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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1963)
THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Tuesday, May 21, 1983 CADET SLOUCH hr Jim Earle BATTALION EDITORIALS Students Have Control Over Important Area This year has almost reached its end in terms of the school year. As we look back we know that a number of things have happened which will have a great effect on our lives and upon A&M. Even though we have had questions such as co-education, name-change, final exam exemptions, and any number of other items which have come up in the past that the individual student didn’t have a lot of say so in, we can still find one area where the student was and still is the one governing body. The one isolated area over which each .individual on this campus, or anywhere else, has complete control is the in dividual mind. There are probably more than 90 per cent of the students on this campus who will readily admit they have not taken full opportunity of the limitless power that is theirs. This is that time of the year when all of us are going to approach next semester with more vigor than ever before. We tell ourselves now that we will not wait until the last moment to get our work done next semester. But will we? Of course there is one group on this campus that will never have the opportunity to “really hit next semester” as undergraduates. This group of course is the people who are graduating. They will have to “really hit it,” but “it” is a more serious task which they have ahead than ever before. The time has come for them to take their places'in those positions they have been trained for. However, there would probably still be some who would not be men enough to face the things they can do something about and would take on areas over which they have no control so they can say they didn’t have a chance. Spring Fever Finds Outlets With the approach of summer, students around the state begin to show the first symptoms of a strange malady which college ad ministrators refer to as spring fever, although stronger terms are sometimes used when not in the presence of ladies. Around the A&M campus its seasonal effects are' reflected in a rise in the attendance at local movie houses, a decrease in water space per capita at the local swimming pools and a large in crease in the revenues of Lone Star Brewery and other beverage distributers in the Bryan-College Station area. On the other hand male stu dents at other colleges of the A&M University System supple ment these rather innocent activi ties with more lively amusements. Encouraged by feminine squeals, shouts and sighs, about 300 males at Arlington State College stag ed a panty raid that began in the late hours last Thursday night and didn’t end until early Friday morning. Little resistance was met by the first wave of raiders that stormed Lipscomb Hall, the girls’ dormitory at about 11 p.m. ATTENTION JUNIORS 10 Pr. Senior Boots $15 - $25. 10 Pr. Serge Boot Pants and 10 Pr. Pink Boot Pants $5 - $9.95 SOME SERGE SHIRTS AVAILABLE. A Few Sabers In AH Lengths LOUPOTS THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent writers only. The Battalion is a non tax-supported, 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. 58th Legislature Enters Last Week Future Dal Regular session of the 58th Legislature ends Friday. That’s three days earlier than the con stitutional requirement. few Hundreds of the 1,500 propos ed new laws submitted by the 181 legislators were left to die in committees and on the crowded calendars of both houses. Other hundreds will become law when Gov. John Connally signs them. Rush of business at the session’s end is pouring them into his office by the score. All legislative proposals are Bulletin Board The Physical Education Wives Club will hold the Annual Ph.D. awards and steak fry at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Carl Landis, 803 Dexter in College Station Tuesday at 6 p.m. important to someone. In cases, it is a single person. One proposal would allow a newspaper editor to practice law. It was killed on the floor. Another would permit the prac tice of architecture, by a qualifi ed person who failed to apply for a license before the deadline ar rived. It died in committee. But the major issues of the ses sion appear to be fairly well settled. However, there are a number of questions which will be brought up for which some legislatures will attempt to get rules suspend ed in order to enter the bill for last minute consideration. TUESDAY Nurserymen’s Short Con Traffic Institute (throngs day) Polygraph School (throiijl urday) SATURDAY Commencement and Fin view Boot Dance AGGIES We Will Buy For CH All Books That Willi On The September Book List. mges are Ai ' ru it, Consun Is per capita ivere second at niiiHii •• ‘Sports Car Dealers Renault-P< & British Mot Sales—Parts- Service All I Texas Ave. imimjjjum mu Ircpn Z LAS TI) ‘B0CCAC4 “I know it’s not regulation, but I only have a week to sell them!” It might be well to have some of these graduates return to the campus occassionally and tell undergraduates just how important these motions we go through here from day to day are. It’s just possible that some heads might be turned in the right direction. Sound Off The girls residing in the dorm prompted the noisy group by blinking their room lights on and off throughout the 3-story building. Police