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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
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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
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JERRY BENNETT, ED HOLDER
Chuck Neighbors
Harri Baker
Bob Boriskie
Jon Kinslow...
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Co-Editors
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Senior Class
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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.
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