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Letters to the Editor Editor, Battalion: I have been in Texas and in Col lege Station for six weeks now. Last night while working on a scientific project, which has occu pied IS hours of my time every day for over a month, I was sur prised to hear the noise of an ex plosion. One of the girls working wtih me said it might be Silver Taps. I had never heard of this but went with her out onto the porch to stand silently and listen. The ceremony impressed me very favorably. However, what I will remember about it was the mo ment following when the office door was virtually broken down by a large group of boys who verb ally accousted we three women be cause we failed to turn off our lights. I have never been spoken to in t^iat manner by anyone! Maintaining Aggie traditions are important and the boys were right in principal. However, they were violating not only an Aggie tradi tion but a universal tradition of mankind when they were more than rude to three women. We were yelled at, cussed at, and threatened. Did the reverence of the Silver Taps ceremony mean anything to these boys if they could act that way immediately af terwards ? Do Aggie traditions mean anything when the basic courtesy to fellowmen, particular ly women, is violated in such a manner? Nothing that occurs on this campus in the future will make me forget this moment. And noth ing short of a personal apology from the boys involved will renew my belief in Aggies as gentlemen. Perhaps the Corps needs to take a good look at itself. Going through the motions of reverence while thinking of reprisals for violators is not my idea of Aggie tradition. What are the motives behind tra ditions ? Are they mere ceremon ies giving opportunity for discip linary steps ? I wonder. Betty Curl State Chemist Lab (Ed. Note: Mrs. Curl, in a tele phone call, said that “it wasn’t so much what they said is was the way they said it.” She said there was no cursing done in the room with the women but in the hall outside as the students were leav ing. “I believe that the words were meant for us to hear,” she said. She said the students told her she should read The Battalion, Silver Taps posters, etc. and keep up with what is going on around here.) Editor, Battalion: Yesterday, I attended the first Silver Taps of the school year, and with God’s help, may it be the last. Restored inspiration came to me between 10:30 and 10:40 p.m.—just like it has for the past two years inspiration to be a better Ameri can, a better man, and a better Aggie. During those ten minutes, unlike any other similar period in my life, I seem to be in complete control of my emotions, desires, and ambi tions. Thursday night, about half way through Taps, I turned my eyes about thirty degrees and saw that lights in Baggett Llall were on! The lights did not alarm me as the possibility that one of our most beautiful A&M traditions was handled with indifference. I don’t know whose responsibility it is to turn off the lights. Probably it was the carelessness of one indiv idual, and I have no business tak ing up space in The Battalion. But, I know it is my duty as an Aggie to bring to the surface the neglect of someone or one group of persons in carrying out the school traditions. Jack Solka ’57 Battalion Editorials Page 2 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1955 An Apology SMU’s Puny Peruna Bites Photographer We were very sorry to have to receive the letter from an employee o^ the college about the manners, or rather, lack of manners, of a group of Aggies following the ceremony oi Silver Taps last week. More than the breaking of a tradition is at stake when students will allow the passion of anger to over-ride reason and gentlemanly spirit. Insult to a woman will drag down not only the reputation of those committing such action; but, in this case, could very well drag down the spirit of reverence for this traditional ceremony. Granted that leaving the lights on, even though it was not a willful action, is wrong in the eyes of those who want to protect this beautiful way A&M pays its last respects to a deceased buddy. Even so, nothing can be so wrong that it will be made right by a greater wrong. It’s easy to lose one’s head when brought face to face with what looks like open violation of a sacred and precious tradition. But it’s even easier to lose one’s reputation as a “soldier, statesman and knightly gentleman’’ in such cases. To you, Betty Curl, we offer our apologies for the hasty manner in which the group of students acted. We hope that those students will, if they have not already done so, also offer their apologies. Lions Club Hears Dr. R. D. Turk, bead of the Vet- jrinary Parasitology department, vas the main speaker at the Lions Hub meeting yesterday. Turk re nted some of his experiences in he Peruvian jungle. He recently spent about three months there do ng research work. Editor, Battalion: Silver Taps is an old and sacred ritual to the students here at A&M and it seems that employees of the college that happen to be on the campus in a college building at the time that Silver Taps is going on could take the time to stop their work for the few minutes that it (See LETTERS, Page 4) At least one Aggie thinks that Peruna, the puny, or rather, pony mascot paraded by Southern Meth odist University is a naughty brute’. It bit Battalion photographer Mike Keen, who was valiantly try ing to get a picture of the foot ball game Saturday night. “Mike,” we asked, “Did it hurt much?” “Naw,” he bravely replied, “not "Si V drive-in I *FMCtHE ATRE ^ -. r CHU.QREN UNDER 12 rRtfc LAST DAY “Soldier of Fortune” with Clark Gable PLUS “Arrow In The Dust” with Sterling Hayden Start your career with a progressive firm! FOLEY'S, Houston's department store will be on your ccirapos NOVEMBER 15TH to iinterview 1956 GrocSnscstes majoring in Economics, Accounting, Banking and Finance, Marketing, Home Economics, Liberal Arts, Transportation, Management. 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