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Wednesday, September 29, 1965
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It’s Not Easy
As any journalism major knows, for the
student editor getting out a student news
paper is no picnic.
If you print jokes, people will say you
are not intellectual enough. If you don’t,
they will say you are too serious.
If you stick close to the office during
all of your “free” hours, you ought to be
around hunting news. If you go out and
try to hustle material, you ought to be on
the job in the office.
If you don’t print all contributions, you
are one-sided and don’t appreciate genius,
and if you do print them, the paper is filled
with junk.
If you edit the other fellow’s write-up,
you’re too critical; if you don’t you’re
charged with being asleep.
If you clip things from other papers,
you’re too lazy to write them yourself; if
you don’t you’re stuck with your own stuff.
If you write tersely for your readers
with an eye to their interests and the read
ability of the paper, you are lambasted by
the English Department; if you write every
story like a theme, most students stop read
ing the paper.
Like as not, someone will say The Bat
talion swiped the above comments from
other sources .... and we did!
We swiped it from “The Cougar,” who
pilfered it from “The Oklahoma Daily” who
copped it from “The Intercom” who bor
rowed it from “The Tabulator” who grab
bed it from “The Global Ranger” who
lifted it from “The Plainsman” who stole
it from “The Far East Activities Month
ly” who got it from the “Iwakuni Torri
Teller.” Where they got it no one seems
to know.
Editor,
The Battalion:
I must respectfully disagree with Coach
Stallings’ words at Monday night (Sept.
20) yell practice. Other teams play with
11 men; I was under the impression that
the Aggies played with 12.
The Aggies in the stands have never
been passive but rather a real force which
attacks the effectiveness of our opponents
—not as poor sportsmanship but as part of
the game, a part which other schools are
free to use if they have the necessary
backing by their student bodies.
When other schools yell poor sports
manship, is it just sour grapes? Should we
be denied our 12th Man simply because our
opponents don’t have one? To me, this
sounds like T.U. playing without their star
quarterback because ours can’t pass as far
or run as fast.
Should we really degenerate to the level
of tea-sips yelling only to make a noise and
only when it can do no good?
John E. Ebey, ’67
Mr. Ebey, the 12th man was not de
signed to harrass our opponents, but rather
to give extra support to our own team.
Which is more important?—Editor.
Editor,
The Battalion:
Please accept and extend my sincere
congratulations for the excellent editorial,
“The Stalings Diplomacy” appearing in the
Wednesday, Sept. 22, issue. Mr. Tommy
DeFrank is to especially be congratulated
for this editorial.
As an interested Aggie for nearly 40
years now, it is hoped that our disgrace
ful conduct at football games will cease.
It has brought Aggies nothing but censure
and disgust by the public—and a lot of
Aggies too.
Let’s be good sports—let’s abide by
good conduct and good manners. Such
action will place us back in the sun where
we belong and out of the darkness where
we are now.
Congratulations and best wishes to
your staff—the entire student body too.
George G. Smith, ’30
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EDITOR GLENN DROMGOOLE
Tommy DeFrank
Age Of The Picket
It seems today that no
college generation can se
cure its niche in history un
less it can come up with
some sort of fad to identi
fy itself.
In the past it has been
goldfish swallowing or ra
kish initiations. Telephone
booth stacking came and
went as did the Volkswagen
stuffing craze.
One of the more recent
efforts at eternal glory has
been the shower contest,
where dedicated undergrads
stage bath-a-thons to see
how long one can stay under
the shower.
Last time we heard the
world's record had cracked
the 24-hour barrier and wq$
still going up.
Each generation of colle
gians can be associated with
some characterictic action,
and the college student of
the ’60’s is no exception.
The 60’s have barely
reached the halfway mark,
but our stamp, has been
burned indelibly on college
campuses from California to
New York for all the world
to see.
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
“I’ve learned one thing down here—rail this emphasis on
shoe shinin’ is bunk!”
We of the 60’s are in the
age of the picket.
The picket of the ’60’s is
a curious sort of animal. He
looks like a Genghis Khan
movie extra except for the
fact that most movie ex
tras usually wear clean
clothes. A true-blue picket-
er isn’t in unless his sweat
shirt has at least six holes
in it and hasn’t been washed
for a couple months. His
hair style makes it impos
sible to tell if he’s a boy or
a girl. Socks are a thing
of the past. They’re Out.
Chances are he’s been liv
ing with his “girl” as a pro
test against America’s out
dated and backward policies
of life and love.
His weapon is a sign,
scribbled with crayon or
printed with funds supplied
by a well-organized student
group. The sign doesn’t real
ly need to say anything as
long as it says “We prdtest.”
The 1965 college picket is
an angry man of protest.
Sometimes he doesn’t know
what he’s protesting
against, but that really
makes no difference. The
important thing is that he’s
protesting.
He has an impressive rec
ord with which to spring
forward for greater con
quests. He was responsible
for disrupting the work of
a great university in Cali
fornia when he found out
some square wouldn’t per
mit dirty words in campus
publications.
