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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.
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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
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proposed changes, the House Ed
ucation and Labor Committee ap
proved a $2.5 billion federal aid-
to-education bill. Its approval,
however, was tentative. A later
vote could change the situation.
But as tentatively approved,
the House committee bill, like the
Senate bill, would provide funds
for teacher salaries as well as
classroom construction.
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
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In general, supporters of fed
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the House than in the Senate.
In the Senate, Sen. Wayne
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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
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