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Page 2 THE BATTALION Thursday, March' 12, 1953 LETTERS TO THE EDITORS Readers Claim School Has Many ‘Corps Happy’ Ags What’s Cooking Thursday 5 p.m.—Handball Club, Gym. 7 p.m.—-Collegiate 4-H Club, Room 3B, MSC. 4-H Club meets 1 tonight at 7 in Room 3B of MSC. Annual picture will be taken. 2 p.m.—Garden Club, Assembly Room, MSC. 3 to 5 p.m. — Concert by Asiatic Students, Ballroom, MSC. 6 p.m.—Admiral TV Service Meet ing Dinner, Rooms 2A & 2B, MSC. 7 p.m.—Former Students Fx. Board Scouts To Disti Summer Cmf Plans for Boy See. ing June 14 will fc,! the monthly meetly Boy Scout Commit; at Camp Arrowing L I Committee ment D A to be present, said; committee member. Petroleum Engineering Depart- Dinner, Rooms 2C & 2D, MSC. Editors, The Battalion: Your next opinion is childish. After just reading the article in We see no basis whatsoever for the Batt today conceraing the your slanderous assumptions on corps happy minority not wanting th e intelligence of the “minority” coeds to “grace” our campus, we merely because they oppose your opinions on coeds at A&M. Yes, times are changing and will continue to change but how do changing times favor education? It seems to us that with modern do not share the opinions of Mr. T. M. Howard, F. J. Koenig Jr., B. C. Wallace, and W. G. Felix. They said: 1) There is a minor ity of students that want A&M to remain as it is; 2) That this minor ity is stupid, backward, prejudic ed, and should drop dead; 3) That since times are changing and A&M is no longer living by its famous traditions, we should take another step and become coed; 4) That the Senate’s decision left this vast Letter Not Ideas Of Entire Corps transportation we have more ac cess to coeds than Aggies had 20 years ago. They really must have needed them then. Non-coeducation has its advan tages and its disadvantages. A lot of us came here to get the advan tages of this system. There are ment, Scholarship Award Banquet, Assembly Room, MSC. 7:15 p.m.—MSC Directorate, Social Room, MSC. 7:30 p.m.—Senior Court, Senate Room, MSC. ' Amateur Radio Club, Room 2A, MSC. Junto Club, Room 2B, MSC. Aggie Wives Bridge Club, Rooms 2C & 2D, MSC. A&M Film Society—“The Long 7:30 p.m.—Plant Science, Collo quial, Social Room, MSC. MSC Student Forum, Ballroom, MSC. many schools with the coeducation- Voyage Home”, Ballroom, MSC al advantages which may appeal to you. Why don’t you go there ? If you wished to take agricul- Knights of Columbus, Basement of St. Mary’s Chapel. East Texas A&M Club, Room Editors, The Battalion: big dummies” so that we, through ture, you wouldn’t go to Rice and 301, Goodwin Hall. Will discuss try to change their curriculum; High School Day and plans for the you would go to any of the dozen Aggieland picture, or so schools here in the state that Camera Club, MSC. Will see Having read some of the “Let- our relatively meager constructive °^ er t ^ ie course a l rea dy movie at Guion Hall about new Ko- majority with a deep felt sorrow ters to the Editors” in The Battal- because they still “desire, crave, want, and yearn for the opposite sex to permanently grace our campus.” First of all we would like to question your authority in stating that the majority of the students are for coeducation. We don’t pre tend to know where the majority lies. How can anyone be sure without a true poll? ‘High Caliber’ Men In Wrong School Editors, The Battalion: Attention Mr. Thad Howard and company. Your lengthy letter to the Batt and consistent derogatory remarks concerning “Ole Army,” “Corps Happy Minority,” and “Got the Spirit” have stirred me to the point of asking myself, what guys of your caliber are doing at an all male college. Why would any one who, to use your most appli cable words, “craves and yearns ion of March 10, several of us be gan analyzing what they had to say. Without having to consider very much, we all came to one def inite opinion—we hope that the people who read The Battalion don’t feel that some of these let ters are written by people who represent the intelligence of the Corps or students of Texas A&M. For example, such statements as '‘the stupid, backward, prejudiced, other half should drop dead.” We read it; then read it several more times—yet, and we think we have normal intelligence, we were un able to find out any reasoning be hind it. In fact, the more we think about it, the more it appears that the writers themselves are show ing a decided lack of intelligence, logic, and tolerance. In the first place, we would like to find out how they arrived at the fact that the so called “corps-happy” minority who favor A&M as a non-coeducational school actually do constitute a minority. Second, we do not share the opinion that A&M can not pro gress without girls. As examples, criticism, may try to build a finer college that at least we may be proud of having attended. William S. Thornton ’53 Joe C. Wallace ’53 David G. Chambers ’53 William F. East ’53 Harold Hudspeth ’53 Gene W. Sparks ’53 Joe B. Davis ’53 Three Factions Hurting A&M Editors, The Battalion: - -j. „ we cite Harvard, Yale, Norwich for the opposite sex pass up the TT . , A- • • i v, i University, and Virginia Military Institute. They too, are non-coed- opportunity of going elsewhere to get your education and also passify ^^1 and don’t your unwieldy sex desire for fe male companionship. What is wrong with A&M ? As I see it, it is not the fact that there are no coeds. It is not