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The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Thursday, January 9, 1958
Editorials
Keep the Spirit
Last night’s demonstration was probably a negative
reaction to a suggested plan for gradual co-education in
cluding preservation of A&M’s heritage.
If it was, and such negative attitudes continue, inevi
table co-education will bring with it an entirely different
college program.
For without such a gradual preparation for coeds with
students as planners and participants, the best traditions
of Aggieland can never be transmitted to the new atmos
phere.
Do the protests mean the instigators prefer a new col
lege program and prefer not to work for the benefits and
assets of a co-educational A&M maintaining the Spirit of
Aggieland ?
Probably not. It more likely means a refusal to face
the realities of an eventual co-educational A&M.
No one can be foolish enough to say the instigators
don’t like girls. It’s merely that they don’t want to go to
school with them because they fear the damage to A&M
traditions.
They just can’t see that there is a gray and everything
is not either black or white. A&M can have coeds and tra
ditions as it can have a strong Corps and a strong Civilian
student body. There’s no need for making any one of the
three dominant.
Every Aggie who wants to preserve A&M’s heritage
need not be against co-education or against optional mili
tary training.
A&M’s identity will be preserved not because it’s all
male, all-military or even all-civilian. It’s identity will be
retained only if the Spirit of Aggieland glows and grows
in Aggie hearts and is transmitted to every new student,
male or female.
Editor’s Note: The two following editorials appeared
in the latest issue of The Texas A&M Engineer and are be
ing published for The Battalion readers by permission of
the editor of The Engineer.
Is Required Corps Fair?
The Corps is compulsory again!
For better or worse, this is a matter of opinion, and
only time will give the true answer.
But there is a deeper question posed by this decision.
Should students be required to take part in an extra cur
ricular activity in order to attend a school ?
That pat answer, “If you don’t like it, leave,” gives little
consolation. It is at best a poor, dogmatic, excuse, and
certainly not a tolerant, open-minded view.
Many Aggies are frank to admit they came to A&M
because it is the only school they can afford. Others feel
that A&M offers the best education in their particular
field.
A compulsory Corps is grossly unfair to these students.
There is no reason to require a student to put up with the
discipline and traditions of the Corps in order to get a col
lege degree, regardless of whether they are of benefit to
him or not.
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What’s Cooking
The following- clubs and or
ganizations meet tonight:
7:15
The Flax County Hometown
Club meets in Room 306, Aca
demic Building for a very short
business meeting.
7:30
Yankee Hometown Club meets
on the fourth floor of the Aca
demic Building. Plans for tak
ing the club picture will be made.
Del Rio Hometown Club meets
in the YMCA to discuss a picture
and party.
Spring Branch Hometown Club
will meet in Room 227 of the
Academic Building.
Bell County Hometown Club
meets in Room 206 Academic for
their regular meeting.
Wheeler-Collinsworth Club will
meet in the YMCA.
Deep East Texas Hometown
Club meets in Room 105 of the
Academic for an important called
meeting.
Northeast Texas Hometown
Reviews Begin
ROTC Picture Changes On This Page
Aggies who have been faced with the decision of
whether to take advanced ROTC or not have had the ques
tion clarified for them.
With the decision by the School of Engineering to no
longer give credit for advanced ROTC, these courses lose
their status of three easy hours and a good grade.
There is not as much reason for engineering students
to take ROTC as there once was. The rewards hardly war
rant the effort. The six hours of classes per week, and
possibly two more hours studying, can be put to much bet
ter use.
If the student is seeking a military career why take
engineering in the first place? There are easier ways to
get a college degree. Some of these other ways give credit
for ROTC besides.
So, a somewhat foggy question is now clearer.—-GMR
Attention " ' J Seniors!
Big Graduation Sale On Now!
The Battalion, beginning to
day, will be presenting reviews
of books and movies from time
to time on this page for the en
joyment of its readers.
Today, the reviews begin with
a synopsis of the controversial
best-selling novel, “Peyton Place”
by Grace Metalious, a young
housewife.
Several Aggies may have had
the privilege of seeing the movie
during the holidays. It showed
New Year’s Eve in both Dallas
and Houston.
Hope you enjoy the reviews.
