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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1953)
Page 2 THE BATTALION Wednesday, September 23, 1953 FANDANCE Tessie Craves Ag Who’s Tall ’n’Thin We got the biggest surprise yesterday in our entire as sociation with The Battalion—a letter with no gripes, at us or anyone else. This is news! The young lady sounds sincere, too. * # * The Editor of The Battalion Texas A&M College College Station, Texas Dear Sir: The other day some mighty fine lads came up to Tessieland and claimed brotherhood to us. That’s all fine, but since we claim such relationships, I’d like to personally meet one lad I could enjoy in such a capacity. You see, I’m from Yankee Territory and I just haven’t had a chance to keep up with all these relatives like I should. Seriously, I would like to meet an Aggie who is majoring in some branch of agriculture and who wouldn’t mind answering a few silly questions about crops; etc. I’m a farmer at heart and I would like to know more about farming down here. My Dad graduated from •A&M in the class of ’24 and we live on a farm in N. H. We have about 25 head of registered herfords and poultry and the love of the land seems to have rubbed off on me. I’m nearly 22, of average intelligence and attractiveness. Occas ionally I get in a rather strong argument about what N. H. has got that makes it as fine a state as Texas but otherwise I don’t be lieve I have any serious faults. I would like to meet a tall skinny Aggie who enjoys horses and cattle and farming as a whole. (You know, the kind who heads for the livestock before the new cars at the Dallas Fair.) Do you suppose you could help me out? Please don’t think I’m writing this to be ridiculed because I mean it in all seriousness. Sincerely, Ann Graves. # # # Dear Ann, We made a quick check of the Agriculture building and it’s loaded with tall, skinny Aggies. Anyone interested can contact Miss Graves by writing Box 2714 TSCW Sta., Denton, Texas. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR More About Boots To the Editor: The senior class Monday night passed what will probably be the most significant law concerning senior privileges and senior boots made since the war. In passing this law they have given back the un disputed prestige of senior boots and for what they stand. In the past few years boots have lost much of their significance be cause of disputed eligility. They did not necessarily mean that a man had completed a certain num ber of semesters as a freshman, sophomore and junior but only that by one method or another he had acquired senior privileges. Now we have a concrete law from which de finite decisions concerning privi leges may be made. To most of us boots not only mean that we are taking senor privileges but they are a repre sentation of what is behind us. They show that we have been through that long year as a freshman, the miserable year as a sophomore, and the hopeful year as a junior. No man that has not been through each of these years can possible have the same conception of senior boots as those of us who have look ed forward to them for three years. This law is many years over due and it is to the credit of this year’s senior class that they have passed on it—but—in passing this law are we going to be blinded with our prospective goodness that we can not see the wrongs we are committing by denying to those men the privilege of wearing boots this year when they have accept ed in good faith our word (until Monday night) that they will be in- titled to wear them this year. We are just as much at fault for their situation as they are themselves. If we are so religious ly right, why didn’t we deny them junior privileges last year when they came from the freshman area? If we had made them pro gress in order last year we would not have this problem now. transfer student will know from the day he arrives at A&M what is expected of him and he can plan ac cordingly. This, however, is not true for the men who are presently affect ed by this law. They have met the previous requirements and now as they are about to put on their boots we change the requirements and slam the door in their face. Senior boots stand for some thing big and impressive, some thing that can be obtained only one way and that is by time with a lit tle guts and quite a bit of endur ance. Are we going to belittle this supposed greatness by being so narrow-minded as to say that if a law is basically proper and just that it can not have valid excep tions. Johnny Harris ’54 South African Student Is Impressed With US By BOB HENDRY Battalion Feature Editor “I didn’t know everything in the United States was so big,” said Franz Van Zyl, A&M student from Africa, in explaining his first im pression of America. Franz saw America for the first time, other than in motion pictures, when he arrived in' New York City Sept. 4. He is studying the princi ples of breeding sheep to specific environments so that he may adopt them to his farms in Central Cape province, Union of South Africa. “I had never seen so many tall buildings or cars before in my life,” he said. “Cars were lined up as far as I could see- It was terrific. I just looked.” Impressed by Roads Our road system impressed him most, he said. “I had never seen so many roads running over and under each other. We have good roads in Africa, but none like these.” One thing that especially im pressed him was the air condition ing systems found in many of America’s buildings. “We don’t have that in Africa,” he said. Corps Will March At Football Games Assuming this law or tradition is passed on by the military de partment and it becomes a re gulation of the cadet corps, a Editors, The Battalion: It is our opinion that the senior class did not act “disgracefully” in the boot problem at last night’s (Monday) class meeting. We made a decision that A&M needs. We should be proud of it. It doesn’t seem, however, that all understand that “special problems” are to be referred to the traditions com mittee. The “special problems” in clude transfers who have already skipped sophomore privileges. For these men it is too late to go back, and it isn’t entirely their fault. We hope that the traditions com mittee will be lenient enough to allow these men to wear boots. It will then be the responsibility of the class of ’54, and the classes to follow, to prevent any more priv ilege-skipping by transfer students. Olin Atkinson ’54 Bill Wiseman ’54 “Mitch” Spadachene ’54 George (Luke) Luquette ’54 Bob Williford ’54 Chris Smith ’54 Bartell Zachry ’54 Rothe Davis ’54 Hal Hegi ’54 Ed Waples ’54 Ted Yaggi ’53 Wood W. Bouldin Jr. ’54 Jim H. Mims ’54 James K. Hennigan ’54 The Corps of Cadets will march into football games this year. Fred Mitchell, colonel of the corps, said today that since enough students paid their student activity fee, the corps would march into games. Almost all students in the corps —99.675 per cent—paid their stu