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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
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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.
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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.
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