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We Deserve A New Title It is appropriate that A&M is only a signature away from being designated a university in name as each passing year sees at least one new development which serves to in dicate that A&M has long had the qualifications of a uni versity. By Webster’s definition, a “university” is an institution organized for teaching and study in the higher branches of learning, and empowered to confer degrees in special de partments. With four degree-granting schools and offering degrees in such special areas as veterinary medicine, computer science and marine engineering, A&M certainly seems to fill this definition. At the beginning of the fall semester, the Texas Com mission on Higher Education approved the offering of a Doctor of Philosophy degree in engineering at A&M. When the commission met again in January, it approved a graduate degree program in Government. A&M took another step towards gaining larger stature as an educational institution in naming a director to its proposed Cyclotron Institute. The 88-inch variable energy cyclotron, to be built under a grant being studied by the Atomic Energy Commission, would give A&M the fourth cyclotron to be constructed on a college or university campus and the only one in the south. The facts seem to show we deserve to be called a uni versity. [ggi es ' n uage cla bn keep th > wants it |he Russi; Hi ^ “ . . . Next time we want to demonstrate our opposition to something - whadya say we carry signs, picket, sign peti tions or something besides shaving our heads!” Sound Off AUSTIN (A 3 ) — Texas House members refused 107-38 Monday to do away with death in the MeAric chair. The vote on capital punishment came as the House discussed an omnibus recodification of Texas’ code’of criminal procedure. Rep. J. C. Whitfieid, Houston, proposed an amendment that would remove from present law the. procedure for carrying out the death penalty. “The death penalty in Texas does not do what it is supposed to,” Whitfield said in arguing that capital punishment does not deter crime. Rep. Bob Hughes, Dallas, said that Whitfield’s amendment would still allow a jury to assess the death penalty but with no provi sions for official executions. Dis trict judges would have the right “to hang or even bury alive per sons given the death penalty,” Hughes said. Proposed amendments to declare moratoriums or test periods of 2 to 5 years in which there would STARTS TODAY FEATURES: 1:51 - 4:16 - 6:41 - 9:06 NOTHING YOU HAVE EVER WITNESSED BEFORE HAS PREPARED YOU FOR SUCH SHEER STABBING Editor, The Battalion: The spring general elections for this year have come and gone, but as the departing president of our Civilian Student Council and one of the candidates for student body president in these recent elections I would like to offer some personal afterthought on the general elections and our stu dent government program as a whole. In this year’s elections almost 500 more votes were cast than last year. Though I was not elected to the office for which I was running, if my candidacy was the least bit instrumental in achieving this greater voting turnout, then my purpose has been at least partially fulfilled. Five hundred more students were interested enough in the election’s outcome to stand in line and cast their votes. Also this year, for the first time in the history of our election procedure, an open assembly was held for all candidates vieing for student government positions to present themselves and their plat forms to the attending students. Though the attendance at this meeting was discouraging to say the least, and while the 1700 votes cast in the general election fell far short of being a representa tive vote of our student body, we students have nevertheless taken the first step toward truly repre sentative, effective, dynamic stu dent government. Let us not stop for breath at this first plateau, but keeping in mind what has been done in the area of student government pro- m'otion, continue giving of our selves to elevate our government program so that the feelings of our student body may be voiced with authority through our gov ernment organization. In closing I wish to extend a personal word of appreciation to all those students whose efforts were so invaluable to my cam paign. For your work and your time I offer my deepest thanks. Jeff Harp, ’64 ★ ★ ★ Editor, The Battalion: This letter should have been written several months ago when we arrived back home from our visit in Texas. I neglected doing it although I thought of the won derful boys I want to get a mess age to every day. I didn’t get their names but think they are students of Texas A&M, as they had • an Aggie sticker on their car and I had passed their car near Caldwell on the way to San Antonio out of Bryan. Hope you can print a message or post it somewhere for them to see. The week before last Christ mas we were on the way to San Antonio to spend Christmas with our daughter’s family on a very rainy, chilly day. The station wagon I was driving went out of control on the wet road and we ended up in the black mud in a plowed field about ten miles north lof San Marcos. These three boys were in the first car that came up after the accident. My hus band had fallen out of the door into the mud and was unconsci ous. Their kindness and concern until more help came was a big boost to my nerves. I would like to have them know the happy ending. They are Aggies, I think. My husband doesn’t remember anything about the accident or about any of the wonderful peo ple who helped us. I remember how much you helped me. I ima gine you were all anxious to get home for Christmas vacation, but you took up so much time with us. Hope your mothers got all the black mud out of your cloth ing. I want to let you know we came through O.K. My husband had to have six stiches in his scalp and was sick all night in the San Marcps hospital. He was very bewildered in his mind. Next morning they X-rayed his head. There was no concussion and by noon he had improved enough that we could continue to San Antonio. He stayed in bed at our daughter’s home for a week to get over the dizziness. He improved enough that we stayed in Texas on into February. Your mothers can be very proud of you. I am proud to say we have two Aggies in our family, too. Our two daughters married Texas A&M graduates. May God bless you always. be no executions also failed by de cisive margins. After three hours’ debate, the recodification measure won tenta tive approval. The debate on capital punish ment came as the legislature be gan its last three weeks of this regular session. The House adopted and sent to the Senate a resolution saying the regular session will end not later than midnight Friday May 24, in stead of Monday, May 27, the deadline of the 140-day limit set by the state constitution. TECHNICOLOR’ — ROD TAYLOR-JESSICA TANDY SUZANNE FLESHETTE m^WTIPPI’HEDRENI Screenplay by EVAN HUNTER-Directed by ALFRED HITCHCOCK A Universal Release| Based on Daphne Du Maurier’s Classic Suspense Story i Bulletin Board We Recommend You See “THE BIRDS” From The Begimh Mrs. Ray H. Kramer Plant City, Fla. The Aggie Wives Bridge Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center Assem bly Room. QUEEN “FIESTA NITE” Tonight 6 P. M. M.S.C. MAIN DINING ROOM SATURDAY, MAY 11 5:30 to 7:30 P. M. THE BATTALION ©ME ©UIET FACT K 1 N C SIZE Winston FILTER-CIGARETTES FINER FILTER'. '.- FOR FINER FLAVOR iN ternationals Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent writers only. The Battalion is a non tax-suppoi'ted, 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. Lindsey, chairman ; Delbert 'bM| ' r " Holcomb, The tion, ber through during dispat credited spontaneous origin, pu in are also reserved. I republication of all news and local news of :ws other matter here- Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. MEMBER: The Associated Press Texas Press Assn. 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