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The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas PAGE 2 Wednesday, January 15, 1958 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle An Editorial Wise Board? Jim Myers of Iowa State would be our coach today if it weren’t for certain members of the A&;M Board of Direc tors. Military training would still be non-compulsory for the first two years if it weren’t for certain members of the Board. In both cases, wishes of responsible faculty bodies were ignored for one reason or another. Myers was the overwhelming choice of the Athletic Council and President Harrington yet the Board had other ideas. The Academic Council was against compulsory military training 49-1, yet the Board saw fit to restore it. By rejecting Myers and mishandling a deal with Eddie Erdelatz, the Board has made the coaching situation look dimmer than ever. Indications are strong that the Board’s decision con cerning compulsory military training, will drop enrollment to some extent next fall. The big question in many Aggies’ minds as A&M is ridiculed throughout the nation is: Do the Board members who rejected Myers, humiliated Erdelatz and reinstated compulsory military training really realize the damage they’ve done to A&M and its future? mm — I ■ : M •vfcy.*. oonmik DBA© Wetc Spirit Ignored In Sportsmanship By JOE TINDEL Earlier this year, I urged, editorially, for sportsmanship so we could win the Southwest Con ference Sportsmanship trophy. A&M really did a terrific job and went to all ends to be sports manlike this year. Yet today the results are out. A&M and the University of Texas tied for last place. This is the second year in a row that such has been the case. TCU, who displayed the worst type of sportsmanship, landed in the No. 3 position. Aggies should be disturbed and indications show that the Uni versity of Texas students are. Their feeling, shared by many here, is that TU and A&M are being graded down because of their spirit and not their un sportsmanlike conduct. Harley Clark, president of the UT Students’ Association, feels that the SWC Sportsmanship code should have some provision for spirit. “If a school can show real spirit and still show real sportsmanship —that school rates recognition. Silence is not necessarily sports manship,” Clark said recently in The Daily Texan. Aggies have said this all along. The committee’s present policy toward spirit is governed by the smaller schools who want to be given a chance to yell without be ing drowned out. Aggies traditionally give the athletic teams all the support they can muster and feel that if they let down any they will not be giving their best to the team. The Texan has suggested that the trophy is no more than a symbol of a popularity contest and I can’t help agreeing. A&M’s and UT’s best path, it seems, is to continue supporting their teams to the fullest while complying with the best rules of sportsmanship as they see them. As Clark said, the SWC Sports manship Committee is “an in effective body, but one whose heart is in the right place.” Trade With Lou “MOST AGGIES DO” Army, It’s Book Trading Time 5 Books You Don’t Need For 4 Books You Do Need Trade Book For Book And Get Lou’s Liberal Trade-In LOt POT’S It Pays To Trade'With Lou ■■IIB—M Il'BWW THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax-supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and operated by students as a community neiuspaper and is gov erned by the student-faculty Student Publications Board at Texas A. & M. College. 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JOE TINDEL Editor Jim Neighbors ....Managing Editor Gary Hollins Siiorts. vv - " . •• •V-v.v.vv......... mm* bv SMstM r -——— XZ.J With the coaching situation what it is and the proposed girls situation in similar straits, some one has come with a solution to both: Ask Oveta Culp Hobby, former cabinet member and now president and editor of the Hous ton Post, to take both positions, maybe combining them under the title of Administrator of Girls. It’s a thought. ★ ★ ★ One Ag recently received an electric razor, a belated Christmas gift from The girl, with this reservation from her mother, who watched as he unwrapped it: “I was hesitant for her to get it; I wasn’t real sure you shaved yet.” ★ ★ ★ Anchors aweigh . that. and all Letters To The Editor Editor: The Battalion Most of the letters and editori als in the Battalion nowadays all concern the questions of the day, co-education and compulsory Corps. The thing I would like to comment on is your liberal use and application of the term, “Aggie Spirit.” Since you have been editor of The Battalion, you have led first one crusade and then another, each tim,e waving the banner of “Aggie Spirit” before you. With each crusade, the term. “Aggie” is being applied to more and more people and cheapened to the point that, according to your definitions, it is purchased with the payment of fees. Each cause has as its end a “greater and more wonderful ‘Aggie Spirit’ ” than any before. The results of ■ i * wwoVbYj ytAVK f RII Wednesday - Thursday - Friday “Fire Down Below” With Rita Hayworth Plus “Massacre” With Dane Clark THRU THURSDAY CARY GRANT JAYNE MANSFIELD SUZY PARKER A r *KISS Y THE/VI FOR fWE' OCT-OW sv DELUXE A 20th «NfURY-FOX PICTURE mm* NOW SHOWING TECHM!GOLO!L® AN ESSEX-CEORGE SIDNEY PRODUCTION this “more wonderful ‘Aggie Spirit’ ” are disgustingly obvious and need not be listed here. In closing, I would like to say that you may fool the A&M stu dents with your definitions of “Aggie Spirit”, but remember there are still a few Aggies on the campus. To be an Aggie is a privilege, not a right, and the “Aggie Spirit” is not a tool to be twisted and construed by am bitious editors. Richard Sayger ’58 David Jones ’58 Charles Scott ’58 Editor The Battalion In Wednesday’s Battalion I notice an article headed “Local Business Owners For A&M Co education.” Yet the article went on to say that only three business owners were interviewed. This isn’t fair to the other -merchants who have different views. I would suggest that the Battalion take a poll of all business firms and then publish the answer so that there would not be a doubt in the minds of your readers as to which business firm stands for what. I wish to state that I am firmly opposed to co-education at A&M. There are plenty other schools to go to if you wish co-education. The State of Texas is large enough to have a strong male military school. There is nothing wrong at A&M except to get united and quit bickering. Set a policy and go all out for it and you will be surprised at the num ber of students that will be here, but how can a student (high school) make pp his mind to come here when Ae constantly reads articles in newspapers about dis agreements here. Again let me say I am for A&M to stay a boy’s school. I remain, Jerome G. Zubik Read Battalion Classifieds Daily Al l en l ion Graduating Seniors! y Big Graduation Sale On Now! Any make, any model, sports cars or family cars. NO DOWN PAYMENT — 36 months to pay Bank rates of interest. New car warranty on new cars. 100% warranty on all used cars. Century Motor Co. 423 S. Main, Bryan TA 3-2524 ^ContinentalAirlines get there faster! NEW YORK’ |] WASHINGTON,*dc. 11 CHICAGO’ DALLAS LUBBOCK EL PASO *via connecting airline GO NOW, PAY LATER! Call Continental at VI 6-4789. SELL YOUR BOOKS WITH CONFIDENCE! 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