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The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Wednesday, March 26, 1958
An Editorial
Fight for Truth
“Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech and of
assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy
and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the
press ever be challenged.”—Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The Battalion has fought and shall continue to fight to
place A&M in its proper place as a respected educational
institution where free thought and expression are stressed.
As long as The Battalion is free to print the truth, A&M
has a chance to rise from the “dark ages” of education and
rapidly move toward new heights.
It will be able to fight for the rights of the students,
the faculty and the staff when administrative injustice is
rampant.
But, forces at A&M are at work that would completely
restrict freedom of thought and expression by taking away
The Battalion’s freedom.
Those behind this move, whether by intention or not,
have no better excuse for such a move than Hitler did dur
ing World War II.
Unless information is harmful to the security of the
country, they have no right, under the Constitution of the
United States and the State of Texas, to restrict freedom
of the press. #
In a free educational institution, there rpust be a free
flow of information to protect the students, faculty and
staff against any despotic administration.
As Gov. Price Daniel has said, “Everyone who believes
our American theory of people governing themselves
through elected representativesm must defend the right of
the people to know the truth. ...”
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September through May, and once a week during summer school.
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Chairman; Prof. Donald D. Burchard; Prof. Robert M. Stevenson; and Mr. Bennie
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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
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“It’s gettin’ to where a guy can’t smoke a cigar without
drawin’ a crowd!”
Now that the season of dances
is here, it seems most appropriate
to enumerate some of the high
lights of dances in the past so
the new students on the campus
will know what to look for—and
won’t miss out on the fun.
At every dance there’s always
this cool Ag who forgets his
date’s ticket and wants to dance
with yours.
Your date, not her ticket.
Or the ever present oaf who
leaps up during every dance,
grabs the microphone and shouts,
“Anybody seen a stray date tic
ket?”
★ ★ ★
And there’s invariably one who
will grind his highly polished log
ger type boots through the in
step of your date’s dancing slip
per as he lunges out in search of
a lost date. His.
Or the moon-eyed Aggie that
can’t keep from casting an eye
at your date. (This is usually
highly embarrassing—cyclops al
ways seem to frighten girls.)
Letters To The Editor
Editor
The Battalion:
I am not sure whose decision
let girls enter the “used to be”
Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege of Texas. I do know, though,
that he must have been a sadist.
No one else would want to see
the suffering of thousands of Ag
gies and thousands of girls who
look forward for weeks to a trip
to A&M. Girls “used to be”
treated like queens and made to
feel their femininity and import
ance in the world while at Ag-
gieland. Now they will be just
another girl on the campus.
What do. men now have to call
their own? They certainly do
not have a man’s school to be
proud of. A&M was a man’s
school geared to men. Men will,
therefore, not even have a profes
sion to call their own since wo
men have been admitted to their
school. Women will be trained
—only if they can pass the strin
gent scholastic qualifications—to
do the same things. The man’s
classroom where he is free to
cuss or tell a foul joke will be
no more. This example is only a
small insignificant one showing
the things that will be changed.
The man’s world has simply been
torn down, demolished, never to
return.
Where was democracy shown
in taking away the man’s world?
If the Aggies do not get to
choose if they want women—or
if they choose and their choice is
not considered—why should the
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American people get a choice in
the decision of their own segre
gation? The whole principle of
democracy has been defeated by
ignoring the decision of the Ag
gies. A&M has been defeated as
the United States will be defeat
ed when the voice of the people
is not heard.
In sympathy with the Aggies,
Miss Laura Lindley
North Texas student
Editor
The Battalion:
After working for a few years
to finance my way at A&M I’ll
enter this fall. I’m pro-Corps
and anti-coed for I desire the
school and training as it exists
now. My reason for writing this
letter is to state my view as a
‘Fish to be’ and to answer two
letters which appeared in the
March 19 Batt.
First, Jack Heald, ’58, advo
cated faith and discipline for one
desirous of being a scholar, hon
orable gentleman, Aggie and an
officer. Jack’s picture appeared
in the ’57 Aggieland as presi
dent of the Pre-Vet Society when
a student by the name of Charles
Graham held that office. You
have made no mention of this in
your letter(s) Jack, is this hon
or, are you an Aggie example,
are you future officer material?
Maybe I’ve been told wrong, but
I would like an answer.
Secondly, I am acquainted with
Gene Dayhoff, ’55, who wrote
that Junction Manor for our ‘big
heroes’ was rot. I believe that
the athletes have made enough
money to build that dorm Gene,
I further believe that their head-
knocking, sweating, fighting Ag
gie football makes them eligible
for better surroundings in which
to rest and study. I’ve heard
your friends (?) say “here comes
‘verbal diarrhea’ Dayhoff, I’m
leaving.” My question to you is,
did you staid writing because all
stopped listening???
Sincerely,
Gene Wellborne
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