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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1953
LETTERS TO THE EDITORS
Student Hits Dismissal Acti •
Study Asked to Aid
Texas* Higher Education
f^ov. Allan Shiver’s 16-man committee
^ which made a preliminary study to
ward the better coordination of Texas’ pro
gram of higher education has proposed that
a comprehensive survey be made to bring
about a system of higher education of the
highest order.
The committee admits:
^ At the present time “possible dupli
cation of Academic programs and overlap
ping functions may cause unnecessary ex
pense to citizens of the state.”
% More effective and economical plans
must be made because of the probable up
ward surge of enrollment—” an increase by
at least one-third within the next eight
years.”
No adequate facility exists for re
examining the role and scope of public
agencies of higher aducation.
The comprehensive study of colleges
would be made in hopes to bring Texas’ fac
ilities for higher education “second to none
in the nation in terms of quality, efficiency,
adequate fininacial support, and respon
siveness to general and regional needs and
to the will of the citizens.”
“The will of the citizens” is a helpful
clause for it will allow a continuating dupli
cation already present in Texas’ public
school system. This duplication will be
found, in greater part, with the segregation
element of schools between Negroes and
whites.
The unnecessary expense it has caused
the state, and the money which will con
tinue to go into such projects, will hurt the
education pocket of the Texas citizens.
Put an investigation of colleges and un
iversities, as suggested by the committee, to
help iron out academic and facility problems
will be a boon to Texas’ standing in educa
tion.
, The committee also reported that the com
prehensive study of institutions of higher
learning is imperative due to the inevitable
increase in college enrollments resulting
from higher birth rates, increased number
of high school graduates going to college,
increased number of vocational opportunities
for college graduates and increased number
of vocations which call for additional col
lege work.
By 1968, freshman enrollment in all col
leges will be doubled, the committee said.
The upward surge is supposed to begin in
1955. It requests that objective study be
made to point out what should be done in
the expansion of curricular offerings and
physical facilities.
The committee has presented an act to
the Legislature which would call for the
forming of a 41 man committee to deter
mine the nature and extent of a board or
permanent committee which may be set up.
This permanent board would (1) approve
or disapprove new areas of specialization in
the colleges and universities, (2) determine
the raising of the level of offerings of an
institution, (3) approve additional institu
tions.
The 41 man committee would include (a)
the 16 presidents of state-supported senior
colleges and universities, (b) nine members
from each existing college governing board,
(c) 10 outstanding citizens, not officially
connected with any college or university, and
appointed by the governor, (d) four mem
bers of the Legislature, two from the Senate,
two from the House, who will be selected by
the presiding officers of each house, (e)
the Commissioner of Education, (f) a mem
ber of the State Board of Education, ap
pointed by the governor.
This commission should employ, the com
mittee said, a staff of professional personnel
to conduct this survey for the commission
and under its supervision. The report of the
commission should be submitted to members
of the next Legislature not later than Nov.
1, 1954.
We hope that the survey and study made
by such a commission, if and when establish
ed, would not be disregarded. If hahdlecl in
the manner outlined by the committee, with
the distinct purpose in mind increasing the
quality of Texas’ college and university
graduates, the study could help make Texas
a state-ayf education, “second to none in
quality ... a system of higher education of
the highest order.”
Editors, The Battalion:
Some believe that it is better to
“take arms against a sea of trou
ble and by opposing end them.”
This letter is a tribute to the men
who so believe.
Texas A&M has reached its
darkest day. Freshmen have been
forced to waste a year of their
school life in guarded seclusion.
Freshmen, sophomores, and even
sometimes juniors have been sub
jected to the bitter humiliation of
removing their trousers time after
time, at all hours of the day and
night to suit the pleasures of any
employe of the Commandant’s Of
fice. What thrill some of these
men get out of staring at the
private parts of other men, I do
not know. However, they seem to
go about their work with a wierd
glee. Seniors have been broken
and disgraced because they dared
to do as they saw fit with the
food they had bought.
To my mind rock bottom has
been reached. Marvin Seth, a sen
ior due to be graduated in May,
was one of the finest gentlemen I
have ever known.
He is not the first man at k&M. it old army, if you will
to throw himself to the wolves to Seth has been crucified. Y\e has
save a fellow Aggie. I hope with been dismissed from A&M College
all my heart that he will not be in disgrace. Perhaps for his fine
the last. I salute Marvin Seth for character, his life has been ruined,
his actions, the likes of which are 1 am not proud to be an officer
so scarce on the campus these days, in any Corps of Cadets run by
This letter is not written to men so small as to rigorously
glorify one man, but to magnify prosecute such virtues. Franklin
the spirit which he showed. Call Delano Roosevelt once said, “The
Marvin American pea^M;,
their feet thanlisi
Our Nation andj
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of Texas were fe
of that spirit. \\
sibility to seetht
once a mighty k
spirit — keeps it
against all opposi:
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Four Centuries of Tradition
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Mexico U niversity W agj
Losing Battle With Ga!
From The Syracuse Daily Oranse
College, the marriage lair for the hunti’ess, has
proved a rather futile venture in that field for four
centuries in the National university ,south of the
border.
This national school for teachers in Mexico City
He was a strong was founded in 1553 and for four centuries senoritas
man—spiritually and morally. He have been barred from its halls. Progress in this
had strength of character, and delightfully socializing direction has been nil and
more important, he built strong the latest attempt to unite this estrangement has
character in the men with whom
he associated. But unfortunately
for Mr. Seth, he also had the qual
ities of courage and honor, and
was made company commander of
the ASA. As you know, it is very
undesirable from the point of view
of the administration to have any
man in the corps with guts enough
to stand up for his ideals. To
have such a man as a C. O. is an
oversight in the highest degree.
