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Aggies, You’re Eligible If Your Score Is 1810!
By MARY ELLEN GOODMAN
The Houston Post
The other day, while I was clearing my desk at Rice
University, I came across an unsigned document which had
somehow mysteriously inserted itself among the other
papers there. Because of the unusual sociological insights
it provides, this document is reproduced here in full.
The Modem Girl’s Questionnaire
To All Potential Male Applicants for Marriage
DIRECTIONS:
Please answer the following questions honestly “yes”
or “no.” Your score will be the algebraic sum of points
for “yes” answers. Please proceed.
A. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
1) Do people tell you that you are conventionally good
looking (as is Rock Hudson or Tab Hunter) ?
(5 pts.
2) If not, do women seem to find you appealing to
the mother instinct (in looks) ? (10 pts.)
3) Has a woman ever told you that you are mag
netically attractive, with an individual and com
plex Total Look (including dress, mannerisms, and
conversational charm) ? (25 pts.)
4) Is this Total Look slightly Bohemian, wild and
disheveled? (add 5 pts.)
5) Do you have eyes that change color according to
your mood? (10 pts.)
6) Do you have green eyes? (15 pts)
7) Do you have green eyes that change color accord
ing to emotion felt? (25 pts.)
8 Do you wear your hair long, but not scrufty-long ?
(10 pts.)
9) Do you have a Hollywood build? (5 pts.)
10) Do you have a fairly good build, but something
“your own” about it? (a slight limp or asym
metrical shoulder is fine) (10 pts.)
11) Do you have a fairly good build and a lean, wire
muscled aspect? (20 pts.)
12) Do you have a beer-belly? (do not bother to com
plete application form)
13) Are you of a strong constitution (usually healthy
and lusty) ? (15 pts.)
B. OPINIONS:
1) First of all, are you intellectual and quick-witted,
if not terribly articulate? (300 pts.)
2) Are you in the process of somehow acquiring a dis
criminating education and training your potential
(preferably in college) ? (200 pts.)
3) Now that we have those eliminated, are you an
agnostic, freethinker, or Unitarian? (25 pts.)
4) Do you consider women as equals in intellectual,
occupational and emotional matters, except where
you know for sure that you are superior?
(100 pts.)
5) Do you believe self-discipline and hard work are
prerequisite to carrying out your ambitions?
(250 pts.)
6) Do you consider love-making in a natural, whole
some and enthusiastic light (with no double
standards, even deep down) ? (100 pts.)
7) Do you consider love-making a chase, sport, or
weapon? (—100 pts.)
C. TEMPERAMENT AND MANNERS:
1) Are you considerate, but not overly demonstrative
in conventional ways? (25 pts.)
2) Are you selfish but charming? (10 pts.)
3) Are you unctuous and eager-to-please?
(—150 pts.)
4) Are you even-tempered and able to agree with
everyone? (if so, you have just been eliminated)
5) Are you even-tempered on the surface but have
deep depressions occasionally? (10 pts.)
6) Are you intriguingly moody with alternations no
longer than two days in duration and ranging from
drunkenly gay to cynically depressed? (25 pts.)
7) How quickly do you become passionately aroused
over human injustice, cruelty, HUAC, America’s
war in Viet Nam, police brutality to Negroes, etc.?
a) Instantly, even before facts are checked
(—10 pts.)
b) Gradually as facts are confirmed, building to
a burning and action-inspiring as well as last
ing fconviction and indignation. (25 pts.)
8) Do you act impulsively on your emotional feelings
(important ones) ? (5 pts.)
9) Do you fight them at first, hold yourself in check,
then yield to their sway? (20 pts.)
10) Are you restless, adventurous and daring?
(250 pt
11) . . . and apt to remain so the rest of your lilt
(50 pts
12) . . . and consider it possible to take a wifeali:
provided she is not a drag? (25 pts
13) Are children attracted to your slightly strut
gruff manner? (25 pt
14) Are you helpful to have around the house (repai:
etc.) because you are clever and ingenious?
