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College Station, Texas
Tuesday, May 3, 1966
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Telephone System
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Penrose B. Metcalfe
Too Long Overdue
After several years of careful planning-, and delay,
Texas A&M’s long-awaited and long overdue campus tele
phone system may be a reality within the next two years.
Recent action by the Board of Directors authorizes
completion of installation of a $50,000 Centrex phone
setup by the fall of 1968.
A four-digit concept will permit students living in one
dorm area to contact those living across campus, thus
relieving a situation long a sore spot in campus communi
cations.
A second advantage will permit easier accessibility
to professors’ offices. Each prof will have his own number
and thus be reached by direct dialing, a simple technique
that will bring tears of joy to the eyes of long-suffering
students who have had to endure secretaries and long min
utes of waiting while trying to flag down a prof.
One area greatly affected by the system will be the
Housing Office, which will be able to immediately reach
a student’s room instead of having a runner deliver a
message. This will undoubtedly save considerable time in
emergency situations as well as normal delivery operations.
One drawback to students will be the absence of long
distance calls, which will be permitted only if the calls
are collect or if the caller has a telephone credit card.
There is no reason, however, for the university to assume
the red tape involved in tabulating, billing and collecting
for long distance calls.
The proposed cost of $15 per semester is nominal and
in the long run much cheaper than a monthly telephone
service charge.
There is even an out for students who cannot or will
not pay for telephone service. Leggett, Milner and Mitchell
Halls will not be equipped with phones.
Many other schools have been using the “new” sys
tem for several years, and A&M has been somewhat negli
gent in allowing such a basic ingredient in student conveni
ence to be overlooked for so long.
The system was originally scheduled to begin func
tioning in the spring of 1966, but space problems and
assorted complications forced postponement.
Now the project is earmarked for completion in the
fall of 1968, when the new library (whose basement will
house phone system headquarters) will hopefully be finished.
For all the delays, the convenience may well over
shadow the long wait.
Muster Speaker Expounds
On Variety Of Subjects
“I think A&M shpuld set a
maximum enrollment, then build
facilities to handle that number,”
says 1916 graduate Penrose B.
Metcalfe.
The recent Muster speaker dis
cussed the course of A&M and
higher education in Texas in an
interview Monday, and remained
true to form, speaking just what
he thought, compromising with
“Really, I hurt myself playin’ touch football, but everyone
thinks I’m th’ hero of Splash Day!”
Sound Off
“A&M is going ahead, there’s
no question about that,” the
State Board of Education mem
ber said, “but I think we need
to stress quality more, quantity
less. I don’t know exactly what
maximum number should be set,
but I’d say we’re approaching it
rapidly now. The Century Coun
cil set the goal of excellence, but
they didn’t but the bit about set
ting a top enrollment, though
that’s what I believed then and I
still do.”
“I think the Coordinating
Board is all right. I was in the
House in 1933 and was one of
three sponsors of a bill to do the
same thing. But we couldn’t get
it out of the committee. We
passed it, but couldn’t get it onto
the floor.”
The DuBois Clubs:
A Red Youth Front
On March 4, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach
instituted action against the DuBois Clubs of America to
force them to register as a “Communist front” organiza
tion.
Since that time, in newspapers, on television and radio,
the leaders of the organization have screamed loudly that
they have no affiliation with the Communist Party, U.S.A.,
and that no one should register with the government, Com
munist or not.
The DuBois Clubs of America were organized official
ly at a convention in San Francisco June 1921, 1964.
Among the leaders of the club, proclaiming even during the
convention they were not affiliated with the CPUSA,
were: Mike Sagarell, presently the national youth direc
tor of the CPUSA; Eugene Dennis, Jr., son of the late
chairman of the CPUSA; Bettina Aptheker, daughter of
the CPUSA theoretician, recent traveler to North Viet Nam
and public proclaimant of Communism, and Carl Bloice, a
member of the CPUSA, writer for People’s World, the
official CPUSA organ on the west coast and now editor
of the DuBois Club magazine, Insurgent.
