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Women belong at A&M
Editor:
I respect and admire A&M’s many
traditions. They make the school
special in a very unique way. How
ever, certain traditions should not be
. allowed to exist. I’m referring to the
, tradition of male yell leaders.
Should a tradition exist that
excludes one-third of the school’s
enrollment? Should a tradition exist
that discriminates against a fellow
, Aggie?
The answer to these questions
should be an emphatic no! A&M has
changed in many ways with time but
some of its traditions have not.
Female Aggies should have the
same rights and privileges a§ male
Aggies. Namely, to show their spirit
and support of A&M in, I think, the
most visible way. That is, to be a yell
leader.
to the University and not a vital part
of it.
As long as this attitude exists,
there will never be a female yell
leader elected.
I realize that there is no university
ruling that prohibits females from
running for yell leader.
But, the people at A&M have the
attitude that women are an addition
The people at A&M need to
realize that women are here to stay.
Women at A&M should be accepted
in all aspects of the University. Trad
itions should not be allowed to dis
criminate against them.
Brenda Grissom
Readers’ forum
Former Czech prof gives reply
Editor’s note: Skrivanek was an as
sistant professor in the Modern
Languages Department and taught
Czech until he retired in 1975.
By JOSEPH J. SKRIVANEK
In the fall of 1974 I told Dean
Maxwell and Dr. Anne Marie
Elmquist, Department Head of
Modern Languages that upon my re
turn from Prague in the summer of
1975, I would retire from teaching.
The problem of securing a replace
ment did not appear to be a major
obstacle. She went to the Foreign
Languages Conference in New York
in 1974 and to another in California
in 1975. We talked about several in
terested applicants. You can imagine
my disappointment when one of my
Czech major graduates came to my
office in the Spring of 1975 and in
formed me that Czech was being ph
ased out and that he was asked to
phase it out during the 75-76 school
year!
Several TAMU students came to
see me last Friday night and brought
me copies of the Battalion in which
Dr. Elmquist had written an article.
Dean Maxwell one and another of
Messrs Prihoda and Koranek. In that
each article has some inaccuracies, I
would like to make the following cor
rections:
Article 1 — Dr. Elmquist: Her
first sentence “The four students
currently enrolled in Czech 204
(should be 228) are taking the last
course in Czechoslovakian that will
be offered at A&M.” She did not
explain that the decision to phase
Czech out had already been made a
year earlier, that advisors told stu
dents that Czech was not offered and
that the catalogue did not carry any
Czech courses. She also failed to
mention that while the Czech
courses declined after the death of
Dr. John M. Skrivanek in Dec. of
’72, that a 59% increase was made
the following year. Dr. Elmquist
also failed to mention that she called
me last fall stating that she had good
news for me — that Czech would be
continued if as many as 25 students
would be interested in taking Czech
127. I am told that a petition was
drawn up and 32 students signed it.
She also asked me to sponsor the
Prague Project this summer since
the new professor would be arriving
here too late. I told her that I would
not allow a program of this nature to
fall through because other univer
sities were interested in it. “Part of
the problem is that now you find
Czech at UT, the U of H, Texas Tech
and a variety of junior colleges.” I
find it hard to believe that Dr.
Elmquist would make such a state
ment. Wouldn’t this be even truer of
French, German and Spanish?
Perhaps, TAMU should not offer
foreign languages at all! In her sec
ond article. Dr. Elmquist gives en
rollment figures. She should have
added that the summer school en
rollments were: fifteen in each of
two courses in 1973, twenty in each
of two courses in 1974 and 25 in each
of two courses in 1975. In addition
scientific Czech, the only such
course to be offered in the United
States, was offered at TAMU.
In regard to Dean Maxwell’s arti
cle, April 30, 1976 “only by wide
spread promotional effort did we
succeed in attracting the 25 students
from across the nation to which
Messrs Prihoda and Koranek refer.’’
