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Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Number 75: Volume 57
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1958
Price Five Cents
Slight Majority of Ags Favor Coeds
★ ★ * ★ ★ ★ ★
Doherty Disbands Athletic Committee
Move
Plea
Made After
to Governor
By JOE BUSER
Former Students’ all-consuming- power once more assert
ed itself yesterday when the head of the A&M System Board
of Directors dissolved the board’s athletic subcommittee.
W. T. Doherty, of Houston, took the action only hours
after two powerful former students had asked Gov. Price
Daniel to ask for the subcommittee’s resignation. The two
men, both of Houston, were Eugene Howard, former president
of the Houston A&M Club, and C. J. Thornton, present presi
dent.
Howard said last night he acted “in no official capacity,
but only as a taxpayer and a graduate of the school.” He said
he sent telegrams to five board members, the four subcom-
♦mitteemen and Eugene Darby.
“If any more of this
usurping of taxpayers money
by a few board members
comes about, I’m in favor of
doing away with football and really
bearing down on education,” How
ard said last night in a telephone
conversation.
Charter Filed
With Activities
By Coed Club
Formulation of the Aggie
Association for the Advance
ment of Co-education came a
step closer yesterday as Wil
liam Boyd Metts, president of
the organization, filed a formal
charter with the Student Activi
ties office.
The AAAC will not become an
official group on the campus un
til the charter is approved.
Yesterday, 25, students placed
their name on the list of charter
members for club. All in the same
day, Metts said he had been con
fronted with both good and bad in
dications for the group.
Metts was visited by a small
group of Corps students, asking
him not to go through with the
forming of such a club and ridi-
tuling him for his action. Also,
someone threw a “bab-o” bomb in
his room last night, but his room
mate threw it back into the hall
before it went off.
Metts, a freshman from Bivins,
said he thought that many protest
ing the club had the wrong idea
about the organization’s purpose.
He said that inaccurate articles
published in the Bryan Daily Eagle
and the Houston Press were giv
ing Aggies and people throughout
the state an inaccurate picture of
the group.
“Contrary to newspaper articles,
we have posted no notices of meet
ings, nor have we hald any sort of
meetings,” Metts said. We can
carry on business and correspond
ence, but we cannot hold meetings
until our charter has been approv
ed.”
“We are not trying to be a pres
sure group of any kind,” he said.
“Right now our sole purpose is
to try to get an accurate count of
the number of Aggies who are in
favor of co-education, nothing
more.”
“We do not plan to submit our
figures to the A&M Board of Di
rectors or any other group to try
to instigate co-education here,” he
added, “but our figures will be
available to anyone wanting to
study them.”
TYLER (A*)—A former president
of the East Texas A&M Club yes
terday called for the resignation of
W. T. Doherty of Houston as chair
man of the board of directors of
Texas A&M.
“He is just trying to get out
from under the responsibility of
his position, “said Peyton Mc-
Knight in an interview with the
Tyler Morning Telegraph.
Doherty’s action, was, as he
stated it, “taken to clear up the
confusion which has arisen con
cerning the responsibilities and
authority of all concerned with the
athletic program of A&M.”
Members of the board's dissolved
athletic subcommittee are Jack
Finney of Greenville; Herman Keep
of Austin; L. H. Ridout Jr. of Dal
las; and Price Campbell of Abilene.
Doherty informed each subcom
mittee member by telegram of his
decision last night.
Finney, however, replied by tele
gram saying:
“I do not recognize your
authority to take such action unless
at a regular board meeting on a
called meeting.”
CAN’T UNDERSTAND MOVE
Finney, reached at his home in
Greenville, said “I see no reason
for this action. We have worked
in accordance with the board’s
instructions. The action appears
to put the blame upon us and we
do not accept any responsibility
for the confusion that now exists.”
Asked if he planned to resign as
an A&M director, Finney answer
ed quickly, “No, I do not intend
to resign. I do not feel I have
done anything to resign for.”
Howard also sent a telegram to
Gov. Price Daniel asking him to
request their resignations.
Gov. Daniel said in Austin he was
asking A&M officials for a full re
port on the search that has seen a
parade of prominent coaches dis
cuss the A&M job of athletic di
rector and head football coach and
then withdraw.
Exam Schedule
Final examinations, which begin Monday morning, are
scheduled as follows.
