Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Thursday, March 20, 1969 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle ‘That makes it official — spring is here!” LISTEN UP the bait forum Editor, The Battalion: Ronnie Hubert should be presi dent of the class of ’70. In nearly three years at A&M, I’ve had opportunity to work with a large number of Aggie student leaders on several councils and committees. All of them, Corps and civilian alike, are capable and hard-working. But I’ve never met anyone more dedicated to the ac complishment of his responsibil ities than Ronnie Hubert. Ronnie devotes himself to what ever duties his office entails. He works hard, and to my knowledge he lias always made his projects successful. That’s what we need! Robert Peek Head Resident Advisor, Hart Hall President, Pi Kappa Delta Chairman, Liberal Arts Student Council ★ ★ ★ Editor, The Battalion: I wish to challenge the inept logic of the Black Affairs Com mittee as set forth in the March 13 Batt. Their key goal is to have A&M “lower its entrance require ments for Negro students,” which appears to be the opposite of what a colored student should want; that is, to raise himself up, and not pull the system down. Isn’t it discrimination to have separate requirements based on skin color? Would two wrongs make a right? If you really want substandards for Negroes, why not let them D.S. with only a 2.0 GPR instead of 2.25, or let blacks into the honor fraternities with just a 1.75 GPR instead of a 2.5 ? Also, a completely irrevelant comparison was made between the number of Negro students and foreign scholars here at A&M. (By the way, Mr. Lew- alien’s numbers were considerably off—there are 570 foreign stu dents and also many more than 40 black students!) If he doesn’t know how many of his “own” people there are, how can his committee be their voice? And I ask again, what logical compari son can be made between the above two groups ? Our foreign students are from 58 different countries, and if they qualify un der the present standards and wish to travel halfway around Senate Agenda ® Wadley Blood Bank Presentations • Committee Reports e Old Business A. Advisory Council Recom mendation B. University Regulations C. Education Committee 1. Pass-Fail 2. Published Professor- Course Evaluation Curriculum Reforms Teaching Techniques Library Utilization Faculty Senate 3. 4. 5. A. C. E. F. G. J. K. L. M. N. New Business Report on Presentation to the Board Election of Temporary Treasurer Treasurer Constitutional Amendment Executive Aide By-Law Appeals Committee Recommendation Miss-a-Meal Recommen dation Add-Drop Procedure Resolution Authorized Absence for Funerals Student Grievance Committee Tennis Court Resolution Black Studies Senate Forum Fish Handbook the graduate By MITTY C. PLUMMER Coeds. Bless them all. They got here by the most peculiar course any group ever followed getting onto any campus. This is basically how it happened, as I was here to see it. When I came in the fall of 1961, all of the citizens of Texas, regardless of their race, religion, or gender were paying a part of their taxes to support the Agri cultural and Mechanical College of Texas where only Caucasian males were permitted to enter. Yes, there were institutions of higher learning where only Ne groes and only women could en ter, but the money spent per stu dent at these places was not and still is not as much as is spent at A&M. AS NEAR as I can interpret, the thinking of that time and previous was that A&M was to provide officers for the Armed Forces. For their first two years at A&M, the young men who came here were required to be in the Corps of Cadets, which made up 6,500 of the college’s 8,200 en rollment. The attrition rate, due in part to a below-average stu dent body, was horrible, and as a consequence the school did not grow. The wives of married students either gave up degree hopes for themselves, or commuted to Sam Houston State. Commuting ap proximately 90 miles each day was a dangerous and needless thing. It looks like this group of women would have been the first to be admitted to A&M, but they weren’t. the world to study at this great school, that’s their business. If some person here in Texas can’t qualify to enter the school, that’s just too bad. After all, coming here to study with a weak mind is like storming hell with a bucket of water. In closing, let me say that I don’t want anyone to cheapen my A&M degree by a lowering of any standard connected with it; I say this for everyone’s bene fit and not for just a few because of their skin color. Dennis Fontana ’69 IN A MOVE to deflate part of Texas Tech’s argument for a sec ond Vet college in Lubbock, the Board of Directors first admitted women to the College of Veteri nary medicine and to graduate study in the fall of 1963. Next, pressure from the staff and fac ulty resulted in the admission of the wives and daughters of facul ty, staff, and students in the fall of ’65. By 1966, the Board’s pol icy admitted “(women) intending to enroll in a class, pursue a course of study, or use facilities not offered at any other Texas state-supported college or univer sity, or be seeking an academic goal which can best be achieved at Texas A&M University.” The following items will be considered by the Student Senate at its meeting tonight at 7:30 in the library conference room, ac cording to Senate President Bill Carter: THE NEXT step is utterly in credible. It stems from the Civil Right Act of 1964. The policy admitting just these few wives, daughters, and the properly pur suing, discriminated against all the rest of the women in Texas. And rather than revert to an all male student body again, this re strictive policy was apparently not enforced rather than face a legal challenge of it. This more liberal interpretation of the pol icy of admitting women was, per haps intentionally, not well pub licized. This spring, the Board of Di rectors acted to change this with a statement that could appear in next fall’s University catalog. The statement says that Texas A&M is a coeducational institu tion, but that the University does not provide housing for single fe male