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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Thursday, May 18, 1961 [ BATTALION EDITORIALS Double Tuition? Designed to double the tuition of state colleges, House Bill No. 1,014 is up before the Texas Legislature, and if passed, it will be effective Sept. 1, 1961. Already, some students at A&M are wondering what would be the best move against the bill and with the on slaught of approaching exams, time is running out for stu dents to exercise any united effort. However, within the next week a petition will be circu lated among the student body, giving all students an opportu nity to express disapproval of the bill; this, when sent to legislators in Austin, will show that the Aggies don’t like it any better than other colleges. A second effective move by students is for them to write their parents, urging them to write their Congressmen, speak ing against HB 1,014, explaining what a financial burden it will place on most of the parents and students of Texas. Time is running out, and action must be taken soon, lest students returning to state colleges next fall find themselves confronted with a direct barrier to higher education: double tuition. — Sound Off — CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Bulletin Board The Panhandle Hometown Club will meet in Room 3-A of the Memorial Student Center at 7:30 p.m. i The Texarkana Hometown Club will meet in Room 305 of the Academic Building at 7:30 p.m. The Fayette-Colorado County Hometown Club will meet in Room 307 of the Academic Build ing at 7:30 p.m. The Grayson County Home town Club will meet in the Main Lobby of the YMCA Building at 7:30 p.m. The Port Arthur Hometown Club will meet in Room 204 of the Biological Sciences Building at 7:30 p.m. ‘Have you noticed how easy it is to pick out graduating seniors?’ Education Bill Opposition Suffers Another Setback (Editor’s note: The following are two letters received by The Battalion from organizations on other campuses in opposition to House Bill 1,014. The bill is now being considered by the House and advocates a raise in the tuition for state-supported colleges and universities.) Editor, The Battalion: On behalf of the state-sup ported colleges and universities, East Texas State College is in terested in furthering opposition to House Bill 1,014. This bill concerns a tuition increase to become effective Sept. 1, 1961. We feel that you realize the dis aster such a tuition increase would be to our schools. The bill has been presented at the House Appropriations Com mittee and from there it was sent to a sub-committee for fur ther study. The only student opposition to this bill was pre sented by a delegation of stu dents from the University of Texas. We have begun opposition here at East Texas by informing our student body. This, naturally, must come first. Now we are in the process of getting students to send their representative a letter stating their opposition. We also plan to send a petition to the Legislature stating stu dent opposition. And finally, our student government has passed a resolution stating its opposition. When, and if, this bill appears on the House floor, we will cer tainly be in Austin working against it. We hope you realize'the need of immediate action on your cam pus. Let’s not leave all the bur den of representing the state- supported schools on the Univer sity of Texas. Tom Green, ETSC Student Senate Editor, !*he Battalion: As I am sure you are aware, House Bill 1,014 will soon be up for consideration before the State Legislature, and if passed will double the present tuition of all state-supported colleges. As a leader of the students of of Texas, we have a definite re sponsibility in opposing this bill as a detriment to a vital demo cratic institution, public educa tion. For this is a measure that could effect thousands of stu dents for many years to come. The Student Council at Texas A&I is organizing what we hope will be effective opposition to the bill, and essentially our program is as follows: 1. Petitions signed by hundreds of students opposing the bill, to be presented by a delegation of students at the proper time at the capital. 2. Obtaining resolutions from many student organizations stat ing their opposition. 3. Obtaining lists of financially hard-pressed students whose ed ucation will definitely be affected by a tuition raise. 4. Having students address an envelope to their parents so that a letter explaining the situation can be sent to them. Enclosed in the letter will be the names and addresses of their respective rep resentatives and senators, and the parents will be urged to write their congressman stating their views. It is late in the school year and exams are approaching fast, but public education is facing a crisis and something must be done. For this reason we are asking you to personally encour age responsible students and or ganizations on your campus to speak out and make themselves heard as the citizens of tomor row. Jim Marcum, Student Association President, Texas A&I By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Supporters of federal aid to education quashed two attempts in the Senate Wednesday to revise President Kennedy’s $2.55 billion school bill. By lopsided votes, the Senate defeated a Southern amendment to protect segregated school dis tricts and a substitute bill to re vamp the administration pro gram. Observers looked on the test votes as signs that the bill has a smooth road ahead. The bill would provide federal grants to states for public school construc tion, teacher salaries or both. In the first test, the Senate defeated 70-25 an amendment by Sen. Strom Thurmond (D-S.C.), which would have prohibited the federal government from with holding grants to racially segre gated schools. Then, on a 64-30 vote, the Sen ate defeated a substitute bill of Sen. William A. Blakley (D-Tex). Under his bill, each state would have kept 2 per cent of the fed eral income tax paid by its resi dents and would have spend the money on schools. Blakley’s bill would have cost $812 million a year. While the Senate beat down 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 op erated by students as a community newspaper and is under the supervision of the director of Student Publications at Texas A&M College: Members of the Student Publications Board are L. A. Duewall, director of Student Publications, chairman; Allen Schrader, School of Arts and Sciences; Willard I. Truettner, School of Engineering; Otto R. Kunze. School of Agriculture; and Dr. E. D. McMurby, School of Veterinary Medicine. 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The provision for salaries may have difficulty in the House be cause Speaker Sam Rayburn (D- Tex.) in the past has opposed using federal funds for that pur pose. In general, supporters of fed eral aid expect more trouble in the House than in the Senate. In the Senate, Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) floor manager Of the bill, called the Thurmond amendment “an effort to kill the bill.” Supporters of the bill said they did not want school aid clouded and threatened by the segrega tion controversy. Although the amendment was defeated, a Southern senator who declined use of his name said he understood sponsors of the bill would accept some amendment designed to reassure the South that federal money would not be withheld from segregated schools. BUY BACK BOOKS :1L C.J, cinge ore “SERVING TEXAS AGGIES” ROBIN HOOD FLOUR MAXWELL HOUSE coffee FEATHERCREST EGGS GLADIOLA BISCUITS 5 LB. 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