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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 7, 1961
BATTALION EDITORIALS
A Note Of Thanks
One Or The Other
We have been noting with growing concern throughout
the year that Texas A&M students, for some reason, are
being given a black-eye by some of the Texas news media for
• their conduct at athletic contests. It seems that Texas A&M
and poor sportsmanship are synonymous.
Yet, through it all, Texas A&M has actually done as
good a job as anyone in fostering proper sportsmanship. A
number of organizations on campus are engaged in a con
tinuous effort to maintain acceptable conduct at athletic
contests. To wit: the Southwest Conference Sportsmanship
Committee, the Student Senate, the Civilian‘Student Council
and the cadet officers.
Still, Texas A&M students are forced to accept such
bibes as making headlines across Texas for igniting a bon
fire prematurely while not being the guilty party, for being
informed by the Public Address System at the University of
Texas game that the object passing in front of their section
was an automobile (in case they had never seen one) and
being accused of profanity at basketball games.
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Editor, The Battalion,
And the Citizens of College Sta.:
The College Station United
Chest Drive has ended. The full
goal has been attained and the
full amounts recommended by the
budget committee have been mail
ed to the 14 participating agen
cies.
I would like to take this oppor
tunity as retiring chairman to
thank all my co-workers in the
1960 campaign for the excellent
job which they have done. It has
been a pleasure to work with you
{Mid I have been continually sur
prised to find how many willing
hands were available for the work
of the Chest. I should like to
thank each of you who contrib-
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
The issue perhaps reached a pinnacle last Saturday when
The Dallas Morning News accused the Texas A&M students
of a language that the laws of Uncle Sam would not allow to
be printed in the family newspaper.
There has been noticible grumbling around the campus
about the summary that appeared in The Dallas Morning
News. For one, The News attributed the supposed poor
sportmanship to the Corps of Cadets. For another, The
News cited an excess of supposed profanity.
In commenting on that account, there are two important
factors to take into consideration. First, there is an unwrit
ten law on the Texas A&M campus that the section behind
the visiting team bench—where the profanity is said to have
originated—is “reserved” for Texas A&M athletes, the foot
ball players, the baseball players, the track team, etc. More
over, those sitting in the vicinity of this section offered no
complaints for profanity, although no one denied that there
was a goodly amount of heckling. But, it might be pointed
out, the heckling did not exceed that found at any other col
lege in the Southwest Conference.
The remarks heard were of the “Sit down, you old goat!”,
and “Move around, ref, you’re rotting the boards!” variety.
It was hardly of the profane type that Uncle Sam prohibits
in the news media.
Second, it was not the Corps of Cadets. That is not to
say that the Cadets, the civilian students or any other faction
of the campus pleads innocent of heckling. All are loud in
their support of the Texas A&M athletic aggregations. None
theless, the Corps of Cadets were across the Coliseum in their
customary places.
The reasons for Texas A&M getting a poor nafne in re
gard to sportsmanship could stem from various reasons.
Perhaps it’s because Texas A&M students are so vehement
in their support of athletic teams; perhaps it’s because Texas
A&M is an all-male military college; perhaps it’s because
the Texas A&M student body can make more noise than any
student body in the Southwest Conference, or even in the
nation.
The fact still remains that: Texas A&M, all too often,
is given the poor sportsmanship monicker. True, the students
are not wholly innocent of unsportsmanlike acts. The damage
to the cannon brought down by Texas Christian University
this fall for the football engagement gives testimony to that.
But it is also true that if there is any question, the doubt
goes to Texas A&M.
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In leiu of these incidents, we have two suggestions. Tex
as A&M student leaders should either impose punitive action
on any acts that even border on unsportsmanlike conduct.
Or the Texas A&M student body should take steps to “earn”
the poor sportmanship name that is often bestowed on them;
they should let profanity abound; they should increase heck
ling of the opponents; and they should adopt a policy of “put
up, or shut up.”
After all, most coaches will agree that the home field
will give an advantage of a touchdown or 10 points. With
support like that from the Texas A&M student body, it
might mushroom into a two-touchdown or a 20-point advant
age . . .
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Publications,
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M cMurry,
ers oi me o&uuem. ruuucarious uoara are ij. rt. juuewaii, uirectur ui oi.uueuc
ns, chairman; Allen Schrader, School of Arts and Sciences; Willard I.
