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by Jim Earle
Group At Rice
Asks Integration
Rice University’s Board of Gov
ernors asked last week for
changes in the school’s charter to
permit the admission of Negroes.
In a district court suit, the
board also asked for permission
to charge a “reasonable tuition.”
Even if the suit is approved
this semester, integration at the
university on the undergraduate
level probably will not take place
next year. The school’s president,
Dr. K. S. Pitzer, has already an
nounced that no tuition will be
charged next year under any cir
cumstances.
A Rice spokesman said that if
integration is approved, it will
not apply only to classrooms, but
to “all areas,” including residence
and athletics.
SMU Takes Stand
To Retain Films
SMU’s Student Senate has
asked the student body to start a
letter-writing campaign opposing
a legislative amendment aimed
at censoring foreign-made films.
“As a university, SMU must
take a stand to guard privileges
of freedom,” SMU’s student body
president said.
The present session of the leg
islature is considering an amend
ment to Article 527 of the Penal
Code, dealing with lewd and im
moral literature.
SMU’s Student Senate would
like to start a lobby against this
bill because “it impairs the civil
and ethical rights of the indi
vidual.”
TCU Museum
May Be Lost
The proposed university mu
seum at TCU may be doomed
after the school’s Board of Trus
tees Building and Grounds Com
mittee rejected the proposal be
cause of excessive expense, old-
style architecture on the proposed
building and the fact that the
museum would be only for his
torical relics.
The proposal had been to bring
the original building of AddRan
Male and Female College, a fore
runner of TCU, from its location
at Thorp Spring in Johnson
County to the campus. A Worth
Hills Golf Course site was under
consideration.
A 30-member museum steering
committee is still meeting in
hopes of completing negotiations
for the new building.
With the amendment, any
charges brought before a court
or district attorney concerning a
film would result in the discon
tinuance of the picture.
Sound Off
Editor,
The Battalion:
Your editorial of Feb. 28 call
ing for some understanding of
the traditions that led to the
fight in Gregory Gym showed a
level of sagacity rarely manifest
in the college press.
State newspapers have kindled
the UT-Aggie rivalry by choos
ing to sensationalize the Texan
editorial which requested the
abolition of A&M. Even though
the logic in our editorial was
sound (essentially, that the phi
losophies of military conformity
and free education are antitheti
cal), it was extreme. Both the
newspaper accounts and the let
ters we have received, many of
them unprintable, were also ex
treme, but they tended to be im
moderate and adventitious to the
point of being ridiculous. I have
seen nothing yet that attacked
the main point of the editorial.
Your comments were excellent.
Yours is the sort of approach
that attempts to solve, rather
than create, problems.
Dave Helton
Managing Editor
The Daily Texan
my mind. I am very much plan
ning to return to A&M next year
even more gung-ho than any Ag
gie ever hoped to be.
I am writing this letter to en
courage every individual who is
contemplating on leaving A&M
to stop and consider very heavily
this choice. A&M isn’t perfect
nor are all of its students. The
important thing is this: Every
school has traditions and spirit,
but you as dissenters will have a
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SERVICEMEN DOWNRIGHT UNHAPPY’
Pay Hike Criticized
Faculty At Texas
Wants JC Election
Petitions in Austin calling for
an election to create a junior col
lege in Travis County have been
signed by more than 200 Univer
sity of Texas faculty members, as
well as over 3,000 county resi
dents.
Approximately 85 per cent of
the campus was covered with one
campus petition.
The plan to create a local jun
ior college has been prompted by
business and industrial interests
in Austin who have expressed a
need for high school graduates
with additional technical training
on the college level.
The election being proposed
would create a junior college dis
trict to be operated and financed
by the county.
The proposed 14.4 per cent in
crease in pay for military serv
icemen may not be all roses in
the eyes of the military. Accord
ing to a report in Newsweek mag
azine, many servicemen are bit
ter about the size of the increase
and how it will be distributed.
