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18,440 READERS THE BATTALION Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Carnpms Number 105: Volume 57 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1958 Price Five Cents N*/jk I '.I < 1111II iliminiiife (ijtSffMlii Students Interviewed Voice Coed Opinions By JOHNNY JOHNSON Co-education will greatly change A&M, the Corps and traditions were the feelings of most students interviewed last night regarding Tuesday’s ruling to allow two Bry an women to enter A&M, thereby allowing girls to enter traditional ly all-male A&M. As to the good or bad of the changes, Corps and Civilian stu dents split sharply with most Corps members feeling co-edu cation would hui’t A&M. Most students interviewed felt traditions would suffer most from the co-educational transition. “Most Aggies come to A&M for its traditions and spirit. The court decision, if allowed to stand, will ruin both these things. We might as well start social fraternities, in stead of trying to maintain the spirit here,” where the feelings of Dan Burt, Squadron 10 junior from Longview. A contrasting opinion was ex pressed by John Gladville, San Antonio Civilian senior. He said,” I think it (co-education) will be all right. 1 don’t think A&M will change because oC co-education. At Town Hall Spanish Dancers To Appear Monday Town Hall will present Jose Greco and his company of Spanish dancers Monday night at 8 in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Dancing star of “Around the World in 80 Days,” Greco gained world-wide fame as the finest male Spanish dancer in the business fol lowing his world tours. Lole de Ronday, Jose Molina, Pepita Sevilla, Rosario Caro, Do lores del Carmen, Lupe del Rio, Manuela de Jerez, Miguel Garcia, and Roger Machado complete the troupe of Spanish dancers and singers. After acquiring a love for Span ish dancing while in his native Italy, Greco immigrated to the United States at the age of 10. He attended art school for a short Kiwanis Pancakes On Sale Saturday Thousands of pancakes will go on the griddle Saturday when the Kiwanis Aunt Jemima Pancake Supper begins at 4 p. m. at Bryan Country Club, Johnny Longley, College Station Kiwanis president, said yesterday. Pancakes will be served until 9 p. m. and everyone will get all he can eat, Longley said. The supper is sponsored by Bryan and College Station Kiwanis Clubs. Tickets are 50 cents each and may be purchased from any Ki- wanian or at the door of the coun try club. Members of the club will also have a ticket sales stand in downtown Bryan all day Saturday. while and then began concentrat ing on dancing. Greco soon had his first professional engagement in New York City. Town Hall cards will be honored at the show and tickets will be on sale at the door. Adult ducats are $1 and children will be admitted for 50 cents. * «? . Jose Greco There won’t be enough girls who will come here for that. In line with changes in the Corps, if co-education is allowed, Fred Rodriguez, Civilian freshman from Rio Grande City, said, “Co education and compulsory Corps will come into conflict with each other, and one will have to give to allow the other to survive.” Class of ’61 president Charles Murphy, Squadron 15, said, “The main asset of A&M—Aggie Spirit —will go when co-education comes. When spirit is gone, most of what A&M means to thousands of exes and futui - e-exes will be gone also.” John Dosher, Squadron 16 senior from Hobbs, N. M., felt co-edu cation Avould take away far more than it would bring. He said, “It will tear down traditions and will not bring enough girls to even make A&M a good co-ed school.” “Some people like co-educational schools and some like all-male or all-female schools. The state should maintain schools for both groups, was the opinion of Tee Romero, Squadron 16 sophomore from West Columbia, “Changes will take place, but they won’t affect the school much,” voiced Civilian Alton Myers, junior from La Marque. Despite how this minority of students interviewed feel about co education, the final decision rests with the rulings of the courts. Weather Today Forecast for College Station and vicinity is clear to partly cloudy today, tonight and Friday with slowly rising temperatures. High temperature yesterday was 60 degrees and the low last night was 41. Expected high temperature today is 71 and low tomorrow morning is expected to be 45 de grees, according to the A&M Oceanography and Meterology weather station. Profs Told Defense Role of Education Americans must realize that the survival and well-being of this nation depend no less upon the