LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
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Editor,
The Battalion:
Your proposed solution to the
A&M campus parking 1 problem
related in the editorial of Oct. 29
fails, I believe, to do anything
more than suggest we exchange
convenience for ugliness.
Some few college personnel
have struggled for years to try
to develop the A&M campus from
a desolate, congested “prairie”
into an attractive, well-planned
beautifully landscaped campus.
Some progress toward this end
has been made in the last few
years. If you think not, ask an
Ex-Aggie who has been away.
Destroying the only major
areas left around the campus for
“growing grass only,” would
throw us into a dusty, desolate
environment, typical of the large
city. Replacing our grass-cov
ered open areas with gravel
“smog” generators would degen
erate us back to the “prairie”
status from which we have not
yet progressed far enough.
Actually, the real solution to
our parking problem lies in our
acceptance of the fact that stu
dent automobiles should be pri
marily for transportation to
points away from the campus.
This suggests a minimum amount
of use. Therefore, parking for
day students and faculty should
be “on campus” and parking for
students “off campus,” instead of
at the dormitory door.
That monster, the automobile,
is already making too much prog
ress toward dominating our lives.
Do we have to let it destroy our
last remaining vestige of natural
environment? I say no. Let’s
talk about making the walks
around the campus more desir
able and more beautiful, rather
than more hazardous.
Ben H. Evans,
Coordinator of
Agricultural Research,
Texas Engineering
Experiment Station
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Editor,
The Battalion:
This letter is a petition of
grievances without signatures be
cause they are too numerous to
list. I speak for cadets, civilian
students, Aggie dates and especi
ally Aggie wives. Everyone that
I discuss this subject with whole
heartedly agrees with me. I feel
that it a terrible injustice to
charge $4 for a date ticket to ad
mit a female to the Aggie foot
ball games. For the same price,
other people are allowed to sit
anywhere in the entire stadium.
But to pay $4 to stand in that
crowded, inadequate end zone is
ridiculous.
When I first started going to
Aggie football games, the price
of date tickets was $1.50—a fair
price. When students pay only
$1 for their seats it is unfair to
charge $4 for the seat right be
side them for their dates. Seats
in the student sections at other
schools are not this expensive.
The present price of $4 makes
it impossible for many Aggie
wives to attend the games, and I
don’t doubt that many more Ag
gies woidd be able to afford dates
for football weekends if the price
was lowered to a sensible sum. . .
Mrs. Marlene Rushing
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Editor,
The Battalion:
Congratulations to the Aggie
team for the wonderful team
work and spirit it exhibited in the
Ai’kansas game.
No f matter what the score of a
game may be, any team that does
such a fine job deserves the com
plete loyalty and support of its
student body. We hope that our
spirit can equal that displayed by
the team.
Corps Staff Juniors
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Editor,
The Battalion:
Why all this hulabaloo about
building parking lots near the
center of the campus? That is
the last thing this campus needs.
There is, by far, too much traf
fic across the campus now so why
try to increase the hazard? In
my opinion, one of the best ad
vancements to improve the traffic
problem has been to block off
Houston Street near the Memo
rial Student Center. The cam
pus streets are being turned into
main thoroughfares of the city
Adventure Offered
Foreign Students
A “Christmas Adventure in
World Understanding” is being
offered to all foreign students at
A&M.
The Kellogg Center for Con
tinuing Education of Michigan
State University sponsors the
program which includes a visit
to an automotive plant, a night
and a day spent on a farm and
many other experiences.
The tour is open to 100 foreign
and 10 American students. Ap
plication blanks for admission
and scholarship must be obtained
from Robert L. Melcher, Foreign
Student Adviser, by Nov. 9, ac
cording to an announcement from
Melcher’s office.
No applicants wil be admitted
for part of the adventure only.
They must be able to arrive in
East Lansing, Michigan, Dec. 19
for the start of the program and
stay until morning of Dec. 31.
The cost of the trip will be
$115. This includes room, meals,,
and entertainment, but does not
include transportation cost to and
from East Lansing, according to
Melcher.
A limited number of $75 schol
arships are available.
OLE ARMY
It’s Not Too Late To Pass Chemistry 101, Math
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Scholastic Officer For FREE Tutoring.
Jloufiot'd,
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of College Station. It is sup
posed to be against school rules
for students to drive to classes.
This rule is meaningless to many
and is not always enforced. It
is a wonder that some Aggie has
not been injured on his way to
class.
Parking, lots on our campus do
nothing to beautify it and very
little to attract outsiders. Many
steps have been taken in the past
few years to add beauty to our
campus and now it seems that
such action was all in vain.
Day students have no more rea
son to object to distant parking
than do resident students. Most
of the regular student lots are
just as far from the center of
the campus and much farther
from the dorms than a day stu
dent’s driveway is from his home.
It isn’t compulsory to drive a
car on the campus.
There are many colleges and
universities, that have succeeded
in restraining students from driv
ing on the campus. For example,
the TU campus and the Univer
sity of Kansas campus have no
parking lots. It shouldn’t hurt
anyone to walk a few blocks. One
would think that we have become
a bunch of spoiled children.
If you should succeed in con
vincing some people that we do
need to make a parking lot out of
the Main Drill Field, at the north
ends of Dorms 1 and 2, or along
the sides of Guion Hall, why not
go all the way with the idea ?
Why not build parking lots out
of the Academic Building lawn,
the Chapel lawn and the MSC
lawn?
