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THE BATTALION
Thursday, April 30, 1953
FOR BETTER EDUCATION—4
Evaluators Find CHS Needs Space
(Fourth in a series of articles
dealing with the building of a new
high school for College Station.)
By HARRI BAKER
Battalion City Editor
A&M Consolidated School
was called “above average” in
all respects but one by a 20-
man evaluating committee in
its report yesterday.
The one point lacking was ade
quate space. And the recommenda
tions of the committee coincided
almost exactly with the school
board’s $385,000 bond plan, includ
ing a high school, an auditorium, a
general purpose room for Lincoln
School for Negroes and 13 acres of
land. The bond issue will be voted
on Saturday.
Speaking for the sub-committee
that studied the school plant, O.
J. Baker, superintendent of the
Dickinson public schools, said, “A
state of emergency exists here be
cause of overcrowding—and it will
get worse.”
The present facilities don’t meet
the minimum requirements estab
lished by the National School
Housing Association, Baker said.
“This site is inadequate for your
program,” he said. “Additional
facilities would allow the faculty
to do the fine work they’re doing,
even better.”
He suggested building a new
high school, since the lower grades
would fit well into the present
buildings. Baker also said an audi
torium was practically a necessity.
“A school is incomplete without
one,” he said.
Baker said he understood a bond
plan fox’ such a program was to bei
put befoi’e the votexs. He ui-gedj
that it be passed.
The report was made by sub-1
committees in eight catagories:!
pupil population, educational needs]
of youth, program study, pupil]
activity, library, guidance pro-]
gram, staff and administration,^
school plant and junior school.
Junior School
What's Cool
Griffoxd suggested more space
If or homemaking, industrial arts
and general classes, a teachex-s
lounge, more audio-visual aids and
a physical education supervisor.
Their entire report will be written
and distributed for study by the
school and community.
‘Better School’
School Program
Reporting on the junior school,'
R. B. Cutlit of the University of
Houston said the classes were well-
behaved and interested in their
work, there was good oi’dei’ in the
halls, faculty preparation was out
standing, the building was un
usually clean and thei’e was sound
teachex - preparation.
He commended especially the re
lationship between teachers and
students.
FRANKLY SPEAKING
The school program is far super
ior to any other school district of
this size that has been -visited by
Baker. He mentioned this in giving
the program study committee’s re
port in the absence of the commit
tee’s chairman.
I This committee suggested that
drama and speech classes be add
ed to the curriculum when re
sources are available.
Lack of a well-round student as
sembly program was the main
fault found by the committee on
pupil activity, headed by Dan Car
ter, superintendent of Navasota
public school. He also recommend
ed separating the senior and junior
high schools into separate build
ings.
“I was impressed by the faculty-
Academic Freedom Fight
student closeness,” he said.
Library Report
Manitzas
Began With Justinian
(Second in the series of three articles on Acade
mic Freedom—its meaning and concern to every
American.)
remain as the only result and solution to the prob
lem by these parents.
Personalities, More Than System
By FRANK N. MANITZAS
Battalion Co-Editor
A TTACKS on Academic Freedom did not start
with the last generation. These attacks can be
as far back as 529 A. D. when Justinian
traced
closed the philosophical school founded by Plato in
298 B. C.
The “common learning” system in public schools
was attacked in Texas, New York, California, Wash
ington, Virginia, Colorado, Maryland and many
other states. The program was attacked many times
because of personalities involved, and more so be
cause of ignorance on the part of the aggressors.
Both Plato arid Cicero had taught in the school,
and Cicero had said about the institution and its
instructors:
In these places, attacks were not always labeled
that the people rvere Communists, but only vaguely
subversive.
“Their writings and methods contain all liberal
learning, all history, all polite discourse; and besides
they embrace such a variety of arts that no one can
undertake any noble career without their aid . . .
in a Avord the academy is, as it were, the Avorkshop
of every artist.”
During this period, colleges and universities Avere
deciding about loyalty oaths. Many states were re
quiring them of all state employes and a few edu
cational institutions were originating loyalty oaths
of their own.
The library has adequate space
and is doing a good job, said W.
E. Wright of A&M, industrial
education department, head of the
library committee. *
He recommended more storage
space, more professional books for
instructors, hiring the librarian for
ten months instead on nine and
possibly hiring a library clerk.
“The students have told me they
feel they are learning more than
students at other schools because
of the guidance program here,”
said J. M. Moorman, superinten
dent of Hempstead public schools
and head of the guidance commit
tee.
His committee felt the guidance
program Avas good but he suggest
ed an in-service training program
to make it better.
Staff and Administration
Attacks on institutions Avhich attempt now, as al
ways to be the Avorkshops of every artist, range
from direct accusations as to one’s political affilia
tions to the teaching methods in the public schools.
