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What Women’s Fashions Mean To Men
CADET SLOUCH
‘5-Foot-2, Eyes Blue’ Type Returns
By HERKY KILLINGSWORTH
Battalion Fashion Analyst
Editor’s Note: Ever run into
a guy who seems to have that
something special a girl looks
for? Well, Herky Killingsworth
may not be that guy but he’s
been pretty steadily dated up on
the home front. How? We’ve
been asking ourselves that same
question over and over again, but
maybe his inside information on
women’s fashions will explain it.
Killingsworth (that’s not a pen
name) gives his candid views on
female wearing apparel in this
two part series.
The appearance of females on
campus is presenting a number
of problems, the main one being
what to say in the sweet young
things’ presence. No longer can
the old stand-by phrases get by:
“Say, that was some water fight
you had in your area last night,”;
“Have you seen this month’s
Playmate, why she has . . . ”; or
several others.
Now we must fit our talks to
the more eloquent dialogue of a
coed university. We should speak
of the theater instead of flicks,
the arts (whatever that means)
and also girls’ second favorite
topic-fashions.
I realize that few Aggies are
adequately acquainted with the
outer garment industry so I will
now clue you in on the coming
coed fashions.
Starting from the bottom are
(of course) shoes, also referred
to as heels or boots. The most
popular footwear item of the
year is white ‘Go ’Go boots. I
love them myself, not that you
really care.
My analyst tells me I crave
them because of a childhood
crush on a high school majorette
who wore something similar. I
myself believe that it’s their hid
ing of the ankle that makes them
popular for it leaves so much
to the imagination.
Tall black patent leather boots
are also popular, those that go
up to the knees. They’re great
for snake hunting. Another pop
ular shoe . . . and don’t attempt
this one if you have a dirty mind
for it’s liable to come out wrong
... is the T-strap shoe. If you
do feel that discussion on this
topic is necessary, be sure to put
a quick “shoe” on the T-strap
and be sure to get the letter
right.
High heels are out now. What
with taller women and even taller
hair styles and formerly the tall
high heels, we shorties didn’t
have a chance. That reminds me,
what ever happened to that 5’ 2”,
eyes are blue bit. I guess that’ll
return now that girls have been
put down to their own size.
Before we journey up let me
add one comment: don’t ask a
girl what size shower shoe she
wears. It doesn’t fit into the
over-all image.
Moving up we come to socks-or
hose as they call them. There
was a time when this was a
relatively short subject, but it’s
getting longer and longer. The
coming thing is knee length
socks, like the playmate had on
a few months back. To be truth
ful, I’m glad to see they’re com
ing. Here’s hoping they’ll re
place those ‘hose’ with the de
signs, black lace, etc.
At the rate socks are going up
they’ll soon catch the shorter
length skirt and we poor boys
will spend the rest of our life
wondering where legs have gone.
With these minor accessories
aside, we can now go to the more
important skirts. There are
straight skirts, full skirts, short
skirts, long skirts, pleated skirts,
fake skirts.
Those fake skirts are not real
ly skirts at all, they’re pants. No,
they’re not pants, they’re . . .
culottes or something like that.
They’re about the most different
thing on the market and really
leave you wondering about their
designer. Is he for real ?
And you can’t speak of culottes
without thinking also of those
wrap-around skirts. Now there is
a skirt designed with the man in
mind. I hear they were dreamed
up by someone named Hugh
Hefner. Anyhow their only visi
ble means of support is a flimsy
safety pin, which if loosened . . .
well dream on boys. Reliable
sources tell me that there is a
second hidden safety pin—not so
flimsy. Still you wonder if they
sit down carelessly with a half
shift to the right and then one
squirm forward . . . skip it.
Guest Editorial
Different Views
On Student Protests
Given By Critics
Ope n
G^ ies
In today’s world almost every
thing has been reduced in size.
Radios can be built as small as
the mind can imagine. Some
television sets are no larger than
a shoe box. There are even
ovens which the homemaker can
put inside a chicken or turkey in
stead of putting the bird inside
the oven.
