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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, January 18, 1962
Pass
In
Review
Well it looks like we may have been wrong.
When news came last November that the staff of the
Texas Ranger, TU’s controversial humor magazine, had been
fired we shrugged our shoulders and sighed, “The end of an
era.
Bacchanal, “after Bacchus, the god of wine.’*
•Dear the editor,
As you may or may not know,
the entire staff of the Ranger,
the humor magazine at the Uni-
versity of Texas, was recently
fired in a giant purge to clean
up our dear school. It seems
there was an indecency in the
November issue which gave the
board of publications the grounds
to make a clean sweep and start
over.
Because we are now blessed
with quite a bit of spare time,
we are putting our experience
and what-not to work by start
ing a NEW magazine, to be
called Bacchanal, after Bacchus,
the god of wine. The magazine
will be a private enterprise and
will be for the colleges of the
Southwest Conference. Like the
Ranger, which has enjoyed na
tional publicity for its stunts
over the past five or six years,
Bacchanal will be a humor maga
zine. Humor. Lotsa laughs.
We plan to include student
writing and cartooning from all
eight conference schools and
each month will feature one of
the schools in a giant expose.
This will NOT be a University
of Texas magazine, not at all.
They may not even want us.
We’ve been naughty in our cages.
Anyway, we need a correspon
dent from your campus to keep
us informed of all the happen
ings, to solicit student material
and to assist in getting Bacch
anal established there.
The magazine will be zany,
wild and outspoken, so the cor
respondent must be a good writ--
er, a nut, and have a sound
knowledge of everything that
goes on at the campus, plus a
good deal of nerve. Also a large
streak of insanity. Whoever it
is will have to be willing to work
for nothing until we can get es-
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Then, a few weeks after the Rangeroos had supposedly
bitten the dust came a letter signed by Dave Crossley, “EX-
Associate Editor” of the magazine.
Seems Mr. Crossley and some of his cronies had decided
to set themselves up in the publishing business—a hazardous
task at best. They, told us, were going to publish an all South
west Conference Ranger-type humor magazine called
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Hometown Chibs
The following hometown clubs
will meet tonight in the YMCA
Building:
Amarillo club in the Reading
Room at 7:30 p.m.
Grayson County club in the
Gay Room at 7:30 p.m.
Port Arthur club in the Lobby
at 7:15 p.m.
These hometown clubs will
meet tonight in the Memorial
Student Center:
El Paso club in Room 3-D at
7:30 p.m.
Lavaca County club on the sec
ond floor lounge at 7:30 p.m. for
Aggieland picture.
Angelina County club in Room
2-C at 7:30 p.m.
Bay Area club in Room 2-A at
7:30 p.m. for Aggieland picture.
“Would you help me with a difficult problem? Should I
bowl, see a movie, or just hit th’ sac?”
We figured they didn’t stand a chance. So we just filed
their letter away.
But they surprised us, and although they haven’t pro
duced a copy yet, it looks as if they might. Rice is to be
the first victim.
The letter sent us and another letter published in the
The Thresher, Rice University student newspaper, Jan. 10
just about tells their story. So here they are. We suggest
anyone interested in being a correspondent or sales represen
tative contact Crossley at 413 East 30th, Austin.
tablished, but the position will
be his next year. When we pay
money.
We’d be glad and happy and
appreciative as hell of any help
you can give us. Any. And if’n
you want more information about
Bacchanal, we’ll send it.
We’re really interested in get
ting some students interested in
working on the magazine- in a
hurry because we want to make
sure that it’s a magazine that
belongs to the students. Yeah.
Paper’s-getting shorter all
the time,
Dave Crossley, EX-Associate
Editor of the Ranger,
Rest in Peace
(Rice
Dear The Editor
Thresher, ed.)
This is all about a new maga
zine. First, in case you haven’t
heard, the staff of what was
once the greatest college humor
magzzine in the country was
just fired for being naughty. We
put dirty words in the magazine.
So Keyry O’Quinn, boy art a di
rector, ‘and I have decid’d to—
hell have decided to publish our
own magazine. The name of it
is bacchanal, named, of course,
after Bacchus, the god of wine.
Bacchanal will be distributed
at all the Southwest Conference
colleges. It is not a magazne
from the University of Texas.
It has no association whatsom-
e,ver with that place, except that
UT is a member of the SWC.
The magzzine will have material
in it by students from all the
SWC colleges, will have reports
on events at these colleges, will
stir up trouble at these colleges,
wil be banned at these colleges,
and then wil sink into the muck
with the Ranger.
Also, the magazine, will each
month, have a GIANT, GALA,
FESTIVE feature on one of the
solleges with pictures and all
kindsa junk. The first issue will
come out in February, with a
feature on Rice. Rice is first
for two reasons: (1) it’s an in
sane, swild, crazy place (2)0 I
went to Rice as a Freshman and
decided it woudl be nice to do
Rice first. You may not be
aware of it, but Rice is an ex
tremely unique school in the
SWC.
Thankee from the bottom of
my heart.
Dave Crossley
Ex-associate editor. Ranger
Both letters: (sic).—Ed.
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