Battalion Editorials
Pag-e 2
THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, FFEBRUARY 17, 1955
What's Cooking
Coming Closer
m.
Although President David H. Morgan
probably didn’t mean to, in parts of his
“state of the college” talk yesterday he came
close to predicting that A&M is heading for
coeducation.
First he said that unless the department
of defense gives military colleges some spe
cial recognition, it will be extremely difficult
to continue the present organization.
Then, later in his talk, he outlined the
present status of the other eight military
colleges: three are coed, one is considering
civilian college organization and co-education,
one may be reduced to junior college status,
one is considering opening its doors to girls,
one is worried about unfilled barracks, and
one—with 800 enrollment—is happy the way
it is.
Morgan and other college officials many
times have expressed their desire to keep
A&M a military school, and have worked
hard to obtain extra recognition for the mil
itary school status.
In other parts of his talk, Morgan empha
sized the military aspects of A&M, including
saying that the optional military plan started
this year has not appreciably affected the
corps, and that the corps is the backbone of
A&M.
Still, the other parts of his talk foreshad-
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ow coeducation for A&M.
Unofficial sources (which adds up to 'ru
mors’) have said that A&M has already tak
en the first step toward coeducation—mak
ing military optional.
The next step would be to allow students
to take ROTC training without being in the
corps of cadets. The board authorized this
step last summer, saying the college officials
could do it anytime they wanted to.
Then perhaps A&M would open its classes
to local girls and daughters of staff mem
bers. From there to complete coeducation
is but a short step.
Coeducation won’t be here anytime soon
—probably not next year or even the year
after. It takes time to prepare for such a
change.
It will also take a while for the expected
increase in overall Texas enrollment to reach
A&M, and that increase will have a bearing
on whether or not A&M becomes coeducation
al.
More people everywhere, boys and girls,
are going to want to go to college, and A&M
is going to want its share of these.
Circumstances seem to be forcing A&M
to become coeducational, and by doing so the
school would be keeping up with the pres
ent.
THURSDAY
7:00—Wichita Falls hometown
club, Academic building - , discuss
Sports day and Aggieland picture.
7:15—Wise county hometown
club, Apt. 16, 4000 College Main,
Bryan.
Waco - McLennan county home
town club, Third floor Goodwin,
election of officers.
East Texas hometown club, 227
Academic.
Lower Trinity Valley hometown
club, 103 Academic.
Centex hometown club, third
floor Academic.
Panhandle club, Academic build
ing, election of officers.
Abilene club, Academic building,
plan for High School Day.
Guadalupe Valley hometown club,
125 Academic, plans for High
School Day and Aggieland picture.
Laredo hometown club, 224 Aca
demic.
7:30—Austin hometown club,
basement YMCA, discuss spring
party and Aggieland pictui*e.
Grayson county hometown club,
room 3D MSC, plans for High
School Day and Aggieland picture.
Corpus Christi club, MSC, dis
cuss club picture.
Irving A&M club, room 2D MSC,
discuss Spoils day and Aggieland
picture.
Hill County hometown club, 106
Academic building.
Tyler-Smith county hometown
club, 103 Academic.
Del Rio hometown club, YMCA.
Red River Valley A&M club, 223
Academic, discuss Aggieland pic
ture.
Amarillo A&M club, first floor
Academic, plan a party and make
final plans for Sports day.
Yankee hometown club, room 3D
MSC.
East Texas A&M hometown club,
assembly room MSC, election of of
ficers, plan for High School day
and Aggieland pictuxe.
Poxt Arthur club, 105 Biology
building, discuss Aggieland pictux-e.
Cadet Slouch
B&POGUE TOE. QO«T-
by James Earle
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Du&iMC* Quiz.
The United States produced
2,149,000 automobiles in 1946 and
6,165,000 in 1953.
Third Annual
In case anybody has been wondering
what happened to the Tonkawa Tribe after
the brief uprising a few weeks ago, the col
lege says officially that the organization is
“completely disbanded.”
One student was dismissed for “putting
constantly before the student body remind
ers” of the organization, and there must
have been evidence that the group was some
what active, because the Executive commit
tee was asked to study the probation by
which last year's members are now in school.
But the Executive committee didn’t want
to talk about it, and still doesn’t. Sort of
an ‘if - we-ignore-it-maybe-it-will-go-a way’
theory.
However, the administration says the or
ganization is completely disbanded. It would
be easier to believe this good news if we
hadn’t heard it so often before.
It’s exactly the same statement that was
given after the TT investigations of 1952 and
1954.
.So it looks like we’ve completed the Third
Annual Complete Disbanding of the Tonkawa
Tribe.
"Tt4€~. Quiz.
