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THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, June 27, 1968
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Proposed Tuition To Hurt Students
Editor's Note: We publish
this report in view of the in
creasing interest shown by
some leaders in the State Legis
lature and the Texas Commit
tee of Governing Boards (made
up of heads of 12 college gov
erning boards) to more than
double the tuition for state
leges ranges above $10,000, mod
erate and low income families in
Texas must look to public col
leges and junior colleges as the
primary educational hope for
their children.
moderate and low income families
from going to college.
college students.
WASHINGTON, D. C. — In
Texas there are 22 public senior
colleges and 40 public junior col
leges. According to figures re
leased by the coordinating board
of our state college and university
system, these 62 public institu
tions enroll nearly 300,00 stu
dents.
A recent study by the Life
Insurance Agency Management
Association showed that fixed
costs—that is, tuition, fees, room,
and board—at 28 private colleges
in Texas average $1,601 per year.
That is double the average fixed
costs at public colleges in our
state.
SINCE THE TOTAL four-year
cost for students at private col-
In spite of this, the men who
control the public college system
in Texas are pushing for legis
lation to double the tuition at
these schools. This is a cynical
move to get more revenue while
preventing young people from
In his June 16, 1968 Austin
Report, editor Stuart Long, who
has been looking into the reasons
for this attempt to double tuition
in Texas, reported that doubling
tuition was directed not only
toward raising money, but also
toward “holding enrollments
down.”
At The Grove
“Weil actually. Squirt, I guess we shouldn’t gripe too much
’bout not gettin’ any mail today—We just rented our
boxes this morning!”
John McCarroll
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The next time anyone asks me to lead a march on Wash
ington D. C., I’m going to ask all those in my entourage to
buy Federal “Golden Eagle” permits for their cars—that
way we could camp in a national park, recreation area, his
torical spot, etc., etc. for up to a year and no one would
have to ask us to leave.
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By looking at the titles of two new grants to the
Meteorology Department it’s not too hard to figure out what
is being planned for the future at A&M.
Both grants are a result of the Army Electronics Com
mand’s request for studies in weather. Actually this is a
cover-up so that residents of the community will not run
scared into the wind.
One of the grants is titled “Simulation Research to
Develop Objective Meteorological Prediction Capability.”
This is a long drawn-out name for figuring the odds of
incorrect weather forecasting concerning rain—also the
subject of a second study to get underway here.
The second grant is a deadly serious one that casual
observers are apt to overlook—“Analog Simulation, Evalua
tion of Atmospheric Transport and Diffusion In and Above
Tropical Forests.”
Chances are that many qullible people will believe that
this grant is actually what it sounds like, and will take place
in some far-off tropical island or Latin American country—
not so. This second study is a backup for the first one
when researchers find that rain prediction is next to impos
sible.
This second phase is set to go into effect immediately
after the 4,382nd wrong guess is made that the rain will
stop.
Texas, as the Army evidently suspects, will become a
tropical rain forest and A&M will instantly step in the
forefront as the technical, research and experiment station
for rain forests all over the world. Thus, another first
for A&M. No one would have ever thought to make a study
of atmispheric transport and diffusion in and above tropical
forests in Texas.
Overhead on the campus yesterday: “Sure was glad to
see it start raining . . . that 30 minute drought had me
scared . .
The only thing that worries a lot of people is that there
has not been a rainbow present following the past few
showers.
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It sure feels good to have the legislators behind the
college students of today . . . even though a lot of educators
feel that students are not paying enough to get an education.
TONIGHT —“The Heroes of
Telemark” starring Kirk Douglas
and Richard Harris.
FRIDAY—“To Be a Crook,” a
film from France, and special
added attraction, “We’ve Never
Been Licked,” starring Robert
Mitchum.
SATURDAY—“Walk on the
Wild Side,” starring Laurence
Harvey, Capucine, and Jane Fonda
plus Chapter 5 of “The Phantom
Creeps.”
SUNDAY — “Portrait in
Black,” starring Anthony Quinn
and Lana Turner.
MONDAY — “Written on the
Wind,” starring Rock Hudson and
Lauren Bacall.
TUESDAY —“Torn Curtain,”
starring Paul Newman and Julie
Andrews.
WEDNESDAY —“The Lively
Set,” starring James Darren and
Pamela Tiffin.
THURSDAY—Closed for Holi
days.
FRIDAY—Closed for holidays.
SATURDAY—Closed for holi
days.
