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The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Thursday, January 23, 1958
Man to Man
By JOE TIN DEL
Last week’s column was going to be the last one be
fore the end of the semester but in view of all the events
occurring during the past week, J think comments on them
are in order. *
Uppermost in our minds today is the hiring of Jim
Myers as head football coach and athletic director. The Bat
talion has known he would come here for at least two days or
one day before the announcement.
Hiring Myers is the wisest thing that has been done at
A&M for many years. His qualifications are above reproach
according to Gary Rollins, Battalion sports editor. The Bat
talion thought he was best all along so we went out and
helped get him for the Aggie team.
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A letter on this page asks me to explain why I got out
of the Corps my freshman year and labels me anti-Corps.
Mr. Cross’s opinion is that I am anti-Corps and T respect
his opinion and right to express it. I would urge him, how
ever, to study the Battalion editorial policy closer before he
cides definitely.
I got out of the Corps two weeks after the beginning
of my sophomore year, not during my freshman year. I
had academic reasons which were encouraged by definite
knowledge of contract ineligibility because of a physical
handicap. If anyone wants to know more, my office is al
ways open to visitors.
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As might be imagined, many letters have come to this
office concerning the co-education controversy. The Bat
talion has always tried and will continue to run all letters of
reasonable length.
AUSTIN—Pay your poll tax!
Pay your poll tax! Pay your poll
tax!
AFL-CIO and strong labor com
mittees are making- a vigorous
drive to get union members to
pay the $1.75 right-to-vote tax,
and become eligible to put labor
in the saddle in Texas govern
ment.
Gov. Price Daniel is urging all
Texans to get that poll tax re
ceipt now, before the Jan. 31
deadline.
'‘Bad public officials are elected
by good citizens who do not vote,”
the governor said. “I urge every
Texan who loves this state and
believes in majority rule to pay
his poll tax and take active part
this year in the fight for consti
tutional government of, by and
for the people.”
He emphasized that "minority
groups should not be allowed to
take over Texas.”
State Democratic Executive
Committee heads, Jim Lindsey of
Texarkana and Jake Pickle of
Austin are also busy contacting
eligible voters.
&</ Vem SbriforcL
Equally active is the Democrats
for Texas organization, whose
chief spokesman is Mrs. Frankie
Randolph of Houston. Aiding her
are Alex Dickie of Denton, Creek-
more Fath of Austin, AFL-CIO
heads, and NAACP leaders.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY CON
TROL is expected to be a hotter
issue this year than most cam
paigns for Capitol posts.
The stage is set for the first
round of customary shin-kicking
and name-calling at the State
Democratic Executive Committee
meeting here Feb. 1. SDEC is
largely made up of conservatives
favorable to Governor Daniel.
Their critics and Opponents are
the Democrats of Texas, a liberal
group which contends its parti
sans were in the majority at the
last state convention, but were
unfairly squeezed out of party
posts.
DOT has drawn up a proposed
"code of ethics” which, it says,
will prevent any fast shuffles at
future conventions. At the Feb.
1 meeting DOT representatives
will urge the Executive Commit
tee to adopt the code.
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JOE TINDEL : Editor
Jim Neighbors .* Managing Editor
Gary Rollins Sports
Joy Roper Society Editor
Gayle McNutt, Val Polk City Editors
Joe Buser, Fred Meurer News Editors
Jim Carrel! Assistant Sports Editor
Robert Weekley, David Stoker, Johnny Johnson, John Warner,
Ronald Easley, Lewis Reddell Reporters
A New Flag Over Kyle Field—Long May It Wave
All The World
Searches For
Aggie Coach
And the hue and cry for a
coach for A&M has carried as far
as Seattle, Washington.
According to one Emmett Wat
son, in the Post-Intelligencer, of
that city, on Jan. 17, the next
coaching prospect should be Oscar
Hammerstein II. He said that,
as Hammerstein pointed out,
"There is nothing like a dame.”
And that goes for football players
and coaches, he said.
He quoted from the much quot
ed statements of Bob Busby, of
the Kansas City Star, who called
existence at A&M, “. . . Spartan,
with no mid-week proms, no jel
lying at the soda fountain with
a dolly.”
“The coaching problem, is a
lack of girls. College football
prospects do not like the idea of
four years at A&M with nothing
to ogle but other college football
players,” Watson said.
Yet, after yesterday, it seems
that Aggie football players may
have something other than each
other to ogle . . . namely, Jim
Myers.
mwt
Well, the 51 days and nights
of fasting are over. The orphans
now have parents. And it is good.
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Since I’ve been getting requests
to use names in my column (of
sorts), here’s a start:
James (Jim), Jon, Gary and
Lupe.
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Could we say a new trend is
beginning on the campus? Let’s
see, what would it be like to see
on the ballots next year at elec
tion time,
“Mark here for your choice for
the investigation committee.”
Evil is everywhere.
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Especially posted outside the
classroom door.
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Adiqs, Lupe.
Letters To The Editor
Editor:
The Battalion
I would like to make a few re
marks concerning the formation
of an association for the advance
ment of co-education on the A&M
campus.
I feel that Metts is perfectly
within his rights in creating this
organization for this is a free
country. But I am protesting the
proposed name of this group (Ag
gie Association for the Advance
ment of Co-education) because the
men founding it are not Aggies.
I believe that it is wrong for the
people of Texas and all people
who know A&M to be fooled into
thinking that a group of Aggies
would sponsor such a group.
Being enrolled as a student at
A&M does not give a person the
privilege of calling himself an
Aggie. The men, Civilian and mil
itary, who, since 1876, have built
and loved the proud reputation
and great traditions of this school
are Aggies.
Can anyone who proposes to
tear down these traditions call
himself an Aggie ?
Can William Metts call him
self an Aggie? ... I say NO!
And he can’t rightfully call his
group an "Aggie Association”
any more than I could form a
“W. B. Metts Association for the
Promotion of Communism.”
Jim Riggs ’58
Editor:
The Battalion
It seems to me that we Aggies
have more than our share of hos
tility to face in the Southwest
without brewing more among our
selves. Why don’t we all make
an effort to unite ?
There would still be differences
of opinions pertaining to compul
sory Corps, co-education, etc., but
hell gentlemen, we are supposed
to be (almost according to the
profs) mentally mature. We
should be able to discuss these
differences intelligently and real
ize the best possible conclusions
without becoming hostile with one
another.
Larry Van Doozer ’58
Editor:
The Battalion
Mr. William Boyd Metts:
This note is just to tell you we
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admire the stand you have taken
for woman admission and the fact
that the student body has factions
that have hurt you in their strong
arm tactics is deplorable. *
This violence indicates their
frustration over a situation that
they cannot cope with in the writ
ten word. I’m proud to see fel
lows like you, otherwise A&M
and Texas will remain decades
behind the cultures and schools
better than A&M that have ad
mitted women long ago.
Don’t doubt the wisdom of your
stand even though there is vio
lence and ignorance on the cam
pus today.
Michael Sivetz
9748 Westview
Houston, Texas
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