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THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday March 6, 1964
BATTALION EDITORIALS
The Five In White
There are few Aggies that give as much to the athletic
program and overall prosperity of A&M as do the faithful
five—the Aggie Yell Leaders.
Under the direction of Head Yell Leader Mike Marlow,
a little package of energy himself, the men we have holding
down these positions this year have done nothing short of a
fabulous job. Time after time they have shown up at a con
tests where no one would have thought the worst of them had
they not made an appearance. We can contribute this to
nothing but outstanding Aggie Spirit.
The Yell Leaders follow the teams around the Southwest
Conference, and often outside the conference, at great
personal expense—both financially and in grade points lost.
They are among the University’s front line ambassadors of
good will, or bad, depending upon the particular point of
view. We feel that our Yell Leaders this year have spread no
thing but good will for all Aggies.
Those of us who go to school here now will remember
the faces, and voices, of our Yell Leaders—even many years
after we have forgotten their names. Many of us will always
remember how sometime early in our career at A&M some
Yell Leader transferred his own enthusiasm into our lives.
We want to take this opportunity—less it be lost in the
rush of spring activities—to thank you Royce Knox, Frank
Cox, Harry Haggard, Ted Hopgood and Mike Marlow.
Job Calls
MONDAY
Cities Service Oil Company —
Chemical engineering, civil engi
neering, electrical engineering,
industrial engineering, mechani
cal engineering and petroleum en
gineering.
Federal Intermediate Credit
Bank of Houston — Agricultural
economics, soil and crop sciences,
agricultural education, animal
husbandry and range manage
ment.
Federal Pacific Electric Com
pany — Electrical engineering,
industrial engineering, industrial
technology, mechanical engineer
ing and marketing.
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Com
pany — Chemical engineering,
chemistry, industrial engineering,
mechanical engineering and ac
counting.
Insurance By North America —
Business administration, econo
mics, English, history and govern
ment.
Bulletin Board
TUESDAY
Oceanography and Meteorology
Wives games night will be held
at 8 p. m. at 4205 College Main.
The hostess will be Mrs. John
Carson.
Pan American Petroleum Corp.
— Chemical engineering, mechan
ical engineering, petroleum engi
neering and accounting.
Yick Chemical Company —
Business administration, econo
mics, English, journalism, history
and government.
TUESDAY
Aetna Casualty and Surety
Company — Business administra
tion, economics, history and gov
ernment.
Bureau of Land Management,
U. S. Department of the Interior
— Agricultural engineering, civil
engineering, range and forestry.
Columbian Carbon Company —
Chemical engineering and me
chanical engineering.
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Com
pany — Chemical engineering,
industrial engineering and me
chanical engineering.
Jones and Laughlin Supply Di
vision — Agricultural economics,
business administration, econo
mics, chemical engineering, elec
trical engineering, industrial edu
cation, industrial engineering and
mechanical engineering.
Otis Elevator Company — In
dustrial education, industrial en
gineering, electrical engineering
and mechanical engineering.
Pan American Petroleum Cor
poration — Accounting.
Read Classifieds Daily
Ferreri’s Triangle Restaurant
Friday’s Featuring Our
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All the fish you can eat for $1.00 at 12:00 noon and
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Book Your Banquets and Special Parties Early.
Accomodations From 10 to 200 Persons
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Jim Butler Sports Editor
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CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Sound Off
Editor,
The Battalion:
I am a male foreign student at
Texas A&M University, and the
opinions I am about to express
are from that point of view. Even
though I have not conducted a
pool yet, I feel sure that most
of the other foreign students on
the campus will go along with
me in this matter.
Personally, being against dis
crimination of any sort, I have
been caught up in this contro
versy of Senior Rings and Silver
Taps for female students. Be
cause of this, I went to the Stu
dent Senate Open Meeting in the
MSC on Feb. 20, 1964.
I was quite shocked and rather
disappointed to hear the views
expressed by the majority of the
audience, which was overwhelm
ingly dominated by members of
the Corps. The latter might have
been due to the fact that The
Battalion of the previous day,
while announcing this meeting,
specifically stated (in fact 3
times) that no voting would be
held by the Senate on either
question. In spite of this a vote
was taken. I did not get a chance
to express my views at the meet
ing and so take this opportunity
to do so.
McNamara
Takes Look
At Viet Nam
“Now aren’t these front row seats worth waitin’ in line for
3 hours?”
Nixon States Need
For Fill-In Veep
WASHINGTON <A>> _ Rich
ard M. Nixon urged Thursday
that Congress move promptly to
keep the office of vice president
filled and to avoid possible dis
putes over whether a disabled
president is capable of serving.
The former vice president and
1960 Republican presidential can
didate offered his own formula
but told a Senate Judiciary sub
committee he has “no pet ideas
to sell.” The important thing,
he told the senators, is for them
to “seize the idea” they believe
will receive the strongest public
support and act quickly.
It is important, Nixon said, to
solve the problem while the pub
lic is acutely aware of it as a
result of President John F. Ken
nedy’s assassination and Dwight
D. Eisenhower’s heart attack
when he was president.
