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THE BATTALION
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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, May 1, 1963
BATTALION EDITORIALS
CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle
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Future Can Be Shaped
If Students Act Now
What would a good Aggie do with a person who con
tinually moans and groans about the situation around him,
but refuses to avail himself of the opportunity to improve
it?
Supply your own answer to the above question, but do
so with some care because you could be passing sentence on
yourself.
Four thousand or more Aggies were more than ready
Monday to gather and protest a decision of the Board of
Directors when it was too late for protests. However, from
the entire student body it appears that for the second time
this year filing for student offices has failed to attract candi
dates for some posts. ,
Even if candidates do file for all positions before the
Thursday deadline, the show of individuals will still be too
small to merit praise.
We can’t help but wonder where all the individuals are
who have been so anxious to take action on a decision that
they can no longer affect. Could it be that these same people
will once again sit back and let history be made without
them, only to stand at a later date and ask why they weren’t
given a chance to protect their interests.
The most efficient way students have of protecting their
interests is through their student government, class offices
and other positions of leadership on the campus. Those who
really have the interest of A&M at heart should seek these
positions or make it their business to see that people are in
these positions who they are confident will protect their
interests.
May 8, is the date for class elections.
Editor,
The Battalion:
We are in the dawn of a new
era. The good ole days have been
slowly disappearing for quite a
few years and I guess that now
they are officially gone. In a
few years the Corps will probably
be just an ordinary ROTC. The
Corps is the last remaining tie,
and when it is gone, A&M will
be no more or less outstanding
than any other ordinary college
or university.
Certain changes have recently
been made, or will shortly be
made, in the hopes that the edu
cational standards of A&M might
be improved. Though many of
us may oppose them, I am sure
that since these changes are here,
that we all hope for their success
and that they will not have been
made in vain. Texas and the
U. S. will probably gain a much
better educational institution, but
T feel that they have also lost
an awful lot, considering that
Texas AMC and all that it stood
for was the only one of its kind
in the entire world.
replaced by a new and different
university to meet the require
ments of the modern world. The
TAMC that so many people know,
means much more to some of us
than to the rest of us and we
just simply hate to see it go even
though we realize that it might
be necessary. I do not mean to
say that the changes in Texas
A&M are bad and should not be;
but rather, that I am sorry that
the situation was such that
changes were necessary.
Aubrey Martin, ’65
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Blood Drive Earns Praise
“I figured co-education would bring problems, but I didn’t
think they’d come to th’ laundry this soon!”
The A&M student body deserves to be commended for
its response to the call for blood made by the Wadley Re
search Institute and Blood Bank in their visit here last week.
The 605 pints of blood which the Aggies willingly gave
to the Institute set a new one-stop record for the Wadley
bloodmobile which average 38 trips a year to locations
throughout Texas.
In contributing their blood, A&M students played their
part in the vital research fight against leukemia, hemophilia
and other diseases of the blood.
Recognition should also be given to the work done by
Ken Stanton, chairman of the Student Welfare Committee,
who with the assistance of members of the Student Senate
and Alpha Phi Omega supervised the blood collection pro
gram.
Higher Education
In Need Of Help
Miami To Try Co-ed Dorm
By College Press Service
MIAMI — The University of
Miami has announced plans to
experiment with a co-educational
dormitory during the coming
summer sessions, provoking “end
less amazement and debate,” ac
cording to the Miami Hurricane,
student newspaper.
At the time the announcement
of the experiment was made, the
planning committee working on
the proposal had not reached any
definite decisions, but expressed
hopes that restrictions in the
dorm would be limited to the
“bare necessities.”
At the completion of its study,
the planning committee an
nounced that it looked on the
project as an “experiment in
student self-discipline.” No re
strictions on student activity will
be imposed at all by the school,
but administration and rule-
making will rest with a commit
tee, or council of residents of the
dormitory, both male and female.