SUNDAY, July 7 — “Back
Street,” starring Susan Hayward.
MONDAY, July 8—“The Music
Man,” starring Robert Preston
and Shirley Jones.
TUESDAY, July 9—“Murder
of Silence” will be shown at G.
Rollie White Coliseum—no movie
in the Grove.
WEDNESDAY, July 10 —
“Lilith,” starring Warren Beatty,
Jean Seberg and Peter Fonda.
Local Teachers
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Bryan and Snook school teach
ers are acquiring special skills for
training student teachers in a
cooperating teachers workshop at
Texas A&M.
The three-week Education De
partment workshop directed by
Dr. Charles J. Salek carries three
semester hours graduate credit
for participants.
Teachers in the program have
been or will be cooperating teach
ers for A&M education majors
who practice teach in Bryan and
Snook schools.
Participants are developing
skill in recording interaction an
alysis using the micro-teaching
teletrainer for improving teach
ing skills and practicing super
visory conferences with student
teachers employing videotape-re-
corded teaching.
“From this experience, partici
pants should be able to |supervise
student teachers who have had
similar basic skills,” Salek noted.
Cooperating teachers are from
all local public school instruc
tional levels.
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EDITOR JOHN McCARROLL
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IT IS NOT the rich Texan, of
>urse, who will be kept out of
college. The student with a Thun-
derbird parked in front of his
fraternity house will still be there,
for his parents will not even
notice a $100 annual increase.
But not every young Texan can
afford this additional charge. In
1966, 84.1 per cent of Texas
households had incomes under
$10,000 and 46.9 per cent—almost
half—had annual incomes under
$5,000. Over one-fourth of our
Texas families earned under
$3,000.
Aggie Architect
Awarded Red Seal
A landscape design student in
Texas A&M’s School of Arclii.
Lecture, Ronald Perry of Fort
Worth, is a top winner in an ex-
change problem involving fire
universities.
Sound Off
Editor,
The Battalion:
In June 20th’s “Sound Off”, W.
M. Locke expressed his opinion of
the phrase “Highway 6 runs both
ways”, and made derogatory re
marks about the Corps. I think
his opinion was based on preju
dice and his remarks were based
on his imagination.
Calling cadets “frat rats”
might refer to the unity which is
typical of the Corps and other
organizations that take pride in
themselves. However, the de
scription of the Corps as an old-
fashioned, dying organization, at
tempting to maintain power “by
fair means or foul,” is not so easi
ly supported by facts. Are
Locke’s reasons for making these
statements also worth printing
for all to see?
The phrase, “Highway 6 runs
both ways,” which offends Locke,
is to me an important reflection
of true Aggie spirit. It is a re
minder to those who are not will
ing to sacrifice a little extra to
maintain the image of which we
are so proud, that they can leave
as easily as they came. Suppose
a man comes to America as an
immigrant. Upon his arrival he
denounces democracy, complains
that Americans refuse to estab
lish a dictatorship and refuses to
obey our laws. Some people,
wishing he would go back where
he came from, might hint “the
Atlantic runs both ways.” Some
also would wonder why he didn’t
go to ohe of the countries al
ready having a dictatorship, in
stead of coming here. It is in a
similar spirit that the phrase
“Highway 6 runs both ways” is
used.
I would like to tell Locke that
“Highway 6 runs both ways” and
ask if he has considered being a
student at Berkeley or t.u.
William L. Schwethe ’69
Our public colleges and junior
colleges are financed by all tax
payers, including those with low
income. If we double college tu
ition, we shut the doors in the
face of thousands of young people
while continuing to take their tax
money to pay for the education
of richer students.
The answer is not higher stu
dent costs that fence out young
people from college. The answer
lies in universal education, giving
every qualified Texan a chance to
reach his full potential.—Sen.
Ralph Yarborough (D-Tex.)
Perry was awarded a red seal,
symbolic of an outstanding solu
tion to a parklet design problem.
A parklet, an official said, is a
small park.
Another student 'in the third-
year class project at A&M, J. G.
Lewis of El Paso, was named to
travel with a team circulating
solutions among participating uni-
versitie,s.
“Our people submitted six en-
tries,” said Professor Robert
White. “The problem, authored
by a Penn State professor, was
for a parklet site in State Col-
lege, Pa.”
White said the 28 entries by
A&M, Iowa State, Washington,
Oregon and Minnesota universi
ties, probably will be displayed
next spring at A&M.
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