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?
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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.”
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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.
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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.”
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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
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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
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