Battalion Editorials
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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1954
Cadet Slouch
• • • by James Earle
TT’s Sing Familiar Story
To College Officials
Yesterday a group of students who say
they are the only active members of a secret
fraternity called the TT’s promised the col
lege officials they would disband.
The college seems to believe them. The
college seems to believe the TT’s will be
gone for good, never to come back, because
these students say they won’t.
It all sounds very familiar.
In April of 1952, a similiar group of stu
dents appeared before a similiar group of
college officials. These students too, said
they were only members of a secret frater
nity called the TT’s.
To quote from an official release from M.
T. Harrington, president of the college then,
“These students appeared in a group before
the president of the college, the command
ant, and the assistant dean of men and gave
their word that they were disbanding their
organization.” The release is dated April
4, 1952.
Below is a copy of the Battalion’s front
page of April 4, 1952, including a story
saying the TT’s have promised to disband
and Harrington’s official statement. It
should serve as a reminder to the college.
The confessed TT’s in 1952 were put on
conduct probation “for the remainder of
their school career.” This was also in the
official statement, which ended, “For gener
al information, effective this date, membei-
ship in secret organizations of this type will
be just cause for dismissal.”
I It certainly is just cause for dismissal.
If these students, sworn statements notwith
standing, are allowed to stay here, or even
given indefinite suspension, which will allow
them to come back eventually, the college is
going to have to have another TT investi
gation, and another, and so on.
Unless the college permanently dismisses
these students, and weeds out the local peo
ple who are “sponsoring” the organization,
April or May of 1956 will see another TT in
vestigation.
The organization will continue to exist
until it is jerked out by the roots, and thrown
far away.
The past has proved that you can’t trust
a TT.
New Hazing Rule
Is Step Forward
Last Friday The Battalion asked editor
ially, “Just what is the college’s attitude to
ward hazing?”
Yesterday the Academic council answer
ed by approving a college regulation that
makes it mandatory that physical hazing be
punished by indefinite suspension.
This concrete policy is a step forward;
now a student contemplating use of the
board will know what is going to happen to
him, and the threat of indefinite suspension
will be a deterrent to him.
The Academic council took another long-
needed step yesterday—a complete study of
the disciplinary system here, including un
equalities of punishment.
This study will show that there is a great
amount of unequality in punishment here,
both in different punishment for the same
offense, and in different punishment for
corps and non-corps students committing the
same offense.
These moves will clear things for both
the students and the administration.
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CHS Plans Sports Banquet
By George Manitzas
Battalion City Editor
Assistant coach Phil Cutchin
will be the main speaker at the
annual A&M Consolidated sports’
banquet in the ballroom of the
Memorial Student Center Thursday
at 6:30 p. m.
Fifty-nine athletes will be honor
ed with nine receiving special
awards, said Wayne Stark, mem
ber of the boys and girls committee
of Kiwanis club and acting chair
man for the banquet.
Working with Stark is C. A.
Bonnen of the agricultural econo
mics department.
“We are expecting 135 students,
athletes, parents and guests at
this banquet,” said Stark.
CHS has had by far its best sea
son in all-round athletics winning
district in almost all, regional in
two, and going to state in two
sports, Stark said.
W. N. (Flop) Colson will be the
master of ceremonies at the ban
quet.
The program will begin with the
singing of the school’s songs, fol
lowed by the invocation.
L. S. Richardson, superintendent
of the schools, will speak on the
“Review of Athletic Achievements”.
The presentation of the letters
to the individual athletes will then
be made by Coach Jim Bevans.
Tennis letters will be presented
The Battalion
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by Coach Horace Schaffer.
Nine special awards will be
given to athletes including the co
captains of the football team and
the captain of the basketball squad.
Following the awards will be the
address by Cutchin on the “Value
of Athletics”.
A dance will follow the banquet.
The CHS football team won class
A district play with a 10-1 seasonal
record.
The Tigers took the class A
basketball district title with a re
cord of 22-5.
In class B baseball, the Tigers,
at present, hold a record of 13-0.
The Tiger tennis squad took class
B district and went to state.
The CHS track team went all the
way to state and took second place
at state.
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LETTERS
Editors, The Battalion
In your editorial of Friday, May
18, you stated that the college did
not punisji the three students
charged with hazing severly
enough. As we recall, some stu
dents were charged with a theft
which amounts to GRAND LAR
CENY last fall. Just what was
their punishment ? They were sus
pended. Do you want to put these
three students charged with so-
called hazing on the same level as
those students charged with theft?
This may seem like a ridiculous
comparison, but no more ridiculous
than your comparison to traffic
violations. We believe that A&M is
only as big as the bigness of the
heart of those associated with the
school, and by lessening the punish
ment, the school (the faculty that
is) has shown itself to be great.
Charles J. Tracy ’54
James De Lee ’55
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