THE BATTALION
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College Station, Texas
Thursday, July 1, 1965
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Budget Increase
Produces Optimism
The recently-announced budget for Texas A&M brings
with it a sense of both satisfaction and optimism.
A&M’s allocation for the 1965-1966 school year repre
sents a five-million dollar increase over last year, a gain
of approximately twenty per cent. A deeper look into these
figures is even more encouraging.
This budget increase has not been appropriated for
building purposes. It will be used for salary increases, for
the purchase of library books, for additional scholarship
funds and similar items.
The 38 per cent salary increase in funds for salaries
is particularly significant. Not only will this benefit and
serve as a morale boost to present faculty members, but it
will also enhance A&M’s potential in the recruitment of new
teachers.
Money is of vital importance in building strong faculties,
as the University of California at Berkeley well exemplifies.
Armed wtih lavish appropriations from the California legis
lature, its administrators have lured away instructors and
researchers from the finest universities in the world, and
in doing so have elevated the Berkeley institution to that
level.
The heightened outlay for book purchases is also im
portant, for the strength of a school’s library is one of the
prime factors in assessing its overall quality.
The legislature’s action illustrates that body’s attitude
toward A&M and reflects a creditable job on the part of
A&M’s spokesmen in the presentation of their case. While
the more-publicized issues of coeducation and compulsory
ROTC were attracting the attention, the unspectacular but
vital matter of appropriations was unobtrusively being
decided.
The new budget provides concrete proof of the legis
lature’s continuing interest in A&M and of its faith in the
school’s future.
Class Of 1965
An Unknown Quantity
Already the satirists are imagining the future of the
Class of 1965. Undergraduate drawings show differing
campus types ending up as exactly the same sedentary figure
signing papers at a desk. Predicting this class’s 25th
Reunion, a columnist describes an industrialist remembering
his student radical days and musing, “I guess we just ran
out of issues.”
It does not take the eye of a satirist to see the likelihood
of youthful idealism giving way to complacent middle age.
Yet there was a time when commencement orators felt they
needed to exhort the graduates to put their ideals into action.
This year the tendency has been to recognize the action
young people have already taken and to try to separate the
good from the bad.
There have been student excesses and follies. There
has been some evidence of cynical exploitation of student
zeal. But even though only a minority of students have
been “activists,” the present commencement generation has
conveyed a sense of commitment to causes more serious than
phone-booth stuffing, less selfish than mere financial success.
Will they lose their steam as the freedom to be single-
minded is tempered by the responsibilities of jobs and fami
lies? By their very vigor they have given themselves a
hard act to follow.
Some signs suggest that the Class of ’65 may continue
the old college try in the world outside. For example,
material rewards are reported to be playing a decreased
role in job decisions. There is said to be a turning from
business careers, as if graduates were bored at the thought
or did not realize that business needs not only money
making ability but social commitment and offers such com
mitment increasing scope.
Probably more than half of the new graduates will go
on to graduate school. Most will thus prepare themselves
better for future challenge. A few will merely postpone it.
Thousands of both graduates and undergraduates will
work at volunteer or low-paying summer jobs on behalf
of civil rights, education, or the poor.
Is the sense of commitment merely the property of the
few who have shown it in action? Or has the action of
the few encouraged commitment, though of less overt kinds,
in the majority? We have an impression that the college
atmosphere has become such that there must be an element
of awareness even in the student who chooses to remain
committed only to himself.
Perhaps in this atmosphere will lie a hope for this
generation’s maintaining an active idealism. Members of
the Class of ’65 will be testing their futures against a time
of ferment rather than apathy. Many a campus fighter for
others’ freedom may subside into contentedly enjoying his
own. But the satirists need not be wholly right.—By
Christian Science Monitor.
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Highlights And Sidelights
vkif From Your State Capitol
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“We did what you said, professor and ran your quiz key
through th’ computer to check it! You made a score of 69
which is not bad considering this is th’ first time you’ll
be giving this “quiz!”
AUSTIN, Tex. — Two of the
three redistricting plans passed by
the last Legislature soon will
come under courtroom attacks.
In a legislative redistricting
case in Houston, motions will be
filed asking that the new plan for
dividing Texas into 150 districts
for the House of Representatives
be declared unconstitutional.
State Republican Chairman
Peter O'Donnell Jr. has announced
that the Harris County plaintiffs
in the Congressional redistricting
case, headed by George Bush, will
drop out of active roles in the
case because that county was
treated fairly in the redistricting
plan.
But the Republicans plan to
bring in new plaintiffs from Dal
las, Bexar, Tarrant, Midland, Ec
tor, Jefferson, Orange and Braz
oria Counties to try to convince
ttie three-judge federal court in
Houston that the new law violates
several approtionment principles.
On legislative redistricting,
state Reps. Jake Johnson of San
Antonio and Robert C. Eckhardt
of Houston, who joined in the suit
which led to present reapportion
ment procedures being declared
unconstitutional, will ask the
court to say that the new plan
violates the U. S. Constitution,
too.
Main attack is expected to be
purely on the question of whether
county-wide districts with more
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than one legislator serve to (
criminate against minority raJ
and political groups. Tayl
No attack is expected on t ^he •
plan passed to divide the Ten ^ as an
Senate into 31 new districts. survey
UT LANDS LEASED schools
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of 167 tracts offered. All least
were made for five-year terr.
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