dent activity fee. Mitchell said earlier that the corps would march into the games if 95 per cent or more paid the fee. C. G. (Spike) White, assistant dean of men for student activities, estimated that 93 per cent of the overall student body has paid the fee. About 90 per cent of the old re turning students have paid, and more than 99 ^ per cent of the new students paid at registration. Bait Staff (Continued from Page 1) The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions “Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechan ical College of Texas, is published by students four times a week, during the regular school year. During the summer terms, and examination and vacation periods, The Battalion is published twice a week. Days of publications are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, and Tuesday and Thursday during examination and vacation periods and the summer terms. Subscription rates $6.00 per year or $.50 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas under the Act of Con gress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., at New Tork City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Fran cisco. JERRY BENNETT, ED HOLDER Chuck Neighbors Harri Baker Bob Boriskie Jon Kinslow Jerry Estes Bob Hendry. Barbara Rubin graduate of the University of Ten nessee, will be women’s editor of The Battalion. She is married to Sherwin Rub in, a senior from Fort Worth. While at Tennessee, she worked for the Orange and White student newspaper and the school radio station. Her home is Knoxville, Tenn. Bill Turner, assistant manager of student publications, will handle advertising for The Battalion and all other student publications. He has a BA in journalism from Sam Houston State Teachers col lege and an MA from the State University of Iowa. Turner’s wife, Amelia Ann, is a Bryan girl. His home is Huntsville. He will enter the navy in January. Carl Jobe, former assistant manager of stldent publications, will be manager of student publi cations for the year, while Roland Bing is in Austin working on his doctor’s degree. Other staff members are Jerry Estes, basic division editor; Joe Hipp, system reporter; Frank Hines, deans’ offices reporter; Jer ry Wizig, sports writer; George Manitzas, intramural writer; Clif ton Bates, CHS sports corespond ent; Jerry Neighbors, general as signment reporter. YMCA Starts Year With Steak Fry Members of the Y r MCA cabinet held a steak fry Monday night for their first meeting of the year at their cabin in Hensel Park. Ronnie Hudson, president of the cabinet, headed the meeting and outlined plans for the coming year. This year, the YMCA will be run by commissions. There are four commissions: Christian heritage, campus problems, personal pro blems and world affairs, including the U N. USDA (Continued from Page 1) Co-Editors Managing Editor Campus Editor Sports Editor City Editor Basic Division Editor ..Feature Editor Society Editor Bill Turner Advertising Manager industries to turn to hay and sor ghums for feed, he said. Morse pointed out that most of the land which normally would go into production of wheat and cot ton would be planted in corn. This leaves the government with an even larger supply of corn on hand and no place to dump it, he said. However, he emphasized that the support price of 90 percent of parity would be continued. Turning to the subject of soil conservation, Morse strongly ad vised the group that mere con servation was not enough, but that the building up of the soil was what was needed. “Evei’ything in the United States is a gadget,” Franz com mented. “We have gadgets in Africa, bu(r not everything is one like in America.” Franz could be classified as what is known as “ol’ Army” in the corps. He thinks yell practice is one of A&M’s finest traditions. “I have never seen anything like the singing practice you have here,” he said. “It really promotes friendship and school spirit.” Likes Speaking He likes the speaking tradition, too. “I couldn’t figure out at first why every chap I passed would speak to me,” Franz said. “I didn’t know any of them. In Africa, people just don’t do that. If you wei’e to speak to some one who didn’t know you, he would think you were crazy.” Franz says he can’t see anything in football games. “One man car ries the ball in football, and the rest block all the time. In our games, everyone gets to carry the ball. We think everyone should have some fun instead of just one man like in your football game.” Franz said he couldn’t comment on American women, because he hadn’t gone out with any. “In Africa, women are pretty scarce,” he said. Franz will remain at A&M for one semester. He is studying under a program which will take him to various agricultural colleges throughout the United States. “After I find out what I want to know about sheep breeding, I’m going back to my farms in Africa,” he said. “But first, I’m going to see all of America that I can.” NEWS BRIEFS A&M .Directors Meet Saturday THE A&M BOARD of directors will hold their regular September meeting here Saturday, Sept. 26. The board members will spend Fri day visiting Prairie View A&M to look over new building and im provements. DR. C. W. BANKS, associate professor of veterinary radiology, is spending two weeks in Oak Ridge, Tenn., to study techniques of using radioisotopes in medicine, especially on domestic animals. THE CORROSION short course started here yesterday, with an at tendance of 150 engineers, scien tists and executives. J. D. Lindsay, head of the chemical engineering, department, is chairman and di rector of the course. DIARRHEA is leading the Col lege Station - Bryan morbidity re port for last week, with a total of 41 cases. Fifteen are in College Station and 26 are in Bryan. Strept throat is next with 22 cases, 14 in College Station. RVs Now Accepting Junior’s Applications Applications for membership as a junior in the Ross Vollnteers must be turned in by Sept. 30. They may be given to first ser geants. Membership applications may be obtained from Kurt Nauch, first regiment sergeant major; John Benefield, first wing sergeant ma jor or Ronald Hudson, first com posite regiment information offi cer. ARMY LTi Richard Ingles ’52, has been awarded an Oak Leaf cluster to the Air Medal for meri torious service in Korea. He served as an aerial observer for the 25th infantry division, flying more than 60 missions. He is now with the 89th medium tank battalion. WEST POINT Cadet Leonard H. Fuller Jr., an A&M former student, has been appointed a cadet lieuten ant in the West Point corps. He is a veteran of 17 months in the army. LT. COL. LAWRENCE E. Som mers ’34, former senior artillery instructor here, has been assigned to Fourth Army headquarters at Fort Sam Houston. He will serve in the training division of the troop training and inspection branch of the G-3 section. Pasadena hometown club meet ing, room 305, Goodwin Hall. 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