THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, January 6, 1965
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
‘‘SENSE OF DEPRESSION’
Sportsmanship Trophy:
Mercy Killing Needed?
The Southwest Conference has produced great athletes
but poor sportsmen. At least this is the case if competition
for the conference’s sportsmanship trophy is any indication.
The respective representatives of the conference schools
met in Dallas during the Christmas recess to butcher
Robert’s Rules Of Order and select Texas Tech as the victor
of this year’s trophy.
To be the proud possessor of this prize can mean several
things in the eyes of the seven other conference members:
(1) The winning school had such a poor showing in basket
ball and football that they could afford to be “good sports”.
(2) The winner was no better sport than the rest, but
completed the massive amounts of paper work necessary to
comply with the complicated and ambiguous regulations of
the SWC Sportsmanship Committee. (3) This school just
didn’t get caught being poor sports.
In this spirit, the University of Texas has proposed the
abolution of the SWC Sportsmanship Committee and the re
tirement of its trophy.
They voice several arguments in their support:
(1) The SWC Sportsmanship trophy is not really
coveted by any of the winning schools.
(2) The SWC Sportsmanship Committee is a do-nothing
congress which has no power to enforce its wishes upon
member schools.
(3) The methods of selecting the winner of the trophy
are not practical.
Because The Battalion was the originator of the sports
manship committee, it feels impelled to come to its defense.
True, there are major defects in the committee’s organiza
tion, especially in reference to penalizing schools for non
participation. This is not a fatal disease though, and can
be cured by strong leadership in the executive secretary’s
post.
The University of Texas has never won the sportsman
ship trophy and this could be a major bearing on their de
cision. Still inflicted with the “Super Conference” idea, they
appear to leave the sportsmanship to the losers. But regard
less of their reasons, they do present a valid case, and
strangely enough it will be up to A&M whether or not Texas
can kill the committee.
For A&M is the host school to the sportsmanship meet
ing in May, and an Aggie sits in the hot-seat of executive
secretary. Only with a dynamic and powerful leader can
the committee and its ideals survive.
Northern Riots Leave Mark
On Still - Troubled Ghetto
By BERNARD GAVZER
Newsfeatures Writer
While the scars of last sum
mer’s riots in Northern Negro
areas have been salved over, there
are still deep wounds for many
of the people who were caught
up in the violence.
The depth and bitterness emer
ges obliquely. One afternoon,
talking to three dope addicts in
a Harlem loft, I felt an easiness
as they recalled the nights of
“Would you believe it—three days ago I was tired of
turkey!”
Bulletin Board
THURSDAY
Waco-McLennan County Home
town Club will meet at 8 p.m.
in the Gay Room of the YMCA
Building. Aggieland Pictures will
be taken.
El Paso Hometown Club will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 3-B
of the Memorial Student Center.
San Antonio Hometown Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the As
sembly Room of the MSC.
Odessa Hometown Club will
meet at 8 p.m. in the Gay Room
of the YMCA Building. Aggie
land pictures will be taken and
the club sweetheart will be elect
ed.
rioting and how they found it a
great opportunity to do some loot
ing. Here were three men with
out any concern for anyone or
anything. For them, civil rights
and integration were just words.
Heroin was all that mattered.
The talk became brittle; and
one started saying, “Man, I need
the merchandise. I needs some
thing to put me together.” And
the others began the typical ad
dict’s squirming, body stretching,
yawning. “You listen easy but
you don’t come up with any bread
(money), man. We could be out
making it, but we just talking.”
“Damn, man, come up with it,”
said one, and another said,
“There’s a small panic, baby. It’s
8 cents ($8) a bag, an’ you ain’t
hardly going to feel even one
bag.”
In Harlem, also, the white
storeowners along 125th Street
tended to turn away from any
questions. Some would talk, how
ever, on a pledge they would not
be identified. “I’d sell out right
now, but who would pay what I
put into this place?” said a
jeweler. “I lost $13,000 in the
riots. A white man would be
crazy to come in. A black man
can’t afford to.”
