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The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Tuesday, December 10, 1957
Man to Man
BY JOE TINDEL
Hark, the weary Aggies shout! Just 10 more days and
we’ll be out!
That’s not exactly the popular version of the old cry
from the chow halls at A&M but it’ll have to suffice.
Everywhere you can see thoughts are already wander
ing to that Christmas tree at home with all the gifts, that
wonderful girl and large quantities of turkey and parties.
In keeping with traditional A&M holiday spirit, the
profs are seeing how many quizzes they can squeeze into
the remaining days.
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Browsing around the Memorial Student Center these
days, a person can really see the success of the lost articles
auction held the night before the Thanksgiving game.
In the main lounge, stands an almost lifelike replica
of old St. Nick. At other places decorations of all types add
more to the Christmas spirit.
Wayne Stark, MSC director, said the other day that
an Aggie approached him and said all the St. Nick needed
to be any more lifelike was to say, “Howdy!”
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On this page you’ll probably note that pleas have been
made for the parole of Bascom Giles, former Land Com
missioner.
It seems to me that despite his good behavior in prison,
he owes a debt to society and can only pay it by at least
sering the three years. Why not let the Parole Board know
your opinion?
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That’s 30 for now, but remember Christmas still starts
with Christ.
Job Interviews
The following interviews will
be held in the Placement Office:
Wednesday
The Prudential Insurance Co.
of America interviews business
administration majors.
Price Waterhouse & Co. inter
views accounting majors inter
ested in public accounting careers
anywhere in the United States.
Alford, Meroney & Co. inter
views accounting majors for op
portunities for junior accountants.
Are Your Grades Low?
Here’s help tor you freshmen.
See Ole’ Lou.
Tutors are available in chemistry, biology,
algebra, trig, and history.
Special tutoring classes will be set up de
pending on the number who apply.
No cost involved.
Work will be concentrated on your next
majoi^ quizzes.
Refreshments will be served.
Three-fifths of your grade is yet to be
made. Let’s get with it!
THE BATTALION
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September through May, and- once a week during summer school.
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Chairman; Prbf. Donald D. Burcliard; Prof. Robert M, Stevenson; and Mr. Bennie
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officio members are Mr. Charles A. Roeber; and Ross Strader, Secretary and Direc
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JOE TINDEL Editor
Jim Neighbors Managing Editor
Gary Rollins Sports
Joy Roper Society Editor
Gayle McNutt, Val Polk City Editors
Joe Buser, Fred Meurer News Editors
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Thursday
First National Bank of Fort
Worth interviews business ad
ministration, agricultural eco
nomics and economics majors for
positions with their firm.
Friday
Union Oil Co. of California in
terviews chemical engineering,
mechanical engineering- and petro
leum engineering majors for posi
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AUSTIN, TEXAS —Pleas for
Bascom Giles’ release are mount
ing.
Latest activity is a petition
signed by 103 Austin citizens,
filed with the State Board of
Pardons and Paroles. Earle Ed
Burkhalter, Travis County Parole
Board member for the past five
years, submitted the request.
Giles is serving a 6-year sen
tence, in Huntsville for his part
in the veterans land scandals. He
was eligible for parole last April.
However, the Pardons Board con
tended that this release “would
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not meet with community accept
ance.”
Burkhalter’s petition is the re
sult of that statement.
He said that he knew Giles only
casually and had not consulted
any of Giles’ friends or relatives
when he started the petition. He
did say, however, that he felt that
Giles’ wife and family were be
ing punished beyond the intent of
the law. In commenting on the
petition, Rogan Giles, the former
land commissioner’s son, indicat
ed the petition “confirms reports
we have been receiving from all
over the state, that Dad should
be treated just like anyone else
and be paroled.”
Three of the nine members of
the corrections board, the policy
making group for the prison sys
tem, recently said that Giles
should be paroled.
As a trusty he (Giles) earns
double time. Therefore, without
parole, he will be discharged Jan.
21, 1959. Also he has made sev
eral blood donations, each of
which entitles him to a 30-day
commutation.
Editor
The Battalion:
What has happened to the Ag
gies that, after each loss, would
say, “Wait until next year?”
Have they all been replaced by
the two per centers that say, “The
Aggies didn’t want to win” or
“What’s wrong "with the Ag
gies?” Has the 12th man really
changed to the “Support your
team while they win, but cut their
throats if they lose?”
This supporting your team does
not only take place while the team
is oh the field. Any team’s spirit
is high when they are winning.
It takes that real Aggie spirit to
stay behind that team whether
they win or lose.
If your best friend was down,
you wouldn’t kick him to make
him get up, would you? Every
Aggie in the world is an Aggie’s
best friend. So why ride the Ag
gie team just because they were
outscored in two games? Any
man that won’t stand behind his
team when it is losing doesn’t de
serve to be caked an Aggie and
all the four gates are wide open.
If it takes running your team
down to make you a good sport,
then I think it would be an insult
WhaVs Cooking
The following organizations
will meet tonight:
7:30
The Society of American Mili
tary Engineers meets in Room
328, Physics Building. Col. Wells
of Fort Worth’s Corps of Engi
neers discusses the “Role of Corps
Engineers in Civil Works.”
to each and every Aggie for us
to win the “Sportsmanship
Trophy.”
Charles W. Sadler ’59
Editor
The Battalion:
I believe that, the time has come
for discrimination of minority
groups here at A&M to cease.
The minority group of which I
am speaking is the collection of
non-regs who are not veterans,
physically disabled and those who
never have been a part of the
Corps.
I know the value of being a
member of the Corps, and I re
spect and regard them highly, but
I sincerely believe that it .is un
democratic to force a student to
be a member of the Corps in or
der to attend A&M.
I know a few students who fall
in this minority group that be
lieve in and respect its traditions,
but (Colonel Joe take note) these
same students do not like the
military.
Let us look to the future and
prepare for more of these Texas
high school graduates who would
like to get an education at A&M,
but who do not wish to be in the
military.
Let the incoming students make
their choices and let the Corps
gain strength by having as its
members only those students who
sincerely desire to be in the Corps.
I am for a growing educational
institutional, the great Texas Ag
ricultural and Mechanical College.
Donald M. Godwin ’55
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