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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Wednesday, March 27, 1963
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
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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.
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.. 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-
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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.
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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.
Pan American Petroleum Corp.
—Accounting and business ad
ministration.
Radiation, Inc.—Electrical en
gineering.
Southwestern Life Insurance
Co.—Accounting, business ad
ministration and agricultural ec
onomics.
Agricultural Research Service
—Chemistry, biochemistry and
nutrition, bacteriology and food
technology.
Bulletin Board
Hillel Foundation will meet at
7:30 p. m. in the Hillel Founda
tion Building. Rabbi Howard L.
Rabinowitz, the chaplain at Fort
Hood, will speak.
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DALLAS
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