Dick McGaughy, ’61
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Editor,
The Battalion:
In your editorial labeled
“Where to Park?”, I wholeheart
edly agree with you about the
parking situation. I live in Dorm
3 and have to park my car in
Navasota Lot. If I wanted to go
to North Gate, I can be half-way
there by walking before I get in
my car and get it started.
I agree with you on the needed
lots with the exception of one lo
cation, and that is the Main Drill
Field. Not only does the Main
Drill Field serve a functional
purpose (parades, Final Review,
etc.) but it lends to the campus
more beauty. I believe though,
that if all of the parallel parking
on the streets of the campus were
changed into diagonal parking,
the situation would be greatly
remedied. This could be accom
plished by widening the streets
to accommodate diagonal parking.
I again whole-heartedly agree
with you that we need more park
ing space and I believe, the Guion
Hall suggestion is the best.
Richard Ramsay, ’62
THE BATTALION
Tuesday, November 3, 1959
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conduct interviews Wednesday in
the Placement Office on the sec
ond floor of the YMCA:
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and electrical engineering, BS,
MS, degree candidates for posi
tions as sales engineers and sys
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Social Whirl
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Civil Engineering Wives Club
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DAIRY DEDICATION
ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (AP)
—Hardin County Judge H. H.
Tabb pleaded for temperance in
the use of alcohol as he delivered
the dedication speech for the open
ing of the county’s new jail.
Drunkenness, he said, is the rea
son many jails are filled. Then the
judge smashed a bottle on the wall
dedicating the building. It con
tained. milk.
Henry E. Blazek
Gels Scholarship
Henry E. Blazek, a junior ag
riculture major, has been award
ed the $100 scholarship given an
nually by the Brazos County
A&M Mothers’ Club.
A game party in the Memorial
Student Center Ballroom Thurs
day, Nov. 12, at 2 p.m. will be
held to raise funds for next year’s
scholarship, the Mothers’ Club
has announced. Tickets will be
sold at the door for $1. Prizes
will be awarded at the party.
Reservations for the party may
be made by calling Mrs. Joe E.
Davis, Mrs. M. T. Harrington,
Mrs. J. E. Roberts or Mrs. Rob
ert A. Knapp.
Practically all U. S. public wa
terways, including canals, are
maintained today by U. S. Army
Engineers.
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DIARY OF A COED
MONDaY : Prof. Pomfritt sprang quiz m English lit this
morning. If Shakespeare didn’t write Canterbury Talcs I’m a
dead duck . . . Lunch at the house—turkey hash. Question:
how can we have turkey hash when we never had turkey? . . .
Smoked a Marlboro after lunch. I dig those better makin’s
the most! . . . Played bridge with sorors in afternoon. When
game was over, my partner stabbed me several times with
hatpin. Must learn weak club bid'. . . Dinner at house—lamb
hash. Question: how can we have lamb hash when we never had
lamb? . . . Smoked a Marlboro after dinner. What filter! What
flavor! What pack or box!... Chapter meeting at night. Motion
made to abolish capital punishment for pledges. Motion de
feated ... Smoked more Marlboros. Quelle joie!... And so to bed.
TUESDAY: Faculty tea at the house. Spilled pot of oolong
on Dean of Women. She very surly. Offered her a Marlboro.
Still surly. Offered skin graft. No help . . . Dinner at Kozy
Kampus Kafe—24 hamburgers. But no dessert. Have to watch
waistline . . . And so to bed.
WEDNESDAY: Got our marks in English lit quiz. Lucky
for me Shakespeare wrote Canterbury Tales! ... Afternoon date
with Ralph Feldspar. Purely platonic. Ralph wanted to con
sult me about love trouble he’s having with his girl Nymphet
Calloway. I assured him things would get better. Ralph said
he certainly hopes so because last four times he called on
Nymphet, she dumped vacuum cleaner bag on him . .. Smoked
several Marlboros. Wonderful cigarette. No confusion about
which end to light. Saves loads of time . . . Dinner at house-
bread. That’s all; just bread . . . And so to bed.
THURSDAY: Three packages from home—laundry, cookies,
records. So hungry I ate all three ... Quiz in American history.
If Millard Fillmore didn’t invent cotton gin, I’m in big trouble
. . . Dinner at house. Big excitement—Nymphet Calloway an
nounced her engagement to Ralph Feldspar. While sorors
flocked around to congratulate Nymphet, I ate everybody’s
side meat. .. Then smoked Marlboro. Oh, what a piece of work
is Marlboro! ... And so to bed.
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FRIDAY: Got our marks in American history quiz. Was
shattered to learn that Millard Fillmore did not invent cotton
gin. He wrote Canterbury Tales . . . How very odd! . . . Lunch
. at the house—bread hash... Marlboro after lunch. Great smoke.
Must send valentine to manufacturers . . . Spent entire after
noon getting dressed for date tonight with Norman Twonkey.
Norman is dall, dark, loaded—a perfect doll! Only thing wrong
is he never tells a girl where he’s going to take her. So I put
on a bathing suit, on top of that an evening gown, and on top
of that a snowsuit. Thus I was ready for a splash party, a dance,
or a toboggan slide ... So what do you think happened? He
entered me in a steeplechase, that’s what!... Would have taken
first prize easily if I hadn’t pulled up lame in the last furlong
, , , And SO to bed. © 1959 Max Shulmaa
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