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College Station, Texas
Tuesday, February 18, 1969
THE BATTALION
What's Happening At The MSC
By PAT LAFFERTY
Each year the MSC Council
and Directorate recognizes the
outstanding contributions of its
members with their MSC
Awards. There are 45 awards
given in four categories: 25 Ap
preciation Awards; nine Out
standing Class Awards given to
four freshmen, three sophomores,
and two juniors; 10 Distin
guished Service Awards; and a
Thomas H. Rountree Award for
the most outstanding person in
the MSC. Students are asked to
nominate any person they feel
has contributed more than his
share in any area of MSC work.
Shy Hicks, MSC Student Pro
grams Office secretary, will be
accepting nominations from to
day until March 7. Nominations
will then be judged by the Coun
cil Awards Committee with re
sults to be announced at the
Awards Banquet April 24 in the
MSC Ballroom. The theme for
this year’s banquet .will be
“Bourbon Street” and all Di
rectorate Committee members
and advisors are invited.
The MSC Travel Loan Dept,
advises all students planning to
go overseas on the Experiment
in International Living Program
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Editor,
The Battalion:
Ah! 'Tis spring again and with
it comes one of A&M’s more sor
did events—the Combat Ball. The
idea of a gala social event taking
the theme of war and destruction
is abhorrent to the civilized mind.
The very name “Combat Ball”
can only be a contradiction in
terms. While not debating the
ethics of any particular war, it
must be pointed out that the
word “combat” itself connotes
hell, human misery, and the final
ity of death. Surely such suffer
ing is not cause for celebration.
The perversity of this annual
event, however, has achieved add
ed dimensions with this year’s
particular theme of “Midnight
Patrol of the DMZ.” Can the
Corps of Cadets have forgotten
that their fellow human beings,
both American and Vietnamese,
are dying daily in this very area ?
At the very least, such a theme
represents a gross insult to those
presently serving in Vietnam.
open from 7 to 8 for both civilian
and Corps.
Throughout the world, students
are protesting their treatment by
various university officials. We
are not advocating such protests
at A&M, but it would seem that
the department heads would be
more considerate of other people
(student are people) than to
schedule such a qui2 time.
If these quiz times are not
changed, has the mathematics
department arranged for refunds
to those students who reside on
campus and have paid board ? We
doubt that they have!
Furthermore, during preregis
tration, the programmers went to
great lengths to see that there
were no schedules that caused a
student to miss meals. Does not
this quiz schedule seem inconsist
ent with this university policy?
I. Brent Carrel! ’69
Floyd R. Young ’65
Such glorification of war might
be expected among children who
play “soldier.” But this behavior
can be excused because children
have neither the intelligence nor
the maturity to comprehend the
import of such actions. However,
among college students, this is
inexcusable.
It is to be hoped that in future
years the Corps of Cadets will
use better taste and judgment in
choosing the theme of their social
events. For as long as there are
those who glorify war, there is
little hope for peace.
Kenneth and Carolyn Goldstein
Assistant Dean J. B. Beck
ham of the College of Science
has arranged for students tak
ing the 7 a.m. quizzes to eat
breakfast before 7 in Duncan
and Sbisa dining halls on quiz
mornings, according to a Math
ematics Department spokes
man. The 7 a.m. scheduling was
decided upon when the depart
ment found no available times
during class hours and sought
to avoid night quizzes which
would interrupt study hours,
the spokesman added.
—Ed.
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Editor,
The Battalion:
Leaving aside the objections to
departmental quizzes, we would
like to ask the reasons for the
7 a.m. quizzes recently announced
by the mathematics department.
Is it possible that these people
don’t realize that this schedule
will cause many students to miss
their breakfast meal (which stu
dents residing in the dormitories
are required to pay for), or is it
possible that they just don’t care
about the student? Those stu
dents who take these quizzes
from 7 to 8 a.m. cannot possibly
eat in the dining halls which are
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The 1968-69 Student Laundry
Committee will meet with uni
versity officials at the regular
monthly meeting Thursday at
noon in Sbisa Cash Cafeteria.
The purpose of the meeting
will be to discuss laundry oper
ating procedures and setve as a
link of communication between
students and University officials.
