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By Glenn Dromgoole
Student Unrest: Part 7
The majority of student protest activity deals wK,.
campus problems.
Look beyond the headlines of civil rights marches and
anti-war demonstrations, and you find students primarily
concerned with the quality of education they are receiving.
Education and its many facets should rightly be the
students’ target for criticism. To them, education is a local
problem, and they attack it that way. Embodied with a' new
power of academic freedom —•. which they have fought to
get — students have launched out forceful, local attacks
on their administrators, faculty, fellow students and state
legislators for excellence in education.
And, as is not the case with their attacks on social
wrongs, the students have been heard and their demands
often met.
At Yale, Northwestern, Wayne State and the University
of Oregon among others, students have protested what they
considered unfair dismissal of faculty members.
SPEAKERS BAN controversies have raged at the
University of North Carolina, Ohio State, New Hampshire
and Alabama.
The University of Colorado opened up a new area
of student protest last October with a “Bitch-In on the
Multiversity.” Each student was handed an IBM card
(which he was urged to fold, bend, spindle, staple or
mutilate) and then given five minutes to sound off about
a subject of his choice. Students waited around until 3
or 4 a.m. for a chance to air their gripes — or praises, if
they had any.
Course critiques have sprung up at several colleges
and universities, including Washington and Harvard, where
students rate their professors.
Students are probing, digging, jabbing to uncover better
methods of receiving a well-rounded education. They often,
but not always, leave mangled administrative toes in their
wake.
ADMINISTRATIONS have been praised by students
of several schools, including: the University of New Mexico,
where a committee was formed to study student-faculty-
administration cooperation; the University of Chicago, where
“alienation has just not set in” because of top-flight ad
ministrators; and the University of Oregon, Ohio State
and Haverford, where their presidents have guaranteed stu
dent freedoms.
On other campuses there has been some sharp con
troversy: University of California in Berkeley, where stu
dents protested not having enough freedom although they
have more than nearly any other campus; the University
of Boston, where a student-administration dispute resulted
in a staff walkout by the college’s newspaper editor; Rice
University, where a usually cooperative spirit was
disrupted when the student editor was _ canned by the
dean of students.
Administrators are beginning to accept students’ rights
to question actions both in the classroom and behind
closed ivy-covered doors.
In a recent poll by the National Association of Student
Personnel Administrators Administrations, 71 per cent of
the college presidents and 80 per cent of the deans polled
considered student freedom to hear, critically analyze, ex
amine and express viewpoints as an essential part of the
educational process.
A MAJORITY of the schools polled would allow semi-
controversial speakers, such as Martin Luther King Jr.,
to visit campus, but not some “farther out” like George
Lincoln Rockwell or the late Malcolm X.
Thirty per cent considered freedom to picket and demon
strate “quite permissive” on their campuses, while 29 per
cent held this area “fairly permissive.”
Eighty-five per cent of the student editors believed
they had considerable editorial freedom, and 90 per cent
of the schools said the student government is authorized to
speak for the student body.
Student governments, unfortunately, do not always speak
for their students. Apathy toward student government is
present on many campuses, and the organizations are in turn
blamed with being apathetic toward student opinion.
VARIOUS POSITIVE attitudes toward student par
ticipation in campus affairs have lent new weight to the
students position. Among the most notable of these was the
White House Conference on Education last September, where
leading businessmen, government officials and educators
said:
1. One of the primary functions of education is the
development of better citizens.
2. Some of the most acute observations of course weak
nesses are contributed by students.
3. Adults tend to perpetuate that which they were
taught and tend to fall into the pit of traditions for tra
dition’s sake.
4. Innovations in education can best occur when en
lightened administrators establish a sincere climate for
innovators, so the innovator is not placed on the defensive.
WARREN FARRELL, past vice president of the Stu
dent National Education Association, has suggested several
areas where students should become involved, including
curriculum changes, educational legislation and campus rules
and regulations reform. Paul Goodman, in his Thoughts
On Berkeley, suggests others: food prices and quality,
impractical dormitory housing, clas? size, tuition increase,
the campus bookstore.
“In my opinion,” Goodman said, “the chief political
action of students would be intra-mural — humanizing and
making cultural the academic community — for the colleges
and universities have become so tighlty interlocked with the
dominant tightly interlocked system of society that any
intra-mural improvement will be a profound shock to the
system. Also, in these matters the students can really know
what they are talking about.”
“What the activists are saying,” claims (Moderator Maga
zine, “is that students are not merely customers, or degree
candidates or somebody’s children: Students are those peo
ple who are studying in the University. They should be
recognized as such — as students who deserve to be taught,
and as people who deserve a voice in their community.”