But in other stores, there was
resentment, such as that express
ed by a barber, who said, “You
lousy reporters come up here and
you make trouble. Who needs
you ? If you want to do some
thing good, why don’t you write
about how they need to double
the cops here. Nobody is safe.”
However vivid the memory of
Rochester's violence may be, it
is difficult to get the sense of
disorder or terror on revisiting
the city. There is something
very placid, very upper middle-
class about it. And yet, later on
a snowy afternoon, visiting the
place on Nassau Street where the
riot began, the same belligerent
wine-soaked Negroes are con
fronted on the corner of Nassau
and Joseph Avenue. One man is
howling and leaning against the
window of Nussbaum’s, a store
that suffered extreme damage
and is now empty, and on seeing
me yells a curse. Why? Who
knows? Perhaps any white man
on Nassau Street at 4:30 in the
afternoon is a threat.
In Philadelphia, there is a ter
rible sense of depression. The city
center looks exciting and the old
colonials dolled up so beautifully
look irresistable, but in North
Philadelphia, in the bars on
Columbia and on Broad there is
a different beat. In some of the
aging, sagging sidestreets there
are people who look at you like
a freak as though to ask, “Man,
you don’t know what it is like
to be black.” And, after some ra
ther engaging moments in one
spot, a man turns and says, “Boy,
don’t buy that stuff about a nig
ger on Saturday night; that’s
just storytime when they tell the
white folks that you ain’t lived
until you’ve been a nigger on a
Saturday night.”
A garage attendant in Chicago
said the same thing. But it was
different there. In the old days,
6, 7, 10 years ago, the area of
South Parkway and 43rd or a-
round Maxwell Street or the West
Side were places considered off-
limits by most whites. “It ain’t
safe, not at night, anyway,” they
were told. But this no longer
is heard. However, in South
Shore, and especially in Engle
wood, there were whites who re
sented being questioned. The
tenor of their comment: “News
papers print only one side. They
don’t tell about property values
going down when Negroes move
in. I got 12 years tied up in
mortgage here and they come in
and it goes down the drain.”
Sound Off
Medicare First
In ‘Great Society 9
Editor,
The Battalion:
The A&M System has spent
several million dollars for new
dorms in its quest for academic
excellence. These modern new 1
dorms not only lack heat, but
the lights nightly go out for at
least an hour, and one has to
grit his teeth to take a shower in
water which fluctuates from hot
to cold, either scalding him or
Filibuster Rule
Battle Shapes Up
WASHINGTON (^?> — Sen.
Russell B. Long, D-La., the Sen
ate’s new majority whip, lined
up with his Southern colleagues
Tuesday to battle against chang
ing the rules so choking off fili
busters would be easier.
The move for a new rule that
would permit debate to be limit
ed by a three-fifths majority of
senators voting is being spear
headed by Sen. Clinton P. An
derson, D-N.M. He was the sen
ator who placed Long in nomi
nation for whip, or assistant
Democratic leader.
of senators voting is required to
cut off debate.
Long told a reporter he real
izes he might be criticized for
attending the meeting, following
his election to a leadership post,
but he said that if he did not go,
he could not “be a moderating in
fluence.”
He said that, if he had been
invited, he also would have at
tended a meeting Sunday in An
derson’s office of a small, bipar
tisan band of senators pressing
to tighten the present antifili
buster rule.
At a meeting Tuesday in the
office of Sen. Richard B. Rus
sell, D-Ga., 15 Southern senators
decided to wage an all-out fight
to preserve the present rule un
der which a two-thirds majority
PICTURE SCHEDULE
1965 Aggieland
WHO’S WHO
Appointments must be made
with the Aggieland Studio and
pictures will have to be made
before February 15 anythime
between the hours of 8 a. m.
and 5 p. m.
“I don’t think it is a civil
rights question anymore,” Long
said, adding it now has been
established that debate-limita
tions can be obtained on a civil
rights bill.
Last year’s comprehensive civil
rights measure was passed after
a 15-week Senate battle in which
the two-thirds rule was success
fully invoked for the first time
to break a Southern filibuster.
Russell also emphasized this
point in calling it “unfortunate
that Southern senators have had
to take the initiative in pre
serving the rule of the Senate”
and preventing what he called
the imposition of “gag rule.”