Day
Hour
Series
Monday
8-11 a. m.
Classes
meeting MWF
8
Monday
1-4 p. m.
Classes
meeting TThS
8
Tuesday
8-11 a. m.
Classes
meeting MWF
9
Tuesday
1-4 p. m.
Classes
meeting MWF
1
Wednesday
8-11 p. m.
Classes
meeting MWF
10
Wednesday
1-4 p. m.
Classes
meeting TTh
1
Thursday
8-11 p. m.
Classes
meeting TThS
10
Thursday
1-4 p. m.
Classes
meeting MWF
2
Friday
8-11 a. m.
Classes
meeting MWF
11
Friday
1-4 p. m.
Classes
meeting TThS
11
Saturday
8-11 a. m.
Classes
meeting TThS
9
Saturday
1-4 p. m.
Classes
meeting TTh
2
FORMER STUDENTS SPEAK UP
Editorial Cartoon
Vengeful Baylor Students
Mob Aggies, Dates in Waco
Baylor freshmen football play
ers harassed five A&M juniors and
their dates night after the Bay
lor-A&M basketball game at Waco,
ripping off parts of uniforms and
roughing up the group.
Joe Guinn and Berlon Manry,
Maroon Band members, and Gary
Rosseler and Don Landesman, E
Infantry, were the Aggies involved
in the clash.
The tussle started when the Ag
gies were taking their dates, all
Baylor girls, back to a dormitory
after the game won by A&M, 57-47.
Guinn and Rosseler are engaged
to the girls they were with.
Landesman said there must have
been at least 50 Baylor freshman
in the group molesting them. He
said the Baylor athletes told them
they “had to get some parts of an
Aggie uniform to take to upper
classmen players, or take 50 licks
with a board.”
Tech Solves
Ag Problem:
6 Take Ours!"
As far as Texas Tech is con
cerned, the coaching situation has
come to a sudden, screeching halt
for the Texas Aggies.
With confusion reigning from the
far reaches of Kyle Field to the
extended limits of Splinter Village,
the Red Raiders have come up
with a solution.
In a telegram sent to The Bat
talion, and addressed to President
M. T. Harrington, the Suitcase Club
of Sneed Hall at Texas Tech said:
“Dear Sir, Have coach . . . Will
travel . . Look no further. Come
Sign Daddy Dee (DeWitt
Weaver).”.
This fall, the football season
promises to be anything but cheer
ful for the Lubbock college—and
they’ve got a coach!
“They roughed up the girls, too,”
Landesman said. “Most of it was
just shoving and rough treatment,
but they treated the girls as bad as
us.”
Parts of uniforms lost by the Ag
gies included a serge shirt which
was ripped off, a cap, a tie and a
Finney Defends
Hiring Process
Tried bv Board
GREENVILLE, Tex.,-(hi
jack Finney, dedicated Aggie,
yesterday said there never
had been any disagreements
between the administration
and the directors of Texas A&M
over selecting a new coach.
There have been minunderstand-
ings, he said in an interview with
The Associated Press, and he ad
mitted an error.
But now, he said, everything is
ironed out between the various in
dividuals and groups responsible
for finding a coach to replace Bear
Bryant.
Finney, too small to play college
football, suddenly found himself
one of the biggest sports figures
in Texas after Bryant resigned.
He was chairman of the athletic
committee of the A&M board of
directors, which was dissolved by
the board yesterday.
Finney explained the coach se
lection procedure this way:
The faculty athletic council
makes recommendations to Dr. M.
T. Harrington, A&M president. Dr.
Harrington passes this informa
tion to the full board of directors.
The full board makes the final de
cision.
“All we do is advise,” Finney
said of his athletic committee.
belt. A radio aerial was also
broken off the Aggies’ car during
the scuffle.
The incident lasted several
minutes, beginning outside the
Baylor gym and continuing all the
way to the girls’ dormitory. The
uniform articles were ripped off
after the girls had been taken
inside.
After leaving the girls, the Ag
gies went to the Baylor Dean of
Men’s house to report the incident.
While inside the house, the air was
let out of one of their tires by
Baylor students, Landesman said.
Bob Surovik, Student Senate
president, made up a list of stolen
articles to send to Baylor officials
in an attempt to get payment for
the damages.