To keep abreast of today’s
miniature world, the U. S. Agri
cultural Research Service and
Federal Drug Administration
have developed a miniature hog,
about one-third the size of nor
mal hogs.
The new hogs are the same
species as those found in feed-
lots or in mud holes on farms
throughout the United States.
Hogs are physiologically more
like humans than any other pri
mates says a FDA veterinarian.
These animals, often looked down
on by man, have blood vessels
and a digestive system very sim
ilar to those of a human.
FDA is interested in the small
hogs for research in human and
animal medicine.
The Beltsville, Md., herd was
started about two years ago, aft
er 14 years of research and work
by the Hormel Institute of the
University of Minnesota.
Special attention was placed on
breeding white skinned minia
ture hogs by the Beltsville re
searchers. These hogs will be
used to test antibiotics which
cause humans to break out with
a skin rash, etc.
The ARS says miniature hogs
will require smaller doses of ex
pensive experimental medicines,
will be easier to handle and
house and will be safer to work
with than normal hogs, which
sometimes weigh as much as 600
pounds.
However, ARS and the FDA
aren’t planning to keep their
miniature hog a secret. They
say the miniature hogs open a
new door through which farmers
can increase incomes by raising
the animals on contract for re
search laboratories across the
nation.
When these animals are
available for research, no doubt
they will be seen around the
Texas A&M campus. Recent
swine research at the University
has discovered the causative or
ganisms of rheumatoid arthritis
in humans.
Dr. R. W. Moore, associate pro
fessor of mfcrobiology, praised
the pig as a research animal.
“We have absorbed a lot of new
respect for pigs as research ani
mals, and we wouldn’t be where
we are without them,” he said.
ARS predicts miniature strains
of sheep, cattle and poultry also
might be developed for research
work.
In other research work with
animals, the Nebraska Experi
ment Station has succeeded in
producing a disease free calf.
Specific Pathogen Free (SPF)
hogs have been around for sev
eral years, but the disease free
calves are relatively new on the
agricultural scene.
To obtain such animals, the
fetus is removed from the mother
several days before the expected
birth date. The operation is per
formed in a sterile atmosphere
then the calf is placed in sterile
isolation quarters where it re
mains until safe to place it with
other animals and is ready for
research work.
Oh well, who knows what agri
cultural research is going to un
cover next or miniaturize. May
be a good project would be the
farm problem.
Among the various comments concerning student unrest on
college campuses are these extractions from a speech by Lawrence
A. Kimpton, vice president of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, and from
William Winter Comments.
Kimpton told students of Rockhurst College in Kansas City, Mo.:
It is no doubt in part the bias that comes from having once
been a university administrator that causes me to view student
demands to take over the running of the place as intolerable. I
happen to know that running a university is one of the most com
plex and difficult of tasks, and I can’t help but be appalled at
hearing some callow youths assert they can do it better.
Such demands, if met, would violate the very concept of an
institution of higher learning and would greatly exaggerate the
capabilities, the wisdom, and the sophistication commonly found in
those of undergraduate age and experience.
My good friend Father Ted Hesburgh (told) students at Notre
Dame: “Your primary role as students here is to learn, not to
teach. Students who think otherwise should go out, found their
own universities and then take lessons from their students.”
And I think it is fair to say that some of the better publicized
student protest movements appear to have been motivated more
by an urgent desire simply to protest than by thoughful considera
tion of what is was that might call for correction. Having created
an effective instrument of protest, they have wound up by com
plaining about some pretty silly things.
Nor do I expect to see much in the way of vital insights into
critical foreign policy problems originating from student groups.
All this unrest and activism on the campus is at least evdience
of vitality and of change . . . However spooky some of the mani
festations may look, they are at least higher up the intelectual
ladder than devouring uncooked goldfish and stealing unoccupied
women’s underwear — which had their day — and they bespeak a
more thoughtful generation.
In considerable numbers they’re getting involved today in
causes they believe in — from civil rights activities at home to
efforts to help improve living standards of backward peoples half
a world away.
