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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, January 8, 1965 BATTALION EDITORIALS The furor over the future relationship of Arlington State College toward Texas A&M has now entered its fourth week of controversy. Debate over the issue has been con ducted on various levels, ranging from the rational to the absurd. The matter erupted when plans for a reorganization of the Texas A&M System were made public. Under the pro posed change ASC and the two other members of the system would cease to exist as independent institutions but would become branches of A&M. Thus, Arlington State would become Texas A&M at Arlington and a graduate of that school would be accorded the same status as a graduate of the College Station institution. The administrative head quarters would be located in College Station with A&M President Earl Rudder presiding over the entire operation. Arlington State immediately voiced its opposition to the move. This indignation has been expressed in terms of student protest groups, local newspaper editorials, and denunciations from Arlington civic leaders, former students, and ASC faculty members. ASC students have vented their spleen through the mode of makeshift signs and emotional declarations of anti-A&M sentiment. Their goal is immediate and complete separation from A&M. Their cause is the cutting of all links which presently bind the two schools together. Their demands for “independence” have been loudly trumpeted to the world. They accuse A&M of suppressing what they consider their manifest destiny of academic sublimity. Representatives from the Arlington area have publicly announced their intention to introduce a bill in the Texas Legislature which would legally bring about the separation. “Enrollment” is the magic word in the Arlington State vocabulary. When their enrollment figures first exceeded those of A&M it was viewed there with a singular sense of pride and achievement. The registrar’s statistics have produced the phrase, “the tail is now wagging the dog.” The obvious implication is that the proposed merger will benefit A&M more than Arlington State. . In fact, the pressure behind the merger proposition is being supplied by industrial and commercial interests in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. There is a vital shortage in that metropolitan region of holders of graduate degrees in tech nological fields. Arlington State presently offers no gradu ate program and it is generally agreed that linkage with A&M would greatly hasten the implementation of one. In reality, what can Arlington State offer to Texas A&M? Five years ago it was a junior college. It has been an accredited senior college for every bit of five weeks. Ninety per cent of its students come from Dallas and Tarrant Counties. Its state-wide reputation is neg ligible and its national one practically non-existent. The entity of an Arlington State with 11,000 students is the result of its environment. There was an educational vacuum in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in the field of inexpensive college training. The elevation of ASC to four-year status helped fill the vacuum and in addition its classrooms. Arlington State will continue to grow and will continue to need increasingly greater financial resources. The burden of financing the necessary building program at Arlington State cannot help but hinder the development of A&M’s physical plant. It is an enormous task to develop a topflight faculty at one institution, much less at a widely scattered complex. Arlington State can offer A&M nothing, either in the way of academic enhancement or in physical facilities. It has gained a specialized function and should be allowed to prepare for its future as an autonomous institution. The attitude of Arlington State is one of resentment and hostility and shows little promise of ever changing. It is time for ASC to be cut free and to be allowed to develop as it sees fit. Moreover, the idea of granting a bonafide degree from Texas A&M to someone who never saw a bonfire, who never witnessed Silver Taps, and who never sang The Spirit, brings complete revulsion. L.R.P. Bulletin Board FRIDAY Freshman Agricultural Society will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Animal Industries Lecture Room. SATURDAY Indian Students Association will meet at 7 p.m. in the Brooks Room of the YMCA Building. MONDAY Industrial Engineering Wives Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the studio of Merle Norman Cosme tics at 104 S. College. PRE-FINAL Western DANCE at SHILOH Tonight — 8:30 p. m. Music By The RAMBLERS THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. 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. Holcome, College of Agriculture; and Dr. R. S. Titus, 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. Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. MEMBER: The Associated Press Texas Press Assn. Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Doe An geles and San Francisco. CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Students Eye Legislature For Educational Trends By The Associated Press More than a quarter of a mil lion Texas college students will be watching the 59th legisla ture’s actions on efforts to up grade higher education in the state. Recommendations made by Gov. John Connally to the legislators meeting Jan. 12 would earmark an increase of about $97 million in general revenue funds for 22 state supported colleges and uni versities in the next two years. However, Connally estimated $22.3 million alone would be re- quried just to finance expected enrollment increases, plus the addition of Pan American and Angelo State Colleges as author ized by the 1963 legislature. How big is the state higher education system now? That's a question many will ask during the next few weeks and months. “It’s not a bad notebook, but I misspelled a word on page 232! Do you think I should re-type it before I turn it in?” During this fall semester there are 146,673 students in the present 20 full state supported colleges and universities, accord ing to the Texas Commission on Higher Education. There are 34 privately-supported colleges and universities with an enrollment this fall of 58,209. In addition there are 44,251 students in 31 public junior col- New Probation Standards Announced By Wichita U. By Intercollegiate Press / Wichita, Kan. — Dean James K. Sours of the Fairmount Col lege of Liberal Arts, Wichita State University, recently an nounced new probation and sus pension standards, effective June 1965. A student will be placed on probation for the next term in which he enrolls if his cumulative grade index has fallen below 1.700 for 63 hours or 1.900 for 64 or more credit hours. grade index above the minimum requirements, but if such a stu dent has earned 12 or more hours in two or more terms, the cumulative record including these hours will be used to determine his suspension. The new mini mum grade requirements repre sent a change from the old proba tion mark of 1.500. Interest Rates On Rise; Change Due Next Spring Further, according to Dean Sours, a student remains on pro bation if he earns at least a 2.000 index during the semester in which he is on probation, but his cumulative grade point does not meet the required minimum level. Regulations on hours include that a student on probation may not enroll for more than 12 hours in an 18 week term or he may enroll for only two-thirds of the total number of hours as the number of weeks in the summer term in which he is enrolled. In addition the probation student may add one hour of physical education, military science, or marching band. Exceptions to these limitations may be made on recommendation of the student’s advisor with ap proval of the dean. A student on probation will be suspended if his cumulative grade index fails to meet the required standards and he does not achieve a semester index of at least 2.000 for the term he was placed on probation. A suspended student may apply for readmission after a lapse of at least 18 weeks. If he is re admitted he is accepted on final probation and should the student fail to achieve the required cumu lative grade point index, he will again be suspended. Application for readmission cannot be made until one calendar year has pass ed. No student who enrolls in few er than seven hours will be sus pended for failure to raise his ATTENTION ATHLETIC CLUBS The Aggieland staff has announced that the last date for scheduling Athletic Club pictures for the 1965 Aggieland will be Feb. 10, 1965. Pictures are to be scheduled at the Stu dent Publications Office, YMCA Bldg. ATTENTION Picture Schedule Aggieland ’65 Individual pictures for the Ag gieland will be made at the Ag gieland Studio according to the schedule below. Coats and ties will be worn. Higher interest rates on credit are ahead for consumers, says Mrs. Wanda Meyer, Extension Service home management spec ialist at A&M. Financial institutions across the nation are beginning to pass along the higher charges they must pay for use of Federal Re serve funds — they are doing this in spite of the Reserve Board’s earlier assurances that its recent hike from 3.5 to 4.0 percent in the discount rate would not result in a general increase in consumer interest rates. The discount rate is the interest that the Reserve Board charges member banks on the money it loans them. In the wake of the increase in the discount rate, a number of banks raised their prime interest rate from 4.5 to 4.75 percent. This is the rate charged to the biggest and safest borrowers, such as corporations. All other interest rates are scaled up from it. One of the most influential financial institutions, the First National Bank of Boston, has re scinded the increase