Free Speech down the
drain, he whined. We pro
test.
Except this time the stu
dents couldn’t handle it
themselves. They had to
have a nonstudent come in
and spearhead the fight
which finally resulted in the
resignation of the universi
ty’s chancellor.
High School Fads
Reading newspapers, as
everyone knows, is the sur
est way to round out the
educational process. This
only works, of course, if you
read all of the newspaper—
right down to the odd little
stories picked out of local
newspaper and circulated
nationwide by the wire serv
ices.
I read all of the news
paper when I find time to,
and recently I learned some
thing I consider to be of im
portance.
A new fad is sweeping our
country — so new that it
hasn’t been named yet. I
think I am the first to dis
cover it and I did so by read
ing the back pages of the
newspapers. .
It is a high school fad—
which I will call the “Sup
press the Fads Fad,” or the
“Let’s Keep Our Students
Respectable Whether It’s
Our Business Or Not Fad.”
Obviously, this is not a
student fad, but principals’
and teachers’ fad.
Since the first of Sept
ember, scattered back-of-
the-paper news items have
described countless boys, sin
gly or in groups, being ex
pelled for reporting to class
es in beatle—or some varia
tion thereof—haircuts.
In Houston, an “A” stu
dent sits waiting out two
weeks expulsion because an
other student objected to his
long hair and sandals.
A few days or so ago a
principal in some city I
don’t care to remember an
nounced proudly that he in
tended conducting a “hem
line inspection” of the 200
girls in his school every
morning.
It is a very interesting
fad, and it is a shame it will
not last long enough for so
ciologists to evaluate it. I
suppose it won't, because
another news item revealed
that the fad is about to be
carried to its logical ridicu
lous extreme. Several sets
o f parents are preparing
sets of court test cases.
across the country, and it
seems obvious that the
courts will remind the
school officials involved that
what they have been teach
ing the kiddies for years is
still true.
We still have a constitu
tion that guarantees certain
basic rights—and I have al
ways been taught that those
rights stop when exercising
them intrudes on the rights
of others, not when someone
does not like the cut of my
hair, or my shoes, or current
fashions of dress.
The picket has protested
banning of the Prince
Charles hair style. He has
protested because the Unit
ed States is not being fair
to Cuba. He has protested
before an airplane on a uni
versity campus in this state
because the plane is a ma^
chine of death.
But his encore has been
his massive effort against
American policy in Viet
Nam.
He has marched on the
White House, trying to con
vince the President he is all
wet about Viet Nam. He
has also marched on college
campuses throughout this
country, desperately squeal
ing that Viet Nam is none of
our business.
We will not fight, he
screams. Viet Nam for the
Vietnamese. We will not
register for the draft. We
protest.
It is sickening to realize
that young men in the prime
of life are dying hourly on
foreign soil to preserve the
precious right of the long-
hairs to picket.
Our angry young man is
in reality a coward who re
fuses to believe he owes
anyone anything. He is the
type who says he is a con
scientious objector but real
ly has no conscience at all.
On the whole he is a semi
literate bum whose life re
mains in the gutter while
his mind supposedly attain
ed the apex of intellectua-
lism years ago.
He is society’s leech who
takes advantage of the op
portunity to receive an edu
cation and then flaunts au
thority in return.
But the real tragedy lies
in the fact that many pro
testors are not beatniks.
They are well-bred, highly-
intelligent persons.
These are the types that
must raise joy in the hearts
of America’s enemies.
We all have the right to
protest, but it is sickening
to see that so many have so
much garbage to say and so
miserably little to offer.
As one writer has said,
it is time these persons are
told a few things by some
one. Like their fathers.
The 1965 college protester
and his picket sign are not
in the majority, but he is
too numerous to be over
looked or go unrecorded by
history.
This is the legacy of the
college man and woman of
the ’60’s. It is not a legacy
of which our grandchildren
will be proud.
Parking Solutions Aired
Have you ever thought
about the historical signifi
cance of the meeting of Eve
and the serpent? Without
that meeting the tradition
of friendship would never
have come about.
Down through history
friendship has been record
ed. Anthony and Cleopatra.
Henry VIII and Molly
Brown. Coach Stallings and
Georgia Tech.
Here on the A&M campus
we have followed through on
that everlasting tradition.
I’m mighty glad of it to,
for without friends I’d never
be able to hitch-hike to the
parking lot.
Besides traditions on this
campus, we have problems.
Big problems. Far problems.
Mile far problems. Every
time I want to go to the
cleaners I journey down to
the far corners of the Hous
ton Parking Lot, long past
the Band Dorm and the Air
Force Drill Field. Later I’ll
return the car and possibly
walk the two miles back to
the pad.
I hate to complain though.
My grandpappy told me nev
er to complain unless I my
self have a solution to the
problem. I have a solution.
Several of them in fact, so
I reserve the right to com
plain.
First of all, bicycles could
be issued with the parking
stickers or maybe tricycles
for the agriculture students.
