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f 'r BATTALION 46 Without Couch Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus Number 76: Volume 57 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1958 Price Five Cents Battalion Editor Object of Oust Effort Student’s Wife Tries for A&M Entry Application Filed In Sudden Move By FRED MUERER After Ann Adams, a Texas Tech coed from Bryan, snuffed out reports that she was seeking entrance into A&M next semester, speculators expressed belief that if she would n’t try, some other woman would. The speculators’ crystal ball took several violent revolu tions in its holder yesterday, and then made its prediction valid. Only this time, the attempt to bring co-education to A&M appears to be an all out effort, not simply rumors. Mrs. W. C. Gray, of 706-A Cross, whose husband is a “part-time student” at A&M, said last night she had filed an application to enter A&M earlier yesterday, though she com mented: “I don’t imagine I’ll get in this spring.” * If the Board of Directors denies her entry, Mrs. Gray Coach Hiring Begins Anew At Aggielaml !/P)—The badly battered cam paign of Texas A&M officials iio enlist a new football coach for the sprawling military school was being reorganized yes terday on a “chain of command” basis. Until the faculty athletic coun cil, now charged with the prelim inary selection, has a chance to revamp the riddled list of possible candidates, there will be no steps taken to start interviewing the most likely prospects, Chairman Chris Groneman said. The council met for two hours yesterday afternoon. Afterward Groneman said the council looked over its list of likely candidates and had also received several new "applications. He declined to re lease any names. Meanwhile speculation was rife among alumni and sports editors as to who would get called to Col lege Station to be interviewed for the post vacated by Bear Bryant, who resigned to return to Ala bama. The job is considered a coach ing plum as far as financial re wards go. Although the job it self pays only $16,000 a year, there are many additional inducements including a lucrative TV program. Bryant was reported to have made $60,000 last year. Most mentioned currently by Texas sports writers as possible candidates are Jim Owens of Wash ington, Bill Yeoman, first assistant coach at Michigan State, and Siki Sikes of East Texas State. Whether A&M will continue to seek a “big name coach”, and issue that is supposed to have split the board of directors in the current research, remains to be seen. “We are going to have to start al over again. The lists we had have all been riddled. We will first prepare a list of all likely candi dates and then narrow down the field,” Groneman said. said she’d let any legal ad visor who wanted to help her push the issue as far as pos sible. Mrs. Gray lacks 36 hours to ward completion of her degree started at East Texas State Col lege in Commerce. “I want to finish it,” she com mented firmly. The El Reno, Okla., native said she was majoring in biology at East Texas, but-that she would have to specialize hei’e. Her husband is from Ennis, Tex. Mother of Two Mrs, Gray, the mother of two children, said she was planning to go to summer school here in June, but when all this (the Ann Adams incident) came about, “I thought I’d try now, hoping the publicity would influence the board to change the I'ules. Earlier this week, Miss Adams was reported to be planning en trance into A&M, which touched off a volley of “pros” and “cons” all across the state. She cleared the reports later as being only ru mors. In a telephone conversation this afternoon, Miss Adams told The Battalion she did not know for sure how the new turn of events would affect her future plans. “It will take more time than a tele phone call to decide completely”, she remarked. Admires Mrs. Gray “I still plan to go to the Univer sity of Texas next year,” said the Bryan coed. She added: “I ad mire Mrs. Gray for such a move. More power to her.” Meanwhile, Mrs. Gray said she 1 tutting the World Down would have no hard feelings if —Battalion Staff Photo First Aggie Coed? Mrs. W. C. Gray, shown above with one of her two children may become the first coed at A&M if the entrance applica tion she filed yesterday is approved by the Board of Direc tors. NationalLeader Of Lions Club Coming Sunday The first vice president of Lions International will be on hand as speaker at the Lion District 2-S Mid-Winter Con ference Sunday in the Memor ial Student Center. Dudley L. Simms, of Charleston, W. Va., who became first vice pres ident of the organization last June, will open the meeting with a talk to the assembly. Simms will be here Sunday along with approximately 