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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1965
Number 157
Faculty Circulating Petition
Opposing Coed Restriction
By GLENN DROMGOOLE
Managing Editor
The Board of Directors gained
an ally this week in its fight
against legislative restrictions on
coeducation.
Faculty members are circula
ting a petition which urges facul
ty support for the Board in op
posing the Senate measure limit
ing coeducation.
“We . . . deplore the interfer
ence in the board’s efforts which
is being exerted by certain in
dividuals who, we feel, are not in
a position to properly evaluate
and direct the future of Texas
A&M University,” the petition
states.
“We specifically object to Sen
ate Bill 290 as it interferes with
the right of the Board of Di
rectors to chart the course of
Texas A&M,” it continues.
Circulation of 45 copies of the
petition started this week among
the 500 faculty members with
about 200 signatures recorded.
Wednesday night. An attached
note states the petition will be
presented to President Earl Rud
der.
The bill to prohibit complete
coeducation here was approved
by the Senate Committee on Mili
tary and Veterans Affairs last
week and is due for Senate action
soon.
Senate Bill 209, as amended by
the committee, would allow A&M
to continue its present policy
of limited coeducation.
Students Accepted
For Summer Trips
By Travel Groups
In the spring a young man’s
thoughts turn to foreign travel,
among other things, and Aggies
are no exception.
Three students have been ac
cepted to participate in the Experi
ment in International Living,
which includes home visits in for
eign countries during the summer
months.
Charles S. Dendy, a senior math
major from Monahans, will visit
in Sweden.
Frank L. Ray Jr., a junior pre-
veterinary medicine student from
Conroe, will go to Switzerland.
Paul Bleau, from Boston, Mass.,
will visit East Pakistan. He visit
ed Northern Rodesia two years
ago in the Operations Crossroads
Africa program.
In addition, Edward Lee Walker
of Bryan, has been accepted as an
alternate leader for the Experi
ment in International Living. As
such, he could be assigned to any
of 40 foreign nations. He is a
graduate student in physics.
Walker will attend a training
school for leaders in St. Louis,
Mo., in April. He visited Yugo
slavia as an experimenter in 1963.
Students and faculty members
are eligible for a $300 chartered
flight round trip from Houston to
London. The flight will leave
about June 6 and return sometime
during August. Those interested
in making the flight should make
a $50 deposit with the Memorial
Student Center Travel Committee
before Apr. 15.
The faculty petition is on line
with recommendations made in
1962 by the Faculty-Staff-Stu
dent Aspirations Study which
proposed unlimited coeducation
and non - compulsory ROTC.
“The faculty is overwhelmingly
in favor of coeducation,” the re
port read.
“The faculty considers the re
fusal to admit women to the
College to be contrary to the
spirit of the land-grant idea and
a handicap to the institution. This
refusal leads to the loss of sup
port and appeal for the College
throughout Texas. In turn, it
eliminates many students of high
potential, and frequently is a
factor affecting faculty and grad
uate student recruitment.
“The faculty’s training has
led them to the philosophy of
equal academic standards and
rights for all students, and they
believe the present negative poli
cy toward coeducation constitutes
a major obstacle to academic ex
cellence and institutional stature.
“It appears to the faculty that
the admission of women need
occasion no overwhelming prob
lems of finance for the College,
or at least this has been the ex
perience elsewhere.
“The faculty does not presently
recommend any changes in cur
ricula to accommodate women.
Rather, they feel that the present
offerings include many fields of
study with value and opportunity
for women. Thus, it seems that
no objective arguments based on
academic fact can be made
against coeducation. The strong
est argument in this matter seems
to be tradition, and this does not
appear to be a proper defense for
a land-grant institution.”
An enrollment projection by
the study group estimated that
7,930 students would attend an
all-male, military A&M in 1976
and that 16,002 would enroll that
year if A&M adopted unlimited
coeducation and non-compulsory
ROTC.
Coeducation at A&M has been
a hot topic for several years. The
latest crisis erupted Feb. 6 when
the Executive Council of the
Association of Former Students
proposed sweeping changes in the
university’s policies concerning
Banquet Speaker
Named By Arabs
Dr. Khalid I. Bahaa, director of
the Arab Information Center in
Dallas, will be principal speaker
for the annual spring banquet of
the Arab Student Club Saturday
night in the Memorial Student
Center.
Topic of his address will be
“Arab-American Relations.”
Bahaa has been director of the
Arab Information Center for the
Southwest since April, 1964, mov
ing from his post as head of the
office of the League of Arab
States in Canada, which he had
held for four years.
Prior to that time, he was chief
of research for the Arab States
Delegations Office in New York.
He was also chief clerk in the
Jordanian Ministry of the Interior
for four years.
The speaker was born in Sa
maria, Palestine, and received his
early education in Palestine and
Jordan. He received B.A. and M.A.
degrees in economics and political
science from Southwestern Uni
versity in Georgetown, and earned
his Ph.D. degree in international
affairs and law at New York Uni
versity.