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causing him to shiver from the
cold.
When it rains, the wind blows
water under the “air tight” doors
and noises from the other side of
the dorm are not muffled, but
actually accentuated. The very
fact that work crews are daily
replacing faulty materials on
making repairs to the work done
by the builders shows that these
modem structures are inferior in
quality.
We are paying ten dollars extra
each month for conditions which
are inferior to those in the old
dorms. If we are going to pay
for the extra comfort of a new
dorm, why don’t we get it?
Mike Nabors, ’66
Gene Duchamp, ’66
Andy Denny, ’66
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Editor,
The Battalion:
Houston airport. It was Jan.
4, 1965. I had just come in from
New York. I had almost five
hours before my flight to Aggie
land. The first thing I did was
to make a phone call.
ATTENTION
ATHLETIC CLUBS
The Aggieland staff has
announced that the last date
for scheduling Athletic Club
pictures for the 1965 Aggieland
will be Feb. 10, 1965. Pictures
are to be scheduled at the Stu
dent Publications Office, YMCA
Bldg.
“M. D. Anderson Hospital. May
I help you?”
“Yes, this is Mr. Smith. Could
you tell me how Bill Taylor is
doing?”
“I’m sorry, sir. Mr. Taylor ex
pired two days ago.”
“You mean he’s dead!”
“Yes sir, I’m sorry.”
TAYLOR, WILLIAM, student,
University of Texas
DIED—Jan. 2i, 1965
CAUSE1—Aplastic Anemia
Bill Taylor was an Aggie. May
be a student at tu, Bill was an
Ag at heart. Maybe he didn’t
want a career in the military and
felt A&M wouldn't be the same
if he wasn’t in the Corps, so he
went to tu. No one will know.
His fish buddies didn’t consider
him a Sip. Faithfully, they raced
to Houston each time it looked
like he might slip away. They
got blood released for him from
the Aggie Blood Bank. They gave
their own. Squardon 4’s upper
classmen who were in his outfit
his fish year went to see him.
Bill Taylor is dead, but he
died with the love of an Aggie
outfit. He may have lived a few
months as'a tu student, yet he
died an Aggie.
Ronald A. Smith, ’66
WASHINGTON <A>) — A re
vival — and possible early deci
sion — of the titanic struggle
over hospital care for the aged
under Social Security took top
billing Tuesday in the new 89th
Congress.
Backers of the so-called “medi
care” bill figured their chances
of putting it across this year
were excellent in view of the
Lyndon B. Johnson landslide.
There was gloom among foes
of the administration bill. One
said his side lost 38 House votes,
Republican and Democratic, in
the November election, and there
by lost a “sure majority.”
President Johnson, pressing for
a big package of measures he said
would lead eventually to “the
Great Society,” is planning to
send the first of his special, de
tailed messages to Congress on
Thursday.
This will deal with health, and
officials said it probably would
include a health care plan, the
beginning of a “massive attack”
on such killed diseases as cancer,
heart attacks and strokes, and
steps to deal with mental ail
ments.
Organized “senior citizens”
were rallying their lobbying
forces for the health care bill.
But the American Medical Asso
ciation, which regards the ad-
iministration bill as socialistic
interference with the doctor-pa
tient relationship, was not gvi-
ing up its opposition. It plans a
last-ditch struggle.
In rapid-fire order, Johnson will
send to the Capitol next Tuesday
his aid-to-education program; two
days later his plan for a new
immigration law “based on the
work a man can do and not where
he was born or how he spells his
name;” and then, before the in
auguration Jan. 20, messages on
space and foreign aid.
Doubt arose, however, as to
how soon the Senate would be
able to get down to legislative
busines. At a strategy meeting
Tuesday, Southerners decided on
an all-out struggle against a pro
posal to make it easier to choke
off filibusters. Sen. Richard B.
Russell, D-Ga., said the fight
could last a couple of months.”
The “Great Society” program
outlined by the President in his
State of the Union message Mon
day night was more sweeping
than some had anticipated. While
many Congress members applaud
ed it, others asked where the
money is coming from for what is
termed this “blueprint for para
dise.”
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