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A&M is over 86 years old, but never in the school’s his
tory have students had the opportunity that will be afforded
each student attending convocation activities on every corner
of the campus Friday.
In short, students Friday will be able to personally dis
cuss the college’s future with a group of Texans that has
just completed a study of possible future goals for the school.
Every student can look at the convocation from a dif
ferent angle, but The Battalion feels these student-visitor
discussions, mostly during departmental programs early Fri
day morning, will be most beneficial. Like every organization,
a college has to grow and progress from the roots up. We
feel these lower-level discussions could provide just the basis
for substantial progress.
This view is certainly no retraction on the remainder of
the program, an impressive lineup of activities that should
prove beneficial to every aspect of student life. But at no
other time during the day will students be offered the
straight-forward opportunity to discuss the college that will
be possible during the initial informal morning sessions.
Many of Friday’s visitors will be returning to campus
for the first time in years, and they will find a school scarcely
similar to the one they left at graduation. Who would be
better qualified to tell these visitors of the steps A&M has
made since ‘way back when? We believe the student, and also
feel visitors will be eager to hear how students feel about
the college’s current programs.
Even members of the Century Council have had less con
tact with the student than with faculty-staff members. It
appears they also would appreciate discussion with students
who are genuinely interested in what the college is doing.
We hope few students will choose to pass up the opportu
nity that will be theirs Friday. Every Aggie can make a
tangible contribution to the operation and future of his school.
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Editor,
The Battalion:
In reply to the letter of the
“gung ho” sophomore, Bill Bay
er, ’65, some of us “no-spirit”
non-regs would like to know how
many of the “non-civilian,” spir
it-happy boys would attend spirit
raising functions conducted on
campus if they did not have to.
Mr. Bayer attends those func
tions because he would be ram
med if he did not. No doubt he
would probably rather be out
drinking beer if he were old
enough.
If the functions referred to,
such as yell practice, were so im
portant and wanted by the ma
jority of the students, mandatory
attendance would not be neces
sary.
As for the aerial incident, if
we had just had the aerial broken
off our car by a “Corps” boy or
anyone else, we would not have
stood at attention while the
“Spirit” was being played. We
would probably have been doing
something besides getting names.
We have great respect for the
Corps and most of the men in it,
but we feel that they are not the
“only” ones who count on this
campus. The civilian students, as
well as the Corps, represent what
A&M is, and we feel that we
make students equal in ability
to the Corps, and after all, the
knowledge is what we are here
for.
And as for driving cars on
campus, the streets were made
for automobiles and were not
built for holding yell practice or
walking on.
W. R. Allen, ’62
Bobby L. McCorkle, ’65
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Job Calls—
The following firms will inter
view graduating seniors in the
Placement Office of the YMCA
Building:
Editor,
The Battalion:
Mr. Bill Bayer asked in his let
ter Nov. 13 why the civilian stu
dents or non-regs, as he and the
Corps would like to call us, do
not have the Spirit. He seemed
to forget that the spirit of Aggie-
land is only for the Corps.
The civilian students are only
a minor existing portion of the
student body who, in the eyes of
the Corps and some alumni, real
ly don’t count. We aren’t a part
of this institution because the
Corps or possibly just a few per
sons in the Corps don’t want us.
We are to be tolerated as you
would a bad cold, to be cured in
time.
“ . . . Naw! Not th’ United Fund!
bonfire casualties.”
It’s to keep track of th’
Bulletin Board
Convocation Student Reception
Committee will meet at 9:15 p.m.
in Rooms 2-A and 2-B of the Me
morial Student Center.
Wives Clubs
Chemical engineering club will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in the YMCA
Building.
Band club will meet at 7:30
p.m. at the home of Norma Hol
ley, College Station.
Hometown Clubs »
Top of Texas club will meet at
7:30 p.m. on the fourth floor of
the Academic Building.
Red River club will meet at
7:30 p.m. in Room 303 of the
Academic Building.
Houston-Lamar club will meet
SHOP
A&M MEN’S SHOP
“Home of
Distinctive Men’s Wear”
North Gate
College Station
Well Spoken Says
BERNIE LEMMONS, ’52
If a man does not provide for
his children, if he does not pro
vide for those dependent on him,
and if has not a vision of con
ditions to come, then he has not
opened his eyes to any adequate
conception of human life.”
Former President
Woodrow Wilson
at 7:30 p.m. in Room 227 of the
Academic Building.
Pasadena club will meet at 7:30
p.m. in Room 115 of the Biolog
ical Sciences Building.
St. Thomas club will meet at
7:30 in Room 303 of the Academic
Building.
Amarillo club will meet at 7:30
p.m. in Room 102 of the Academic
Building.
Abilene club will meet at 7:30
p.m. in Room 208 of the Academic
Building.
Pecan Valley club will meet at
7:30 p.m. in Room 305 of the
Academic Building.
Mid-County club will meet at
7:30 p.m. in Room 224 of the
Academic Building.
Friday
Pan Geo Atlas Corp.—Electri
cal engineering, industrial engi-
neeidng, mechanical engineering,
petroleum engineering and phys
ics, BS, MS.
Cities Service Research & De
velopment Co.—Chemical engi
neering, BS, MS; chemistry, BS,
MS, PhD.
Jefferson Chemical Co.—Indus
trial engineering and mechanical
engineering, BS; chemical engi
neering, BS, MS; chemistry, BS,
MS, PhD.
Internal Revenue Service—Ac
counting, BBA.
Are the civilian students a
part of this school ? If they are,
then tell freshmen to whip out
to us. We’re human; we can be
friendly if treated as a friend
and brother. But that’s the
trouble, we aren’t. We’re called
“two percenters,” scroungy non-
regs or anything else one can
think up on the spur of the mo
ment.
I want to be spoken to when
I say “Howdy!” And I don’t
want to hear a lousy grunt. If
you want the civilian students
to get the Spirit, it will be up to
the Corps and the rest of this
institution to make us feel like
we are a part of this school.
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HE WAS LOGINS AT MY REPORT
CARO, AND OJONDEP(N6 WHY I
WAS THE ONLY ONE IN MY CLASS
OJHO DIDN'T GET AN A 1 IN SPELLING...
I SAID, ISNT ITOJONDERFOL
H0U) EACH OF US ON THIS.
EARTH OJAS CREATED JUST
A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT?"
THATS WHEN 0JE SOT INTO THE
THEOLOaCAL ARGUMENT...
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Give us some recognition d
than the fact we’re just
students. Give us a place in;
school, and you’ll have the
you want. You’ll have the i
62 per cent of the student:
behind the school.
I think all we w'ant isti
treated like we belong here,
that and I guarantee I'll li
every yell practice you can
Dave Coulsor
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Editor,
The Battalion:
I certainly agree with Mr,
Bayer; let us dispense with
it, the 12th Man, the bonfire
yell practice.” While w
about it, let us end compsi;
Corps, Religious Emphasis I
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