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THE BATTALION
Friday, November 20, 1953
Battalion Editorials
Bait Letter Writer
Driven from Campus
John Clark, a non-military student, was railroaded out
of A&M by a group of corps and non-military students last
night, in what is probably, the most outrageous and high
handed act committed here since the 1947 uprising.
Clark criticized Aggies in a letter to the editor of the
Battalion.
From his letter, which was addressed “Dear darling
Aggies”, it is apparent that Clark did not like A&M. How
ever, it is difficult to find any justification in that letter,
which did no physical harm, for the act committed against
its author.
It was unwise for Clark to have written such a letter at
a time when A&M spirit was at the usual Thanksgiving game
high. He should have realized the ‘Old Army’ faction would
retaliate.
The opinion of A&M held by Texas taxpayers, whose
money makes A&M possible, is shaken by such outrageous
acts by A&M students. The students responsible for the
outrage against Clark—did not stop to think of the effect of
their act.
Those who were behind the expulsion of Clark should be
punished for bringing discredit to A&M by acting as they
did.
Cadet Slouch
... by Earle
What’s Cooking
FRIDAY
7:15 p.rii. — Galveston county
hometown club meeting, room 2C,
MSC. Important.
7:30 p.m.—United Nations club
meeting, YMCA. Everyone invit
ed..
A&M Dianetics group meeting
YMCA.
8 p.m.—“T” Association, lecture
room, C. E. building. Plan Fall
dinner and dance.
MONDAY
7:30 p.m.—Society of American
Military Engineers, MSC. T h e
lecture will be on paratrooper
training.
TUESDAY
7:30 p.m.—Collegiate 4-H club
meeting, senate chamber, MSC.
New Economics
Head to Be Named
The new head of the economics
department will be appointed some
time after Thanksgiving, said Wal
ter H, Delaplane, dean of the school
of arts and sciences.
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Letters to the Editors
Clark’s
Letter
(Printed Nov.- 18)
Editors, The Battalion:
Dear Dalling Aggies,
I read in Thursday's Batt where
that some among you is again rais
ing the ' ageless 1 phrase of “Old
Army has gone to Hell!”
The reasoning that those gentle
men used in their 'little note of
wisdom, has indeed got entirely out
of -style now except at A&M and
other dark ages institutions.
Why should a man be made to
go. through hardships simply for
the stupid reason that someone
else had to go through them?
It is a good thing that this line
of “thought” does not prevail in
civilized parts of the world or al!
progress would stop.
I am afraid you children arc
under the impression that a man is
not a man unless he can’t take phy
sical punishment.
I am truly sorry for you. You
are wondering why that your en
rollment has steadily dropped, well
why do not you look around you
and take stock of some of your so
called great traditions here and
you will see.
You are always making fun of
the cookiepushers, well I guess
people of your mentality would al
ways try to belittle something that
is better.
I recently returned from a trip
to the university of Oklahoma
where I was indeed honored to see
a truly great team and great band
in action. Up there the student
body yells because they want to
and not because of force.
At the half time of the game
a sign was brought round the track
by sdme University of Kansas stu
dents. It said “I would sooned be
damned, than be a damned Sooner.”
The Sooners took it all in the
mood of good sports. Do you really
think that the aggies would have?
Another thing I noticed which
would seem strange ■ to an aggie
was the fact that there campus Was
beautiful and well kept, not one
single-building or street was mar
red by the smearings of paint, so
often seen around here.
I will be in law school at O. U. in
the Fall of 55. If some of you big
tough board swinging “MEN”
want to drop in for a spell, feel
free to do so.
Maybe we ., cap.- make,partial
gcntleinen. out of' .you, second
thought I guess*yoq had better not,
the Sooners arc going to be pretty
good about that time, so maybe you
had better stay here and make men
out of the Freshmen.
For those of you who will answer
this letter by asking me why I
have not gone to O. U. in the first
place, I can only say that if you
will pay my extra costs of going
there, boys I’ll gladly go.
John Clark
»
Dear Editors,
Let us be the first to congratu
late those broad and liberal minded
individuals who took it upon them
selves last night to move a non-
conforming individual off our cam
pus.
Hail to the men ? ? ? who arc
training to become officers in the
service of our country so that some
day, if necessity demands, they
may go into battle to defend our
constitutional rights of freedom of
speech and thought.
