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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Tuesday, March 9, 1965 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Reynolds 9 Rap by Mike Reynolds A team of newsmen from the Houston Chronicle is slipping about the campus this week try ing to discover just what goes on inside the Aggie mind, and what the Aggie does during the average week. After spending a weekend sur veying the situation surrounding social life in Bryan-College Sta tion, one of the men was prompt ed to ask what his senses had al ready told him: “What would the Aggies do if this place was completely dry and they couldn’t drink beer?” The discovery that Aggieland holds very little in extra curri cular activities for students will come as no surprise to those who have trod the walks of our cam pus for any length of time. That everybody knows the sit uation is apparent if one will at tempt to stand in the middle of the parking lots for student cars on Friday afternoons and Satur day mornings after drill. There has been mentioned, in various quarters, a program to more fully acquaint the high school students of the state with the true picture of student life at A&M. No doubt this program grew in the minds of administra tive heads after they discovered that nearly all Texans still think that everyone at A&M is in the Army, that all students wear a uniform and that a student’s day begins with Reveille and ends with Taps. Obviously, there are those at A&M who would like to maintain this disguise as a military school. Even more obviously, to those looking to the future when A&M will be a full-fledged multiversity, this vision is one that must be quickly dispelled. But, if the military austerity is thrown aside, what remains? Just what the newsman from Houston could see for himself — nothing but places to drink beer. Before officials begin to show the social life of A&M, they should make sure that A&M has one to show. Too much of the social life available to Aggies is found in Denton, Houston, Austin, Waco, Dallas, Fort Worth and other cities containing coed uni versities and colleges. If the merchants and business men of Bryan-College Station are so happy to see the enrollment of students here increase and in clude the names of females now, it is time that a new type of merchant appear in larger quan tities — those that exist for the student and not off of the stu dent. It is time that fresh men with fresh ideas came forward to build fresh businesses — eating estab lishments, places for social enter tainment and a variety of others — and produce a fresh atmos phere that is more condusive to luring high school students to the Brazos River Bottoms. True, a great responsibility for the growth of the university lies with the university itself, how ever, the community carries the next largest load. School Superintendents Present Special Problems L.O “Do you think this letter would get to her if I addressed it to ‘The Rangerette, Third From the Right*?” Bulletin Board TUESDAY Band Wives Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Charles Kuenemann at C-8-Z Col lege View. Semper Fidelis Society will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 105 of the Biological Sciences Build ing. Association of Graduate Stu dents’ Wives will meet at 8 p.m. in the Social Room of the Mem orial Student Center. American Meteorological Socie ty will meet at 7:45 p.m. in Room 305 of Goodwin Hall. Dr. E. J. Dyksterhuis from the Department of Range and Forestry will speak on “Mid-Continental Isohyets, Water Shortage and Utilization of Non-arable Lands. AUSTIN UP) — Six state spe cial school superintendents pre sented a long list of problems to their governing board Mon day, but boiled their troubles down to one thing — lack of Money. And despite inadequate facili ties in some instances, they said, Texas’ mentally retarded students are getting better treatment than ever before. “In one word, the key to our problems is money,” said Edwin Killian, superintendent of the Denton State School. Killian and the other five su perintendents reported to the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools at its regu lar monthly meeting. More money and more space are the pressing needs of the hospital system, the superintend ents agreed. L. W. Cain of the Abilene State School said the state has a good classification plan for its hospi tal employes, but not enough money to carry out the plan. “We need,” said Dr. Phillip Roos of the Austin State School, “more professional personnel, in creased salaries for key admini strators, a full-time research per son and also to start thinking about a building program.” William Beaver of the Lufkin State School said his ihstitution’s problems are space — “we’re in bad shape” — and the training of attendants, especially made at tendants. He said the Lufkin school had a 51 per cent turnover last year in that category. William Lawler of the Travis State School in Austin listed that institution’s problems as lack of personnel and space and the de teriorating condition of the build ings, “some 30 to 40 years old.” Speaking for about 10 minutes