(30 pts
15) Do you stand up and offer your seat to stratp
tired-looking white women? (10 pts
16) . . . and Negro women and all others? (add25pts
D. MISCELLANEOUS FOR EXTRA POINTS: I
1) Do you know “where the action is” and other gr
spots? (50pti
2) Do you have a complex and sometimes poet
mental-life ? (150 pt
3) And can tell Someone about it when in the rip
mood ? (50 pt
4) Do you buy American-made convertibles or wine
flashy clothes and other things made for cs
spicuous consumption ? (—200 pts
After diligent searching I managed to locate f
author of this questionnaire. The document is reveal
here with her permission. She eagerly awaits any *
over 19 years of age whose score is 1810 points or mot
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The Younger Generation
Fights For Reputation
Tommy DeFrank
Jim Wright: Ex-Aggie
By GLENN DROMGOOLE
Battalion Editor
Glaring headlines in the newspapers often
point to the increasing rate and amount of juvenile
delinquency. We read (and write) about multiple
rapes in California, teenage gangs in large cities
across the nation, and sons and daughters of
prominent Houston families picked up for wild
beer parties and sex orgies.
Juvenile delinquency always has been, and
probably always will be, with us, but it seems
alarmingly significant in today’s crime reports.
“The younger generation is going to the dogs,”
our mothers, fathers, aunts and uncles wail. But
is it?
The “younger generation” includes you and me,
and I don’t personally feel that we are this bad.
Other members of our age group give us this
connotation by their actions which are prominent
ly displayed by newspapers, magazines, radio and
television. They are “blown up” as big news,
because our society places such a demand on this
type of information.
But there is other information which contra
dicts the generalization that our generation is
“bad.” This information, unfortunately, is often
overlooked by the editor filling his news columns
and also by the reader.
Led by the active interest Texas attorney
general Waggoner Carr has taken in youth, this
state has stepped up to reduce the rate of juve
nile delinquency and produce youth with a keen
awareness of their responsibilities in today’s
world.
The Attorney General’s Youth Conference on
Crime, held annually in Austin, is the most shin
ing example of this effort. There are many oth
ers.
“Operation Teenager,” a forum produced by in
mates in Texas prisons, has been aired in com
munities across the state.
Youth juries have been installed in several
cities to handle teenage problems, mainly traffic
offenses. Fort Worth, San Antonio, Abilene, San
Angelo, Pecos, Lubbock and Houston are among
the largest cities to initiate the program.
Youth conferences have been held in Kilgore,
Austin, San Antonio, Lubbock, Houston and Abi
lene to discuss juvenile problems in their respect
ive areas.
Youth advisory boards, associations, councils
and seminars have tried to make youth aware of
the problems their generation faces.
The only drawback to these programs is that
too often they miss the minority—that is, the
potential and existing delinquents.
Until this minority attends and participates
in these activities, the campaign’s effectiveness
will be limited.
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EDITOR
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GLENN DROMGOOLE
Gerald Garcia
Larry Jerden
Tommy DeFrank
Voluntary associations have a limited scope,
they cannot force youth to attend. We need a
more compulsory program to reach all teenagers,
and the most logical place is the public school.
Although laden with more responsibilities than
they can often handle, the schools have the ad
vantages of a “captive” audience, personnel train
ed in working with youth and adequate adult
supervision.
The major purpose of the public schools
is to teach, but teaching includes many facets.
Instruction in the causes, costs and effects of
crime surely falls into this category.
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Special Report
By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — Three recent legislative set
backs for President Johnson — one of them a
major defeat — have started administration con
gressional leaders wondering if it isn’t time to
adjourn while they’re still ahead of the game.
After nine months of docility during which
key parts of the President’s program were en
acted with votes to spare, the legislators are
showing signs of balkiness. They already want
to go home to sound out sentiment at the grass
roots level.
Many of them are chafing at repeated Re
publican taunts that Johnson’s first Congress
since his election last year has been famous for
its willingness to rubber-stamp White House
legislation.
There are indications that Republicans, out
numbered more than 2 to 1 in the House and
better than 3 to 1 in the Senate, plan to stress
the “rubber-stamp” charge in their bid to regain
seats in the 1966 congressional elections.
