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The Battalion
Thursday Morning, April 18, 1946
Paddlefeet and Jocks Renew
Old Feud Over Muster Beds
Even Ripley wouldn’t believe it,
but between the students of the
college and the homefolks of Bra
zos county nearly five thousand
rooms have been made available
for Aggies coming home this week
end to celebrate the victory in
which they played a major role.
When the final home-comer is
bedded down next week-end, he
may be back in that four-to-a-room
jam which was so familiar in his
college days, or he might even be
bedded down in the college gym
nasium, under the football stadium
or in the horse-barns, but he will
have a bed . . . and that’s some
thing to a guy who a year ago
probably was sleeping in a fox
hole in the Philippines or Germany.
Advance reservations indicate
that the returning veterans want
to sleep in the dormitory where
they were housed while students.
Several early registrants specified
in their letter to the Association
of Former Students that they
wanted to bunk in their old rooms
in the various military organiza
tion dormitories, and hinted that
if an old cavalryman were found
holed-up in an infantryman’s old
stamping ground there would be
plenty of trouble in camp.
So the the committee in charge
has done its best to see that every
returning Texas Aggie gets home
coming quarters where he wants
theme. Of course, those who bring
their wives and families along will
be accomodated in residences and
dormitories equipped to handle
couples.
MEET YOUR CLASS BUDDIES
They’ll All Be Stopping At The
STUDENT CO-OP STORE
ED GARNER, ’38
Greetings
EX-AGGIES
from
Robert J. Butler, Mgr.
A. & M. PHOTO SHOP
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You’ll enjoy
YOUNGBLOOD’S BARBECUE
HICKORY SMOKED
Drive Out for a Quiet Meal
at the
Rockhouse — Midway — College Road
Cold Drinks We Make Our Sauce
Phone 2-8038 for Party Reservation
“Bull” Bows Out To Dean Rollins
A surprise to many of those re
returning to A. & M. is the fact
that the “Bull” is no longer in
charge of student discipline. The
successor to the Commandant and
his staff of Army officers and men
as regulators and disciplinarians
is the Office of Student Affairs,
housed in Goodwin Hall, and head
ed by J. W. “Dough” Rollins, for
mer Aggie football great and track
coach, now Dean of Men and Direc
tor of Student Affairs.
The essential difference between
the two plans of government is that
now the cadet corps is under civil
ians in all matters not pertaining
directly to military training, and
the military is responsible only for
drill and classroom instruction of
mlitary science and tactics.
The old-time Corps system is
back after a brief holiday during
the war years. For about two years
after the abolishment of senior
ROTC, the corps as such was, to
be blunt, in a mess. Lacking the
mature leadership of the senior
and junior classes, who had gone
off to war, the cadets were rele
gated to living in dorms with only
their classmates, and with a CQ
being imposed by army sergeants
on even the few seniors and juniors
who did remain. A concentrated
campaign to rid the campus of all
shreds of class distinction and
hazing was put into effect, with
the white fish stripe disappearing
from the sleeve of freshman for
the first time in decades.
Dissatisfaction with the state of
affairs rose to such a height that
the cadets staged a rebellion, of
much larger scope than the ’03 re
bellion, in an attempt to bring back
the corps system and all that it
entails. To a certain extent their
demands were granted, for in the
summer of 1944, outfits of in
coming freshmen were under the
command of juniors and seniors,
but still were closed to sophomores.
In the fall, conditions were some
what better, with sophs living in
some of the outfits.
But it was not until the end of
the war and beginning of the fall
semester of 1945 that the corps
system really returned. Then, un
der the direction of the newly-
created Office of Student Affairs,
all outfits were organized to in-
R. E. Schiller, a 1940 graduate
of Texas A. & M. College, has been
appointed instructor in the school’s
civil engineering department, it was
announed today.
Junior Dude Ranch
for girls 8-16
Idaho Springs, Colorado near
Denver
T.S.C.W. Student represents
San Maurice
offering chaperone service for
your child at no extra cost.
Interviews Last of April
Limited Enrollment
Write College Station, Box 2334
elude representation from every
class. An edict of the Board of Di
rectors, known as the Basic Policy,
stated the Freshman’s “Bill of
Rights” and forbade the violation
of his personal dignity, and is still
today the basis for all disciplinary
treatment of cadets.
Today you will find little differ
ence in the organization of the
cadet corps and its conduct from
what it was six years ago, with
the exception of hazing. There is
still class distinction, the fresh
man still undergoes the leveling
off treatment, the sophomore still
carries the same belligerent atti
tude, the junior still wears his
serge and says, “When we’re in
power . . . .”, and the senior still
commands the respect and awe for
his uniform, his rank and his re
sponsibility.
From all indications, the new Of
fice of Student Affairs will become
something which may be held as
the primary reason for the im
provement of student life. There are
plenty of problems yet to be solved,
and the general belief of those now
on the campus that by a spirit of
cooperation and understanding, ma
ny of them will be settled for the
common good, with the majority of
students and former students alike
in accord.
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105 E. 26th—Bryan Phone 2-2400
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