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
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