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The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Thursday, January 30,1958
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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Who wants to improve the City of College Station?
Last night 20 citizens attended a special called meeting of
the College Station Civic Association to decide the fate of
the organization.
Fortunately for College Station, the 20 civic-minded
individuals professed the desire that the civic group live.
What if they had not? What would the city lose by the
death of a so far lifeless body ?
Those 20 citizens deserve the title COLLEGE STATION
CITIZENS. Should the other 7,500 or so residents of this
city be given recognition as citizens if they are not even
interested enough in their own town to work towards its
betterment ?
What if the civic organization had died last night? If
it had, the town would have lost the one group which can
represent every single resident of the community—which
it sorely needs. /
What would the city have lost if the CSCA had died?
It would have lost the spark and the efforts of a small group
of people working for the improvement of College Station.
One couple came to the meeting last night and thought
they had come to a committee meeting instead of the civic
association. The woman expressed surprise and said she
expected the room to be overflowing. It should have been.
College Station needs more people like the 20 who
helped keep alive the CSCA. Its residents owe them a vote
of thanks. JN
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Editor:
The Battalion
The recent debacle of the
coaching situation at the college
has left me, an Aggie-Ex of
1938, in the most embarrassing-
situation since my graduation.
There are many reasons for.
the poor relations that now exist
in the athletic circles of the na
tion, as well as at A&M. As I
see it, the burden lies in the mud
dle that has existed for the past
15 years at the college, both in
the academic as well as in the
athletic.
My wife, an ex-TSCW student,
is a more ardent supporter of
the Aggie football team, if that’s
possible, than I am. We have
become disgusted and sick of
poor administration of the ath
letic situation at the college for
the past 10 years. Bryant would
not have abandoned the college,
had he been supported by the
powers.
There is a lot of good in the
possibility of making A&M a co
ed school. I loved the life and
spirit of A&M in 1934-38. I
still do, but maybe we best change
our outlook in this space age.
Let’s all, the exes, get together
to weld a strong, respected and
powerful college, with the pres
tige and reputation that was
once enjoyed by our school.
Joe J. Clouts Jr. ’38
Crockett, Texas
Editor:
The Battalion
It has always been a personal
joke among my Aggie friends
and me for me to be able to at
tend A&M, but I never dreamed
this would be so close to reality.
As I have read in the “Hous
ton Press” you have had 70 years
of a non-co-educational school,
why not make it another 70 ? Of
course there are exceptions to all
cases, but most of the girls pre
fer A&M the way it is now. I
place A&M on the same basis as
I do West Point and Annapolis
and they certainly have .not en
rolled girls.
In regard to a students’ com
ment “of cutting do-wn accidents,”
I disagree with him. Aggies, whe
ther they have two or three girls
at their fingertips, are going to
travel out of town to find more
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of the fairer sex. It is going to
take time for the Aggies to have
enough girls around; so what is
being gained in the immediate
future. I agree that there has
to be a first time for everything,
but A&M has already done
enough experiencing.
B.P.
Editor:
The Battalion
I’ve just read one of your dis
gusting editorials and I must say
it made me absolutely sick to my
stomach. You are, in my opinion,
sir, a disgrace to A&M and I put
that mildly.
This idea of A&M going co
educational is as ridiculous as
West Point, the Naval Academy,
Citadel or the Air Force Acad
emy going co-educational. I can
picture an Aggie senior of the
future outfitted in the latest Lit
tle Lord Fauntleroy styles, eat
ing toast and drinking tea. If
this is what the Aggies had
wanted, they’d have gone to T.U.
in the first place.
The military life and rugged
hazing weeds out the undesirable
characters and makes the Cadet
Corps at A&M the cream of the
crop. Just cogitate of the type
scum that would be calling A&M
their alma mater if this is done
away with.
We girls don’t want to go to
A&M. We realize that it would
completely crumble the very
foundation of this great school.
The natural feminine infidelity
would completely abolish the
Spirit of Aggieland, the life
blood of A&M and soon the fa
mous unity would be a thing of
the past.
I’m about the most gung-ho
person around—completely swept
off my feet by A&M. I seriously
cogitated of going there in the
summer, majoring in animal hus
bandry, hut I would never go
there if it went co-ed. I would
not be a party in the ruining of
this school.
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I firmly cogitate, sir, that pub
lic opinion will be strongly op
posed to you and others like you.
I can’t imagine what kind of
people would want to completely
renovate—and ruin A&M.
I realize some of them gre just
mercenary, but all I can say, sir,
is that the whole smelling idea
makes me want to regurgitate.
Melinda Baugh
Gainesville, Texas
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