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.
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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. This article appeared in
a section of the paper that is
usually filled with highly con-j
troversial issues; however, this
article is simply a regular, com
mon insult—an insult whose pet
tiness expended itself on those
traditionally known as the weak
er sex. I hope that in the future
your staff will use every effort
to avoid printing such abase
ments.
Andrew S. Kovich Jr, '6"
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