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THURSDAY, JUNE-10, 1954
Football and the TT’s
The cat’s out of the bag now.
The word is out that four of the sus
pended TT’s are valuable and much-needed
members of A&M’s ailing football squad.
This disclosure sounds the bell for the
athletic-crazed members of the Former Stu
dents association to come out swinging.
Fortunately, most of the members of the
Former Students association are good men
who have a deep love and respect for A&M
as an educational institution.
But then there is the minority, the noisy
ones who always make themselves heard, and
who always make themselves sound like a
great majority.
! These are the ones who believ^ that
A&M’s main purpose is to provide a spon
sor for a winning football team. These are
the ones who will now write letters to the
college officials, state legislators, newspa
pers, and other former students, condemning
the action the college in indefinitely sus
pending these four students.
They will shout that the officials are de
liberately trying to wreck the football team,
and what’s wrong with a little old fraternity
anyway ?
There can be no excuse for these four
men, just as there is no excuse for the other
14. They broke a college regulation, and re
ceived punishment through due process of
law.
It’s too bad that the football team has to
take a loss like this, but maybe it will be
better off without members who believe in
secret organizations and don’t believe in col
lege regulations.
And maybe it’s not such a blow after all.
Nobody is expendable.
Morgan told the state newspapers that
these four, like the others, could not apply
for readmission until June of 1955. It’s go
ing to be hard for him to stick by that,
against the powerful and vocal expressions of
this noisy minority, but let’s hope he does.
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
“Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman”
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