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Battalion Editorials
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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1953
Seniors Act
On Transfer
The senior class proved itself last night to
be one of the most selfish and disgraceful
groups to ever mar the campus of any col
lege.
Its move to take senior boots away from
transfer students who have not spent one
semester as a corps freshman, sophomore and
junior can never be looked upon with any
thing but shame.
The boots themselves are unimportant.
They can be purchased by anyone with
enough cash. It’s the belligerent attitude
combined with the ridicule and jeers which
the seniors showed their fellow students that
never will be forgotten. Their attitude last
night shows only one thing. The myth that
“all Aggies stick together” is nothing but a
farce.
The transfer students have been treated
as if they were so much trash. If any of
them have any love left for the cadet corps
after last night, they are better men than
their supposed “buddies” who insulted them.
The seniors set up themselves last night
as a master race. They turned on fellow
Seniors Pose
Posie Question
Gals who like to see flowers sprouting
from their evening dresses as well as in the
back yard had better start looking for more
fertile gardens if they plan to date Aggies
this year.
The senior class has referred a motion
that would do away with corsages to a spe
cial committee.
Some seniors feel that the custom of pre
senting the girl friend with a few posies has
gotta go. According to one senior, West
Point and Annapolis already have been spray
ed with this social DDT.
If the committee nods favorably at the
motion, a date’s dress at A&M will be as
bare of vegetation as the white sands of New
Mexico.
It’s too bad the gals have to suffer. If
the senior class has any weeding to do, it
might start trimming down some of its own
mistaken importance.
Disgra cefu l ly
Boot Decision
Aggies for nothing more than two pieces of
leather. They have shown in one mass gath
ering that just because they have spent three
years at A&M they think they are better than
anyone else. Such a tragic misconception
seldom is seen.
The seniors have done nothing but kick
men who have done just as much for the col
lege as any member of last night’s angry
mob. Transfer students have paid their
money to go to school here. Many have made
good records in their grades and activities
not only for themselves but for A&M.
A man’s college record is what his future
employer considers when the graduate applies
for a job. The business man is not interested
in whether the graduate has been hazed for
three years. *
If a transfer senior is enrolled in ROTC
and lives with the corps he should wear sen
ior boots. To deny him this is to discrim
inate against a man who will do as much as
anyone else in spreading A&M’s educational
value to the business and professional world.
When men try to discriminate against fellow
students who could bring praise to their
school, something is wrong.
They are placing something above the
school’s greatness, its value as an educational
institution. In this case it’s the cadet corps
and a pair of boots.
Members of the corps have never seemed
to realize this.
Their principal idea of an A&M educa
tion seems to be a three year ticket to a leath
er shop. They seem to think boots make
them superior.
If last night’s example is any indication
of the superiority a pair of boots gives a
senior, the transfer students should not care
whether they wear them or not.
Not enough can be said for another side
of the injustice. Several transfer students
already have bought their boots. What’s go
ing to be done about the money they’ve
spent ?
After the boot disgrace, one senior moved
that a campus beautification committee be
established. The senior class will need more
than this to’ clean up the mess it left last
night.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
About the Boots . . .
Dance Classes
Start Today
Registration begins today for
dance classes sponsored by the
Memorial Student Center.
This year’s program begins to
night and will include twelve les
sons instead of the ten offered last
year. Manning Smith again will in
struct classes.
The program will be highlighted
by two dances. The first will be the
regular formal Christmas dance,
and the other will be the “Sport’s”
dance just before Halloween.
The price this year to make up
for the larger number of classes
and to defray the cost of the bands
Will be $3.50, said Oscar Garcia,
chairman of the MSC dance com
mittee.
Any one interested may sign up
for the classes in the office of
Margaret Long, program consult
ant of the Center.
Co-Editors, The Battalio*:
To, Aggie Seniors:
I voted wrong last night. I was
a victim of a mass confusion that
seemed to overtake the entire
senior class. A selfish few don’t
want specific men to wear boots
and others have to suffer.
I consider myself “Ol Army” and
“Gung Ho.” I also consider myself
susceptible to mass hysteria, if I
can call it that. I do feel some re
sentment toward transfer students
who can come to A&M for one
year and wear boots that I have
worked for for three years. But,
last night—I voted wrong.
Think it over Aggies, are you
really against letting transfers
wear boots after three semesters at
A&M ? Does it really make any
difference whether they had one
semester freshman, one semester
sophomore and one semester junior
privileges ? In either case they
have been here three semesters.'
The reason they didn’t take
sophomore privileges is because
last year’s Seniors gave them jun
ior privileges after one semester as
a freshman. This is not a mistake
of the class of ’54.
Or is it our mistake ? In my out
fit last year we saw that it wasyi’t
the right thing to give transfers
the right to jump the sophomore
privileges. Those men know right
now where they stand. They didn’t
buy their boots.
You all know that this mess is
not solved yet. Let’s use our heads.
Nothing has been done that can’t
be revised if we want it revised. I
do. Others in the class of ’54 do.
Think about it, talk it over, then
discuss it as a class again. I still
say I am corps happy and I do feel
resentment of some kind towards
transfers, whether its right or
wrong.
But the class of ’54, my class,
can straighten this foolish mess
out. Then next year the seniors can
install the one freshman, one
sophomore and one junior semester
rule.
Also we as seniors now, in the
individual outfits, can deny trans
fer students the right to take jun
ior privileges after one semester of
freshman.
Then we can all rest peaceably,
knowing that this class of ’54
straightened out a mess that has
been a thorn in the sides of Aggies
for a long time.
My box number is 6829. I live in
dorm 17 room 332. Let me know
what you think.