Disclosing plans for a slowdown of the legisla
tive machinery in the next few weeks, a high
Democratic leader summed up what apparently
is the thinking of many of his colleagues.
“The animals are getting restless,” he said.
“They want to go home and find out firsthand
what their constituents are thinking. A few more
setbacks like we’ve had in the past few days might
persuade the President to suggest that we call it
quits while we are way ahead in the win column.”
Several major decisions to be made by Con
gress early this month may determine the ad
journment date.
The House will vote soon on a Senate-passed
highway beautification bill. This is on the Presi
dent’s “must” list and is a pet project of his
wife.
The bill barely cleared the Rules Committee
last week. The vote that sent it to the floor was
7 to 6, with two opponents absent .
Behind the highway bill on the House calendar
is a Johnson-backed measure to broaden coverage
of the minimum wage law. In the face of
threatened defeat, its sponsors already have
agreed to scale down a proposed boost in an ef
fort to attract more support.
Another labor-backed bill is in deep trouble
in the Senate. It is a House-passed measure to
negate state laws that prohibit union shop clauses
in labor contracts. Senate leaders may not be
able to break a filibuster aimed at blocking a
vote on the bill. The measure is being pushed
hard by the administration.
The first sign of an incipient rebellion on
Capitol Hill came last week when the
After I completed my gues-
defeated the President’s proposal for home rule sing, I began to plan my strate-
for the District of Columbia. A plan opposed, gy
by the administration was substituted 227 to 174
despite compromise offers by the administration.
The defeat was more galling for the Presi
dent because it took a lot of White House arm- „ ~;
twisting to persuade 218 House members to sign r LAN U la
a petition that forced, the vote. Many members.,
privately voiced at the pressure
“Yeah, but you studied! Who couldn’t make a good grade
if they studied?”
The Futility Of It All:
Or, Why Math For Me?
Then, suddenly, I knew. I
must begin by planning on my
inevitable visit to the office of
one of the powers that be. Since
the visit was obviously inevita
ble, I felt that planning on it
was only practical.
I reviewed in memory my pre
vious visit to that office concern
ing this course. After attempt
ing to answer the questions, I
asked one pitiful, hopeless ques
tion of my own: “Sir why am
I required to take this course ? ”
Swift and sure, I remembered,
the answer came back: “So that
you, as a journalism major, can
converse intelligently with math
majors.”
Remembering, an inspired, full
blown plan of attack for my next
visit leaped into my mind.
I will say if I am allowed to
petition this course, I will not
write to my representative in
the legislature demanding that
curricula be altered so that math
majors must take Journalism
201, news writing, in order to be
able to converse intelligently
with me!
As I triumphantly handed in
my half-blank quiz and chuckled
over my plan, only one little
flaw nagged at me. I might pass
the course this time—what then?
The quiz was over. The in
structor was still passing copies
around to the students, but one
look was all I needed to know
that the quiz was over for me.
Of course, I knew I would
stay there and make all the gues
ses I could—one of the few things
I learned in that course the first
time around was that mathema
tical odds really mean nothing.
Out of all the possible guesses
I could make, any one had as
much chance of being right as
any other. This is, I’m sure, as
it should be.
I looked over the quiz with a
certain strange sense of pleasure.
It wasn’t entirely foreign to me
after all. My first trip through
the course wasn’t a complete
waste, because some of the quiz
was familiar—I remembered not
knowing exactly the same thing
last spring.
This, I knew, was progress.
for the remainder of the
course. The obvious place to start
planning would be with the next
quiz—but I tried that last time.
PEANUTS
tics.
While the Senate may try to pick up some
of the legislative pieces, the mood of the House
is not good. Many members feel that they have
done enough for one session and it’s time to go
home.
If they keep feeling th^t way, the session may
end soon “With Some major: legislation ^
aside as unfinished business for next year. ^
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.TO HOP YOU WITH
MATH
I COOLDNTBE LESS
INTERESTED! WHAT DO I CAPE
ABOUT “NEO) MATH" ? l‘M ONLY
6OIN6T0 BE A HOUSEWIFE!
Somewhere back in the musty
minds of every true-blue A&M
man lurks the infallible premise
that there is no such thing as an
Ex-Aggie.