As it must eventually happen to
all real leaders of men, Seth had
to choose between self-interests
and the interest of those whom he
led. Having the sense of respon
sibility that he had for his men,
Marvin Seth sacrificed himself.
Awards Presented At S&S Club Meet
A speech by a top Texas live
stock breeder and presentation of
awards highlighted March 31 the
meeting of the Saddle and Sirloin
Club in the lecture room of the
A&I building.
Julie Adams, Polaiid China
breeder from Tulia, discussed the
problems of the breeder. His talk
was followed by the presentation
of the best showman award of the
little Southwestern to Jack E.
Herzik, freshman from Schulen-
berg.
Jack Willingham, senior from
Hamlin, received a pair of spurs
in token of his presidency of the
club for the past year.
Ralph Thomas and J. M. Batts
were awarded knife and fork sets
for their first and second-place
hams in the exhibit.
R. O. Rutledge, president of the
club, said that the Saddle and Sir
loin group grossed $1,000 on 60
hams exhibited at the show spon
sored each year by the club.
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
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MSC Dance Group
To Sponsor Show
Starting Monday, April 13, the
MSC Dance Committee will spon
sor a square dance program to be
broadcast on WTAW every Monday
for the next six vceeks, said Oscar
Garcia, chairman of the committee.
The committee is sponsoring the
dances free of charge to all stu
dents and everyone in the College
Station community, he said.
“The dances will be held in the
Assembly room of the MSC every
Monday evening from 5 until 5:45
p. m. Everyone is invited Garcia
said.
Manning Smith, well - known
local dance teacher, will be in
charge of the program.
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EDITORS’ NOTE: In the opera
“Madame Butterfly” a certain cap
tain finds that an inscription on a
Samurai blade runs true. The in
scription reads: “To die with
honour when one can no longer live
with honour.”
The captain mentioned in the
letter above seems to' have chosen
the same course, although not quite
so drastic. Because he had broken
his honor to his college' and to his
superiors in using ad instrument
for “hazing”, this captain bowed
out to save what honor may have
been left. Perhaps gallantly and
gloriously, still, he is out.
However, we will not defend the
actions of the administration in
using expulsion as a method for
ridding the Corps of Cadets of
the board. We do not feel this is
the way.
If the mentioned captain was
trying to help the person whose
body he abused, and in doing so,
he himself was expelled, one can
only comment thou will reap as
thou will sow.”
Being spiritually and morally
(See LETTERS, Page 5)
failed also.
A petition for coeducation in the nation’s normal
school was hastily rejected last week when the edu
cation minister made an unscheduled inspection trip
of the men’s university.
Improvements First
The statement pushed forth from the crannied
walls if tradition was that “some consideration
would be given to coeducation when certain improve
ments had been made.” These ran as follows:
® “A measure of discipline must be restored
to the school.” Now, this seems fair enough. The
advantages of a regimented system are easily seen
in our more progressive eastern schools.
© “The school must no longer be dirty and the
building must be so arranged that men and women
could be together in it.” Now just what this “ar-
angement” is we are not quite sure. One can see the
disadvantages of dust but does the other modifica
tion involve more or less walls?
© “The problem of lodging and feeding the
1,200 male students already in the school must be
solved.” How nice. With the men safely fed one is
then willing to risk bringing on the girls . . . this
is safety?
Coeducation—A Barbarity
One gets a better perspective of this split situa
tion if the . nation-wide view is added. Leaders of a
religious lay organization have been leading the
fight to abolish ALL coeducation including grade
school in addition to the curbing of the mature
—y*- —*'■ 1 ‘
machinations which arc inevitable
level.
“Coeducation is a barbarity," fe
tains say and a former minister
Mexico has tossed off “absurd and
pair of well-turned adjectives on tl
ject.
If these fellows are merely ate
MANkind’s maturation by taking
element of the chase out of hist;
environment, there might be reaso;
their action. Unfortunately, the mak
found submission on gral ifying and
a bit of the chase himself.
Bailie Lost In Mexittl
All in all, it’s a losing battle
Just a week ago 15 of her 29 state
stitutional amendment which gas
frage. This is a mortal blow, uni;
lovers of male academic concentra:
blankness.
Before the true-blue American
found dome in pride we might rcr
was only 33 years ago that worn;:
their placards and joined the poll Hr
120 years since our first cocducatk.
ed.
However, there is also an ecorl
constr uction involved here that the51
to have lost sight of in the fuss;
education. Just why is the norm E
in such terrible condition? It is l ^
old, so a report says, and cost $2:
It is almost falling apart.
Perhaps one ol these unvAwArek •
into (he building field and is taking
state of mind on the educational in?
beloved nation. At any rate, withtt
now it may really pay to keep their,
ed electorate can be embai assinglyir
Ask any politico.
D r. Arn o I d to S j )cak
At Grad Lectures
Dr. William A. Arnold of the
Oak Ridge National Laborabory,
will be the speaker for the grad
uate lecture series April 30, said
W. C. Hall of the plant physiology
and pathology department.
The lectures are sponsored by
the Graduate School and are open
to the public. Topics of general
interest to graduate students and
faculty members are discussed.
Arnold’s topic will be “Problems
in Photosynthesis.” The lecture
will be held in the biology lecture
room at 8 p. m.
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