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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Tuesday, November 24, 1964
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
| Reynolds 9 Rap |
by Mike Reynolds
Many, many people get the axe
tonight and it is all a case of flip
ping a coin and seeing who gets
the ole Rap in the mouth first.
NUMBER 1 — Bowl Teams.
The people in charge of picking
the bowls this year must have had
a bad night before getting up and
going to the office. The choices
that they have given to the people
of this region for New Year’s
Day are not likely to cause danc
ing in the streets. Arkansas and
Nebraska move into the Cotton
Bowl. Yea! Except for Arkan
sas, who cares ?
Texas, the Number TWO team
in the SWC, draws Alabama, a
better opponent than Arkansas
rates. Then, the officials of the
Number One team, Notre Dame,
decide that post-season bowls are
not appropriate.
The Bluebonnet Bowl did poor
ly also. Tulsa, who has fattened
its record books all year on un
worthy opponents, meets that
slumbering giant that hasn’t
awakened this year, Ole Miss.
Ho-hum. Pass the black eyed
peas and turkey please.
NUMBER 2 — BONFIRE. I
hate to think what organization
at the cutting area might have
been like if it rained. The lead
ers in charge did a magnificant
job, despite the fact that two-
thirds of the people working, had
never worked on a bonfire before.
Everyone should say a silent
prayer over the fact that some
thing didn’t happen to cause us
to wait two years.
NUMBER 3 — TU Seating. The
guy that laid out our seating
over in Austin must be of the
same caliber of person that puts
two Siamese fighting fish toge
ther in a bowl. There must have
been a better way of putting us
together without having Sips on
all four sides. How many people
can remember the trash that is
dumped on the A&M section at
the basketball games ? I doubt
that their hospitality has chang
ed.
NUMBER 4 — Cannons. The
administration of TU has ruled
that no fire-arms, cannons, guns,
or noise-makers from any other
school will be allowed in Memor
ial Stadium. Funny they didn’t
decide this until rumors were
floating around about Ole Sarge,
the Aggie cannon, was going to
the game in Austin. All I have to
say is, our Student Senate isn’t
what it should be if they allow
that pop-gun-on-a-box that the
Cowboys jokingly call a cannon in
Kyle Field next year.
NUMBER 5 — Parks. The
state has announced plans for
a park to be opened across State
Highway 1 from President John
son’s home.
Property next to that to be
used for the park was offered as
a gift to the State of Texas a
while back and they had to turn
it down because funds were lack
ing just TO BUILD the necessary
park facilities. Where is the
money coming from now ?
And when the park is opened,
the people will not be able to
use it to view the president’s
home when he is there since the
Secret Service wants to close
it down for security’s sake.
USELESS BITS OF MISIN
FORMATION — John Quadge-
mire of East Mudpool, New Jer
sey ingraved the entire text of
the Bible on the head of a pin.
Strangely enough, not a word
of it is legible.
High Court Refuses
To Alter Flag Pledge
WASHINGTON (A>) _ The Su
preme Court refused Monday to
interfere with the recitation by
pupils in public schools of a
pledge of allegiance containing
fciie words “under God.” » r 1
, And the tribunal broadened the-
freedom of citizens to criticize
public officials without penalty.
It said statements made in ill-
will are no ground for crimi
nal libel unless they are made
with “reckless disregard” for the
truth.
The refusal to prohibit an
‘“under God” pledge of allegi
ance to the flag was significant
in light of questions raised when
the court barred required, official
prayers in public schools in 1962
and 1963. Some critics predict
ed then that the tribunal would
eventually banish all mention of
the diety from the schools, in
cluding that in the pledge.
The court, however, made no
comment on the question Monday
in unanimously rejecting an ap
peal by parents of two children
in school of Richmond County,
N. Y., Joseph Lewis and Alfred
L. Klein.
The parents said the phrase
“under God” in the pledge rec
ommended for classroom use by
a New York State regulation “ex-
preses a religious conception.”
Its repeated use in the school
rooms, they contended “has the
necessary effect of advancing re
ligion and thereby appears to fail
the test of First Amendment va
lidity.”
The Consitution’s First Amend
ment says “Congress shall make
no law respecting an establish
ment of religion, or prohibiting
the free exercise thereof.”
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Stanford Faculty Report
Hits Graduate Teachers
By Intercollegiate Press
Palo Alto, Calif. — A key fa
culty group at Stanford believes
that the University can provide
freshman students with an even
better education. In a report dis
tributed recently to the Univer
sity faculty, the Committee on
General Studiees asked their col
leagues to improve the quality of
freshman instruction by:
"""Limiting the freshman teach
ing load carried by graduate
students;
* ""Requiring all graduate stu
dents who serve as teaching
assistants for freshmen to
take a course in teaching
methods with their depart
ments ;
■"""Giving teaching credit to fa
culty members who lead these
courses and provide continu
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assistants; and
* ""Creating a limited number
of teaching fellows in each
department with selection
based on “outstanding rec
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teaching.”
The teaching fellows would re
ceive higher stipends than teach
ing assistants and carry a larger
teaching load. The committee in
dicated that these measures would
help stop a “dangerous drift” to
ward increased use of graduate
students as teachers for fresh
man courses.
