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College Station, Texas
Tuesday, May 15, 1962
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CADET SLOUCH
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by Jim Earle
A
Reduced Guest Rate Will
Aid SWC School Students
Student members of next year’s Southwest Conference
Sportsmanship Committee took a giant step Saturday toward
aiding their fellow students enjoy the high caliber of sports
played by members of the Southwest Conference.
Delegates to the spring sportsmanship committee meet
ing in Waco approved a resolution to the business manager
of the SWC asking for a $2 student guest rate for football
games.
If approved, the reduced rate will replace a former $4
rate that was used here and at most SWC schools.
The proposal will cover tickets purchased by students
for guests, with the ticket-holders accompanying students
at the gate.
At most schools, as is true at A&M, students themselves
pay a fee that covers their entrance to athletic contests
while registering.
Then for out-of-town games, SWC students are allowed
to purchase student tickets for $1.
The action for a lower guest rate was closely associated
with the fact that students, while guests for road games, can
enter for the $1 rate.
Several delegates at Saturday’s meeting sought a $1 rate
for guests, however this was upped to $2 in an effort to
prevent cutting revenue too much.
This will possibly be a big factor at A&M, where the
seating capacity of 42,000 is one of the lowest in the con
ference. Already the Aggies play several teams only in their
opponents’ home stadium because of Kyle Field’s restrictive
capacity and the fact that most fans have to travel consider
able distances to attend home games.
The Battalion hopes a reduction of guest rates will be
viewed favorably by officials of the Southwest Conference.
Even though less money will be collected from each student
guest, we feel that increased attendance due to the lower
rate will more than make up for the difference.
Also, since most guests will be of college-age, the con
ference stands to win even more life-long fans.
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Mothers Went Away Proud
Our Mothers went away proud!
And for good reason—once again Parent’s Day Weekend
was a huge success for over 5,000 to 7,000 parents and visi
tors.
A&M without a doubt put its best foot forward through
out the activity-filled weekend.
The list of persons responsible for the smooth coordina
tion of events is much longer than the actual list of activities.
These persons put in many hours of hard work for the week
end—both for themselves and their fellow-students.
They definitely deserve a pat on the back—as long as
studer^g will successfully coordinate events like the past
Parentis Day, A&M will occupy a warm place in the hearts
of tholbuads of Texans.
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mer!”
Sound Off-
this sum-
Prof Commends
Results Of Poll
Editor,
The Battalion:
Congratulations to those Ag
gies, who were guided by their
intellects rather than their emo
tions, for the over-whelming sig
nificant results of the recent
poll requested by the adminis
tration.
The results of this poll, along
with the similar feelings of a
majority of the faculty, may in
dude the proper authorities to
look “long and hard” at the way
A&M should go in the future.
These results may partially an
swer critics of the • school who
have referred to our potentially
great institution, because of the
present state of things, as a
“relic of antiquity.”
C. E. Miller
Department, of Biology
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Wife ‘Sick’
Over Voting
Editor,
The Battalion:
A&M has been a great school
for great men since its estab
lishment. It gives me a sick feel
ing to see the men presently en
rolled voting to change the very
things that make this school out
standing—the Corps and its tra
ditions.
And it will change if a non-
compulsory Corps and a coedu
cational system are established.
The day will soon come when the
Aggies are frat rats living in
frat houses.
The Corps will diminish in size
and prestige until it is of no
more importance than that at
TU! Aren’t there enough tea-
sippers hiding behind that emas
culated bull without putting the
Aggies in much the same posi
tion.
Since I’m an Aggie wife, I can
speak from the other side of the
fence, too. Girls take pride in
dating Aggies. He doesn’t have
to be good looking or a good
dancer to make the grade—as
long as he’s an Aggie, that
makes him distinctive and more
eligible than any frat rat be
cause there’s nothing individual
about them. It takes a man to
be an Aggie, and we all know
it. To prove my point, how many
of you are going with gilds from
TU and other coeducational
schools ?
