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Tuesday, October 20, 1959 THE BATTALION CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Editor,
The Battalion:
As you and I and most Aggies
hate to admit, the issues brought
to light in your editorial of Oct. 13
concerning the first Midnight Yell
Practice were painfully true.
After being up here three years,
we expect our senior year to be
the “frosting on the cake” for our
college career. We look forward to
seeing a new crop of freshmen
learning the Aggie Spirit and the
Aggie way of doing things—help
ing each other and sticking to
gether no matter what. But when
we start looking around at some
of the Aggies who have been here
one, two or three years, we start
wondering where some of them
missed the boat as far as learning
the meaning of real Aggie Spirit.
It’s just like you said, who wants
to go to Yell Practice when we
have to watch our own class bud
dies, the Yell Leaders, dodging
“Aggie Confetti” while trying to
put over to the freshmen the im
portance of supporting the team
and having the Aggie Spirit. Why
even have Yell Practice when many
upperclassmen make so much un
necessary noise that the Yell Lead
ers can’t get a word in edgewise,
much less lead the crowd in a
yell. These things are ruining the
freshmen’s attitude toward Aggie
Spirit.
The upperclassmen always leave
their mark on the school. It’s up
to each class whether the mark
will be black or a mark we can
really be proud of when we gradu
ate. Let’s hope we can clean the
slate at the next Yell Practice by
giving an exhibition of the Spirit
we’ve learned to be proud of.
David Pylar, ’60
Floyd Tuckett, ’60
Donald W. Speir, ’60
Jay Gardner, ’61
★
Editor,
The Battalion:
What Aggies do at Yell Prac
tice is up to Aggies. It’s their
Yell Practice and they can conduct
it and. conduct themselves anyway
they want.
What gripes me, and I’m not the
the only one that feels this way,
is the yelling or chanting “Poor
Cougars” or “Poor Anybody” dur
ing the last quarter or after a
football game. That lowers A&M
to the level of all the other cookie
pushing institutions.
The worst thing that anybody
can do is that and nothing can
make me angrier than to hear the
well-known chant, “Poor Aggies.”
I know there’s not a man in this
school who can say that he likes
to hear this. If we don’t like some
thing done to us, why should we
turn around and do ft to them
when we get the chance ? Any
Aggie who does this is not just
lowernig himself to their level, but
he is dragging down A&M with
him.
Ernesto Uribe, ’60
★
Editor,
The Battalion:
This just doesn’t sound right to
me. I have to pay a fine of $1
per day for every day I am late
with my rent for college housing,
but the college is sometimes two
or three weeks late with my pay
check and they have to pay no
fine whatsoever.
Warren W. Watson, ’58
★
Editor,
The Batttalion:
I am writing in reference to
your editorial, “Civilians on Trial”.
First of all, I would like to know
just what we’re supposed to be
thankful for? I’m a graduate stu
dent, but I’m also a civilian. I
come from a podunk college out in
West Texas, but at least the dorms
were fit to live in. I live in Puryear
and I must admit that I’m thankful
to be there. However, don’t get me
wrong, the reason that I’m thank
ful is that I’ve had the displeasure
of living in Walton before school
began.
If the dorms look better now
than when they were brand new,
how in the world were they ever
approved for construction in the
first place? Another thing, just
how do you temporarily complete
something ? It seems to me that
something is either complete or
it’s not. Even at their best, the
dorms here wouldn’t compare with
any college in the state, or prob-
bly the country for that matter.
I suppose we aren’t students
the same as the Corps? And we
don’t pay the same fees as they
do, do we? You scream about
civilians; you should talk to your
little house pets in the Coi-ps. They
haven’t even learned what a waste
basket is -yet, that is, with due
respect to the humans in the group.
When did you say the windows and
floors were cleaned ? Probably
when Pinky Downs graduated. The
other day a cockroach came into
my room that would have had to
knock, had the door not been open.
Luckily though, my roommate is
an entomologist (Class of ’55) and
he got rid of him.
If we are not labeled men, we
wouldn’t be at A&M. I wouldn’t
have read the thing in the first
place if another irritated student
hadn’t said something about it in
the first place. Yes, I know High
way 6 runs both ways, but I didn’t
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before I came here, so now I am
stuckf
However, all is not lost. This
letter concerns the dorms and some
of the A&M personnel. Keep up
hope.
Howard B. Condren
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Editor,
The Battalion:
Exactly one month has passed
since Jim Enderby, Class of ’61,
was killed on his way to register
at A&M. The question that has
remained in my mind these past
thirty days is: Why didn’t we have
Silver Taps? A campusology book
describes. Silver Taps as “an im
pressive ceremony in Aggieland
which is a tribute made to a cadet
who has passed away.” Were Silver
Taps abandoned simply because
Jim wasn’t registered for the cur
rent semester at A&M ? If this
is the case, then would someone
please answer this question: When
does an Aggie cease to be an Ag
gie? I am under the impression
that an Aggie is an Aggie twelve
months a year, and not just for
nine, which seems to be the case.
I don’t know who was responsi
ble for the choice that was taken,
but I am sure that if it had been
left up to the entire student body,
Silver Taps would have been given.
Would the one who made the choice
please give an account for his ac
tions.
Paul Lokey, ’61
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A future Aggie date, Anne
Kathryn Goldstone, was born Sept.
25 to Mr. and Mrs. Tom W. Gold-
stone, ’57, of 102 Moss, College
Station. The baby was born at
St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bryan.
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