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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Wednesday, March 27, 1963 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle s wc Campus Newsmakers BU Votes Down Coed Yell Leaders Baylor students voted last week not to begin using coeds as yell leaders at athletic events. The measure, long a contro versy on the Baylor campusi, failed to pass by only 19 votes. Over 1,300 students took part in the election. Baylor is the only Southwest Conference school besides A&M that doesn't have coed yell lead ers. * Last week’s election in which student body officers for this spring were also decided, grew out of protests of an earlier elec tion. Two students protested the earlier election because of al leged irregularities. scale charges on a women’s dorm itory from an adjoining parking lot. An abbreviated third charge was reported shortly before crowds were dispersed. Coeds inside the dormitories flashed their lights, yelled at the men, and put a protest on one occasion by slamming their doors in unison. No arrests or injuries were re ported. UT Has International Education Center A Center for International Ed ucation has been established in the University of Texas’ College of Education. Students At TCU Picket Theaters Five TCU students and a Negro girl picketed a Fort Worth theater last week during a per formance of “To Kill A Mock ingbird,” the widely - heralded movie about racial prejudice in the South. Pickets were also reported at three other Fort Worth theaters on the same night. All pickets carried signs with such slogans as “Equal Opportunities For Everyone,” “We’re out here be cause they’re segregated in there” and “20 Century: About time to Integrate!” Audiences inside all four the aters were segregated. The picketing was reportedly organized by the Southwest Stu dent Action Coordinating Com mittee, a group “devoted to solv ing various problems such as civil rights, disarmament and things like that.” ★ ★ ★ Coeds received all the blame for a panty raid at TCU weekend before last. According to reports, cries of “let’s have a panty raid” from coeds provoked a near-riot in one quadrangle. The action began about 10:30 p. m. on a Sunday night and continued until 3 a. m. Men students made two full- Purpose of the center will be to give supplementary advice to education majors to enable them to work in language and area studies to qualify for foreign positions. 4^ .. just to be on th’ safe side, how ’bout buyin’ two tickets?” COLLEGES SEEK FUNDS Legislature For Higher Holds Key Education Probably the heaviest burden resting on the shoulders of the 58th Texas Legislature is the fate of Texas’ higher education sys tem. Educators, politicians and private citizens all seem to realize that Texas has reached the point of no return in higher education— improvement is needed, and fast. A method of realizing this im provement, namely more money, must be solved by the legisla tors now in session in Austin. A&M is by no means excluded from the list of state schools that need more money. Already in creases for the college have been proposed in four different budgets, but even these boosts seem to fall far short of what the school could really use. Gov. John Connally, who has continually stressed higher edu- 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 college and community newspaper and is under the supervision of the director of Student Publications at Texas A&M College. Membe: McGuir School The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A.&M. is published in College Sta- i, Texas daily except Saturday, Sjunday, and Monday, ber through May, and once a week during summer school. ! n< tlon, Texas daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, Septem- Hege , Sep The Associated Press is entitled spontaneous origin published herein, in are also reserved. Second-class postage paid at College Station, Texas. MEMBER: The Associated Press Texas Press Assn. Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc.., New York Service. Inc.., City, Chicago, Loe An- feles and San Francisco. All Address: er full year, on request. News contributions may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the editorial office. Room 4, YMCA Building. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6416. ALAN PAYNE EDITOR Ronnie Bookman Van Conner Managing Editor Sports Editor ..Associate Editor Gerry Brown Dan Louis, Ronnie Fann News Editors Kent Johnston, Glenn Dromgoole, David Morgan, Clovis McCallister, John Wright - Staff Writers cation as his number one priority measure, recommended $9,709,- 331 for A&M for the ’63-’64 fiscal year and $10,019,030 for ’64-’65. The Commission on Higher Edu cation and former Gov. Price Dan iel both asked $9,888,802 for ’63- ’64 and $10,204,952 for ’64-’65. The other budget, by the legislative budget board, recommended $8,- 312,635 for ’63-’64 and $8,305,635 for ’64-’65. Cannally’s overall recommenda tions called for $348,884,000 in education spending. The biggest portion of Connally’s asked in crease was a boost of $14 million in professors’ salaries and re search and library facilities. The legislature’s biggest prob lem is not to decide whether to increase educational spending, but where to find the money for such an increase. These three methods have been frequently ad vocated: 1. Change the structure of the present sales tax law (most fre quently mentioned is a possible removal of the exemption on clothing). 