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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
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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
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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!
Jack SERNAS • Kurt KASZNAR
Employees To Hold
Dance Tonight
The Employees Dinner Club will
have a dinner dance at 7 p. m.
tonight at the Bryan Country club.
“The Aggieland Combo” will fur
nish the music.
Part time employees and grad
uate students are invited to at
tend.
Today and Friday
Thursday and Friday
JOHN LUND
DOROTHY MALONE
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