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THE BATTALION
Thursday, May 28, 1953
A&M Is One-Dress College
(Continued from Page 1)
One does need, however, an at
mosphere at college which will
encourage a person to seek for him
self the life he plans to live.
Why should a college lie to a
person by letting him believe he is
equal to others ? Why should it
continue to parade gallantly before
the masses on weekends and special
events, while at other times show
minimum attention to military af
fairs ? Why say it is a military
school when in tnith it is merely
a college decked-out in one type
of suit?
Isn’t it more truthful to say it is
a regimented college—both in at
mosphere and clothes ?
Not Just Coed
This does not mean, however,
that A&M should be a coeducation
al institution. I think it will come.
The sooner the better because the
cost will be less now than tomor
row. It also will provide a more
healthy attitude—both for educa
tional and social purposes.
When the coeducational issue
was raised in the Legislature, the
college was rocking with various
opinions yet no one ever obtained
the correct attitude of the stu
dents. Actually, this isn’t neces
sary. When the college decides to
go coed, it will not bother to ask
the students.
If there was an all-girls school,
or a coeducational college
nearby, or if A&M was nearer
large city, there would be less of a
necessity that A&M be coed.
However, even the college’s ob
jectives seem to favor coeduca
tion. One of the objectives reads:
“To provide an environment for
student bodies comparable to that
which usually prevails in the sub
stantial Texas homes from which
these students come ...”
Objectives, Objectives
I am aware that the objectives
growth of his own human mind and
spirit enriches and graces all his
social experience. We are not at
college to become mere scholars,
nor to become military heroes, but
through some measure of scholar
ship to become better persons. We
are here to become studious toward
learning all the ways which in
creasingly will help us attack life
eagerly and with constructive
power—and not merely to make
“the dollar.”
This is from The Education
Forum. I believe it stresses points
which A&M has failed to achieve.
“ . . . We need to stress the
valuable place of college life out
side the classroom in the total
educational experience. It is im
possible to separate the cultiva
tion of the mind and of the feel
ings, of the intellectual and
emotional aspects of our natures.
We should like ideally to be
always thinging with eager zest,
and to be feeling and desiring
with some coherence and pur
pose.
“Beyond the classroom in the
other activities which crowd each
student’s calendar, the aspects
of how deeply you feel and
about what, of how well one re
lates oneself co-operatively and
happily to other people—all this
becomes most important to
knowing one’s own self as a
growing person.
“To become able to get along
better with more kinds and con
ditions of people, to extend one’s
sympathy, tolerance, understand
ing and love, to apply oneself
responsibly to doing a job well
without thought of reward, to
be sensitized to more kinds of
beauty—all this college life in
all its human relations is design-<
ed to further.
“And these ways are learned
not only through what you study
but also through how you live
here as an alert social being.”
A&M Different
also call fox- “supei’ioi* instx-uction
. . . . a sti'ong and effective system
of militai'y ti'aining fox- male stu
dents . . .” Perhaps these are ob
jectives merely in the true mean
ing of the woi’d.
Many, many students believe
the answer is the building of an all , uge boards> con tinually ovexwork
girl school nearer and by the col- our Wet;™ other persons and
A&M diffex-s from other colleges
m many ways. To say other stu
dents ax-e angels or devils is
absux-d. They eat goldfish, dx-ive
hearses, have pantie raids, dxink
beex- and chase women. We also
lege whereby the females would
use the same available classroom
facilities with the construction of
othei-s to help present a well-
x-ounded px-ogi-am.
A&M is one of the few land
grant colleges, — the only one I
know—whex-e home economics
not taught. It is txue that A&M is
the headquax-tex-s for the home
economics extension services.
Besides helping the college, co
education would help the sux-round-
ing community. At any rate, the
chui'ches could return to their x-e-
ligions, leaving the advex-tising of
“girls, gii'ls, gix-ls” to all points
south.
But whether ox* not A&M be
comes a coeducational institution
is not for ax-gument, nor my de-
sii’e. It will come.
Evex-yone’s objective I believe,
remains that A&M should be first
and fox-emost an educational insti
tution and not necessaxily “the
lax-gest militax-y school in the
world.” How this phi-ase ixks me.
A&M is the home of veterinax-y
medicine in Texas; it px-oduces
about 30 excellent px-e-dental and
pre-med students each yeax* fox-
schools of medicine; it has done a
tx-emendous amount of x-eseax-ch
-which has proved beneficial to the
state and the world; it has a good,
sound, physical plant which is cap
able of producing educated pex-sons
of the highest caliber; and many
other benefits; but it continues to
claim fii'st and fox-emost, the Max-s-
like statement of “the largest mili
tary school in the world.”
College life is a labox-atoi-y in
which each one tests how the
eqtxng otner per
leax-n the necessity fox- a hypo-
cx-ite’s smile in living one with
the other.
