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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Tuesday, January 16, 1962
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President's Talk
Nullifys Training
(Editor’s note: President Earl
Rudder met with the senior class
Saturday morning in Guion
Hall.)
Editor,
The Battalion:
The meeting between the sen
ior class and the college presi
dent Saturday morning had sev
eral interesting points. Many
students left wondering why the
meeting had been called, but most
felt that it was simply to explain
what a good job the senior class
has done at this institution.
One puzzling point was in the
middle of the speech. The ex
planation was that it is useless
to spend too much time arguing
controversial issues during our
last semester at A&M. In the
past many students have been
so consumed in current issues
that they failed to graduate
In explaining the above issue,
Mr. Rudder earnestly and con
scientiously felt the need to in
form us of this problem. The
tragic thing is that it negates all
the training and leadership de
velopment which we as seniors
have had. The fact that numer
ous others have fallen into this
trap is simply indicative of their
immaturity and inability to han
dle their personal affairs.
The capability of decisiveness
comes not from a 45-minute
speech by the president, but from
being exposed to a wide choice
of alternatives. By choosing for
himself the course of action, a
man learns to be a responsible
citizen.
The main issue here is that .
college is supposed to give us the
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background to make decisions—
not to point out a course of ac
tion. If it doesn’t give us this
background, then make the
changes needed to enable us to
learn these things.
It’s a failure of the system, if
the president in reality needs to
advise us on these things.
Don Cook, ’62
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Longhorn Censures
Rebel Flag Waving
Editor,
The Battalion:
The following excerpt is from
The Fort Worth Star Telegram
referring to the Southwest Con
ference Sportsmanship Commit
tee at the Cotton Bowl game
Jan. 1:
“The president of the Texas
A&M student body (Malcolm
Hall, president of the Student
Senate. Ed.) plus some of his
buddies, as well as part of the
Baylor delegation, waved Rebel
flags and yelled for Ole’ Miss.
That is what we call good ol’
SWC spirit.”
The Texas Longhorns have al
ways been proud of the rivalry
between our great schools. We
consider you our greatest rival
but we root for you when you
meet another team. We make up
horrible Aggie jokes to tell
among ourselves but always take
your side if an outsider tries the
same thing and an Aggie isn’t
there to defend himself.
You can rest assured that the
Longhorns have always support
ed your teams 100 per cent in
your contests with any foreign
state and in any bowl game. We
are as proud of your victories as
any of our own. Evidently that
feeling isn’t reciprocated.
I feel your actions are almost
5 as bad as if Sheppard had hoped
[1| Grissom would fail because he
I hadn’t been chosen to represent
the U. S. again in its space ef
forts. Your “student body presi
dent and his buddies” do not de
serve the privilege of living in
the great state of Texas, much
less representing the SWC on
the Sportsmanship Committee!
Bette Ammann
807 West 25
Austin 5, Texas
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UT Students Ask
AUSTIN (A*) _ Three Univer
sity of Texas students said Mon
day they will present Gov. Price
Daniel a petition today asking
clemency for Howard Stickney,
condemned to die Jan. 19.
Charles Laughlin of Dallas
said he and Tom Flowers of Cor
pus Christi and Clarence Hall of
Austin will give Daniel a peti
tion containing about 650 signa
tures gathered on the University
of Texas campus.
Laughlin said the petition asks
mercy for Stickney because of al
leged discrepancies in the evi
dence that convicted Stickney of
the 1958 Galveston beach slay
ing of Mrs. Clifford Barnes, of
Houston.
Bulletin Board
Professional Societies
Brazos Valley Economics As
sociation will meet Feb. 2 instead
of Jan. 18 as previously sched
uled.
Pre-Law Society will meet at
7:30 p.m. in Room 2-D, Memorial
Student Center.
January meeting of the Ac
counting Society has been post
poned until Feb. 20.
COMPLETE SET
CHANUTE, Kan. CP)—It took
nearly two years but Ed Zastrow
finally accumulated a complete
collection of Kansas auto license
plates. The collection, which in
cludes one for each year they have
been issued, extends from 1913
to 1961.
