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Players Prepare
Battalion Staff Photo
Putting on stag"e makeup before the opening curtain of the
Aggie Players presentation of ‘'■Macbeth” are (front 1. to
r.) Mrs. Eugenia Harris, in charge of make-up, Paul Page
and David Dannenbaum, (back 1. to r.) Lynn Simmons'and
John Cull.
Players ? ‘Macbeth ?
Opens As Success
The Aggie Players’ production
of Macbeth opened last night in
Guion Hall, and if opening night
audiences can be considered good
judges of drama, it was a tremen
dous success.
Probably the most meaty produc
tion thus far attempted by the
group, this Shakespearean tale of
a map’s inner conflict presented a
Humber of staging problems for the
players. Yet they surpassed the
ixpectation of the first night au
dience again and again, displaying
an abundance of talent and where
it was lacking, a zeal that comes
from hard work.
Probably the most creditable per
formances last night were Toby
Hughes’s dynamic portrayal of
Macbeth and Mrs. Florence Dela-
plane’s moving interpretation of his
wife.
Second only to the ability dis
played by the Players were the cos
tumes they wore, mostly the
handiwork of Mrs. Mary South-
well. Lighting and special effects,
which literally make the success
of such a staging as this were
handily handled by Ray Killion,
Bob Wenck and their crews.
And although they sat with the
audience, during the performance,
the producer, C. K. Esten and di
rector, Dr. Sam B. Southwell, both
merited the after-the-show praise
they received for a large measure
of the credit for last night’s per
formance.
™ BATTALION
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Number 83: Volume 57
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11,1958
Price Five Cents
Students Hear Debaters
Thrash Co-ed Arguments
SPB Puts Off
Action On ‘Batt’
Until Friday
The Student Publications
Board Friday voted unani
mously to accept the report
presented by the Student Sen
ate, asking for the removal of
Joe Tindel as editor of The Battal
ion, but reserved final judgment
until another meeting this Friday.
Spokesman for the Senate was
Pat Resley, chairman of the Issues
Committee, which prepared the re
port.
In the charges presented against
Tindel, Resley contended that the
“Batt” editor had violated two ar
ticles of the Code of Newspaper
Ethics, as set forth by the Ameri
can Society of Newspaper Editors,
accuracy and impartiality, as well
as deviating from the purpose of
the publication, as set forth by
foi’mer president of the college, Da
vid H. Morgan.
Resley supported his charges
with examples fi’om back issues of
The Battalion and other state pa-
pei’s which carried stoi-ies submit
ted by Tindel. He also charged
that Tindel had slanted news
stories, and included editorial com
ment in objective reporting, but
did not show any examples.
Tindel was not present at the
meeting.
Four New RE Week
Leaders Announced
Four more religious leaders have
ieen announced as part of the 18
to participate in Religious Empha
sis Week Feb. 16-21.
The four will work in dormi
tories, conducting forums and dis-
Schur
Reed
cussion groups and holding per
sonal conferences.
Rabbi Robert J. Schur, Beth-El
Congregation in Houston, will live
and conduct the RE week activities
for Dorm 9.
He graduated from the Univer-
siyt of Cincinnati and the Hebrew
Union College in Cincinnati.
In February, 1952, he became
rabbi of a congregation in Alex
andria, La., where he served until
December, 1956.
He has been Rabbi of Temple
Beth-El, Fort Worth, since Decem
ber, 1956, in addition to being on
several H e b r e w organizations
throughout the southwest.
Living in Puryear Hall and
conducting the discussions for Pur
year, Law, and one-half of Mitchell
will be Rev. Eldon L. Reed, pastor
Yes or No?
Joe Brooks (left), Squadron 2 sophomore and a member of
the Election Commission, checks Bob Blake’s fee slip at the
voting booth at the MSC, as the A Infantry senior prepares
to cast his vote on the question, Are you in favor of co
education at A&M ? The polls opened at 8 this morning and
will remain open until 5:30 this evening.
of the Lakeview Methodist Church
in Poi’t Arthur.
The Rev. Reed became a pastor
at the age of 17 after entering the
ministry at the age of 16. He
graduated from Lon Morris Junior
Bailey
Cobbs
College, Stephen F. Austin State
College, and Perkins School of
Theology of Southern Methodist
University.
George W. Bailey, minister of the
College Chui'ch of Christ in Abilene,
will conduct the discussion groups
for Dorms 6 and 8 while living in
dorm 6.
Bailey, a native of Kaufman, at
tended Freed-Hardeman College in
Henderson, Tenn., Southwestern.
