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Page 2 THE BATTALION Thursday, March 5, 1953 Letters to The Editors Coeds Involve New Expense What’s Cooking ThurKday fee, Rooms 2A & 2B MSC. sombly Room, MSC. Saturday 0:30 p. m.-—Baptist SW, 1 to 8 p. iri.—Fencing Team, As- Banquet, Ballroom, MSC (Letter to the Kditors will be accepted through the mail or can be delivered to The Battalion offices, second floor of Good win Hall. The Battalion reserves the right to print excerpts unless request to the con trary be made by the writer. Author’s name must be signed. The shorter the let ter the better its chance of publication.) Editors, The Battalion: I was greatly impressed by your editorial (an editor’s column) of Feb. 25 in which you offered two alternatives to the present condition in which we find our col lege. However, in subsequent is sues of The Battalion I have dis covered that only one of the two alternatives has been proposed and elaborated upon, that of coeduca tion. Looking upon this issue from the taxpayer’s viewpoint, (it) is obvious that considerable invest ment of state money must be made in new facilities—the pre sent dormitories are certainly not Shakespeare Speaks Again Editors, The Battalion: Another Great Tragedy. Friends, Texans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury A&M, not to praise it. The evil that schools do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with A&M. The noble senator hath told you A&M was outdated; If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And griev ously hath A&M answer’d it. Here under the leave of the senator and the rest, For the sen ator was an Aggie? So are they all, all Aggies, Come I to speak at A&M’s funeral. It was my friend, faithful and just to me: But the senator says it was out dated; And the senator is an Ag- suitable for women to live in— and also the curriculum offered to students must be broadened to include a school of fine arts. There won’t be many women tak ing agriculture engineering, or the present liberal arts courses. The difficulties presented here are ob vious, and the expense involved would be great. Now looking at the question from the standpoint of an Aggie, and I hope The Battalion is, just how would a coed system affect that “Aggie Spirit” which is, I can safely say, world famous ? There is no question but that it would destroy the very meaning of Texas A&M, the purpose for its existence, and the fraternal spirit which holds our graduates together in a unified body. Should we follow in the foot steps of that other state school in Austin, whose loyalties and rival ries are divided among the var ious fraternities and soroi’ities on the campus? Should we adopt the very methods we have scorned for 75 odd years ? A&M has a reputation at pres ent and especially in the past for turning out men. To attain this reputation it developed methods which make out school unique among colleges. We are different. If we wish to retain our distinc tion we must not follow in the pathway of other colleges whose contrasting methods have made us distinct. These men who have graduated from A&M have helped lead this nation through two world wars, and are now fighting and dying in Korea. We, have leaders in indus try, commerce, agriculture and ed ucation, also, who were trained at this college by methods which now are condemned. gie It hath sent many soldiers to war, Whose deeds did the state of Texas honor: Did this in A&M seem outdated? When the people of Texas have needed, A&M hath helped Obsolescence should be made of sterner stuff: Yet the senator is an Aggie? I speak not to disprove what the senator spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love it once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then to mourn for»it? You have raised the problem of our drop in enrollment and have made the statement, in which there is some truth, that the increase of college ROTC units among other schools has hurt us. Yet you also say that we are rated alongside VMI and The Citadel in military proficiency, at least officially. These schools are state support ed and have not proposed coeduca tion to solve their enrollment prob lems. Our state with its great public resources should be able to more than adequately support A&M if the comparatively small states of Virginia and South Caro lina can support their institutions. Yet these are military colleges. It is so disgraceful to be military, “corps happy,” if you please ? Have we forgotten that the very principles, traditions, and customs which most of us observe are mili tary, and are the very methods which produced the men who have made this school so famous? As you stated, we must admit that we have descended into a state of mediocrity. Yet, you have in subsequent issues of The Batt never mentioned the most obvious solution. We must have a revival of the spirit, the military stand ards, which made this college great. I think that all of us, some con sciously and some unconsciously, are proud of the uniform we wear. To rise from our present state of mediocrity we must return to the military basis on which we former ly stood. To me, the corps is the very heart and backbone of this school. If it is disrupted or shaken any further, the college itself, as we know it, and as the ex’s know it, will collapse. To make this school coeducational will destroy the corps, save, possibly in name only. Plans have been discussed which might possibly help solve the prob lem of mediocrity. They would put A&M back on a more military basis. But, to do this, action, not words, is needed. It would certain ly be the most immediate, prac tical and inexpensive way to solve the problem of mediocrity. The problem of enrollment will