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Gollega Station, T«
March 10, 1961
BILL CALLED ‘STARTING POINT’
Name-Change As Viewed By Senators
THE BATTALION CADET SLOUCH.
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by Jim Earle
By BOB SLOAN
Senate Bill 302 (th# name-
change bill) is out of the educa
tion committee and may be intro
duced on the Senate floor any
time after the legislature re
convenes Monday.
The bill, introduced this week
by Sen. W. T. Moore, '40, of
Bryan calls for changing the
name of the College to Texas
State University and the Agri
cultural and Mechanical College.
Four Texas A&M-exes in the
BATTALION EDITORIALS
No Suggestions
The Texas A&M student body and exes have expressed
varied opinions these past months over the controversial
name-change issue. But now, when the matter has come
®ut of committee in the Texas Senate and is on the verge
of being put to a vote on the floor, the comments, opinions,
suggestions and desires of the students and exes have been
visibly lacking.
It is true that a petition has been authored to be passed
among the student body for endorsement if they agree with
the stipulation: the name of Texas A&M should not be
changed to Texas State University and the Agricultural and
Mechanical College But what of the exes? The State
Senators warly expected a wave of comment and suggestions
of either approval and disapproval from this group, but this
action has yet to materialize.
With the State Senators seeking and awaiting suggest
ions, none are submitted.
It should be emphasized that SB 302 is now on the Sen
ate calendar and possibilities are excellent that the bill will
com® before t the Senate sometime next week.
As it stands now, there will be but one opinion from
the students given to the Senate before they vote on the all-
important bill. And that opinion simply opposes SB 302;
it offers no suggested names or solutions.
It is quite difficult to accept the fact that, after months
of controversy over the issue, the student body and the exes
will choose to be silent when the issue is actually under con
sideration. .
We have already concluded that the name of Texas
A&M will be changed and the present bill is but a beginning
for measures that will ultimately select a new name for Tex
as A&M. The Battalion earlier this year supported the
change for a new name for Texas A&M. In fact, The Bat
talion suggested the very name presented in SB 302. But
we feel that this name will not be accepted because the ma
jority of the student body, the exes and the Texas A&M Col
lege System Board of Directors evidently do not approve of
the name. But they have not formally said so.
We could easily be wrong and SB 302 could pass.
It goes without saying that the influence of the stu
dent body and the exes could weigh considerably on the
eventual outcome of SB 302—especially with the State Sen-
itors seeking suggestions on which to base their legislation.
That is, if the students and exes have any suggestions.
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Senate signed the bill as co
authors. They are Sens. Andy
Rogers, ’46, of Childress; A. R.
Schwartz, ’47, of Galveston;
George Moffett, ’16, of Chillo-
cothe and Ray Roberts, ’41, of
McKinney.
The Battalion has had tele
phone interviews with all but one
of the bill’s co-authors. Sen.
Roberts was in a committee meet
ing and unavailable for comment.
Rogers, Schwartz and Moffett
all said they signed the bill at
the request of Moore.
“In a bill of this nature,”
Rogers explained, “the author, (in
this case, Sen. Moore), will usual
ly ask several other senators to
sign the bill as co-authors.
“Moore explained the bill to me,
but most of the responsibility for
the arrangement of wording came
from him,” Rogers said.
Moffett said none of the sena
tors knew a lot about the bill.
“It n^eds to be discussed,” he
said. “I’m in favor of some full,
free, open discussion, then de
cide what to do.”
Moffett said that by “discus
sion” he did not mean talk on
the Senate floor when the bill
comes up for a vote, but serious
thinking by all groups interested
in the bill—students, ex-students,
administration officials and any
one else.
*T expected to hear a lot out
of the ex-students when the bill
was first introduced,” he said,
“but as yet I haven’t even had a
phone call.”
Moffett said he had received
one letter from a Texas A&M
student “who demonstrated he
hadn’t done much thinking before
writing.”
“I answered him today,” he
said.
Schwartz said he only recog
nized that “there is a need for
a name change.
“This bill is only a starting
place,” he said. “It can be
amended.”
Both Moffett and Rogers said
they were not “married to the
name in the bill.”
All agreed the bill was oijily a
starting point for future discus
sion. Schwartz said he signe/d the
bill with the intent to join in any
serious discussion on the floor.
The senators expressed concern
at the apparent lack of interest
by students and ex-students over
the bill. Rogers said he had re
ceived a phone call from a mem
ber of the Board of Directors and
Moffett said he had received one
letter.
“We would be glad to have a
resolution from the student body
with any suggestion for a name
they might have,” said Schwartz.
A petition protesting the word
ing of the present bill is being
circulated through the Corps of
Cadets and civilian students now,
but the petition offers no sug
gestion of another name.
The petition, authored by a
group of seniors, will be sent to
Schwartz in the form of a tele
gram.
The petition reads: “We, the
undersigned students are opposed
to the name suggested for A&M
in SB 302.”
An earlier petition that opposed
the bill itself and not just the
suggested name was partially cir
culated. Authors of the petition
have asked anyone who signed
the first draft, and wish their
names to be scratched off the
revised petition to contact their
first sergeants or dorm counsel
lors.
All the senators agreed the
proposed name change for Texas
A&M was part of a national
trend to change “colleges” to
“universities.” Besides the Texas
A&M bill, there are two other
college name change bills before
the Legislature this session.
North Texas State College at
Denton wants to become the Uni
versity of North Texas, and West
Texas State College at Canyon
wants to become West Texas
State University.
A few years ago the trend was
to take the word “teachers” out
of state teachers colleges; now
colleges ’^Yvant to become uni
versities, Rogers said.
Early reports were that the bill
would be brought up before the
Senate for a vote Monday or
Tuesday of next week. Moffett,
however, said there “is no telling
when it will come up. There are
many bills before the House.”
Moffett said the bill could come
up early next week, but added it
was likely it could be weeks.
Moffett summed up the gen
eral feeling of the senators when
he said:
“I’m for whatever is best for
A&M. That’s my only guide. This
bill needs to be discussed, and
I’m willing to listen.”
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