THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, May 14, 1965
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by Jim Earle
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Guest Editorial
Coed Value
“The other sex in there, and therefore other things are
obviously likely to happen than if it were not there,” says a
psychologist in Sundays issue of This Week’s magazine in try
ing to discover the good and bad points of co-education.
“On the other hand,” This Week says, “life in a woman’s
college is not exactly one of total isolation. Boys are never
far away and there are always weekends.”
The biggest disagreement appears on the high school
level where experts like Prof. Johannes A. Gaertner, La
fayette College, says, “Wherever co-educational practices
on a large scale exist . . . more premature pregnancies and
abortions, more high school marriages, more erotic preoccupa
tion and sexual precocity exist than would otherwise be the
case.”
Dr. James S. Coleman of John Hopkins University, after
a study conducted under a grant from the U. S. Office of
Education, says, “Co-education in some high schools may be
harmful to both academic achievement and social adjust
ment.”
In colleges, many formerly all-male or all-female colleges
welcome the opposite sex these days but arguments on co
education also exists even at this level.
Anti-co-education advocates says girls “develop their in
tellectual capacities best when there isn’t the distraction of
husband material all around them; co-ed colleges tend to dis
criminate against girls in extra-curricular activities and co-ed
schools do not built respect in women for other women or
themselves.”
Co-education advocates maintain that “while we must
certainly understand and make allowances for physical and
emotional differences, the benefits gained by boys and girls
sharing the same lessons, social activities and games are
great; that the world is peopled by both men and women, and
therefore little boys and little girls should learn this fact of
life right at the beginning.”
While both groups present some good arguments, what
they seem to overlook is that all students are not alike and
do not have the same needs. Where one would profit most
from a co-ed school, another may grow best in an all-male
or all-female institution.
Instead of trying to force one type of education on to
day’s students these people should spend their time assuring
the provision and preservation of varied educational systems
in order to reap the best from all students.
The Daily Lasso, TWU.
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Manag-ing Editor Gerald Garcia
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Panty Raids, Beer Busts Yield To ‘Aivarenm
The following is a rather picturesque account of college life in the U. S. today. The
author’s article will be released by the Associated Press on May 23, but
here is a preview of what is to come. Check your Sunday
papers for the full story.
By HUGH MULLIGAN
LflP) Newsfeatures Writer
In spring a young collegian’s
fancy used to turn to thoughts
of filching panties and packing
phone booths and piling up beer
cans on the sun kissed sands of
some favored southern resort.
A reporter charged with keep
ing au courant of the college
scene could always dash down to
Bermuda to witness the strange
rites of tossing a naked coed high
on a blanket or down to Daytona
or Fort Lauderdale to watch
them roll a motorcycle trooper
into the surf or build a Berlin
wall of beer cans in the middiet
of Main Street.
But that was in the halcyon
days when students were “apath-
/eitic,” instead of “aware and
committed.” That was before
“Berkeley fever” swept the land
with its fall-out of student de
monstrations on many campuses;
that was before the Easter march
on Washington, when 15,000 stu
dents and professors paraded un
der the cherry blossoms calling
for an end to the war in Viet
Nam.
While psychologist were argu
ing among themselves about whe
ther or not a “sex revolution”
was taking place on campus, a
revolution of quite another kind
was taking place. Students who
used to go to Lauderdale and
Daytona were now going to Miss
issippi and Alabama, for quite
different reasons. Students who
used to seek out the “Mickey
Mouse” courses and the easy
markers who could guarantee
them a gentleman’s C were now
complaining loudly about the
quality of their education, charg
ing they were being “short chang
ed” by professors fleeing to the
laboratory with lucrative research
contracts.
On all sorts of campuses, big
universities like Ohio State,
venerable Ivy institutions like
Yale, Catholic colleges like St.
John’s, small private schools like
Reed and Oberlin, students were
railing against “the publish or
perish syndrome,” demanding
that their professors spend more
time in the classroom and less
in research, insisting that their
undergraduate education not be
abandoned to young graduate
teaching assistants caught up in
the “rat race” for a PhD.
“The undergraduate students
are restless," President Clark
Kerr of the University of Cali
fornia told a Harvard lecture
audience at least a full year be
fore his own campus erupted in
riots and demonstrations.
Why are they restless? What
it behind the new activism on
campus?
The assignment to seek the
answers took me to the Cal cam
pus at Berkeley, because that’s
where it all began, then to Yale
with its “publish or perish” bat
tle; to Brooklyn College, where
the president had been heckled
off the stage for blaming his
troubles on Communist agitators;
to St. John’s University and New
York University; to Stanford
University at Palo Alto, Calif.,
where the experts were busy re
evaluating undergraduate educa
tion, and finally, to Reed College
at Portland, Ore., a small liberal
arts college with a reputation
for excellence and that rarity of
rarities: a “teaching faculty.”