Long live, the OLD ARMY tradi
tion of the mass mind which en
ables any one to think and express
his thoughts as he wishes without
fear cf reprimand.
Now, may we change our form
of praise. John Clark is an Amer
ican citizen and has the right to
express his beliefs. Right or wrong
he has intestines but definitely
lacks good judgment.
We, the undersigned, want to
make it clear that we do not agree
with the reasoning and views of
John Clark. However, we do feel
it is every American’s right to have
and express his own -views even
though he happens to reside in an
institution -where many of the stu
dents believe there is but one way
—theirs.
Bill Wiseman ’54
Ed Waples ’54
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diters. The Battalion:
In reference to the editorial of
j.esday, November 17’s Battalion,
think that the editorial had one
the most ignorant statements I
ive ever read, in it.
Quote, “It seems the residents of
ouston, are trying to live up to
,eir reputation as the most
imina! in the south.”
I don’t see hdw anyone.who is
ipposed to be three-fourths of the
Aj through college can write such
stuoid editorial. What does he
ink Houston is—a half a million
pus to protect him from the Hous
ton “Hoods”. Perhaps some of the
punks who beat up the seniors
weren’t even from Houston, dear
editor.
But that would take away from
Houston’s monopoly oil crime.
If 1 were one of the three, 1
guess I wouldn’t have any love for
Cougar High or Houston either.
But since we are all in college, we
should be learning to be more
broad-minded.
Let’s not judge the merits of
such a great majority by the dis
graceful actions of such a few.
I think the citizens of Houston
and even the majority of Cougar
High students probably are sorry
that our seniors were beaten up
and would like to see their at
tackers punished.
I think the editor should be a
little more careful in judging a
whole city by one incident.
Don Williams, ’56
Editors, The Battalion:
After reading an article in last
Thursday’s Batt entitled “Car Vio
lators May Be Expelled”, we saw
red.
In case Dean Penberthy has not
been informed, there is a very bad
parking problem on the campus,
especially in the New Area.
The parking problem has grown
as more students get cars.
Very little has been done to cor
rect this situation except to restrict
cars from the campus when they
receive five tickets.
That is a poor way to solve the
parking problem. A good example
of this is a senior in Dorm 3 that
has his car restricted.
His only violations were park
ing in the center of the parking
lot behind Dorm 3 when no other
parking spaces were available.
It is a sad situation when a
student gets his car kicked off the
campus because he cannot find a
place to park.
Granted, the drill field behind
Duncan Mess Hall can be used for
a parking lot but it is almost a
quarter of a mile from the other
end q£.*.tt}e dormitory area. ,
The area east of Dorm 3 and 5
parking lots could be used to take
the overflow from those parking
there.
Another area that could be used
is that so called park west of the
dorm area that ha-s the barb wire
fence around it and looks like a
stockade. It could be used to solve
the parking problem for years to
come.
Penberthy stated, “We feel that
five tickets are sufficient warning
to a student.”
This might be true if there were
enough parking spaces available
within a reasonable distance from
the dormitories. However, the
punishment is far too severe.
In Penberthy’s statement that
having a car on the campus is a
priviledge, and not a right, I won
der if it applies to the faculty and
college employes as well as the
students? With policies such as the
one on student’s cars, is it. a wonder
that the enrollment at A&M is
dropping ?
L. M. Fauber, Jr., ’54
Joe Kerry Jones, ’54
David E. Clark, ’54
Lary Milrany, ’54
Charles Bouse, ’54
Dale Dowell, ’54
Ed Keeling, ’54
Pat Brown, ’54
Eugene Tipton, ’54
Wesley E. Gross, ’54
Gary M. Rosenberg, ’54
Editors, The Battalion:
As long as the sophomoric mind
exists, there will be ridiculous in
cidents like the beating of three
Aggies at the University of Hous
ton last weekend.
The Battalion’s editorial on this
incident was a just condemnation
of the stupid minds of those Hous
ton students, who thought:
A. “Dem guys is Aggies,
B. “Aggies is no dang good,
C. “Let’s beat’um up!”
It was disappointing, however, to
read the Battalion’s next-to-last
paragraph in the editorial, which
stated, “It seems the residents of
Houston, are trying to live up to
their reputation as the most crim
inal in the south.”
