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Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, February 17, 1966
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College Coordinating Board
Moves Toward Objective
The new State College Coordinating
Board, set up last year by the legislature,
has taken its first official action and proved
that it intends to accomplish its mission
with only one objective in mind: Improv
ing the state’s higher educational system.
Monday it made five recommendations,
four of which directly affect Texas A&M.
The first, and by far the most noteworthy
of these, was the decision to limit to four
the number of institutions offering doctor’s
degree programs.
This will be accomplished by allowing
A&M, Texas, Texas Tech and the University
of Houston to offer Ph.D. programs, with
provisions to allow North Texas, Arling
ton State and Texas Woman’s University to
serve the Dallas-Fort Worth Area. The
board said the schools were chosen on the
basis of location, size, faculty and facilities.
While this plan may not make friends
among some smaller colleges that had their
sights set on eventual doctorate programs,
on closer examination it is best for the
state -— the smaller colleges included.
The state’s educational system will be
improved by concentrating all their Ph.D.
level studies on a few campuses where the
personnel and facilities are available, in
stead of spreadng them thinly among a
number of colleges. This will permit these
campuses to develop their graduate schools
into the nationally-recognized programs
they should be.
It will also free the smaller colleges to
concentrate on undergraduate programs, de
veloping them to a peak of proficiency they
might not reach if they were trying to
build up a graduate school with limited
funds.
A fact that must be taken into account
is the limitation of state funds. The money
available for education is limited, and it
will do more good overall channeled into
specialized areas than spread thinly with a
duplication of mediocre graduate programs.
Other recommendations affecting A&M
were limiting the school of veterinary medi
cine to the College Station campus, limit
ing the number of vocational and technical
training schools and limiting schools of
architecture.
Confining the study of vet medicine to
A&M insures all women wishing to pursue
this major will have to be admitted for lack
of alternatives.
The vocational and technical training
schools will be limited to junior colleges
with a few exceptions, including A&M’s
new James Connally Technical Institute,
and architecture programs will only be
offered at the four Ph.D. schools.
Efforts are being made to insure ade
quate educational opportunities for all citi
zens of the state, located in easily accessible
areas. These latest decisions will help
facilitate this goal by establishing graduate-
level programs in population centers and
undergraduate schooling in all other corners
of the state. The citizens of Texas should
support to the fullest this new board and its
actions.
Of Mice and Men
By Herky Killingsworth
By HERKY KILLINGSWORTH
I didn’t get a Valentine on
Valentine’s Day. I wasn’t
crushed, but I must admit I
really took it to heart. Feb. 14
was set aside for young sweet
hearts, and once again love has
passed me by.
It’s enough to make one sick.
You spend all year meeting girls,
falling in and out of love, spend
ing your money, and then they
up and fail to realize the im
portance of a single valentine
placed in an appropriate box.
And the embarassment of it
all. Right now someone, some
where is getting a valentine from
me. To be on the safe side in
making sure I forgot no-one who
might have written, I sent a
Valentine to everyone I knew.
The expense of a 100 valentines
and stamps, yet—I received noth
ing except a note from my par
ents to start studying and my
grandmother wrote to find out
when I will repay the money
stolen from the cookie-jar.
No Valentines means that the
cute little girl with the blonde
curls that sat behind me in the
third grade has forgotten. Sophia
Loren just doesn’t care and my
laundry woman wants me to drop
dead.
I readily admit that I am no
Cary Grant or Rock Hudson, but
I do have a nice personality and
even make my own clothes. I’m
not Rockefellow or Roy Hof-
heinz but I am liked, by all
of the boys. Hugh Hefner
laughed at me when I applied for
a job, but I have a good sense
of humor. With traits such as
these it couldn’t have been my
fault.
Madame Love has failed me. I
have loved the most beautiful
girls in the world, and College
Station, only to be snubbed by
all. I must now turn to my old
grandpappy’s advice to forget
about love, beautiful girls and
the splendors of the two and
seek a woman who can cook.
No, I didn’t get a Valentine
Feb. 14. St. Valentine has for-
sagen men, and Cupid’s arrows,
though hitting me solid, have
fallen short of the opposite sex
(and I use the term, sex, losse-
ly). With the cold reality of
my ill-fated life I must now
place Valentines aside with San
ta Claus and place my faith in
the Bunny Hugh promised not
to let me down.
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Sound Off
Editor,
The Battaliori:
This is in reference to Mr.
Prewitt’s letter of Tuesday, Feb.
15. After reading a letter like
that, I am sure that he has no
idea of women and sexual rela
tions, other than through vicari
ous experiences. The dogma of his
church has paralyzed his mind to
the extent that he believes sex is
a privilege of married couples
only.
I feel that the separation of
church and state is necessary not
only to allow personal freedom,
but to strengthen the church.
Think of how much more inter
ested a person would be in church
affairs if he had to pay more for
church taxes. There should be no
difference in the government’s
eyes between Baptists or Cath
olics or agnostics.
Only when Mr. Prewitt realizes
that we are no longer living in
the colonial era and that our
morals have taken a more open-
minded position, will he see that
the church and state should be
separated.
Carl C. Prescott ’67
When you are down
You are not really out,
Unless you stay down
For the full ten count.
Get up fighting though you
May get another fall.
In this battle of life,
You can’t win them all.
Try a little harder when
Your back is to the wall,
Just remember this—
Nobody wins them all.
Play the game of life
The very best you can.
Fair-and-square like a
Real Gentleman
Be proud of your country,
State and School if you can.
That is not hard to do
If it is Texas Aggie-land.
Mrs. Ann Bakn
Peace Corps Team
Scheduled Feb. 27
A three-member Peace Corps
Team will visit Texas A&M Pel.
27-March 5, announced Dr. Vantt
W. Edmondson, A&M Peact
Corps Advisory Council chain
“The team is especially inter
ested in visiting with former
Peace Corps volunteers who are
students or faculty members,”
Edmondson commented.
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