strength of our education system than upon the strength of our mil itary establishment. Dr. Logan Wilson, President of the Univer sity of Texas, said yesterday. Speaking before the faculty of the School of Arts and Sciences on the subject, “Understanding and Support for Higher Educa tion,” education called for “posi tive and immediate action on all levels—federal, local and volun tary. . .” improve our educational system. “If the nation is to survive and prosper, we must start making the basic provisions now,” said Wil son. He said local support and control will remain the best safe guards and guarantee of our schools’ progress. He called for doubling the salaries of all teach ers and improving and adding to physical facilities. Profane Phone Calls Lash Coed Lawyer Alice Boy Hits TWU at Denton For Admission While A&M was still spin ning yesterday after a court decision opened it to women, its sister school, Texas Wo man’s University at Denton, got its first indication that it might be invaded by men. The hint came in the person of Claude A. Thormalen, 18, of Alice. The youngster yesterday wired the TWU .president, Dr. John A. Guinn, asking admission this fall. Thormalen is a 6-5, 185-pound senior in William Adams High School at Alice. He played tackle on the football team. Asked his reasons for wanting to enter TWU, Thormalen said, “A7-en’t they obvious?” The youngster’s father and Dr. Guinn are good friends. The elder Thormalen, C. A., is county super intendent of schools. Guinn was Alice superintendent 1946-48. The registrar at TWU, Francis Emerson, said the Alice youth’s application had not been received. He said it would be rejected be cause the law specified the school was for girls. Mrs. Lillian Gilkison, president of the Dallas Texas Woman’s U. Club, said, “part of the attrac tiveness of both schools (A&M and TWU) was that they were not co-educational.” Rufus Lee Tinner Jr., Dallas, an Aggie grad in 1950, comment ed, “This whole thing is an eco nomic situation created by the people of Bryan and College Sta tion. The businessmen simply want the added income from ad ditional students.” Boots, Ring Put On Sale In Coed Blast A Corps junior spoke out strongly yesterday against the apparent coming of co-education at A&M by placing a notice on the Academic Building informa tion bulletin board. His notice appeared bright and early yesterday morning after the district court took prelimi nary steps to open A&M’s doors to women in the co-ed hearing Tuesday night. He posted the following mes sage: “For Sale—Entire senior uni form, complete with boots and senior ring (’59). I had plan ned to use them next fall, but won’t go to school with any pub licity-seeking (Ed. Note: The last word was objectional language.) McDonald’s Effigy Hung On Campus By FRED MEURER John Barron, Bryan attorney who teamed with his father, W. S. Barron, in leading the way towards a district court ruling allowing two women entrance into A&M, re ceived four anonymous telephone calls Jiiesday night and yesterday, all lashing out at him with “profane language.” He received three calls after the decision Tuesday night and one yesterday. He said he felt sure the calls didn’t spell violence, but were merely “hoaxes”, perhaps presented by former students bearing hard feelings. The young lawyer insisted, however, that he didn’t think students at A&M were responsible for them. “I know the average A&M student would not do a thing like that,” he 4 remarked. Barron also denied reports Pictures For Vanity Fair Due Before April 18 Applications for entering girls’ pictures in the 1958 Vanity Fair may be picked up at the Student Publications Office on the ground floor of the YMCA, Roy B. Davis, editor of the ’58 Aggieland said yester day. Seniors wishing to enter his “lady fair’s” picture in the contest must fill out an application and submit it to the publications office no later than April 18, Davis said. Certain conditions must be met before a girl’s picture will be ac cepted as a candidates. They are: 1. She must be able to appear on the campus May 16, at a time and place to be specified later. 2. She must be able to attend the Ring Dance, May 17. 