“THE JOB OF A COLLEGE is to educate, not indoc
trinate!” write Dr. and Mrs. Richard. E. Gordon. “Stu
dents: Beware of malarkey peddlers who ballyhoo one nar
row approach. Listen to extremeists; but hear rival
opinions' and ideas also. Confer, discuss, argue, get involved
in bull sessions. Run to the library to get new ammunition
to defend your position better — and to rebut your opponent’s.
You will learn to think for yourself and to gain a new
perspective. You will grow in intellectual stature.”
And while some argue that students are too immature,
that they know less than adults, that they are not idealistic
enough that they do not have ‘vested interests' enough to
he sensible in society’s terms, that they have a poor sense
of timing — despite these arguments, students are gaining
power to deal with their local problems.
It is becoming more and more an important part of
the educational process.
Friday: Unrest at A&M.
Che Battalion
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1966
ITS Scheduled March 5
An array of performers from
Albuquerque to Baton Rouge will
be spotlighted in the 15th Annual
Intercollegiate Talent Show
March 5, in G. Rollie White Coli
seum.
The show will host 12 acts,
including a special guest appear
ance by the Tyler Junior College
Apache Belles.
Aggie Sweetheart Cheri Hol
land, Texas Women’s University
sophomore, will sing and play the
guitar as another special attrac
tion.
Disc jockey Bob White, alias
Bob Jay, of Radio Station KILT,
Houston, will be the master of
ceremonies, according to MSC
Talent Committee Chairman Pete
Pelinsky.
White is a former announcer
with Bryan’s Radio WTAW.
A&M’s representative to ITS
is Magacian Jim Baldauf, a jun
ior English major from College
Station.
Other acts include May Mc-
Corkle, Mack Lawhon and John
May, bluegrass instrumentalists
from Texas Tech.
New Mexico University is rep
resented by jazz dancers Lucy
Linderbom and .Cissy King;
rythm and blues singers Ben
Chavez and Ron Cardwell, and
talented Beth Ertz, a pianist who
has performed with Lionel Hamp
ton.
Broadway musical singers Ter
ry Phelps and Louis Perry of
Baylor will be presented along
with Texas University’s Vocalist
Larry G. Smith and singing duet
Marie and Molly O’Shaughnessy.
The pace will change when
Grambling College’s Eddie Jones,
who has competed in national
dramatic festivals, presents a
dramatic monologue.
A singing trio composed of
Jerrel Elliott, Clark Walter and
Jack Wilcox, who call themselves
the “Three Windjammers,” will
come from McMurry College.
Louisiana State University will
send the “Just V” folksingers —
Bob Graham, Bill Spann, Bill
Graves and Jerie Ford.
Pop singer Sally Soldo from
Arlington State College will
round out the show.
Tickets, which are now avail
able at the Memorial Student
Center Student Program Office
and Bryan-College Station banks,
will cost $1 for general admission
and $1.25 for reserved seats.
TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE APACHE BELLES
. . . popular drill group featured talent show attraction.
Biology Addition
Receives Grant
A $394,925 grant for construc
tion of part of an addition to the
Biological Sciences Building has
been awarded by the U. S. Office
of Education.
President Earl Rudder said the
grant is for construction of un
dergraduate portions of the 95,-
337 square foot structure.
Howard Badgett, A&M physi
cal plant manager, noted the ad
dition is almost seven per cent
complete. The four-story struc
ture is scheduled for occupancy
in August, 1967.
Lecture Series
Begins Tonight
Reagan V. Brown of the
Agricultural Extension Serv
ice is the first of four month
ly speakers tonight in lieu of
Eoligivus Emphasis Week.
The extension sociologist
will speak on “The Bigger
They Come’ at the All
Faiths Chapel at 7:30 p.m.
Second speaker in the seri
es will be A&M Head Foot
ball Coach Gene Stallings
March 24.
Involved in community im
provement programs, Brown
works with county agents
across Texas in 900 commvmi-
ties. The sociologist and
native of Henderson is often
called “Mr. Community Im
provement.”
He teaches the Men’s
Bible Class at the First Meth
odist Church of Bryan and
was a president of the Terrell
Chamber of Commerce, Kauf
man Lions Club and Lockhart
Businessmen’s Club. He earn
ed B.S. and M.S. degrees at
A&M and has done graduate
work at Colorado, Cornell
and Utah Universities.
A captain, he served with
the 69th Infantry Division in
World War II and was
wounded in the Battle of the
Bulge. Brown has served as
county agent in Hunt, Kauf
man and Caldwell Counties
and helped organize the
Kaufman County Vetch Fest
ival and Luling Watermelon
Thump.
Student Vote To Determine
New Insurance Coverage
Students will have an oppor
tunity to select the student insur
ance policy of their choice in a
general election next month.
Director of personnel Clark C.
Munroe said Wednesday the stu
dent accident insurance policy
presently under contract will ex
pire Aug. 31.
