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The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas PAGE 2 Friday, March 21, 1958 CADET SLOUCH Art for Aggies’ Sake by Jim Earle ■ By WELTON JONES The recent court ruling throwing A&M’s “masculine” gates open to wemen should affect the field covered by this column very little for the present. However, if a significant percentage of young ladies were to be expected in the visible future, the effects could be far-reaching indeed. With a student body con taining, say, one third wo men, the interest and activi ty in the fields of drama, music and the other lively arts locally would begin on a sharp upgrade. Possibly changes in curriculum would even result. But the question now is wheth er a significant number of wo men students will seek enroll ment and, if so, would they be anything other than mere day students or business college refu gees ? The legal tone of the court’s decision, plus a careful and cool- headed reading of the legislative act under which A&M was found ed, will leave no doubt that the ruling will be penuanent, and is possibly overdue. To those who bemoan the change, this column suggests a philosophical acceptance. T © those who hail it, a cautious “wait and see”. DANCE—For the final pro gram of the year in their sub scription series, Town Hall will bring Jose Greco and all the fire that is Spanish dance to the White Coliseum Monday night. If press reviews reaching the attention of this column are any indication, the Greco performance should catch the heart of any one with the least bit of emotion. Words like “fervour,” “wild ness,” “proud,” “dynamic” and “intoxicating” spring from the pages of reviews in papers along the group’s route in Europe and the United States. There seems to be little question from those who should know that the Spanish dancer’s art is kept alive today mainly through the efforts of Greco and the dancers he collects. Besides American-educated Greco himself, the troupe con tains four female and one other male dancer; a child prodigy, Pepita Sevilla; a female flamenco singer; the traditional guitarist; and pianist Roger Machado, one of Spain’s better-known contri butions to music today. Those in attendance last year at the triumphant performance in Guion Hall will attest to the ex pected attitude of the audience for a program of this nature. Dancers, and dancers of this very emotional idiom in parti cular, thrive on audience response. Applause, shouts, whistles and even clapping and foot-stamping are not out of place at such a program. Greco is a pure aristocrat of his art and, frankly, surprises everyone by his willingness to continue to tour, when he could easily settle down in four or five theaters per year. We are lucky to be afforded a view of this gx-oup’s unusual talents. BOOKS—A bit of belated con- gratulations and sincere thanks are extended by this column to the libraries of the area on the occasion of National Library Week, now about over. The excellent A&M Library, the Memorial Student Center Brows ing Libi’ary, the Caimegie Public Library in Bi’yan and the vaxnous other such institutions endlessly perform a trying task and de serve a week of recognition for their all-to-often unsung services. Job Interviews An Engineering CAREER With FISHER GOVEKNOK COMPANY Interviews Will Be Held On March 26, 1958 On The Campus. See Your Placement Officer Now For An Appointment FISHER GOVERNOR COMPANY Marshalltown, Iowa World Leader In Research For Better Pressure And Liquid Level Control 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, a student newspaper at Texas A & M., is published in College Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, September through May, and once a week during summer school. 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: The Associated Press Texas Press Ass’n Associated Collegiate Press Represented nationally by N a 11 o n a 1 Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los An 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 spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter here in are also reserved. Mall' subscriptions are $3.50 per semester, $6 per school year, $6.50 per full ess: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA, er, year. Advertising rates furnished on request. Addn College Station, Texas. News contributlans may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the editorial office. Room 4, YMCA. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6415. JOE TINDEL Editor Jim Neighbors Managing Editor Gary Rollins Sports Editor Joy Roper Society Editor Gayle McNutt City Editor Joe Buser, Fred Meurer News Editors ‘We're coed! Where’re th’ girls? Where’re th’ girls?” Letters To The Editor Editor, The Battalion: This is a letter from a so-called moron lugger. At least this is how we were described by a per son who did not have enough backbone to sign his name to a letter in the Feb. 26 edition of this newspaper. Evidently this person was trying to make an impression on someone by the use of words having trivial meaning, but considerable length. As for the great AGGIE TRA DITIONS, I’m sure no one could ever convince him of their legi timacy since he evidently was never in the Corps of Cadets. It so happens that there are many exes and present day members of the Corps who are proud of what the Corps stands for and of its contribution to their future life. From the day the doors of this institution opened in 1876 until that fateful day four years ago, everything ran smoothly; but since that day in 1953, the Corps of Cadets has been under contin uous fire from the Civiliaxx por tion of the college, which has used every trick in the book to cause its downfall. The coeducation issue is noth ing new, for it was tried a num ber of years ago with the outside help of Bryan businessmen, in cluding a certain attorney. Again, it has appeared for a sec ond trial, only this time there is a greater need of it as far as the businessmen of Bryan are con cerned, with the Air Force Base moving out in April. As I said, there is no use to argue the point of tradition for it is something wc cherish and con sider valuable to the fabrication of a wholesome life. After all, we came here to get an educa tion, not to obtain a social stand ing, didn’t we? If this person doesn’t like thd way A&M is op erated, why doesn’t he, along with other pro-coeds, transfer to a coed school with all of these “advantages” thus eliminating the friction which is obtaining Ag- gieland a bad name. I challenge anyone to give me some valid advantages of coedu cation that will help this great in stitution’s enrollment or improve its standing among the coed schools in Texas. Another coed school in this state (A&M) would not stand a chance since it would be a second rate school as com pared to TU, SMU, TCU, etc. Why not let there continue to be an all male school in this state as it has been for 57 years. I can not see whei’e there is any dare connected to a harsh let ter without a signature, and I hate to see the term TEXAS AGGIE used in connection with such a person as this. Jerry Horn ’59 Moxxday American Potash and Chemical Corp., Los Angeles, Calif., inter views chemical and mechanical engineering, and chemistry ma jors. 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