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The Battalion
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College Station (Brazos County), Texas
Wednesday, January 8, 1958
All Editorial
Steps To Co-education
Some Corps leaders and members undoubtedly see the
dissolution of the Corps of Cadets as a result of co-educa
tion at A&M.
This might be true if co-education is forced suddenly
upon the school as a result of bitterness over the coaching
situation and the recent Board action making military train
ing compulsory for the first two years.
The Corps can be as valuable a body to A&M as it is
capable of being even when A&M is co-educational if its
leaders and members initiate and support a planned step-by-
step preparation toward co-education.
Following are some suggestions for such a program
which many feel would preserve the Corps, a strong Civilian
student body and the proud heritage of Aggieland:
1. A Corps effort to get a Board reversal on their de
cision to make military training compulsory for the first
two years.
2. An earnest all-out effort by Corps upperclassmen to
see that freshmen have maximum supervision and instruc
tion on an outfit level in their academic courses.
3. A Corps de-emphasis on unnecessary disciplinary
measures which affect freshmen’s normal eating, studying
and sleeping habits, (i. e. make men out of the boys instead
of separating men from boys).
4. Recognize the existence of a Civilian student body
on the campus and cooperate with them in their plans for
making the Civilian program stronger.
5. A Civilian emphasis on strong academic accomplish
ment together with stress on the heritage of the school and
its extra-curricular activities. Become a strong and work
ing part of Aggieland.
6. Institution of co-education on a day student basis
by the Board and the administration at the earliest possible
time for the sake of Aggie wives and Bryan and College
Station girls.
7. After an ample period in* which both the Corps and
Civilians are deeply cognizant of their responsibilities to
A&M’s future and its traditions in relation to the students,
co-education on a full-time basis can be instituted.
The result: Strong Corps and Civilian groups embrac
ing the young women of Texas to make the Spirit of Aggie
land grow even stronger.
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A REVOLUTION !
Petticoats at A&M?
Coeduca tion Not A New Idea
TOE TINDEE
..Editor
By JOE BUSER
The impending doopi of petti
coats that hangs over A&M is
causing much agitation around
the state.
But the problem of co-educa
tion at A&M is not a new one,
nor is this the first time such a
venture has been suggested.
In 1953, the fairer sex was rec
ognized as an important drawing
card for athletic coaches and
players.
In an address to the American
Association of University Profes
sors on Feb. 25, of that year,
Barlow (Bones) Irvin, then ath
letic director, said “recruiting at
A&M would be easier if the
school Was coed.”
Then in March, the state sen
ate passed a bill, almost causing
an upheaval in Texas. They una
nimously passed a bill, introduced
by Senator William T. Moore of
Bryan, making A&M co-educa
tion al.
“Girls at A&M—that’s all right
with us,” the Senate said after
no discussion of the proposed bill
of Moore’s. As the passed bill
was being prepared for the
House, some senators, headed by
Searcy Bracewell of Houston,
asked for reconsideration of the
measure.
“We’re knocking down 75 years
of tradition,” Bracewell said.
Moore, who had attended both
A&M and the University of Tex
as, said “we are living in a mod
ern day; everyone has coeds but
.us.”
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“The college is going down—
this is the only way we can save
it,” he said.
The senate then began discuss
ing their action hut did nothing
to stop the bill, or forward it to
the house for several days.
In the meantime, the campus
buzzed with talk of girls and the
changes they would bring to the
college of Sul Ross.
Boh Travis, president of the
Student Senate, voiced an opin
ion then that is outcropping to
day as the issue is being brought
back to life.
“Bryan merchants who realize
female trade would benefit them
a great deal are behind this res
olution,” Travis said.
The bill in the senate was re
called a week after it was passed.
And it was defeated, 26 to 1,
Moore’s being the only dissenting
vote. The vote came after al
most no discussion of the coed
bill, probably because the sena
tors had been well counseled by
former students as to which way
to vote.
Moore said then that “more
than one person is in favor of
co-education at A&M; they just
didn’t speak up.”
He predicted that within ten
years (1963) A&M would be co
educational at any rate.
“I’m sure of it,” the Bryan
senator said.
BREATHER FOR SCHOOLS—
Some 600 still-segregated school
districts in Texas are more re
laxed now. Many had feared that
court-enforced integration i n
Texas would begin this winter in
Dallas.
Federal Judge A. T. Atwell of
Dallas ruled last year that Dallas
schools must integrate at mid
term (January, 1958). But a
higher court (U. S. Fifth Circuit
Court of Appeals in New Or
leans) overruled. It said Dallas
school officials should be given
“a reasonable further opportuni
ty” to plan for integration.
Decision leaves intact, for the
time being, a state law passed
last spring designed to delay de
segregation. It prohibits school
districts from integrating unless
instructed to do so in a local
election. Integration without a
voter mandate would bring loss
of state aid.
UNWANTED “EGGS”—Estate
Life Insurance Co. of Amarillo
is asking the state to take back
some “rotten eggs” it bought at
a bankruptcy sale.
Last summer Estate took over
some $11,000,000 worth of poli
cies that had belonged to Physi
cians Life Insurance Co. Physi
cians had gone broke, and its af
fairs wei-e being settled by the
state liquidator.
Estate’s attorney charged at
an Insurance Board hearing that
the contract arranged by State
Liquidator J. D. Wheeler was un
fair to Estate. Same' batch of
business (mostly burial policies
on older people) has passed
through three companies—South
ern Bankers, American Atlas and
Physicians. It bankrupted all
three, said the Estate attorney,
who called the business “a bunch
of rotten eggs.”
With the talk on the campus
this week centering around les
femmes and their possible use of
our noble and ancient facilities
of learning, it seemed appi'opri-
ate to list some of the things
that might come with co-educa
tional type girls.
For one thing, class attend
ance would soar to new heights
. . . like going to class would he
for the birds.
Also, some regulations would
have to be changed. For in
stance, little girl freshmen would
have to be allowed to grow pig
tails so that they could be dis
tinguished from the little boy
freshmen.
And some of the profs would
have to rewrite the notes they
have been lecturing from for
years ... to make allowances for
the young misses . . . because
they have probably already heard
the jokes.
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