I would say they believe tomorrow is going to come, and
nothing I have seen up to now would make me likely to sell
the whole generation short on promise, as compared with those
which have preceded them. After all, I remember the bug-eyed
idealists of the thirties who somehow managed to read spiritual
values into communism, and left us with a painful legacy the
country is still trying to throw overboard for good. Some of the
sorry ideas of this sorry crowd are still being peddled to the gullible
on the campus.
The Other Opinion
William Winter, writing his observation in a weekly news
letter, took a different view of student unrest, particularly on
Viet Nam and the draft:
Youth has been the traditional rebel against the status quo.
It has always been youth expressing boredom on things as they
are, through demonstrations, political drives, protests of one kind or
another. Even Mao Tze-tung has complained that the youth of
China is bored with revolution, which is the status quo in that
country. In America, there is general contentment with things
as they are which weds the majority to the status quo; when youth
voices its boredom it turns to revolt.
The American youth is asked to reconcile patriotism with
practicality. There is the draft. That is a device by which the
Organized America, the Government, the Establishment, reaches
out to snatch you from your home and your girl and your job and
sends you out to Viet Nam to kill and burn on behalf of those
wonderful, noble, free people of South Viet Nam and save them
from Communism. But the draft is something you can get out
of one way or another, maybe, and if you don’t then the fellow
who can dodge it and stay home still has his girl and above all,
his job and his income.
It is not surprising that the American youth tends to look
upon Government as a monster which tries to regiment everybody
and tell people what to think and what to do, and when to go out
and get killed. It used to be that Big Business would fight Big
Government as an enemy, a competitor, something to be throttled
before it got too big and stuck its nose into private business. Today
Big Business looks upon Big Government as a partner and a major
customer, for without the Government, where would business be
today. And — Labor used to be the big protesting force in Amer
ica, protesting against Big Business and Big Government. Not
any more.
Nobody is left to cry out against Big Government any more,
that is nobody among the elders in America. They are softened
into contentment and resignation by the general prosperity, the
new cars and color TV and electric can openers.
Nobody, that is, but America’s youth. Youth, the traditional -
rebel against the status quo. Youth sees the American government
making the big decisions and demanding obedience ....
Let us not stifle this modern Young America. Let us encourage
it, and let us be grateful for it, for its courage and its daring and
its fighting spirit. Burning a draft card is an act of defiance,
a violation of a new law. So was dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
Now that “Sweet Ecstacy” has
been horse-laughed by Aggies
who anticipated a passionate,
sex-filled flick but didn’t get it,
what else is new in Playboy? . . .
It’s getting to the point that if
you want to see a movie, you
have to read the Magazine for
Men. . . . That is, if you want to
see the entire movie. . . .
Which is as it always has
been: the flick is never like the
book. . . . Now, it’s not even
like the magazine review. . . .
Anyway, if you haven’t heard,
the premiere showing of “Sweet
Ecstacy” — or rather the local
premiere — was given a stand
ing horse laugh by the Aggie
audience. ...
We’re still No. 1 in SWC bas
ketball, although Arkansas pro
vided somewhat of a scare last
night. . . . The latest United
Press International collegiate
basketball ratings lists the Ag
gies tied for 19th with Temple
University in Philadelphia . . .
Which doesn’t speak much for
SWC basketball. . . . A&M, the
leader, is barely rated among
the 20 best teams in the coun
try. . . .
Speaking of basketball, Arkan
sas’ Charles Guess was being
mildly hazed with cries of “Guess
Who?” when he made his first
appearance last night. . . . About
then, an Aggie noticing Guess
was wearing No. 15 instead of
33 said, “Guess he’s wearing the
wrong jersey”. . . .
And if you haven’t made a fish
game this year, you’re missing
a treat. . . . A&M probably has
one of the largest freshman
teams in the nation with Jack
Langley, Ronnie Peret and Gary
Ditto standing 6-10, 6-9 and 6-8
respectively. . . .
Jim Butler, Bryan Eagle sports
editor, commented that Peret
could be the best 6-9 guard in the
nation. . . . He moves like a
cat. ... If you can imagine a
seven-foot cat. . . .
