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Page 2 THE BATTALION Tuesday, October 27, 1953 Letters to the Editors Editors, The Battalion: The very finest example of the “Spirit of Aggieland” was witness ed by 6,000 Aggies and countless citizens of our state last Saturday on Kyle Field when that Texas Aggie football team gave every thing they had against Baylor. Those of us who have been here for nearly four years feel that spirit such as shown by that team is the very personification of “The Spirit of Aggieland.” To those former students and students who doubt the existance of a true spirit at A&M we cite the magnificent fight exhibited by the football team Saturday. We feel justly proud to be a part of the school with a team that never quits but fights to the final gun regardless of the score. As long as Texas A&M has the kind of spirit characterized by the “Texas Aggie Team” we need not worry about the future of our grad uates. Fred H. Mitchell, ’54 B. P. Pantuso, ’54 Pat Wood, ’54 Monty Montgomery, ’54 R. L. Hunt, ’54 Ide P. Trotter, Jr, ’54 Jimmy Tyree, ’54 Charlie Boyd, ’54 Leonard D. Eddy, ’54 Gil Stribling, ’54 Stan Bell, ’54 Editors, The Battalion: Please add my name to the list of those endorsing the letters you printed in your Thursday, October 22 issue, referring to the non-reg seating arrangement. Let me set a few things straight. First, no veteran is asking for spe cial consideration because of his service. We believe that “All men are created equal, that they are endow ed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.” We believe that one of the Rights is the ability to use our own dis cretion to choose a seat at a foot ball game. Second, we do not crit icize the Corps’ policy of class dis tinction; personally, I feel it serves a worthy purpose there. We have served and fought to preserve the liberties on which this country is founded, yet we return to have these liberties denied to us by our fellow students and by our duly elected representatives. I have always felt that to serve one’s country was the greatest thing one could do for his country men. If to deny to a man the Rights he serves to protect is the Ameri can, or Aggie, way of showing thanks then I don’t blame draft- dodgers. I repeat, we don’t want SPECIAL consideration; just equality with our fellow ,students. We feel we have been discrimi nated against in the NON-REG seating arrangements. Because we were in the service we were not able to pursue the academic classification of Senior or Junior, and this has been used against us in the seating arrange ment. It’s a terrible feeling to know ^you are being abused because of your own patriotism. E. R. Castle Jr., ’56 Editors, The Battalion: Judging from the letters that have been printed in the Batt re cently, I guess nearly everybody has their own idea of how some phase of college activities here ought to be run. Well, I have a suggestion, too, but along a little different line. It’s in regard to the shoddy, barn-like affairs that most of us know as the handball courts. Last year the Aggie handball team played at Rice, Texas, and Baylor, and our courts are the only ones where you can watch the game from the outside through the cracks in the wall. Compared to the other schools in the Southwest Conference, A&M has by far the worst excuse for handball facilities. Where tjiey have hardwood floors, plaster walls and ceilings, and good lighting, A&M has rough wooden walls, chicken wire ceilings and very poor lighting. Our courts are too wide, too short, and have too low a ceiling. Because of this sorry construction, it is almost impossible to play in them during cold weather. In consideration of the fact that handball has proven to be the most popular individual sport on the campus, these are tragic condi tions. But what about improving them ? There appeared to be a fine op portunity for something to be done when over a million dollars was allotted for a new physical educa tion plant. But the lavish new gym with a seating capacity which is probably much greater than A&M will ever have need for is nearing comple tion—minus handball facilities. Then another sum was provided for a complete, wall-to-wall remod eling of the old gym, which is to be done as soon as the new gym is finished. And in spite of the efforts of Barney Welch, Intramural Direc tor, and two or three persons in the PE department, the plans have been drawn up without including even one handball court. To meet the present needs and demands of Aggie handballers, A&M should have at least 15 prop erly built courts, and could use several more. However, such a goal can only be reached through the concentrated and persistent efforts of the stu dents. Doug Scott, ’54 BE THAW KFUL. BEA®./ *v > " Non-Military Seating (Continued from Page 1) who have been at A&M the long est. Since it is based on academic classification, a new student with senior hours can sit with seniors enrolled here for four years. Freshmen and sophomores make up only 20 percent of the non-mili tary students. This number is not enough to crowd the better parts of the seating section. Abolishing academic boundaries would give ushers more time to keep non-students out of the seat ing section. They would not have to keep checking if students were sitting with the right class. An open section would result in better relations among the differ ent classes. Smith asked that everyone con sider these points closely. “Re member, hot-headed.arguments will get you nowhere. Only serious thoughts and actions should be tol erated in an educated gathering,” he said. 