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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, March 20, 1969
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
‘That makes it official — spring is here!”
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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
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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
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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.
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Managing Editor Dave Mayes
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Staff Columnists John McCarroll, Mike Plake,
Monty Stanley, Jan Moulden
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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. And maybe a better via
of national policy.
“WHAT I like best abouttli
game is the feature allomj
final retaliation,” my victor®
fided over the last beer, his eys
getting dreamy. “To really pi]
this game, you got to get in (i
mood.
“You picture this poor ded(
charred, broken, the last livii;
soul in his country, strugglii
struggling, with his breath i»
ing in gasps.” Misty eyes ova
the beer bottle. “Then, with Ih
last ounce of life, he manages b
press the big button which»
pletely destroys the enemy.”
It was only a game, butitta
with some relief the next Isj
that I read President Nixoii
decision to use our ABMstopio
tect our retaliatory capal
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