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Battalion Editorials Page 2 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1S52 A New Suggestion For Kyle Field Seating JTiHE STUDENT SENATE labored for many hours trying to decide on a seating ar rangement for A&M students in Kyle Field. Result: It didn’t work. Not because their collective ability was unsatisfactory for com ing up with a suitable solution, but the area designated for A&M students is not large enough to “seat” the people who try to find room there. Anyone who so desires may go into that student section, no matter what his ticket stub says. Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, friends, enemies, and other people who ac company A&M students to their section may stay there. The main violator in the section is the former student who comes back to be with his Aggie buddies in the senior section. If the section is so crowded w© can’t get all our students and their dates in, who is going to go? You can’t require freshmen to sit under Kyle Field and listen to the game on radios, • Too many men are out in the hack yard looking for four-leaf clovers when opportun ity knocks at the front door.—Forum Please Pay The Electricity Bill! |>LACKOUT AREA: That’s the new name ** for the upperclassmen dormitory area. For some unannounced reason, the street lights in that section of the campus have been off for several days. Not that we great big “he-men” are afraid of the dark, it’s just a little discour aging to stumble around in the dark while walking down a sidewalk or when looking for a car in the parking lot. Won’t somebody please pay the electric bill so we can have lights again? • Our job is to save America for ourselves and our ivay of life. The sold of that way of life is the supremacy a,nd freedom of the individual in a state organized to serve him, not to enslave him.—Basil C. Walker. Headlines Tell Story? OFADING NEWSPAPERS from different papers present startling revelations. We however, are happy to say that neith er of the following two articles will appear soon in your paper: From the Purdue Exponent: Dean Of Men Releases Rules About Women Being In Fraternities From the personal want ad section of the UCLA Daily: “Will the blond young lady who wore sun glasses Thursday morning (besides other things) be in the cafeteria between 11 and 12 a. m.?” Do you know why? they have a right to be in the student sec tion. Why then, should a former student who has purchased a seat in another part of the stadium, crowd out a senior from his right ful place in the senior section? It happens at every game, and each time it gets just a little worse. At each game the A&M student section gets a little more crowded. The practical solution we see to provide adequate space for all students and their dates is to place strict regulations on who is allowed in the Aggie section. If a student buys his mother a date ticket, then that’s a different story. The main thing that harms our student section is the person who buys an end zone ticket and then looks for a place in the student section before the corps stu dents march in. He can at least get a seat on the 40 yard line. Why can’t the Student Senate require every person who sits in that section to show proper identification to justify his being there ? A corps student’s uniform would be his admission to the student section, while a non-corps man could easily, and quickly show an ID card. This proposition would cause a little ex tra trouble, but in our estimation it is the practical solution to the crowded situation which prevailed in Kyle Field Saturday. o In essentials, Unity. In non-essentials, Freedom. In all things, Charity.—Lincoln. Politeness to superiors is duty—to equals Inebriation: A Great Tradition? 66O0ME MAY boast with prowess bold, of ^ the school they think so grand—” Khat’s so grand about dozens of drunken Aggies trying to take part in the great tra dition of Midnight Yell Practice? Perhaps some seniors should quit worry ing about how loud the juniors yell and sober each other up before they go to yell practice. • “ our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in lib erty ”—Lincoln. Adlai 9 Ike—Phooey COMETIMES WE wish neither Eisenhower ^nor Stevenson were running for the pres idency. If you should see the way the Democrat’s and GOP’s propaganda is thrown on the promenade floors in the MSC you would too. • courtesy—to inferiors nobleness.—Franklin Men fail through lack of purpose rather than through lack of talent.—Billy Sunday The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions “Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, is published by students four times a week, during the regular school year. Dui'ing the summer terms, and examina tion and vacation periods. The Battalion is published twice a week. Days of publication are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, and Tuesday and Thursday during examination and va cation periods and the summer terms. Subscription rates $6.00 per year or $.50 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Entered a9 second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Tex as under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870. 