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 York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Fran cisco. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republi cation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. News contributions may be made by telephone (4-5444 or 4-7604) or at the editorial office room, 202 Goodwin Hall. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Activities Office, Room 209 Goodwin Hall. JERRY BENNETT, ED HOLDER Chuck Neighbors Harri Baker Bob Boriskie Jon Kinslow... Jerry Estes Bob Hendry Barbara Rubin Bill Turner Co-Editors Managing Editor ....Campus Editor Sports Editor City Editor .Basic Division Editor Feature Editor Society Editor .Advertising Manager Senior Class (Continued from Page 1) yell practice. Some cadets thought that fights at midnight yell prac- | tice were caused by units trying to capture each other’s guidon. • Passed a motion to recommend to unit commanders that they tell their men to speak to non*military students. © Heard complaints that under classmen and former students were sitting in upperclassmen’s seats in Kyle Field during football games. ® Heard complaints that juniors did not know how to act at yell practice. © Heard recommendations that a “get rough” policy be used to im prove speaking by juniors on the campus. Save Your Money! Save Your Clothes! CAMPUS CLEANERS CHS Ex-Students Work in Office What’s Cooking TUESDAY A&M Consolidated high school has an outstanding ex - student working as secretary in the main office of the school. Mrs. James A. Bowen,who was graduated from CHS in 1952, works in the superintendents’s and principal’s office while her hus band attends A&M. He is a junior from Lawton, Okla., majoring in industrial engineering. While at Consolidated, Mrs. Bowen was chosen to receive the Babe Ruth Foundation sportsman ship award. She was also picked all-sports queen. The sportsmanship award is given to one boy and one girl junior each spring. Mrs. Bowen received the award in 1951. Cer tain high schools throughout the country selected by the Babe Ruth Foundation give the awards. Con solidated began presenting the awards in 1950. The high school teachers select the winners for the awards on the basis of good sportsmanship shown in all school activities. It is not for athletics only. Married since July 10, Mrs. Bowen has worked at CHS 14 months. Her job includes book keeping and general secretarial work. Grougnard To Speak To Marketing Society Jack Grougnard will speak to the Marketing society on “Opportuni ties with IBM at 7:30 tonight in the YMCA chapel. Grougnard was graduated from A&M in 1940. He is now a sales man for International Business Machines in Houston. Refreshments will be served fol lowing the meeting. “I just like this type of work,” she said, “but I spend a lot of time answering the phone.” The only plans Mrs. Bowen has for the future is a house in the country. She said she likes small towns and doesn’t want to live in a big city. “I’d like to have a big ranch- style house out in the country near some small town,” she said. Mrs. Bowen, 19, has lived in this area all her life. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ramond Nolan, live in Welborn. There are four girls and one boy in her family. Seniors Complete Practice Teaching Sixty-six senior agricultural edu cation students completed their two - week practice teaching as signments last week. The prospective teachers of vocational agriculture taught clas ses of high school vocational agri culture students in thirty - three Texas schools. Except for a few who will graduate in January and completed their two weeks of ap prentice teaching last spring, this was the first teaching experience for these seniors. Faculty supervisors were E. V. Walton, head of the agricultural education department, and Dr. M. N. Abrams, Henry Ross, Roy Dug ger and J. R. Jackson, agricultural education staff members. Each apprentice teacher worked under the supervision of the re gular vocational agriculture teacher of the high school to which he was assigned. 7:30 p. m. — Entomology club meeting, room 105, Biological Sciences building. Refreshments. Saddle and Sirloin club meeting, A&I lecture room. Accounting society meeting, as sembly room, MSC. Robert Steven son will speak on “The Relation of Accounting to Insurance.” A&M FFA chapter meeting, room 3B and 3C, MSC. A I E E meeting, E. E. building. R. E. Cambell will speak on micro- wave transmission. American Chemical society meet ing, room 106, Chemistry building. Marketing society meeting, YMC A chapel. Jack Grangnard ’49, will speak on “Opportunities with IB M”. Refreshments. Economics club meeting, room .126, Academic building. Will elect junior representative to Arts and sciences council. Skrivanek, Riedel Attend Ft. Worth Meet J. J. Skrivanek, A&M Consolida ted high school principal, and W. T. Riedel, junior high school prin cipal, are attending a conference in Fort Worth. The conference, composed of principals from member schools of the Southern Association of Se condary School and Colleges, will close Wednesday. While in Fort Worth, Riedel will also attend a conference on federal aid. TYPEWRITERS Late Models Rent Macliines Bryan Business Machine 429 S. 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