In the course of my assign
ment, I interviewed more than
50 professors and students, talk
ing to them for more than an
hour — sometimes three or four
hours each. I met a Nobel Prize
winner hurrying off to an inter
national conference in Glasgow,
a famous chemist who denounced
his colleagues for abandoning the
classroom for the laboratory, a
philosopher who flew his own
plane and once thought of buzz
ing a noontime demonstration. I
met a college president who
cheerfully confided “the latest
chit-chat at the bar at educa
tion conventions" and a sociolog
ist who told about “shocking
under-the-table deals” in faculty
raids and a psychologists who
complained about the “tons of
meaningless work being piled on
students these days.”
I sat in on a faculty “values”
lunch at Stanford, a leftist group
bull session on the cafeteria ter
race at Berkeley and a midnight
sorority kaffe klatch concerned
with improving the “public serv
ice” image of Greek row to com
pete with the civil rights and
peace movements for student ac
ceptance.
Because they told me that the
old rah-rah spirit was dying, that
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SALEM, Ore. — Assemblyman
Stafford Hansell has called off
his planned investigation of cam
pus morals at the University of
Oregon.
Hansell and an Assembly Com
mittee were to investigate after
legislators learned of a card
sent to parents by officials of
the school.
The card asked parents views
on their daughters’ signing out
of dorms for overnight periods.
Other questions asked if parents
would permit their daughters to
stay at a man’s apartment or
go on out-of-town trips.
Hansell cancelled his invest
igation after conferring with
University officials.
★ ★ ★
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The
California State Senate has pass
ed what its sponsor, Virgil O’Sul
livan, calls College Beer Bust
legislation.
The bill would make it a mis
demeanor for a person under 21
to consume alcoholic beverages,
except when furnished by a par
ent or guardian. The present
law somewhat unclear, makes it
a minor penalty to consume al
cohol only on the premises where
the liquor is sold.
O’Sullivan quipped that the I
college beer busts would be hard
hit.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON — The Univer
sity Senate of George Washing
ton University has offered a pro
posal of the school’s administra
tion recommending the discon
tinuance of intercolliegiate foot
ball.
The school has annually lost ar
average of $250,000 on its foot
ball program. The senate rec
ommended that the money now
appropriated for the football pro
gram be applied to facilities and
equipment for intramural sports
★ ★ ★
DENTON — The Ladies of ’66
of Texas Woman’s University
have taken over one of the tradi
tions of the senior class.
It is a Tessie tradition, accord
ing to the Daily Lass-O, for the
seniors to sit at the front of the
auditorium at all assemblies.
The class of ’65 gave up their
position of honor May 6. The
Ladies, as the seniors are call
ed, carry large white hander-
chiefs which they wave in the air,
apparently to antigenize the
classes below them.
★ ★ ★
LUBBOCK — The Texas Tech
faculty is voting on a proposal
to set up an elected body of pro
fessors which would run the ed
ucational policy of the college.
The Board of Directors gave
the responsibility to the faculty.
Its duties, if approved, are to
legislate in matters concerning
admission standards, educational
welfare of students, curricula and
the granting of degrees.
★ ★ ★
WACO — The Student Con
gress of Baylor University has
adopted changes in its election
policy to bring campus “political
pirates under control, according
to the Baylor Lariat.
“Any group wanting to be rec
ognized as a political party and
have a party sign placed on the
ballot beside members’ names
must notify the elections com
mittee 30 days before the elec
tion,” The Lariat said.
Also, a motion was made and
passed which would extend the
election code of the Baylor cam
pus to supercede any election
rules set up by any campus or
ganization or club.
★ ★ ★
NORMAN, Okla. — More than
3,000 ROTC cadets and midship
ment passed in review Tuesday
on the Oklahoma campus in con
junction with the annual Armed
Forces Day celebration.
The review will probably be the
last of its size for the OU cam
pus, since the administration
dropped its policy of compulsory
military training earlier this
year.
An organization known as the
Students for Democratic Society
picketed the review with signs
belittling President Lyndon John
son’s foreign policy.
★ ★ ★
HOUSTON — Students of the
University of Houston have pro
tested to their campus security
guards of the mushrooming theft
rate from students’ automobiles.
The guards, said they were
strictly a service organization
and that unlocked cars precipitat
ed the thefts.
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the marching bands and pom-pi!
girls and cheerleaders were ci
solescent, I went to intenwi
cheerleader, to see how it ft!
to de “declasse” and “trivial,
and found myself in the presetj
of a luscious golden blonde, j
charming and captivating a sp«
imen of obsolesence as ever
has been my pleasure to behoi
Administrators spoke freely
“the enormous corrupting info
ence of government research
and the sudden advent of “110
versities on the make,’’ school
trying to lure away the li|
names with promises of less as
less teaching.
In language quite un-academi
deans and professors spoke
the “disgraceful” and “shocking
length that “one must go to
days to get some of the scieni
fic people to teach.”
I learned about the “pressa:
for grades” and the menace
the IBM machine in the admit
stration building basement as
the academic “rat race” for bif
ger research grants, smalle
classes, longer and frequente
sabbaticals.
“There is a feeling abroad
the land,” a Yale philosople
told me, “that nothing will in
prove education quite so mua
as the total elimination of tk
student.”
The whole journey was a ret
elation and education, with hari
ly a whiff of nostalgia for nj
own college days a little oven
decade ago.
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