News week’s findings:
“The armed forces are down
right unhappy with Secretary of
Defense Robert S. McNamara’s
new pay bill proposing an aver
age 14.4 per cent increase—at a
cost of $900 million more in fis
cal 1964 added to the $12 billion
annual military payroll. The cost
of the pay boost, beginning Oct.
1, would rise to more than $1.2
billion in later years.
“They keep nibbling away at
our pay and privileges until we’re
second-class citizens,” gritted a
Navy petty officer at Norfolk.
“Talk about segregation! What
do you think they are doing to
us ?”
stake. In California, according to
Army Times, social workers re
ported that some GI families
were receiving incomes below the
minimum levels for subsistence
and should be made eligible for
aid to dependent children; in New
York City, families of some non
commissioned officers were found
eligible for relief payments.
And what about overtime ? The
GI may be the most underpaid
man in the U.S. if his long work
week is considered without over
time pay. A Pentagon survey
disclosed that Air Force pilot
lieutenants work an average of
70 hours a week. Army sergeants
and Navy petty officers put in
50 to 55 hours a week and Air
Force sergeants 45 to 50 hours,
and the Average Army and Air
Force officer works 53 hours a
week.
tains and majors who are being
induced to choose military ca
reers. First lieutenants (and
Navy lieutenants junior grade)
will get increases of as much as
$85 a month, captains and Navy
lieutenants as much as $95, and
majors and Navy lieutenant com
manders as much as $95. The
younger enlisted men—those in
the first two years—would get
only $1.80 to $9.20 a month
Bulletin Board
Newcomers’ Club will meet at
9:15 a.m. at Norton’s Pancake
House for a bus tour of the cam
pus. A Dutch-treat luncheon will
follow.
Newman Club will meet after
7:20 p.m. services at St. Mary’s
Student Center. Austin lawyer
J. P. Darrouzet will speak on
capital punishment.
What worries many profession
al military men is that the serv
iceman’s status is declining - not
only below professional, techni
cal and management personnel in
industry, but below Civil Service.
A reflection of the erosion in
the prestige of military service
was disclosed in a recent Defense
Department opinion survey. Teen
agers ranked military officers
with college professors in 4th
place on a list of nineteen occu
pations, but equated enlisted men
in 14th place with bookkeepers
and mailmen. Adults rated offi
cers in 7th place between grade-
school teachers and farmers, put
enlisted men near the bottom,
with garage mechanics and bar
bers.
The military pay bill which
went to Congress replaces over
seas pay with a new bonus for
“remote and isolated duty pay”
of 15 to 25 per cent of base pay.
The bill also sets up a new spe
cial pay of $55 a month for per
sonnel in areas where “they are
in imminent danger of being- ex
posed to hostile fire or explosion
of hostile mines.”
But more than prestige is at
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THE BATTALION
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EDITOR
Ronnie Bookman
Van Conner
Managing Editor
Sports Editor
Gerry Brown Associate Editor
Dan Louis, Ronnie Fann News Editors
Kent Johnston, Glenn Dromgoole, David Morgan, Clovis
McCallister, John Wright Staff Writers
Jim Bulter, Adrian Adair Assistant Sports Editors
J. M. Tijerina Photographer
The average 14.4 per cent boost
In basic pay was arranged to
favor the first lieutenants, cap-
AGGIELAND PORTRAIT
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All juniors and sophomores in
the corps will have their portrait
made for the AGGIELAND ’63
according to the following
schedule. Portraits will be made
in Class A winter uniforms.
Portraits will be made at the
Aggieland Studio between the
hours of 8 a. m. and 5 p. m. on
the days scheduled.
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Editor,
The Battalion:
Basketball fights can produce
many things. By now you have
seen that most of it is bad. I can
think of one event that it good.
It makes people evaluate the type
of school that they attepd. It
makes students aware of the tra
ditions and principles of their
college or university and how
closely they, as individuals, meas
ure up to these standards.
When I threw my cap into the
air as a Fish last year, I said,
“Good bye and so long.” I fig
ured A&M was good, but not for
me. That fight at Gregory Gym
and the jeers and profanity
which caused it made me change
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