solve itself when the children born during the war, whose num bers greatly increased the birth rate during the years 1941-45, at tain college age. Until that time we must concentrate on quality, and let quantity take care of it self. build for the newcomers. After a year of being coed, the technical school of Georgia has four fe males. Certainly it would be im- pi-actical to become coeducational without planning for these stu dents. It may be well to remember that at A&M are housed home economic specialists which include extension services in clothing, food and nu trition, homestead improvement, home management, parent educa tion, recreation specialist and oth er women’s organizations. But if A&M’s enrollment would drop to 500 students, the state could continue to support it as an all-male college. The question of enrollment is minor. “Aggie Spirit,” world famous? We are glad you added the ques tion mark. Few colleges are known outside of their immediate states by many people, unless they have exceptional athletic teams, and then their popularity is short liv ed. No one wants to destroy the fraternal spirit "which exists at A&M although it would be help ful to destroy the secret fraternal gx-oups which are present. And we disagree with you that the many years A&M has existed are “odd.” A&M certainly has a reputation for turning out men. Women are not allowed to enroll, hence only one legal produce—men. Consistantly following contrast ing methods. Does not mean you are always right. As to the meth ods now condemned at this college we presume you mean some of the hazing principles. Again we differ with you. Hazing does not produce men. 6:30 p. m.—Management Engin eering Short Course Banquet, MSC Ballroom. 7 p. m.—Agx-iculturist Staff, Agriculturist Office, Picture for Aggieland. 7:15 p. m.—Debate Teams. A&M vs. TU, Assembly Room, MSC. French Club, Room 2A, MSC. Aggie Wives Bridge Club, Rooms 2C & 2D MSC. TSCW Ex-students Association of Brazos County, Rooms 3B & 3C, MSC. Student Senate Senate Room, MSC. New club being formed of States East of the Mississippi River and South of the Mason Dixon Line, 301 Goodwin. 8 p. m.—MSC Bridge Committee, Room 2B MSC. Here’s the Record of 8 to 10 p. m.—Management En gineering Short Course Lounge, Room 3D, MSC. Friday 9 to 12 a. m.—Management En gineering Short Course, Assembly Room, MSC. 12:15 p. m.—Style Show, Din ing Room. MSC. 7:30 p. m.—Journalism Club, Ballroom, MSC. 8 p. m.—Musical Concert, As sembly Room, MSC. 9 p. m.—Journalism Club Cof- O judgment! thou are fled to bratish beasts, And men have lost their reason. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with A&M, And I must pause till it come back to me. Edward V. Wright ’54 Steve Williams ’54 BACKWARD GLANCES We can certainly get a better education in all male classes, with no feminine distractions. Let the males in coed colleges go to class with the girls. We can take care of them in their off-periods as we’ve always done. Yours for a bigger, better and “greater A&M College.” Carl Bruce Sterzing Jr. ’54 John Curtis Farrell ’54 Both VMI and the Citadel are military throughout. They are list- ted in the World Almanac as “mil itary,” and A&M is not. We agree some are “unconsciously proud” of their uniform. Many wear it that way. You say to make the school co educational would destroy the “save possibly, in name only.” We said that today A&M has a corps, in name only. No one can say whether or not all male classes provide better ed ucations. Better check your psy chiatrist and English teacher on the last sentence in the next to the last paragraph. Correct Cleaning An Essential of Good Grooming FAST SERVICE EXPERT WORK CAMPUS CLEANERS One Year Ago Today The class of ’52 launched a campaign to change the name of College Station to Aggieland. EDITORS’ NOTE: A&M is not dead. Other schools also have pro vided soldiers for wars; A&M alone did not win World War II. Obsolescence means “going out of use;” do you mean A&M is losing its usefulness? We think not. Improvement is possible and needed. No one has showed the way yet. Lincoln said: “I shall tiy to correct errors where shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views as they shall appear to be true views.” A&M needs to cor rect errors and adopt new true views. Burying the school, is not the answer. Five Years Ago Today The campus livestock depart ments have given animals to stu dents to be groomed and trained for-the Little Southwestern Live stock Show. Ten Years Ago Today Upon inauguration of the Army Specialized Training Program, seniors and juniors now under contract were assigned to active duty immediately. The men were sent to Replacement Training Cen ter for “processing.” Fifteen Years Ago Today Members of the senior class of ’38 will select the five most pop ular seniors. EDITORS’ NOTE: In Co-Edi tor Austin’s column of Feb. 25, be stressed that A&M should be come a quality military school and not simply the largest. He did not say go coed, but did say the college may be forced to turn to coeducation to uphold an adequate student body. President Harring ton believes our enrollment is re maining stable and has not drop ped more than expected. The drop is because of the fewer males to graduate from Texas high schools. If A&M went coed it should not make the mistake made by Geor gia Tech, but ^hould plan and The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions “Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechan ical College of Texas, is published by students four times a week, during the regular school year. During the summer terms, and examination and vacation periods. The Battalion is published twice a week. 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