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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, October 21, 1964 BATTALION EDITORIALS SCONA—An Opportunity But A Responsibility One of the finest opportunities for A&M students to participate in a truly international foreign affairs forum will soon be here. For the 10th consecutive year this campus will host students from approximately 80 major universities in the South, Southwest, Mexico and Canada for the Student Con ference on National Affairs. The conference theme this year will be “Challenge to the Americas (Pan American Trends: Promise or Threat?)” Openings for 24 A&M students are available to attend SCONA X with 16 student delegates selected from the student body at large and eight positions chosen from Aggie foreign students. Those who wish to be a student delegate to SCONA must be either a junior or senior with an overall grade point ratio of 1.5 or higher, a grade point ratio of 1.5 or higher for the last semester and must not be on conduct or academic probation. Students who want to submit application forms may receive them at the Commandant’s Office, the Student Af fair’s Office in the YMCA Building, and the main desk and Student Programs Office in the Memorial Student Center. The nationally-known A&M conference has long been recognized as the best of its kind in the South and ranks second only to the United States Military Academy’s Stu dent Conference on United States Affairs. Such notable speakers as President Lyndon Johnson; Senator Hubert Humphrey; His Excellency Gonzalo J. Facio, Costa Rican ambassador to the United States and former president of the Organization of American States, and Edwin P. Neilan, former president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, are included in SCONA’s list of renown guests. The privilege and responsibility of A&M students to represent this school admirably rests in those who will take the time “to see how the other half lives.” Bulletin Board Wednesday Aggie Wives Bridge Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center. Unitarian Forum will meet at 8 p.m. at the Unitarian Fellow ship Building at 305 Highway 6 South. Thursday Bellaire Hometown Club will meet after yell practice in Room 206 of the Academic Building. Valley Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 108 of the Academic Building. Brazos County A&M Mothers Club will meet at 3 p.m. Thurs day in the Social Room of the ATTENTION ALL HOME TOWN AND PROFESSIONAL CLUB REPRESENTATIVES The hometown club and profes sional club section of the “Ag- gieland” staff has announced that the last date for scheduling club pictures for the “Aggie- land” will be 18 December, 1964. Pictures are to be scheduled at the Student Publication Office, Y.M.C.A. Bldg. The final day for having the pictures made will be 1 March, 1965. Please make arrangements to have your pic ture scheduled before the dead line. Dave Baker, Section Editor Mike Rosbury MSC. Corpus Christi Hometown Club will meet at 7.30 p.m. in the Social Room of the MSC. Amarillo Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Anderson Room of the YMCA Building. Brazoria County Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Birch Room of the MSC. Baytown Hometown Club will meet at 7:55 p.m. in Room 11 of the YMCA Building. Midcounty Hometown Club will meet in Room 206 of the Aca demic Building after yell practice. Animal Husbandry Wives Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Lec ture Room of the Animal Indus tries Building. Waco-McLennan County Home town Club will meet after yell practice in the Gay Room of the YMCA Building. Angelina County Hometown Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. in front of the MSC. Bay Area Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 3-C of the MSC. Pictures will be taken. El Paso Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 2-B of the MSC. Dallas Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Fountain Room of the YMCA Building. Ferreri’s Triangle Restaurant Invites You To Try Our AGGIE SPECIAL Also, try PIZZA, Spaghetti, Raviola, Mexican Food, and Seafood. Book Your Banquets and Special Parties Early. Accomodations From 10 to 200 Persons THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non tax-supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and operated by students as a university and community news paper and is under the supervision of the director of Stu dent Publications at Texas A&M University. Members of tne Student Publications Board are James L. Lindsey, chairman; Delbert McGuire, College of Arts and Sciences; J. A. Orr, College of Engineering; J. M. Holcome, College of Agriculture; and Dr. R. S. Titus, College of Veterinary Medicine. 