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THE BATTALION
Tuesday, May 19, 1953
‘And We're Glad to Have Them 9
Bluebonnet
Harvard to Award Degrees Transfer to
To Women, Breaks Tradition ^ ^ ea
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
‘Military Discipline Is Bad
Under Com in a n d a n t’s* Rule'
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 18 OP)—Another bas
tion of masculine superiority, tradition-ribbed Har
vard Law School, has surrendered meekly to the
ladies.
“Either we took them in stride, or they took us in
stride,” says Louis A. Toepfer, assistant dean of the
faculty and director of admissions.
Furthermore, he adds, the damsels haven’t created
any problems.
It was just three years ago that the school, ex
clusively male for 134 years, let down the bars to
women students after long argument and despite ap
prehension voiced in some quarters that Harvard
law was headed for the bowwows.
This year, for the first time in its 137 years, the
Harvard Law School will graduate approximately
ten women students with Bachelor of Law degrees.
Not The First Women
They won’t be the first women with Harvard law
degrees. Harvard gave two women Master of Laws
degrees two years ago after a year’s graduate work.
But this year will be the first graduation for women
who have completed the full three-year basic law
course.
In this time, what impact have women and “co
ed life” had on the law school ?
“Hardly any,” answers Toepfer. First of all, wo
men have long been in law school classrooms. Stu
dents often had 'brought their “dates” or wives to
lectures with them.
Second, relatively few women students have
sought admission—“somewhat to our surprise,” says
Toepfer. After passing the standard tests, ten to
twenty women have been admitted each year.
“A few have been failures. The rest have spread in
between just as the men do.
“No woman has yet made top honors—the Board
of Editors of the Harvard Law Review.” But Toepfer
explains that is hardly surprising because only a
AUSTIN, May 17.— (Spl.)~
The transfer of the Bluebon
net Ordnance plant from A& Editors, The Battalion Medal of Honor, not for the deed ing democracy and equality in-
M College to United states It is with some interest that I itself because it was not exactly a stead of military discipline.
Elbert Little
Iowa Park, Texas
Air Force to house a huge have been reading about the ups praiseworthy deed, but for the
ve^yTmanpercentage of tTe Total* stude^bndy have jat O manufacturing project mov- and downs of college life at your courage they showed in doing this
achievement records qualifying them for such honor. e< ^ closer here yesterday. co e ^ e ' u
In the next honor grouping, the Board of Student E - L - Angell, assistant to the A very good friend of mine has It has become apparent that if
Advisers, there is one woman among the dozen board chancellor of the college, worked been sending me the college pubh- the students open their mouths
members. Several have served in the Harvard Legal with legislators to speed passage cations and other information that without saying Long Lived (Sic)
Aid Bureau; to which a limited number of students of a bil1 enabling the transfer. will never be printed. I consider the Commandant,’ they will be
are assigned on a scholastic basis Sen - E - M - Aiken Jr. of Paris ms information completely unbias- kicked out of school as a disgrace.
The young women students hold membership in shepherded the bill through the ed since he—God help him—likes Having this axe hanging over
the law clubs, take part in the annual Ames com- Senate Education Committee and gomg to school down there
netition in a said the Senate would pass it Tues- 1 would like to give my r<
EDITORS’ NOTE: We do not
feel that Mr. Little’s source is en
tirely unbiased.
their head they chose another way
egards to express themselves,
to the boys who flooded Ross Hall Like all dictators, the command-
recently. They should be given the ant is seeking to detect and punish
those who oppose him. He makes
Prof Commends
Honor Signers
Honor Code Plan
Discussed by AZ
petition and in general social activities. The Ames saicl t “ e senate would pass
competition involves appellate brief writing and oral day *
advocacy. Participation in its later rounds is one of McLennan County delega-
the highest honors in the school. tion in the House, Reps. Tom Jo
seph, Sam Sellers and Bert Mc-
Follow Male Pattern Daniel, were assisting preparations
All in all, says Toepfer, the women have closely f or passage there,
followed the pattern of their male colleagues. Bluebonnet is adjacent to Mc-
Are Harvard’s women law students specializing in Gregor. Phillips Petroleum Co. The honor code was the main
any particular branch of the law? The answer is: has begun operations on the JATO item of discussion last night at courage to defy this military state, the students have assumed equally
Not yet. Toepfer explains that “You can’t do much project on a small scale there the bi-monthly meeting of the as indeed it should be defied in with the instructor the responsi-
specialization in law school.” pending acquisition by the Air Texas Alpha Chapter of the American colleges. Our colleges bility for maintaining personal in-
Of course, the graduate student is in a different Force of the 18,000-acre former Fraternity of Alpha Zeta.
category. There’s a woman student from France and bomb loading plant. Some 30 members of the frater-
another from Switzerland, brushing up on American Negotiations between the Air nity, the agricultural honor so-
law. One of the women graduating this year is al- F ?^ ce and A &M are proceeding city, attended the meeting which
ready signed up with a prominent New York law Wltb approval of the House Mill- was presided over by Rodger Q.