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Shellfish Meeting
Dr. John G. Mackin, head of the
Department of Biology will attend
a conference on shellfish disease
problems at the Chesapeake Biolo
gical Laboratory at Solomons, Md.
Jan. 22,
Mackin has done extensive re
search on the problem.
TUESDAY
“THE LAST SUNSET”
with Rock Hudson
Plus
“THE GRASS IS GREENER”
with Robert Mitchum
10 6 2 A G GIELANI
Texas A&M College
College Station, Texas
Civilian Yearbook
Portrait Schedule
Civilian students willhavefe
portrait made for the AGGE
LAND ’62 according to theli!
lowing schedule. Portraitsij
be made at the Aggieland Stsj
between the hours of 8a.u.u
5 p. m. on the days schedula
COATS AND TIES SHOlTj
BE WORN.
Sr. and Grad. Civilians
Jan. 15-16 O-Q
16- 17 R-S
17- 18 T-V
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{Author of “Rally Round The Flag, Boys”, “Tht
Many Loves of Dobic Gillis”, etc.)
IS STUDYING NECESSARY?
Once there were three roommates and their names were Waller
Pellucid, Casimir Fing, and Lelloy Holocaust and they wereall
taking English lit. and they were sill happy, friendly, outgoing
types and they sill smoked Marlboro Cigarettes as you would
expect from such a gregarious trio, for Marlboro is the very es
sence of sociability, the very spirit of amity, and very soul of
concord, with its tobacco so mild and flavorful, its packs
king-size and flip-top, its filter so pure and white, and you will
find when you smoke Marlboros that the world is filled with tie
song of birds and no man’s hand is raised against you. *
Each night after dinner Walter and Casimir and LeRoy went
to their room and studied English lit. For three hours they sat
in sombre silence and pored over their books and then, squinly
and spent, they toppled onto their pallets and sobbed them
selves to sleep.
This joyless situation obtained all through the first semester.
Then one night they were all simultaneously struck by a mar
velous idea. “We are all studying the same thing,” they cried.
“Why, then, should each of us study for three hours? Wry not
each study for one hour? It is true we will only learn one-third
as much that way, but it does not matter because there are
three of us and next June before the exams, we can get together
and pool our knowledge!”
Oh, what rapture then fell on Walter and Casimir and LeRoyl
They flung their beanies into the air and danced a gavotte and
lit thirty or forty Marlboros and ran out to pursue the pleasure
which had so long, so bitterly, been missing from their lives.
Alas, they found instead a series of grisly misfortunes.
Walter, alas, went searching for love and was soon going steady
with a coed named Invicta Breadstuff, a handsome lass, but,
alas, hopelessly addicted to bowling. Each night she bowled
five hundred lines, some , nights a thousand. Poor Walter’s
thumb was a shambles and his purse was empty, but Invicta
just kept on bowling and in the end, alas, she left Walter fora
pin-setter, which was a terrible thing to do to Walter, especially
in this case, because the pin-setter was automatic.
Walter, of course, was far too distraught to study his English
lit, but he took some comfort from the fact that his roommates
were studying and they would help him before the exams. But
Walter, alas, was wrong. His roommates, Casimir and LeRoy,
were nature lovers and they used their free time to go for long
tramps in the woods and one night, alas, they were treed by
two bears, Casimir by a brown bear and LeRoy by a kodiak,
and they were kept in the trees until spring set in and the
bears went to Yellowstone for the tourist season.
So when the three roommates met before exams to pool their
knowledge, they found they had none to pool! Well sir, they bad
a good long laugh about that and then rushed to the kitchen
and stuck their heads in the oven. It was, however, an electric
oven and the effects were, on the whole, beneficial. The wax in
their ears got melted and they acquired a healthy tan and
today they are married to a lovely young heiress named Gang
lia Bran and live in the Canal Zone, where there are many nice
boats to wave at. © i96^ Mtu snuimau
* * *
In case you worry about such things, their wife is a Marlboro
smoker, loo, which adds to the general merriment. Marlboro
is ubiquitous, as well as flavorful, and you can buy them in
all 50 states as well as the Canal Zone.
By Charles M. Schuli
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