A special P.E. class could be
set up to build up the
Archille’s tendon and A&M
could become noted for its
cross-country touring team.
More solutions could be
derived also. Buses could go
hourly throughout the Col
lege Station area carrying
students to and from class
es. Freshmen could be
forced to leave their cars at
home until they get their
GPR up to 3.5. Maybe
sophomores, juniors, and
seniors should also be under
that regulation allowing on
ly fifth year men to drive on
campus.
One last solution to the
problem should be reviewed
when working at the park
ing problem (and I don’t
mean that kind of parking).
At a slightly extra expense
we could transfer the steam
tunnels into subways and
become the first campus in
the world with our own
MTA. Songs could then be
written and books could be
sung and parking would be
solved forever on the A&M
campus. We might even
turn the KK's into conduc
tors. They’re already good
at punching tickets.
PEANUTS
By Charles M. Schulz
MV FIN6ER.WHICH IOTOPENING
A CAN OF DOG FOOD FOR YOUR
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I SAVI HOPE YOU APPRECIATE IT!
BESIDES THAT, IT HASN'T
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HE SHOULD COMPLAIN.
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A THUMB.'
By The Associated Press
Castro To Allow Cubans
To Leave For U. S.
HAVANA — Prime Minister Fidel
Castro says any Cubans with relatives in
the United States can leave the island after
Oct. 10. He also promised to clear up the
mystery of Maj. Ernesto Guevara in a few
days.
Castro said in a speech Tuesday night
he would provide boats to take would-be
refugees out of the country and promised:
“They will undergo no risk from us.”
He blamed “the imperialists,” his term
for the United States, for blocking normal
routes for Cubans wishing to leave the
country since the October 1962 missile
crisis.
Rescue Workers Report
Many Killed By Volcano
TAGAYTAY, Philippines—The first
rescue workers reached the blackened
shores of the Taal volcano today and re
ported “a wide expanse of death and
destruction.”
There was no immediate casualty esti
mate from the first to land on the 12-
square-mile island in Lake Taal where the
volcano erupted at 2:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Officials feared a heavy toll among the
island’s 2,000 inhabitants and in villages
along the lakeshore, 5 to 10 miles from the
island.
Minimum Wage Bill
Gets Scaled Down
WASHINGTON — House Democratic
leaders are considering scaling down a pro
posed minimum wage bill in hopes of
getting it passed in the waning days of the
current session.
A major part of the plan now being
actively worked on calls for reducing from
$1.75 an hour to $1.60 the proposed in
crease in the present $1.25 wage.
Consideration also is being given to
cutting back the number of new workers
who would be covered by the bill from the
7.9 million approved by the Education and
Labor Committee.
Washington Home Rule
Enters Amendment Stage
WASHINGTON—The District of Co
lumbia home rule bill enters the crucial
amendment stage in the House today, with
its backers still confident they can put
over a bipartisan compromise.
But the pending business of the House
is a substitute offered by Rep. B. F. Sisk,
D., Calif., calling for a referendum to see
if District residents want home rule, and
then an election of a board to work out a
city charter.
There was a possibility that other
amendments would be disposed of too. More
than 20 of them were lying- on the speaker’s
table when the House adjourned Tuesday
night.
Debbie Stalls
Short Of Florida
PENSACOLA, Fla. — Tropical storm
Debbie stalled just short of slamming into
the plush Gulf Coast of Florida and
Alabama today and forecasters said the
storm appeared to be losing power.
In a morning advisory, the Weather
Bureau said the storm probably would
remain stationary about 115 miles south-
southwest of Mobile, Ala., for the next
6 to 12 hours while weakening slowly.
“Most warnings will probably be low
ered later today,” the advisory said.
However, squalls, winds and rains
generated by the storm raked hundreds of
miles of Florida Panhandle coastline. Wind
whipped tides and pounding surf ate into
the beaches.
Nixon Wants More
GOP Men In Congress
LAKE PLACID, N. Y. —Former Vice
President Richard M. Nixon suggests that
the way to help President Johnson carry
out his Viet Nam policies is to elect more
Republicans to Congress.
Nixon told the New York State Pub
lishers Association Tuesday night that
Johnson is under pressure from Democratic
members of Congress to adopt a soft line
in Southeast Asia.
Republicans elected to Congress, Nixon
said, “would support the President wher
ever he is right against the appeasers in
his own party.”
Dorothy Malone Improves
But Still On Critical List
HOLLYWOOD — Academy Award
winning actress Dorothy Malone was re
ported “making some progress, but still
on the critical list” by spokesmen at Cedars
of Lebanon Hospital.
The 38-year old actress, star of tele
vision’s “Peyton Place,” underwent 7^
hours of surgery last Thursday night to
remove blood clots from her lungs.
Miss Malone’s temperature soared to
over 105 degrees Monday night. Doctors
continued today to give her massive intra
venous doses of antibiotics to keep it down.
The spokesman said, “She’s holding
her own, but she’ll be on the critical list
at least for the next few days.”
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