the military department. It is not the administration. It is not the stu dent body. It is three factions within the student body. The first faction consists of those who consider it out of “style” to be “corps-happy” or to have any affection for this mountain of bricks and mortar. My remedy for these people is go someplace else. The second is not really a fac tion but a tendency. Every senior class that comes along has some seem to be big ideas about doing this and worse off. Progress is essential, changing that—right away. By , ,, • , ,i. . i but why not work with what we the middle of the spring semester ou ai c > fiy 0 e ,/, n 1 ^ cn ’ have now? A&M, like any other all they’ve accomplished has been school, leaves much to be desired, to let off a little steam and lose but the introduction of girls to a little more of the power senior the campus will not remedy many classes used to hayivA'i few years of its problems. ago. There is no remedy for this On the contrary, it would tend to except to go slow and try to get ern, and unbiased.” Where did the slip come that threw you into such a maladjusted situation? You are entitled to your opinion, and head line if in agreement with editorial policy, and you gave them but confuse the isgue> Cocds are more yours is clearly a problem of ad justing yourself to the situation and not attempting to adjust the situation to suit your own off hour convenience and pleasure. A&M has something that out weighs the psychological and phy- of a last ditch stand in a school of this type, and we don’t believe that we have by any means reach ed that point. We believe that there is a great place in oui* soc iety for schools like A&M and . . , , , j. , ■ are of the opinion that no one was geological advantages of having forced to come here. shapely coeds draped around the campus. If you don’t like it, then we ask you to leave it to the “stupid, a little of the lost prestige back. The third, and worst, thing that is wrong with A&M is the editor ial staff of The Battalion. Slipped up on your blind side with that one didn’t I ? It seems that every Battalion editor that blesses our fair campus with his presence be lieves that he has Divine calling to kill dragons and to rescue our college from the dark depths of Tt’cs nnf +n flnrl \rmi ^ college 11 om me U.UI K. uep ,W enmo here- ren -feel The backward, prejudiced, coips-happy stagnation and obscurity into which it is constantly slipping. first come here; you can feel the thrill of being an AGGIE in the air when first you hear the “War Hymn” or the “Spirit.” The first lustre can wear off— if you choose to isolate yourself from association with fellow AG GIES and never realize that we mean the words when ‘Lost Horizon’ Set Tomorrow in MSC This sirs, is not your destiny. Save your superior journalistic talents for greater deeds that await you when you become man aging editor of a large metropol- Lost Horizon,” based on James itan dail y- Hold back y° ur g reat we sing Hilton’s novel of the same name talent, if you can, and play the “true to each other as AGGIES will be shown in the MSC Ball- P art of , the simple, everyday, gar- can be.” When you slam AGGIES room Thursday at 7:30 p.m. by the de n variety oi college paper edi- who’ve “got the spirit” and love A&M Film Society instead of to . rs y° u are - this college the school for what it is, was, and April 7 as tentatively set, said Ed ^ be here many years aftei you always, barring catasti’ophe-name- Holder, president. are g° ne ’ 80 please don’t try to ly coeducation, will be, then I The film for Friday night will have a sincere hope that you’ve be “Pygmalion,” a play by George still the chance to get a cookie Bernard Shaw. This comedy is pusher ring and not be bound by concerned with a professor who the pi'inciples of being an AGGIE turns an illiterate flower girl into in wearing our ring. a beautiful lady, and then falls be hurt for being put in the same C. D. Hooper ’53 in love with her. class as Battalion editors. leave your mark on its history, it’s just not worthy of your super ior talents. R. D. McGar ’54 Editor’s Note: Some seniors may Th e Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross,y Founder of Aggie Traditions “Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, is published by students four times a week, during the regular school year. During the summer terms, and examina tion and vacation periods. The Battalion is published twice a week. Days of publications are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, and Tuesday and Thursday during examination and va cation periods and the summer terms. 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Chick Circulation Staff Bob Godfrey, Davey Dav-idson, Roy Wells, Keith Nic.kle, Melvin Longhofer, Herman Meiners. . Phot Engravers Gene Rydell, Perry Sbpard, John Merill Advertising Representatives Dean Kennedy ..File Clerk ASH&VE, Room 3C, MSC. Friday 1 :30 p.m.—Admiral Television Ser vice Meeting, MSC. Likewise, if you wish to have dak color process, the disadvantages of coeducation, don’t come here and try to change things—go someplace where that system is already set up. Both systems perform their par ticular services to our modern soc iety. We like what A&M has to offer; that’s why we came here. It’s not that we don’t like girls, only we feel that girls at A&M will hinder A&M in giving us the things that we came here to get. 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