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Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, December 9>, 1965
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The Spiritless Of Christmas
Old Christmas’s shot to heck!
Those white holidays around the
fireplace are gone forever and
only their Christmas Carols live
on.
Nor is there a Christmas day.
Today it’s Christmas month. The
streets of Dallas were decorated
with Silver Bells and Santa
Clauses a week before Thanks
giving. Evergreen trees went on
sale the day after Thanksgiving.
And everywhere people are scur
rying to do their last minute
shopping with 17 days to go.
I say everyone everywhere is
preparing for Christmas. That’s
not entirely true. Back in my
hometown of Podunk Flats peo
ple hardly know what Christmas
is. The streets are decorated
mainly because the lights never
come down.
Any day now the people will go
out on the prairie and chop down
an old mesquite tree which will
later be painted white or purple
to depict the Yuletime spirit.
Fires burn there for it’s cold dur
ing Christmas and a true holiday
spirit should prevail. But it’s
spoiled because to this day Santa
has never been able to find Po
dunk Flats.
Last week I went to Austin to
buy a raincoat to get me through
the holidays. Not a snowcoat, but
a raincoat. In Austin I found the
biggest mess one town could pos
sibly have. It looked like a Corps
Parade after the Aggies had just
passed.
I couldn’t even drive a car
downtown for the people run
ning from one store to the next.
Everyone wanting the same
thing now before the rush be
gins. Women fighting over the
Herky
Killingsworth
same dress, shoplifters finally
getting it.
The fighting over items looked
like such fun that I myself under
took a battle with this girl over
a sweater. What a fight!
Maybe with everyone buying
so much, so early I’ll get some
thing this year. All I want is a
Jaguar XKE, a coed, a 2.95
G.P.R., a bear skin rug complete
with 18-year-old baby, etc. . . .
Also I’d like to take that quiz
over that I took Friday.
But Austin isn’t the only place
going Christmas crazy. It’s like
that everywhere. People are be
ginning to drag out records they
haven’t played since last year.
Bing Crosby becomes famous
once again.
The English professors dig out
their Dickens books to tell the
freshmen all about Tiny Tim and
Uncle Scrooge.
Holly wreaths go on the door,
mistletoe above the door (or on
a stick so it’ll be handy), and
Aggies everywhere start looking
for a sock without a hole in it to
hang on the fireplace to restock
their dwindling supply of cherry
bombs.
Soon underclassmen will begin
singing their annual Christmas
Carols, if you call it singing. It’s
really a beautiful tradition and
as the Senior sheds a tear we
have really the spirit of giving
oneself, for if the words go
wrong oneself will be given to
sacrificial juniors to teach them
the glory of Christmas. It’s act
ually funny to think that they
will be singing of a White Christ
mas in shirt sleeves.
Speaking of a White Christ
mas, who ever saw a white
Christmas here at A&M unless in
a hospital with white sheets,
white nurses, and white padded
walls. Irving Berlin definitely
wasn’t from Texas. The only
white Christmas I’ve ever seen
was in Colorado and the next day
was black, because of a skiing
accident.
With the weather around here,
people don’t even know what a
fireplace or sweater is for. They
think a sweater is for pin-up
girls, (ski-pants also) and a fire
place to depict the Spirit of Ag-
gieland before the tragic Thanks
giving day game.
Well for your information
freshman, a fireplace is one of
those brick hole-in-the-walls in
which you put logs and set afire.
You can’t smoke it and it’s only
good for heat and watching, if
you have a girl. Otherwise it’s
only good for heat.
The times are achanging. The
Christmas Holidays are no longer
the time of mirth as they use to
be. Now it is the symbol for an
extended vacation in which you
get away from it all. Soon legend
will have it that Santa has gone
Space Age and drops from o\it of
a Gemini capsule to bring goodies
and winning ballgames to all
good little Aggies and Maggies.
Eggnog will flow in its more
original contents and there will
be parties for all.
But don’t worry Mortimer,
Santa will rise again.
Coed Limitation Questioned
It is the same old question,
with all its vulnerable simplici
ty, asked by hundreds of thou
sands of small children daily, I
know.
