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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1955
Figures and Conjectures
During the past semester, everyone sus
pected that students were leaving the corps
of cadets and becoming civilian students,
and everyone knew that there would prob
ably be many more students changing over
at the end of the semester.
Now the figures are out: 447 students
left the corps, 133 during the semester and
314 at mid term. The civilian students,
which had numbered 38 percent of the stu
dent body, now number 43 per cent, or close
to one-half.
This is evidence of the new board ruling,
which makes military optional for freshman
and sophomores, instead of required, as in
the past.
Of course, 107 of these men who left the
corps graduated. But there are the other
340.
The corps of cadets will say that these
men were the “undesirables,” the men “we
didn’t want in the corps of cadets anyway.”
Perhaps some of them were, but 340 is too
large a number for all of them to be “un
desirables.”
This exodus is evidence that the corps
still has some house-cleaning to do. It must
be made attractive enough to hold good stu
dents, and still be an effective military unit.
A difficult task, granted, but more maturity
of judgment and action will do it.
And as for the civilian students, the fig
ures are important to them, too. They now
number almost half of the student body, yet
their participation in school activities is far
below this proportion.
They must step forward and become an
integral part of A&M’s student life, forget
ting any past “forgotten man’” theories.
In short, A&M is changing, and its stu
dents, both civilian and military, must
change with it.
Cadet Slouch
by Earle
The South ‘Stinks’
Says Actor Douglas
Says Richardson
Schools Told To ‘Sit Tight’
By BILL FULLERTON
Battalion News Editor
Local boards of education in
Texas have been advised to “sit
tijfht” until the Texas Education
agency makes a move about segre
gation in public schools, said Les
Richardson, superintendent of Con
solidated schools, at the Kiwanis
club luncheon yesterday in the
Memorial Student Center.
Richardson’s topic was “The
Status of Public Schools on the
Local and State Levels,” and he
distributed a pamphlet containing
information on Consolidated
schools in comparison with other
school districts. The pamphlet
also included a summary of action
taken, as of Feb. 1, by 16 states,
including the present status quo
arrangement of wait and see in
Texas.
He quoted Gov. Allan Shivers as
recommending in his first address
that “no change be made in our
system of public education until—
and maybe not then—the United
States Supreme Court gives us its
complete mandate.”
According to Richardson’s
pamphlet. Shivers has advocated
keeping segregation in the public
schools, but that he has spoken
out against those who would abol
ish public education to attain that
goal.
The Legislature is apparently
waiting upon developments in the
Supreme Court tests before taking
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action on segregation. ' One mem
ber is supposed to have tentative
drafts of a proposal to maintain
local option segregation, according
to Richardson, but has refrained
from introducing it so far.
Incident in Florida
Richardson pointed out actions
taken by other states, and express
ed disapproval of an incident in
Florida in which a family was for
ced to remove its children from a
white school on the grounds that
they were part Negro. This s£ory
was reported on Jan 11, and con
cerned the twin stepsons of Mon
roe Taylor, a white man, whose
wife is part-Indian. Certain per
sons in the community expressed
doubts about her being part In
dian—Taylor lost his job, and af
ter a midnight visit from a “crowd
of men” and a Ku Klux Klan warn
ing, left the state. The children
had attended white schools in
South Carolina without incident.
Richardson told of other steps
about the segregation problem in
his pamphlet. In Tennessee, a
parent-teacher group made a pub
lic stand in January for desegrega
tion, and a civic club endorsed a
proposal to maintain segregation.
The list of state actions on the
question showed the usual hostile
Southern attitude to desegrega
tion. or in a few cases, a waiting
attitude as shown in Texas.
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BOB BORISKIE, HARR! BAILER Co-Editors
T° n - - Managing Editor
Jerry Wizig ... .. — — Sports Editor
Don Shepard, Ralph Cole News Editors
Bill Fullerton - City Editor
Ronnie Greathouse^ Sports Writer
Jim Neighbors, \\ elton. Jones, Ed Carroll Reporters
Mrs. Jo Ann Cocanougher Women’s Editor •
Miss Betsy Burchard A&M Consolidated Correspondent'
Maurice Olian —A&M Consolidated Sports Correspondent ‘
What’s Cooking
\\ EDNESDAY
5:15 — Houston hometown club,
front of new administration build
ing, Aggieland picture.
THURSDAY'
7:00—Wichita Falls hometown
club. Academic building, plans for
Sports Day and Aggieland picture.
7:15—Centex hometown club, 3rd
floor Academic.
Wacon-McLerran counties home
town club, 301 Goodwin, election
of officers.
Grayson County club, rooms 2D
MSC, plans for High School Day.
By HARRI BAKER
Battalion Co-Editor
Actor Paul Douglas told Atlanta
newspapermen he thought the
South “stinks,” and A&M’s Town
Hall almost lost the “Caine Mu
tiny Court Martial.”
But Town Hall won out and got
a new cast for the “Mutiny,” the
original Broadway cast.
It all started in Atlanta about a
month ago. The road company of
the show, starring Paul Douglas,
Wendell Cory, and Steve Brodie,
was starting on the southern part
of its nation-wide tour.
Newspapermen asked Douglal
the routine question of “What do
you think of the South.” Either
in a moment of whimsy or a flash
of truth, he answered succinctly,
“It stinks.”
The show moved South from At
lanta, heading for Texas, and
everywhere they went Douglas
was unable to live down the
“stinks” statement, although he
tided hard enough.
Finally last week the managers
of the tour announced that it
would be cancelled—the organiza
tions sponsoring its appearances in
the South were losing money, be
cause Douglas’ statement had hurt
attendance.
But the managers offered the
Broadway cast of the show to all
the unfilled dates, including A&M’s
Town Hall, “if they Still wanted
the show.”
The Broadway cast, including
Lloyd Nolan, John Hodiak, and
Barry Sullivan, is now playing in
Chicago, but they are scheduled
to be finished this week.
Then they will come to the
South, and take up where the other
cast left off, probably having the
same dates everywhere.
The show is scheduled here for
March 24 in the White coliseum;
it may be changed, but tentative
plans arc for it to remain the
same.
Incidentally, the new cast says
it is all for the South, suh.
RE Week
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discussion groups of dormitory 15
and A-Ordnance of dormitory 17.
Fhe meetings will be in the dormi
tory 15 lounge and he will be avail
able for confei’ences during the
week.
Ettling received • his BA degree
from Washington university in
wmmmmmm 1940, then at
tended the Un
ion Theological
Semi nary in
New York City
in 1942 and the
Episcopal The
ological School
in Cambridge in
Eltling 1943 where he
received his BD degree.
Besides his present church, he
has been minister at Holy Cross
Episcopal church in Poplar Bluff,
Mo., the St. Andrew’s Episcopal
church in Stillwater, Okla., and
was chaplain to Episcopal students
and faculty members at Oklahoma
A&M.
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• Wednesday—Douglas Aircraft
corporation—^aeronautical, mechan
ical, civil, electrical engineering,
mathematics and physics.
• Wednesday — International
Business Machines corporation—
business administration.
• Wednesday — Temco corpora
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electrical, civil engineering, phy
sics and mathematics.
• Wednesday—Clark Brothers—
chemical, mechanical and petrol
eum engineering.
• Thursday—Aetna Life Insur
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economics.
• I hursday-Friday — Celanese
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engineering, mechanical engineer
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chanical, petroleum, civil, indus
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mathematics, chemistry and geol
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electrical, industrial, civil engineer
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industrial, civil, electrical engineer
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