These clubs, if they can in any way be judged by their
leadership, are most definitely Comunist organizations.
Their purpose is to deceive youth and adults alike into
supporting Communist aims without apparently support
ing a Comunist organization. This air of respectability is
what they are seeking when they loudly disclaim their
Communist affiliation.
No one should be fooled.
Editor,
The Battalion:
I have heard that the Admin
istration is thinking of starting
some fraternities on the A&M
campus. What next?
When I heard that I thought of
some of my friends at other
schools, who were and were not
members of fraternities and
there is one thing they all agree
on — fraternities are responsible
for disunity among the student
bodies.
he thinks that the Corps is a
headache, wait until he gets fra
ternities on campus. He at least
has a hatchet over the Corps, but
he will have none over the fra
ternities, at least not as big a
one.
That will be the only reason for
trying to get fraternities on the
A&M campus, for we have all
heard the phrase “Divide and
Conquer’. The Administration has
been trying to defeat the extreme
unity of the student body ever
since World War II. They have
tried everything they could think
of. The civilian students didn’t
live up to their expectation be
cause they are Aggies. Then
they tried to put the Army in
Greens, and the Air Force in
Blues and divide the Corps, but
that was also defeated. Now they
are trying to discourage the
D&C’s, but they couldn’t run the
Corps without them because
there aren’t enough contract peo
ple in the Corps.
What do Aggies need fraterni
ties for? Hasn’t Dean Hannigan
got enough problems with the
fish in the Corps crying on his
shoulders? Does he also want to
try and police the frat houses for
hazing devices, booze, etc.-? If
I have had many people (Tea-
sips especially) tell me the one
thing they admire about A&M is
the unity and lasting friendships
and the fact that the only thing
that we need as an introduction
is the ring.
Aggie frat-rats; it’s enough to
make an Aggie see orange.
Richard M. Green ’65
“What we wanted to do was
place all the state schools under
one board of directors. We pro
posed to do away with the first
two years at Texas and make it
a “senior” university with the
last two years of undergraduate
work and a graduate school of
fered.
ties. Anyway, it never got
through,” he noted.
“But I still believe that you
have to coordinate. You have to
limit some schools and coordinate
them with others when the tax
payer’s money is involved. That’s
one thing I learned in my 16
years in the legislature, you have
to be thrifty with the people’s
money.”
When asked about the question
of coeducation at A&M, Metcalfe
said:
“The Century Council, of which
I was a member, first took the
stand of a strong Corps and very
limited coeducation. We explored
all the possibilities along that
line, but later had to change it.
I don’t think coeducation is go
ing to do any harm; besides, you
can’t fly in the face of modern
ideas.
“I think A&M is improving all
the time, and the graduate school
is just an indication of that
growth and of school excellence
in general. “The greatest im
provement in the last few years
has been the tremendous upgrad
ing of the instructional staff
from top to bottom.”
“I see Texas A&M in a place
of its own in the future. Now
there is an overall trend of re-
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duction of agriculture in its rek
tive importance in instruct^
but in the next few years agri
culture in this country must to
better paid or it will be forcti
to import foodstuffs and fiber.
“Agricultural costs have gor;
up out of proportion to what tit
farmer and rancher receives froi
his efforts. The consumer pat
lie has reaped the greatest beat
fit from all the research donei:
this field. So far it has oil;
enabled the farmer to stay t
business at the same static levtl
while costs have risen.”
“But back to A&M
changing, and it should, beoaasfj
America is built by progressJ'J
are not going to stay in the dap]
of the oxcart.”
“I came to this campus til
years ago this fall, and when I
was a senior was a captain o:|
regimental staff. But what 1
made this place great is
standing together, the spirit.”
“I think that today’s youth ii|
better than ever. Those beati
and draft card burners are a vei
minute part of the overall pitl
ture, but they make a lot til
noise. Minorities always make:
lot of noise, but I keep my eyal
out on youth, and I feel today|
are the greatest.”
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