THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, March 4, 1964
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Championship, You Bet!
But Even More, Too
Coach Shelby Metcalf and the Fightin’ Texas Aggie
basketball team brought the Southwest Conference Cham
pionship back to College Station with them last night—but,
their season accomplishments have meant more than just a
championship to A&M.
Probably without ever being aware of the fact, the
Aggie cagers have done one of the greatest services to A&M
that has been enacted in recent months. At a time when
the Spirit of Aggieland, the worth of the Aggie and A&M
itself were all being questioned and placed on trial by some
groups, the cagers presented a common cause around which
all Aggies could rally.
Cadets, civilians and even the relatively small number
of co-eds on campus (who are most often called Maggies)
were all compelled in one way or another to show their
support of the team and loyalty to A&M as this really great
feat took shape before their own eyes. They could see that
their team was developing into a champion. And, a student
is never so close to anything as he is to a winning athletic
team.
In their common closeness to the team, all students were
necessarily drawn closer together. As we gathered closer
to the roundball court and rubbed the shoulders of enthusi
asm together, we each discover for ourself that our fellow
Aggies are still as well blessed with the Aggie Spirit as we
each knew ourself to be. We have discovered that Aggies
are still the same Aggies that they have always been. We
probably realize more than we did a few months ago that
A&M answers second to none—in all areas from fields of
athletic competition to the classroom and on into the world
of everyday living.
We thank you and congratulate you, Coach Metcalf, and
your cagers, for the Southwest Conference Championship—
but, even more we thank you for giving all Aggies a common
meeting ground.
Johnson Burned In Effigy
By Anti-American Students
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ATHENS (A>) — Rampaging
anti - American demonstrators
burned an effigy of President
Johnson in Athens Tuesday
night as rioting over the Cyprus
issue erupted in Greece. Students
stoned American installations
and fought with police on the
Greek island of Rhodes.
The demonstrators claim the
United States is following a pro-
Turkish line in attempts to set
tle strife on Cyprus.
Thousands of shouting demon
strators raged through the streets
of downtown Athens denouncing
America and British on the Cy
prus issue and shouting praise
for the Soviet Union.
On Rhodes, off the Turkish
coast, an estimated 3,000 high
school students hurled stones at
the U. S. Information Service
buildings, the Turkish Consulate
and the USS Courier, a Coast
Guard vessel serving as a broad
cast station for the Voice of
America.
A Greek government official
who tried to calm the crowds
was hooted and jeered when he
shouted, “The Americans are our
friends."
In Athens, there were shouts
of “Johnson A1 Capone”, "Bra.
vo Russia" and “Out with the
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Sound Off
Editor,
The Battalion:
It is only natural that there
are those who believe that the
A&M Senior Ring was meant to
be worn only by students who,
in addition to attaining senior
standing, had completed two
years of military training at
A&M. The reason for this think
ing is that the ring bears the
crossed rifle and sabre. Their
solution would be to offer all
civilian students various sizes of
the same ring (without the mili
tary symbol). We would expect
this group to apply similar rea
soning to the question of Silver
Taps, which is equally military
in nature, by saying the Silver
Taps was always meant to be
played only for military students
at A&M. These ideas would at
least be conceivable and for that
matter might even be accepted
by a majority of students now.
However, an inconsistency sud
denly emerges. The Student Sen
ate is apparently dominated by
those who persist with the er
roneous belief that tradition dic
tates to whom respect will be
shown, that a fellow student who
has died is deserving of less re
spect simply because she is fe
male. And some would even
argue that simply because she
is female, the coed does not de
serve to wear the ring, even
though we all know that many
students and graduates who never
had any military training at all
now wear the senior ring bear
ing the crossed rifle and sabre.
It is just such distasteful argu
ments based on this discrimina
tory idea that are being objected
to. It is hard to see how sup
posedly rational individuals can
base resolutions on an agrument
which is itself such a deviation
from common sense, reason, and
justice. This is obviously a bea
utiful example of thinking in a
mental straightjacket. To put
into reality practices based on
such resolutions would constitute
a great leap backward for our
rapidly progressing University.
