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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, October 17, 1963
CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Bulletin BoCird
We Stand For This:
We are currently in the midst of National Newspaper
Week. There will not be a better time for The Battalion
to restate its basic policies and objectives.
First of all we define our reading - audience as the
students, faculty and staff of A&M University; citizens who
live in the University community; and former students and
other persons interested in A&M.
To the best of our ability we will strive to report news
that we feel is of interest to them. We will try to report
all events on our news pages in an objective manner. We
will do this by recognizing our own prejudices and trying
to remove Them from our written news product.
While we make every effort to keep the news sections
of The Battalion free of bias and personal opinions, we work
just as hard to present our opinions, which have been de
veloped often times after many hours of thought and
research, on our editorial page. We will continue to express
these opinions in the future, just as we have in the past.
We don't expect everyone to agree with everything we have
to say, and we imagine that sometime ho one agrees with
us. But that makes no difference, it is our opinion and
we would be deceitful if we said something contrary to that
opinion.
However, so that we cannot take an unfair advantage
of any person or group, we have given space on this same
editorial page to our readers. Our “Sound-Off” column is
available to anyone who wishes to express his or her opinion.
Any letter addressed to “Sound-Off,” as long as it is fit
for public consumption, will be printed.
The editorial opinion expressed in The Battalion is meant
to express the feeling of The Battalion and only The Bat
talion. We make no pretense of representing any other
group.
It could probably go without saying that we are always
pleased when someone agrees with us, but we are in no way
offended when someone disagrees with us. The sole purpose
of our expression of our opinion is to give the reader some
food for thought. If after chewing this food the reader
wishes to reject it, very well. The important thing is that
he chew and decide for himself what his taste is.
THURSDAY
The Bay Area Hometown Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room
205 of the Academic Building.
The Hill County Hometown Club
will meet in the Gay Room of
the YMCA Building at 7:30 p.m.
The Houston-Reagan-Walter-Da-
vis Hometown Club will meet at
7:30 p.m. in Room 127 of the
Academic Building.
The Mid-County Hometown
Club will meet after Yell Prac
tice in Room 206 of the Aca
demic Building.
The Midland Hometown Club
will meet in Room 203 of the
Academic Building after Yell
Practice.
“ . . . And you want to be excused because your ride to Ft.
Worth leaves at noon Friday! That’s strange because the
guy you’re with said it was your car!”
-Job Calls—
FRIDAY
The American Oil Company —
^ Chemical engineering, civil engi
neering and mechanical engineer
ing.
General Dynamics — Aero
space engineering, civil engineer
ing, electrical engineering, me
chanical engineering, mathema
tics and physics.
The Shell Companies—Chem
ical engineering, civil engineer
ing, electrical engineering, geo
physics, mechanical engineering,
petroleum engineering, account
ing, business administration,,
chemistry, mathematics, physics,
agricultural economics, econo
mics and finance.
Sound Off
Editor,
The Battalion:
In the editorial appearing in
the Oct. 8 Battalion, the editorial
staff expressed the feeling that
the Senate does not have the
right to initiate investigation
proceedings on subjects concern
ing the student body of this Uni
versity.
As the Senate is composed of
members representing the stu
dent body, it has the inherent
power to investigate any subject
the body feels deserves its time.
If this is not the case, why was
the Senate permitted to investi
gate the laundry procedures last
year in an effort to improve its
services to the student body?
This is one of many such actions
initiated by the Senate to im
prove the University in the stu
dent’s interests.
The letter by Mr. Schaefer,
also appearing in the Oct. 8
Battalion, made it quite clear
that Vanity Fair contest is a
function of the Aggieland staff.
Therefore, the Senate does not
have the power in itself to
change any part of the Vanity
Fair procedure. Yet it still has
the right to begin an investiga
tion, announced or not.
Since the power of change of
the Senate in this case lies with
forming student opinion through
their investigation , there is no
loss of power by the Aggieland
staff except by student pressure.
Are organizations on this campus,
such as the Battalion and Aggie
land staffs, afraid of student
opinion brought about by invest
igation of a student body repre
sentative organization? Or,
could it be that the editor of
The Battalion feels he is the
only one on this campus that has
the right to use the weapon of
public opinion?
Ed Lamb, '64
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Editor,
The Battalion:
In The Battalion editorial of
10 Oct 1963 one of your closing
statements was “We must agree
that Old Sarge, as fond as we
are of him, does not project the
idea of excellence that we all
should want our University to
attain.”
Old Sarge was not intended to
represent the image of the
school’s excellence, he was meant
to be a form of mascot, a sym
bol of the Spirit and find tra
ditions found at A&M.
Just look around you at the
symbols of our fellow Southwest
Conf rence schools; Arkansas —
th Razorback; T.C.U. — the
Horned Toad; Baylor — the
Bear; and let’s not forget Texas
— the Longhorns. Gentlemen,
these symbols are all bumb ani
mals and they represent some of
the finest brain factories in
Texas and in the world, but,
they too were not meant to rep
resent an image of excellence,
only to represent spirit.
This then is what the job of
Old Sarge is, to raise spirit, and
to help us hold our heads high
and if I might add this is some
thing we need to do in these
times of changes and progress.
I close with just this one
thought, what is an image of
excellence, do not the records
and performances of the stu
dents speak for themselves or
must we have some symbol to
make people think that we have
achieved excellence? Would it
not be better to let Old Sarge
represent our Spirit and tradi
tion and our own actions as Uni
versity students represent the
excellence of our school.
James M. Adams, ’64
Don H. Ocker, ’63
Van K. Veselka, ’66
Frank S. Blair, ’65
David S. Jernigan, ’64
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Editor,
The Battalion:
Last week-end I was a visi
tor upon your campus and I
have never felt so heart sick
in all my life. What has hap
pened to that burning spirit that
was once so obvious during my
previous visits ? It seemed like
every Aggie around me wanted
to be the Aggie that I’ve al
ways known, but something very
gloomy hung in the air.
It is within my personal feel
ing that the change to co-edu
cation at A&M has dampened the
Spirit and if it has please, Ag
gies, start voicing your opin
ion for what you believe in. My
cousin is an Aggie ex, and be
lieve me, he is fighting co-edu
cation and is throughly disgust
ed with the silence of the stu
dents on campus.
I am not asking that you fight
for something that you do not
believe in, but each of you must
look at himself and decide —
then voice your opinion one way
or the other.
Pat Bryant
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The Navarro County Hometown
Club will meet in the Lounge of
Puryear Hall after Yell Practice.
The Pasadena Area Hometown
Club will meet in Rooin 2-B of
the Memorial Student Center at
7:30 p.m.
The South Louisiana Hometown
Club will meet in the Fountain
Room of the YMCA Building
after Yell Practice.
The Yankee Hometown Club
will meet in the Anderson Room
of the YMCA Building after Yell
Practice.
FRIDAY
The |MSC Chess Committee will
meet in the Social Room of the
Memorial Student Center at 7:30
p.m.
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