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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Tuesday, April 3, 1962 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle TO A USTIN SOON Dallas News Looks At A&M’s Issues (Editor’s note: The following editorial column appeared in The Dallas Morning News Sunday, Apr. 1. We think Mr. Acheson has done a fine job in summing up the three big issues facing the A&M System Board of Di rectors and the Century Study.) By SAM ACHESON Editorial Staff News Dallas Morning News Trustees of Texas A&M Col lege enjoy no bed of roses. Year in and year out, they are faced with more prickly policy prob lems and pressures than nearly any other governing body of an institution of higher learning in the state. Currently, they are confronted with three hot issues: (1) Should women students be admitted to the 86-year-old main branch at College Station? (2) Should compulsory mili tary training be abolished, mak ing it optional? (3) Should the college name be changed to indicate its status as a university? Neither of the first two de mands is of recent origin. Ques tion of converting the all-male school into a coeducational insti tution has been agitated for years. Numerous lawsuits have been filed to compel trustees to take this action. Latest was in 1960. On Oct. 14 of that year the Texas Supreme Court dis posed, finally, of the question of the legal right, or power, of the trustees to exclude women stu dents. The court said, in effect, that the board was not discriminating against women on the ground of their sex. Hence the trustees could not' be ordered, or man- dam used, to admit them. But in leaving the matter to the dis cretion of the board, the court decision has led to the present request that trustees exercise > their discretion to let female stu dents enter Aggieland. Advocates of coeducation argue that trustees are inconsistent. For, as they point out, woman students are allowed now—and have been for years—at the three other colleges within the Texas A&M system. They are Arling ton State, with 8,318 students; John Tarleton College at Ste- phenville, with 1,389 students, and Prairie View State College, with 2,920. Their total enroll ment of 12,627 students, many of whom are women, exceed the 7,724 registered at •College Sta tion by a wide margin. But opponents cite the historic emphasis on military training at College Station as a major rea son why it should continue as an exclusively mule student body. They say you might as well ask that either West Point or An napolis be made coeducational. Texas A&M College has trained more officers for the armed for ces than any other single insti tution. It supplied more Army officers in World War II than West Point. It has long enjoyed one of the highest ratings in the nation as a school of military science and tactics. This performance raises the second issue: that of compulsory military training. Before World War II, all able-bodied under graduates were required to take . four years’ training as members of the cadet corps. But after 1945, the board of trustees scrapped compulsory training, al lowing each student to choose whether he would enroll in the corps or not. Not until 1952 did the trustees restore compulsory military training—and that covered only the first two years in college. Such is the modified requirement today. Yet, in spite of this freedom of choice as juniors and Model U. N. Club Dead) -COTTON BALL TUXEDOS- —RENTAL SERVICE- RESERVE ONE TODAY ZUBIK’S Uniform Tailors North Gate in his ‘ONE MAN GALA’ N. Y. WORLD-TELECRAM ★ SWING * CLASSICS * PANTOMIME if CONCERT HUMOR Monday, April 9 & Tuesday, April 10 8 P. M. Guion Hall ! 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 journalism laboratory and 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 oi’ Agriculture; and Dr. E. D. McMurry, School of Veterinary Medicine. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A.&M. is published in College Sta tion, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, Septem ber through May, and once a week during summer school. 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BOB SLOAN EDITOR Tommy Holbein Managing Editor Larry Smith Snorts Editor Alan Payne, Ronnie Bookman, Robbie D. Godwin 1 News Editors Ronnie Fann, Gerry Brown, T. S. Harrover Staff Writers Sylvia Ann Bookman Society Editor Van Conner Assistant Sports Editor Johnny Herrin Chief Photographer Ben Wolfe, Bill Stripling Photographers it was th’ greatest Civilian Weekend yet!’ seniors, many of the students elect to belong to the cadet corps. Contrary to the impression of many, Texas A&M’s status as a land-grant college does not call for compulsory military training. Congress merely said in the Mor rill Act, under which Texas A&M and 67 other land-grant institu tions were set up throughout the nation, that they were expected “not to exclude” schools of mili tary science and tactics.” Federal funds paid to the 68 institutions from land-grant en dowments are a mere drop in the bucket. The total they had to share in 1958 was only $5,052,000, or a little more than $70,000 each if divided equally. Major federal funds go to Tex as A&M for research, mainly in its agricultural experiment sta tions and at College Station, to gether with funds for statewide diffusion of the results of re search through