Bahaa is the author of a book
soon to be published, “Positive
Neutralism—Myth and Reality.’
He is a member of Pi Gamma
Mu, national United States social
science society, Alpha Chi, national
scholarship society, the Interna
tional Law society and the Ameri
can Academy of Political and
Social Sciences.
coeducation and compulsory mili-4
tary training.
It was further agitated by bills
introduced in both houses of the
state legislature seeking to re
turn A&M to all-male status.
A student body vote on Feb. 25
narrowly approved full coeduca
tion and non-compulsory ROTC,
and these results were presented
to the Board of Directors Feb.
26. The Board ordered the ad
ministration to undertake a study
of the proposals.
Meanwhile, Sen. Andy Rogers
from Childress and Rep. Mack
Edwards of Pattonville, two
Aggie - ekes, were gathering
strength for all-male A&M bills
in their respective legislative
bodies.
Rogers’ bill was withdrawn
from Bryan Sen. Bill Moore’s
Education Committee and given
a hearing in the Military and
Veterans Affairs Committee. Be
fore the hearing could be held,
Rogers’ measure was revised to
permit limited coeducation that
now exists at A&M.
Major effect of the bill would
be to prohibit the A&M Board
from approving full coeducation.
Senate Approves
Student Loan Bill
AUSTIN UP) — Texas sena
tors decided today the state
should help students pay their
way through college.
By a 29-0 vote the Senate ap
proved a proposed constitutional
amendment that would author
ize issurance of $75 million in
bonds to finance loans to stu
dents in senior or junior col
leges, private or state supported.
The measure, sponsored by
Sen. Grady Hazlewood of Ama
rillo, goes back to the House
which originally approved a $100
million bond issue.
The World at a Glance
By The Associated Press
International
ABOARD THE USS INTREPID—Astronauts
Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young—fresh from
mastering space for nearly five hours—just couldn’t
take 45 minutes of bobbing and pitching at the
mercy of the unkind Atlantic Ocean.
Grissom and Young both became seasick Tuesday
and Grissom vomited before the space twins were
hauled up to the helicopter that brought them to
the aircraft carrier Intrepid, it was learned Wednes
day.
National
PASADENA, Calif.—Ranger 9, televising live
to home viewers, slammed into the moon Wednesday
after snapping 6,150 spectacular close-ups of never-
before-seen cracks and pocks on the floor of a lunar
crater.
The major first in space provided a dramatic
windup to the once-troubled $280-million Ranger
series, designed to find safe landing sites for astro
nauts later in this decade.
★ ★ ★
CORDOVA, Md.—A plane identified by state
police as a Cl54 military transport exploded in
the air near this rural community on the eastern
shore of Chesapeake Bay Wednesday.
The police report said there were no known
survivors.
Dover Air Force Base is about 40 miles away
in Delaware.
Texas
AUSTIN—Two University of Texas football
players, end Pete Lammons and tackle Diron Talbert,
were granted an indefinite postponement Wednes
day in a hearing on misdemeanor assault charges
filed against them.
Justice of the Peace Jerry Dellana delayed the
hearing because one of the players’ three attorneys
is a Texas legislator, Rep. Terry Townsend, Brady.
Both players were starters on last year’s Long
horn team and they also have eligibility remaining.
Lammons, a junior, is from Jacksonville, and sopho
more Talbert is from Texas City.
★ ★ ★
AUSTIN—A bill to provide treatment for sexual
psychopaths went to a House Judiciary subcommittee
Wednesday after one member said it might create
a life sentence for persons convicted of a misde
meanor.
Rep. Dudley Mann, El Paso, spoke for nearly an
hour and a half on his bill, HB406, relating the
case of an El Paso youth who admitted he was
sexually sick but couldn’t help repeating offenses
against young girls.
NEW THEATER-WORKSHOP
. . . built by directing students in Guion basement.
Shelter Converted
By Theater Group
Sixteen students wielding paint-
brushes and splicing electrical
wiring have converted an official
Civil Defense fallout shelter into
a new theater-workshop. First
plays to be staged in the theater
will be presented March 30 un
der student direction.
The students are enrolled in
the theater arts course, “Tech
niques of Directing,” taught by
assistant professor C. K. Esten.
Full credit for creating the
150-seat theater in the basement
under the Guion Hall stage goes
to the students. The area re
mains a fallout shelter stocked
with emergency supplies.
“I said, ‘why don’t we make
a little place down here for
your use in staging these one-act
plays’ . . . and the next thing
I knew the students had painted
the area, put up lighting, brought
in chairs and put up the sign
outside,” Esten said.
The Aggie Players will con
tinue to use the Guion stage for
their productions. The Players
annually present a variety of
productions. Running this week
is Shakespeare’s “The Comedy
of Errors.”
