The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Tuesday, February 4, 1958
Man to Man
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By JOE TINDEL
That final semester, awaited by most of the Class of
’58 is finally here.
For some it means the accomplishment of nearly four
years of sweat, work and hardship filled with experiences
which will be of utmost benefit in later years.
The four years have been what each man has made
them. Some will have an education other than a degree and
some have worked hard for themselves and their school to
merit that degree and education.
Only a few months remain. In those few months many
things can and probably will happen to test the benefits of
these four years. The final judgment of each man’s merit
can only come after these months pafes and the ultimate
goal of graduation is reached.
★ ★ ★
Aggies, the enrollment figures look serious. What
caused the abnormal drop? Is it something anyone can
do anything about? It seems to me and many others I’ve
talked to that each one of us should closely and objectively
examine the situation and try to determine the cause.
★ ★ ★
More and more letters every day cross my desk ask
ing: What’s wrong with Texas A&M? They come from
exes, mothers, interested Texans and other friends of our
great school.
It’s time we made an all—out effort to answer these
questions for those that ask. I suggest a study be made
by top student leaders on the campus which would result
in definite recommendations to improve the college.
Think about it and let’s talk about it.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Editor,
The Battalion:
Keep up the fight to make
A&M co-educational. There can
be no question that the all-male
policy has held our school back
while the rest have doubled and
tripled.
The step to make military
training compulsory was another
step backward. It sometimes
seems that our board of directors
is bent against any progress.
Sincerely,
Dr. Charles K. Tubbs,’43
Editor,
The Battalion:
I see by today’s Houston
Chronicle you have been greatly
insulted by some of the students
at the college, because you fa
vored the admission of Miss Ann
■ Adams and other white young
ladies to the A&M College—in
terfering greatly with your
rights, liberty and speech, to pub
lish your opinions on the sub
ject, in violation of the Bill of
Eights of the Constitution of the
U.S.A. and Texas.
I attended A&M in the session
• 1889-1890—at that time it was
quite rough—but times have
changed for the good. Today the
college ranks very high in con
duct and education. In those
days there wei’e no occupations
or enterprises in which young
women could avail themselves.
Today they have 4-H Club train
ing in fattening cattle, sheep,
hogs and goats for contests—and
have achieved gi'eat admiration
for their efforts—in addition to
the right to vote and serve on
juries, be delegates to a political
convention, and they stand today
on the pinnacle of admiration by
Texas State Constitution pro
vided in Art. VII, Sec. 13 estab
lished by an act of the legisla
ture passed April 17, 1871, “made
and constructed constituted a
branch of the University of Tex
as for instruction and in agricul
ture, the mechanical arts and the
natural sciences connected there
with.”
The University of Texas was
provided for in Sec. 10, Art. VII
of the Constitution “for the
promotion of literature, science,
etc.”
I attended the University of
Texas in fall, 1890, and there
were many young ladies there,
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and it was a fine place for a
young man to learn social affairs
and admiration for the young la
dies.
Now if A&M is a branch of
the University of Texas, why
can’t they have the same rights
and privileges? A&M, being a
branch, is the same as the limb
of a tree, being a part of the tree.
I note Mr. Jack Finney’s state
ment in the Chronical, “this is
a male institution.” I want to
know where there’s any law in
Texas that it is a male institu
tion. I know it has been so
through custom for many years.
I note “custom” is a “long estab
lished practice considered an un
written law.”
Art. VII, Sec. 14. University
for Colored—j“A college or branch
university for the instruction of
the colored youths of the state.”
The word youth applies to young
persons “as she retains her
youth.” Prairie View is co-educa
tional. Why can’t A&M be co-ed-
ucational ?
I hope you will maintain your
stability and right of free speech,
and I admire you and wish you
success.
Yours truly,
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AUSTIN —By 1962 the first
wave of the state’s “war babies”
—probably hundreds of thous
ands of them—will be seeking a
college education in Texas.
Time to get ready for them is
now, says the Commission on
Higher Education.
Created by the Legislature in
1955, the Commission has spent
some two years getting organ
ized and gathering facts. Now,
says the Commission’s director,
Dr. Ralph T. Green, it is ready
to start making some “firm rec
ommendations,” beginning with
its meeting Feb. 10 in Denton.
Commission has the responsi
bility for studying the needs and
problems of all 18 state supported
colleges and universities and mak
ing recommendations and appro
priation requests for them to the
Legislature.