^• rm tary Affairs committee in Wash- (Jake) Landers, recently-elected
T , • , , , , - • ington. chancellor for the chapter,
In general, nothing seems changed by admission
the feeble excuse that it is for the Editors, The Battalion:
good of the college, and it is if the I should like to commend three
college is to remain a totalitarian of my sections in Genetics 301 for
military state. having signed an honor code. It is
The students in question had the good to know that in those sections
should be for the purpose of teach- tegrity.
Two sections signed the code as
of women to the law school.
“Of course, 40 among 1,400 isn’t very many,
Toepfer says, “but after three years, it seems as porary bursts of power. Phillips
though women students always had been here. And has perfected a cheaper process
JATO units are rockets used to Other projects for next year
help lift heavily-laden airplanes were discussed at the meeting, the
off the ground in tremendous, tern- last one this year.
FSA Prexy
Overlooks Point
Editors, The Battalion:
proposed by the Student Council.
The remaining section proposed
and accepted the modification that
offenders be reported to a duly
elected class committee whose pur
pose is to take whatever action is
necessary so that the offense will
not be repeated. The committee’s
we’re glad to have them.’
SLC Approves Budget
(Continued from Page 1) 100 men would get that amount of needed. Since it i3 available, said
money while about 40 other clubs Wallace, the money could be ap-
An estimated income of $6,360 were to share in $2,000 from the propriated to the RVs and used in
is expected to enter the Student student Activity funds. assisting the individual members
to make the units and plans call
for large-scale manufacturing at
Bluebonnet.
Counseling
(Continued from Page 1)
Hughes Wins $50
From Caldwell CC
to
school councils will continue
meet on Monday night.
Recommendat ions for the although Mr. Mitchell is president
changes were made by W. D. of the Former Students Associa-
(Pete) Hardesty, club advisor, tion, his letter does not repx-esent
Hardesty explained he had con- the opinion of all former students.
James Hughes, sophomore archi- ducted a survey of the clubs to I agree with you wholeheartedly
I read with interest your re- decision is to be reported to the
cent editorial suggestion that the instructor
former students of A&M recruit It is my belief that a class corn-
high school graduates of high mittee will keep cheating in any
scholastic standing. I noted with form to a minimum, and I hope
even! greater interest the letter to that an honor code will be extend-
the editors from Mr. A. F. Mitchell, ed to include the entii’e student
This lettex - is to let you know that body.
M. J. Garber, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor
is expected to enter me otuuent Student Activity funds. assisting the individual membei's James rtugnes, sopnomoxe ai'cni- auctea a suxvey ox me ciuos to x agx-ee witn you wnoieneaxteaiy w-. ^
Activities Office next year through Frank N. Manitzas, former Bat- who had to spend some of their tectux-e major from Houston, won find a moi-e convenient time for that an effoxt should be made to Jp JLrOCSIl t i^JlOW
profits from the cold drink vend- talion Co-Editor, said that the RVs own money for travel,
xng m a c h i n e s, graduation an- p ro bably desex-ved the money but The SLC also approved $760 for
noxxncements, dances and other en- that it should not necessarily come next year’s Student Senate budget,
textamment. fx-om Student Activity funds.
Club Aid received an additional Wallace pointed out that RVs
$300 over last yeax - ’s appropx-iation bad received aid in the past from
because the money is available and President Harrington and from
a raise of $60.
xxeeded.
This is the report which was approved
by the Student Life Committee on non
groups which asked for the RVs
W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, club services but that more money was
advisor, pointed out that more
money was need to aid clubs. Thii’-
ty-six clubs asked for aid of
$5,409.57 last yeai', he said. Only
$4,200 was available after $2,500
was granted to the Club Aid fund
fx-om President Hai’rington’s insti
tutional building coke funds, as has
been done for the past several
yeai’s, Hai'desty said. The $4,200
was the total available together
with the president’s grant and the
$1,700 allotted by the SLC.
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Requests Exceed Money
“Requests far exceed the amount
of money available,” Hardesty
said. “Due to the inci'eased de
mand pi'esented upon the Club Aid
account, I x*espectfully x-equest that
$2,000 be transferred from Student
Activities fund to that of Club Aid
and the SLC authorize the trans
fer.”
The club advisor told the gx-oup
that he hopes to have an aid fund
of $4,500 next year and also hopes
that Harrington will grant the
clubs aid of $2,500.
“It would be impossible to oper
ate Club Aid without such a
gx'ant,” said Hai'desty.
Howell Seconds Motion
Wallace’s motion was seconded
by Danny Howell. Wallace told
Follovving is the budget for the Office
of Student Activities for the Fiscal year
beginning Sept. 1, 1953. Exclusive of
Fiscal Office accounts for Student Publica
tions, Guion Hall Theatre, intramural
athletics, music activities, student enter
tainment, etc.