each, the superintendents stress ed, however, the benefit the stu dents at the schools are receiv ing. Cain praised the religio P av id J program at the Abilene schc h 1 ™ 01- while Killian said the Denton Society stitution has 700 volunteer woj ers each month, and that 97 p cent of the school’s populati sc ^ 00 ^ showed marked improvements >eard l ter only 9 days. Busy Schedule Ahead For Texas Legislature AUSTIN OP) _ Legislators opened the ninth week of their session today, with hopes of fin ishing debate on the criminal code bill, viewing spending plans and improving water safety laws. Heavy committee agendas will keep lawmakers busy. Rep. Ben Atwell of Dallas pre pared to bring up his bill to broaden the water safety act by allowing game wardens to arrest violators; allow cities, water au thorities and counties to zone for swimming and fishing lakes uni )ar ticuL their authority; and increase It Bareli, registration fees. The Senate Finance Committ is expected to send to the fk this week its version of st 1966-67 spending needs. jen In committee action, legislak consider bills to add eight sch« for mentally retarded children the state system; to authorizt medical school at Texas T« and to create the Texas Constit tional Revision Commission. —Job Calls — WEDNESDAY The Proctor & Gamble Distri buting Co. — chemical engineer ing, industrial education, indus trial engineering, mechanical en gineering, agricultural economics, business administration, econo mics. Allen-Bradley Co. — electrical engineering, industrial engineer ing, mechanical engineering. Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. — chemical engineering, chemi stry, mechanical engineering, ma thematics. Sound Off Editor, The Battalion: The uniqueness of Texas A&M is gradually being eradicated by those advocates of “increased en rollment and coeducation at any price.” “Quantity rather than quality,” appears to be their paradoxical utterance. They beseech us to revolutionize the school to attract more students, including females, in order to enrich and enliven the social atmosphere at Texas A&M, but at the same time they ad monish us to strive for excellence with the cautionary statement “a different type of man is needed today.” We are told me to consider the quality of educa tion at the same moment we are exhorted for not striving to in crease the enrollment of the school with utmost speed. No one can deny that times are changing or that new and differ ent types of demands are placed on one and all every day, but one can question the need for “a dif ferent type of man.” Haven’t Aggies, symbolized by the spirit of the Twelfth Man, always been taught to accept vic tory and defeat gracefully, and to always strive for victory over all adversaries whether in busi ness, denfense of our country or on the athletic field ? I contend that a “different type of man” is not needed but that the same caliber of student Texas A&M has produced in the past, and will continue to produce in the future, is needed: The individ ual who accepts the responsibi lity of meeting the needs and re quirements of his country and has the perserverance to over come despite persistent obstacles. I also contend our school is not “potentially great” but is truly one of the country’s out standing universities and I be lieve it will continue to produce men, of quality that will meet our nation’s future needs. I hope the Board of Directors will deem it necessary to study several alternative and submit to the students and exes a portfolio outlining all proposed changes to be made — and specific reasons, pro and con, for making A&M “just another coed university.” Tentative questions to be ans wered are: 1. Why, after an experiment with non-compulsory Corps (1953- 57) did the board revert to com pulsory Corps? 2. Will girls really attend A&M rather than other universities lo cated in much larger cities than Bryan and College Station, which already have established pro grams attractive to females? 3. Will the presence of coeds really enhance the quality of edu cation ? To be coeducational or not to be coeducational, that’s the ques tion gentlemen. Whatever the eventual out come, I hope, as I’m sure all Ag gies do, that we all will have a school that can be boasted of and one that will continue to produce “Men of Quality.” David E. Pierson, ’63 ★ ★ ★ Editor, The Battalion: This is my 5th year at Texas A&M University; I have some thing important to say. Thursday night I attended “open house” at Texas A&M Con solidated Jr. High School. It was a refreshing experience to ob serve the school kids perform. 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 ; Robert Knight, College of Arts and Sciences; J. G. McGuire, College of Engineering; Dr. ire. College of Engineering; Page Morgan, College of Agriculture; and Dr. R. S. Titus, College of Veterinary Medicine. The Associated Pr :hes credit dispatches credited to spontaneous origin pui in are als< are also reserv in i ed. use for republication of all news and local news of other ma news •tter her Second-Class postage at College Station, T paid ex as. 