Commission staff has done ex
tensive research in areas of pro
fessor’s salaries, how many stu
dents take what courses and pos
sible need for more branches and
courses in certain areas.
Several cities have been active
ly demanding senior college sta
tus for their junior colleges. Com
mission is to have recommenda
tions on this later.
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Statewide, the possibilities are
even more overwhelming. There
are some 160,000 students in both
state and private colleges now,
said Dr. Green, but by ’62 there
will be an estimated 320,000 pros
pective college students.
Exact figures arc not possible,
of course, he said, but “there’s
no getting around it, the kids
are there. It’s almost frightening
to foresee this tremendous volunie
and know, too, that standards,
must be raised to meet demands
for improved scientific and tech
nical training. But with good
planning, we can do it.
POLIO PLUMMETC — Best
news from the State Health De-j
partment recently is the 1957 po-i
lio figures—lowest in a decade. ■
Total for 1957 was 734 cases, :'
just a little over half the 19561
total 1,307 and less than one-J
fourth the peak year of 1952]
(3,984).
Department officials said they]
expect a continued, but more]
gradual decline, as more people]
take the vaccine. Shots are not]
likely ever to stamp out the dis-j
ease completely, they said, since]
the vaccine does not prevent non
paralytic polio.
At present, says Dr. Green,
Texas’ 18 state colleges have
some 77,913 students. By 1962,
he predicted, they will have 102,-
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On Campus
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MaxShulman
(By the Author of “Rally Round the Flag, Boys!" and
“Barefoot Boy with Cheek")
A SCHOOL AWAY FROM SCHOOL
Students majoring in science, like all other American
students, have a wild yearning for culture, but, alas,
when a student is after a degree in engineering or math
or like that, he simply does not have time to take all the
liberal arts courses his heart pines for.
And what is being done about this unhappy situation?
I’ll tell you what: Enlightened corporations everywhere
are setting up on-the-job liberal arts programs for the
newly employed science graduate—courses designed to
broaden his cultural base—for the enlightened corpora
tion realizes that the truly cultured employee is the truly
valuable employee.
Take, for example, Lambswool Sigafoos.
A week after his graduation, Lambswool reported to
Mr. Femur, the personnel director of an enlightened cor
poration engaged in the manufacture of cotter pins and
wing nuts. “How do you do?” said Lambswool. “I’m
Lambswool Sigafoos and I’ve come to work.”
“Sit down,” said Mr. Femur, chuckling kindly. “Have
a Marlboro.”
“Thank you,” said Lambswool. “I like Marlboros.
I like their filter and their flavor.”
“Me too,” said Mr. Femur, blinking humanely. “And I
like their flip-top box. When my flip-top box of Marlboros
is empty, I use it to keep fish hooks in.”
“Know what I do when my flip-top box of Marlboros
is empty?” asked Lambswool.
“What?” said Mr. Femur, sniggering graciously.
“I buy some more Marlboros,” said Lambswool.
“A sound idea,” said Mr. Femur, vibrating fetchingly.
“But enough chit-chat. Come along to the campus.”
“Campus?” said Lambswool, puzzled. “But I’ve come
to work. Take me to my drawing board.”
“This is an enlightened corporation,” said Mr. Femur,
yodelling viciously. “First you must get your cultural
base broadened.”
Mr. Femur took Lambswool to the training campus,
which looked like any other campus. It had ivy-covered
buildings, dormitories, fraternity and sorority houses, a
stadium, a deer park, and a moat. Lambswool was given
a roommate, a beanie, and copies of the company hymn
and rouser, and the enlightened corporation proceeded to
fill the gap in his culture.
First he was taught to read, then to print capital letters,
then capital and small letters. Then there was an attempt
to teach him script, but it was ultimately abandoned.
From these fundamentals, Lambswool progressed slowly
but steadily through the more complex disciplines. He
was diligent, and the corporation was patient, and in the
end they were rewarded, for when Lambswool finished,
he could play a clavier, compose a triolet, parse a sentence,
and identify the birthstone for every month of the year.
His lengthy schooling finally over, Lambswool was
assigned to an important executive position where he
served with immense distinction.. .. Not, however, for
long, because one week later he reached retirement age.
Today, still spry, he lives in St. Petersburg, Florida,
where he supplements his pension by parsing sentences
foi touiists. © 1958. Max Shulman
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