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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1955)
f Battalion Editorials Page 2 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1955 This We Like To Hear Favorable reports on the conduct of A&M students at Fort Worth last Saturday continue to come in to college officials. These reports indicate that the Aggie Spirit can be ex pressed without having it perverted into disorderly and im passioned frenzy. No greater compliment to the true Spirit of Aggieland can be found. The intangible feeling of what makes Texas A&M great is more than “wildcatting,” giving yells and singing the school songs. How students really feel toward their school is strongly reflected in the care with which they protect its reputation. And Aggies, last Saturday, acted like true “sol diers, statesmen, and knightly gentlemen.” We built a reputation, or at least we improved upon one that we already had, during the last Corps Trip. This reputation was gained by the tremendous spirit expressed by the Twelfth Man during the game and by the orderly manner in which students celebrated the victory after the game. This—freedom for fun tempered with retention of individual responsibility—is the “stuff” which reveals the real Aggie Spirit—that spirit which not only backs a winning or losing football team but also protects and increases admiration for the school. This weekend provides another opportunity for students to show their manners once again. The campus will be crowded as a near-capacity crowd is expected to “whoop-it- up” in Kyle Field Saturday afternoon. Everyone, with the possible exception of Baylor students who can’t find their furry mascot, is in a fine mood for the game. Let’s carry that pre-game mood up to, during, and after the game. Friday night’s yell practice, the midnight yell practice which of late has come under criticism for its wildness and misdirected spirit, will be a good time to practice our true Aggie Spirit. Let’s show everyone, including ourselves, that the Aggie Spirit is a real spirit—one that is a reflection of the deep affection of every student for Texas A&M College. ALL-AGGIE RODEO To Be Held Soon THE ALL-AGGIE RODEO An Annual Event Sponsored by The Saddle and Sirloin Club Will be Held Thursday, Friday and Saturday Nights of This Week EACH NTGHT' WILL BE FILLED WITH 8 BIG THRILL PACKED EVENTS, INCLUDING BAREBACK RIDING, BULL RIDING, CALF TIE DOWN ROPING, CALF RIBBON ROPING, STEER WRESTLING, PROFS’ BLOOMER RACE, A GREASED PIG RACE, AND A GRILS BARREL RACE. Livestock is Furnished by E. A. Sladek of La Grange, An Experienced Rodeo Producer Interested Contestants See James Dickey, President of the Rodeo Club All students attending the Rodeo are excused from C.Q. and authorized to wear Civilian Clothing. OPEN FOR ALL BANQUETS, DINNERS RECEPTIONS, WEDDINGS AND LUNCHEONS ALL by RESERVATION ONLY MAGGIE PARKER DINING HALL 2-5089 “The Oaks” — 3-4375 . •BRYAN The Battalion The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represents the View's of the Student Editors The Battalion, newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the*, City of College Station, is published by stu dents four times a week during the regular school year. During the summer terms The Battalion is published once a week, and during examination and vacation periods, once a week. Days of publication are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, Thursday during the summer terms, and Thursday during examination and va cation periods. The Battalion is not published on the Wednesday im mediately preceding Easter or Thanksgiving. Subscription rates are $3.50 per semester, $6.00 per school year, $6.50 per full year, or $1.00 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 i National Advertising ’ Services, Inc., a t 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 Publication Office, Room 207 Goodwin Hall. BILL FULLERTON Editor Ralph Cole Managing Editor Ronnie Greathouse — : .Sports Editor Don Shepard, Jim Bower News Editor Welton Jones , City Editor Barbara Paiere Woman’s Editor Jim Neighbors, David McReynolds, Gene Davis Staff Writers Barry Hart Sports Staff Maurice Olian CHS Sports Correspondent Tom Syler Circulation Manager Letters To The Editor Editor, Battalion: There are quite a few loyal Ag gies who have wandered off into enemy territory in search of food and riches. Each year we have gone to one place or another to see our boys on the field put up a he roic but vain fight. Of course, you can imagine the hectic lives we must live with all these Arkansas’ alumni floating around. Each time this happens I mourn the fact that our band was not there to help take the sting out of the defeat. I am convinced that the days of defeat are over, but we all know how wonderful our band is in vic tory as well as defeat. I’ve seen movements get started down there (College Station) to take the band somewhere, and when this happens NOTHING can stop it. I’m sure that I can speak for an awful lot of exes when I say I’ve missed the band as much or more than any other thing about the football games in Arkansas. It has now been six years since I’ve seen that Aggie Band. If the Band has as much effect on the team as it has on me, and I’m sure that it does, then think of what a boost it will give them. We up here may be asking for the impossible; if we are accept our apologies. But just remember that there are a