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THE BATTALIONPage 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, April 7, 1965
System Reorganization A Benefit To A&M
Arlington offered A&M little. James Connally Technical Institute offers much. ;• -r
Arlington has its divorced' partner to thank for its $2 million engineering plant, $2 million science building and equipment, $1.4 million library and $757,000 central heating and cooling plant.
It has A&M to thank for its four-year college status. But Arlington is unappreciative. It wanted a divorce and it got it.
G.A.D.
if she doesn’t give it to you...— get it yourself!
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EDITOR ........... -........... .............................. ...........................RONALD L. FANNManaging Editor ....... ..................... ..................... ...... ............ Glenn DromgooleSports Editor....................................................... ...... .................... Lani PresswoodDay News Editor ............................... ................... ......................... Mike Reynolds
CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle EXPECT EARL Y PASSA GE
The Texas A&M System still has the same number of institutions, but the structure has changed.
Arlington State has withdrawn from the network and a state vocational-technical school has been proposed to replace it.
Weighing all the evidence, it appears to be a good swap for A&M because:
1. The vocational school will be the best of its kind in the South. Arlington will remain a second-rate college.
2. The vocational school will not drain the System budget. Arlington did. Since 1958, $21 million in bond funds have been appropriated by the A&M Board, of which Arlington received $6,423,141.59 or slightly more than 30 per cent. A&M’s share during this same period was $7,515,000.
3. The vocational school will perform a definite need by training skilled and semi-skilled laborers for Texas, adding much to the economy of the state. Arlington will remain a sectional school, perhaps contributing to Dallas-Fort Worth industry but not having as great an impact on the overall employment picture.
4. The vocational school has the potential of nationwide reputation. How many non-Texans have even heard of Arlington ?
5. The vocational school will fit into A&M’s program. A&M’s engineering prowess can be applied with advantage at the James Connally Technical Institute. Arlington did not desire a prominent spot in the System picture, as evidenced by their constant bickering and their divorce suit.
6. The vocational school will receive full legislative support, since it will be created by that body. That means more funds freely given the A&M System.
7. The vocational school will add $41 million to the System assets. Arlington was a leach on the A&M bank book—taking all it could, but contributing little.
8. The vocational school offers a challenge to the state of Texas. Arlington offered little challenge to anyone.
James Connally Technical Institute, to be named after an Aggie-ex who was killed in Japan in 1945, is the answer to an education problem.
With the unemployment situation growing ever more grave, this institution has the opportunity and responsibility to train persons who might otherwise add to the unemployment rolls.
Gov. Connally has emphasized, as has President Johnson, the necessity of education in relieving the poverty- stricken and the unemployment problem.
Not everyone has the ability or desire to attain a college or university education, however. The vocational school would give these persons training in a skilled or semi-skilled field.
It would furnish technicians, draftsmen, inspectors and aides for general industry, business, engineering and construction industry, medical laboratories, hospitals, research labs and airlines.
It would offer adult education programs in such fields as supervisory and management training, special skills and safety education.
A&M has lost a nagging wife and gained a blushing bride.
Senate Debate Opens TodayOn LBJ9s School Aid Bill
WASHINGTON UP) — The Senate will open debate Wednesday on the administration’s $1.3 billion precedent - setting school aid bill. The Senate Labor Committee approved it unanimously Tuesday without change.
Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana set his sights on getting the high-priority measure passed by the Senate and sent to President Johnson this week in the exact form the House passed it March 26.
The committee followed the President’s wishes in rejecting all amendments to the bill, which is aimed at improving educational opportunities for deprived children in grade and high schools — both public and private.
“It’s not what you think—he’s wearing Bermuda shorts!”
Although Republicans on the committee went along in voting for the measure after their amendments were knocked down, they said they would try to win approval for those and others on the Senate floor. All members of the committee re-
A Ph.D. Degree in 6 Years?Cornell Plan Begins Soon
By Intercollegiate PressIthaca, N. Y. — Exceptional
students will be able to earn a Ph.D. degree six years after entering college in an experimental program beginning at Cornell University next fall. President James A. Perkins announced recently that the University has received a $2.2i million grant from the Ford Foundation to support the unique 10-year pilot program.
President Perkins also said Cornell will provide close to $1 million for the program which will enable a student to receive a bachelor’s degree in three years, a master’s in four, and a Ph.D. in six. Each year, 40 exceptional students will be admitted into the program to be conducted by Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences.
Stuart M. Brown, dean of the College, said participating students will be selected from the nation’s most talented high school seniors. “They are the same sort of exceptional students who now
piece together their own accelerated program, often to the detriment of their liberal education. By challenging them according to their ability, we expect they will reach the same level of intellectual maturity in six years that most students achieve in eight or more.”
The Ph.D. program is intended to eliminate “the two periods in the education of an exceptional student when his mind is standing still, unchallenged,” the dean said. “The first is the freshman
year, when he takes survey and introductory courses, largely covering subjects he examined closely in high school. The other period is the first year of graduate school when courses often are only slightly more advanced than those covered in his senior year of college.”
The Cornell program will not require summer study, increase the student’s course load or force specialization at the expense of liberal education, Dean Brown explained.
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WEDNESDAYHillel Club will meet at 7:30
p.m. at the foundation building. Next Year’s officers will be elected.
Semper Fidelis Society will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 104 of the Biological Sciences Building.
THURSDAYAmerican Ordnance Associa
tion will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the main lobby of the Memorial Student Center.
El Paso Hometown Club will meet in Room 3-C of the MSC.
Beaumont Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Academic Building.
Houston Hometown Club will
meet at 7:45 p.m. in Room 202 of Francis Hall.
Brazoria County Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 225 of the Academic Building. Tickets for the Easter party will be sold.
Animal llusbandry Wives Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 203 of the Animal Industries Building to elect officers.
Rio Grande Valley Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 108 of the Academic Building.
San Antonio Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Social Room of the MSC.
Galveston Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 3-A of the MSC.
QTotonHall
Presents
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G. Rollie White Coliseum 8 P. M., Tuesday, April 13
Season Activity Cards Honored For This Performance
General AdmissionA&M Students — $2.50, Date Tickets — $1.00 Faculty & Staff — $2.50Public School Age Students and under — $1.00 Other Patrons.............................................. $2.50
served the right to vote for changes.
There seemed no doubt that the bill will win Senate passage, in view of past votes supporting broad school aid. The big hurdle was the House — which for the first time in its history has approved such aid.
Indications were that Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Ore., educational subcommittee chairman who will manage the measure, can guide it to passage within two days of debate. But this could stretch out if Senate consideration is interrupted by a full- fledged debate on Viet Nam which is brewing.
Sponsors estimate that more than 90 per cent of the 25,000 school districts in the nation will receive funds under the legislation.
portunities for children whose families' incomes are $2,000 a year or less.
Dominick wants the allocation formula changed to give a proportion to low-income states, such as Alabama.
As the bill stands, the money would be allocated at the rate of one-half the state’s average pet pupil costs for each child in the 5-17 age bracket from families with less than $2,000 annual income, and from families on the aid to independent children relief program even though their incomes exceed $2,000.
Other sections of the bill would authorize $100 million for purchase of books and other materials and $100 million for supplementary educational centers to provide services not now available.
Sen. Peter H. Dominick, R- Colo., pushed unsuccessfully his fight to change the formula for the key section of the bill $1.06 billion to improve education op-
Private school students, including those in parochial schools, could receive aid under the three sections only under prescribed conditions.
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