Programs under consideration
are the straight accident policy
and a broader accident and sick
ness policy.
“I have met with the Student
Senate, Apartment Council, and
Civilian Student Council and
have discussed with them the
several types of student insur
ance programs,” Munroe said.
“They are to discuss this with the
people they represent to get some
opinion as to which way they
want to go.
“If students have opinions they
NTSU Prof Hamilton Opens
Marriage Forum Tuesday
“How Can You Tell It’s Love?”
will be discussed at the first Mar
riage Forum program 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday at the YMCA.
Dr. Sidney Hamilton from
North Texas State University
will speak on the factors in
volved in selecting a mate, ans
wering questions like “How can
I be sure of marrying the right
person? Has sex desire influ
enced my choice? Am I socially
adequate? Should time and dis
tance interfere with true love
(or. What am I doing in Texas
when my girl is in Tennessee) ?”
Hamilton received his B.A. and
M.A. degrees from North Texas
in administrative education and
sociology. He received his doc
torate from New York University
in psychology.
At North Texas he teaches
courses in mental testing, clini
cal psychology, projective tech
niques, adolescent development,
guidance and marital psychology.
Hamilton also does after-dinner
speaking at women’s and service
clubs along with consultant work
in areas of marital adjustments
and personality problems.
He is the author of “Work
book in Marital Psychology” and
co-author of “Workbook in Adol
escent Psychology” and “Work
book in Adolescent Development.”
In addition, the speaker is a
member of the American Associa
tion of Marriage Counselors,
which rates him as “professional
marriage counselor!.” He has
come to A&M before as a dis
cussion group leader and coun
selor for married student groups.
definitely should be expressed to
their Student Senate or Apart
ment Council representative.”
When the students choose a
policy the Student Senate, dean
of students and University in
surance officials will work out
the details and place the contract
with the appropriate insurance
company.
“Whatever the students decide
they want we’ll give them,” Mun
roe continued.
Munroe said the university has
conducted a study of insurance
programs employed at about a
dozen other colleges, most of
which are more comprehensive
than A&M’s.
“I think we can come up with
a better policy than the one we’ve
got,” he noted. “Of course, the
cost may be slightly higher for
the broader program.”
Concerning difficulties some
students have had collecting
dental claims from the present
insurance carrier, Munroe said
“all denied claims brought to our
attention have been settled in
favor of the students except for
one, and we’re still negotiating
on it.”
He said the Student Senate has
discussed changing carriers.
“I suggest we look at other
carriers,” he added, “because
there are a number of very good
ones in the field. We’ll have no
difficulty getting a good one.”
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All-Male Forces Return
Coed Fight To Legislature
AFTER THE STORM
Few traces remained late Wednesday of the storm which
dumped sleet and snow on the campus early Wednesday
mofning’. Other parts of the area did not fare so well,
however. Austin recorded several inches of snow and,
while Aggies sloshed to classes, the University of Texas
dismissed school.
By TOMMY DeFRANK
Battalion Managing Editor
The 1963 furor over limited co
education for Texas A&M had
barely subsided when anti-coed
forces move4 their fight back into
the Legislature for a second
round.
In March, 1965, the A&M
Board of Directors requested the
A&M administration to compile a
detailed study concerning possi
bility of adopting complete co
education and submit it by the
June meeting.
But even as work began on the
study a bill calling for an all
male A&M was under discussion
in the Texas Senate.
The measure was the project
of Sen. Andy Rogers of Childress,
16-year legislative veteran and
an A&M former student.
ROGERS said be submitted his
legislation because he was dis
pleased over the attitude of some
college administrators and execu
tives in the Association of Form
er students, whom he charged
were placing emphasis on enroll
ment rather than quality of in
struction.
“The very people who ought to
be leading the fight have joined
with the throng wringing their
hands and crying that we’ve got
to be like everybody else,” he
claimed in an interview last
year.
“One of the greatest failures
of modem society is an unquench
able thirst to conform and be like
everybody else,” he added. ‘Our
society is suspicious of noncon
formists and tries to have them
conform. People are trying to
judge A&M by their own stand
ards, but I have no desire to
see A&M modeled after any other
school.
“To me, these were the great
est things A&M had to offer —
discipline, respect for society and
the realization that we owe some
thing to those who went before
us. We’ve got a very salable
commodity; weVe got to sell it
and quit admitting that it’s all
wrong.”
Rogers also felt that state’s
lawmakers should have authority
to resolve the coeducation struggle
instead of the A&iM Board.
“This matter should be deter
mined by the Legislature and not
by a board which is a creature
of the governor,” he said. “The
Legislature is more representa
tive of the people’s wishes. This
prerogative should not lie with
the Board — or any Board.”
(See ROGERS, Page 7)