But it’s the little guys that are
leading scorers for the fish. . . .
Billy Bob Barnett, the 6-4 Bren-
ham product, had 25 points last
night and 33 against Rice last
Saturday, while Sonny Benefield,
a six-footer from Sweeney, was
runnerup with 22 tallies against
San Jacinto and 25 against
Rice. . . .
I’d better move on to another
area before I steal the Daily Jer-
den’s thunder. ... So I will. . . .
Somebody who uses the initials
G. A. F. and writes on stationery
from the Department of Ocean
ography wrote a short letter to
“Whom It May Concern” at the
Battalion. ... It so happened to
concern me. . . .
He wanted to know: Has any
thing been done to change “col
lege” to “university” in our Ag
gie songs as yet? For example,
has “We are the Aggies, the Ag
gies are we, We’re from Texas
AMC” been changed “We are the
Aggies, We’re loyal and true To
Texas AMU?” . . .
This change was presented to
the student body in some form
in December, 1964, and was
soundly rejected — not by a vote
but by implication. . . . No great
effort has been made since. . . .
See Ya ’Round—Mortimer.
JAO Cs>(m
“You’ll have it made on finals with a quiz file like tktl
All you hafta do is memorize every problem!”
Criminal Code Analysis-
Part 2
BY GLENN DROMGOOLE
Battalion Editor
Texas is the only state which requires police officers to wan
a defendant of his right to remain silent and that any confession mt!
be used against him before a written confession may be obtained.
The revised Code of Criminal Procedure has added stringent ne'
conditions. The confession must now also show that prior to cot
fession a defendant was taken before a magistrate and twice in
formed of the accusation against him, his right to counsel, his rigl
to an examining trial, his right to remain silent and that any ct®
fession may be used against him. Time, date, place and name oftl*
magistrate must be shown on the confession or it is not admii
as evidence in Texas courts. The second warning goes even be
the requirement of federal courts.
Also, police officers are required to take the defendant “imraed
ately” before a magistrate instead of “forthwith” as previous!!
required.
While articles concerning written confessions contain varioi ;
loopholes and oversights, they are only minor when compared wit!
potential problems that orval confessions could cause.
The oral confession as provided under the old code was not ad
missible unless witnessed and signed by some person other than!
peace officer. Also the accused had to sign his name or make ^
mark. The new code does not compensate for situations where tt<
defendant cannot sign his name.
According to Judge John F. Onion Jr. of San Antonio, “It appears
that the oral confession must now be reduced to writing and witnessed
but it does not appear that the defendant must be given the statutory
warning or sign the written version.”
Onion raised several questions that will probably call for appel
late court interpretation:
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—Must the witness be present at the oral confession as well a-'
at time of reduction to writing of the oral confession ?
—In all cases where confession is admitted the jury shall I*
instructed that if they find the confession involuntary they shall not
consider it for any purpose nor any evidence obtained as a result
thereof. Does this mean that if the police have learned from a 1
involuntary confession that the accused gave the fatal weapon to
John Doe, and as a result of this information they recover the weapot
that it is not admissible in evidence ?
—If a defendant is not taken “immediately” before a magistral
but is duly warned when he is taken, must there be shown a causa
connection between the confession and such failure before the con
fession is inadmissible?
These questions likely will arise as the new code is put to us*
this year. But whatever the answers, the area of confessions b s
undergone vast revision. So, too, has the right to counsel.
Under the old article the court was required to appoint counsf
in all felony cases where the defendant was unable to afford leg*-
aid. This right has been expanded to misdemeanor cases punishaW*
by jail sentence. In determining whether a defendant is unable k
afford a lawyer, the court shall require him to file an affidavit an®
may call witnesses and hear other evidence.
Even before its revision, Texas criminal procedure was far mor*
progressive than other states in these two areas. Now, for a chang f
the state has gone even farther than federal courts in providing ft 1
legal counsel and insuring just confessions.
In other realms, however, the revised code finally eliminated
revamped several outdated practices and backward procedures.
PEANUTS
By Charles M. Schulz
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