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
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Traffic Institute (throngs
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Polygraph School (throiijl
urday)
SATURDAY
Commencement and Fin
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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
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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.)
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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
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