THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, April 9, 1964
ALL ABOARD, AGGIES
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Penny Pinching Aggies
Might Take On Mexico
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‘You gotta hand it to ’em—They know how to advertise!”
Sound Off
Editor,
The Battalion:
For four years the water
tower behind the Mechanical En
gineering shops has been allowed
to fade to the point where it is
almost illegible. This has long
been recognized as one of the
landmarkers of the campus, and
in its present state, is not a very
Bulletin Board
THURSDAY
Hometown Clubs
Amarillo will meet in the And
erson Room, YMCA Building at
7:30 p.m.
Bay Area will meet at 7:30 p.m.
in Room 203, Academic Building.
Eagle Pass will meet in the
Art Room, M. S. C. at 7:30 p.m.
El Paso will meet at 7:30 p.m.
in Room 3-B, M.S.C.
Laredo will meet in Room 3-C,
M.S.C. at 7:30 p.m.
Marshall will meet at 7:30 p.m.
in the Brooks Room, YMCA Build- >
ing.
Mid-County will meet in Room
206, Academic Building at 7:30
p.m.
Rio Grande will meet at 7:30
p.m. in Room 208, Academic
Building.
Spring Branch will meet in
Room 205, Academic Building at
7:30 p.m.
Waco-McLennan County will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Cabinet
Room, YMCA Building.
Williamson County will meet in
Room 2-D, M.S.C. at 7:30 p.m.
favorable first impression to visit
ors.
I would like to propose that
the tower be repainted, to include
the branch insigna around the
top, in preparation for Mother’s
Day so that once again visitors to
Aggieland will have a proper wel
come.
Mark Jackson, ’64
Ditto Above,
Recently The Battalion propos
ed that the Student Body show
its appreciation to the excellent
job done by Shelby Metcalf and
his SWC Basketball Champions
by collecting enough money to buy
Coach Metcalf a new car. Most
people agreed with The Batt and
gave the Champ Fund their init
ial support. However, this sup
port lasted only until The Batt
editorial was deposited in the
nearest circular file. To date,
only one outfit on campus has
delivered their contribution to The
Batt office.
This is really outstanding ex
ample of-the Aggie Spirit. Why
go to the trouble of beginning a
project if we do not have any
intention of seeing it through ?
I can’t help wondering how Coach
Metcalf feels after reading the
advance publicity of the Champ
Fund and then watching it lapse
into another good idea that was
never carried out.
Aggies, let’s see this one
through and prove to Coach Met
calf and the basketball team that
the Aggie Spirit is not a sea
sonal devotion to a winning cause.
Mark Jackson, ’64
Editor’s Note: This is the third of a series of
three articles by J. Donald Deliz, Department of
Modern Language, discussing travel and fea
tures of travel which Aggies might enjoy for a
summer vacation. Deliz was asked to write the
series, because he has traveled in much the same
manner a student would enjoy traveling.
By J. DONALD DELIZ
A most favored factor for the Aggie setting his
sights on travel abroad is our propinquity to Mexico.
When you consider the present inflationary price
spirals in Europe and the old Asiatic proverb that
says: “When my purse is heavier I will find travel
lighter,” many an Ag might very well choose Mexico
as the place to break-in his traveling legs.
One can just hear the sonic-boom type response
to this proposal, “But that’s not travel!” Agreed,
it isn’t when you’ve only been to the border, for
just as you can’t tell a book by its cover; you can’t
tell a country by its border. Or, as one traveler
once confidentially hiccupped, “The resemblance be
tween the interior of Mexico and its border is purely
alcoholic.”
There are many plans which provide for some
formal study while you’re there and this is good
interest for the money spent. There are two plans
for the living quarters which you can follow if you
attend school. One, the free lance system is where
you can stay at a hotel and forage the restaurants
for meals. The other is the plan whereby you can
board with a family. A lot of the specific informa
tion as to where to apply for either plan can be
found on the bulletin board outside the Department
of Modern Languages Office on the first floor of
the Academic Building.
The best tip ever received from a waitress in
Mexico City was “never to hang around with Ameri
cans when in a foreign country.” At first, one
might feel the usual indignance at having his
countrymen maligned. However, after a sensible
appraisal of this caution, one should accept that
she was right.
There are two things to do about trouble in a
foreign country. The first, is to avoid it at all costs.
You’re a guest in that country and whether you
like it or not, you’re representing what is known
to the world outside our boundries as “Americans.”
The second, is if you are in a jam and unfortunately
Through the University, I got a place with room
and board for seventy dollars (U.S.) a month. It
was located in the Lomas, a high class district near
Chapultepec Park. . We spoke only in Spanish in
the house, and it was all very formal. My learning
really progressed.