200 Lions and wives for the one day conference. College Station Lions and their wives will act as hosts for the vis itors, Charlie Haas, College Sta tion Lion president, said. Registration for the conference will take place Sunday morning, followed by a luncheon at 12. At 1 p. m., the conference meetings will officially open with Simms’ speech. The Lions will then break into workshop groups based on tbe du ties of each LionVfficer in a local organization. Ceremonies Tomorrow Graduate 288 Aggies Joe Tindel College days at A&M wall be by- After the presentations, head gones for 288 A&M graduates and | yell leader Teddy R. Low r e wall lead undergraduates Saturday w r hen they receive diplomas from vai'ious deans in mid-term graduation exer cises at 9:30 a. m. in Guion Hall. Saturday afternoon, Air Force and Army commissions wall be presented to cadet graduates in Guion Hall ceremonies at 2 p. m. The graduates wall proceed to tbe Guion Hall stage in a proces sional leading from G. Rollie W’bite Coliseum. Upon arrival on the stage, they wall hear the invocation given by Thomas R. Harris. Dr. James W. Laurie, president of Trinity University in San An tonio, is the baccalaureate- com mencement speaker. His address is the congregation in singing “Spirit of Aggieland,” follow r ed by bene diction by Richard H. McGlaun. At commissioning exercises in the afternoon, Maj. Gen William S. Biddle, commanding general of Fort Hood and the Army’s III Corps, will present the principal speech. He wall then present Army commissions while Col. James A. Gunn of Bryan Air Force Base makes the presentations to Air Force cadets. Civilian students will be attired in caps and gowns and all com mission candidates will wear cadet uniforms at graduation. Either cadet, Army or Air Force uni forms may be worn to commission ing exercises. Exam Schedule Final examinations, which begin Monday morning, are scheduled as follows. the board of directors denied her plea. “I can’t expect them to change their policy overnight.” Asked if she thought other wo men might follow" her into A&M if she gained admittance, Mrs. Gray commented: “I don’t think you’ll be crowded with girls.” She said she had talked to other Aggie wives about entering, and though a few of them said they might go, none were “too serious.” Won’t Hurt A&M With a twinkle in her eye, Mrs. Gray said she didn’t think co-edu cation w’ould hurt A&M, at least not for the next few years. Students may now register their i “Even if a lot of girls w r ould Car Registration Open to Students automobiles on the campus for the spring semester, Campus Security Chief Fred Hickman said yester day. Cars should be registered at the Campus Security office in the base ment of the YMCA. come to school here, it would take years to build enough dormitor ies.” Asked how he felt about the matter. Gray, an agricultural eco- 1 nomics specialty major, quickly ! answered: “I’m all for it.” Gray is an older brother in a big family of Aggies. One brother graduated from A&M last year, All graduating seniors who wish while another is a senior here this their ’58 Aggieland mailed to them year. He said the one who grad- should leave their name, homg uated last year was strongly for mailing address and pay mailing Mrs. Gray’s move, but that his fees at the Student Publications of- I younger brother w-as opposed to fice in the MCA basement before *t. they leave the campus, according to j The Grays have two children, Roy Davis, Aggieland editor. Marylinn, 4^4, and Jeffrey, 2V4» Graduates Notice to Size.” After the address, deans of the I various schools will hand diplomas to the graduates. Dean Page will award Ph.D. degrees and masters of agriculture, business administra tion, education and science; Dean Miller is to present diplomas to agricultural graduates; and Dean Benson will give diplomas to engi- I neering graduates. High School Day Forms Distributed Application forms for boys wish ing to attend High School Day at A&M were distributed to home town club presidents at a meeting early this week. C. G. (Spike) White, of the De- : partment of Student Activities, has asked the club presidents who fail ed to attend the meeting to stop by \ that office before leaving for mid term vacation and pick up the forms. They must be turned in af ter returning to school for the spring semester. Day Hour Series Monday 8-11 a. m. Classes meeting MWF Monday 1-4 p. m. Classes meeting TThS Tuesday 8-11 a. m. Classes meeting MWF Tuesday 1-4 p. m. Classes meeting MWF Wednesday 8-11 p. m. Classes meeting MWF Wednesday 1-4 p. m. Classes meeting TTh Thursday 8-11 p. m. Classes meeting TThS Thursday 1-4 p. m. Classes meeting MWF Friday 8-11 a. m. Classes meeting MWF Friday 1-4 p. m. Classes