Tech, in Weatherford, Okla., and
the University of New Mexico, in
Albuquerque.
He has served the Abilene church
for four years.
Legett, Milner, and one-half of
Mitchell will be led by the Rev.
Louis R. Cobbs, director of the
Baptist Student Union, Lubbock.
The Rev. Cobbs attended Louisi
ana Polytechnic Institute, the Uni
versity of North Carolina and re
ceived his Bachelor of Arts degree
from Howai’d College, at Birming
ham, Ala. and his Bachelor of
Divinity and Master of Theology
from the Southwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary, in Fort
Worth before becoming professor
of the Baptist Chair of Bible, and
director of Baptist student work
at Texas Western College, El Paso,
in 1951.
The Rev. Cobbs will live in Leg
gett Hall.
Ags Voting Today
On Controversy
By FRED MEURER
Virtually every argument either for or against co-edu
cation at A&M was thrashed out by a debate panel last night,
the eve of today’s campus-wide referendum to ascertain how
Aggies feel on the issue.
Sponsored by the YMCA Cabinet, the debate was de
signed primarily to enlighten cautious students as they pre
pared to vote today in a ballot which could possibly change
the all-male status at Aggieland in the future.
Six campus personalities squared off on the panel, wit
nessed by a full house. Arguing against co-education were
Bill McKown, Civilian Student Council president; Don Kir
by, commander of the First Wing; and Dr. H. O. Kunkel of
the Biochemistry and Nutri- +
tion Department.
Speakers urging co-educa
tion were Jack Nelson, Corps
public information officer;
Joe Tindel, editor of The Battal
ion; and Dr. Edward Andrew of
the Electrical Engineering Depart
ment. Both Kunkel and Andrew
are former students of A&M.
Much discussion centered around
the question of whether A&M, with
its all-male status, was discrimi
nating against women and wheth
er it was fulfilling its obligation
to the State’s citizens as a land
grant college.
“I think the fundamental ques
tion is that we are discriminating
against the women of Texas”, said
Andrew. Tindel backed him by
saying: “A&M has an obligation
to all young Texans to allow them
to take advantage of the low costs
here.”
But Kunkel fired back: “I ques
tion just how much A&M is not
meeting obligations to Texas by
not being co-educationali.” He
showed that 90 per cent of women
graduates in the country never en
ter into the career for which they
were trained.
Through the weeks that the co
ed controversy has rocked the cam
pus, a strong argument of the fac
tion opposing the move has been
the probable downfall of Aggie
traditions and A&M’s military
bearing.
“The all-male characteristic of
the student body aids in the de
velopment of discipline, confidence
and self-reliance”, said Kunkel.
Kirby added: “A&M is idolized by
many boys coming out of high
schools. With 18 colleges already
co-ed in Texas, why go co-ed here ?”
Andrew said in defense: “After
one year, something becomes an old
tradition here. If a tradition can’t
stand up under competition, it’s
not very worthy.”
Nelson pointed out A&M’s need
RV’s Leave Friday
For Mardi Gras
Approximately 100 Ross Volun
teers will leave Friday and Satur
day to be honored guests at the
annual Mardi Gras celebration in
New Orleans next week, Charlie
Smith, Commanding Officer, said
yesterday.
Members must be in New Orleans
by Sunday, he said. Monday they
will be treated by the New Orleans
A&M club at Arnaud’s restaurant.
The company will then march as
King Rex’s honor guard in the
Mardi Gras parade Shrove Tues
day. On Tuesday night members
will be Rex’s special guests at his
ball.
The RV’s will leave New Orleans
Wednesday and be back here for
classes Thursday, Smith said.
to improve its educational system
and demonstrated how co-eds would
help. “Aggies are lacking in cul
tural education,” he said. “Women
are more culturally inclined and
would help this situation on the
campus.” He also commented that
co-education would force students
to dress neater.
Kunkel argued that the bit of cul
tural knowledge to be sacrificed
in an all-male institution was made
up for by the leadership grasped
under A&M’s “rugged” training
methods.
Necessary adjustments for co
education would run into excessive
expenditure, said McKown. Dorms,
furniture, dining and separate hos
pital facilities, for example, would
mean huge additional costs. “If
we have to spend anything extra,
let’s spend it on the Aggies,” he
urged.
Andrew, speaking from a teach
er’s standpoint, said low faculty
salaries which would be increased
by higher enrollment had a direct
bearing on the attainment of new
faculty members. “Tack the high
cost of sending their daughters to
college onto low salaries, and
where do they stand?”
