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THE BATTALION
Wednesday, December 16, 1959
BATTALION EDITORIALS
. . . Journalism Which Succeeds Best —and Best
Deserves Success— Fears God and Honors Man; Is
Stoutly Independent, Unmoved by Pride of Opinion
or Creed of Power . . . Walter Williams
Abolish Trophy?
A series of meetings will be held in Dallas prior to the
Cotton Bowl Game New Year’s Day to discuss sportmanship
among the schools of the Southwest Conference.
Originally these meetings of the Southwest Conference
Sportsmanship Committee, composed of four student repre
sentatives from each school in the conference, were designed
to select the school that had displayed the best sportman
ship during the preceding year. The trophy would then be
awarded to the school during Cotton Bowl halftime cere
monies.
But not anymore!
At a meeting at Texas A&M last fall, the committee de
cided that instead of awarding the Southwest Conference
Sportsmanship Trophy to the school displaying the best
sportsmanship, the Battalion—originated trophy would go to
the school hosting the. spring track meet. That school also
serves as chairman school of the committee for ,the coming
year.
The University of Texas was principal supporter of this
move. Representatives of the University of Texas claimed
that with the large student body at Texas, the cheer leaders
couldn’t control their students as well as some of the smaller
schools. They claimed this gave them an unfair disadvantage
in selection of the school displaying the best sportsmanship.
Under this new system of “awarding” the trophy, a
school could have its student body incite a riot at each of
its athletic contests and still be “awarded” the trophy as the
best sportsmen in the conference.
The new method appears to us to be a complete farce.
Why should a school be presented with the trophy be
fore a nationwide television audience at the Cotton Bowl
Game, if the trophy doesn’t mean that they are the best
sports;?
Maybe we don’t have the insight that some of the repre
sentatives of the other schools in the conference do, but we
don’t think the. Sportsmanship Trophy should be something
to rotate annually among the schools in order that every
school can have possession of the trophy at least once every
three years.
We don’t believe the Men of Aggieland need a trophy
as incentive to display good sportsmanship, but we do be
lieve that if the Southwest Conference is going to have such
a trophy, should go to the school that does display*the best
sportsmanship.
As The Battalion has a representative on this committee,
we would like to have the opinion of the Men of Aggieland
on this matter before attending the meeting in Dallas.
For our part, we are going to move to have the trophy
abolished unless a more equitable method of awarding it can
be established.
If no such method can be found, there is certainly no
need in having a Southwest Conference Sportsmanship
Trophy.
Letters To The Editor
The Battnlion welcomes letters to the editor hut reserves the right to edit letters
for brevity, clearness and accuracy. Short letters stand a better chance for
publication since space is at a premium. Unsigned letters will not be published. ..
Editor,
The Battalion:
We wish to express our sin
cere thanks for the fine publicity
which you have given to our
Christmas Seal Sale this year
in The Battalion. It has helped
to make the sale a success and
we appreciate it very much.
We also want to publicly thank
L. A. Duewall and Mrs. Cecilia
Prihoda for their help in getting
the A&M students’ names for
our mailing list.
We appreciate, too, all the con
tributions sent in by the A&M
students. Many have sent in more
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David Stoker Managing Editor
Bob Weekley Sports Editor
Bill Hicklin, Robbie Godwin News Editors
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kin, insurance policy, safety belt, crash helmet .... What
else do we need when we leave Friday?”
On Other Campuses
By Alan Payne
TCU
An editorial suggestion in the
TCU school paper suggests that
frat pledges need to work to
gether on projects to help build
morale. Looks like there wouldn’t
be any sense in even having fra
ternities if they have to get out
and do something like that to
build up morale. But, oh well —
you know how those frat boys
like to do things.
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The vice-president of Columbia,
in a speech down at Couger High
indicated that he felt a fraternity
system offered great opportuni
ties in leadership and an insight
into the responsibilities of self-
government. Wouldn’t this world
be quite a mess if we had-to de
pend on leaders with such “sub
stantial” backgrounds ?
Couger High also had their
bon-fire burned prematurely. It
was scheduled to be burned on a,
Wednesday night but was burned
instead early Tuesday morning.
It was so small that they had
enough time to rebuild it and
have it ready by Wednesday. The
Army ROTC unit, some frat vol
unteers apd some downtown mer
chants managed to have it back
up in only a little more than one
day.