“The more time that elapses,
the less urgency the people and
the Congress will feel,” he said.
Nixon, testifying without a
prepared statement, said con
stitutional amendments to “re
medy the constitutional flaw”
would take two to four years to
ratify and suggested Congress
provide interim legislation.
Emphasizing the growing im
portance of the vice president,
Nixon said the nation’s No. 2
executive “can and should be
used even more than in the Ken
nedy and Eisenhower administra
tions,” and should be a man who
can be trusted with important
assignments.
Nixon stressed that he re
gards presidential disability as
“the major problem” in this field,
partly because there already is
a law on presidential succession.
He noted that Eisenhower,
Kennedy and now President
Johnson had written letters to
the men next in line of succes
sion setting forth how disability
should be handled. But Nixon
said this system lacks the force
of law and would be inadequate
if a dispute arose.
The former vice president
agreed with Eisenhower that the
office of vice president should
always be kept filled, but they
differed in the method of select
ing a substitute vice president.
Eisenhower recommended in a
letter Wednesday the nomination
of a new vice president by the
president subject to confirma
tion by both the House and Sen
ate.
Nixon proposed that when the
office becomes vacant it be fill
ed by the Electoral College on
the recommendation of the presi
dent.
WASHINGTON <A>) — Secre
tary of Defense Robert S. Mc
Namara was slated to arrive in
South Viet Nam Friday to take
a close look at what he describ
ed as evidence of stepped-up
Northern support for the Com
munist guerillas attacking that
country.
Before taking off on a fact
finding mission for President
Johnson, the defense chief told
a news conference Thursday that
new and heavier weapons “ob
viously of Chinese manufacture”
have been appearing in the hands
of the Red forces.
“There has been evidence that
in the last six months North
Vietnamese support of the Com
munist Viet Cong has increas
ed,” he said.
McNAMARA TERMED the sit
uation in Viet Nam as grave,
but declined to discuss sugges
tions advanced in some quarters
that the South Vietnamese, and
possibly their American support
ers, should carry the war to
Communist North Viet Nam.
Champ Gets Boost
Project Champ received a real
shot in the arm Thursday when
four campus leaders pledged
their full support to the cam
paign to raise funds with which
to buy Coach Shelby Metcalf a
new car.
Corps Commander Paul Dres
ser, Head Yell Leader Mike Mar
low, Student Body President
Harlan Roberts and Civilian Stu
dent Council President Richard
Moore said they approved of the
project and hoped all Aggies
would back the drive 100 per
cent.
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These are my views with re
gards to Silver Taps. To me, Sil
ver Taps is a solemn and beau
tiful ceremony, but undoubtedly
of military origin, traditionally
dating back to when A&M was an
all military college. However, we
must face the fact that A&M is
no longer an all military college
now. In fact, I am told that at
present the civilian students out
number the members of the
Corps, the former including about
400 to 500 foreign students. In
spite of this, under present ad
ministration policy, if any stu
dent, whether a member of the
Corps or a civilian (including a
foreign student who may never
have held a gun in his whole life)
dies, Silver Taps are perform
ed for him. Under these cir
cumstances I can think of Silver
Taps only as a traditionally Ag
gie memorial service for a de
parted Aggie, which should be
performed irrespective of sex. A
female student is as much an Ag
gies as any male student on this
campus.
On the other hand, if one con
siders Silver Taps purely as a
military service for military per
sonnel, then what could be more
ridiculous than to perform it for
civilians and in particular for
foreign students who for the
most do not care for it anyway,
and who quite conceivably, if ever
a war breaks out, may even fight
American soldiers, perhaps even
graduates from the Corps?
When I think of these points, I
cannot help but feel outraged
at a statement made by someone,
who has to be a responsible per
son, in the audience at the meet
ing.
He was apparently one of the
Silver Taps buglers, and he said
something to the effect that if
a female student died, he would
refuse to blow the bugle, and that
the coed should probably bring
her own buglers along.
Traditions are very good and
healthy things to have, but at
the same time one should not
always live entirely in the past.
It should be remembered that
some traditions, like Silver Taps
for example, were started when
Texas A&M was an all military
college. But great and import-
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Aggieland. First civilian male
students were admitted. Now
what amounts to a gigantic break
with tradition has taken place
in that coeds have been admitted.
Granted there are only about 150
female students at present, but
this number will grow into an
enormous proportion in the next
two to three years. With such
changes being made, it becomes
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old traditions. With new policies
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In conclusion, Sir, as regards
to Silver Taps, I would like to
propose the following two alter-
natives to the entire Student
body: 1) Silver Taps should be
made entirely a military cere
mony for all members of the
Corps, transfer students from an
other military college, and any
other student with a military
background. It should not in
clude any civilian students, either ,
male or female. 2) Silver Taps
should be thought of as a solemn,
traditional Aggie memorial serv
ice for a fellow departed Aggie,
and as such should be performed
for all Aggies irrespective of
their sex.
Cyrus J. Kapadia
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