Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1965)
THE BATTALION CADET SLOUCH Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, March 25, 1965 by Jim Earle With all the furor over co education and non-compulsory ROTC (even the faculty has put in their two cents worth), this corner put its heads together, delved headlong into the situa tion and devised several solu tions to end all solutions. 1. Non-compulsory coeducation and compulsory Corps. The wo men could come here if they want to, but they would have to parti cipate in the Corps of Cadets. This is quite feasible — just think how it would spice up the Corps trips. 2. Compulsory coeducation and limited Corps. The women would HAVE to come here with com pulsory coeducation. The Corps would be limited to those students who wouldn’t want to participate in female or male-female activi ties. 3. Limited coeducation and un limited Corps. This might be the best idea yet. The Corps- men could do anything they want; the coeds would do what ever the Corps wanted. 4. Full coeducation and not Corps. We could turn the place into another TWU and then start a drive to turn TWU into an all male institution. This would, in the final analysis, accomplish nothing. 5. No coeducation and no Corps. And finally no Texas A&M. Or we could have an all-civilian male student body whose basic purpose would be to tromp out all the grass and whose dress would consist of T- shirts, blue jeans, shower shoes, cowboy hats and a scraggly beard. 6. Limited coeducation and limited Corps. Limit coeduca tion to only the girls who do and the Corps to the boys who don’t — study, that is. This would help in the goal for aca demic excellence (please forgive the cliche.) 7. Illegitimate coeducation and spontaneous Corps. Turn Texas A&M into a home for un wed mothers and draft dodgers. Then the university could be a real service to the State of Texas by providing a depository for the undesirable and educate them at the same time. (According to some of our Southwest Confer ence critics, we have already achieved this plateau.) 8. Military coeducation and non military Corps. This plan would be the simplest to achieve since it would require only one change. Coeducation could be conducted in a military manner — march ing to class, wearing fish hair cuts, saying “yes ma’am” to all the upperclasswomen — without being in the Corps. The Corps wouldn’t have to change a thing. Well, there they are. Take your pick. Right To Vote Law Weal Advises Negro Leader “Now that th’ election is over, why don’t you disband your Campaign headquarters—or at least move it to someone else’s room! I’ve got a quiz to study for!” WASHINGTON <A>> — Negro leader Roy Wilkins said Wed nesday that President Johnson’s right-to-vote bill is good but is not enough. He urged Con gress to toughen its terms. Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr., D-N. C., insisted the bill already is out of constitutional bounds. Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzen- bach said it is not. “This is a reasonable and necessary and appropriate way of enforcing the 15th Amendment,” Katzen- bach said. Wilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement- of- Colored Peo ple, told a House Judiciary sub committee Congress should strengthen the bill “to sweep the last vestiges of voting re strictions into the sea.” He said the nation has paid a high price for discrimination in voting. “It has paid the price of may hem, roits and murder because those who sought the right to vote were opposed by those who were willing to suppress rights with violence,” Wilkins said. “The administration bill is a Stanford Prexy Blasts Demonstrators At Berkeley Red Agriculture Lacking Brezhnev Tells Soviets MOSCOW bT) — Communist leader leonid I. Brezhnev told the men who run the Soviet Un ion that Soviet agriculture is backward and urgently needs improvement. Brezhnev outlined ideas for overcoming the perpetual farm problem at a meeting Wednes day of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist party. The meeting is likely to end Fri day. Mikhail Suslov, the pa r t y spokesman in its bitter ideologi cal dispute with China, is on the agenda to report on the Krem lin’s feud with Communist Chi na. Since the committee kicked out Nikita Khrushchev at an Oct. 14 meeting, the new Soviet leaders have sought to avoid open