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Battalion Editorials
Page 2 THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1954
Dallas A&M Club
Doesn Like Changes
The following letter appeared in the Dal-Aggie, official newsletter of the Dallas A&M
ckib. We thought it deserved wider circulation.
Mr. G. R. White, President
Board of Directors
Texas A&M System
Brady, Texas
Dear Mr. White:
The membership of the Dallas
A&M club at its Friday meeting in
structed the undersigned to convey
to the A&M board through you its
attitude toward the recent action
of the A&M Board in making mil
itary training optional for enter
ing students.
We have the highest respect, Mr.
White, for the integrity and com
plete sincerity of each member of
your board, whether he approved
or opposed this move. Although
those at our meeting appeared
unanimous in thinking the move
would px - ove exceedingly detri
mental to the A&M College and
therefore to Texas, there was no
word uttered in criticism of the
motives nor intentions of any
board member. Further, we rec
ognize fully that complete respon
sibility for running the school is
that solely of the Board.
We readily concede that mem
bers of the A&M Board are in a
position to have first hand facts of
the problems presented in running
the school, which facts could not
be widely known in detail bu us.
(We feel that the facts which
prompted the Board action, how
ever, may have been emphasized
here and minimized or ignored
there because of having been pre
sented by people prejudiced against
our full-time military system.)
But the school’s objective' is to
produce ex-students, not students.
And WE DO NOT CONCEDE
in any degree that a member of
the A&M Board is necessarily any
better qualified than we or any
other interested citizen of Texas to
JUDGE THE QUALITY OF THE
SCHOOL’S FINISHED PRO-
D U C T. The full-time military
system primarily, and the non co-ed
system secondarily, have been the
two most distinctive and produc
tive features of the school while
its FINISHED PRODUCT has
been making an unparalleled con
tribution to the life and welfare of
the state.
The apparently uniform opinion
of ex-students in Dallas is that
the move, if carried through, will
be followed by turning the school
into one of Civilian Cadet status,
and this will finish destroying the
prime attribute which has made
Texas A&M distinctive, and made
most of its graduates outstanding
ciizens in peace and war. To have
made the school co-educational
would in our opinion have been
most harmful, but nor nearly so
much as this move to weaken its
military system and provide a
broach schism and source of con
flict between military and non
military students.
It is not reasonably to suppose,
we feel, that either our curriculas
or our faculty, although both may
be very good, will continue to at
tract a substantial number of stu
dents, after A&M has attempted to
copy the student life of other
schools of the state, which almost
without exception are in localities
much more attractive to the high
school senior than is the drab ter-
rain of Brazos county or the en
tertainment facilities of a small
town like Bryan.
The Board is not the first upon
which pressure has been exerted
to abolish the full-time military
System. For fully fifteen years
this has been going on. We regret
exceedingly that the present Board
has yielded to this pressure to
abolish the system which for 78
years has been so fruitful.
We further respectfully submit,
gentlemen, that the school’s ex
students have made the mark they
have, in spite of the weakening of
its military training because it has
been administered in recent years
by officials who were of a school
of thought opposed to it. We
would urge you to give the full
time military system a chance to
regain the effectiveness it dis
played for 50 years or longer, and
the first fair chance it has had
in some years, by emphatic and
explicit instructions to administra
tive officials that their continuing
in their px^esent capacities was con
tingent upoix their complete com
pliance and aggi'essive coopera
tion with the spirit and letter of
the Boax-d’s ordered policies.
Very x-espectively,
THE DALLAS A&M CLUB
Of course, the Dallas A&M Club, as well as anyone else, has the right to express their
opinion on any matter. But there must be a more tactful way of doing it than an illogi
cal letter like this, full of accusations and false conclusions, based on scanty knowledge
of the facts.
We have the fullest confidence in the over-all ability of the board of directors and
the college administration to run the school, and we also believe that A&M should con
centrate on educating students, who will be come ex-students in due time. We do not be
lieve, as the Dallas A&M club seems to believe, that the primary function of the school is to
produce ex-students.
Perhaps the Dallas Aggies are afraid that the Corps of Cadets can’t stand by itself,
without students being forced to take military.
Or perhaps they just aren’t sure what they want.
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New Organization
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organizational set-up, under its
own board, repox-ting directly to
the px-esident.
Minor details of the new organi
zation have not yet been worked
out, Shuffler said. “This is just
the ovex-all plan,” he said.
“This move,” Mox-gan said, “is
an adjustment of our ox-ganization
to our new policy of placing mili
tary training on an optional basis
for all students. It pi’ovides for
the development of ox-ganized ac
tivities in the civilian student body
comparable to those developed fox-
military students.
“We recognize that in many
ax-eas of student activities our pro-
gx-ams should be developed simply
for A&M students, with no dis
tinction between the military and
civilians. In other activities the
two will be separate, with a spe
cial program developed to meet
the needs of each group.”
6 Young Mr. Pitt’
At Film Society
The Memoi'ial Studexxt Center
Film society will px*esent “Young
Mix Pitts” Thui-sday at 7:30 p.m.
Stari*ing Robert Donat, the film
is a bibliogx-aphy of William Pitt
jr., who was pidme minister of
England dui'ing the Napoleanic
war.
The film includes i-eadings of
Pitt’s speeches befox-e England’s
Parliament.
Ashlock Named
Program Editor
Jim Ashlock, senior journalism
major fx-om Pecos, has been ap
pointed editor of the 1954 football
programs.
Calvin Dodd will be business
manager and Oscar Garcia will
assist Dodd in advertising selling.
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