recently in response to President Johnson’s public stand on the issue, thus almost certainly nipping in the bud any nation-wide trend to increases for the present. Others predict that a general increase in the prime rate would come in the spring. Whether this will occur or not, it is consumers who will pay for the Reserve’s higher discount rate, starting now. A number of bankers are making efforts to charge more for loans to individ ual borrowers to make up for the squeeze on the prime rate. Nearly all commercial credit agencies have already raised their interest rates in the amounts that vary according to the length of the loan. PICTURE SCHEDULE 1965 Aggieland WHO’S WHO Appointments must be made with the Aggieland Studio and pictures will have to be made before February 15 anythime between the hours of 8 a. m. and 5 p. m. LADIES FREE Bowling Instructions For Beginners FREE! —Bowling— Coffee - Nursery Starts January 11, 1965 9:30 A. M. To 11:30 A. M. Call TA 2-1138 After 1:00 p. m. CELEBRITY LANES Groesbeck at Palasota Drive — Bryan leges, which wauld get full state support for academic instruction under Connally’s recommenda tions. Currently the state pays only about 30 per cent of the aca demic instruction cost. Texas also has 3,088 students this fall in 18 independent and church- related junior colleges . The University of Texas, with an enrollment of 24,001, is the largest unit of higher education. The university system, which originally was established by the constitution of 1876, also includes at present Texas Western Col lege, El Paso, with an enroll ment of 6,632 students; the In stitute of Marine Science at Port Aransas, McDonald Observatory at Fort Davis, the Medical Branch, Galveston, with 513 stu dents; Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, with 410 students; Dental Branch, Houston; M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Houston; South Texas Medical School, San Antonio, scheduled to begin operation in 1965; and Graduate School of Beiomedical Science at Houston. The Texas A&M System also was created by the constitution of 1876. It includes Texas A&M University with an enrollment of 8,237; Arlington State College with 11,513; Tarleton State Col lege with 1,570; Prairie iVew A&M College with 3,238; the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Texas Agricultural Ex tension Service, Texas Forest Service, Rodent and Predatory Animal Control Service, Texas Engineering Experiment Station, Texas Engineering Extension Service, and the Texas Maritime Academy. Other state supported colleges and their enrollments are the University of Houston, 17,750; Texas Technological College, 13,827; North Texas State Uni versity, 11,878; Lamar State Col lege of Technology, 7,771; Texas College of Arts and Industries, 4,231; Texas Woman’s Univer sity, 3,380; East Texas State College, 5,330; Midwestern Uni versity, 2,783; Sam Houston State, 5,738; Southwest Texas State, 4,438; West Texas State, 4,511; Stephen F. Austin State, 4,287, and Sul Ross State, 1,360. of regents of State Teachers Coll leges. The other schools haTi| their own boards of regents. Congress Studies Power Transfer WASHINGTON (#) - Ne» proposals to asure the proirpi and certain transfer of natiom! leadership in case of presto tial death or disability were ol fered Thursday by the Commit, tee for Economic Development. Quick action by Congress ii imperative, the report sail, since in the nuclear era a presl dent’s death or illness “create the risk of national disaster,’ In Blackie former dealt w ‘It w ideout” ined a is at C( the ki ‘Whe the op] ?gie wo ont of with t , on-s: It proposed, among other i changes, a constitutional amenlL would ment giving the president pom to fill any vacancy in the via presidency by sending a nornina. tion to Congress, to be approve! by majority vote in a joint sessioi of House and Senate. There were signs that Coi. gress has recognized the need to act early in the session to rei» dy the vagueness of the Consti tution on presidential succession so as to assure that the countt; never is without a vice presto: ready to assume the highest of fice. At present East Texas State, Same Houston State, Southwest Texas State, West Texas State, Stephen F. Austin State, and Sul Ross State are under the board Mmlcc/lrl Supply /Piclu/te* ptaMiet- •925 5a Col l*g« Av« - B ry«m Thus “Sports Car Center” Dealers for Renault-Peugeot & British Motor Cars Sales—Parts—Service “We Service All Foreign Cars” 1422 Texas Ave. TA 2-4517 President Johnson called fori decision in his State of the Un ion mesage Monday. Ask Homer Adams ’45 your North American man,,, How is the cost of my move determined? Free booklet answers questions about moving The final charge for any move is based on: (1) actual weight of your goods; (2) actual distance goods are moved; (3) the charge for “accessorial services”. 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