ideological argument with China. But Peking has served notice it will continue its at tacks. The committee might decide to publish Suslov’s speech as an answer to the attacks and the opening of a new round of vi- trolics. The main purpose announced for the meeting, however, was agriculture. ly with free speech or with judi- Khrushchev, who had made cial process or with _j»ersonaliz- By Intercollegiate Press Palo Alto, Calif. — Describing the pressure of 200 or more out siders in the recent Berkeley demonstrations as a “regret table intrusion” on the Univer sity of California, President Wal lace Sterling of Stanford Uni versity told an audience of 1200 at an annual convocation that “What has happened at Berke ley is not a mere fad, nor has it been altogether spontaneous, nor is its cause to be found completely within the university. “If occurrences such as those at Berkeley spread to other cam puses, the spread will not neces sarily be haphazard like the spread of panty raids. I see in the events at Berkeley an ele ment that is not concerned mere- sive and therefore depersonaliz ed” to students and faculty alike, he added. During the past decade, Presi dent Sterling continued, student interest in public affairs has broadened, moving from discus sion to direct involvement in pro jects like Mississippi, the Peace Corps, and volunteer social serv ice and educational work in their own communities. This desire to be a part of the outside world may have reduced student involvement in the uni versity community itself and possibly contributed to its “deper sonalization,” he suggested. “Each of us should remind him self that students who use some of their time to demonstrate, sit-in, or otherwise engage in direct action are doing so as citi zens. There is nothing academic about such exercises and by no stretch of the imagination can the encumbering of the wall-to- wall carpets in the Sheraton Pal ace Hotel be called part of the educational process.” Paradoxically, President Ster ling observed, “On the one hand, students will argue that the uni versity should stop acting ‘in loco parentis,’ that it should not con cern itself with their personal lives and conduct. On the other hand, the same students will deplore the depersonalization of the university.” agriculture his personal subject and is now blamed for many of its failures, had planned a com mittee meeting last fall on the subject. Decisions are overdue now on possible ways to im prove a poor situation. Brezhnev’s speech was not immediately published. Its gen eral outline was, however, indi cated by him earlier and an of ficial announcement. Brezhnev said Tuesday in an nouncing the committee meet ing that the party must make “efforts to improve radically the situation in our agriculture” so it could advance to meet “the tremendous tasks confronting the Soviet economy. SMORGASBORD PAN AMERICAN WEEK COMMITTEE’S LATIN AMERICAN SMORGASBORD All the popular Latin American Foods APRIL 13—5 to 7:30 P.M. M. S. C. BALLROOM Tickets now on sale M. S. C. FINANCE CENTER $2.25 Tickets will be sold only until 5 P.M. April 6. THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student tvriters only. The Battalion is a non tax-supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and operated by students as a university and community news paper and is under the supervision of the director of Stu dent Publications at Texas A&M University. Members of the Student Publications Board are James L. Lindsey, chairman ; Robert Knight, College of Arts and Sciences; J. G. McGuire, College of Engineering; Dr. Page Morgan, College of Agriculture; and Dr. R. S. Titus, College of Veterinary Medicine. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M is tion, Texas daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, anc ber through May, and once a week during summer school. published in College Sta- holiday periods, Septem- The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter here in are also reserved. Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. MEMBER: The Associated Press Texas Press Assn. Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los An geles and San Francisco. Mail subscriptions are S3.50 per semester; $6 per school year, $6.50 per full year. All subscriptions subject to 2% sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA Building; College Station, Texas. News contributions m editorial office. Room 4, ay be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the YMCA Building. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6416. ing a university. This element is one of disruption and is, in its essence, as undemocratic as can be. I have no way of measuring it, but I am persuaded that it exists.” Any new threat of legislative intrusion or rumors of large don or influence evokes “an outcry of opposition from the univer sity communit y,” he noted. “Where was such an outcry when this real and live intrusion (by outsiders) occurred at Berkeley? Perhaps you heard it ring out loudly and clearly. I didn’t. This intrusion was, as I see it, a con tributing factor quite differently from any of the circumstances which may have contributed to ‘depersonalization’ of the cam pus community.” Noting that college enrollments nationally are expected to double from five to 10 million students in the next 15 years President Sterling said: “Size, as a fea ture of depersonalization, has strong potential for persistency into the future. This potential will be greatest where enroll ments are greatest, namely in large institutions in the public sector.” Increased size has brought “necessarily larger administra tive staff” and “a bureaucracy which seems remote, unrespon Bulletin Board THURSDAY Bell County Hometown Club meets at 7:30 p.m. in Room 205, Academic Building. El Paso Hometown Club meets at 7:30 p.m. in Room 2-A, MSC. San Angelo — West Texas Hometown Club meets at 7:30 p.m. in Room 2-C, MSC. Dallas Hometown Club meets at 7:30 p.m. in the Fountain Room, YMCA Building. Beaumont Hometown Club meets at 7:30 p.m. in Room 203, Academic Building. Plans will be made for Easter Party. American Nuclear Society meets at 7:30 p.m. in Room 211, Doherty Building. Clemical Engineering Wives Club meets at 7:30 p.m. in the South Solarium, YMCA Build ing. Matagorda County Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the lounge of Hart Hall. Waco-McLennan County Home town Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Gay Room of the YMCA Building. Semper Fidelis Society will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 104 of the Biological Sciences Build ing. EDITOR - - RONALD L. FANN Managing Editor Glenn Dromgoole Sports Editor - Lani Presswood Day News Editor Mike Reynolds Night News Editor Clovis McCallister Asst. News Editor Gerald Garcia Staff Writer - Tommy DeFrank BUNGLED A BANQUET LATELY? You have Ramada's sympathies. That’s why we set up our Banquet Planning Service ... to avoid the hundred or so “disasters” possible at any group’s important banquet meeting. Ramada Inn banquets are perfect simply because Ramada has the know-how. Never go through a do-it-yourself “bungled banquet” again. Let Ramada make your next feast a fiesta ... not a fiasco! RAMADA INN L 11 xrj t nxj fun, L-caa. FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION Call Ramada's Banquet Planning Divi sion— Ramada Inn, 3801 E. Van Buren -275-4741 —Phoenix. KWKH's P • • <sL.oitL6ia.na, ^JJlih riili Starring GEORGE JONES JERRY LEE LEWIS CONNIE SMITH JOHNNIE AND JOANIE MOSSY NAT STUCKEY DON BOWMAN LOUISIANA HAYRIDERS The Louisana Hayride, the swinginest guitar pick- inest show around is bloivin into town! For an excitin, fun-packed evenin, com’on down and lend an ear to the finest country—and not so country- music ever. G. Rollie White Sponsored by the A&M Coliseum student chapter. Sigma Texas A&M University Delta Chi, Professional 7:30 p.m. Journalistic Society Advance Tickets on sale at Jarrott’s Pharmacies (Downtown & Townshire), Exchange Store, Student Publications Office, Finance Office (MSC), Journalism Dep’t—Students: $1.25, Gen. Admis sion: $1.75, Reserve: $2.25. Tickets at Door Students: Reserve: $1.50, Gen. $2.50. Admission $2.00, good bill,” he said. “However, the bill is not enough.” Wilkins asked for revisions that would: —Eliminate the poll tax as a voting requirement in state and local elections. —Send federal voting reg istrars anywhere in the nation where people have been denied the right to vote. —'Add new safeguards against voter intimidation and coercion. —Permit people to go directly to federal voting examiners, without first trying to register with state officials. Ervin debated the measure’s constitutionality with Katze: bach at a Senate Judiciary Coe