2. Retain the corporation fran chise tax that is now only “tem porary.” 3. Double tuition costs for the student. Connally, in his budget, would rely upon an additional $23,800,- 000 from changes in the sales tax and $22,000,000 from an ex tension of the corporation tax. He did not recommend an in crease in tuition. The other three budgets, how ever, all recommended the tui tion increase. Two bills have already been filed in the House calling for a hike in tuition. Rep. Ben Atwell of Dallas introduced a bill to double the present $50 tuition, while Rep. Dick Morgan, also of Dallas, proposed a 50 'per cent increase to $75 per semester. In addition, Rep. Paul Haring of Goliad has proposed a con stitutional amendment to create a “Texas Student Loan Fund” to aid needy students who can’t af ford a tuition increase. Haring’s proposal would provide as much as $250 a semester for “qualified” students. The loans would be paid back at three per cent interest after the student completes his studies. The individual college or university would decide the re cipients. Most discouraging aspect of higher education’s struggle is the apparent trend in Austin to trim all financial requests by sub stantial margins, including those for education. The House, fof instance, allo cated $295,700,000 for higher ed ucation, over $58 million less than Gov. Connally requested. The Senate’s budget bill hasn’t been introduced, but education’s chances don’t seem much brighter. Ironically, the Commission on Higher Education disclosed just this Monday that it will cost twice as much in 1970 to support Tex as’ 20 colleges and universities as it does today. The estimate was given in a report adopted by the commission to project Texas’ higher education needs for the next 10 years. According to the report, the estimate was based on a seven per cent annual increase in legislative appropriations per student, a $100 increase in the annual tuition rate and projections of enroll ment. Despite all these obstacles, higher education remains deter mined to obtain enough money to establish an improved system. Even Connally has said he plans to stand firm in seeking addi tional funds. Apparently Texas won’t have to wait much longer for an ans wer. The Senate appropriations bill could be introduced this week, then a legislative conference com mittee will begin drafting the final version. -A LEGEND— One night in ancient times, three horsemen were riding across an open desert. As they passed through a dry river bed, a voice called out of the night, “Halt!” The riders reined in night, Malt! me riders reined in their horses, and then the voice ordered, “Dismount—‘pick up a handfull of peb bles and remount.’ Whei iddles, done as I have commanded. Tomorrow len the horsemen were again in their saddles, the voice said “You have me as I at dawn you will be both glad and Mystified, the three men rode off into the night. As the sun climbed above the horizon next morning, they reached into r pockets. A miracle had happened, pebbles, their hi for instead of the pebbles, their hands were filled with diamonds, rubies and other precious stones. th‘ And then they remembered the strange omen. They were both glad and sorry—glad they had taken some, sorry they had not taken more. LIFE INSURANCE IS LIKE THAT. EUGENE RUSH American National Insurance Co. North Gate College Station Sound Off Editor, The Battalion: May I state that my first def inite impression of your school was “WET!” I received this impression March 17 as I was sitting calmly on the steps of Mitchell Hall chatting amiably with some in mates on the ground floor. Some degraded hoods from the tipper floors threw a pan of water on me. Fortunately this missile missed me. Need I say that I retreated in full order? I had gone to Mitchell Hall to contact an old friend. I had flag ged down someone to look for him and was waiting for him sitting on the steps when these Aggies on the ground floor started up a chat. Mitchell Hall is so prim itive girls cannot enter the doors. (I hear they can, but I was not eager to.) I chatted with the dear boys, because after all, a girl from a girl’s school does appreciate a little male conversation ever once in a while. I suddenly heard wildcatting and shouts. I knew that this was normal for the animals to react upon sight of a girl alone and un escorted (even escorted, it hap pens). This was appreciation. But how was I to know that Aggies did not want girls to bother them? How did I know that they hated girls so that they dump water out the window at them? Ugh! I am warning all the girls just how things are at A&M. And be lieve me, there are plenty of girls 7V< where I am. sister and brother had deteriorf0 If-J/ JF ed between A&M and TWO,! little did I know that it wti ^ bad. It’s a pretty come-off *1 to ' gir s have to dodge water at Thursd , gieland. I am also warning every | that Aggies do not like girlstt on their campus. I also would like to end one thing: “There is a lot™ with guys who don’t like forfi to be around!” Peggy Armstrong, Tl —Job Calls— Thursday Aerofin Corp.—Mechanical en gineering. Cameron Iron Works, Inc.— Industrial engineering and me chanical engineering. 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