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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Wednesday, February 3, 1965 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Soiiild Off BATTALION EDITORIALS Connally vs. Colleges: Who Owns Who? The State University Reorganization Plan: or How To Live with Your Tensions. Governor Connally didn’t call it this, but he might just as well have in view of the controversy currently raging around his proposed reshuffling of state universities. Remarks made to the 59th Legislature by Connally could be called courageous—or naive—when the intense local traditions and rivalries of the state’s four main uni versities are considered. In short, the governor’s plan would unite the University of Texas with the University of Houston, A&M with Texas Tech, and put a supreme governing board over the teachers colleges. Foul! Calls Texas Tech, as their protestors decend upon Austin. Foul! Calls University of Houston, as their president denounces the plan to the Houston press. No comment says the University of Texas which stands to gain a virtual stranglehold on future appropriations from the legislature. Tech claims the governor’s system would permanently stereotype the school as a technical college, leaving the rapid ly-increasing humanities courses to strangle without suffic ient funds. A&M would face much the same situation. The University of Houston says its needs will not be considered closely enough if aligned with the 40 Acres giant. “We are happy the way we are,” Houston’s president said. But Texas is obviously not happy the way it is. The state is rated 31st in per capita years of education, and the best of its universities are rated far down the national list in terms of quality. It might be well for those educators screaming loudest to remember another comment the governor made about higher education. In effect, he said the state’s universities don’t belong to their students, administration or former stu dents—they belong to the state. Editor, The Battalion: Intolerance, illogic and mis information are the bulwarks of “Reynolds Rap” of Jan. 12, 1965. This article concerned the ac tions of 21 AFL Negro football players, who refused to play after suffering abuse at the hands of the New Orleans public. The title of the column alone sug gests a sophomore quality, and among the analogies of “old mules” and “high horses” ond finds evidence of a lack of scho larship. Mr. Reynolds quotes an As sociated Press story as stating that people shouted insults at the players, and shut doors in their faces in the French quar ter. From this, he concludes that the players were “belaboring a point as well as harming the movement for racial equality,” by their action. On page 5 of the same issue of The Battalion, we find another Associated Press story that re ports that, “some of the players were refused taxicab service and admittance to French Quarter Clubs.” These violations of moral and “Since you’ve had a week off between semesters to review this course, I can think of no better way to begin than with this quiz!” r-FIRST OF A SERIES Higher Education By MANUEL PINA Jr. On August 31, 1964, the Gov ernor’s Committee on Education Beyond the High School released to Governor John Connally, mem bers of the legislature, and the people of Texas their report on a one and one-half years study of the stature of Texas educational enterprise beyond the high school level. The Committee, appointed by the Governor, was composed of 25 junior and senior college pres idents, university presidents and chancellors, and individuals from various professions and industry. The Committee studied the pre sent status of public and private education beyond the high school and made recommendations for achieving a standard of excel lence for higher education in Texas. Gov. Connally, using the report made by the committee, proposed his plans on Dec. 17, 1964, in his two-year budget announce ment of 3.6 billion. Among other proposals he asked for $1,- 700,000,000 for education and a new coordinating board with greater policy-making authority than the present Commission on Higher Education. Now it is up to the state legislature whether the stand ard of education in Texas will be raised or not, Connally said. At the present time, according to the Committee report, Texas has a population ranking sixth in the nation and should show rankings comparable to other states in terms of factors related to quan tity and quality of education. However, in a period from 1960 to 1963 the Committee found Texas ranking well below num ber 10. 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The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M is tion, Texas daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, anc ber through May, and once a week during summer school. published in College Sta- holiday periods, Septem- 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 sit College Station, Texas. MEMBER: The Associated Press Texas Press Assn. Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los An geles and San Francisco. Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester; $6 per school year, $6.50 per full year. All subscriptions subject to 2% sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on reQuast- Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA Building; College Station, Texas. News contributions m editorial office. Room 4, ay be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the YMCA Building. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6415. EDITOR RONALD L. FANN Managing Editor Glenn Dromgoole Sports Editor Lani Presswood Day News Editor Mike Reynolds Night News Editor Clovis McCallister Asst. News Editor Gerald Garcia Asst. Sports Editor Bob Spivey Staff Writers Tommy DeFrank, Bob Elmore Photographer Herkey Killings worth Wire Editor Ham McQueen bachelor and first professional degrees awarded, 21st in the number of doctoral degrees a- warded, 31st in the average num ber of school years completed by persons 25 years of age or older, and the average Texas faculty salary in public senior colleges and universities ranked in the lower half, being 10.5 per cent lower than the average for the nation. Texas also ranked 32nd in the percentage of selective serv ice registrants passing pre-in duction mental tests, 37th in the percentage of total state expend iture devoted to state institutions of higher learning, ahd 35th in per capita expenditures on high er education from state and local taxes. Of the college graduates in the next decade, the Committee re ports, about 60 per cent can be expected to become gainfully em ployed in Texas. The fields in which degrees are awarded do not necessarily correspond to the major needs. The number of expected junior college graduates in the next 10 years represent only about one-third of the needs in this category. Realistic preparation for the expanding enrollment demands a new look by those in charge, the report says. Unnecessary dupli cation of educational offerings and senior colleges facilities for geographic convenience repre sents an expensive luxury. More effective college and university admission policies would increase the opportunity of individual stu dents to succeed and lessen the dropout problem of entering freshmen during their first year of college it continues. The poor public image of technician train ing encourages too many sturents to seek degree programs for which they lack interest, pre paration, or ability. 2,5%.- HJXVIDENP TO ELIGIBLE TEXAS MOTORISTS That’s right, Texas policyholders have come to expect dividend savings from State Farm Mutual's famous 6-month policy. Nine out of ten policyholders have saved more than $30,000,000 over the past 27 years. State Farm’s pres* ent 25% dividend rate makes th*. actual cost of carlnsurance lower than that of most other compa nies. For mors complete details see me aoont U. M. ALEXANDER ’40 221 S. 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Sponsored by Texas A&M Fish & Game Club legal codes seem to be adequate cause for action on the part of the Negroes. It seems not only justifiable but effective because objective persons will direct their hostility toward the individuals that violated common courtesy and ethics by an act of discrimin ation. I suggest you point your blunt pen toward these persons, Mr. Reynolds. Leave the Negroes alone, they have suffered enough. Douglas G. Norvell The Graduate College Melvin H. JohnMi ’64 College Master Representative VI 6-8228 MinlctfolSupplj ‘PidUiAc. ptowu*- 923 S&Collage Avt*Dry«a l T$A| Appoint with the jictures ' ,efore F< .-between t and 5 P- r ! Has winter left gout Front End Sojjlnjt Brakes Crabbing Tires Thumping f If so, you need.. To put your car back in TIP-TOP shape...we’ll: 1. Allan Front EnH (replacement parts if needed ® and torsion bar adjustment 2. Adjust Brakes — 3. Balance all 4 Wheels 4. Repack Front Wheel Bearings— Inspect Front Grease Seals 5. 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