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Co-Editors Ed Holder ; Sports Editor Harri Baker City Editor Peggy Maddox Women’s News Editor Today’s Issue Jerry Bennett News Editor Chuck Neighbors Assistant News Editor Gus Becker Sports News Editor Jerry Bennett, Bob Hendry, Joe Hipp, Chuck Neighbors, Bob Selleck News Editors Gus Becker Associate Sports Editor Vernon Anderson, Bob Boriskie, William Buckley, Arnold Damon, Robert Domey. Allen Hays. Joe Hladek, Bill Foley. Ed Fries, Raymond Gossett, Carl Hale, Jon Kinslow, H. M. Krauretz, Jim Larkin, Steve Lilly, Kenneth Livingston, Clay McFarland, Dick Moore, Ro land Reynolds, John Moody, Bob Palmer, B}H Shepard, and Tommy Short Staff Nev.^ Writers Joe B. Mattel Editorial Writer Jerry Wizig, Jerry Neighbors, Hugh Philippus Gerald Estes Sports News Writers Jerry Bennett. Bob Hendry Amusements Jon Kinslow, Ed Fries City News Editors Willson Davis Gene Ridell, Perry Shepard. . Bob Godfrey Bob Selleck, Leon Boettcher Keith Nickle, Roddy Peeples. Garder Coliins Tbelton McCorcle Circulation Manager Advertising Representatives Photo Engraving Shop Manager Photo-Engravers Staff Photographers File Clerk Staff Cartoonist The Aggie-Nizer Aggies Fool UK As Well As Selves By JOEL AUSTIN Battalion Sports Editor The A&M-Kentucky game is long forgotten by the Ag gies by now, but the three-week-old meeting with that South eastern Conference school is still a matter of discussion around the Lexington, Ky. campus. The Kentuckians were favorably impressed with the con duct of A&M students at the game, in fact so impressed they have used that game as a means of trying to arouse a little school spirit among their own students. Evidently these long-time practices of the Aggies is something not often found around other campuses in the United States. Perhaps A&M is finally gaining the recog nition it has so long deserved for Sportsmanlike practices. A lead editorial in the Kentucky Kernel said recently : Students Put to Shame WIN OR LOSE—Carrying the football players off Kyle Field Saturday, A&M students again displayed one of their many sportsmanlike traditions—win, lose, or draw. (Staff photo by Wilkerson.) LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Civilian’s Views Attacked by Corps “Students at Texas A&M put UK to shame last week even though the Wildcats came home with a win after fighting off the hard - driving Texas team right down to the last five seconds of the game. “We’ve nothing but praise for the football team—they racked up one of the finest performances of any UK team ever—but the school spirit and sportsmanship displayed by the host school certainly con trasted vividly with past perform ances by UK rooters here at home. “Down at Texas A&M, an all male school, the students march into the game in a body .... At the kick-off, the A&M students rise to their feet and stay there until the game is over. Then win or lose, they sweep down on the field in a body and carry both teams off on their shoulders. “At Stoll Field the picture in somewhat different. Dressed to the teeth in their latest tea dresse^ and drape suits, our docile rooters file in, accompanied by the inevi table bottles and the frame of mind that makes for frequent display^ of poor sportsmanship.” Editors, The Battalion: Concerning the letter which ap peared in The Battalion on Oct. 16, we wouldl like to correct some of Mr. Terk’s unfounded criticism. In the letter Mr. Terk stated that his non-regs had only 5 out of 40 places in the Student Senate. Well, well, Mr. Terk, the senior class held an election two weeks ago in which there were 48 seniors in the running for the class’ 15 places. Not one of them was a non-reg senior, although all members of the senior class, both corps and non-reg, were eligible. This is a zero percentage participation on the part of the senior non-i'egs. Fewer than two dozen non-reg seniors voted in the election at all. The Class of ’53 held its initial meeting of the year two weeks ago in the MSC and only two non-regs came. Approximately 450 members of the class attended this meeting, Mr. Terk, this is a participation persentage of less than one half of one per cent. Mr. Terk, how can you expect to be given more repre sentation in the senate if you don’t show any more interest than has been shown by the non-regs up to now this year? From our meager experience in this life we’ve found out that it is very seldom you get something for nothing, so in the future Mr. Terk try to get the non-regs to participate in class meetings, elec tions and so on, and we think that you’ll find that it will bring re sults. Gene Sparks ’53 C. M. “Red” Scott ’53 R. M. Zeek ’53 Willie East ’53 William S. Thornton ’53 Seating Completed Editors, The Battalion: From a letter in Thursday’s Battalion, we learn that Roger Tei-k and his non-reg