Headed by Prof. Robert A.
Walker, the eight-man group
spent three years in its study
of “The Freshman Year at Stan
ford.” Its report includes an
analysis of freshman attitudes to
ward the university, ways of
strengthening the freshman cur
riculum, and means of handling
advanced placement, admissions,
advising, and other adminstra-
tive matters.
On the academic side, the com
mittee urged that no student
with less than a master’s degree
or a year’s graduate study be per
mitted to teach freshmen.
Bulletin Board
TUESDAY
Hillel Club will have an open
house before and after the bon
fire at the foundation building.
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Editor,
The Battalion:
The Battalion affords distant
parents an excellent way to keep
up with the news of A&M. We
enjoy it very much. We were in
terested in the stir kicked up
about the girl students and ra
ther think having girls as “spe
cial” students seems best for all.
Now we read about the Fish
objecting to less hazing, espe
cially the meal-time campuso-
logy quizzes, etc. I am con
vinced that because of this and
much other mental harrassment,
many students had insufficient
meals, rest and proper study en
vironment, causing poor health,
over-fatigue and poor marks. As
a parent who pays the tuition,
I feel that if memorizing cam-
pusology is the main subject for
fish, grades should be given for
it! Such traditions have noth
ing to do with “making a man
of a boy” — they are really
juvenile. Other traditions seem
to have been forgotten — those of
being gentlemen, kind, friendly,
responsible fellows of the high
est behavior and scholastic stand
ards. These latter traditions are
the ones that count in later life.
Also, as a parent who has been
around longer and farther than
many, I know there are other
great universities — University
of Michigan, Harvard, Rutgers —
all over the world, where cam-
pusology does not seem to be
one of the majors for the fish.
I must state these are opin
ions that are not shared by my
son, who has survived the fish
era and is now well indoctrinated.
Talk about Russian indoctrina
tion! However, I am still open
to conviction and try to see all
sides of the campus problems —
and I do really like all the try
ing-hard nice people, from poor,
poor fish to Prexie! A&M is a
fine university.
Elizabeth Grayson
Ft. Dix, N. J.
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Editor,
The Battalion:
Thsi letter is being written in
reference to a certain incident
which occured at the A&M-SMU
game in Dallas. One source of
information stated that an Aggie
senior stuck his saber in the
ground in front of a sweet young
thing from SMU and watched her
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grab the saber and attempt to
pass it into the SMU stands.
Another source of information
stated that the saber was stolen
from its scabbard.
Which ever source of informa
tion is correct is not important.
What is important is that any
senior who is so stupid and ir
responsible that he allows his
saber to be stolen should not
be allowed to retain his rank. A
saber is not a toy. Wearing a
saber carries with it the same
responsibility as carrying a rifle
or sidearm.
There are supposed to be lead
ers, men of responsibility in our
senior class. This incident shows
me that there is irresponsibility
stupidity and immaturity in our
senior class.
Vrigil Codero, ’66
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Editor,
The Battalion:
Since immortality, in the form
of influencing worldly affairs af
ter death, is the chief stock in
trade of the insurance industry,
their ads have to stress either
the happiness of rich widows and
welthy orphans or the sudden
horrible impact of death.
Wednesday’s Insurance Agent
ad in The Battalion chose the lat
ter approach, and certainly ranks
high in all-time bad taste. The
message, “If you don’t buy your
insurance now, a Viet Cong sniper
will get you,” could only appeal
to those too unenlighted to know
that a better rate of return is
available on just about any other
investment imaginable. Until the
investment is built up, term in
surance is the cheapest way to
handle the death risk.
John J. Treacy
Department of Economics
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Editor,
The Battalion:
In regards to Tom Matthew’s,
’65, sound-off, I would like to ask
him a few questions.
How did you get out of being
in the Corps in the first place ?
Did you go cry on some doc
tor’s shoulder or invent some lame
excuse like most of your non-reg
buddies ? If you think the Corps
is as easy as being in a Boy Scout
troop, why don’t you get in and
see how long you would last as
a fish?
You ask the question, “What
would A&M be without the
Corps,” and said it would still
be a great institution. As far as
learning goes, Texas University
is a great school also. So why
don’t you go ? It doesn’t have a
Corps.
I will ask what would A&M be
without the non-regs and esp
ecially the four-year non-regs!
It would be the greatest academic
and military institution in the
world, again!
Gary Cox, ’67
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Editor,
The Battalion:
After reading in last Thurs
day’s Battalion that t.u. students
will be seated on both sides of
and behind the Aggies section,
I can’t help but feel that this
will cause greater dissension be
tween the two student bodies.
Although I am a frim beliver
that Aggies should never run
from a fight, I feel that it will
be primarily up to the Aggies
to keep the situation from deter
iorating into a brawl that could
cast doubt on the good name,
Texas Aggie.
In short, don’t start anything,
but be ready to help your Aggie
buddy if he gets in trobule.
Jerry C. Cooper, ’63
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one issue this week as Batt-men
prepare for the Turkey Day game
in Austin and the Thanksgiving
Holidays.
Barring severe cases of indi
gestion, we will resume norma!
publication Dec. 1, at which time
we will begin preparing for the
Christmas Holidays.
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