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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Friday, February 10, 1961
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Sound Off
A Bulletin
What To Do?
It appears from comments on campus recently that
Texas A&M no longer has the prerogative to call itself an
institution of higher learning; that a militarily dominated
campus is seeking to suppress freedom of thought and ex
pression and release to society a generation of human robots.
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A significant observation in listening to the discussions
regarding the supposed “downfall” of Texas A&M is the
comparison that is invariably made to other colleges and uni
versities. These “comparison” insitutions are always pictured
as utopian schools where the students and the faculty and
the administration all live in complete harmony; where every
student, by mere fact of residence on the campus, possesses
the wisdom of a Solomon and the oratory ability of a Webster.
Do you recall that these are the same schools that Texas
A&M used to scorn for their petty quabbles just a few years
f« 0?
Perhaps the students of Texas A&M have become so
entangled with the strife on this campus that they have lost
perspective. As the familiar adage goes: “You can’t see the
forest for the trees.”
Editor,
The Battalion:
Recently I was shown a bulle
tin, published by a local chapel
near the campus, which warned
members of its congregation of
the film “Operation Abolition.”
The context of this warning was
that the film did not present a
true picture of the San Francisco
student riots, and such riots did
pot actually occur.
This warning is a direct at
tempt to both discredit the film
itself and to draw attention
away from the fact that the dem
onstrations were both Commun
ist inspired and led.
J. Edgar Hoover’s report,
“Communist Target-Youth” gives
a true, clear and concise picture
of the complete proceedings in
San Francisco last May..
I would suggest that the writ
ers of this bulletin inform them
selves completely before they
start instructing others.
Corkey Brown, ’63
College of Texas; not as a mili
tary institution for the training
of our nation’s military leaders.
It was designed for specific
study in the fields of agriculture
and engineering but later ex
panded to include libe'ral arts,
science, education, business ad
ministration and veterinary med
icine (page 48 of the Bulletin of
the Agricultural and Mechanical
College of Texas, 1960-61). A
School of Military Sciences was
added to supervise the ROTC
program.
“The Army and Air Force at
the Agricultural and Mechanical
College of Texas offer ROTC
courses which supplement the
student’s civilian curriculum and
offer him the opportunity of
planning his civilian and mili
tary careers on a mutually sup
porting basis.” (Page 201 of
the Bulletin.) Students in the
Army ROTC program may apply
and be granted the same type of
commission as is given graduates
of the United States Military
Academy at West Point. No
where can I find reference to the
statement that this is a. military
college.
It is my understanding that
the Agricultural and Mechanical
College of Texas is a military
college in name only and only
because the Corps of Cadets pe
riodically undergoes a rigid in
spection at which time they re
ceive a specific military rating.
This rating is conferred upon the
college which the cadets repre
sent. This rating entitles the
college to call itself a military
college—a complete misnomer in
every meaning of the word.
As a unit the Corps of Cadets
is a fine group but it is not or
should not be this institution’s
main drawing card. We are an
educational institution and not
an. institute for the training of
military leaders. It is our asset
that our military program has
turned out such men who later
became commanding generals of
the Air Force. It is not an asset
to have men who degrade the
institution by writing silly, asi
nine letters of personal misguid
ed feeling.
Facts, not emotions, speak for
themselves.
Paul VanNieuwenhuize, ’62
INTERPRETING
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Texas A&M is not, by any means, unique in problems.
Colleges and universities across America are undergoing their
own problems. Take a look around: at the University of
Texas students are picketing in protest of what they feel
is an unfair discrimination against a segment of the student ]Aot EnOU&h Fuels
body; at Southern Methodist University student race sit-ins
are attracting attention; on the West Coast the problem of
compulsory versus elective ROTC is a primary problem; stu
dent demonstrations in California against the House Un-
American Activities Committee have brought national atten
tion and concern. \
No, Texas A&M is not unique in internal strife. For that
matter, we challenge you to find one that is.
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There is one primary factor to consider in regard to the
problems: they don’t just go away; they are solved.
That has been a fallacy on the Texas A&M campus. The
criticism is plentiful, but the suggested remedies are virtu-
^jally non-existant. Naturally no one person or group of per-
sons can wave the proverbial magic hand and erase all prob-
~lems. Final results will untimately come from an aggregate
•- of suggestions. *
What to do about the name-change? What to do about
“2the supposed lack of academic freedom? What to do about
•; io-education ? 1 ^
Z There are a number of the criticisms and questions. As
yet few have offered suggestions or means to correct them,
if they need be corrected.
Still, we maintain that criticism is healthy. But it takes
more than that to accomplish the desired aims of criticism.
What Texas A&M needs, if the problems are as weighty as
the criticism discloses, is thinking and suggestions.
Read ~ “ Classifieds
Canada, Britain Involved
In Big Red China Question
ijditor,
The Battalion:
Speaking of Jackasses! If the
letter written by Malcolm Hardee
to John Farrell is a typical ex
ample of the men graduated
from this institution, then God
save the nation because our
Armed Forces never will.
To the best of my knowledge
and according to the College
Catalogue, this institution of
higher learning was established
in 1876 by the Legislature as the
Agricultural and Mechanical
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
As the new administration is at
tempting to shake down its policy
toward Red China, other countries,
especially Canada and Britain, are
trying to get into the act.
The Communist bloc and the neo-
Communist bloc are always assert
ing that this or that U.N. agency
or committee cannot work effec
tively without Red China, and that
is true at least about disarmament,
ing about Chinese participation in
Even the United States is think-
disarmament discussions.
Britain and her associated na
tions have always fretted under
the U.S. policy of isolating Red
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China, since trade restrictions cut
across their traditional business
lines, Japan will sooner or later
break the restraints, as Canada
proposes to do.
But getting Red China into the
United Nations is another matter,
and one about which she herself
has not been asked. To accept
the U.N. Charter she would have
to eschew some of her favorite
policies and propaganda lines. On
some of these, especially on the
uses of war for Communist expan
sion, she has stood firm even
against the Soviet Union.
The U.N. majority which keeps
Red China’s admission off the
agenda—a U.S. policy to prevent
discussion—gets smaller and small
er each year. But part of that is
because many nations oppose any
strictures on debate, and many of
them probably would not vote for
actual admission if that came up.
Behind that would lie a decision
as to sovereignty over all China.
The Nationalists and the Reds
insist that China is one, regard
less of some talk about evading
the issue by Peiping would not sit
with the Nationalists.
There is talk from Britain now
that the “facts of life” demand
Red China’s admission. But Brit
ain has not said what she would
do about another fact of life which
is also involved, and that is the
difficulty of ousting a permanent
member of the Security Council,
and by inference recognizing Pei
ping’s sovereignty over Formosa.
There is also the matter of Na
tionalist China’s loyalty to the
Allied cause during World War II,
and the effect on the faith of other
nations in the postwar free alli
ance if she is let down.
There is the Formosan defense
commitment of the United States
and a host of other considerations
involved in any change of policy.
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nize them at the outset of any
pressure campaign against the
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