buddies have many complaints. However, there is one thing they have no cause to despair over, and that is the seat ing arrangement at home football games. When the first cadet unit moves into Kyle Field, the senior section is already packed with non-mili tary students. Here’s hoping that the Student Senate sets aside a section for corps seniors only at their next meeting!! Joe A. Riddle ’53 (Editor’s note: For Mr. Rid dle’s information, the senate did establish a separate section for non-corps seniors last Thursday, the day Mr. Terk’s letter was published in The Battalion.) (Perhaps we could compare this statement with the yell practice last friday night. The Aggies would rank about the same, from their inebriated appearance at our great tra ditional gathering at mid-night before a home game.) “At the kick-off our would-be sophisticates look at one another and chew over the latest campus gossip. They rise to their feet only to boo a referee who has ruled against UK. Needless to say, the gentleman in the striped shirt is almost always right. “During the game, UK’s ‘looks only’ cheerleaders lounge grace fully on their pretty blue blanket. When a time is about over, they languorously get np and half heartedly beg the student body to struggle through an out-dated, un exciting cheer . . . ’ “ The football players landed at Blue Grass airport last Sunday afternoon and were met— not by a cheering crowd of stu dents that had been told when and where to meet the team to welcome them back—but by empty runways. “In our opinion no one group can be blamed for UK’s shame — it falls equally on the lackadaisical members of Suky, the inept cheer leaders, and the prideless students.” Football Captain Speaks a .11 ® Ty . ♦ The paper wasn’t the only official source of lambasting AtHietlC llCpia the Kentucky students received. Their football captain, John 4 Griggs, had a few words to say: Editors, The Battalion: This letter is directed to officials of the Athletic Department . . . Dear Sirs: Your present system of selling tickets to the students of A&M seems to be in a terrible shape. It is # a very pleasant feeling, after standing in line to purchase tickets, to hear the sales girl say “Sorry, we can’t cash a check for students.” Considering the facts, it just shows the cooperation the students have with the department. How many seats does Kyle Field contain ? A mere 40,000 seats in our stands. With 40,000 sedts in our stadium and four home games played here with approximately 27,500 people attending each game makes your net income from the football games near the following: 4.000 students at $1.20 ($ 1,200) 1.000 dates at 3.60 ( 3,600) 250 wives at 1.20 ( 3,300) 22,000 others at 3.50 ( 79,200) Total $ 84,300 per game Times 4 (home games) “I was very much impi^ssed with the spirit, enthusiasm, and sports manship shown by the Texas A&M students at the football game when we played there last week. I had heard much about their cheering section beforehand, it being re ferred to as the ‘12th man’ on A&M’s football team, but I actual ly had no conception of its true strength until I saw and heard with my own eyes and ears. “From a player’s standpoint, I can vouch for the fact that such a cheering section has a very strong psychological effect on the visit ing team. “At A&M, the entire student body (6,000 students) is required to be at the game an hour before game time, and the yelling starts before either team takes the field. Believe me, the yells are deafening and are at a perfection. They hav. yell practices for the entire stu dent body through the week, and they really take pride in theii' cheering. “As soon as the final whistle of the game is blown, their student body comes leaping out of the sta dium and converges on the playing field. Not only do they carry the entire team off the field on their shoulders, win or lose, but the vis iting players also get a boost to their shoulders and are carried off. “The conduct of the A&M plajf- ers was equally as sportsmanlike as the student body. In all my years of football, I don’t think I have ever played in a cleaner foot ball game.” Which Way Twelfth Man? Total $337,200 (home games) These figures may contain some error, but to the best of our know ledge they do not. Although we (See LETTERS, Page 5) This praise is certainly well deserved by members of the A&M student body, but perhaps only for that game in particular. It seems as though we are begin ning to lose our interest in the true meaning of the Twelfth Man by coming to yell practice so fill ed with spirit of a kind other than displayed at football games. Mid-night yell practice Friday was a disgrace to A&M’s Twelfth Man and more like it could lead to the discontinuance of this fine old tradition. Must we load ourselves with liquor to be in condition to yell? We would like to hear more praise such as what the Kentuck ians had to say. Which way will our Twelfth Man go? P O G O Poeo 15 HAP A GREAT I PEA.... W mvrsA <JOF AS A PARK fjords'* CAA6P/PAT0S Poeo GOT R4CKEE5 By Walt Kelly