of the engineer in a
manufacturing plant.
The Fort Worth Hometown Club
will make plans for an Easter
party at 7:30 p.m. in Room 2B
of the Memorial Student Center.
The Mid-County Hometown Club
will make plans for an Easter
party at 7:30 p.m. in Room 2C
of the Memorial Student Center.
The San Angelo - West Texas
Hometown Club will meet at 7:30
p.m. in Room 108 of the Academic
Building.
FRIDAY
The A&M Women’s Social Club
will meet at 3 p.m. in the Ball
room of the Memorial Student
Center.
would become a virtual ghost-
town in regard to dormitory stu
dents if he allowed off-campus
living for juniors and/or seniors.
Really now, Mr. Zinn, with the
off-campus housing facilities as
meager as they are now, I find
it hard to visualize any deserted
dormitories on this campus in the
near future. I believe that fresh
men, sophomores, juniors and the
seniors who don’t live off campus
could keep the “livable” dormi
tories full.
This is a great school and I’m
proud to be an AGGIE. I can
see the reasoning behind most of
the rules set forth by the “High
Command”, but the housing rules
are ridiculous!
I believe most students oppose
this regulation, and I don’t believe
any Aggie wants his senior ring
to read; TEXAS A&M HIGH
SCHOOL.
William C. Babb ’69
Editor,
The Battalion:
I would like to make a com
ment on an editorial written by
C.H.R. During the past few
years there has been somewhat
of an uproar about the fact that
the Administration has squelched
attempts by students to com
ment on the issues in The Bat
talion. After reading the edi
torial entitled, “Things To Come”,
it is becoming clear that maybe
they have the right idea.
C.H.R. said that George Wal
lace “got the ball rolling” for
the recent riots in Omaha by the
mere fact that he was in town.
Would C.H.R. state one instance
where George Wallace was di
rectly responsible for the law be
ing broken in Omaha ? George
Wallace was in Oklahoma exer
cising his right to express his
opinions and those who were in
terested in his views were in
vited to come and listen to them.
In no way can it be construed
that a man expressing his opin
ions gives call for a lawless ele
ment of the population to riot and
kill people. And it may be point
ed out that that element which
is so interested in civil rights
made every attempt to stop
George Wallace from exercising
his, namely, freedom of speech.
How hypocritical. I think that
every American should examine
the motives of these so called
“civil rights” groups.
Bob E. Nilson ’66
Editor,
TheBattalion:
I find myself with mixed emo
tions after reading the Tuesday,
March 26, edition of the Bat
talion. I am glad to see that the
Student Senate is not blind to the
wishes of Aggies to Muster on
April 21. I am sorry to hear
that so many civilians won’t be
able to make it, but I’m sure
there will be a 100% turn out by
Aggies. Since when has it been
important how many people show
up? Muster is not an attempt to
see how many people can be
crowded up in front of the ad
ministration building.
Aggies will Muster!
Bob E. Nilson ’66
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Curtis Claims
Legal Laxity
WASHINGTON <A>> _ Sen.
Carl T. Curtis, R-Neb., says ar
rest and conviction records show
“far too much leniency in De
troit” after the July riot.
The comment came after staff
witnesses told a Senate investi
gations subcommittee Wednesday
only 22 of the 666 people charged
with riot-connected felonies were
sentenced to prison terms.
“There wasn’t any harsh or
cruel punishment administered, to
say the least of it,” Curtis said.
Sen. Karl Mundt, R-S. D., added
that only four of the 22 “really
got anything tougher than a rap
on the knuckles.” He said most
got light sentences.
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