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Sound Off Editor, The Battalion: Last Saturday, after the game, I was shocked and appalled to hear some talk—not by students— in College Station. This letter to “Sound-off” is the result. I don’t want to believe that some of our Aggies decided that they were not going to win the game and so stated. If this is so, they rightfully were not al lowed to play. My question to them is, “How can any individual Aggie do such a thing to the hundreds of Aggies who stand together throughout the games waiting for the Twelfth Man call—to the students who set alarms to get up to meet the team at the airport at 2 and 3 in the morning—win or lose ? We are in our second year of Aggieism and it is a wonderful experience. We have seen and learned that an Aggie is a tradi tion not an individual. Aggies have a spirit that is beyond most people’s comprehension. To see this as a mother is a tremendous thing to behold. If some of you on the football team aren’t satisfied—why can’t you play in spite of it—play as a team—play for Aggies who give you more support than any other team in the nation gets ? Come on Aggies — play the game as a team—you can and will win if you do. I’m proud to be an Aggie moth er and will hold my head high when I say the team tried to win—can you look at your fellow students and do the same. Mrs. Tom Phillips Galveston as much spirit or cut just as many logs as you do? You talk about wanting to im prove your school. This can only be done with good professors and the money to attract them to A&M. To get the money a school needs students and A&M wasn’t doing so well with just boys—or men as you call yourselves. Pro fessors also need to feel pride in their school and their jobs. Do you think these educated men are proud of you for refusing to ac cept something which is here to stay? Is the problem the fact that these Maggies, most of whom are seriously interested in their education, are making you work a little harder to pull your grades by the curve ? Are they making you sit up and realize that you are here for an educa tion and not for the Corps ? The Corps is a fine part of A&M University and far be it from me to down grade it. Many of this nation’s finest leaders came from A&M and have created an outstanding tradition to fol low. But the Corps is not A&M University. You are paying for an education—not a pair of boots and a saber. They mean very little without that degree. I sug gest that you take advantage of your opportunity to go to college and get what, I hope, you’re pay ing for—a good education. Learn ing depends on what effort you put into it—not who you sit next to in class. ★ ★ ★ Editor, The Battalion: I have just seen a clipping from The Battalion which contained a letter from Melvin Cockrell, ’67, concerning the Maggies on the A&M campus. To say the least I’m appalled at the asinity and childishness to which a student at A&M has descended. This is one Sully’s “Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” ? Mr. Cockerell: By what right can you state the Aggie spirit exists only in the Corps ? And by what right can you say that these Maggies know nothing of Aggie traditions ? Speaking of the former first: most of these outsiders have been born and reared on Aggie spirit—many are native to College Station and have several years of Aggieland on you. Many of them were sing ing the “Spirit” and attending bonfires and yell-practice before Turkey Day before you were in knee-pants or even knew of A&M’s existance. And let me say something for the Civilian students—who at least match your number or out number you—where would the Corps be if they didn’t have just ATTENTION All civilian dorm counselors and officers The civilian section of the Ag- gieland staff announces that the last date for scheduling group pictures (dorms) for the ’65 Ag gieland will be 1 December 1964. Pictures are to be scheduled at the Student Publication Office, Y. M. C. A. Bldg. The final day for having pictures made will be 1 March 1965, at which time all other items to go on pages and payment ($55.00 full page, $30.00 one half page) must be turned in. We will appreciate your cooperation and any ideas. John Holladay, Section editor A final note: If the Corps ever fades from the A&M campus it will be because the cadets de grade it to such an extent as to force it out of existence. In case you decide to tell me that I know nothing about "Ag gie Spirit”—try being born ani reared in College Station and be ing a time A&M University sup- porter for 21 years. Patricia Varvel, ’65 TWU College of Nursiij ★ ★ ★ Editor, The Battalion: Enclosed is an article from tbs October edition of The Battalioi The reference of “lumber jacks” to the women of our stu dent body is discourteous and unworthy of gentlemen. Regard less of our personal convictions concerning co-education at Texas A&M, we as Aggies, members o! the finest men’s school in the nation, cannot in keeping within the traditional image of “knight ly gentlemen” resort to such rude ness. The Battalion as the officiai media of the student body to the public must safeguard this image. 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