Aggie exes we all must be
some sad day, but heaven forbid
that we be tagged Ex-Aggie.
But we are wrong. There
are such things.
One such thing was on dis
play Friday night in Lubbock,
and the handful of Aggies that
attended the Texas Tech pep ral
ly were treated to a performance
that turned stomachs.
Jim Wright was a quarter
back on the fabled Bear Bryant
teams of 1955-57.
While a member of the varsi
ty Wright played in five los
ing games in three seasons and
was instrumental in many of the
victories of those good years.
He tossed a touchdown pass to
Don Watson as the Aggies tun
ned a heavily-favored TCU team
in 1955, 19-16.
He passed for the only Cadet
touchdown as the Aggies tied
Arkansas, 7-7.
He scored the only touchdown
as the Aggies closed out the 1955
campaign with a loss to Texas.
The week before he had flipped
the touchdown pass to Lloyd
Taylor that gave the Aggies
the lead in the now-famous come
back against the Rice Owls.
Wright’s touchdown passes and
running were a major factor in
the 17-3-1 skein run up by the
Bear’s 1956 and 1957 teams.
He played on the same teams
with Aggie immortal John Crow
and was also a teammate of
present Aggie coaches Gene
Stallings, Lloyd Taylor, Don
Watson and Jack Pardee.
But this same Jim Wright
now is an assistant coach under
J. T. King at Texas Tech, and
he made a speech at the pep rally
Friday.
He began by admitting that
he had attended Texas A&M
“but I finally saw the light.”
He talked for awhile about
the Red Raiders’ football prow
ess and ended his message with
the clincher.
“You know, there’s nothing the
Aggies hate more than to hear
‘P-o-o-o-o-o-o-r Aggies’ when
they’re losing toward the end of
the game,,” he said.
“So when it gets near to the
end and those Aggies are losing,
I want to hear ‘P-o-o-o-o-o-o-r
Aggies’ long and loud, so the
Aggies will have a long, long
trip back to College Station.”
The Aggie team didn’t give
the Raider fans much time to
chant, but after Donny Ander
son iced the game with 1:07 left
Tech fans began heeding
Wright’s advice.
Now, granted, Wright works
for Tech and must necessarily
be committed to preparing t!
team to win regardless of thes
position. But I doubt serioui;
that his contract requires hi:
to renounce his Alma Mater.
It seems that a college m:
wherever he goes, should I
proud of his school and alwaj
remain that way. Many Aggk
now are employed by rival So#
west Conferences, both in athi;
tic, administrative and acadciri
capacities, but rarely does os
of these men blast his schoi
such as Wright did Friday.
No doubt he was merely tri
ing to pep up Raider fans,
it is unbelievable that he wo:
do it at the expense of the scho:
from which he was graduated,
One person has suggested thi
students take up a collection::
buy up Wright’s Aggie ring a:
return it to College Station.
Another suggests dropping#
from the rolls of the Associatic
of the Former Students.
But there is no sense in eitk
of these alternatives. The b«
thing to do is to leave him t
Lubbock, where they obvious;
cater to turncoats.
-- :
Mortimers
Notes
FOR THE RECORD: The Cot
gars come to town this wee!
end, and the betting boys (f
least those who are sound) ac
taking A&M
Chances are that our visitof
from that Big City High Scho
won’t be yelling “poor Aggies
this Saturday, for several res
sons
First of all, they won’t gf
the opportunity. And even it
they did, I should think they 1 !
know better
All the beautiful girls you se;
strolling around campus this
weekend won’t be Aggie Sweet
heart finalists, but at least 10
them will
FACTS AND FIGURES: Ten
as A&M is the largest, oldes -
most prosperous university it
College Station, a reputation t
has held for more than $
years
Speaking of 89 years, you pro!
ably thought that A&M was
founded Oct. 4, 1876. Well, you
are wrong. A recently discov
ered document shows that class
es first began here Oct. 2, whici
means that the school celebrate- 1
its anniversary Saturday in
stead of Monday
NOT FOR THE RECORD: It
has been said that there are»
new sins. Some just keep on
repeating the old ones
See Ya ’round — Mortimer.
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