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THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday. November 3, 1964
If ever a demonstration ful-
filed the purposes for which it
was planned, the one held by
disgruntled would-be politicians
on the A&M campus did Friday.
At a time when national poli
tics is reaching its peak, the lack
of campaign activities on the
campus has been as noticeable as
the lack of real issues in the na
tional campaign. The people of
the surrounding area and even
some students of the university
probably are not familiar with
the ruling that keeps organized
political clubs out of Aggieland.
Some of the county and state
candidates have begged the boys
not to demonstrate, and even
scolded them that it was no way
to gain the recognition that they
have sought. There are other
ways to accomplish the same
goals, reflected the majority of
the campus officials that were
present at the demonstration.
Are these boys acting like
children or has the administration
been acting like boys, turning
down even the most earnest pleas
for campus recognition?
What is the legislative ruling?
Article 5, House Bill 86, Section
2 states: “None of the moneys
Sound Off
Editor,
The Battalion:
Another of my friends left
A&M Wednesday. He’s the sec
ond to withdraw this semester.
Both were seniors. Neither were
failing. One had a 2.00 GPR.
Texas A&M stands on the very
threshold of becoming an M.I.T.
of the South. Our academic
standards are second to none and
we are the most economical school
in the SWC where the student
is concerned. We have the facili
ties, yet we are failing to attract
undergraduates; and often fail
to keep those we do attract.
I’ve listened to administrators
give reasons why — now it’s the
physical hazing, now it's the
Corps, now it’s the poor atti
tude of the Cviilians^ now it’s the
name change, now it’s the ex
association and co-education. But
if all these “problems” were solv
ed, I say students would still
leave and there would still be the
mass exodus of freshmen at mid
term.
And why? It can be summed
up in two words: Social Condi-
tionSi
The administration unknowing
ly overlooks this, the Century
Council overlooked this, and pro
fessors cannot see the problem.
But ask any student, and he’ll
tell you.
It’s an hour and half drive in
any direction for a date; and on
a week night this is often out of
the question. For freshmen and
sophomores in the Corps, it is out
of the question.
Then it costs roughly $35 to
have a date on a football week
end. Juniors and seniors are able
to cut this cost some via experi
ence, but it makes one think twice
about asking his favorite girl
down two or three times a
month. And I’ll bet the fellow
who said, “Absence makes the
heart grow fonder,” didn’t go to
A&M.
Suppose your girl does come
down for a non-football weekend
or suppose A&M was co-educa-
tional and you would like to take
your date to some nice place to
sit quietly and listen to some
good music and perhaps have a
beer and an occasional dance and
share some intelligent conversa
tion. You tell me, where would
you take her?
More freshmen and sophomores
leave the Corps or school be
cause of disappointment than
physical hazing. Having a good
physical program of some type
for the Corps would keep more
students in it; for it would make
them feel their sacrifice, where
time is concerned, more worth
while.
I think a combination of these
and many similar conditions are
why my friends and other stu
dents have left A&M. I don’t
know the answer to these prob
lems. I only know they are real
and they exist.
W. R. McAfee, ’64
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appropriated by Article I, II, III
and IV of this Act, regardless of
their source of character shall be
used for influencing the outcome
of any election, or the passage
or defeat of any legislative mea
sure.”
The Board of Directors inter
preted this to mean that no clubs
could be formed on state property
or meet in state-owned facilities,
according to one high A&M of
ficial.
Yet of 21 state supported
schools contacted by The Batta
lion, 12 are the home of OFFI
CIALLY RECOGNIZED POLITI
CAL organizations.
If one university is breaking
the law, then all of the schools
allowing these organizations are
breaking the law. On the other
hand, if these other universities
are not breaking the law, our
students are having their consti-
tutoinal right infringed upon. It
is time to reconsider the matter.
The demonstration served the
purpose of returning to the fore
front, the question of political
clubs. It should be the first and
last such demonstration, for that
technique smacks of radical and
extreme actions.
by Jim Earle Armchair
Political Poll
WASHINGTON LP> — Arm
chair analysts who want to find
out which way the political wind
is blowing will have plenty of
signposts when election returns
start rolling in tonight.
These clues are, to some ex
tent, the same ones used by pro-
fesional politicians — and more
recently electronic computers —
in doping out trends.
One guide for the amateur
analyst are the so-called weath-
ervane counties. There are six
of them which have voted for
every presidential winner since
1900, and some further back
than that. They are Coos and
Strafford in New Hampshire,
Palo Alto in Iowa, Laramie in
Wyoming, Teton in Montana and
Crook in Oregon.
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There are weathervane states,
too, such as Nevada and New
Mexico, which have been with
every winner since 1912. Mary
land has missed only once since
1900.
“I didn’t have th’ heart to tell him that Aggies kissed their
dates after A&M scored—not when our opponents scored!”
But weathervanes can point the
wrong way too. Arizona lost its
perfect record when it voted for
Republican Richard M. Nixon
four years ago, the same fate
that befell three previously per
fect counties.
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