lot of victory-hun gry exes up here that want to give these Arkansas folks a treat as well as a treatment. Won’t you please print this and see what can be done. Pat Henry, ’49 1509 Green Street Newport, Arkansas Editor, Battalion Dear Yell Leaders, During the year and two months 1 have been here as a student, I have noticed what seems to me a decline in conduct of Aggies on the way to yell practice. I have been coming to A&M games for the past five years and if I remember right the band always marched around the campus picking up students by companies which fell in behind the band in an orderly manner, not as a hysterical mob as it is now. Also, if I remember right, all students were dressed in fatigues so as to be dressed, alike as the Twelfth Man while boosting the Aggies. As it is now, the band is com plaining about being treated too rough. Why couldn’t yell practice 1 at midnight be carried on in an orderly manner without the possi bility of someone getting hurt ? If memory has failed me in some of the details I apologize, but is everything going to be allowed to go to the dogs around here ? Roscoe Van Zandt, ’58 Editor, Battalion To: Gordon de Marrais, ’57: Your letter to the editor in Wed nesday’s Batt (last week) was most enlightening. It pointed out very clearly to more than 6,000 fellow Aggies, who each year enjoy the fine facilities of the Memorial Stu dent Center, that you have at tempted to pass judgment on some thing of which you know absolutely nothing! Have you made an honest at tempt to. find out for yourself ex actly what the MSC offers the stu dents and community? Do you realize that a school cannot sap all the good from a community, but to stay strong in itself, must of necessity add to that community? This is why the MSC is open to the citizens of College Station and Bry an. And these facilities include many things of which you are not' aware. The MSC is a show place of Texas educational facilities, as well as one of the finest Student Union buildings in the Southwest. It is a small tribute to the more than 2,000 Aggies who made the supreme sacrifice in World War II, as you well know. Consequently, it must be kept in constant repair . . . repaired before it gets to look like the old Aggieland Inn. The carpets must be replaced before they look like they need it. The upholstery and drapes must be refinished before they become threadbare with the constant hard use to which they are subjected. The MSC is a center of culture and recreation on the A&M cam pus; it is there for the use of any one who wants to use it, and you can see merely by walking through the MSC that there are plenty of students, faculty, and citizens of this community who enjoy it. Be sides the many facilities which the MSC offers which you can see sim ply by walking through it, it fur nishes meeting rooms, club activi ties, dance classes, musical pro grams, and the Association of For mer Students which can loan you enough money to see you through the rest of the. year if you need it, with no collateral other than your signature. On Mother’s Day you can have your picture taken on the front steps with your parents at no charge to you, and that small gesture will make your parents pleased if nothing else. If you resent paying the $2 for the Union Fee, think serdously for a moment what life on this campus would be without the MSC. Perhaps you can’t get a room there at the last minute for your date and have to get her a room in Bryan. If the MSC was not there, then the rooms in Bryan would be taken also. I am very sorry that as long as you’ve been here, you have missed so much that was right under your very nose, that was right at your finger tips merely for the asking. Could the majority of the students here get as much enjoyment from four motion picture shows or from eight bottles of beer that they would be blinded to their loss if the MSC was not here ? As for your childish remark abouL moving the director’s office to the third floor of Goodwin Hall “to create in him a taste for the lower portion of the hog,” I can only leave your punishment to the disgust of the men who read your letter. I only regret that condi tions do not now exist as they -did Job Calls Thursday and Friday GENERAL ELECTRIC CORP.— Interviews for January and June graduates with bachelors and mas ters degrees in Electrical Engineer ing, Mechanical Engineering, In dustrial Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, physics and chemis try. TENNESSEE GAS TRANSMIS SION—Interviews for January and June graduates in accounting, petroleum or geological engineering —and also general business majors. STANOLIND OIL AND GAS— Interviews for geologists and geo logical engineers for the geological phase of exploration. Wilf also talk to juniors in these fields- concern ing summer work. Beeson To Speak Dr. Kenneth C. Beeson, director of the soil, water conservation branch, U. S. Plant, Soil and Nu trition Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, Ithaca, N. Y., will give a lecture tonight at 8 p.m. in the Biological Sciences Building. not too many years ago; but as it now stands, I can only try to show that the pen is mightier than the board! Robin Ransone, ’55 John Huff, ’55 Dick Brown, ’55 Ed. Note: Point well taken; the pro-MSC writers were using the pen instead of the sword, but “touche,” Mr. de Marrais. Last Day A STORY PACKED WITH GLORY! 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