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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
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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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