The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Wednesday, February 5, 1958
Aii Editorial
Vote Important
Tuesday has been set for the co-education referendum
and that vote definitely will have a great effect on A&M’s
future.
In fact, it is so important that it must represent the
true feeling of all the voters.
A vote for co-education need not mean a vote to end the
Corps. It will only mean that Aggies approve of women at
tending classes at A&M and living as day students.
Later it could mean that women can live on campus and
attend classes, but by this time, the Corps could be organized
to accept the women without disrupting their program.
On the other hand, a vote against co-education could
mean Aggies feel the Corps could not adjust to a co-educa-
tional situation and function properly or that women could
not be made a part of the great traditions of A&M.
A point to be considered, undoubtedly, but one which
is not of primary importance, will be the companionship of
the fair sex and their enhancement of campus atmosphere.
Only the advantages and disadvantages should be
weighed in coming to a conclusion about the right way to
vote. Some of them are as follows:
Advantages:
1. Texas A&M, as a state school, has an obligation to
the young men AND women of Texas in this age when the
“war babies” are flooding the colleges and universities of
the state.
2. Enrollment, which so drastically dipped this semes
ter, must be kept high and increased to assure good salaries
for professors. If salaries are good, A&M will keep the
good professors it now has and attract other good ones and
as a result increase educational standards.
3. Women on the campus would improve training in
social activties since men will have to work and associate
with women as well as with other men when they graduate.
4. Of the least importance, but still to be considered
is the aid co-education would give coaches in securing top-
notch athletes.
Disadvantages:
1. Probably greatest among disadvantages would be the
loss of school-wide unity which was once so prevalent on the
campus. (It has dwindled in the last few years.) Bring a
woman into the picture where there are two males who are
good friends and immediately competition begins and the
friendship is not so great.
2. Some A&M traditions, which are of questionable
nature in the first place, would have to be abandoned.
3. A&M would lose its chance to become the great
military school it strives to be.
4. Many courses offered at A&M are of little attraction
to women. i
These and other advantages and disadvantages might
be enumerated except for lack of space.
The Battalion, after studying both sides, must vote for
and support co-education in the interest of A&M’s progress
as an educational institution.
It does, however, feel that only day student co-educa
tion must come immediately. Full-time co-education, regard
less of physical facilities, should come only after prepara
tion by both Civilians and Corps members so A&M’s best
traditions will not be lost in the transition.
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Letters To The Editor
A&M Lagging In
Military Facilities
By FRED MEURER
Universities with ROTC train
ing on a part-time basis are sur
passing A&M—noted for its mil
itary training program—in that
field, as far as facilities are con
cerned.
Our neighbor to the West, for
example, the University of Texas
by name, dedicated an $850,000
ROTC building in November, de
signed strictly for teaching mili
tary tactics to its cadets for four
or five hours each week per indi
vidual.
Here at A&M, advanced ROTC
classes are held in crowded, hot-
in-the-spring, cold-in-the-winter
buildings — properly named the
“Shacks”.
Cadets at Texas — be they in
the Air Force, Army or N^val
ROTC — sport the authenic uni
forms of their branch.
And here at A&M ? Shades of
General MacArthur! The Army
cadets gripe because they wear
the uniform of pre-WW II vint
age. But Air Force cadets have
a double gripe because they wear
the same outdated Army uni
forms rather than Air Force
blues.
While TU is noted for its tower,
A&M is noted for its ability to
turn out a high quality of offi
cers. While TU teaches some
1,300 cadets on a part-time basis,
A&M has some 2,800 cadets who
live in a military atmosphere
seven days a week. Yet the train
ing facilities at Texas offer a
young man so much more.
With their new ROTC building,
Texas ranks among the top three
schools in the nation as far as
military facilities are concerned.
Editor,
The Battalion:
Here is a letter written by a
sophomore at Incarnate Word
College in San Antonio. I be
lieve that she has expressed
something that is in the heart
of every bright-eyed girl who
visits Aggieland for the first
time. It came as an answer to
the question: “What do you
think of A&M being co-educa-
tional ?”
I quote: “As for Aggie
land being coed, I’m against
it all the way. More than
half the Aggie spirit would
be gone to the four winds,
with girls on the campus.
For a girl, after she got
there all her dreams would
be lost, because it wouldn’t
be a dream anymore or some
thing to dream of. Think
of all the work students and
profs would have to go to.
Anyway where could girls
dorm in that man’s world?
I just can’t see Aggieland
coed!
You asked for my opinion
and there you have it.”
Just a note for all the fair
ones trying to enter A&M, I say,
“Don’t go away mad—just go
away!”
John C. Bullard ’58
Editor,
The Battalion:
I have just read a letter in the
Dallas News from a certain Dav
id M. Kravitz, Box 5951, College
Station, Texas. “To make A&M
coed would destroy everything
that 82 years of traditions and
customs have created,” he wrote.
If he stops to think I believe he
will realize this—if America, rich
in tradition as it is, had kept all
its traditions and customs, we
would still be driving covered
wagons and using spinning
wheels.
Maybe all-male schools were
the vogue 82 years ago, but times
have changed. Maybe women
didn’t go to A&M when it was
founded; does that that mean
they shouldn’t now ? A&M could
offer many outstanding curricula
to/women; why not let them have
a chance? Women didn’t vote
when the US was founded, but
the 19th amendment changed
this.
He goes on to say that Bryan
people are interested in having
the school go coed, not for the
benefit of the school, but to add
to their cash registers. Maybe
this is true; I don’t know. But it
seems to me that if it would help
the merchants, it might also con
ceivably with the increased en
rollment help the school in the
form of more money, stretching
the taxpayer’s dollar further and
bringing better classrooms, equip
ment and professors.
He classifies A&M with West
Point and Annapolis. Here I feel
he is mistaken, since A&M, al
though it has an outstanding
ROTC, is a state land grant col
lege, not a military academy.
This I say to you, Mr. Kravitz,
There’s no use fighting it. Wo
men' are here to stay.
Name Withheld
P.S. I’m withholding my name
for obvious reasons. I am a high
school senior and plan to attend
—you guessed it—Texas Univer
sity. Oh, yes. I’m a girl.
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