Take the “friendliness” of the
campus: How many visitox-s ax*e
told, when they comment on how
fx-iendly evex-yone is, that every
one is made to speak, except the
seniors, and many seniox-s rax-ely
speak. It’s their px-ivilege not to.
How many times have visitox-s
been told that evex-yone wildcats
and goes to yell px-actices (except
the seniox-s for many do not go),
because they are made to go ?
Can anyone tx-uthfully say that
this is building the entexpx-ising,
free thinking All-Amex-ican this
countx-y boasts so much about?
For two yeaxs, A&M men ax-e
told when to eat, sleep, drink,
max-ch, study and must get passes
for the othex* natural effects. If
these ax-e normal conditions for
matux-ing pexson, then this person
must be abnormal in the beginning.
Secret Frat Rats
And on the subject of Aggie fel
lowship. What about the secx-et
fraternities which have been in
existence since 1905, so far as I
know, and attempting to x-un—
many, many times successfully
the elections and the corps
promotions ?
I don’t believe that anyone can
imagine the contxoversy, distxust,
and ill will which these frateraities
have caused on this campus. I must
say I’m paxtly x-esponsible for try
ing to bring them out into the
open. But thex-e was a big x-ock in
the x'oad and that stx*eet cleanei'
was stopped.
A&M made some px-ogress to
stop the fx-atexmities’ powex* with
the intxoduction of secret ballot
elections. Inevitable foi-mation of
political parties on the campus
will help iricx-ease the strength of
free elections.
Another sti’ess on campus life,
unknown to many, is the ever
active possibility of trouble be
cause of oux- athletics.
A&M men cannot seem to re
member that education comes first
and athletics second. However, I
admire the stand that was taken
recently by the Boaid of Directors
in alloting the money to inci'ease
the size of the stadium instead of
using the funds, as a few suggest
ed, to solicit and buy winning
athletic teams.
Comes The Revolution
Mox-e and better classrooms,
however, ax-e needed before mox-e
wox-k is done on our athletic sys
tem. With the completion of the
new field house and stadium, the
athletic plant should be complete.
I hope that athletics can x-emain a
sport and not because a curriculum
of the college nox- a business.
With the coming increase in en
rollment during the next ten years,
A&M will change. It will change
for the best. Although many times
it will seem like a x-everse motion
to many of the former students, I
look with enthusiasm fox- next
year’s revolt and what it bx-ings. I
believe it will result in a better
A&M.
Goal Exceeds
Blood Drive
For First Time
The Southeast Texas De
fense Blood Center exceeded
its weekly quota for the first
time, announced Dr. Ray
mond O. Dart, medical di
rector of the Beaumont center.
The quota for the week of May
11-18 was 1,200 pints. However,
dux-ing this period 1,305 pints were
collected.
“This recox-d was achieved at
a three-pi-onged operation in Bry
an,” Dr. Dax-t said.
The bloodmobile collected 562
pints in A&M, 230 pints in Bryan,
and 513 pints at Bryan Air Force
Base. The Bx-yan visit was for one
day only, while the other visits
were for two days.
Di\ Dax-t also px-aised the large
number of donations in a lettei" to
Harry Boyer who handled the drive
at the college. His letter read in
pax-t:
“. . . Our staff I'eports that they
never had mox-e competent volun-
teex- assistants ox- a sixioothex- x-un-
ning operation. Your accomplish
ments on those days ai-e all the
more noteworthy because of the
sevex-e storm which occurred dui--
ing these days.”
The past school yeax-, mox-e than
1,000 pints of blood were given at
A&M the four days the blood-
mobile was here.
LETTERS TO THE EDITORS
Students Creating
Democracy and
W r ong
J ustice
Editors, The Battalion:
If there is to be anothex- issue
of The Battalion I would appre
ciate your printing this answer- to
Elbex-t Little, Iowa Paxk.
Local Bible School
Will Open in June
The A&M Church of Chx-ist will
start its annual Vacation Bible
School the first week of June.
The one week school will be
from 9 a. m. to 11 a. m. each day
and will consist of two Bible study
periods with a recess between.
James F. Fowler, minister of the
chux-ch, will conduct a 15 minute
assembly at 9 a. m. each day for
all classes except the pi'e-school
children.
Mrs. B. A. Hardaway will be in
charge of the assembly for all px-e-
school pupils. She will also teach
a class for kindergarden age chil-
di-en.
Classes for people of all ages
will be px-ovided, Fowler said. He
will conduct a class for adults in
the Chuxch auditoxium on the Book
of James.
His letter can be easily sum
marized. “Students, anytime you
do not like something start de-
stx-oying your institution, defying
legal authoxity, and ex-eating bit
terness and resentment. There will
then be democracy and justice fox-
all.”
Who wants that kind of demo-
cx-acy and equality ?