“Living on a co-ed campus offers
better adjustment for living with
your wife later on,” said Tindel,
concerning the social aspects of
women on the campus. But in the
question and answer period follow
ing the discussion, a Sqdn. 3 fresh
man wondered how much good co
eds would do for freshmen and
sophomores.
“Freshmen and sophomores will
not receive the cultural benefit be
cause ‘rank hath its privileges,”
he said, indicating upperclassmen
had more time for dates, etc.
Such was the course of the high
ly successful debate.
Voting today will be conducted
until 5:30 p.m. in the Memorial
Student Center and at the news
stand near Sbisa Hall. Anyone
who has not cast his ballot is urged
to go out and do so.
Spirit ‘Grea test ’
Myers Says of Ags
The spirit of Aggieland is the
greatest in the United States and
truly exemplifies the American
spirit.
‘Anti-coed'
Banner Over
Corps Area
An unfamiliar flag waved
over the old Corps area yester
day.
An “anti-coed” banner was
flying from the flagpole in
the quadrangle early yesterday
morning. The flag was ap
parently placed there to influ
ence votes in the controversial
coeducation issue voting today.
The flag was adorned with
the inscription, “What’ll you
Have?” Beneath the letter
ing, on both sides of the ban
ner was a large pair of ladies
red panties, to the right of the
undergarments was the word
“or,” then on the far right of
the flag was a TAMC patch,
neatly drawn in crayon.
Atomic Conference
To Re Held Here
A&M is the scene of the First
Annual Conference on the Utiliza
tion of Atomic Energy, March 31-
\ p r i 1 2, reactor program co
ordinator Richard E. Wainerdi, said
yesterday.
Conference programs will be
divided into five parts: nuclear
reactors, isotopes and their use;
nuclear waste disposal; petroleum
industry applications of atomic
energy, and nuclear education.
Wainerdi, and Professors J. L.
Liverman, R. G. Bader, R. B. Boss
ier and E. H. Andrew are chairmen
of the five divisions respectively.
Graduate Orders
Begin Tomorrow
Seniors may begin ordering their
graduation announcements tomor
row in the Student Activities Of
fice, W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, of
that office, said yesterday.
Cost for announcements is as
follows: Frenchfold paper, 10
cents; card boai’d, 40 cents; lea
ther, 75 cents; printing cards,
$1.50, and engraved cards, $2.50.
These were the words Jim Myers,
used to describe his feelings after
the special yell practice staged by
the Corps of Cadets last night in
the Grove.
Bone-chilling weather didn’t
seem to cool the Aggie Spirit in the
Corps last night as it turned out
en masse to officially welcome
Myers.
Myers described his first Aggie
yell practice as “the most over
whelming experience of my life.”
Probably the only college coach,
in the United States drafted by a
student body, Myers was fully ac
cepted by the yelling Aggies from
the moment he stepped on the stage
in the Grove and endeared himself
further by his words.
After declaring himself an
“adopted Texan” but always “a
Texas Aggie—a fightin’ Texas Ag
gie at heart,” Myers announced his
battle plan for next season. Some
of it runs like this, “Tame the
Cougars, Gig the Frogs, Call in the
Hogs, Break the Mustangs and
Round up a Steer.”
“Such spii’it as shown at the yell
practice is something every foot
ball coach desires to be a part of.
People eyerywhere are envious of
the Aggie spirit,” Myers concluded.
ITS to Audition
TU Talent Tonight
Talent from the University of
Texas will be auditioned tonight in
the Texas Union in Austin by an
audition team for the 7th annual
Intercollegiate Talent Show.
The group will leave the Me
morial Student Center at 5 this
afternoon and return tonight after
the audition.
This weekend, auditions will be
held at Texas Christian University,
Texas Woman’s University, the
University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma
State University, and the Univer
sity of Arkansas.
The weekend trip will be the last
audition trip for talent for the ITS
which will be held in G. Rollie
White Coliseum March 14.
Feature attraction of the ITS
will be the Kilgore College Rangex 1 -
ettes.
Making the txap to Austin will be
Joe Lowe, ITS dix’ector, Mike Gill,
Paul Rosenthal, Art Oswald, all
members of the Music Committee
sponsors of ITS, Rosalie Spencex’,
MSC program advisor, and Johnny
Johnson. ^
Weather Today
College weather station forecasts
continued cloudy and cool weather
for the local area, with some rain
xnd fog expected.
A high of 43 degrees and a low
xf 30 are forecast for today.
‘Overwhelming Experience’
Jim Myers and his football coaching staff special yell practice held last night in
are officially welcomed to Aggieland at a Grove.
the