None of the Aggies were hurt
physically, but a few punches were
thrown, Landesman said.
Aggies, Texas Tie
As Poorest Sports
A&M and Texas tied for last
place in the SWC Sportsmanship
Trophy voting this year.
Rice, SWC football champ, was
first, followed by SMU, last year’s
trophy winner.
TCU, with whose students A&M
had a clash after the TCU-Aggie
game, was third. Arkansas and
Baylor were fourth and fifth re
spectively.
Weather Today
College Station residents can
look for partly cloudy skies and
little change in temperature today,
the college weather station reports.
At 6:30 this morning a low of 32
degrees was recorded. Yesterday’s
high was 54 degrees at 4 p. m.
The 8 a. m. relative humidity was
95 per cent, and the temperature,
34 degrees.
Poll Shows Corps
Opposed as Whole
A narrow majority of Aggies are in favor of co-education
as shown by an unofficial poll taken this week by students
as a classroom project.
Of 296 students interviewed, 142 favored co-education,
133 opposed and 21 were undecided.
(inly 32 members of the Corps interviewed favored the
admission of girls; 95 Civilians thought girls would be good
for the college. Fifteen graduate students expressed desires
to allow the fairer sex to enroll.
Representative of at least one faction on the campus
was this statement by a Civilian sophomore.
“They can’t get girls down fast enough—it would put
some life into the school and*
give the boys something to do
besides growling at each
other.”
Another Civilian, a senior,
said, “I am against it. The pres
tige that we have now was earned
as an all male, gll military school.”
“I don’t approve of co-education
here,” said one sophomore Corps
member. “Girls would study more
and they’d mess up the curve.”
A freshman football player, also
in the Corps, had this to say:
“It would help the night life
around here and the football team.
And classes might be easier.”
“The Corps is a fine experience,
but I don’t think it offsets what
we miss,” said a senior Civilian who
spent four years in the Corps. “I
don’t feel that an all male, mili
tary school creates a normal atmos
phere.”
A Corps freshman felt this way,
“I came here to get my mind off
of girls and to get an education.
On weekends I can spend my time
as I please.”
Another “fish” said, “Co-educa
tion will rtiin the school. It just
wouldn’t be A&M if it were co-ed.
If Ann Adams gains admittance,
she won’t be happy.”
“The stabilizing effect of women
on the campus will cut down on
promiscuous sex behavior and Ag
gies will study harder,” said a Ci
vilian freshman.
A feeling of resolution was ex
pressed by this Aggie, a Corps
junior.
“I don’t care one way or the
other, but I can’t understand why
some of the boys are afraid of
girls. It’s going to come someday
—why not face it?”
Kansas Editor
Tells Why Ags
Can’t Get Coach
KANSAS CITY,— (HP) —
“What’s the matter with Tex
as A&M” Why can’t they.get
a coach down there?”
Asst. Sports Editor Bob
Busby of the Kansas City Star
said in his column yesterday this
is the question “asked at every
turn” and he pi'oceeded to offer an
answer based on his vai'ious trips
into Texas and a recent journey
with former Aggie Coach Paul
“Bear” Bryant.
The trouble, Busby reported, is:
“College Station, site of A&M is
far from a garden spot. ... It is
an all-male school and next year,
all students, including the athletes
will be required to take military
training. . . . The nearest collec
tion of girls to A&M is Texas State
College for women at Denton
which is far away even by Texas
measure. In other words, if you
are at A&M you lead a spartan
existence; no mid-week proms, no
jollying at the soda fountain with
a dolly.
“All this is not highly conducive
to luring top prospects .... They
say the Bear (Bryant) saw lean
times coming, with material run
ning low and hard to get . . . they
say that whoever takes over at
A&M in two years might not be
able to win a game.”
Battalion Staff Photo
Aggies Win Architect Award
Charles Volter, third consecutive Aggie to win the annual
Clay Products Assn, architect award, looks on as the plaque,
which A&M will now keep permanently, is presented to
Theo R. Holleman, head of the department (second from
left) by Dick Taylor, executive secretary of Clay Products
Assn. In addition to the plaque, Volter also won $400 in the
regional contest, which was entered by fourth year archi
tect students from A&M, the University of Texas, the
University of Houston, Rice, Texas Tech and the Univer
sity of Oklahoma.