Pag* 2
College Station, Texa*
Wednesday, February 8, 1961
THE BATTALION CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Eat
Corpus Opposes
Editor,
The Battalion:
At the most recent meeting of
the Corpus Christi A&M Club
(composed of 368 dues-paying
members), the propesed name
change for the College was dis
cussed. For the reasons stated
below, any name change was em
phatically and unanimously op
posed by our membership.
At the outset, it should be no
ted that much resentment exists
among former students who feel
that this matter has not been
given sufficient publicity to per
mit the citizens of this State and
former students to express their
views and have them considered.
Also, special mention should be
given to the fact that there was
no official representation from
the former students on the com
mittee seletced to study the pro
posed name change.
It is our understanding that
this proposal has been made to
facilitate the procurment of
grants and to aid in obtaining
and keeping faculty members. We
therefore contacted persons fa
miliar with the policies and pro
cedures followed in the allocation
o fthese funds and A^e have been
advised that while school back
ground, curriculum, facilities,
quality of the students and other
factors are weighed, the name of
the school is unimportant.
It does not appear illogical to
assume that a teacher considers
the same factors, in addition to
salary, in deciding where he
teaches. The College will prob
ably be better off without a fac
ulty member who does otherwise.
It might be prudent to here note
that there are many schools in
the country with the highest aca
demic and research standards and
reputation who do not bear the
title, “University.”
Assuming that there is some
merit to the name change sug
gestion, the disadvantages are
many. The name “Texas A&M
College” is known and ^ respected
throughout the world. “Texas
A&M” men have dedicated al
most a century of effort to build
the reputation this name has
earned. Their efforts should not
be destroyed with one stroke of
the pen. “Texas A&M,” more
than any other school, is founded
upon ti'adition. The names “Tex
as A&M” and “Aggies” are the
greatest part of this tradition.
Many corporations and business
establishments seek Texas A&M
graduates, not only because of
their academic qualifications, but
because they are “Aggies” — a
term which denotes leadership,
ability to mix with people in all
walks of life, loyalty and enthus
iasm.
We are convinced that any ad
vantage, real or imaginary, that
would be derived from this ac
tion, would be overshadowed by
the loss of our school name and
all the cherished things for which
it stands. Far better reasons
should be presented for making
the Aggie ring obsolete. If the
problems earlier mentioned do ex
ist, those charged with the re
sponsibility of correction might
do well to look for the remedy
elsewhere.
Corpus Christi A&M Club
W. C. (Bill) Lonquist, ’48,
President
Aggies
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‘Is is shocking.. . ?
Editor,
The Battalion:
The letter by Don Cook needs
more open discussion since two
important points were brought
out. First, a cadet expressed his
opinion about the controversial
film, “Operation Abolition,’ and
a week later was asked by an
Air Science instructor to report
and explain how he had formed
his opinions. Second, the stu
dent stated that academic free
dom is limited on this campus.
Don Cook indicated that he
was questioned not because' he
spoke out of turn at a drill but
because he had formed the wrong
opinion. If a student must pass
the scrutiny test about controver
sial issues to be a loyal officer,
this means his thinking must also
be restricted since spoken opin
ion is preceded by thought.
Perhaps I am wrong in assum
ing that an officer should be a
leader, that is, a thinker about
all matters which face him in his
work and life. It is shocking that
on a college campus any instruc
tor feels he has the right to ques
tion a student about his back
ground, club activities and polit
ical beliefs.
What are the correct answers
to these questions ? If we are go
ing to muzzle students and in ef
fect brainwash them then we
ought to drop a paragraph out
of the 1960-61 catalogue (page
70).
“Every student has rights
which are to be respected. They
include the right of respect for
personal feelings, the right of
freedom from indignity of any
'type, the right of freedom from
control by any person except as
may be in accord with the pub
lished rules and regulations of
the College, and the right to make
the best use of his time and his
talents toward the objective
which brought him to this insti
tution. No officer or student, re
gardless of position or rank, shall
violate these rights. No custom
or regulation in conflict will be
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Our Military Defense-
Where Do/ We Stand?
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
The people of the United States
have been told so many things
about the state of their military
defense that they don’t know
what to believe.
They have been told that this
is the world’s greatest power,
that it is a second-rate nation,
and a lot of stuff in between.
“Missile gap” is a phrase which
haad almost come to be accepted
asa n established fact. President
Eisenhower always said it wasn’t
exactly true, despite the Soviet
Union’s lead in rocket motors.
Candidate Kennedy and President
Kennedy stuck to the • gloomier
side.
But now the Pentagon is more
inclined to agree with Eisenhow
er. Kennedy’s own Pentagon team
says there’s no gap now.
The suggestion is that while the
Reds have gone forward with
their experiments, production has
been a different matter.
There has been a long standing
indication, based primarily on the
number and variety of space
shots, that the United States has
a fundamentally broader pro
gram, embracing a greater num
ber of space capabilities which
lays a better foundation for pre
cision production.
The recent successful testing
of a solid-fuel missile was an im
portant step forward for the Uni
ted State sin the purely military
uses of rockets. The arrival of
the Minuteman may mark the
real beginning of U. S. produc
tion for operational purposes, al
though there is already quite a
stockpile of earlier models.
The new Pentagon study sug
gests that Russia, too, still has
started no intensive production
program. This lends weight to
estimates, based on the Novem
ber Communist manifesto and re
cent Kremlin statements that the
Soviet Union really intends to
fight the cold war first holding
military power in reserve in case
she cannot win the world with
out fighting.
Under such circumstances, it
would be to Russia’s benefit not
to expend too much of her indus
trial capacity on military produc
tion now. Yet by her very flex
ibility—her knowledge that she
will not be attacked by the de
mocracies while herself holding
the initiative for war—she for
ces the United States to • con
tinue.
Premier Khrushchev’s promise
to aid civil wars in the promotion
of nationalism is one of the pres
sures. Kennedy is meeting that
one through enlargement and re
organization of airborne power.
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these things
In dealing
A great many of
are. imponderables,
with the Soviet Union we have
to depend heavily on impressions
and there is no end to them.
allowed to prevail.”
The question of academic free
dom is one which especially con
cerns the faculty. The first ar
ticle in the Bill of Rights guar
antees the exercise of free speech
yet there is not enough discus
sion on 1 this campus about con
troversial matters which involve
all of us.
The individual faculty member
must answer to his own consci
ence if he does not exercise his
constitutional rights. It is easy
to blame others for our own hes
itancy and lack of courage, but
I am convinced that the faculty
members themselves must share
the responsibility for loss of aca
demic freedom on any campus.
Whether our school goes by
the name of college or univer
sity, it is an institution of high
er learing and its teachers must
devote themselves to the truth.
Frederick H. Kasten,
Department of Biology
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