Esten is enthusiastic about the
students’ efforts, both in prepar
ing the theater-workshop and in
directing their plays.
“A student will learn more di
recting his own play than by
hours of classroom lectures,” Es
ten said.
Robert W. Wenck of Midland,
Esten’s student assistant and
technical production director for
the campus theater, is credited
with an important role in pre
paring the new facilities. Wenck
returned to Aggieland after two
years of service as stage manager
of a play on national tour.
Two or three one act plays or
excerpts from longer plays will
be staged at 7:30 p.m. March
30, April 8, 13, 21 and 30 by the
directing class. Admission will
be 50 cents.
The new theater also is to be
used April 23-24 when the John
Avery Lomax Folklore Society
presents an evening of folk songs
by local and other folk singers.
Car License Sales
Run Until Friday
A deputy tax assessor-collector
from Brazos County will sell
license plates at the Memorial
Student Center through Friday.
Mrs. John Rauch is operating
the booth for Raymond Buchanan,
county tax assessor-collector.
The booth is open from 8:30 a.m.
to 11:30 a.m. and from 12:30 p.m.
to 4 p.m. near the gift shop. Cus
tomers should bring last year’s
registration receipt and the car
title.
Only license plates for automo
biles are available at the MSC
location.
George Jones
To Headline
Entertainers
The Louisiana Hayride, one of
the largest shows of its type, will
perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in
G. Rollie White Coliseum.
The show—which starts with
the traditional “Come along, ev
erybody come along. Come while
the moon is shining bright. We’re
going to have a wonderful time on
the Louisiana Hayride tonight”—
will be headlined by George Jones,
country and western recording ar
tist.
The A&M chapter of Sigma Del
ta Chi, professional journalistic
society, is sponsoring the show as
part of its 1964-65 activities.
Advance tickets may be pur
chased on campus until 4 p.m. Sat
urday in the Memorial Student
Center. Tickets are $2.25 for re
serve seats, $1.75 for general ad
mission and $1.25 for students.
Only a few reserve tickets remain
and these will go on sale at 8 a.m.
Saturday in the MSC. After 4 p.m.
Saturday, tickets will be 25 cents
higher.
Advance tickets may be pur
chased at the MSC Finance Of
fice, Student Publications Ofice,
Exchange Store and the Depart
ment of Journalism until 5 p.m.
Friday and at Jarrott’s Pharmacy
—Downtown and Townshire—until
noon Saturday.
Jones, “America’s No. One
County Singer,” started h i s re
cording career with “Why Baby
Why.” He followed with “She
Thinks I Still Care,” “The Win
dow Up Above” and “The Race Is
On.”
Other stars scheduled for the
show are Jerry Lee Lewis, Connie
Smith, Johnnie & Joanie Mosby,
Nat Stuckey, Don Bowman and the
Louisiana Hayriders.
Last year SDX sponsored the
Harlem Globetrotters. Proceeds
from that show and the Hayride
will be used to improve the jour
nalism program at A&M and also
to provide scholarships to high
school students interested in maj
oring in journalism or agricultural
journalism at A&M.
The three and one-half hour
show will be broadcast live over
radio station KWKH in Shreve
port, La., which has a coverage
area of 31 states.
Rusk Discounts
Gas Charges
In Viet Nam
WASHINGTON UP) — Secretary
of State Dean Rusk denied Wed
nesday that the United States is
waging gas warfare in Viet Nam,
and said nonkilling tear and nau
sea gases will continue to be used
as needed for saving innocent
lives.
Rusk sought to overcome a U.S.
propaganda setback with an un
usual personal appearance at the
State Department’s daily briefing
for newsmen.
American strategists are sur
prised and concerned by global
repercussions over disclosure Mon
day that South Vietnamese troops
are using the U.S.-supplied gases
in some actions against Red Viet
Cong guerrillas.
Even Britain’s foreign secretary
and a group of House Republicans
were among those joining the crit
ical chorus Tuesday.
Secretary of Defense Robert S.
McNamara also was questioned
about the issue at a closed meet
ing with the Senate Foreign Re
lations Committee on Wednesday.
Afterward, he told reporters the
United States has no intention of
using lethal gases, but use of tear
nausea gas as a riot control agent
would continue.
He said it had been used only
on three occasions—twice to res
cue captured Americans.
Rusk, in his comments at the
State Department, described the
third use. He said it was released
on Communist terrorists after they
had seized villagers and were
shooting from behind them.
The choice lay between using
the gas and firing artillery shells
or dropping bombs, Rusk said.
“The issue that was involved
here,” he said, “was that mini
mum force would be used under
the circumstances, whereas other
wise innocent people might be in
jured.”
“We are not embarking on gas
warfare in Viet Nam,” he said,
adding:
“The anticipation is that these
weapons will be used only in riot
control or in situations analagous
to riot control.”