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COLLEGE STATION — The
young people crouch with hands on
knees, and strain their chins for
ward. Tradition says this peculiar
stance will make their voices lower,
louder and more fearsome.
They are the Texas Aggies.
And they now assert that Texas
A&M University is in the top 20
in the nation in nearly everything,
not just the sport of football for
which the cheer is designed.
Research
“Texas A&M has gone from a pos
ition of being a fairly small school in
terms of research 20 years ago to the
research leader of the South and
Southwest,” said Dr. Richard E.
Wainerdi, assistant vice-president
for academic affairs. “This school
does more research in dollar volume
than any school in the South or
Southwest.”
Texas A&M performed more than
$39 million in research last year —
$2 million more than the year before
when the National Science Founda
tion ranked A&M 18th in the nation
in the value of research.
With expanded research and the
admission of women, enrollment
has nearly doubled in the past five
years to its present 25,247 students.
“Our growth is stupendous,” said
Wainerdi, noting that enrollment
this fall was up 3,748 students — or
17 per cent — from a year earlier.
Growth
The turning point from cow col
lege to sophisticated university was
in 1963, says Edwin H. Cooper,
who in 19 years has risen to dean of
admissions.
In 1963, the Aggies changed their
name from the Agricultural and
Mechanical College of Texas to
Texas A&M University; began pre
parations to admit women for the
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first time; and made plans to drop
mandatory participation in military
training — the Cadet Corps.
Aggie administrators say that
while the university is growing, it’s
also attracting better students. In
cluded in the student body this year
are 148 national merit scholars, 19
more than last year when the school
ranked 17th nationally in enroll
ment of the high-achievement stu
dents.
The university was established as
a land grant college in 1876 to teach
the agricultural and mechanical
arts. Most of its students still enroll
in these or related fields.
“I would think that in agriculture,
Texas A&M would move from its
present position, which is about
third in most categories in America,
to first in all of them. President
Jack K. Williams said.
“In Texas, we have clearly the
greatest opportunity for agribusi
ness of any state in the nation.
A growing number of students
has been attracted to the new
marine studies program. In 1971,
Texas A&M became one of four Sea
Grant colleges in the nation, and
now has its “campus at sea aboard a
ship.
Funds
1 he school ranks ninth nationally
in gifts received from all sources,
and fifth in support from business
and corporate sources. Financial
support from former students ranks
fourth nationally.
One former student is Wofford
Cain, an industrial giant from Dallas
and a 1913 graduate who Williams
estimates has contributed more
than $1 million in the past decade.
Aggie lore has it that after Cain,
now 83, gave a block of stock worth
$166,716 in 1972 to help build the
school s new athletic dormitory, a
University of Texas regent offered
to trade any 50 Texas ex-students for
one Wofford Cain.
There are more Wofford Cains,
said Williams.
Williams said the university will
receive up to $11 million a year in
such gifts and grants.
“That’s why it’s humorous to me
when people talk about how you
shouldn t have this or don t you
think that’s a little much, said Wil
liams. “. . . Great Scott, this is an
institution built by taxpayers, sure.
But the cream on top of the bottle
has been furnished by gifts, grants
from all kinds of friends.
Criticism came from some quar
ters earlier this year when a new
$1.4 million facility used for meet
ings of the A&M hoard of directors
first opened. Another $700,000
worth of furniture, artwork,
statuary and sterling silver and
china service was added.
But State Rep. Bill Presnal of
nearby Bryan, chairman of the pow
erful House Appropriations Com
mittee and an Aggie himself, said
the facility was needed to help rid
the university of its old image.
But some students — especially
those living in barracks-type dor
mitories — said the money could
have been spent more wisely.
Corps
The Corps makes up less than 10
per cent of the student body as
2,200 participate. There are 41
coeds in the Corps.
Army Col. Tom Parsons, com
mandant of the Corps, said making
the military training voluntary in
1965 may have made it better.
“I’d rather have somebody do
something because they are self-
motivated rather than because they
are forced, said Parsons, who
graduated from A&M in 1949.
Parsons says making the Corps
voluntary hasn’t hurt their ability to
produce officers for the Army, Air
Force, Navy, Marine Corps and
Coast Guard. Last year, 717 cadets
were in Army ROTC and 185 re
ceived Army commissions.
"We see the institution moving
towards 30,000 students," Williams
said, “. . . and I would frankly not
like to increase at more than 1,0(X)
per year.
"Guessing on student enroll
ments is somewhat like guessing on
football games, Williams said. “It
doesn t always work out.
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