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College Motion (Brazos County), Texas LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Tuesday, March 3, 1959
BATTALION EDITORIALS
. . . Our Liberty Depends on the Freedom of the
Press, And It Cannot Be Limited Without Being
Lost . . . Thomas Jefferson
Shed Some Blood
Aggies have again been asked to shed some blood for a
good cause.
College Station Lions Club and the Student Senate are
asking for 650 volunteers to give blood to help.save leiikemia-
stricken children. Last year over 200 pints of blood were
donated. The result-^14 children are alive today to thank
them for their help.
The men of Aggieland are known for their willingness to
help when there is a need. This willingness has been shown
by donations to the Senate-sponsored Campus Chest Drive
and various other donations to persons in need of assistance.
A&M students have shown that they want to help. Ag
gies’ desire to help has caused organizations such as the Tex
as Leukemia Research Foundation to come back to let them.
Students have always given a goodly response to their cause.
Nothing is lost when Aggies donate blood and everything
can be gained. A pint of blood is one-twelfth of the body’s
blood supply. And doctors report that giving a pint of blood
has no effect on a healthy individual.
Every Aggie can afford to give one pint of blood from
his own system to help save the live of a suffering individual.
If every one gave a pint of blood hundreds of lives could be
saved.
Men of Aggieland can save many, many lives if they will
turn out tomorrow and sign up to give blood. A sign-up booth
will be placed in the Memorial Student Center. The actual
collection will take place Wednesday, March 11, in G. Rollie
White Coliseum.
Conciencious Aggies will see that the Lions Club and
Student Senate get their 450 pints of blood to fulfill this
year’s goal by signing up tomorrow.
Look at it this way: A pint of blood isn’t much to a
healthy person, but it’s precious to a person who needs it.
Readers
Absurb Letters
Editor,
The Battalion:
Spring in Aggieland is the
time when absurd letters begin
to appear in The Battalion.
. . . From the looks of the let
ters that appeared last week,
spring is early this year.
Harley McAdams ’60
—o—
A&M Fraternity
Requires Desire
Editor,
The Battalion:
In recent editorials you have
asked why no one seems to be
working to relieve “messhall ten
sion.” Let us look at the rea
sons for messhall hazing.
For years the Corps has prided
itself on brotherhood, esprit de
corps, and the “Spirit of Aggie
land.” In this respect it is like
every co-educational fraternity.
The only difference is an Aggie
does not have to have money or
high social standing to be a mem
ber. Only one thing is required
to be a member of the Aggie
fraternity—desire.
No matter how juvenile it may
seem, hazing is one method of
finding out who has desire and
who does not. All fraternal or
ganizations have their own types
of initiation. Messhall hazing is
In Meeting Saturday
Cloud Chides Seniors for Ignoring Harassment
Saturday in a closed meeting
with Corps seniors, Corps Com
mander Don Cloud appealed to
the Class of ’59 to accept its re
sponsibility and fr*y to solve some
of the problems of Texas A&M.
He chided the seniors for not
making any attempt to straight
en out “the simple problem of
seeing that the messhalls were
put back in their true perspective
as a place to eat—not for making
freshmen bitter toward the
Corps.”
“The ‘fish’ are leaving not be
cause that they couldn’t take it
but because it was so foolish and
childish. In many cases the fresh
men who leave have more cour
age than those who stay—those
leaving have the guts to get out
and not put up with “cheap bull,”
Cloud said.
Cloud also suggested that pure
physical stamina is not the only
test of manhood.
“Today it takes more mental
strength to face the challenges
and these are the things the
Corps is neglecting. Yet 10
times as many people are worry
ing about whether freshmen sit
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CAMPUS
CLEANERS
Concerned With Messhalls
on the front half of their chair
than are worrying about an
honor code,” he said.
He continued,
“The Corps has developed to
a state of mental laziness that is
deplorable. It resists change be
cause it is change, failing to put
things to the test of reason—fail
ing to realize that great nations
down through history have fallen
by the wayside just because they,
too, refused to change.
“We say we have to train the
fr’eshmen. But it is not the place
of the Corps of Cadets to decide
who is fit to stay and who is
not. We must try to make peo
ple who are below par measure
up—this is real leadership.”
He concluded by asking the
seniors to “go back to your out
fits and come up with suggestions
and ways to preseiwe the Corps.”
one of the A&M requirements.
The men of “01’ Army” are
being condemned for the meth
ods of hazing they left us. Let
us not forget they also left A&M
with a proud name. We are now
living off their reputation and
not our own.
Easing Messhall tension would
keep more freshmen in A&M but
who wants to change his organi
zation just to get more members ?
Frankly, we would rather have
no Corps than a Corps which does
not require desire.
John F. Bowman ’60
—o—
Education First,
Discipline Second
Editor,
The Battalion:
Your editorial entitled “Who
Will Change It?” has touched me
deeply. There are two things a
boy should get from college. The
most important, of course, is an
education. The second, and only
of slightly less importance, is the
discipline and respect for super
iors which is the mark of a real
man.
I have a son who will be a year
old in May. I hope that 17 or 18
years from now there is at least
one college in the U. S. which is
of the same type A&M used to
be. I feel certain that A&M will
not be one.
There are certain factions in
this school that would hug a col
lege freshman to their bosoms,
shower him with affectionate
pats and kisses and finally, at
nightfall, tuck him into bed. Do
this and in several years you can
lean back and say, “Look at the
men A&M produces.” Only they
won’t be men.
I am thankful for the training
and discipline I received my
freshman year. It’s a shame A&M
can’t always take up where a
boy’s parents must stop and help
him become a man.
R. V. Hart Jr. ’59
—o—
Almost Ashamed
To Wear Ag Ring
Editor,
The Battalion:
What next? First we give the
“fish” hair, then we fox’get about
bx’aces in the dorm and the mess
hall, freshmen whip out like
sophomores and now we’re sup
posed to ease tension in the mess
hall. Are we hex-e to pamper and
Engineering Prof
Publishes Article
Robert B. Bossier of the Depart
ment of Petroleum Engineex’ing is
the co-author of a technical article
in the cux’rent issue of the Oil and
Gas Journal.
The article points out that oil
recovery by the new method of
miscible displacement may x’esujt
in the px-ecipitation of asphalt,
waxes and heavy lubricating oils
within the reservoir in many in
stances.
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
BEAUTIFUL BUT
DANGEROUS
pet “momma’s babies” or is the
Cox-ps supposed to change boys to
men that the Corps of Cadets and
Texas A&M can be proud of?
It is disappointing to talk to
freshmen and have them tell me
that A&M is too easy and not at
all what it was cracked up to be
before they came. Many have
left and others want to leave not
because it’s too rough but be
cause it’s too easy. I hax’dly see
how the Corps can continue to
exist when we lessen the train
ing program each semester. All
policies that ax^e handed down
seem solely for the purpose of
correcting the grievences and
complaints filed through the com
mandant and the vice px-esident
by students on the way out of
school. Are we running the Corps
for the ones leaving school or
the ones still hex-e?
I hardly see how we can satis
fy the personal whims of evex-y
freshman leaving and still pro
duce men that we’x-e px-oud of.
I’m almost ashamed to wear
the Aggie ring because it takes
so little intestinal fortitude and
sweat to get one and actually
earn it anymore.
Congratulations. The Corps
will be gone in the next five
years at the rate we’re going
now.
Raymond L. Darrow ’59
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