Any student desiring to offer
suggestions about the laundry
operations and policies has been
invited to contact one of the fol
lowing committee members:
Arthur P. Callahan, dorm 2,
Room 118, 5-2750; David George,
Fowler Hall, Room 211, 5-2108;
David Middlebrooke, H o t a r d
Hall, Room 411, 846-9944; John
R. Oliver, Dorm 6, Room 203,
5-7259; Albert Reinert, Dorm 2,
Room 123, 5-2050, and Michael
Looney, Keathley 333, 6-5774.
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Jeanna Fiske at the MSC
through the Student Programs
Office.
Town Hall will bring Norman
Luboff, the brilliant and popular
conductor-arranger, with his vir
tuoso singers and instrumental
ists, to G. Rollie White Coliseum
at 8 p.m. Thursday. The Nor
man Luboff Choir, as it is inter
nationally known, will uphold its
unique reputation with a com
pletely spontaneous program.
They bfegan this reputation in
1963 with a highly successful
succession of “live” concert tours
which included Texas A&M.
For those who would rather
make their own music than listen
to it, the Basement has planned
a Thursday night “Hootenanny.”
The unusual evening will begin
at 8 p.m. with students playing
guitars — “doing their thing.”
Admission is free so take this
time to give them a visit.
Friday night the Basement will
feature Bob Wilkerson and Lar
ry Ludewig singing and playing
the guitar. And Saturday they
will feature Tom Patrick playing
a 12-string guitar. Linda No
bles, chairman of the Basement
Committee, has promised a most
unusual weekend. Prices for Fri
day and Saturday are 50 cents
stag and 75 drag.
Also Saturday, the MSC will
present “The Wackiest Ship in
the Army” 8 p.m. in the ball
room. The frivolous comedy
features Jack Lemmon and Ricky
Nelson.
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EDITOR JOHN W. FULLER
Managing Editor Dave Mayes
Sports Editor John Platzer
News Editor Bob Palmer
Staff Columnists John McCarroll, Mike Plake,
Monty Stanley, Jan Moulden
Staff Writers Tom Curl, Janie Wallace, Tony
Huddleston, David Middlebrooke
Assistant Sports Editor Richard Campbell
Photographer W. R. Wright
Bulletin Board
TONIGHT
B.A. Wives Club will meet at
7:30 p.m. at the Bank of A&M.
Representative from Merle Nor
man will demonstrate. All B.A.
wives are invited.
WEDNESDAY
Newcomers Officers Spring
Reception honoring second sem
ester Newcomers will be held at
10 a.m. at the home of Mrs. W.
E. Eckles, 1212 Orr Drive. All
newcomers who may have ar
rived after invitations were sent
are urged to attend.
Zeta Iota Nu will meet at 8
p.m. in room 2-B of the MSC.
Picture and business meeting.
Aggie Wives Bridge Club
meets every Wednesday at 7:30
p.m. in the MSC. Beginners, in
termediates and regulars.
Hillel Club will meet at 7:30
p.m. in the Hillel Building. Fri
day night services will be held at
8 p.m.
Handball Club will meet at 7:30
p.m. in the DeWare Field House.
Yearbook picture will be taken.
A philosophy discussion will
be held at 7:30 p.m. in St. Mary’s
Student Center. Don Branson
will introduce the discussion:
“Does Society Determine a Per
son’s Values or Can He Deter
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TECHNICAL STAFF.
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Assignments exist for Engineers
graduating in 1969 with B.S.,
M.S. and Ph.D degrees in
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.
HUGHES-FULLERTON Engineering
Laboratories assignments range from
research to hardware development
and operational support of products
and systems in the field. Our current
activities involve the advanced tech
nologies of phased-array frequency
scanning radar systems, real-time
general purpose computers, displays,
data processing, satellite and surface
communications systems, surface-to-
air missile systems and tactical com
mand/control systems.
For additional information on the
opportunities offered at HUGHES-
FULLERTON in Southern California —
and to arrange for a personal inter
view with our Staff representatives,
please contact your College Place
ment Office or write: Mr. D. K. Horton,
Supervisor, Professional Staffing,
HUGHES-FULLERTON, P. O. Box
3310, Fullerton, California 92634.
On-campus interviews
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