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Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, February 16, 1966
GI Bill: A
Blessing, But....
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Since both the House and Senate have
passed Cold War GI Bills, it is time for
institutions that will handle the educational
aspects to evaluate possible effects on them
selves.
A&M, after World War II and Korea,
experienced tremendous growth due to an
influx of veterans completing their educa
tion under GI Bills. After the second World
War alone, this university underwent a
growth of almost 40 per cent in three years.
Most college and universities today are
suffering overcrowded conditions in both
class and housing facilities due to the “baby-
boom” following the war, and are raising
entrance standards to limit enrollment.
That this condition does not exist at A&M
makes it an attractive institution for the
veteran.
The provisions of the new bill provide
$100 a month for single veterans up to 36
months (four school-years) for full-time
education and $150 monthly for married
veterans. This will apply to more than 2.5
million men, including 250,000 now residing
in Texas.
A&M can expect an even larger slice
of this student pie than some other uni
versities for reasons that have attracted
students in the past — including low cost,
high scholastic rating, especially in fields
that many veterans will want to enter, and
the uncrowded conditions.
This increase in the student body will be
both a blessing and a curse to A&M, at
once boosting the drive to academic promin
ence, compounding old problems and creat
ing new ones. It will add likewise to the
economy of College Station-Bryan, but will
also make demands on the area’s developers.
At present, there is ample classroom
space and laboratory facilities, but with
a large influx of veteran students, half-
filled rooms could become overcrowded and
present dorm construction plans would have
to be altered.
On-campus eating facilities are probably
adequate for some years to come as larger
percentages seek meals in the surrounding
communities, shifting some responsibility
for furnishing modern eating establish
ments from A&M to private business. An
expansion of some sort would be impera
tive.
Apartment complexes presently under
construction in nearby areas to house a
growing married-student population would
be inadequate, especially if dormitory ex
pansion cannot keep up with that of the
student body. The policy for off-campus
permits for single students would require
liberalization, and a whole new question
would face the administration: Controlling
off-campus students.
If the influx is great, the two cities near
the University will be faced with a greater
demand for services such as sewer, water
and street construction and maintainance,
while private companies will be faced with
servicing more telephones and meeting de
mands for more electric power. This will in
turn create new jobs for the area, providing
it with more funds to plow back into de
velopment.
These examples are merely indicative of
the problems and opportunities the new GI
Bill will bring to the A&M-College Station-
Bryan complex. Properly faced and man
aged, they could furnish the final boost
needed to insure A&M new prestige and a
greater ability to serve the people of Texas.
“Stay out of th’ graduate parking lot!”
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By Dani Presswood
Call to Quarters was still some
30 minutes away in Dorm 14, but
the inhabitant of room 414 had
already hit the books when I
knocked on the door.
His name was Dan Wimberly,
and upon entering 1 I couldn’t help
but wonder how he ever got any
studying done with the picture he
had propped on his desk.
“That’s Cindy. She lives in
Fort Worth,” he informed me, as
if that was all the explanation
needed.
Dan, a 19-year-old pre-law stu
dent, hails from Redlands, Calif.,
where both mountain and beach
are but a few hours distant.
“Last summer three of us spent
10 days hiking through the Sier
ra Nevadas,” he recalled. “We
slept in the open and fished the
mountain streams for trout.”
“We felt a closeness to Na
ture,” he reminisced. “It gave
you a funny feeling to walk
through country that was un
touched by human hands.”
An avid sports fan, Dan spends
much of his summer leisure at
the beach. Although he sm*fs on
occasion, his favorite pasttime is
skin diving, a hobby he took up
a few years ago.
“I wouldn’t say California girls
have lower morals,” he replied.
“They just seem to be freer and
wilder than Texas girls. On the
whole California’s teen-agers and
young adults are more extro
verted.”
As a sophomore in Squadron
1 Dan has his sights on a mili
tary career after graduation.
“My father is a colonel in the
Air Force, and he and his friends
were high on A&M,” he revealed.
“That’s why I decided to come
here.”
He feels the Corps and the
spirit of the students make A4M
unique and that coeducation
would hurt the school.
He is also opposed to the non-
compulsory Corps because fresh
men attend A&M without know
ing or practicing Aggie tradi
tions and he believes this has
hurt the Corps-civilian student
relations.
When I questioned Dan about
his major dislike concerning
A&M his unhesitant reply was
social life, or rather, lack of one.
His remedy ? “Move Sam Hous
ton State to College Station.”
You know the saying. If you
can’t take Mohammed to the
mountain, bring the mountain to
Mohammed.
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Touring Canadian Dance Troupe
Provides Refreshing Evening
By LANI PRESSWOOD
With the fleeting elusive ness
of a northern breeze, Les Feux
Follets brought a breath of fresh
Canadian air to the campus and
then drifted down the road to
parts unknown.
The colorful National Dance
Ensemble of Canada played to a
small but appreciative crowd in
White Coliseum Tuesday night
as the first Town Hall presenta
tion of the semester.
On their first American tour,
the 65-man troupe put on a
lively, entertaining show which
extended to several encore num
bers.
The most impressive feature
of the production had to be the
spectacular, widely-varied cos
tumes. From the opening number
to the grand finale, the group
filled the stage with color.
Ten related interludes were
presented, weaving the theme of
a “Canadian Mosiac.” This mo-
siac was composed of the strik
ingly different peoples which
have populated Canada from her
early recorded history to the
present day.
A fast-paced episode dealing
with the Indians of the Canadian
Plains led. off, and was followed
appropriately enough, by an in
terlude of pioneers on the trail.
The night’s biggest crowd-
pleaser, a suite entitled “The
Gold Rush,” came next. This
rousing sequence began with a
miner panning for gold, shifted
to a group of saloon girls, pro
gressed to the Charleston, and
wound up with a fiery discotheque
number which was as modern as
a showroom Toronado.
Some superb dancing in bulky
wooden shoes highlighted the
next suite, billed “Old France
In The New World.” Then the
show’s first half closed out with
a bang in a “European Settlers”
routine which was performed
with a Saber Dance gusto.
The show’s second half tapered
off slightly, but array of cos-
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tumes continued to mount im
pressively. A “Hamatasa Ritual”
and an “Eskimo Walrus Hunt”
both failed to come off, al
though they did splash considera
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A beguiling, unhurried sequence
of Irish and Scot dance numbers
from Nova Scotian settlers
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