The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, March 31, 1950 Page: 6 of 6
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THE THRESHER
Pro and Con on Races
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geles Times has editorialized in de-
finite support of the board and the
oath
All UC employes who have not
signed the oath by April 30 will
forfeit their positions for the aca-
demic year beginning July 1, the
regents said
Negro Entry
PRO
The favorite whipping boy of Com-
munism throughout the world is
our discrimination against our own
citizens.
The strength of Texas and of the
nation depends on the strength and
contributions of all our citizens. Ob-
viously we are made weaker when
any segment of our population is
denied equal educational opportunity.
Some who oppose admitting Ne-
groes to the University on any basis
claim that to do so "would result
in great harm to the University."
They like to leave the impression
that some great disaster would occur
the moment Negroes were admitted.
This is not the case.
We should remember that any
Negroes who are admitted to the
University would have to be educa-
tionally qualified as well as fin-
ancially able.
We should not make the mistake
in thinking that Negroes want to
associate closely with us any more
than we want to associate closely
with them
V few of us might feel a little
uneasy in class with a Negro for
the first time; no doubt some of us
would be gratified that Texas had
finally taken this step. But many
students do not seem to care too
much one way or another. They
would accept the change as a mat-
ter of course in the democratic pro-
cess.
We should not make the ,v ery
grave mistake of forcing our state
to subsidise a new educational in-
stitution with supposedly equal fa-
cilities every time a single Negro
applies for admission to a different
branch of the University.
If this were carried to its extreme,
il would mean that Texas would
eventually have to provide a medical
school, a dental school, an engineer-
ing school, a school of mines, a
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school of pharmacy, a school of lib-
rary science, a school of journalism,
a graduate school with work leading
to a doctorate, and all others avail-
able to us now, but not to Negroes.
It requires no stretch of the ima-
gination to realize that even Texas,
a phenomenally rich state, cannot
afford all these costly additions (es-
pecially for comparatively few quali-
fied Negroes who would apply). And
nothing less would meet the legal
requirements as they now stand.
CON
A majority or even an appreciable
minority voting for admittance would
have a most decided effect on the
members of the Legislature when
the University appropriations are
decided upon next session. A large
number of the Legislators are al-
ready antagonistic toward the Uni-
versity and would like nothing bet-
ter than to cripple our appropria-
tions. Many of the members of the
Legislature are for splitting the
University of Texas Permanent Fund
and this might well serve as their
excuse.
An affirmative vote would have
disasterous ramifications among the
people of the State. Alumni would
lose interest and withdraw support
from this University. The people of
Texas are for segregation and will
not support or be friendly toward
any individual or group of individ-
uals advocating the immediate doing
away with segregation.
The University of Texas is a good
school and we want to keep it thai
way. We attend this University by
choice, and we would be ungrateful,
indeed, if we did not have guts
enough to stand up and defend the
school of our choice against those
who would want to exact an affirma-
tive vote on an issue which was
brought up, and is being pushed, in
order to influence the outcome of
the Sweatt case now pending before
tre Supreme Court of the United
States. ^,
Those familiar with the way the
Legislature acts and what motivates
those actions will tell you that an
affirmative vote would put the Uni-
versity in grave danger of an ap-
propriation cut. Although this might
Seem to be inequitable and a faulty
line of reasoning on their part, this
is the way they act.
Jf you, the students, feel that the
future appropriations and the reten-
tion of fhe University's permanent
fund are more important to you than
an affirmative vote in this matter,
then you should VOTE NO.
Texan Editorial
The fires were banked Tuesday.
But now they will not be fed with
what easily could have been a record
number of ballots in a student ref-
erendum.
For a month the fuel for dis-
cussion on the question of whether
Negroes should be admitted to the
University has come to a large ex-
tent-from the Texan. We offer no
apology for the news stories and
editorial opinion that have fanned
those fires.
The story of the referendum has
trickled over the nation: A Texan
and Oaths Surprising Baylor
traveled from California to his home Cagers Lose Oit
state recently. He called his son ■ UA1 M P1!^
at the University to tell him that III RvMA I IRwIS
he heard of the referendum .11 dur- The Baj,lor reprMentin,
ing the trip. From the offices of Time the s00thwest SMtlon ln th„ pjCAA
magazine to the offices of college pl,y0„s this past WMk^n4, Mra,
newspapers in North Carolina and ..
. mighty close to pulling the upset
Wisconsin, the Texas referendum of the year> The Green and Gold
has been discussed. quint disposed of Brigham Young
This editorial today—if there were Friday night, 65-55, and came within
a vote—would have said: two points of walking away with all
"The issue is not Communism or
Dixiecratism. It is not the effect
on the Sweatt Case or on the stu-
dent's personal convictions."
The Texan would have asked all
students to vote their conscience.
Today we ask that some students
examine their consciences.
the marbles, losing to highly rated
Bradley, 68-66, Saturday night. A
last gasp rally won for the Bruins
against the Cougars from Utah, but
another such rally fell short in the
Brave battle.
Baylor achieved the impossible, al-
most, against Brigham Young. The
Bruins were behind four point* witb
thirty seconds to go. Heathingten
made it 54-62, Gerald Cogg, s re-
serve who hit 11 points in 9 Con-
ference games but who tallied 10
in the two tourney games, tied it
up, and then put in a free toss to
make it 55-54. After the Cougars had
tied it up, Heathington put in the
winning free toss.
Against the Braves, the Bruins
didn't quite make it. They had it
tied at 55-all, but their counter-
punch, after Bradley took a com-
manding lead, just didn't pay eff
with another knockout.
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