If we call the U. of H. hoods
stupid in their attack on Aggies,
then in all justice we can only
call the Batt’s editorial writer
stupid — for his generalization
about “the residents of Houston”.
The Batt editor thought:
A. “ ‘Dem hoods wus from Hous
ton.
Houstorrjs-just a. tWif'full
of thugs.
C. “Let’s insult the whole dang
town.”
Hundreds of Aggies took advant
age of the hospitality of many
Houston home-owners last week
end. It is a back-handed slap at
these generous people for the
newspaper “published daily in the
interest of a greater A&M Col
lege” to condemn the whole city
for the actions of a few.
It is also a comment on the in
tellectual aridity of those chosen
few, the sophomoric journalists
who write for the Batt.
Charles Patronella, ’54
George F. Wessels, ’54
Donald F. Wessels, ’55
Editors, The Battalion:
We are well aware of the fact
that The Agricultural and Me
chanical College of Texas DOES
produce men, but we sometimes
wonder at it’s ability to produce
editors.
Glenn E. Crisman, ’56
Sy Matt Dowe, ’56
Editors, the Battalion
In the past few issues of the
Battalion there has been a constant
stream of letters, generally bicker
ing over the policy changes in re
gard to fish priviliges. It seems
evident that those noted authorities
who have volunteered their com
ments thus fhr have given very
little or no consideration to the
facts.
In the first place, one should
remember that Texas A&M is a
military school, where policies are
laid down by reliable superiors and
should not be questioned by any
one, Sophomores and freshmen, es
pecially. The people who are run
ning things around here managed
pretty well in the past and there is
no reason why they will not con
tinue to do so.
To our fish buddies in G. Co.
Engineers, we ask—since when has
it be come a fish privilige to volun
teer information, such as you did
in your enlightening letter? There
is not a freshman on this campus
who hasn’t just as much spirit as
you, but they don’t usually go
around disputing decisions that
were made for their own good. It
would be best if someone would
wake up and do as he is told.
It is not our intention to say that
freshmen are_ against tradition.
We'airf nbt. Bht if wc are going
to be men, let’s act the part. The
first step is to follow instructions.
What is an army that doesn’t obey
orders ? A howling mob. Right now
there are some loud groans to be
heard.
The class of ’57 can take any
thing anybody dishes out. We
would have worn lipstick if we
were told to, since we were told
not to, let’s do as wc are told and
keep our mouth shut. It seems we
have too many chiefs and no
Indians as it is.
Maybe it’s a tradition to wear
lipstick and ponchos, but there’s an
older one that sophomores and
freshmen do not back bull seniors,
fish Ray
fish Albrecht
fish Bons |
fish Clay
fish Whitley
fish Beard
fish West
fish McLeroy
fish Statham
fish Ahrensberger
fish Franz
fish Finch
fish Boyle
fish Bint
Squadron 17t-’57
Editors, The Battalion:
Dear Darling John Clark,
I read your letter printed in
Wednesday’s edition of The Batta
lion and the first thing I say to you
is if you don’t like our school and
our traditions, get to out.
I am sure other Aggies besides
me will answer your letter and
they feel the same way that I do.
‘ The freshmen at this college go
through hardships as part, of the
tradition of A&M.
If you will just take a little of
your valuable time that you are
apparently wasting here at A&M
and ask some of the freshmen how
he likes it, you will probably be
amazed at some of the answers
you will get such as one fresh
man said “I am a freshman at
A&M and very proud of it.”
Yes, Mr. Clark I am truly sorry
for you too, for if you had in
vestigated matters more thourogh-
ly before blowing off your mouth
like an adolscent child, you would
have found out that the A&M
enrollment increased this year in
stead of decreasing as according to
your survey. ^
Another thing my dear Mr,
Clark, there is on this campus two
things, which apparently^you nevm
have heard (>f aiM' they/f^re, thl
12th Man and the Aggie Spirit.
I can readily sec that you don’t
have the mental capacity to realize
that they arc present on this cam
pus. By now the Freshmen on this
campus yell from their heart not
because they are made to yell.
As for your so glorious Sooner
Band, the Aggie Band will make
(See LETTERS, Page 6).
LI L ABNER
Love May Find A Way
By Al Capp
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