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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1958)
The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas PAGE 2 Thursday, March 20, 1958 An Editorial Act Gentlemanly Earlier this year, U. S. citizens of another race were threatened by mob violence in Little Rock, Ark. Today, March 1958, females have won their rights in district court to attend all-male A&M and similar mob or violent protest has shown signs of developing. The similar situation has arisen which was referred to in a Battalion editorial during the Little Rock crisis.. How are Aggies, known as gentlemen, going to act in this similar situation? If the district court decision is upheld by apellate courts, the two women now seeking admittance and other women and girls will be attending A&M. it will be only the bigot, the lout and the ungentlemanly individual who will stoop so low as to persecute, deride or otherwise underhandedly attack the women students. If the district court ruling is upheld, close female rela tives and friends of ours and our Aggie buddies may be at tending A&M. Would we wish them to be greeted with derision and profanity simply because they are honestly seeking an edu cation at the school of their choice ? To live up to our obligations as Aggies and gentlemen and citizens of a democracy, discrimination and ungentle- manly conduct cannot be a part of our philosophy. WhaVs Cooking 7 p. m. Deep East Texas Hometown Club will meet on the front steps of the MSC to have pictures made for the Aggieland. Plans will be discussed for the Easter party. 7:30 p. m. San Angelo Hometown Club will meet in the Agriculture Building to discuss arrangements for High School Day. Pictures for the Aggieland are to be taken at 5:30 p. m. Friday in front of the MSC. Guadalupe Valley Hometown Club will meet in Nagle Hall to make plans for an Easter party. Del Rio Hometown Club will meet at the YMCA for election of officers and to plan a spring party. Spring Branch Hometown Club meets tonight in room 226 of the Academic Building at 7:30 to plan an Easter Party. Southwest Texas Hometown Club meets tonight at 7:30 in room 128 of the Academic Build ing to discuss high school recruit ing. Winter's Hometown Club meets tonight in room 225 of the Academic building at 7:15 to dis cuss plans for Easter holidays. Spring Branch Hometown Club meets tonight in room 226 of the Academic Building at 7:30 to plan an Easter Party. Abilene Hometown Club meets in room 204 of the Academic Building tonight at 7:30. Williamson County Home town Club meets tonight on the second floor of the Memorial Stu dent Center at 7:30 to have club pictures made for the Aggieland. Corps members wear Class A Uniform and Civilian students wear suits. New FORDS e PRICED RIGHT © See Us Before You Buy Swingler Motor Co. 805 South Main Calvert, Texas THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax-supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and operated by students as a community newspaper and is gov erned by the student-faculty Student Publications Board at Texas A. & M. College. The Battalion, Station, Texas, daily September through May, a student newspaper at Texas A & M., is ; except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, ai and once a week during summer school. >ublished in College id holiday periods, Faculty members of the Student Publications Board are Dr. Carroll D. Laverty, Chairman; Prof. Donald D. Burchard; Prof. Robert M. Stevenson; and Mr. Bennie Zinn. Student members are W. T. Williams, John Avant, and Billy W. Libby. Ex- officio members are Mr. Charles A. Roeber; and Ross Strader, Secretary and Direc tor of Student Publications. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office In College Station, Texas, under the Act of Con gress of March 8, 1870. MEMBER: Represented nationally by The Associated Press N a t i o n a 1 Advertising Texas Press Ass’n Services, Inc., New York Associated Collegiate Press geles, and San Francisco. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of pontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of spontaneous origin pub in are also reserved. all other matter here- ye? Co Mail subscriptions are 53.50 per semester, $6 pe ar. Advertising rates furnished on request. Address: T1 liege Station, Texas. school year, $6.50 he Battalion, per full Room 4, YMCA, JOE TINDEL ..Editor e«F tws eun Speaking of co-eds, everyone is. Speaking of co-eds. Even Pinkie Downs. Yesterday he said the MSC Gift Shop was ordering some sweaters with “My Mom is a Texas Aggie” on them. ★ ★ ★ There seems to be no adequate explanation for the red bulb in Proxy’s Moon. Be not- merely good; be good for something. —Thoreau ir TU' OiOW' lt> SO BAD, i:]QW DO YQO EJXPj-A/N TMOSP- kUAK'i D.. r' • • ' . Letters To The Editor Editor, The Battalion: I have just recovered from reading a Letter to the Editor- printed the 26th of Feb. This little pedant seems to be critical of the “moronness” (a word which does not exist in the English lan guage of those who oppose coed at A&M.) He states that “In a college where supposedly the highly qualified citizen of a coun try, (now entering the . outer- spa'ce era), (comma error) is be ing prepared, a boy cannot achieve whole maturity, (comma error) unless he is goaded forward by the complementary stimulus of the opposite sex in the progress.” I can just visualize the energetic young coed racing up to a student and jabbing him in the arm with a goad while shrieking “Have you learned how to dance?” He further declares that the “petty arguments branished (brandished misspelled) by these morons “are utterly immature.” As I read his letter, a picture formed in my mind. It contained a snot-nosed little brat sporting- curls and lace panties as he kicks his schoolmaster in the shins. I refer to the child prodigy of an English peer, Little Lord Faunt- leroy. Besides his obvious need to re peat English 100, this pseudo intellectual who wrote the letter needs to leave A&M. 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