its extension service. This totals nearly $5,- 000,000, or almost as much as the State of Texas appropriates each year to operate the college. This enormous research pro gram, now broadened to include nuclear engineering, electronic aids for automation in industry, oceanography and other develop ments, points up the third issue —that of A&M’s university stat us. This oldest of the state’s insti tutions of higher learning fully qualifies to be called a univer sity. That is, under the long- accepted concept of a university. University of California AGRICULTURAL STUDY TOUR to the South Pacific JULY 8—AUGUST 19, 1962 Full credit courses aboard Matson luxury liner Mariposa, with calls at Hawaii, Tahiti, Rarotonga, Fiji, Samoa and field trip in New Zealand. Optional side trip to Australia. Courses in plant and soil sciences and home economics taught by top-level regular faculty members. For details write to University of California Agricultural Study Tour 442 Post Street, San Francisco f ^ PARDNER You’ll Always Win The Showdown When You Get Your Duds Done At CAMPUS CLEANERS It has a series of schools rang ing from veterinary medicine to nuclear engineering. They are grouped around a college of lib eral arts and sciences. It pro vides graduate study in a num ber of fields. Its record in re search is formidable. How trustees will decide on each of these three questions is yet to be determined. Each is highly controversial within the diverse groups concerned with the future of the college. There are 41,000 ex-students. Most are probably opposed to any radical change from past policies or traditions. Many say that all three issues are so much yak-yak and not to be taken seriously. Many in faculty and administra tive posts hold, however, that A&M must move and alter with the times. It is up to the trus tees to say whether any or all of these proposals are advisable. The A&M Model United Na tions Club, advised by Martin T. Kyre, Jr. and Dr. Ramon Arango, instructors in the Department of History and Government, will represent Belgium at the Model U.N. Conference at the Univer sity of Texas Apr. 12-14. Television station KBTX-TV in Bryan presented a 30-minute* interview with the club’s delega tion to the conference this morn ing over “Town Talk.” Besides the two faculty advisors, the delegation is made up of Luke Soules, Lyn McKinnie, Bob Wakefield, Mickey Metcalf and Richard Alvarado. In the past few weeks, the group has been working with the Honorable J. Frans Herpin, Bel gium Consul-General stationed in Houston, Tex., and with othei sources to become intimately fa miliar with the character and problems of the Belgian people. The delegation visited in Her- pin’s home recently, and last Saturday he and his wife drove to A&M to address the Club and view the campus. A highlight of the Herpins’ visit was a tom- through the new Nuclear Reac tor Center. The club has been meeting in Kyre’s home since early last se mester to exchange information about the United Nations and to begin becoming familiar with Belgium and its problems as a country. However, the organ ization has had official recogni tion by the college only slightly over a month. “Several times there has been some confusion when our club name was mentioned; some mis take us for the A&M United Na tions Club, which is much larger but does not participate in na tional Model U.N. activities,” said Alvarado. Members of the club recently addressed the campus United Na tions group; result of this meet ing was an agreement that the United Nations club sponsor the delegation of seven’s trip to Austin. Scientists do not know why in habitants of the mountain states are bigger than easterners and southerners. Bulletin Board Professional Societies American Institute of Indus trial Engineers (A.I.LE) will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Room 2-D, Memorial Student Center. Activation analysis will be discussed by Richard E. Wai- nerdi, head of the Activation Analysis Research Laboratory. ATTENTION AGGIE SENIORS COLLEGE MASTER THE COLLEGE PLAN FOR THE COLLEGE MAN: • FOR COLLEGE MEN ONLY • EXCLUSIVE BENEFITS— PREFERRED RATES • DEPOSITS CAN BE DEFERRED UNTIL YOU ARE OUT OF SCHOOL FIDELITY UNION LIFE INSURANCE CO. North Gate VI 6-4988 (Above A&M Photo Shop) TUESDAY “WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND” with Hayley Mills Plus Cartoon, “Planet Mouseoula” Also “PEPE” with Cantinflas PALACE Bryan 2'S#79 LAST DAY ‘‘WALK ON THE WILD SIDE” STARTS TOMORROW ^ «... 1 The i Year’s Most Moving Drama! Tony Curtis Outsider QUEEN LAST NITE “NORTH OF NORTHWEST” & RESTLESS BREED LAST DAY “BRAMBLE BUSI & ‘WORLD BY NIGi STARTS TOfiORROI PAIRICiA OWENS-DENIM CESAR ROMERO-MARGIADEWI « JOHN KERRr ClMCfviAScOC’E 1 Him smnH by H0KII WUI • • JfSSt usir. j« ltd PIT SIIVU .JfH| r : CIRCLT TONIGHT 1st Show 7: “SGTS 3” & “WAKE ME Vn IT’S OVER’ HENRY L. SCOTT Piano — Pantomime — Humor Monday, April 9 and Tuesday, April 10 at 8 P. M. — GUION HALL Admission: By Season Tickets or Student Activity Card Tickets will only be sold at the door Reserved $3.00 — General Admission $2.50 High School Students and Under $1.00 Doors Open At 7 P. M. PEANUTS OJELL.gOOD 6RIEF,0NLV A REAL BLOCRHEAO WOULD BE OUT IN A RAIN LIRE THI£... PEANUTS V0U KNOW COE HAVE A BALL 6AME SCHEDULED FOR T0DAV...AS SOON AS E1/ERV0NE ELSE SHOWS OP, LUE CAN 6ET STARTED...