This leaves both questions to
be considered as being either
military traditions or student tra
ditions. The latter seems to be
the more feasible approach. Since
Silver Taps has in the past been
played for any A&M student, it
should continue to be played for
any A&M student — male, fe
male, or military. In this same
light it should remain possible
for all seniors to wear the same
ring (except for a possible weight
option).
James R. Sharber
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Editor,
The Battalion:
This letter is a rebuttal of Mr.
Keith Mims’ letter to the editor
appearing in The Battalion, Feb,
28, in which he criticized Mr.
Ronald W. Bland, leader of the
liberal movement at Texas A&M
University.
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I begin by a discussion of the
phrase so often quoted from Karl
Marx’s Communist Manifesto:
that is, “from each according to
his ability, to each according to
his need.” Mr. Mims crudely
implies, by ascribing these words
to Mr. Bland’s Liberalism, which
he identifies with the American
liberal movement, that Mr. Bland
is a communist. But, if Mr.
Mims wishes to crudely imply, he
should do so by making use of
the correct ideological statements
of a modern communist nation
which have ben legislated
into law. I quote from the con
stitution of the USSR (1936),
Article 12: “The principle ap
plied in the USSR is that of
Socialism: ‘From each according
to his ability, to each according
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TO: “WHO’S
DENTS
WHO” STU-
FROM: AGGIELAND ’64
SUBJECT: FORMAL PIC
TURES
Seniors selected for 1964
Who’s Who should report to the
AGGIELAND STUDIO, North
Gate, to schedule formal pic
tures for the 1964 yearbook.
Corps seniors may wear the
Class A uniforms of their choice
(midnights, Ike jacket, etc.)
Civilian seniors should wear
suit, sweater and tie, etc. Sport
shirts or Class B uniforms are
not considered appropriate.
Students are advised to go by
the studio, or telephone, and set
a day and time to have their
picture made. Due to crowded
schedules, the studio may not
be able to take an appropriate
picture without advance notice.
C. Chris Schaefer
Editor
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to his work.” Furthermore, Arti
cle 12 states that, “Work in the
USSR is a duty and a matter of
honour for every ablebodied citi
zen, in accordance with the prin
ciple: ‘He who does not work,
neither shall he eat.” This prin
ciple is, indeed, not unlike our
American ideal of individual per
formance.
Mr. Mims, while incorrectly
comparing the American liberal
movement with communism,
makes the same intolerable error
of most uninformed conservative
stylists. About soviet commun
ism, it is not that we should ob
ject to the destruction of the in
stitution of private ownership of
the resources of production, eli
mination of class conflict, and
establishment of a uniform pro
pertyless class, but that we should
object to the maintenance of the
soviet communist system by the
authoritarian police state with all
of its murderous ramifications.
The criteria of any democratic
process is free choice by its citi
zens to determine both their poli
tical and economic systems. The
processes of Soviet government
prevent both of these choices
from being made.
To move on, Mr. Mims, I de
fine conservatism for you as the
immovable status quo, as unwill
ingness to change, as maintain
ing vested interests which are
judged to be contrary to social
and public interest. Basic to con
servative philosophy is a histori
cal point of view. Conservative
thinking is projected backwards
so that our social institutions of
fifty years ago are advocated as
the methodology by which we
can live with our changed social
interrelationships of today. This
is an invalid advocacy for logic
does not exclusively permit that
no-change is compatible with
change.
The liberal philosophy attempts
to come to grips with the inher
ent evil of human temperament
manifest in social institutions, the
evil is that people form habits of
acting and reasoning which they
do not like to change. Because
of this dislike they confer on
social institutions an encompass
ing veil of stationary perfection,
where there is no static perfec
tion. The liberal philosopher looks
upon society as imperfect, and
by use of reason and choice de
sires to change only those insti
tutions which are deemed unde
sirable and those which are out
moded.
I close by saying to you, Mr.
Mims, that if you think the lib
eral movement is subversive and
it will bury us, and if by us, you
mean conservatives, you are cor
rect. It is the direct, undeniable
purpose of liberalism to infect
the minds of the populace to
make the free choice of ethical
social change, and to bury the
incompetent and ensalved mind
‘boxes’ of conservatism.
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