Mi-. Little, evex-y student who at
tends A&M College has had ample
opportunity to learn what type of
college it is; has exex-cised his
light of choice; and freely and
voluntax-ily signed a promise to up
hold the x-ules and i-egulations of
the college and the corps.
Px-oper provisions ax-e made by
the college and the coxps for hear
ing complaints, x-eports, and re
commendations, and for making
Air Force Bases Prepare
For Biggest Summer Camp
Nursery Short Course
Planned for June 1-3
The short coui-se for Commercial
Nurserymen will be held hex-e June
1-3. A. F. DeWerth, head of the
floxiculture and landscape archi
tecture depax-tment, will preside
over the shox-t course, which is
sponsored by the depaxtment.
Px-epax-ations for the lax-gest
summer camp program in the AF-
ROTC’s history are now being
made at 61 Air Force bases
thxoughout the United States, ac
cording to a release from the AF-
ROTC Headquarters in Montgom
ery, Ala.
The bases will be the camp-sites
for the four week programs in
which appx-oximately 17,000 cadets
from 209 institutions will partici
pate as pax-t of their foux--year
AFROTC txaining. The majoi-ity
of the cadets take -the summer
camp training between their jun
ior and seniox- yeaxs in college.
Most of the „qamp9 start process
ing the students June 22, while
some bases also plan to inn sec
ond camps beginning July 20 and
27.
Headquarters AFROTC
For the first time, the AFROTC
summer camp program will be un
der the jurisdiction of the newly
cxeated Headquarters AFROTC, of
the Air University, located in
Montgomex-y, Ala. Last year’s
piogram was under the supexvis-
ion of the Continental Air Com
mand.
For many of the cadets, the
summer camp will be their first
taste of militax-y life. A 16-hour
px-ocessing and ox-ientation period,
in which the students will be given
a complete medical examination,
will take place the first day of
camp. The AFROTC cadets dur
ing the encampment will be given
the same status x-egax-ding accom
modations, past exchange privi
leges and social aspects as West
Point cadets insofar as base facil
ities will permit.
The 188-hour training progx-am
in camp will be a busy one for the
cadets, xvith primary emphasis on
oxdenting the students towax-d a
better understanding of the main
weapon of the Air Force, the air
craft, and its place in the Aix- Force
mission. Development of leader
ship qualities in the cadets Avill
draw constant emphasis through
out the four-week encampment.
Discipline and Customs
Ti’aining- in military coux-tesy,
discipline, customs of the service
and beax-ing and appearance will
also be stx-essed.
Aircrew and aircraft indoctrin
ation training will occupy more of
the cadets’ time than any other
block of instruction, with training
in drill, voice and exex-cise of com
mand x-unning a close second.
Ox-ientation flights in vai’ious
types of military aircraft, airex-aft !
inspection, aix-craft equipment and
mockups, navigation techniques
and flight planning are some of
the aspects of the aircraft indoc
trination which the cadets will x-e-
ceive.
Cadets will be rotated in com
mand positions as much as possible
during the four-week pex-iod as a
part of the leadership and drill
phases of the operation. Drill will
be held at squad, flight and squad-
ron levels and instruction in the
security px-actices of an Air Force
Base, such as Officer of the Day,
Officer of the Guax-d and Airdrome
Officers xvill also be given.
Other sediicfhs of thfe tx-aining
program will include: Weapons
and mai-ksmanship, physical train
ing, officer ox-ientation seminars
oi - ganization and functions of an
Air Fox-ce base and chaplain oxien-
tation period.
Instx-uctors for the various phas
es of the txaining program will be
operating officials of those phases
at the Air Foxce bases. AFROTC
detachment officers will act in the
capacity of tactical officers and
will supei’vise and counsel the ca
dets and determine each cadet’s
xating at the completion of the-
tx-aining pi-ogram.
(See AIR FORCE, Page 4)
TODAY & FRIDAY
VYftpPY LIVIN’! ^
changes when necessax-y and advis
able.
Any student with the courage of
his conA-ictions can choose to use
the px-oper method, ox* can choose
to leave a college he dislikes and
thinks unfair. That is the tx-ue
democracy and equality. When*
promises are broken, rights also
cease to exist.
No one claims that A&M is pex--
fect in all x-espects. It seems to*
me, howeA^er, that the x-oot of the
entire incident of the flooding of
Ross Hall goes back to the un-
AA-ise, fox- them, and ox-iginal choice
of a militaiy school by the boys
A\ r ho caused the destruction.
It is obvioxis that they are still
making unwise choices, and need
encoux-agement in leax-nixxg the
Avay to corx-ect Avxongs. I also have
an idea that they are regretting
their impulsNe actions, and Avould
not mox^e a single step toAvard you,
Mr. Little, to accept a medal.
No boy can stay in A&M long
AA-ithout some sense of honox*, and
they will not AA r ant the dubious
“honor” you offer.
Mrs. T. W. Moore
San Benito
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