mittee hearing. He argued Co: gress does not have the pom to annul constitutional provi sions giving states the power: set voter qualifications. Puffing cigarettes as he fact Ervin’s questioning for a secot day, Katzenbach said: “You don’t strike down liten. cy tests just for the heck oft You strike them down becatg they violate the 15th Amei', ment.” Tunnell Addresses Legislature The amendment outlaws die crimination in voting. The bill would eliminate vote qualification tests and device in states and counties which oj them and in which voter regi, tration or turnout was below i; per cent in last November; presidential election. It wot authorize federal registration:' voters in those areas. AUSTIN UP) — Former House Speaker Byron Tunnell returned to legislative halls Wednesday to tell Texas lawmakers they face problems of unprecedented gra vity. “I do not believe any group of lawmakers ever assembled in Austin with a more serious group of problems than you. But you have already estab lished a very enviable record in dealing with some difficult and sensitive issues,” the rail road commissioner told a joint session. Tunnell, of Tyler, drew a round of applause when he told the legislators, “I would far rather Texas were redistricted by the men in this hall than by a federal court.” He referred to federal court orders that Texas’ legislative and congressional seats be reapportioned by early August or the court would han dle the job. “I defy anyone to show me a state run more efficiently or has a more stable state govern ment than has Texas,” Tunnell said. He said this encourages new industry in the state. Referring to the teacher pay raise fight before the lawmak ers, Tunnell got a laugh when he said, “teachers are just like oilmen — they want their allow ables increased.” He also told the legislators they deserve more money for their work. “As an outsider, I can openly advocate your need for a pay raise and I believe the public would buy it,” he said. It is aimed primarily at Lot:, siana, Mississippi, Alabama, Geo rgija, South Carolina, Virgin:; and 34 counties in North Car- lina. Research Grants Three research grants amounting to $6,150 are being made availakli to the Texas Agricultural Expert ment Station. Dr. R. E. Patterson, stati® director, said the largest of tin grants is $5,000 from the Worthac Foundation in Houston. The futii; are a supplemental donation for the professional services ofDr. Jat Bonsma of South Africa, a visitinj’ professor in the Department Animal Science. Dr. Luther S. Bird of the De partment of Plant Sciences heading cotton seedling disease® vestigations to be supported l; two grants of $575 each. the bat ■Ml .. . Van* l N< Or NO MOVIE THIS WEEKEM * jir.T'. i iQi'.ifl3]3ZSZI3I * TcHIIOREN UNDER 12 YEARS- V Ktli THURSDAY and FRIDAY “COMMANDO” With Stewart Granger Plus “FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE’ See Aggie Players’ “COMEDY OF ERRORS” William Shakespeare DANCE THE JADES featuring Freddy Koenig and Lew Snider SNOOK HALL Snook, Texas SATURDAY MARCH 27 Tickets wi] in the Stud of the 'Mem for the Apr formance of Peter Nero. “Since thi: tion in the T will be no r tickets and are not ac Boone, Stude said. All seats ■' Tickets foi Mexico,’/sche on sale Apri is covered b activity care The “bonu ance has be 14 and will Dixieland,” Nye. Seaso activity care the show. CAMPUS LA’ Latin Arm ing Texas A vited to att afternoon fc a Chilean ag The coffe the Birch ] being arrar tional Prog Internationa mittee. Leal-Osor munity Dev< Department the Institut of Cattle ar He is also p Youth Orga National Rj SPECIAL BENEFIT SHOW For PAUL TIMMINS & FAMILY SPA( SATURDAY NITE 11:15 P.M. Help Our Basketball Captain & Family. All Proceeds From This Show Will Go To The Family To Meet Hospital Expenses. you DoNT HAVE 1b BE mUA/J 1b ENJd/IT.. STARRING Bike. £qa/imer mi (the beautiful baby from ' The Prize") ^TECHNICOLOR? mem As ms ing A&l for somi MSC. R from in other cai Five America! trol are the sym of Statii of Indus lYAY m PEANUTS By Charles M. Schulz PEANUTS IF I GET JUST HALF A CHANCE. I'M S0IN6TO THROW THAT THING IN THE TRASH BURNER! GET IT OFF ME! (DOttJN.BOffl 6£T tTOFFME!) DOWN! TRANSP Students members \ sessions o Transporta 1 and 2, wi Fegistratioi nnnouncem P- Doyle, fessor of ’ ference dii The ses topics as tion Requi Puterizatio °f De-reg Companies Transport, a nd Sizes.