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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, May 15, 1964 BATTALION EDITORIALS Who Is To Say Who Is The Best? Believe it or not, there are eight colleges and univer sities in the Southwest Conference. There is one school in this membership, however, that refuses to recognize this fact. This institution is the Uni versity of Texas. At least, the student publications of the school fail to recognize the existance of Texas Christian University, Southern Methodist University, Rice University, Texas Technological College, Baylor University, the Univer sity of Arkansas and A&.M, University. This attitude has no place in modern education. School spirit in the SWC is perhaps greater than in any other organization of the same type in the nation. But, the Aus tinites often carry this spirit to the extreme; in that man ner it can no longer be referred to as “spirit.” There is no school in the SWC that cannot lay claim to some achievement that has won national, and perhaps inter national,acclaim. All of them have graduated students that are now leaders in local, state, national, and world affairs. The Southwest Conference exhibits a pride in itself that is rarely found in other collective groups of institutions of higher learning in the United States. Therefore, hearing the papers and publications at UT run down these other schools is becoming tiresome. More than once the newspapers of the University of Texas has proclaimed that there may as well not be a Southwest Con ference; that UT is the only school worthy of being repre sented in such a select group. Truthfully, this proclamation has been voiced more in connection with athletic events. A&M is in a position to say, at least for this year, that UT’s so-called “dynasty” in this aspect of the SWC has been broken. But the attitude re flected by the University’s blatant feeling of superiority has rubbed off on more aspects than just the athletic out look. UT has elevated itself to the point at which it can criticize the students of other schools in too many ways. It is easy to say that there is not a school in the SWC that has not received a broadside from the University and felt the effects of such subjective criticism. The University of Texas has the good fortune to have fine athletic teams. It offers excellent opportunities in liberal arts, law, engineering, business administration, and so on. But so have other SWC schools had fine athletic teams. So do they offer the same opportunities. Some surpass others in certain fields. But each student that attends these schools has a reason for doing so. He or she enters the University of Texas, SMU, Baylor, A&M, etc., because he or she feels that par ticular institution offers what he or she wants in an edu cation. The students of A&M are the first to say that school spirit is an integral part of higher education. What would an institution be without it? However, the advocation of one school as the leader, the top, or the god of all the others is an insult to a student’s intelligence. It has no place in an organization that can boast of so many accomplishments, both individual and collective. Numbers do not make an institution of higher learning. Nor do school spirit or academics. It is a combination of these that makes an alumni proud of where he spent four or more years of his life. There is not a school in the SWC that cannot swell its chest with its pride. Therefore, there is a need for more objectivity from the large university in Austin.—(R.G.S.) 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The Battalion is a non tax-supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and operated by students as a university and community news paper and is under the supervision of the director of Stu dent Publications at Texas A&M University. Members of the Student Publications Board are James L. Lindsey, chairman ; Delbert McGuire, College of Arts and Sciences; J. A. Orr, College of Engineering; J. M. Holcomb, College of Agriculture; and Dr. E. D. McMurry, College of Veterinary Medicine. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M is published in College Sta tion, Texas daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods. Septem ber through May, and once a week during summer school. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter here in are also reserved. 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Sports Editor CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Republican Solans Attach Poverty On LBJ Farms WASHINGTON UP) — In an indirect attack on the adminis tration’s antipoverty program, two Republican congressmen re ported Thursday they found “de plorable poverty” among tenants on Alabama farmland owned by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson. Reps. Dave Martin of Nebras ka and M. G. Snyder of Ken tucky implied the First Lady is a callous landlord. And they said President Johnson ought to follow the Christian admonition to “put your house in order” be fore preaching the gospel of his antipoverty program. Both Martin and Snyder are members of the House Educa tion and Labor Committee con sidering the Johnson bill. Both oppose it. Snyder said he and Martin toured the Alabama property last weekend at the expense of the Republican Congressional High School Group Slates A&M Visit . . With th’ expense of th’ Ring Dance, graduation and all, I gotta get a buyer lined up quick!” International Park Urged In Big Bend Border Area MEXICO CITY <A>) — An in ternational park which could be among the largest in the Ameri cas is being urged by the Inter national Good Neighbor Council, holding its biennial meeting here. President Adolfo Lopez Mateos Thursday opened the meeting at tended by 400 delegates from Mexico and the United States. The organization was founded 10 years ago to improve rela tions between Mexico and the United States. This is the 20th biennial session, the second to be held in Mexico City. Jose F. Muguerza of Monter rey, president of the internation al organization, outlined prog ress to date and proposals for the future. Among the plans being push ed, he said, was an internation al good neighbor park to include the present Big Bend Park and neighboring land south of the Rio Grande in the states of Coahuila and Chihuahua. “We believe this international park will be a permanent mon ument to international peace and further, a tourist attraction for the entire world,” Muguerza said. The Medical Careers Club of Bel- laire High School in Houston will visit facilities Saturday of the A&M University College of Vet erinary Medicine. The club is composed of students interested in the fields of medicine, pharmacology, nursing, veterinary medicine and dentistry. GRADUATING SENIORS —are you in need of a car? There is no need to wait if you have a military con tract or a job commitment. Come in today — “Test Drive” the “Really Hot One”—the 1964 Plymouth. 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