School of Engineering ; Otto R. Kunze, School of Agriculture; and Dr. E. D.
School of Veterinary Medicine.
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BILL HICKLIN ; EDITOR
Joe Callicoatte Sports Editor
Bob Sloan, Alan Payne, Tommy Holbein News Editors
Jim Gibson, Bob Roberts Editorial Writers
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Bob Mitchell, Ronnie Bookman, Robert Denney Staff Writers
Johnny Herrin, Ken Coppage Photographers
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Sound Off
uted—especially those who sent
in a second contribution when
the campaign seemed to be lag
ging, those who contributed from
places as far distant as Ceylon,
and those who contributed volun
tarily even though they were not
contacted.
now to support him and his staff
in the 1961 campaign.
Dale F. Leipper
. General Chairman, 1960
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‘Then, again ... 9
The United way is the ideal
way to raise money for commun
ity needs. This way of conduct
ing a campaign has enabled us
to keep our administrative costs
at a minimum—almost zero; has
resulted in a relatively simple
contact with generous givers; has
reduced the effort required from
the volunteer committee. The re
quests of all agencies were con
sidered systematically and an at
tempt was made to set fair
amounts according to service ren
dered and according to funds
available.
All interested agencies were in
vited to participate in the United
Chest. However, it appears that
some are able to raise more sup
port through separate campaigns.
As long as this is the case—as
long as there are citizens willing
to take the necessary roles in
raising funds separately and as
long as we individually contrib
ute to these different campaigns,
they will continue to exist sepa
rately. I am hopeful that the con
tinued success of the United ap
proach will lead more and more
of the independent agencies to
join us in this approach. This
would not only relieve us as a
community of much campaign ef
fort and overhead cost but would
also guarantee a more logical
distribution of donations receiv
ed. If each of us knew all about
all of the agencies involved, we
could judge our contributions
wisely. Since it is likely that we
do not, joining together so that
we can be represented by a bud
get committee which conducts
open hearings and makes decis
ions for us seems a good proced
ure. Divide by 14 your United
Chest contribution made last year
and see for yourself how little an
average amount was needed to
support the evaluated need of
each of the 14 participating agen
cies. A $10 contribution, for ex
ample, is only 71 cents per
agency, and yet we met our goal.
The Chest committee has elec
ted Dr. John C. Calhoun as Gen
eral Chairman for 1961. Under his
leadership the Chest can grow in
service to the Community. Plan
Editor,
The Battalion:
Recently an editorial appeared
in The Battalion lamenting the
fact that less and less letters
critical of campus policies are
submitted for publication. Many
have noticed this seeming apathy
of our students over controversial
school and Corps policies, but I
don’t think the lack of letters has
as its cause lack of, student in
terest.
I use the words ‘seeming a'pa-
thy’ above for a special reason:
students oh this campus are in
terested—and vitally so—in Tex
as A&M, but there are two good
reasons why that interest is sel
dom made manifest in written
criticism of school policies.
In the first place, teaching
here is such that individual analy
sis is seldom condoned, much less
encouraged. We are fed infor
mation in the forms of facts, fig
ures and theory; and we are re
quired, with a few notable excep-
tionsc, to regurgitate everything
in the exact same way. Individ
ualism? Personal interpretation?
These are not of place in Texas
A&Ms curriculum.
There are many, however, who
come to Texas A&M already hav-
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ing the mental attitude and train
ing necessary fo ra critical analy
sis of its many facets. “Why
don’t we hear from them more of
ten?” you ask. Speaking for the
Corps of Cadets—especially for
those cadets with contracts — I
know that many a cadet has trod
the lonely road to the Trigon for
his signature’s being at the bot
tom of a letter of criticism ap
pearing in The Battalion. For
fear of expulsion from the Corps
or of losing one’s contract, what
cadet wouldn’t be reluctant to
criticize the school, the Corps, or
anything else?
Thomas Jefferson owe
statement which we migH
to consider: “If there |
amonk us who wish toi
this union ... let themai
disturbed, as monument!
safety with which error!
ion may be tolerated wl#
son is left free to comtul
Lehin also said
which we might findo'rj
“Why should any mallei
to . . . disseminate opinj j
to embarrass the govern^
Then, again, there’s
A&M College.
Andrew Earl Sk#
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