students. The fact that there is no university housing for women should be a considerable deterrent to the approximately 900 girls from whom the Regis trar has received applications for admission to A&M next fall. These are the details of the present situation for A&M’s 986 coeds. About 40 per cent are sin gle and require housing provided by their parents or rented from the community. In President Rudder’s estimate, the Board is heavily opposed to building coed dormitories. There are continu ing rumors of a group of busi nessmen in Bryan building off- campus housing for coeds as a profit - making venture. There are such facilities available to students of both sexes at several other universities that seem to work quite well. THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax- supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. LETTERS POLICY Letters to the editor should be typed, double-spaced, and must be no more than 300 words in length. They must be signed, although the writer’s name will be with held by arrangement with the editor. Address corre spondence to Listen Up, The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, Texas 77843. MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association year; $6.50 per fu sales tax. Advertisi Texas 7784 3?' are $3.50 per semester; $6 per school year. All subscriptions subject to 4% rate furnished on request. Address: College Station. Mail subscriptions ng Room 217, Services Building The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all new 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 herein are also reserved. Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. Lindsey, rman ; Dr. Arts ; F. S. White, College of En Clark, College of V( vid Bowers, Col Members of the Student Publications David Bowers, C ;ge of Engineering; Dr eterinary Medicine; and Hal Taylor, Coi- ers chai Clark, College < lege of Agricult of ture. Board are wers, Colleg gineering ; D: : Jim of Liberal Donald R. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M is ished in College Station, Texas daily lay, ar May, and publis Su ind Monday, once a wee] liege nday n, Texas daily except Saturday, and holiday periods, September through k during summer school. Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising Services. Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. 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 Texas A&M does actively re cruit students in general, particu larly scholars and athletes. Girls will receive equal consideration for scholarships in the future. WHAT I believe we have here is generally a softening attitude toward coeducation at Texas A&M. I can’t help but believe that in a few years A&M will build girl’s dormitories and offer more courses that are attractive to young women. It’s a shame that it has to be so slow. But even this will be quite a switch from the old days when it was “good bull” to send a fish to greet a coed with his “whip out” routine or different from now, when the ladies’ room of the Dougherty Building is emptied of furniture to prevent coeds from studying there. Moulden \Nuclear Fun And Ganrn %For The Parcheesi Crom President Rudder, his staff, and the Board of Directors are all working toward a better Tex as A&M. I believe this. Presi dent Rudder can give excellent reasons why coeds will never be as important as men in determin ing state, budgets or industrial developments. But one thing I am sure of: having seen both, the A&M with coeds is a much more pleasant place to be than the one 'Without. Any better Texas A&M of the future will be a more pleasant place because of the girls, too. Nuclear War is fun. Nuclear War is the biggest thing to hit the country in years. Nuclear War, of course, is a game—so far. So far — the game is played with two special decks of cards and an ingenious spin board. One deck of cards contains paper peo ple (the masses) and each player receives from seven to 130 mil lion of these unfortunates. The other deck contains carriers and warheads (up to 100 megatons) which hold the possibility of ob literating 10 million of the mass es at a single detonation. If that sounds mediocre, the spin board offers substantial gains. After a player launches a warhead at one of the enemy, and assuming that it’s not de stroyed by an ABM (systems are thin here too—there are only two in the whole deck), the aggressor spins the needle. THE NEEDLE spins over a board with notations such as “dir ty bomb, wipes out 10 million extra;” “secondary explosion, double the yield;” or something tame like “radiation starts fire, kills extra one million.” My companion opened us both another beer and suggested we try a game. I agreed and he dealt the cards. A few were marked secret or top secret. “We turn over the secret and top secret cards first,” he offered. “The dealer starts.” I checked my masses and found about 20 million. His first card read something like, “mysterious radiation wipes out 25 million of the opposition masses.” “BUT, I don’t have 25 million.” “Sorry, you lose.” He raked in the cards and began dealing a new hand. “Hey, isn’t it my deal?” I ad monished. “Of course not. That’s one of the beauties of this game. The rules say the owner always gets to deal and I own the game.” On the second hand, I mis- played a card and timidly asked if I might replay. Concentration was intense, and therefore his answer wasn’t surprising. “No. This is nuclear war, and any country who doesn’t have the stuff better be ready to perish.” I perished. FOUR HOURS, eight beers, and about 3 billion masses later I finally was in position to win a game. I could tell he was low on masses, while I had about 15 million left. I had just drawn a big warhead and was deploying a carrier when his next dn produced a top secret card, “SUPER GERM,” he screami and threw the card on the tail Looking up at me was a horrii creature which quickly ate myn maining masses. No one seems to be sure win the game originated (there rumors that it was smuggled k of a five-sided building in Wait ington), but its designer ma have a clear view of human r* ture. 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