I have seen months, years of
vague debate full of vague pros
and cons; I have waited, like
others, patiently. I have always
tried to remind myself “They
are dealing with a ticklish prob
lem,” and to restrain the count
less angry questions that have
come to mind in reaction to the
endless groping for, the over
emphasis of, and the recurrent
evasion of the problem.
But now there is one question
that must be asked.
In all the heated arguments
among students about coeduca
tion the past couple of years,
there is always at least one per
son ready to swear he got it
straight from the horse’s mouth
that A&M’s board of directors is
secretly strongly in favor of
full, unlimited coeducation. And
there is also always at least one
peorson ready to swear the op
posite. So nobody really knows
for sure.
Tim Lane
Or, that is, they didn’t know.
But, when the board “clari
fied” its policy on coeducation
last week in a special letter of
the president, a member of the
board, in one of his discussions
of the letter and the problem,
was quoted by several newspa
pers as saying that he was sure
that 75 per cent of the members
of the board were very much
against full, unlimited coeduca
tion at A&M.
Although he did not say wheth
er his estimates were based on an
official tabulation, a straw vote
of some sort, or on his personal
opinion, his estimate cannot be
ignored—he is, after all, on the
board.
So, eternally childish as it may
seem, the question has to be
asked.
—Because we know the reasons
some of the students are against
coeducation, and we know the
reasons of those in favor of it—
we ought to as often as they’ve
been rehashed. But we do not
know the reasons for his saying
the board opposes coeducation.
So: Why ?
If the board is against full,
unlimited coeducation at A&M,
obviously the board has reasons.
It is equally obvious that the
students of Texas A&M and the
other taxpayers of Texas should
hear them along with the rest
of the “policy clarification.”
So, once more, like a naive
child that really expects to get
an answer: Why?
BAYLOR STUDENTS
NOT CHARGED
The Dietz Memorial Company
of Waco has decided not to press
charges against four Baylor men
involved in the theft of a tomb
stone from the company.
“I understand it was just a
practical joke,” said Travis Du
bois, dean of men. The men sup
posedly took the stone as a prank
on a friend. It was to signify his
death upon becoming engaged to
be married, the men said.
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GLENN DROMGOOLE
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by Jim Earle
“ . . . Why should campus politics be more restricted than
real politics? ,>
OKLAHOMA
Feelings are many and mixed
upon the Oklahoma University
campus following the Monday
announcement of head football
coach Gomer Jones’ resignation.
Gene Cagle, OU’s quarterback
and top rusher, said “a lot of
pressure has been put on Coach
Jones. Even though he didn’t
have to, he probably felt it was
best to resign. We made the mis
takes, not him.”
Most of the members of the
team echoed this view. The stu
dent body was of a different
mind.
“I think that we can find a
better coach,” stated Dave Dry-
den, Tulsa freshman. “Jones isn’t
forceful enough and doesn’t work
the players to their full capacity.
It’s hard for students to under
stand why a team would win
under Wilkinson and not under
Jones.”
The resignation followed an
OU defeat at the hands of Okla
homa State University which had
not beaten the Sooners since
1945.
The Oklahoma Daily had this
to say, editorially:
“He could have continued and
tried to prove what his close
friends and staunch admirers
knew, but the critical wave was
too strong and threatened
hurt the chances of his team’s
future. He started and finisk
with his boys’ dedication and ai
miration. There can be no higk
tribute than this.”
TWU
TWU has created another tra.
dition. Columnist and Mam
Editor Carolyn Raeke tells.
it:
“The shut-eyed students stall
ing about are part of the Ift
‘Great Bear’ tradition. Haviti
gone into hibernation with tk
first blast of cold air, they m
sleep through everything incM
ing classes.”
The Tessies will host their &
nual Christmas dance Saturdij
night in the Student Uni
Building Ballroom. If you han
been invited, the dress is forms’
optional. That means tux forth
fratrats from North Texas a:;
Class A’s or dark suits for tk
Aggies. White socks should i
be worn.
A pre-Columbian world mi|
showin g- “Vinlanda” adds
archeological evidence that Vi
ings visited North America we!
before Columbu’s voyage.
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