Bill (Spook) Shepard ’54
Col. Simpson Leaves
For Marine Duty
Col. Ormond Simpson, USMC, a
Bryan resident and one-time head
of the student placement office at
A&M, leaves Monday for a tour of
duty in Korea.
Graduated from A&M in 1936,
Col. Simpson entered the marines
then resigned after several years.
After heading the placement office
he reentered the marines and serv
ed during World "War II.
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
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Managing Editor
Campus Editor
Sports Editor
’ City Editor
Basic Division Editor
Bob Hendry - Feature Editor
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JERRY BENNETT, ED HOLDER
Chuck Neighbors 1
Harri Baker
Bob Boriskie
Jon Kinslow
Jerry Estes
MSC Accepting
Reservations
For Meetings
Reservations for Memorial
Student Center meeting rooms
for 1953-54 are now being ac
cepted in the social office in
the Center.
Requests for rooms will be filled
as they are received in the social
office. All student organizations
using MSC facilities must be rec
ognized as such by the college.
If granted a reservation for an
MSC meeting room, an organiza
tion is responsible for care of the
room while in use. Failure of a
group to take care of a room en
trusted to them may I’esult in can
cellation of their reservation.
College regulations require that
the followling schedule be followed
regarding club and society meeting
days.
Monday — Honorary societies,
school' councils and other organiza
tions not scheduled below.
Tuesday—Technical and depart
mental clubs and societies.
Wednesday—Religious activities.
Thursday—Hometown clubs and
student senate.
Friday—Called meetings.
MSC facilities are always open
to clubs which desire to have
meetings during the day.
MSC Radio Show
Aired Yesterday
The first of the fall series of
“Showtime from the Center” was
broadcast from 5:30 to 6 p. m. yes
terday over WTAW.
In the past, the program has
presented news of Memorial Stu
dent Center activities and selected
recordings. The records played are
usually either classical or Broad
way show tunes.
Charlie Parker, chairman of the
MSC public relations committee,
was one of the participants in
Monday’s show.
The next broadcast of Show
time from the Center will be
Thursday at 5:30 p. m.
Neivs Briefs
Experimenl Station Gels
$3,900 for Poultry Work
A CHECK FOR $3,900 has been
received by the Agricultural Ex
periment station from the Texas
Poultry Improvement Assn. of
Stephenville. It is a renewal of a
grant-in-aid for poultry improve
ment work.
* * *
THREE NEW TEACHERS have
joined the staff of the engineering
drawing department here. They are
W. F. Adams, associate professor,
and L. T. McBeth and N. B.
Bardell, instructors. Adams is on
loan from the electincal engineer
ing department. McBeth and Bard
ell are A&M graduates.
* * *
CHESTERFIELD cigarettes will
have/a convention of student sales
representitives in this area in Octo
ber at the Memorial Student Cen
ter. Steve Nall and Joe Lloyd of
A&M will be hosts for the meeting.
Colleges represented will be Uni
versity of Houston, Sam Houston
State Teachers college, Stephen F.
Austin State Teachers college and
A&M.
* * *
THE BATTALION will be de
livered to military dormitories this
year as they were last year. Non
military students will have them
placed in their post office boxes
because not enough payed student
activity fees to make dormitory de
livery possible.
* *
A GRANT-IN-AID of $2,500
from E. I. Du Pont de Nemours
and Company of Wilmington, Del.,
has been renewed to the Agricul
tural Experiment station. The
grant will be used in support of
studies on the use of methionine in
the feeding of growing chicks and
Boriskie, Parker Talk
Over WTAW Today
Bob Boriskie, Battalion sports
editor, will be a guest on Charlie
Parker’s radio program over
WTAW at 5 p.m. today.
Boriskie and Parker will discuss
sports in general.
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turkeys. J. R.
experiments.
Couch will direct the
HOWARD HAYNES ’53, of Van
derbilt, was graduated recently
from the navy’s officer candidate
school. He is now an ensign, a rank
comparable with the army’s second
lieutenant.
* * *
ELMO WALKER, of Nacog
doches, was recently graduated
from the navy pre-flight school
at Pensacola, Fla., An A&M form
er student, he is now assigned to
Whiting field, Milton, Fla., for
primary flight training.
❖ * *
WILLIAM E. STREET, head of
the engineering drawing depart
ment, has published “Drafting
Layout Problems”, series D. It is
the tenth book Street has author
ed or co-authored.
•*{« * *
THE ANNUAL Conference of
the local and field staffs of the
Agricultural Experiment station
will be held in the Memoi’ial Stu
dent Center Oct. 21-23. J. R. Couch
will be general chairman, for the
conference. J. S. Rogers is pro
gram chairman; George L. Robert
son, reservations; V. E. Schember,
football tickets; and Couch, ban
quet.
* * *
COL. JOHN L. WILSON ’26, is
now engineer for the Wq^tern Area
command in Germany. Wilson was
an architect in San Antonio for 10
years before he entered active duty
in 1941.
ALUMNAE of Texas State Col
lege for Women will meet tonight
at 7:30 p. m. in the social room of
the Memorial Student Center.
v * *
NAVAL PERSONNEL may
maintain active contact with the
navy by joining the Naval Reserve
Research company in Bryan. The
company meets every second and
fourth Monday. Interested mem
bers of the naval reserve can see
Cdf. Norman F. Rode, USNR, in
Bolton hall.
* * *
ONLY FIVE student clubs have
registered with the Student Ac
tivities office, said W. O. (Pete)
Hardesty, business manager. He
urged representatives of the clubs
to come by as soon as possible and
register with him in room 201,
Goodwin hall.
* *
A NEW COURSE is being offer
ed this year by the electrical engi
neering department. It is electron
ics for non-electrical engineering
majors, course 501. It is offered
to graduate students.
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