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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 2, 1965)
Columns • Editorials • News Briefs Cbe Battalion Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, December 2, 1965 Thursday, December 2, 1965 • Opinions • Cartoons Features Learning The Hard Way CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle The Texas A&M Board of Directors will soon learn, no doubt, that administering- a state institution is public business. For the second time in four months, the directors attempted to withhold informa tion from the state press but failed. A writer for the Dallas Times-Herald reported Tuesday that the board approved undiscriminatory coeducation in a secret pre-Thanksgiving meeting held separately from the scheduled session. Board chairman H. C. Heldenfels and other board members denied the report, but in the process leaked out information that the nine-man group had authorized President Earl Rudder to “consider each female application personally.” Why this authorization was kept such a closely-guarded secret until the Dallas newspaper article appeared remains a mys tery. Even the university’s information service had no knowledge such action had been taken. The only report made public of the board’s coeducation discussion was that a four-man committee had been ap pointed to study the issue. It was not the first time the board had attempted to conceal information on the coeducation issue. A Fort Worth Star- Telegram reporter discovered last August that the board chairman had been instruct ed to ask Attorney General Waggoner Carr for an official opinion on whether or not A&M’s coed policy was in violation of the Civil Rights Act. Managed news and curtailed comments by a public governing body are an injustice both to the people it represents and the organization it serves. The people of Texas and certainly those connected with and concerned about Texas A&M have every right to be informed on the developments of coeducation at this traditionally all-male school — an issue which nearly everyone possesses strong feel ings about. They are not receiving straight facts when a smokescreen hides the major deci sions. They are not fully informed when policy changes, modifications or questions are withheld. At a time when Texas A&M stands ready to accept an envied position of prom inence among American universities, the very men who guide its fortunes have caus ed it considerable damage. An institution that cannot be trusted is viewed with contempt by members of the press who will probe, search and grasp until they uncover its activities. Faculty recruitment, necessary in build ing a great university, suffers when re ports of board action must be gleaned from anonymous sources instead of officials in volved. Students lose faith in their university when they are unable to receive straight forward, responsible comments from their administrators. The university image loses face through out the state and nation and potential stu dents back away when activity that hints at secrecy is disclosed. The Board of Directors must reexamine this unofficial policy of concealing informa tion from the public if Texas A&M is to continue its drive toward excellence in edu cation. There is no room at this institution for amateur tactics. 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 enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. Members of the Student Publications Board are: Joe Buser, chairman ; Dr. David Bowers, College of Liberal Arts ; Dr. Robert A. Clark, College of Geosciences; Dr. Frank A. Mc Donald, College of Science; Dr. J. G. McGuire, College of Engineering; Dr. Robert S. Titus, College of Veterinary Medicine; and Dr. A. B. Wooten, College of Agriculture. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M is published in College Station, Texas daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, September through May, and once a week during summer school. Re: Inc., epresented nationally by New York City, Chicago, by National Advertising Service, Los Angeles and San Francisco. News contributions may be made by telephoning 846-6618 or 846-4910 or at the editorial office. Room 4, YMCA Building. For advertising or delivery call 846-6415. Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester; $6 per school year; $6.60 per full year. All subscriptions subject to 2% sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA Building, College Station, Texas. EDITOR GLENN DROMGOOLE Cinderella Cafeteria Features Blue Tag 98^ Meal Which Includes: Salad — Two Vegetables — Dessert — Rolls or Corn Sticks Select Your Meat From Four Choices For Example: Hamburger Steak, Chicken Fried Steak, Fried Chicken, Swiss Steak. 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Students Conference On National Affairs Public Invited — No Admission Charged Speeches Will Be In MSC Ballroom 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 herein are also reserved. Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. “ ... but look at th’ bright side. Squirt, you could have got ten that ‘Dear John’ after you had bought her Christmas present!” Moore To Present Arthritis Paper Dr. R. W. Moore of the College of Veterinary Medicine will par ticipate in a joint meeting of the 10th International Conference on Rheumatoijd Arthritis and the American Rheumatism Associa tion Dec. 6-8 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 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