THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 23, 1965
Reynolds 9 Rap
by Mike Reynolds
Danny S. is a second semester
freshman at a large university.
He has dropped or failed five
terms and is presently on what
his dean terms “a last chance
probation.” He is 23 years old.
He has no desire to work. The
slightest suggestion of having to
do anything that does not satisfy
his gluttony for pleasure sends
him into a moody trance.
Weekends are spent in a classy
lounge that caters to his type.
Beer and stronger stuff put re
sponsibility far away in left field.
Monday morning brings a mud
dled brain and no desire to be
gin the week’s studies. He al
ready talks of dropping classes
and playing around for another
semester. Only art interests him
and then it is only to the limits
of a release of inner emotion.
When it must be worked at, it
too is no longer any fun.
More or less, he represents a
growing class of society today.
Its members show no ambition to
gain authority, position, stability
or any of the other “goals” that
are said to be worth having. At
the same time, he resents all
people who have authority, all
positions or stabilities and he
holds nothing but contempt for
the goals of society.
What is being done by our pre
sent society to aid these people ?
Most are content to forget them
if they can rise above them.
New Viet Nam Junta
Begins Command Change
SAIGON, South Viet Nam UP)
— The new military junta began
changing command of key units
in the Vietnamese armed forces
Monday. These traditional post
coup rites were launched while
the future of Lt. Gen. Nguyen
Khanh still was under debate.
At the same time there were
strong prospects that bombing
of Communist North Vietnamese
military installations by U. S.
and South Vietnamese planes
would be resumed soon, and not
necessarily in specific reprisal
for Viet Cong raids in the South.
American policy makers feel in
creasingly that the war must be
carried directly to North Viet
Nam from now on to win in the
South. One factor was the dis
covery that a mystery ship sunk
by air bombardment in a coast
al cove last week carried nearly
100 tons of Communist-made wea
pons for the Red guerrillas.
A prevailing theory is that
severing of North Vietnamese
support for the Viet Cong,
though it might not produce im
mediate effects, would be “cut
ting the head off the snake.”
Within the Vietnamese armed
forces, one of the most notable
changes was the reported ap
pointment of Maj. Gen. Tran Van
Don, 47, as new commander of the
Central Intelligence Agency. He
has been on Khanh’s blacklist.
Emerging from retirements to
which the little strong man con
signed him late last year, Don
was named to replace Col. Le
Van Nhieu.
Don was one of five generals
put under house arrest after
Khanh seized power Jan. 30,
1964. Khanh accused the five of
advocating neutralism, but event
ually freed them under Buddhist
pressure.
The changes in command in
evitably mean a drag on the
U.S.-backed war against the Viet
Cong since it takes time for new
men to familiarize themselves
with complexities of their as
signments.
American officials in Saigon
viewed the latest series of power
plays with a mixture of cynicism
and resignation.
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CADET SLOUCH
What is being done to help the
social failures that everyone talks
about, politicians make promises
about, “proper” people whisper
about, and all seem to forget
about?
Something must be greatly
lacking in the society that to a
certain degree, created them.
Something must be wrong with
their particular environment that
allows them to develop in ever
increasing numbers.
Will any amount of government
job training and eniployment pro
jects ever be able to create the
desire to succeed within these con
fused minds.
The United States is reaching
for the stars and getting a little
closer every year, but little prog
ress seems to have been made in
conquering the inner space be
tween our ears.
Research in the social sciences
doesn’t even place in the same
race for dollars in our economy.
The problem of society misfits
is increasing with every year. It
is of direct concern to all college
students of today for they may
be part of it, or later, as our soci
eties leaders, they will bear the
responsibility for it.
The “great society” had best
find a solution to this increasing
nasty problem or it could result
in the downfall of our way of life.
Minds open to the problem is the
first step toward the solution.
by Jim Earle Bullet ill Board
TUESDAY
Student Psychological Associ
ation will meet at 8 p.m. in Room
405 of the Academic Building.
Russian Club will meet at 8
p.m. in the Memorial Student
Center. Two Russian films will
be shown.
Mechanical Engineering Wives
Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in
the Brooks Room of the YMCA
Building.
Geological Society will meet at
7:30 p.m. in Room 101 of the
Geology Building. Wann Lang-
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WEDNESDAY
Texas Electric Service Company
— electrical engineering, mechan
ical engineering, accounting.
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
— civil engineering, electrical
engineering, mechanical engineer
ing.
NASA — Manned Spacecraft
Center — aerospace engineering,
electrical engineering, physics,
mechanical engineering, mathe
matics.
Victoria Public Schools — bio
logy, chemistry, mathematics,
physics, education, psychology,
industrial education.
The California Company — civ
il engineering, electrical engi
neering, mechanical engineering,
petroleum engineering.
Editor,
The Battalion:
One of the most pitiful sights
in the world is that of a grown
man who has lost all recollection
of his past. A school, a state, a
nation or society that has forgot
ten its own past, that knows no
more the great sources of its
own vigor, stands in desperate
peril.
Does tradition still have a place
at A&M ? Does our University
in its hell-for-leather drive for
academic excellence have no need
and no time for those things
which have shaped its past and
made A&M the highly respected
educational institution it has be
come ?
