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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, April 24, 1963
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle BY ADMINISTRATION
BATTALION EDITORIALS
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CLASP Offers A Way
To Finance Education
If you want a great institution of higher learning you
need one basic ingredient—money. So says Gov. John Con-
nally, Chancellor M. T. Harrington and CLASP—the College
Loyalty Alumni Support Program.
This organization of volunteer alumni from 21 Texas
colleges and universities is presently conducting a fund rais
ing campaign throughout the state to help bolster the insuf
ficient funds alloted by the legislature for higher education.
To have the best, someone has to pay for the best. Un
fortunately the state cannot carry the burden alone. The
average gift given by other states' alumni last year was
$36.72 each. Texans gave only a little better than $20 each
for the support of their schools. This is not enough.
Texas’ annual school salaries for full professors were
$972.00 less than the average for the entire U. S. Of the 50
American Nobel Prize winners, not one came from a Southern
institution.
The real money and the real brains tend to gather in
those states whose educational level is highest. If Texas is
allowed to become an educationally backward state because of
disinterested alumni, it will very soon become economically
backward.
There is indeed a need for CLASP, as there is a need
for more support for higher education. It is up to this year’s
graduates, future graduates and all exes to support this
program. It will benefit themselves and their children to
have schools in Texas at least as well off as those of the rest
of the country.
Tax Broadside Readied
WASHINGTON GP)—The Ken-+
nedy administration is quietly
loading up for another broadside
in behalf of its tax program.
This one is designed to p2r-
suade state and local go’ ern-
ments they would realize hand
some gains in revenue from the
President’s proposals.
Indirectly, it also will challenge
the argument that rising state
and local levies would counteract
the administration’s plan to en
liven the economy by diverting
“A raincoat’s really not hot if you don’t wear clothes under
it!”
tax dollars into consumer and
business channels.
Treasury officials look upon
this year’s $2-billion increase in
Social Security deductions and
elevated state and local taxes as
events that have already hap
pened or would have happened
anyway. In any case, they con
tend the administration program
would turn loose $10.3 billion by
1965.
A Treasury analysis reportedly
claims the program’s economic
impact would enlarge state and
local revenues by 8 per cent or
more at existing rates. This
would add between $3 billion and
$3.5 billion, without boosting
rates, to the $40 billion collected
last year from taxes and charges.
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Poor Crowd
Gives Voting
Dismal Start
Sound Off
Editor,
The Battalion:
If Monday night’s attendance
at campaign speeches is any in
dication, today’s election may be
doomed to failure. Only about
50 students showed up Monday
night to hear candidates outline
their platforms. And only 13 of
the 30 candidates went to the
trouble to attend the session.
Most discouraging is the fact
that this lack of interest comes
immediately after efforts to en
liven student elections by les
sening compaign restrictions.
Campaign speeches such as those
held Monday have not always
been permissable.
Admittedly, there were factors
that could have accounted for
Monday’s poor attendance. Foi’e-
most is the fact that the speeches
were held on a Monday, thus
giving the student body an en
tire weekend to forget that they
were planned.
But there can be no excuse for
such a total lack of interest as
was witnessed Monday. One can
only wonder if the entire idea
of having elections is really
worth it.
I read the article on Splash
Day in The Battalion and also
Mr. Dunlap’s letter. Not only
were both grossly misinformed,
but Mr. Dunlap’s letter simply
didn’t make sense. Dunlap said
the Southwest Association of
College Students has organized
“an association of coordinate stu
dent activities” because Splash
Day has supposedly been done
away with. He goes on to outline
these “coordinated” activities as
small groups on the beaches,
‘'singing and enjoying the com
pany of other students.”
I have but one question for
Mr. Dunlap: Where’s the co
ordination? The association is
to be commended for taking such
interest in promoting student
goodwill on the Pleasure Island,
but the activities sugg-ested are
nothing more than what young
people (and old) heve been doing
for many decades past on Gal
veston beaches.
Another misconception of Mr.
Dunlap, The Battalion and ap
parently many students is that
Splash Day was done away with
for the simple reason of pre
venting a recurrence of the riots
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of two years ago.
First of all Splash Day wasn’t
eliminated, it was extended. No
longer is Splash Day merely one
weekend, but it now includes four
consecutive weekends, each one
filled with activities for the en
joyment of all visitors, including
college students. The second paid:
of the misconception is that
Splash Day was changed because
of the riots. This is not at all
true. Indeed, if such was the
case Galveston citizens wouldn’t
have waited two years to do so.
When the committee met to or
ganize the 1963 Splash activities,
not a word was spoken of the
riots. The only reason the com
motion of two years ago did
occur was that a malicious minor
ity succeeded in investigating the
concentrated crowds of fun-seek
ing teenagers and because the un
suspecting Galveston police force
was, at that time, neither trained
nor equipped to handle such a
situation.
The people of Galveston con
sider the riots simply an un
fortunate incident. Futhermore,
they believe that the common
sense and intelligence of most
Texas students will help prevent
the recurrence of such a dis
graceful display.
The city of Galveston welcomes
all to her beaches, not only for
Splash Month, but year round.
And her welcome certainly
doesn’t exclude the college stu
dent.
Stanley Santire ’66,
Galveston
(Editor Note: To clarify this
point for our readers, The Bat
talion still considers Splash Day
eliminated. It has simply been
replaced by Splash Month.)
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Editor,
The Battalion:
Several weeks ago the ring com
mittee met in Mr. H. L. Heat
on’s office to discuss matters per
taining to the Aggie ring. As a
result of this meeting, the com
mittee recommended that without
exception the name Texas A&M
University will appear on the
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ring beginning with the Class of
1965.
But it seems that the sopho
more class as a whole rejects
this proposal in favor of a choice,
or—to maintain Aggie tradition—
they desire to have the ring re
main as it is. For this reason,
a class meeting has been called to
determine the preference of the
‘65 Aggies for the name their
rings will bear. We will take
this decision to responsible ad
ministration officials along with
any other support we can obtain
from around our state.
Through this meeting, we have
some hope that our rings will
not bear a name which we do not
endorse and cannot accept. It
is my hope that the members of
the Class of 1965 will attend this
meeting as responsible men, so
that we may obtain a constructive
resolution.
James Love ’65
Class Vice President
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The Battalion:
(Editor’s Note: The following
letter was originally written to
sophomore David C. Slaughter.)
I have your recent letter re
lative to the possible change in
the name of Texas A&M College.
I cannot tell you at this time
whether or not this bill will be
finnally passed through the legis
lature, or what the final effect
of its passage might he.
I certainly agree with you
that those Aggies who entered
Texas A&M College prior to the
name-change should certainly be
granted the option of having Tex
as A&M College appear on their
senior ring. Being a graduate
of A&M and being a proud pos
sessor of an Aggie ring, I would
hate to think of having it re
placed with a ring with anything
on it other than Texas A&M Col
lege.
I regret that I am not in a
position to be of assistance to
you in this matter, but so as to
make my view known, I an send
ing a copy of this letter to the
president of A&M and to the
chairman of the Board of Di
rectors.
Robert W. Baker ’44
Attorney, Houston
Bulletin Board
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