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Sex In Small Town
Examined By Book
County Hometown
in the YMCA North
Club meets in Room 127 Academ
ic for the last meeting of the
semester.
Kaufman
Club meets
Solarium.
H-J-S-K-F Hometown Club
meets in Room 108 Academic for
a meeting to discuss plans for the
club picture.
Galveston County Hometown
Club will meet in Room 126 Aca
demic to discuss plans for a
party between semesters.
Lubbock-South Plains Home
town Club meets in Room 208
Academic.
Tyler-Smith County Hometown
Club meets in Room 3-D of the
Memorial Student Center.
By WELTON JONES
If authoress Grace Metalious’
assertations in “Peyton Place,”
her rambling, out-sized combina
tion of sex and sagacity mixed
in New England, are to be taken
seriously, it is time to move our
impressionable youth from the
small towns of America and into
the tamer metropolitan areas.
Peyton Place, boasting a pop
ulation of 3,675, is located in
Maine or thereabouts and is so
full of family skeletons that even
the town’s name is a source of
mystery and shame.
It was named, it seems, after
a wealthy shipping baron, who
transplanted an English castle
and a French bx-ide to the nearby
hills in the early 19th century.
The shipping baron was a Negro.
And the 3,675 people! One
would have to search long to as
semble such a collection of “char
acters” anywhere else, but they
seem to vie with each other for
space in Peyton Place.
We find murder, hard drink
ing, petty thievery, manslaugh
ter, blasphemy, suicide and, above
all, SEX. Sex, unnatural and
natural, unchaste and chaste,
within marriage and outside,
near-incestuous rape and tender
young seduction, Oedipus com
plexes, homosexuality, sadism
and much more, designed to suit
the most discriminating taste.
THURSDAY & FRIDAY
‘Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend”
With Randolph Scott
Plus
“A Face In The Crowd”
With Andy Griffith
THROUGH SATURDAY
^Care less Years”
Dean Stockwell
Also
“Street Of Sinners”
George Montgomery
Saturday Prevue
SUNDAY THRU THURSDAY
Cary GRANT
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Behind this orgy of carnality,
however, are some interesting-
ideas about how and why people
work as they do. Also Mrs. Me
talious, a rather dumpy thirtyish
matron usually pictured wearing
blue jeans, displays an engaging-
command of prose from time to
time.
Twentieth-Century - Fox - Wald
studios have made the book into
a technicolor movie which has
drawn guarded praise from most
reviewers. Most seem to agree
that the movie is a bit better
than its inspiration, if less
bawdy.
It stars Lana Turner, Betty
Field, Lloyd Nolan, Mildred Dun-
nock, Arthur Kennedy and new
comers Lee Philips, Diane Varsi,
Hope Lange and Russ Tamblyn,
all of whom are reported to be
well cast.
The story roughly concerns a
“widow” who never was married
and her sensitive daughter bat
ting their heads against the walls
of the town, from the inside. A
new principal for the school
comes to town and marries the
widow and all stride off happily
into the sunset.
In between these happenings,
we have diversions such as those
listed above presented by a cast
of 3,675.
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THROUGH FRIDAY
‘‘The Sun Also Rises”
Tyrone Power
ALSO
“The Big Land”
Alan Ladd
SATURDAY ONLY
“Santiago”
Alan Ladd
And
“Gun The Man Down”
James Arness
PLUS
“Delinquents”
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Girls, girls, everywhere
but here.
And it seems no one here wants
them ... at A&M, anyway.
But if they are to come, We
must prepare for them. Here’s -i
couple of ideas on. how to- avoid
contact with these girl type crea
tures.
• Forget about a corner
room .. . . try to persuade the
housing office to let you live in
a gun room ... they have bar s
on the windows.
• Sign up only for courses
like home economics or bee keep
ing . . . the girls will be crowding
into the more masculine type sub
jects ... to be near the fellows.
• Go home every chance, you
have . . . avoid those girls.
★ ★
At the “bonfire” last night,
someone goofed.
To swell the meager stack of
Batts burned in the new Corps
area, a few un-controversial type
newspapers were included, name
ly the Houston Post and the Dal
las News.
What ho, Charlie Brown?
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