3. She must have a picture made at the Aggieland Studio for the ’58 Aggieland. The applications must be ae- copipanied by two pictures—a full length shot and a head and shoulders shot. Seniors have also been reminded to turn in Senior Favorites to the Student Publications Office before April 18 in order to get them in the ’58 Aggieland. The entry fee is $2 per picture. Senate To Meet Tonight at 7:30 The Student Senate meets to night at 7:30 in the Senate Cham ber of the Memorial Student Cen ter to ratify their constitution. The constitution has been re vised several times this year by the Issues Committee, which is drawing it up. It has not been approved by the student govern ing body. Also on the agenda for tonight’s meeting are reports from stand ing committees and a report from the Faculty Award committee. that policemen escorted him home after the hearing. He did say he asked the police de partment to have a patrol car check by his house at intervals for the next few days to protect his family and property against any possible belligerents seeking- re venge. Judge Effigy The only act of violence due to the hearing—and that some what in the form of humor— came yesterday morning when dawn found an effigy of Judge W. T. McDonald dangling from a tree in the quadrangle across from Sbisa Hall on the A&M campus. Attached to the blue- jean-clad dummy was a sign saying: “Judge McDonald — A True Aggie?” McDonald graduated from A&M in 1933. His decision Tuesday set the scene for co-education at A&M when he ruled that the Board of Directors “has abused its discre tionary power arid authorization, and has been discriminatory in ex cluding women from the institu tion.” State to Appeal Attorneys for the college, ac cording to Barron, will appeal the case to the Court of Civil Appeals in Waco. He said they would prob ably enter judgement to that court b'y Tuesday, after which they will have 60 days to get a record of the hearing to Waco. Barron said it would probably be three months before the appellate hearing got started there. After that appeal, remarked Barron, the case would surely go to either the Texas Supreme Court or the Supreme Court of the Unit ed States. “You never know what the higher courts will do with it,” he said. Meanwhile, the two women who were the subject of the hearing, Mrs. Lena Bristol, 34, and Mrs. Barbara Tittle, 20, are not sure of their plans for enrolling into A&M. Barron said they would probably withhold action until the case was finally settled. Barron stressed earnestly that “those women are honestly inter ested in entering- A&M.” Expansion Plan Research Work In Final Stages A proposed plan of expan sion for the Bryan-Colleg-e Station area should be ready for action by the Brazos Coun ty Planning Commission with in the next few days, C. E. Dillon, commission attorney, said last night. The commission accepted the plan Oct. 16, 1957. It was unable to authorize the plans without con sent of the four bodies the com mission represents. The bodies are the City of Bryan, the City of College Station, Brazos County and A&M College. The plan has been approved by Bryan, College Station and Brazos County. Dillon said he understood' it had also been approved by A&M, but a few legal aspects would still have to be cleared up before the plan could be drawn into a work ing form. Dillon explained that state laws made it legal for cities to unite in such a movement and he was rea sonably surt that the ruling also applied to bodies such as the coun ty and college, but this aspect had not been verified. He said he would have this information by the week’s end and operations should be ready to resume. Coeds Can’t Enter Yet, Says Lawyer There has been no legal change in the right of A. and M. College to refuse admission to girls and there will be none until and unless a final decision by the higher courts makes such a change, James N. Ludlum, first assistant At torney General of Texas, informed college officials this morning. Col lege officials announced no girls would be admitted until a final legal decision is reached. An appeal has been filed with the Court of Civil Appeals, 10th Supreme Judicial District, Waco in the case on which District Judge W. T. McDonald of Bryan Tuesday night announced he would issue a writ of mandamus to force Texas A. and M. officials to admit two women applicants. This appeal suspends action on the matter until a final decision is reached, Ludlum said. Informed of this statement, W. T. Doherty, Houston, president of the A. and M. board of directors, said: “The board is greatly disap pointed in the decision rendered by Judge McDonald and it is our in tention to fight this case to the highest court necessary in order to reverse it. The board is confident that it is acting within its legal rights in maintaining the all-male status of the A. and M. College of Texas.” 4 of 14 Vieing for Civilian Sweetheart - * 'CXf* * ; f* ^ : *4- /■ ., Alvasyne Hay ... by Claude Pace Catherine Moczygemba ... by A. D. Moczygemba Carolyn Tom . by Henry K. Tom Kitty Van Matre ... by Allen Lee