There isn’t an Aggie in the
world who doesn’t feel a little
taller when he hears the “Spirit”
and a swell of pride when the
band strikes up the “War
Hymn.” The 12th man has main
tained nation-wide respect for
many years. It will be a sad
thing to see him die and the
proud Aggie fade into the back
ground with millions of other
frat rats!
Mrs. Ed Kohutek Jr.
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CRAM COURSE NO. 5: SHAKESPEARE
Continuing our Rories of pre-final exam cram courses, today s
take up the works of William Shakespeare (or “The Bard a
Avon” as he is jocularly called).
First let us examine the persistent theory that Shakespeare
(or “The Pearl of the Antilles” as he is affectionately referred
to) is not the real author of his play’s. Advocates of this theory
insist that the plays are so full of classical allusions and learned
references that they couldn’t possibly have been written by
the son of an illiterate country butcher.
To which I reply, “Faugh!” Was not the great Spinozas
father a humble woodcutter? Was not the immortal Isaac
Newton’s father a simple second baseman? (The elder Newton,
incidentally, is one of history’s tnfly pathetic figures. He was,
by all accounts, the greatest second baseman of his time, but
baseball, alas, had not yet been invented.) It used to break
young Isaac’s heart to see his father get up every morning, put
on uniform, spikes, glove, and cap, and stand alertly beWnd
second base, bent forward, eyes narrowed, waiting, waiting,
waiting. That’s all—waiting. Isaac loyally sat in the bleachere
and yelled, “Good show, Dad!” and stuff like that, but every
one else in town used to snigger and pelt the Newtons with
overripe fnrit—figs for the elder Newton, apples for the younger.
Thus, as we all know, the famous occasion came about when
Isaac Newton, struck in the head with an apple, leapt to bis
feet, shouted, “Europa!” and announced the third law ol
motion: “For every action there is an opposite and equal
reaction 1” , -
(How profoundly true these simple words ale! Take, for
example, Marlboro Cigarettes. Light one. That’s the action.
Now what is the reaction? Pleasure, delight, contentment, cheer,
and comfort! And why such a happy reaction? Because you have
started with a happy cigarette—a felicitous Mend of jolly to
baccos, a good-natured filter, a rollicking flip-top box, a merry
soft pack. As Newton often said, “You begin with better
makin’s, you end with better smokin’s.” Small wonder they
called him “The Swedish Nightingale!”).
But I digress. Back to Shakespeare (or “The Gem of the
Ocean” as he was ribaldly appelated).
Shakespeare’s most important play is, of course, Hamlet (or
Macbeth, as it is sometimes called). This play tells in living
color the story of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, who one night
sees a ghost upon the battlements. (Possibly it is a goal he
sees: I have a first folio edition that is frankly not too legible.)
Anyhow, Hamlet is so upset by seeing the ghost (or goat) that
he stabs Polonius and Bare Bodkin. He is thereupon banished
to a leather factory by the King, who cries, “Get thee to a
tannery!” Thereupon Ophelia refuses her food until Laertes
shouts, “Get thee to a beanery!” Ophelia is so miffed that she
chases her little dog out of the room, crying, “Out, out damned
Spot!” She is fined fifty shillings for swearing, but Portia, in
an eloquent plea, gets the sentence commuted to life imprison
ment. Thereupon King Lear and Queen Mab proclaim a festi
val—comjilete with amateur theatricals, kissing games, and a
pic-eating contest. Everyone has a perfectly splendid time till
Banquo’s ghost (or goat) shows up. This so unhinges Richard
III that he drowns his cousin, Butt Malmsey. This leads to a
lively discussion during which everyone is killed. The little dog
Spot returns to utter the immortal curtain lines:
Alack, the play forsooth was sad and sobby,
But be of cheer—there's Marlboros in the lobby!
© 1962 Max Shuimw)
As the slinys and arrows of outrageous finals loom closer,
perchance the makers of Marlboro are not untoward to oiler
this friendly suggestion: Get thee to a library!
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