In answer to the first question
I must answer a hearty yes! The
second deserves an even more
resounding no! The great tradi
tions of A&M, despite what many
“new army Aggies” (both Corps
and Civilians) say, are not just
so much dead wood to be kicked
off the boat., On the contrary.
become clear that the Corps still
must carry the responsibility of
virtually the entire student body
for living by and preserving these
traditions. Therefore it is plain
to me that when the Corps of
Cadets is “shot to hell” the A&M
we have known will be no more.
A strong Corps of Cadets is
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these traditions form the keel it
self, and are the basic stablizing
factors of success.
As the number of Civilian stu
dents continues to increase, it has
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Texas.”
Collegiate FFA Chapter will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 231 of
the Chert/istry Building.
Band Wives Club will meet at
7:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs.
Alan Devilleneure at D-8-W Col
lege View.
Math Wives Club will meet at
8 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Lucille
Voss.
ATTENTION
“AGGIELAND” MAKE-UP
SCHEDULE
YOUR LAST CHANCE
Because of the number of new
students who wish to have their
portraits made for the “Aggie-
land ’65”, and because of the de
mand by some other students
there yaU be a FINAL MAKE
UP TIME from February 16 to
February 26. This schedule is
for All Students except Corps
Juniors and Sophomores since
their schedule by outfits is cur
rently running.
SENIORS
Seniors who wish to add
information or activities to
their “Aggieland ’65”
identification card can do
so by contacting Robert
Heger (Dorm 7 Room 305)
by Feb. 27th.
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SOPHOMORES & JUNIORS
Corps, Sophomores & Juniors
will have their portraits made
for the “Aggieland ’65, accord
ing to the following schedule:
ny D, E, F-2 Feb.
22-23
A, B-3
23-24
C, D,-3
24-25
E, F, G-3
25-26
H, 1-3 March
1-2
Maroon Band
2-3
White Band
3-4
Squadrons 1-4
4-5
5-8
8-9
9-12
9-10
13-17
10-11
Make up for these pictures
March 15-19
On Campos
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{By the author of “Rally Round the Flag, Boys!’’,
“Dobie Gillis,” etc.)
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Topic for today is that perennial favorite of English majors,
that ever-popular crowd pleaser, that good sport and great
American—William Shakespeare (or “The Swedish Nightin
gale” as he is better known as).
First let us examine the persistent theory that Shakespeare (or
“The Pearl of the Pacific” as he is jocularly called) is not the
real author of his plays. Advocates of this theory insist the plays
are so full of classical allusions and learned references that they
couldn’t possibly have been written by the son of an illiterate
country butcher.
To which I reply “Faugh!” Was not the great Spinoza’s father
a humble woodcutter? Was not the immortal Isaac Newton’s
father a simple second baseman? (The elder Newton, incidental
ly, is one of history’s truly pathetic figures. He was, by all ac
counts, the greatest second baseman of his time, but baseball,
alas, had not yet been invented. It used to break young Isaac’s
heart to see his father get up every morning, put on uniform,
spikes, glove, and cap, and stand alertly behind second base,
bent forward, eyes narrowed, waiting, waiting, waiting. That’s
all—waiting. Isaac loyally sat in the bleachers and yelled “Good
show, Dad!” and stuff like that, but everyone else in town snig
gered derisively, made coarse gestures, and pelted the Newtons
with overripe fruit—figs for the elder Newton, apples for the
younger. Thus, as we all know, the famous moment came when
Isaac Newton, struck in the head with an apple, leapt to his feet,
shouted “Europa!” and announced the third law of motion: “For
every action there is an opposite and equal reaction!”
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ample, Personna Stainless Steel Razor Blades. Shave with a
Personna. That’s the action. Now what is the reaction? Pleasure,
delight, contentment, cheer, and facial felicity. Why such a
happy reaction? Because you have started with the sharpest,
most durable blade ever honed—a blade that gives you more
shaves, closer shaves, comfortabler shaves than any other brand
on the market. If, by chance, you don’t agree, simply return
your unused Personnas to the manufacturer and he will send you
absolutely free a package of Beep-Beep or any other blade you
think is better.)
But I digress. Back to Shakespeare (or “The Gem of the
Ocean” as he was ribaldly appelated).
Shakespeare’s most important play is, of course, Hamlet (or,
as it is frequently called, Macbeth). This play tells in living color
the story of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, who one night sees a
ghost upon the battlements. (Possibly it is a goat he sees; I have
a first folio that is frankly not too legible.) Anyhow, Hamlet is so
upset by seeing this ghost (or goat) that he stabs Polonius and
Brer Bodkin. He is thereupon banished to a leather factory by
the king, who hollers, “Get thee to a tannery!” Thereupon
Ophelia refuses her food until Laertes shouts, “Get thee to a
beanery!” Ophelia is so cross that she chases her little dog out of
the room, crying, “Out, damned Spot!” She is fined fifty shillings
for cussing, but Portia, in an eloquent plea, gets the sentence com
muted to life imprisonment. Thereupon King Lear and Queen
Mab proclaim a festival—complete with kissing games and a
pie-eating contest. Everybody has a perfectly splendid time until
Banquo’s ghost (or goat) shows up. This so unhinges Richard HI
that he drowns his cousin, Butt Malmsey. This leads to a lively
discussion, during which everyone is killed. The little dog Spot
returns to utter the immortal curtain lines:
Our hero note has croaked,
And so’s our prima donna.
But be of cheer, my friends.
You’ll always have Personna.
©1965, Max Shulman
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