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CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle “Regulation or not, I’m wearing this till the weather settles down!” ON OTHER CAMPUSES By MONTY STANLEY Happy ’69. If only there were words to describe what a erroove it is to return from Christmas in California to Finals at A&M. But rest assured there aren’t. ★ ★ ★ The only news j received at the Batt office has consisted of pa pers out just be fore the holidays, so don’t expect to be really snowed today. The only big- news came from Tarrant County Junior Col lege, and it’s sad. It looks like their rodeo club may disband at mid-semester. It seems the presi dent of the club is quitting school to join the Air Force, while the vice-presidents have jobs which will keep them from participat ing. ★ ★ ★ There is a ray of hope from Austin, however. Editor of the Daily Texan, Merry Clark, in her typically dynamic journalistic style, has promised to fearlessly press the important issues in the new year. Flowering her editori als with her favorite dynamic ex pressions such as “the editor hopes,” “the editor especially hopes,” “the editor prepared this list,” and “the editor believes,” the editor of the Daily Texan in deed presses on. ★ ★ ★ It was reported earlier that at Texas Tech, the fall ’69 semester would start the last week of Aug ust to complete the semester be fore Christmas. The same propo sal has now been made at Texas, but is meeting heavy opposition from the faculty. The new sche dule would eliminate those nine remaining school days between Christmas vacation and semester break. These protesting profs say that time is needed to allow the students time to get into an “in tellectual frame of mind before exams.” Honest, straight out of the Daily Texan. How’s that for a grabber? That’s what we all said to ourselves as we excused ourselves after the turkey dinner to finish up that term paper, isn’t it? “Boy, it’ll be good to get back to school and get back into the proper ‘frame of mind’ for my fi nals !” It really makes one feel sorry for the students at those schools like the University of Oregon, the University of Cali fornia, or the University of Wash ington, all on the quarter system, who are forced to leave school for Christmas with their work completed, and who are then forced to start off the new year fresh, with a new school term. ★ ★ ★ A more accurate description of this lame-duck semester period we’re in now came from a girl at TWU, who called the session a “2% week hangover of the Old Year into the New.” ★ ★ ★ Students and faculty members at North Texas claim their brand new University Theater is already haunted. Several said they have heard voices calling for help through air - conditioning ducts and have seen locked doors open. Tonight On KBTX 6:00 News, Weather & Sports 6:30- Wild Wild West 7:30 Comer Pyle 8:00 TX Friday Night Movie “Mister Cory” 10:00 News, Weather & Sporis 10:30 Judd for the Defense 11:30 Alfred Hitchcock Coordinating Board Sees Big Growth In Education AUSTIN (A*) — Higher educa tion is already the largest indus try in Texas and it promises to double in the next 12 years, the Coordinating Board for the Texas College and University System reported Thursday night. The board, of 18 members, com pleting a three-year survey of Texas education, presented its re port to legislative and executive leaders of Texas. “The average citizen has no idea of the magnitude of higher education,” board Chairman John Gray of Beaumont said. “ALTHOUGH higher education is already the largest industry in Texas, it promises to double in the next 12 years. Enrollment in public colleges and universities will increase by 102 per cent, and private institutions will grow by 34 per cent.” Gray said enrollment in higher education facilities will increase from 375,000 in 1969 to 707,800 in 1980. To care for this growing mass of student population. Gray said, will take by 1975, a total of $401, 400,000 in federal, state and local funds for additional public facili ties, and about $404 million in state funds annually for educa tional programs. THE BLUEPRINT for progress outlined by the board used three basic points in its plan. It is de signed to (1) care for the rapidly increasing growth in enrollment, while (2) providing a rising level of excellence in higher education, in (3) the most efficient and ef fective methods possible. The blueprint divides the high er education system in three com ponent groups—community junior colleges, senior colleges with pro gram expansion possibilities through first-level graduate of ferings, and complex universities with program jurisdiction over doctoral-level graduate work and post-baccalaureate education for the professions. THE BOARD recommended ere- McCarthy Yields Membership On Foreign Relations Panel WASHINGTON <A>> —- In a surprise move, Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, D-Minn., surrendered Thursday the Senate Foreign Re lations Committee seat that had given added drive to his all-out assault on the administration’s Vietnam policies. And he turned it over to one of the Senate’s foremost hawks— Sen. Gale McGee, D-Wyo. McCarthy’s official explana tion, read by his office, was that he wanted to facilitate a reduc tion in the committee size and allow Senate Democratic leaders to keep a pledge to restore Mc Gee. THE STATEMENT did not cover why McCarthy, in view of his strongly held views on the war, would give up the highly prestigious forum on interna tional affairs to a successor who has solidly backed the Vietnam military effort. McCarthy, a Minnesota Demo crat, made a long, hard-fought battle for the Democratic presi dential nomination on an anti war platform. After he lost the nomination to Vice President Hubert H. Hum phrey, McCarthy said he would continue to air his anti-war views. HE INDICATED he woul util ize the foreign relations post as a principal forum. In an llth-hour, lukewarm en dorsement of Humphrey for pres ident, McCarthy said he would not again seek the Democratic nomination for president nor run for re-election to the Senate as a Democrat in 1970. He has since given no further hint of his political plans. McCarthy’s decision to give up his committee assignment follow ed a decision of the Democratic Steering Committee to reduce the foreign-relations panel from 19 to 15 members. THAT WAS a significant vic tory, overshadowed by the Mc Carthy development, for Commit tee Chairman J. W. Fulbright, D- Ark. Fulbright argued, against heavy pressure of senators want ing to fill the five vacancies open on the panel at 19 members, that it had become too unwieldy for effective operations. At 15 members, the committee will have nine Democrats and six Republicans. McGee served briefly on the pan el in 1965-66. He was dropped when the Democrats lost a seat because of Republican gains in the 1966 elections, but was prom ised the first vacancy. ation of 53 community junior col lege regions, each an area where most of the community junior col lege students will come and where at least one junior college district is feasible during the next 20 years. The board also recommends cre ation of six new senior colleges — four-year institutions in San An tonio and Houston and upper-di vision colleges in Midland-Odessa, Corpus Christi, Dallas, and Hous ton. Other senior college recommer- dations call for stabilization ot enrollments in existing institu tions and acceptance by the Uni versity of Texas System board of regents of the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies in Dallas. THE COORDINATING board recommends establishment of new medical schools in Houston and Lubbock, and increased enroll ments at existing facilities. Establishment of a new dental school at San Antonio was recom mended along with state help in expansion of Baylor University College of Dentistry to ease the dental problem. 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I’ve got my interview set between computer lab and econ hurry up bus I’ll be late for class wonder if Alcoa’s doing anything about traffic jams I read somewhere they’re solving rapid transit problems and helping explore the seas and outer space and working with packaging and automotive applications So when I go in I’ll tell it like it is—for me and they’ll tell it like it is— for them Straight questions—straight answers and they won’t care if the bus is a little late Get together with Alcoa: Sxceller **.30 p. 1964 Power : FEBRUARY 18 An Equal Opportunity Employer A Plans for Progress Company Change for the better with Alcoa GJ ALCOA I Ze A1 71 \IV I M ■ 331 THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student icriters only. The Battalion is a non-tax-supported, ?wn- profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. 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