Shepperd to Speak
For A &MIn ilia lion
News of the World
By The ASSOCIATED PRESS
PARIS—Christian Pincau yesterday set about picking
a list of ministers which lie hopes will satisfy French politi
cal jealousies and allow him to. form the 21st postlib.eration
government. The construction of a Cabinet has tripped one
of the previous aspirants during PYance’s 12-day govern
mental crisis and it could prove the undoing of Pineau, a
Socialist.
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WASHINGTON—A combined Hawaii-Alaska state
hood bill, compromised in a bid for presidential support,
was approved 19-6 yesterday by the House Insular Af
fairs Committee. The compromise consisted of a pro
vision authorizing the President to set aside up to 40
per cent of Northern Alaska as a defense zone.
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SP1GUIN—A roaring, window-shattering blast ripped
through two blocks of downtown Seguin early last night in
juring at least three persons and doing serious property dam
age. “It’s still a pretty bad explosion,” said City Fireman
Marvin Wilke, “and we don’t know for sure just how many
are hurt.”
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NEW \ ORK—Harvey Matusow said yesterday he
received $977.26 from the government for testifying
against 13 Communists convicted in 1953 of conspiracy—
testimony he now says was false. The money represent-
ted witness fees and expenses, the former Communist
and FBI informer said in Federal Court.
Morgan
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HIGH GRADE—This lamb was judged 20th out of 362
entries in the recent Houston P’at Stock show. It was
purchased by James Winn, right, manager of the meats
department of Miller’s super market. Owners of the lamb
are, left to right, Frank Benavidez, Jack McNeely and
James Arnold.
John Ben Sheppexd, attorney
genex-al of Texas, will address
A&M’s first pxofessional Gi’eek let
ter fxatexnity at the chapter’s in
stallation Friday night in the Me
morial Student Center.
Twenty-one junior and senior
students will be initiated into Sig^
ma Delta Chi the national px-ofes-
sional Journalism fraternity.
Walter Humphrey, master of
ceremonies, is editor of the Fort
Worth Press. Now a member of
the SDX executive committee,
Humphi’ey is a past national pres
ident of the fraternity.
Initiation of new members will
be at 6:30 p.m. Installing officers
ai - e Fred Hartman, editor of the
Baytown Sun; James Byron, news
director of WBAP and WBAP-TV
in Fort Woifh; W. R. Beaumiei - ,
representative of the Texas Pxess
association; and John Muxphy, ex
ecutive secretary of the Texas
spring and that
number 43 per
student body last
this spring they
cent.
Talking about A&M’s budget re
quest for this year, Morgan said
the request had been made to the
Legislature, and that it was high
er than in the past.
He said the appropriation would
probably be alloted so as to give
a higher student-teacher ratio,
with higher salaries.
At the end of his talk, Morgan
said that no announcement of the
three new deans would be made un
til after the Feb. 26 meeting of
the board of directors.
The announcement will px - ob-
ably be made after the April meet
ing, he said.
The positions to be filled are
dean of student personnel services,
dean of the basic division, and
dean of engineering.
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Kansas City Baptist association at
the time °f his recall, and after
serving at Lackland air force base,
w as assig ne d to his present station.
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Clifton Rogers, Church of Christ
minister in Waco, will live in dor
mitory id and will lead the forums
and discussion groups in the band ■
room of dormitory 16. He will be
available for conferences during
the week- |
Rogers moved t
to the Colum
bus Avenue
Church of Christ
in Waco in 1954
from the Proc- 1
ter Street
Church of Christ |
in Port Arthur.
During his min-
id a half years in
? congregation was
and a utilitarian
■x was constructed. |
Abilene Christian
ie where he receiv- i
xe in 1940. In ad-
rk with the Colum- I
Daily Newspaper association.
Brief messages of congratula
tions and welcome will be made by
President David H. Morgan; (loss
Strader, head of student publica
tions; A. Pat Daniels of the SDX
association; j,
Gene Robins, Gulf Coast Profes
sional chapter of SDX, Donald Bur-
chard, head of the Journalism de-
partment; Dr. DeWitt Reddick,‘vd
the University of Texas on behalf
of other college chapters; Ralph
Cole, student president of the new
chapter; J. B. Hervey, Forme!
Students association; and Victot
Bluedorn, executive director of tht
Chicago office of SDX.
Students to be initiated are Cole,
Harri Baker - , Robert Boriskic,
James Collins, Edward Fries, Billy
Fullerton, Ronald Greathouse, Wil
liam Holloway, Jon Kinslow, Al
fred McAfee, Dolph Moten, Philip
McNemer, John Nelms, Allen Pen-
gel ly, Calvin Pigg, Paul Savage,
Don -Shepard, Ray Smith, James
Tyree, Bill Thomas and Jerry Wiz-
ig.
About four or five professional
members also will be initiated.
ANOTHER WINNER—This lamb also won honors at the Houston show, placing - fourth
out of 35. It was one of a group of three receiving the award. Gilbert Orsak, manager
of Weingartens, left, bought the lamb from its owners, Frank Benavidez and Jack Neely.
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