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BATTALION
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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.