Concerning these oaths, primarily designed to
smoke out Communists from the schools. Supreme
Court Justice Douglas said:
“The krw inevitably turns the school system into a
spying project. ... It produces standardized thought,
not the pursuit of truth.”
All these attacks threaten Academic Freedom.
TfTbse attacks have been sti mulatedr by tin* Imrk of-
adult and parent education, concerning the develop
ment of teaching methods and added programs to
the schools.
The instructors are handicapped. Thqy cannot go
al.one.into battle for Academic Freedom. They can
not alone, these few who face the public spotlights,
insist that other instructors recognize their responsi
bilities.
Stupid Parents Hurt Schools
Needless to say, no parent believes his child to
be beloAv average intelligence, nor would they readi
ly accept this fact. This, in many cases, provides a
catalyst to strengthen the storm against Academic
Freedom and that schools should be dictated by
boards.
Perhaps, all instructors will speak out someday, as
Mrs. Roosevelt did Avhen she said: “I am tired of
being afraid.”
Foe
Public’s Ignorance
Some parents attack the schools asserting they
contain subversive elements. They believe the in
stitutions use neAV methods of instruction, new ideas
and neAV machines to better educate the students,
the institutions must be Communistic and Fascist in
nature. The assertors, traditionalists to the end,
probably did not receive their education by similar
methods.
Then the schools can crush the foe: the public’s
ignorance of educational problems, the institutions
and the personnel.
Only through the complete education of this public
as to why and how an institution is operating can
be free inquiry and free discussion and free research
continue. The public must understand education—its
methods, purposes, results.
They Avill maintain the schools are restricting the
teaching of the fundamental three R’s and have al
lowed infiltration of the Communist and Fascist’s
beliefs into textbooks. Consequently, book burning
and banning, the firing of principles, superinten
dents, individual scholars and sometimes en masse
To inspect the University of California, the Uni-
A’eristy of Chicago, or the University of Washington,
or the schools in New York City, or even here, one
surely Avould find a Communist teacher. But the
large number of innocent teachers Avho are attacked
and forced to resign from the profession does not
justify the inaccuracies perpetrated..
(Next Article: How Academic Freedom concerns
A&M and similar state colleges and universities.)
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Charles C. (Chuck) Neighbors of
Kane, Pa, Avas elected Tuesday
president of the Journalism Club.
Neighbors, a junior journalism
major, has been a member of The
Battalion staff and of the club
since 1950. He is news editor on
The Battalion.
Wayne R. Dean of Brown wood,
was elected vice president. Other
officers chosen were Jerry Estes
of Wichita Falls, secretary; Ro
bert (Bob) Boriskie of Bryan,
treasurer; Jerry Bennett of Fort
Worth, parliamentarian; Jon Kin-
slow of Dallas, reporter.
Neighbors has been a member
of the MSC Directorate since last
year and is serving as chairman
in charge of newspaper publicity.
FRANK N. MANITZAS, JOED AUSTIN..*. .. Co-Editors
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Today’s Issue
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Two advanced and seven mode
rately advanced cases of tuber
culosis were disclosed in the re
cent X-ray examinations made in
Brazos County, according to Mrs.
R. H. Bush, executive secretary to
the Brazos County Tuberculosis
Association.
Neither the Brazos County
Tuberculosis Association nor the
Brazos County Health Unit dis
closed Avhether there were any ac
tive TB cases in College Station.
Of the 11,837 indiA’iduals ex
amined, 116 had some type of TB,
56 AA'er’e suspect cases, and 51 had
a slight degree of the disease.
The democratic spirit of the
staff and administration was
praised by C. T. Gifford, superin
tendent of Raymondville public
schools and head of that commit
tee.
He also pointed to the coopera
tion betAveen the school and the
community and the efficiency of
finance and maintenance.
His committee suggested in-
service training for teachers, a
sick leave policy, an independent
transportation system and hiring
of a part time business manager
to take the load off the administra
tion.
This is not a complete report of
the findings of the committee.
“I think we’re a better school
because of this evaluation,” said
Superintendent L. S. Richardson.
The people here didn’t need this
evaluation committee to tell them
that College Station has an excel
lent school; they already knew
that. But this committee of non-
partial educators did point out
Avhat was lacking: the space and
facilities to give the kids a better
education.
The means to get this better edu
cation Avill be put before the
people Saturday. If the A’oters will
take care of this part of the evalua
tion, the teachers and staff of A&
M Consolidated will take care of
the rest of it.
(The last article in <his series,
tomorrow, will summarize the is
sue to be voted on Saturday.)
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7 p. m.—Phi Eta Sigma Banquet,
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7:15 p. m.—Confederate States
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7:30 p. m.—ASH&VE, Room 107,
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