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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Bob Schulz, Jim Butler Associate Editors
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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.
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Committee. They took photo
graphs of six of its Negro ten
ant and sharecropper families.
Thursday, they told a news
conference: “We saw nothing
here that could not easily be
corrected by the Johnsons them
selves, without a nickel of fed
eral funds or a single federal
program — if, of course, they
really cared.”
At the White House, Elizabeth
Carpenter, press secretary for
Mrs. Johnson, said the First
Lady would receive far more
profit from the land if there
were no tenants or sharecrop
pers and she could convert it
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But, Mrs. Carpenter said,
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