dispersed the males shortly before midnight and then went away assuming their mis sion accomplished. After undergoing reorganiza tion however, the students made a comeback at about 1:30 a.m. with slightly less numbers but greater fervor. In the effort to quell the dis turbance campus police were re inforced by Arlington city police, Tarrant County sheriff's depu ties, a police dog and a host of firemen. Students held the upper hand temporarily, after seizing fire hoses from the law enforcers and turning them on their former lowners. Firemen hastily turned off the water to avoid being drowned and in the end law and order prevailed. Leaders of the raiding party, taken into custody and later re leased by police, are slated to face the college disciplinary board, according to ASC officials. Editor, The Battalion: I’ve wanted to write before con cerning co-education, but never seemed to find the time. How ever, one letter in particular has made me take the time to write. The letter mentioned appeared in the Batt and was signed by four members of the Class of ’66. I disagree completely to the rash statement that there is no valid ai’gument to the Board’s decision on co-education, and would like to put forth these points for consideration. No one can say that girls on this campus aren’t a distraction. This is by no means an indica tion of a maladjusted personality either. Aggies know and feel that girls do not belong on our campus as students and will con tinue to feel this way for some time to come. Therefore, I sub mit that it is ridiculous to as sume that the presence of co-eds will cause “keener interest in classwork!” Far from it I be lieve, as do many others, that co-eds would only make it more difficult for students at A&M to meet the stiff academic require ments of our school. As for the “much needed” fine arts department, I think that it is evident from the overwhelm ing demand for graduates with technical degrees in engineer ing, architecture, vet medicine, and math and physcis that a tech nical university such as A&M is needed more. I understand the fine arts department at TU can ably handle the multitudes thus inclined. Agreed, the women of Texas are tax payers too — but have you forgotten TWU ? And I dare say the women who commute to Huntsville could be counted on No one in his right mind would contend that the Board can legal ly x'estrict admission of co-eds as they have done. As was men tioned, the women of Texas are taxpayers too, and why should student wives and faculty fam ilies be more privileged than any other female Texan? This of course means one thing — the school will be forced to build co-ed dormitories and other faci lities once the doors have been opened to full co-education. I think you will find all the “min or practices” which would neces sarily be changed on pages 50-61 of the Articles of the Cadet Corps. Look them up. These four cheerful crusaders were 100 per cent right on one point. The Student Body has no voice at this school. We aren’t even considered important enough to be told what is in store for us. To accept the decision of the Btiard in good spirit would mean for those Aggies who feel they are right in fighting it to give up — and no Aggie gives up. If you can pose the question “Is A.&M worth saving at the expense of progress?” I sincere ly hope you don’t refer to your selves as Aggies. A&M has stood for progress for 92 years. The graduates of A&M have percent age-wise brought more progress to this nation in military, indus trial and educational fields than any one co-ed university in the nation. I don’t believe the ad mission of women at A&M can do anything but drop this level of performance to that of aver age universities. Eddie Collier, ’64 y : jitm i — A ITARTS TOIV GLY AMI With Marlon (In Col >' r :p III v..$j I Sis*. ■SOW Illy* . developed ; . U Lu mmi ' a*. his is you: welry and r'plege Sea' SPECIAL LOT DISCOUNT TO FACULTY-STAFF AND OTHER MEMBERS OF A&M C FAMILY! ! You can likely have a lot and maybe even a leisure home at Fun Forest-Lake Placid Club development for the price of this SUMMER'S vacation! Eight of your Bryan-College Station-Navasota neighboring families have already purchased (5 leisure homes now under construction.) 1 BOATING, SWIMMING, FISHING, HORSEBACK RIDING, HIK ING, OR JUST PLAIN RELAXING! LAKE PLACID is a 22 acre foot lake finger of the Proposed Millican Resevoir. By severing the day lot owner will be on the huge Resevoir when and if it is built. ONLY 5 MINUTES FROM HOME OR OFFICE ! Univ< SEE TODAY—5 minutes south of A&M main entrance on Highway 6, watch for sign. Call Mrs. R. L. Hunt, Jr. VI 6-7690 for information or appointment if desired. the fingers on your hands. True, we are the only school in the state which offers a degree in veteri nary medicine, but I haven’t seen a petition with over 1,800 signa tures from 2,400 people contacted for their cause. I think if the authors of this letter will check their source of information a little closer, they will find that a committee of faculty members was in favor of co-education (and after the “top secret” manner in which the Board of Directors carried on their activities, I wonder who selected the committee) not the entire faculty. ARMY. THANKS FOR YOUR BUSINESS -Hope Everything Is All Right- I n less You Get Your Money’s Worth At LOU’S, It’s Not A Good Trade For You Or LOU. J. E. Loupot '32 TH£ BY %RBER ^WsedbyWa euzabe-