The family I was staying with told me why the
girls at the opera had been so insulted at the harm
less remarks called out by my former friends. It
seems that Latin American girls don’t “go-steady”
or date with boys alone. Dates are never made with
a person not well known to the family, and the
couple is always escorted by a third party. Great
respect is shown to girls and they are very much
more protected than girls over here. The incident
I referred to happened a few years back, and I
understand that now double dating is allowed in
some families if the dates are well known to the
family. I’m glad of this change because it was
more than a little expensive taking old Aunt Maria
along with her smile when I dated.
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Student Wives will have a style
show of “self-made” garments
during the April 14 meeting. The
meeting will be held in the Gay
Room of the Y.M.C.A. Building
at 8:00 p.m. All those interested
in modeling please call Lydia Jul-
lienne at VI 6-5826.
Plans will also be given for
thp family pi£nie ta^fletheld at
Hensel Park in Area 2 on April
25 at 10:00 a.m. and a dance to
be held May 9 at the Bryan Saddle
Club.
A social hour with refreshments
will follow the meeting.
All those eligible are urged to
attend..
Attention Aggies
Candidates for Vanity Fair
for the Aggieland ’64 can
be entered at the Office of
Student Publications in the
basement of the Y.M.C.A.
A portrait and 2 snapshots
with vital statistics should
be included. The deadline
for turning in pictures will
be May 1st.
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made at the Memorial Student Center between 1700 and 1800
hours, according to the schedule below.
(2) Uniform for seniors will be dark green shirts, pink boot
pants and boots. Uniforms for juniors will be dark green shirts
and trousers (Capt. Midnight). G-H hats will be worn.
(3) Schedule: The staffs listed under “A” will assemble on
the front porch of the M.S.C. on the appointed day promptly at
1700 hours. The staffs listed under “B” will appear at 1720 hours.
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get arrested, get in touch with the U. S. consulate
in that country immediately.
Drawing from personal adventure, the first
curious experience that I ever had in seeing the
dangers of banding together with “Americans” was
in Mexico City where I went with the intention pf
perfecting my Spanish. I dutifully enrolled at the
University of Mexico, but I stayed in a hotel in the
tourist district. After classes, I would hear only
English spoken and the customs of Mexico criticized.
Thinking this to be “the most,” I joined in. Before
you know it, I was forgetting about Spanish and
cutting classes.
When preliminary grades came out, I realized
that there was no reward in this pastime. I could
have stayed at home and done this! There also
was an incident in which some of the boys had
called out comments to some teenage girls in front
of the Palacio de Bellas Artes (Opera House) and
they had been taken into custody. I was glad that
I had not been involved, for they had to get in
touch with the U. S. Consulate, and their parents
had to be contacted to get out of it. After this
frightening happening, I embarked on a plan of
really learning something. Strangely enough, it
was more fun!
It seems that in all of the fuss
over coeds and the like this
year, the Aggies sat by and an
other tradition passed away. I
cannot say that they sat by and
watched another tradition pass
away because I know of very
few people that are even aware
of the fact that it is gone.
How many people have crossed
the campus at night and noticed
that Prexy’s Moon no longer
shines ? The bare bulb above
the dull brass dome of the Aca
demic Building that shed its light
on the A&M campus for many
years now is just a memory in the
back on a lot of people’s minds.
As far as I can remember, it
has not burned this school year
and the majority of the spring
semester last year. Just what
happened to it anyway?
Some people have expressed the
belief that the “moon” is gone
because the “Prexy” President
Earl Rudder has not lived on the
campus since his home was Jes-
stroyed by fire last winter.
Others shrug and say to them
selves that its just become too
much trouble to climb up there
and replace the light everytime
someone takes a notion to shoot
it out.
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One football player of theClai
of ’46 stated that the bright k
con used to be the only meai.
that poor wandering fresh®
had of finding the campus agar
after being “aired out.”
An air-out took place one nigi;
during the spring semester wk
upperclassmen became tired of tl
freshmen’s presence and in ok
mass movement chased them inti
the Brazos River bottoms ani
kept them from returning until
the wee hours of the morning.
The “moon” hasn’t been putti
such use for some time, yeti!
was a land mark of the canp
and as such it has dissappean:
from our campus and from Aggi
land as the exes recall it.
Could it be that folks around
here became ashamed of this
landmark of the campus after
those guys at Time Magazine
poked this remark in our faces.
“Center of the campus is the
Academic Building, with an odd
Oh well, maybe the price o!
bulbs is being saved to help pay
for the repainting of our water
tower whose paint-job has fallen
into such ill repair. A close look
at both of these events wouldn't
hurt anyone. It might even tog
at the heart-strings too.
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it used to be a target for Aggi
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of boredom when they wont letermim
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