Dr. Maxwell was probably referring
to the Spanish, French and German
programs which began last year. I
say this because my students won
dered why the Czech program was
not mentioned in the promotional
articles sent to the newspapers from
the Department of Modern Lan-
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guages. Dr. Elmquist told me that
she did not feel like we needed the
“boost” because of our phenomenal
success in obtaining students for the
Prague Project. In 1973, we were
allowed to take 15 students; 23
applied. In 1974, we were allowed
20; 41 applied. In 1975, we were
allowed 25; 44 applied. I understand
that the Spanish project failed to
materalize; the German and French
projects had difficulty in finding the
required number of participants. On
the cost item. Dean Maxwell is about
correct in regards to the amount,
however, I would disagree on this
being an expensive or costly amount.
He also failed to mention that several
thousand dollars in tuition were paid
by the students to the University.
His statement that other universities
were not interested in the program
and that “one of the universitites
mentioned was prevailed upon to
continue the program” is simply not
true. Dr. Kochik from the Univer
sity of Nebraska was in Prague last
summer trying to work out some
thing with Charles University. In
the summer of ’74 a professor from
UT was in Prague, also interested in
bringing students to Czechos
lovakia. Regarding the Dean’s finan
cial resources statement, that they
are limited, is true, however, I want
to go on record that academic excel
lence should come first and it
doesn’t. I think that everyone will
agree that good things cost money.
We seem to have it for other things.
Please do not construe this as bit
terness or sour grapes. I like TAMU
and I have a lot of respect for men
like Dean Maxwell, but the minds of
reasonable men differ, and I do not
always agree with even a friend.
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DENVER — Anyone who had bet
last January that the Democratic
nomination battle would produce a
decisive winner before the Republi
cans made their choice could have
had any odds he wanted. But that is
just one of the surprises of this as
tonishing political year. And there
are undoubtedly more to come.
Jimmy Carter, the agent of so
many of the startling occurrences of
1976, was gracious enough last week
to concede that even he is amazed at
the speed with which the barriers to
his nomination had crumbled.
He said that he expected it to be a
two-man race by now, but thought
the opposition would remain intact
through the last set of primaries in
June.
fact that there is no escaping a battle
to the end with his opponent, Ronald
Reagan.
This unanticipated reversal of
roles makes it clear that the Democ
rats will have a far better chance of
electing a President in November
than even the optimists in the party
previously thought possible. The
Democrats have time for conciliation
and consolidation, while the much
smaller GOP may see its activist
ranks shattered by the sharpest civil
war since the Goldwater-Rockefeller
battle of 1964.
Instead, he has routed both favo
rite sons and active opponents and is
now left with only the oft-beaten
George Wallace and Morris Udall
and the untested Frank Church and
Jerry Brown by way of campaign ri
vals .
Meantime, after the Texas mas
sacre, President Ford knows for a
The Republican race has been,
from the beginning, a battle of in
cumbency vs. ideology. Mr. Ford
would never have been considered a
serious presidential possibility had
he not already been President. And
his main weapon in the primaries has
been his possession of office. By
selective use of patronage, by timely
shifts of policy and by exploitation of
the natural deference to an incum
bent, Mr. Ford was able to win a
series of victories by increasing mar
gins for New Hampshire through Il
linois.
But North Carolina cracked the
myth of presidential invincibility,
Wisconsin weakened it further and
Texas smashed it to smithereens.
Reagan, who for twelve years has
been the most effective spokesman
for the conservative ideology that
prevails inside the shrunken GOP,
has shown more than sufficient
strength to carry the battle to the
final day of primaries in California,
Ohio and New Jersey on June 8.
The odds still favor Mr. Ford in at
least two of those three states and his
victory at the convention. But it is
clear that even if he finally prevails,
he will need to make major conces
sions to the Reagan wing of the par
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ment. An incumbent Presidentru
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improving economy always hs
powerful claim to election.
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growing risk that the continuing
GOP civil war will leave the Repub
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supporters — in a weakened position
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