TU
TU had a “fussbudgeting con
test” last week. It seems that it’s
no more than an opportunity to
kill time with senseless discuss
ions. Some of their “intellectual”
topics included: “The Inherent
Dangers of Signing Something
Unthinkingly,” “We Need More
Pencil Sharpeners,” “The Stu
dent Health Center Regards Pa
tients as Statistics, Not Patients,”
“We Should Abolish Final Ex
ams,” “The Daily Texan is In
accurate and Uninteresting” and
“There Should Be no More Frat
Hazing.”
TU’s Aqua Carnival, a 25-year
old traditional event, has been
done away with because it is too
much trouble. The Tea-sips ap
parently take hardly little inter
est in the event, the attendance
is even poor.
CBS Places Eight
On Regional Band
Eight members of the A&M
Consolidated High School band
will travel to Rockdale Jan. 30
after being named to the Region
3 Band in tryouts at Belton.
The College Station members
of the band are Judy Rasmussen
and David Bailey on clarinets,
Tommy Ledbetter and Leslie
Brusso, saxophones; Jay Pruitt,
cornet; Pat Ozment, baritone
horri; and Furman Isbel and
Richard Rasmussen, trombones.
By DAVE STOKER
Battalion Managing Editor
Statistics have shown over a
period of years that falling-
asleep at the wheel is the largest
single cause of traffic accidents,
accounting for 53 per cent of all
fatal accidents and 49 per cent
of the non-fatal type.
Falling asleep at the wheel has
acounted for several Aggie
deatus.
A great majority of Aggies
who leave the campus Friday and
Saturday will do some night driv
ing. Sometime during the trip,
the driver will probably feel
sleepiness creeping up on him.
The best thing to do in such
a case is to pull off the road and
take a short nap or change driv
ers. To avoid falling asleep at the
wheel and risking the uncertain
results, the driver should take
the following tips in mind.
He should avoid heavy foods,
great amounts of liquids and so
called “antisleep” pills. Of course,
liquor and other alcoholic bever
ages should never be consumed
while driving.
Several light meals or snacks
are better than one heavy meal
when driving. Heavy, greasy
meals are contributing factors
to drowsiness.
Consumption of liquids should
be curtailed. Drinking great
amounts of soup, beer or coffee
will slow down kidney functions.
Taking drugs to stay awake is
not advised. Such drugs will keep
the driver awake, but at the
same time will slow down the
driver's reactions.
Getting out of the car and
stretching is also a good method
to avoid sleepiness. At such stops
the eyes can be rested by looking
up and down, to the right and
left. It is also advisable to mas
sage the eyelids with your
fingers.
Social Whirl
Wednesday
Civil Engineering Wives Club
will meet at 8 in the YMCA
South Solarium. A talk on “Tra
dition and Christmas Customs in
the Phillipjne Islands” will be
given.
Members are urged to bring
their donations for the Christmas
basket.
Aggies Wives Bridge Club will
meet at 7:30 in the Memorial
Student Center.
Thursday
The Student Chapter of the
American Veterinary Medicine
Assn. Auxiliary will meet in the
YMCA South Solarium. The
freshman class wives will be
hostesses.
Even though another hour may
be added to the trip by taking-
such precautionary measures,
trained drivers have proven by
their safety records that by fol
lowing them they can avoid ac
cidents.
Presentation Set
By Kindergarten
The Wee Aggieland Kinder
garten will present “The Toy
Shop Window” in the Memorial
Student Center Ballroom Thurs
day night at 7.
LIGHTHOUSE MUSEUM
HIGHLANDS, N. J. <7P) — Twin
Lights Lighthouse, abandoned since
1951, is open again as a nautical
museum.
The old stone towers were first
opened in 1862 and housed the first
U. S. life saving station.
Guglielmo Marconi conducted
wireless experiments here at the
turn of the century.
T h e lighthouse-museum’s chief
attractions are seafaring momen-
toes and a 200-foot-high observa
tion tower.
Civilian Student
Portrait Dates Set
Civilian Students will have
their portrait made for The Ag
gieland ’60 at the Aggieland
Studio between the hours of 8
a.m. and 5 p.m. according to the
following schedule.
Coats and ties should be
worn. All Sophomores and Jun
iors (Civilian) must have their
pictures taken before Dec. 17th.
Civilian Senior and Graduates
(Including Jr. and Sr. Vet Med.,
5th Year Architects)
Jan. 6-7 A-D
Jan. 11-12 E-K
Jan. 13-14 L-R
Jan. 18-19 S-Z
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