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.
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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
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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
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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.
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