meeting TThS Saturday 8-11 a. m. Classes meeting TThS Saturday 1-4 p. m. Classes meeting TTh Class Schedules Out Class schedule catalogs are now available and may be picked up by students in the Registrar’s Office located in the Richard Coke Build ing. Student Senators Pass Ax to SPB By JOE BUSER The Student Senate voted last night, 11-5, to recommend to the Student Publications Board that they ask Joe Tijidel, editor of The Battalion, to resign. There were six members absent, including all three of the Civilian members. Senate action came after about an hour of heated debate on a motion made by Charlie ((Woodie) Rice. The motion came unexpectedly; it was not on the agenda and came after a discussion of calling a referendum vote on students’ opinion on co-education at A&M. In his motion, Rice said that “The ‘Batt’ is hurting our school and many of us feel that our editor has acted in bad faith so we must ask that he be removed.” Senate Sentiment “Tindel just wants to be a martyr and all we will do is blow his ego up; such action won’t do our purposes any good,” said Pat Resley in the first of many Senate expressions of sentiment against Tindel. Only Senator abstaining from the show-of-hands vote was Teddy Lowe, who later said that he was “not in favor of Tindel’s policies this year, but felt that this was not the method to use to curb him.” Other Senator-opinions before the question was put to a vote in cluded a brief statement by Bill Libby, also a member of the Stu dent Publications Board. Libby said that he felt that the Senate was stepping out of bounds to make such a recommendation; the SPB was set up for the pur- ♦ pose of overseeing student publi cations and as they had demon strated twice this year, they felt that Tindel had not violated any of the i-esponsibilities of his position. Warns Senators W. L. Penberthy, director of student activities, sponsor of the group, warned Senatoi-s not to be hasty in their decision. “The future of the Senate may rest on any decision you might make tonight,” he said. Ray Bowen, deputy Corps com mander and representative from the Corps to the Senate, showed strong support for a free press and the right of The Battalion to editorialize on any view it wished. Campus Factions “We ought to express an opin ion. At the beginning of tbe year we had two factions on the campus —Corps and Civilian. Now we have Corps. Civilian, faculty, former stu dents, board of directors . . . and co-eds.” Metts said the group may re- 1 “I’m tired of protecting that man organize under a different name over there (Tindel). And 1 m really next semester with the sole pur- concerned with his rights as editor; pose of conducting a schoolwide *^’ s a matter of personality, Bowen poll to find what percentage of said. Aggies want co-education. Another Corps Staff member, He said he felt the name given l Don Cloud, who moved to call the the group caused the misconcept- referendum vote on co-eds, had this ion of their purpose. sa y> when one Senator said that — —■ _ such a motion as suggested might hurt the body’s reputation. “There comes a time when every- one must face up to responsibility. Our object here is to serve the stu dents. . . perhaps we should jeopar dize our personal reputation—and that of his body—to stand up for what we believe.” In the absence of Senate Presi dent Bob Surovik, John Thomas, vice president, assigned the job of preparing a recommendation to be presented to the SPB to the Issues Committee, headed by Resley. No date was set for the vote on | co-education, but it was the feeling of the Senate that it should be- called as soon as possible. Coed Club Killed By Founder Metts The Aggie Association for the Advancement of Co-education came to sudden death yesterday, before it was even officially organized. William Boyd Metts, president and founder of the new organiza tion, dropped the ax on his own brain-child by pulling the charter from the Student Activities files before it was considered for recog nition. The A A AC charter was in the hands of Student Activities less than 24 hours before he retracted it. “The purpose of the whole or ganization was misunderstood by practically everyone,” Metts said. “And since we were doing more harm than good, we thought it best to just drop the whole thing.” A&M Orphans Home As the new athletic dormitory nears comple- for a month and a half now, and still there tion, it seems that it may turn out to be an is no one to fill the vacancy, orphans’ home. “Papa Bear” has been gone Weather Today Continued partly cloudy skies with little change in temperature is the forecase for the College Sta tion area today. Sixty-two degrees was the high yesterday. This morning’s low i was 44 degrees.