The plan was reported as de
signed to develop the students’
respect for rules which will
eventually be established by their
elected representatives. The ad
ministration plans to deal with
the governing student council as
a mature and responsible unit of
the academic community, and will
allow it full control over its own
activities.
Bulletin Board
WEDNESDAY
Newman Club will meet at the
St. Mary’s Student Center after
7:30 p.m. services. There will be
election of officers.
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WASHINGTON <A>) — Secretary
of Welfare Anthony F. Celebrezze
told senators this week “the condi
tion of education in the United
States calls for action” now by the
federal government.
“For a nation accustomed to
living with the threat of thermo
nuclear war, it is perhaps diffi
cult to think of crisis in terms of
education,” Celebrezze said.
But, he went on, “Lack of ade
quate education and lack of op
portunity for education are major
contributing factors to our present
high rates of unemployment, de
pendency, delinquency and crime.
“They lie at the root of our in
ability to meet urgent needs for
skilled and highly trained man
power.
“In science and medicine, en
gineering and agriculture, in ed
ucation itself, and a host of other
occupations requiring special or
advanced training, these manpow
er shortages are major barriers
to social and economic progress.”
Celebrezze was the opening wit
ness as the Senate Education sub
committee began hearings, expect
ed to last several weeks, on Presi
dent Kennedy’s 24-point, omnibus
education bill.
Celebrezze said one important
reason that federal aid is needed
is that it no longer is realistic for
local communities to rely on the
property tax for school revenues.
“The burden of the regressive
property tax is becoming too
heavy on the homeowner and
small-business man,” he said.
He listed these as evidences of
present education shortcomings:
More than a million children
are attending school in overcrowd
ed classrooms and almost two mil
lion are studying in outmoded,
unhealthy and hazardous build
ings.
More that 80,000 teachers last
year failed to meet full state cer
tification standards.
There is a serious dropout prob
lem; an estimated 7.5 million
youngsters will leave high school
without a diploma in this decade.
Between 25 and 40 per cent of
the able high school graduates
fail to go to college.
There are 22 million adults over
25 who have had less than eight
years of schooling.
College enrollments are expect
ed to double in the present decade.
After having heard of inter
outfit rivalry, company pride,
“good bull” incidents, trashless
halls, floors shiny enough to be
used as mirrors, and many others,
I was rather disappointed after
my first few weeks here in 1961.
Later on I finally decided to give
up trying to live in the good ole
days and concentrate on avoiding
membership in the Sco-pro Club.
Many times an Aggie fish is
asked if he came to A&M because
his father, or his brother, or a
friend is an Aggie. If such were
the case, he was probably very
disappointed when he came to
College Station and could not find
Texas AMC anywhere. Perhaps
those of us who felt that way
should have been thirty years
older. But this is not the ’20’s
or ’30’s and A&M must not be
allowed to fall behind in its edu
cational standards. Thus, many
believe that the Texas A&M that
became so famous prior to the
end of World War II must be
Editor,
The Battalion:
The recent decision by the
Board of Directors has caused
speculation as to the future of
A&M. If nothing else good comes
from this controversy, I feel that
we, as Aggies, should take time
to re-evaluate ourselves and our
goals.
The gap between the Corps and
civilian students has been grow
ing all year. Several student
leaders have been criticized lately
because they have been thinking
only of the Corps, and people are
upset because the Corps seems to
run the school. Why shouldn’t
the Corps run things? They
seem to be the only ones that
care!
It is a fact that in numbers
the students in the Corps are in
a definite minority. I can’t find
anything in the College Regula
tions that says that only members
of the Corps can stand in line
for an hour to vote. I hate to
see Aggies split into two groups.
I would hope that we could
function as a student body. But
it doesn’t appear that anyone
wants to.
I am presently in the Corps but
I was a civilian for a semester
and I think that I have an idea
of the problems of each. I have
not intended to aim this letter at
civilians because we are all at
fault. When a student election
has to be postponed because of a
lack of interest, or when The
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