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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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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men. He said that at the first
meeting a resolution had been
passed to have a Fish Weekend
this year, instead of just a Fish
Ball.
This would mean, Vickers said,
that there would be activities Fri
day night and Saturday as well
as the formal dance Saturdejr
night.
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
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