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The Battalion
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An Editorial
College Station (Brazos County), Texas
Tuesday, January 7, 1958 |
Coeds—Someday
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Sunday the usually conservative Bryan Daily Eagle
stepped into possibly the most controversial issue at A&M—
co-education. •
In so doing the Eagle has taken a revolutionary step
toward what it thinks will be the best for A&M and the
twin cities—Bryan and College Station.
The tragedy of the whole situation is the fact that it
had to be revolutionary and could not be evolutionary.
A&M’s Board of Directors’ recent action undoubtedly
did more to change this school’s progress toward co-educa
tion from the evolutionary stage to the revolutionary one.
By putting* the first two years of A&M College life
back on the compulsory military training level and in so
doing ignoring the faculty’s desires, they have created the
bitterness and strife which is now leading to opinions such
as were expressed by the Eagle.
The ideal plan for co-education would be a continuance
of the present non-compulsory military training coupled
with increased responsibility by Corps leaders for the status
of Corps freshmen especially and all cadets in general.
Along with this would go a continued earnest effort by
Civilian leaders to organize a better Civilian student body
and entrench the basic traditions of A&M, stressing educa
tion but not overlooking the college’s heritage.
In possibly a year, A&M would be ready to admit women
on a day student basis. A high ranking college official has
indicated classroom facilities would accommodate 9,000 stu
dents now.
Later, possibly in 5-10 years, the housing facilities on
the campus could be planned to accommodate women on a H
full-time/ basis.
During all this time, the whole program of the college
could be planned and geared to accept the females on a
full-time basis.
Nat’l Poll Shows Students
In Favor Of Integration
Seventy-three per cent of the
students who returned a question
naire to the Associated Collegiate
Press Poll of Student Opinion fa
vored integration in the public
schools of the United States.
Of the men who returned the
questionnaire 69 per cent favored
integrating the schools while 29
per cent were not in favor of it.
Two per cent were undecided. All
the women had definite opinions
one way or the other. Seventy-
eight per cent of them were for
integration. Twenty - two per
cent were not in favor.
The question was asked in the
following way:
“There has been a lot of discus
sion lately over the issue of in
tegration of white and Negro stu
dents in public high schools and
grade schools. Do you feel that
white and Negro students should
be integrated in these schools, or
do you think they should not be
integrated ?”
Most of the students felt that
integration should not be accom
plished by the use of force. A
Bradley University (Peoria, 111.)
student favored integration ex
cept in cases where force is nec
essary to enforce it. A senior at
the Missouri School of Mines
(Rolla, Mo.) felt the races should
not be integrated if it must be
done by force.
Many of the students felt in
tegration should be accomplished
slowly and carefully instead of
by a sudden change.
“When integration is success
fully completed, it will be a grad
ual process and the people will be
ready for it,” said a sophomore
coed at Tyler Junior College. A
University of Vermont (Burling
ton, Vt.) sophomore girl felt that
integration should begin in the
first grade, not in high school.
Those who were not in favor
of integration expressed the feel
ing that neither race would ben/
efit from it. Others felt the
country was not yet ready for
integration.
“Experiences the two races will
gain in going to school together
will be of benefit in life,” said a
Wayne State University (Detroit,
Mich.) graduate student. A
sophomore at the University of
Kentucky (Lexington, Ky.) sec
onded the belief by saying, “Seg
regation isn’t fair to either race.
Each race has much to learn from
the other.”
A Colorado State College
(Greeley, Col.) junior summed up
his pro-integration feelings with
the three words, “This is Ameri-
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The result would he an A&M with a top-quality Corps
of Cadets following closely the Articles of the Cadet Corps,
a relatively well-developed and organized Civilian male stu
dent body and coeds, who would probably have begun start
ing organizations of their own.
With such long-term planning and preparation, co-edu
cation would be achieved and the rich college tradition and
heritage would be preserved.
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By JOE TINDEL
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THE BATTALION
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non-profit, self-supporting educatio'nal enterprise edited and
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erned by the student-faculty Student Publications Board at
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September through May, and once a week during summer school. .
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Chairman; Prof. Donald D. Burchard; Prof. Robert M. Stevenson; and Mr. Bennie
Zinn. Student members are W. T. Williams, John Avant, and Billy W. Libby. Ex-
officio members are Mr. Charles A. Roeber; and Ross Strader, Secretary and Direc
tor of Student Publications.
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TWO WEEKS I VOO MEAM YOU'VE
BEEU IW TM‘ SAC TWO WEEKS AW
DiDU’T EVEW GO MOME?“
Happy New Year! I know it’s six days late but happy
new year anyway.
Congratulations, Ags! Another Christmas holiday sea
son has passed and no Aggie was killed in a traffic accident.
Two years of traffic safety is a real record, and we can be
sure it took the efforts of every student to keep it that way.
The state death total is below expectations also. This
speaks well for Gov. Daniel’s efforts to promote traffic
safety.
★ ★ ★
Before too long we will be welcoming our new vice presi
dent Earl Rudder to the campus. Rudder is a former student
and athlete and has a distinguished military record. Rudder
is not an educator however. He has spent most of his civil
ian life in politics.
★ ★ ★
Time has come and for some is long overdue to really
begin bearing down on the books and try to post as many
grade points as possible by the end of the semester. Let’s
hit it and graduate on time.
AUSTIN, Tex.—January is poll
tax month.
Officially, poll tax sales begin
in October. But nobody pays too
much attention.
However, after the first of the
year, organized drives get under
way, in a deadline-month appeal
to induce citizens to protect their
right to vote by payment of the
poll tax.
But a good percentage of po
tential voters ignore it all. Many,
jolted at the last minute, flood
into courthouses after knocking
off work Jan. SI. Penalty for the
putter-offers is usually a long
wait in line.
Poll tax costs $1,75 and usu
ally may be secured at several
different places in every commu
nity. No charge for 21-year-olds
getting their first vote and those
60 years and over, but an exemp
tion certificate must be obtained.
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SAFETY PROGRAM PAYS
OFF—Texas traffic deaths fell
below the Department of Public
Safety prediction for the Christ
mas-New Year holiday period, as
a result of the concerted efforts
of the Governor’s Safety Pro
gram.
DPS predicted that 113 per
sons would die on Texas high
ways. Final number probably
will be 103.
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