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, subscriptions subject to 2% sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on request, e Battalion, Room 4, YMCA Building; College Station, Texas. All subscrip Address : Thi News contributions may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the al office. Room 4, 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 Sports Writer Larry Jerden Wire Editor Ham McQueen Staff Writers Tommy DeFrank, Bob Elmore, Jerry Cooper Photographer Herkey Killingsworth They were naive enough to have faith. They sang an arrangement of the Pledge of Allegiance, and their faces were radiant. They were patriotic — those crazy kids! In all of its apparent simplicity, their Pledge of Allegiance was plainly beautiful and in context with their faith. Friday night I saw I.T.S. Since when is sex, talent; since when is God, god; since when are wo men, men; and who are you to judge so ? Shall we smile at one another a pessimistic, sick smile and clasp our hands as sheep, conforting our sophisticated, pur poseless selves ? Does Normandy strike you as funny: You “hollow men”; you killers; you murder their faith — those crazy men. I beg you — think. Bob Barsch, ’64 ★ ★ ★ Editor, The Battalion: What kind of school do we give the Southwest Conference Sports manship trophy to ? It’s bad enough to listen to those Fightin’ Texas Aggies get outscored with out having to listen to the “good sports” at Texas Tech yelling “Poor Aggies” over the radio. I think a school that shows that type of sportsmanship hardly de serves to be elected the school showing the best sportsmanship in the Southwest Conference. Although many people com plain about the noise we raise during football games, how many times have you heard Aggies yell ing “Poor Sips” or “Poor Ponies” just before the game is over. Or have you heard anyone berate another team here at A&M be cause they were being beaten by a superior Aggie team ? If that is the type of sports manship it takes to be a member of the Southwest Conference, then I propose that we withdraw say- PARDNER Vou’ll Always Win The Showdown When You Gel Vour Duds Don* At CAMPUS CLEANERS ing, “Beat the Hell outta th’ SWC!” Stephen Lamkins, ’67 ★ ★ ★ Editor: The Battalion: The “Candid Comments on Cur rent Crisis” column of Feb. 19, 1965, concerning Religious Em phasis Week brought to mind the following recommendations for increasing the attendance to this excellent program. If the University wants to sell R.E. Week to the students, the school must appreciate the reali ties of the market within which they deal. What good Aggie would prefer sermons to the fun and games or good bull of dorm life ? Surely nothing could equal the joys of spirited rivalries between class and clique; the perfection of English speech in feigned mad ness, friendly banter or caustic repartee, or the rapture of lis tening to the “sons of the soil” musical classics. I am suggest ing that the R.E. Week sponsors should analyze their consumer’s behavior. Then, they would rea lize that the distribution of The Word could only be increased by more vigorous competing with the other events that pander to bio logical stimuli. An initial step would involve a psychological design to enhance the packing of the spiritual pro duct. The following examples of salesmanship might get to the soul in serge, the saint in the saddle, or the wonders of the wasteland. First, change the name of the event to Irreligious Relevance Revival, Intolerance Time, or Animal Appreciation Week. Proclaim that attend ance is “verboten!” and list topics similar to the following: “God made Maggies,” or “How Ya Gonna Keep ’em?” “Is Ranger the embodied “Ag gie Spirit,” or “is he simply the symbol of authority?” “Christ at Chow,” or “Why are Eating Utensils Furnished?”, or “Cowboy Hats are for Eating.” “Are non-regs irregular Ag gies?” “Universal Acceptance of Ag gie Standards of Excellence,” or “The Endeavor to Achieve the Greatest Good Bull.” “Aggie Academic Accomplish ment,” or “ Collusion Can Be Collective.” “A&M’s Lasting Achievement — the state of perpetual provinc ialism.” The possibilities are unlimited for enlightened management, and the clever speaker would have no trouble using these vehicles to deliver the real message. How ever, if this approach fails, the officials should try show biz. “Aggies are greedy dogs. Yeah! They ride around in big cars. Unnh-hunh! Wha! And chase women. Yeah! And drink liquor. Unnh-hunh! What! And smoke cigars. Oh yes! Wha! And they are greedy dogs. Yeah! Uun- hunh! Oh Yes! Wha! Gig’um and Us “Truman Goodbody” P.S. The above satire is in tended equally for the gungho Aggies who believe that A&M is the best of all possible worlds and the lethargic Aggies who don’t care about the world. My views are slanted because I be lieve a University should be a cosmopolitan center of learning — a melting pot of humans and ideas that produce understanding. Name Withheld By Request Howard, Needles, Tammen, & Bergendoff — civil engineering. Rocketdyne — aerospace engi neering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, mechanical en gineering, chemistry, mathema tics. 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