THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, December 15, 1964
| Reynolds 9 Rap |
by Mike Reynolds
Almost one month ago the Civil
ian Student Council passed a res
olution stating they were in favor
of changing the place of present
ation of the Aggie Sweetheart to
a home game. It has attracted
very little attention on this cam
pus and the council has been go
ing quietly about its business of
changing another tradition.
Letters have been exchanged
between a member of the com
mittee appointed by the council
and Jane Sullins, president of the
Student Council of Social Activi
ties at TWU, and they are cer
tainly stirred up on that campus.
First of all, why is it that every
year some group, person, confab,
conclave or committee decides
that the Aggie Sweetheart activi
ties are not being handled just
right and that it is time to change
them ? Seems to me you get
better results if you stick with
one system and then work the
bugs out of it.
Second, what are the advan
tages to presenting her at A&M ?
Sure it gives the civilians a
chance to see the ceremony, but
how many other people get the
chance ? Attendance at home
games is the reason that the Ag
gies play only three or four
games at home each year. If
figures are counted, they reveal
that we draw bigger crowds in
Dallas or Fort Worth than we do
in CS. Just as many exes get
together to go to the Corps Trip
as they do to come down here too.
It is argued that we are steal
ing the fire from SMU’s and
TCU’s Homecoming ceremonies.
Does that mean that we should
not take the Corps and the Ag
gie Band too ? If we are going
to press this to the limit, we
should let the Cookie-pushers win
the game so their exes won’t go
home unhappy.
Down through the years, the
Dallas-Fort Worth Corps Trip
has always meant a little bit
more to the Aggies because of the
festivities at TWU. The Tessies
must be considered also.
The sweetheart is just as much
of an honor on their campus as
she is a dignitary on ours. The
Corps Trip is a time when the
freshmen and unattached upper
classmen meet their “sisters” and
it follows that it is the most log
ical time to present the Aggie
Sweetheart to the student body.
Many of the girls don’t even
know an Aggie until the night
before the game, and with Satur
day classes they would never be
able to find time or the means
to come to Aggieland to be part
of the activities.
If the civilians want to see the
ceremony they should get off
their posteriers and make the trip
to Big D or FW. If they would
concentrate their efforts on plan
ning civilian activities in Dallas
and getting a big crowd from the
Suit Brigade in the stands, they
would improve the ceremony
much more than moving it to
A&M ever would.
The traditions of this school are
passing through a time of great
change. It is time to stand pat
and resist the tide. Just because
someone got left out is no reason
to change a very meaningful tra
dition — one that means a lot to
both schools.
Lets make it better instead
of tearing it down.
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USELESS BITS OF MISIN
FORMATION: I met a fellow
this weekend who actually got
89 shaves with one blade. Seem
incredible ? He was only nine
years old though.
Electorial College
Makes It Official
WASHINGTON, <A > ) — The sel
dom-used gears djf the Electoral
College meshed briefly Monday
as President Johnson and Sen.
Hubert H. Humphrey were chosen
to be the next president and
vice president of the United
States.
The 538 members of the Elec
toral College, assembled in the
50 state capitals and the District
of Columbia, voted in accordance
with the popular votes cast by
more than 70 million Americans
Nov. 3.
Thus, 486 Democratic electors
gathered in the 44 states and the
District of Columbia which gave
Johnson and Humphrey a popular
vote plurality.
And 52 Republican electors met
in the six states carried by Sen.
Barry Goldwater and Rep. Wil
liam E. Miller, the GOP nominees
for president and vice president.
Unlike four years ago, when
an Oklahoma Republican elec
tor jumped the tracks, there were
no reports of electors voting for
other than the nominees.
But there was nothing that re
quired them to. As Democratic
elector Charles B. Garrigus, of
Reedly, Calif., put it: “I’ll honor
my promise willingly, but I get
a little secret feeling, of power of
knowing I don’t have to.”
Gov. William W. Scranton of
Pennsylvania, a Republican with
some presidential visions of his
own this year, had this advice
for his state’s 29 electors gather
ed in Harrisburg:
“Yours is the task of proclaim
ing what the people have already
decided. You are here to con
firm the judgment of the people,
not to tamper with it.”
And it appeared that electors
across the nation did just that.
As usual, there was criticism
of the electoral system itself.
Garrigus called it an anachron
ism and “right behind Goldwater
as the closest thing we’ve got in
American politics to a Currier and
Ives print.”
Criticism of the system de
vised at the Constitutional Con
vention is not new. However,
efforts to abolish the Electoral
College or make more than pro
cedural changes have failed.
Only two more steps remain in
the electoral process which began
early this year. On Jan. 6 a joint
meeting of the House and Senate
will canvass the electoral votes
cast Monday and announce the
winners.
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UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. <A>)
— The United States declared
Monday that many of the coun
tries criticizing U. S. Congo
policy are openly engaged in sup
plying military aid to the Con
golese rebels.
The U. S. views were laid be
fore the U. N. Security Council
by Ambassador Adlai E. Stev
enson, who deplored the injec
tion of “black racism” into the
Congo debate and protested a-
gainst what he called “irrational,
irresponsible, insulting and re
pugnant language” used by some
speakers.
Stevenson defended the U. S.-
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“We have no apologies to make
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this council,” Stevenson said.
The council was debating
charges of aggression brought
against the United States and
Belgium by 22 countries, 18 of
them African. Stevenson said
that some of the countries and
others as far away as Moscow
and Peking were aiding the re
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Ambassador Achkhar Marof of
Guinea told reporters the spon
sors of the complaint against
the United States and Belgium
will meet Tuesday morning to
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