Estimated Income:
Co]d drink vending machines.... S3,300
Graduation Announcements 250
Senior Favors 350
All-College Dances 2,000
Entertainments 460
Total $6,360
Estimated Expenditures:
Club Aid $2,000
Student Senate 760
•Miscellaneous Student Body
Activities (Bonfire, Sweetheart
Helmet liners, etc.) 2,400
•Ross Volunteers 600
Clerical and Bookkeeping Salaries 600
the $50 fii'st prize offered by the their meetings. encoui'age outstanding high school
Caldwell Chambei' of Commei'ce Allocation of $250 for footballs graduates to attend A&M. It seems Editors, The Battalion:
for designing a new building for fi - on} the recreation and welfare to me that Mi\ Mitchell has over- Old Main never look like thk
downtown Caldwell. fpnd also was appxoved by the looked a point or two in reaching while I was a student!
Ax-chitecture students made sev- SLC yesterday. The footballs will the conclusion shown in his lettei'. Ernest Langford
ex-al ti-ips to the town to study be used as dormitory athletic Fii'st, West Point graduates are
locations and possibilities for re- equipment this fall. In February, so highly sci’eened that most of EDITORS’ NOTE: Mr Langfoi’d,
operational expenditures from student Ac- modeling the downtown area. $1,525 had been appi’opriated foi’ them would stand in the top 25 head of the ai’chitecture depart-
trviti^es^fimds^ for the school year i9o2-53. Other winners were second place, doxmitoi'y athletic equipment, al- per cent of A&M students on the ment, does know his buildings. The
o eratin G rant to student Marion O. Lawrence, $25; thixd though $250 more was asked for basis of theix* mental ability. Se- building he was 1'eferring to was
Pll sen n ate Gian . . . Cn . ...$ 700.00 place Albert D. Scott, $15; and the footballs. At that time, money cond. I think it is debatable that the one pictured on page 6 of the
operating Grant to club Aid.. 1,700.00 foui’th place, Fi’ed C. Kii’kham, was unavailable but it is now on being a general in the Army is a second section of the May 15 issue.
Traveling expenses of quartet and $10. \hand, said J. Gordon Gay, chaii'- ti'ue criteidon of success, pai'tic- It is not the old college Main
SP severai Eas^Texas* High** t0 The designs were judged by man of the committee. This ularly for a person who has grad- Building but the old Assembly Hall
schools 92.oo membei's of the architectux-e de- leaves a balance of $608 in the uated from West Point. which foi'mei'ly occupied the site
pai-tment. reex-eation and welfare fund. R. E. Helms Jr. ’45 now covei'ed by Hax-t Hall.
Total $6,360
• (Pending approval of motion. If not ap
proved miscellaneous fund Is $3,000.)
Decals and orange tape for hel
met liners 274.55
Yell Leaders Fund 1S4.20
Sportsmanship and student gov
ernment meeting to Houston
Trip to Denton and Dallas by Ca
det Col. or Corps for SMU
game sweetheart ceremony
Flowers for sweetheart
Student Life Committee Meal
(Who’s Who Selection Meet
ing)
Inter-council Committee — Honor
system meeting supper. . . . 21.25
Cadet Col. of the Corps Fund.. 100.00
Who’s Who Keys . 131.60
Student Life Committee steak sup
per 40.28
Bonfire Expense 297.96
3,000 All-College Calendars .... 248.70
12.75
25.20
9.19
42.30
By Walt Kelly
s
Total $3,879.98
Constitution Changes
(Continued fx-om Page 1)
mittee said. Paragi'aph (k) read:
“The Student Life Committee shall
sei’ve as a liaison unit between all
othei’ student organizations and
the college administi'atoi's and shall
act on and foi'ward any matter
ginning of each semester. The
Calendar shall list all events . . .
etc.”
Confusion was centered around
the changes proposed by the sub
committee for the Senate consti
tution. Many Committeemen felt
the committee that the RVs had authority,
bx-ought notable x’ecognition to the . . , .
college thx-ough their many txips Assistant Ducctor
and as Gov. Shivex-s’ honor guaxd. 6) Article III (Standing Com-
He explained that many of the mittees). Sec. 3, pax-a. (b) (1) was
RVs had difficulty meeting travel amended to read: “The committee,
and housing expenses on trips af- working with the assistant director
ter having to pay for uniforms and of Student Activities, shall prepare
which needs approval of higher that the SLC should not force any
thing on the Senate. It was shown,
however, by Chairman Austin that
the SLC was not forcing anything
on anyone in changing its own
constitution.
Next Year
The Student Senate Constitution
RV fees.
Those opposed to the $600 RV endar to the Student Life Corn-
appropriation said that it would mittee in the spring of each
not look right if an organization of school year instead of at the be-
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“Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman”
and pi'esent a tentative social cal- c h‘inges proposed by the subcom
mittee but deferred until next
year are:
1) Article Three, Sec. Ill, par
agraph (h) be amended to read as
follows: The Social Committee.
The Social Committee shall con
sist of five members elected
fi'om its membership by the Stu
dent Senate. The assistant di-
rector of Student Activities shall
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Article Four be amended for
clanty to read as follows: “Amend
ments to this Constitution shall
require a favorable vote of at
least three-fourths of the members
of the body concerned, and all
amendments must be ratified by
the Student Life Committee and
then by the Academic Council.”