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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Tuesday, October 22, 1963
CADET SLOUCH
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Students’ Flag Respect
Needs Vast Improvement
It’s 7:30 in the morning, any typical weekday morning.
From the direction of the YMCA Building trods a stu
dent carrying a neatly-folded red, white and blue bundle.
He steps up to the flag pole in front of the Academic
Building and begins to clip the flag of our country onto
the chains that will carry it to the top of the silver pole.
The few students coming back from breakfast at Sbisa
Hall cease their boisterous play to watch a fellow student
raise Old Glory.
Suddenly out to the mist of the EE Building comes
Fish Jones. With the roar of a 707 and the agility of a
prize fighter, Fish Jones maneuvers his bicycle in and out
of the students who have stupidly stopped on the sidewalk
to gaze at a flagpole.
With his helmet liner pulled down over one eye like
Erroll Flynn, Fish Jones grasps tightly to his books and
“dispatches” with one hand, while he guides his mighty
machine nonchalantly with the other. In another second
he is gone.
But Fish Jones is not only one sidestepping fellow
students who have the audacity to stand at attention in
the middle of the sidewalk.
Past the bronze silver taps plaque strolls Upperclassman
Smith. It just could be that Fish Jones is following his
example, for surely Smith has had much more experience
at this.
Are we asking too much for Fish Jones to dismount
and stand at attention with respect to the flag he has sworn
to defend? Is it asking too much for Upperclassman Smith
to stop a few seconds and quite possibly set a worthy
example? We think not.
There are many traditions that have made A&M proud,
and now many of these are slipping away. Let’s hold on
to this one.—RLF
“Maybe they’re afraid that touchdown will be th’ last one
in this game!”
Sound Off
Editor,
The Battalion:
In the four years I have spent
here at A&M, nothing has ever
been printed in The Battalion
that sickened me more than Lynn
Pixley’s letter of October 16.
If The Spirit of Aggieland is
dead, it is only so in the hearts
and minds of men such as him.
These men have turned their
backs on A&M when it needed
their support the most.
There are a great many stu
dents here now, as well as some
of those who graduated last year,
who did their best to prevent
things from happening that they
thought would hurt this great
institution. The changes have
taken place anyway, and for bet
ter or worse, they are here to
stay.
In my mind, The Spirit is dead
only to those who lie down and
say, “A&M is doomed.” At the
midnight yell practice of Oct.
11 I heard Aggies yell as I have
never heard before, and this was
after being outscored in three
previous football games. To these
Aggies, The Spirit is not dead,
not will it ever be as long as
there are men such as these.
If the exes do not want to en
courage men to come to A&M,
let them recommend a second
rate school, such as The Citadel.
A&M is still the greatest mili
tary university in the nation and
always will be. I challenge any
boy who wants to be molded into
a man to come to Texas A&M
University.
John M. Herring, ’63
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Ronnie Fann Managing Editor
Glenn Dromgoole News Editor
Jim Butler Sports Editor
John Wright Asst. News Editor
Marvin Schultz Asst. Sports Editor
Juan Tijerina - - Photographer
Editor,
The Battalion:
We are tired of seeing the
co-eds take the blame for the ap
parent lack of “Aggie Spirit” on
the part of the Corps. Many
people have, written attributing
the lack of Spirit to the co-eds.
We, however, feel that this is
not the basic reason for the
Spirit problem.
As we see it the basic reason
for the air of gloom is the ru
mored insecure future of the
Corps of Cadets, coupled with
the administration’s conspicu
ous silence on this and other
vital matters. We as members
of the Corps of Cadets are eager
ly awaiting official printed word
as to just what is our status and
future.
Class of ’65,
Squadron 2
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in The Battalion that was de
signed to throw mud on Bob
Rowland. I must say that I am
thoroughly disgusted with you
and the tripe you print. Mr.
Rowland happens to be the voice
for a very large percentage of
Aggie exes and I can assure you
that we will fight this prostitu
tion of Texas A&M to the bitter
end.
I agree with you that an Ag
gie should be loyal to A&M, but
that school at College Station is
no longer A&M. It has the same
buildings, the same grounds and
the same degree of academic ex
cellence, but it lacks that intang
ible quality that makes A&M
Spirit. The problem is women
and the solution is to get rid
of them.
James G. McCauley, ’62
Editor,
The Battalion:
I read your recent editorial
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TUESDAY
The Soil and Crop Student
Wives Club will meet at 7:30
p.m. in the home of Mrs. Fred
Miller at 905-A Cross in College
Station. Beauty Counselor, Mrs.
Wayland Hughes, will present a
series of demonstrations.
The Collegiate FFA Chapter
will meet in Room 229 of the
Chemistry Building at 7:30 a.m.
Outfit pictures for the AG
GIELAND will be made accord
ing to the schedule below.
Uniform will be class A
Winter. Outfit C.O.’s will wear
sabers; seniors will wear boots.
Ike jackets may be worn if ALL
seniors in the outfit can obtain
them. Guidons and award flags
will be carried. ALL personnel
in the outfit will wear the billed
service cap issued by the college.
The type of cap worn by under
classmen to and from the pic
ture taking area is left to the
discretion of the outfit C.O.
Outfits should.be in front of
the Administration Building by
1230 hrs. on the appointed day.
Arrangements should be made
by first sergeants with the Mess
Hall supervisors to allow the
outfit to be admitted to the
Mess Hall early.
October 21 A-l, B-l
October 22 C-l, D-l
October 23 E-l, F-l
October 24 G-l, G-2
October 25 A-2, B-2
October 28 C-2, D-2
October 29 E-2, F-2
October 30 A-3, B-3
October 31 C-3, D-3
November 1 E-3, F-3
November 4 H-3, Sqd. 16
November 5 G-3, 1-3
November 6 Sqd. 1, Sqd. 2
November 7 Sqd. 3, Sqd. 4
November 8 Sqd. 5, Sqd. 6
November 11 Sqd. 7, Sqd. 8
November 12 Sqd. 9, Sqd. 10
November 13 .... Sqd. 11, Sqd. 12
November 14 .... Sqd. 13, Sqd. 14
November 18 .... Sqd. 15, Sqd. 17
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