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The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Friday, February 22, 1957
Is Houbie Tuition
The Real Answer?
Just one action, approval by the State Senate, remains
for the tuition of state schools to be doubled effective next
Fall.
According - to the originator, Senator Murray Watson
Jr. of Mart, the bill will allow needy students to get scholar
ships, provide salary increases for teachers and add teachers.
This sounds great. Each of these definitely need Leg
islative attention.
But what will be the price for such action?
On the subject of tuition scholarships, how is any group
going to intelligently and accurately decide who among the
many college applicants most needs the $50 tuition fee ?
How will they determine the stopping point so some of
the money can go for more teachers and higher salaries?
From all reports, the bill does not specifically designate
the extra money to be used to provide more money for teach
ers but merely “sets for legislative intent” the money for
teachers.
The provisions of the bill alone stretch it so far it will
be impossible for it to be of any real value for any of the uses
outlined in it.
The original idea of a land grant or state school is that
it shall provide education at the lowest possible cost to mem
bers of its state.
Is raising the tuition the only way to get more money
for the schools or is it the easiest way ? There seems to be
no movement toward increasing revenue from any of the
other many sources of state income. Students have no lob
bies.
One of the main points used by Sen. Watson in support
of his bill is that Texas ranks 46th in the nation in tuition
charges.
This fact is nothing to be proud of, but neither is the
one showing Texas to rank 40th in expenditure per college
student.
This bill should raise the first figure but will it really
show any progressive turn toward helping the state's posi
tion in education.
-that we charge
, < * '. gyr*
Which fact can we be most proud of-
more or that we offer more ?
In the last several years, much has been said about the
growing need of more money for state schools to meet the
steadily increasing enrollment which promises to boom even
more when the so-called “war-babies” hit the college market.
Since no other action toward relieving the growing pains
of colleges has been brought forth, what is the real purpose
of this bill ?
It has all the appearances of a token act to appease the
conscience of the Legislature over the little that is being done
to help the schools.
But as a final outcome, will this bill effectively help the
schools or will it merely shift the legislative load on the
shoulders of the students ?
Agriculture Eco.
Dept. Plans Move
Ay*
The Department of Agricultural
Economics and Rural Sociology,
headed by Dr. T. R. Timm, has
drawn up tentative plans for tak
ing over the entire Agriculture
Building.
In a floor-by-floor diagram of
the building as it is expected by
1960, the layout shows how all
four floors will be arranged after
the Department’s* “Operation
Spread.”
The first and second floors are
to be class rooms while the third
and fourth are to be offices of the
departments and the extension ser
vice.
Escaping from the exhaustingly
steep stairs in the plans for the
future, elevators are penciled in
FJisli Engineers
yfeel Tuesday
Freshman engineering majors
are to meet in Guion Hall Tuesday
at 4 p. m., according to C. H.
Ransdell of the Basic Division.
Ransdell says the meeting is im
portant to all freshmen engineers
and urges all of these students to
attend.
at both ends of the building.
Pitched in for good measure are
enough air-conditioners to cool all
four floors.
Official action has not yet been
taken on the plans.
Development of plans as expec
ted will see the Dairy Science De
partment in new quarters in the
brand-new Dairy and Biochemistry
Building, now nearing completion.
Final completion is tentatively set
for sometime during the summer,
in time to use it by September.
Even the Dean of Agriculture’s
Office is to be moved from the Ag
riculture Building, into the Dairy
and Biochemistry Building.
The Dean of Agriculture’s Of
fice and the Dairy Science Depart
ment’s classes and offices now
occupy the second floor in the Ag
Building.
CAA Head Will Speak
At Aviation Conference
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James T. Pyle, top man in U. S.
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banquet speaker* for the annual
Texas Agricultural Aviation Con
ference to be in the Memorial Stu
dent Center Sunday through Tues
day.
Pyle is Administrator of Civil
Aeronautics Administration. Topic
for his speech, at 7 p.m. Monday
in the MSC Ballroom, will be “Ag
ricultural Aviation Comes of Age.”
The conference is being held in
conjunction with a short course on
Pest Control.
W. A. Lewis, president of the
Texas Aerial Applicators Associa
tion will preside at the banquet.
Fred E. Weick of the A&M Sys
tem’s Aircraft Research Center is
general Chairman for the confei*-
ence and short course. Those who
participate can expect a full pro
gram of useful information
throughout the conference, Weick
said.
Department of Range and Fores-
The annual meeting is sponsored
by the A&M System, Texas Aero
nautics Commission, Texas Flying
Farmers and Ranchers Association,
and Texas Aerial Applicators As
sociation.
The conference proper will be
gin Monday morning with a sym
posium on insect control. Six
members of the Entomology De
partment will discuss this subject.
Monday afternoon, members of the
try will discuss brush and weed
control.
Tuesday’s session will have dis
cussions ranging from distributor
equipment and methods for air
craft, by Joe C. Brusse of the Air
craft Research Center and “Ex
periences in Administering CAR
Part 8” by Henry O. Lipscomb,
aviation safety ag*ent, Mainten
ance, CAA. Another discussion
will be “Agricultural Aviation in
Europe” by Fred Weick.
FRIDAY
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