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The Battalion .... College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Tuesday, May 8, 1956
Letters to the Editor
OPEN FOR ALL BANQUETS, DINNERS
RECEPTIONS, WEDDINGS AND LUNCHEONS
MAGGIE PARKER DINING HALL
TA 2-5089
“The Oaks” — TA 3-4375
BRYAN
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Studebaker — Packard
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WhaVs Cooking
The schedule for tonight is as
follows:
7:30
AVMA will meet in the amphi
theatre of the Veterinary Hospital.
Dr. Morgan will speak and elec
tions will be held.
Institute of Aeronautical Science
will meet in the Engineering Build
ing to plan for Open House.
Texas Aggie Rodeo Ass’n will
meet in the A&I Building for the
election of officers.
Accounting Society will meet in
the YMCA to elect officers. Re
freshments will be served.
Business Society will meet in 3D
of the MSC. Eidemiller will speak
and the Wall Street Journal
Award will be presented. Plans
for the election of officers will be
discussed.
15 Town Hall Staff
Jobs Open to Sophs
All sophomores intex-ested in be
ing on Town Hall staff for next
year should place their names in the
office of Student Activities, ac
cording to Johnny Heard, next
year’s Student Entertainment man
ager. The interviews will be held
Wednesday night at 7:30 in room
214, dorm 10. “All those wishing
to interview should be present at
that time,” said Heard. Fifteen
staff positions are open.
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Editor, The Battalion:
In three years at A&M, I have
seen the spirit, discipline, speaking
and self-introduction . (upon which
I think this school is dependent for
its reputation) declining and slowly
becoming a thing of the past. A
good example of this is the way
many men that one passes on the
campus substitute a nod or grunt
for the traditional “howdy.” Maybe
a better example, and perhaps a
more abundant one, is the practice
of many just not to bother with the
trouble of speaking.
It’s not so hard to say “howdy”
and there is no one on this campus
who is too good to speak to a
fellow Aggie. However, there are
apparently many that don’t speak
for same reason. Maybe they think
they are too good.
If it was just speaking, however,
our problem would be small. Our
problem reaches much further and
the trouble is that not enough peo
ple realize what that problem really
is. Maybe I haven’t got the answer
but I feel I have at least a vision
of what is wrong.
Basically, this college is founded
on two things. The educational fa
cilities and the Corps of Cadets.
The educational facilities do not
control these traditions so we must
look at the Corps. This doesn’t
mean civilian students do not share
the blame, but they can only learn
A&M’s traditions by what they see
in the actions and conduct of Corps
students, so that throws the load
back on the Corps.
A chain is only as strong as its
weakest link. Likewise, the Corps
can only be as strong as its weak
est component. The building ma
terial of any body of men, military
or otherwise depends upon the men
who comprise this organization,
and how they’ve been developed.
The two-percenters, or to be mod
ern, the twenty-percenters are the
Corps weakest components. These
are the men who don’t speak. They
are the men who won’t turn around
to meet another Aggie.
These are the men who spend
four years at A&M, always taking
of A&M’s benefits, but never , con
tributing anything for the school’s
improvement. These men sit on
their dead can and worry about no
one but themselves.
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
LAND OF THE PHAROAHS’
with Joan Collins
— plus —
“BIG TIP OFF”
with Richard Conti
This really begins to show itself
in Aggies when they become jun
iors and it is intensified about 100
per cent when they become seniors.
Therefore, it’s up to the seniors to
do something about this when the
man is a junior and the fii-st real
signs begin to show. Just what to
do depends upon the individual case
and offers a good chance for the
seniors to show real leadership, but
something definitely needs to be
done.
Another thing which has hurt the
Corps so much is the feeling be
tween Army and Air Force outfits.
The most discouraging example of
this feeling is what I heard a man
(or should I say a person) say
when he passed me as I was hitch
hiking from Bryan last night. He
said “Aircrappers walk tonight.”
Fortunately I didn’t have to walk.
An Aggie picked me up and
brought me to the campus. How
ever, I can’t get it out of my mind
that because I \fas wearing an Air
Force patch, I was not considered
an Aggie.
I’ve been criticized for many
things but never have I been told
I was not an Aggie and I never
considered an Army patch as any
indication of a better or worse
character than myself. I get along
al* right with several Army cadets
I know personally and I think as
much of them as I do of Air Force
cadets. The difference is on an
individual basis.
So don’t blame everything of
New Army. If the shoe fits you,
blame yourself. At any rate, the
future of the Corps depends upon
how the Corps is handled and it is
a job which everyone should share.
Let’s all forget about our branch
and work to be Aggies.
With cooperation from everyone,
this Corps will be greater than it
ever has, and you will find by
working with it, you will get a lot
more out of it. And instead of
passing an “Aircrapper” on the
highway, stop and say “Get in
Aggie.”
Lynn Pixley ’57
Chester, Wales, has both first
and second story sidewalks along
four streets.
The liver of one basking shark
weighed 2,100 pounds.
THRU WEDNESDAY
THRILLING /
MARIO LANZA:
CIRCLE
THRU WEDNESDAY
“This Island
Earth”
Jeff Morrow
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TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
The Memorial Student Center Gift Shop
Invites You To Shop For A Gift For
MOTHER'S DAY
Our salesladies will be pleased to help you select the PERFECT gift. We offer the
following suggestions:
Wedgewood A&M Commemorative Plate
Jewelry Box * Jewelry
Perfume Atomizer Perfume
Texglass Glasses (Set of eight Boxed)
Westmoreland Milk Glass Handcraft Blanks
Coffee Carafe
Buxton Billfold and Key Caddie
Jewelry with A&M Insignia
FREE GIFT WRAPPING
and
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By A1 Capp
The Battalion