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College Station, Texas
Thursday, February 3, 1966
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Mike Reynolds
New Quiz: Test Your Stupidity
Now that everyone has had a
week off from finals, I would like
to present my own little idea for
a quiz. It is called the I Was
Stupid Enough To Stay On
Campus During The Break Quiz.
It deals with appropriate ma
terial.
1. The campus is completely
deserted. There is only one person
besides yourself in the dormitory.
He is:
a. very fond of singing cowboy
songs in the shower
b. very fond of singing cow
boy songs in the shower at 3 in
the morning
2. You get out of bed Sunday
morning. Every eating establish
ment within walking distance of
the campus is closed except a
drug store. You decide to eat
there. For 75c you get:
a. one medium raw egg
b. one growl from the waitress
c. taken
3. Since the university exists
for its students, you decide to
take in the sights at Cushing
Memorial Library. You fail to
get in-because:
a. someone forgot to tell the
library that it exists for the stu
dents and it is closed.
b. you lose your way because
you have had no reason to visit
it before. You are a B.A. major.
c. contractor has dug a moat
around the building and the rains
have filled it.
4. Monday at noon you decide
to eat at the Memorial Student
Center. The coffee shop is closed.
It exists for the students, re
member.
You must stand in line to get
into the cafeteria. Who gets
served in the cafeteria?
a. 3,245 delegates to a conven
tion being held in the MSC.
b. 4,567 secretaries that decided
not to go home for lunch.
c. no
5. Monday night you decide to
find something entertaining to
A&M Humor Specialist Returns To Duties
Dr. John Q. Hays is anxious to
resume teaching his specialty,
American humor, at Texas A&M
after a year in South Africa on
a Fulbright-Hays teaching grant.
Hays returned this week from
the University of Cape Town
where he was Visiting Professor
of American Literature via a
U. S. State Department appoint
ment. On the A&M faculty since
1929, he is a professor of English.
The professor cited differences
in education of the U. S. and
South Africa.
“In the undergraduate classes
there, I did all the talking,” Hays
said. “Students were afraid to
ask questions. There students
consider the professor or lecturer
apart from themselves. They con
sider him a VIP.”
“Oftentimes, the professor him
self feels that he is treated with
as much respect as he could ever
ask,” he chuckled. “The title of
doctor is insulting if a faculty
member has a professor’s rank.
They content that a doctor may
be a mere surgeon.”
“A professor is usually a de
partment head,” he continued. “A
dean is called professor. So is
the university president if he is
entitled to that rank.”
Hays spoke of an extreme case
of the royal treatment of pro
fessors.
“I had been to another uni
versity for a few days, and on
returning learned that the world-
famous Vienna Choir Boys were
to give three performances in
Cape Town,” he explained. “I
jokingly remarked to the man
ager of my apartment hotel that
he should have reserved tickets
for me. He called the French
consul, then the French ambassa
dor. A short time later, he gave
me three tickets on the fifth row.
One of the tickets was for oar
driver.”
Honours classes, for outstand
ing fourth-year students, are big
features of British universities.
Hays taught two such classes,
one with five students at Cape
Town, another with seven stu
dents at Rhodes University in
Grahamstown.
“The first and third students at
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Cape Town are now Rhodes
Scholars,” he noted proudly.
“Three of the Rhodes University
students were of the same cali
ber.”
“Aggies would like the South
African universities,” Hays
smiled. “They have more national
holidays, class periods are 45
minutes, and a student takes only
nine courses in three years to
earn a bachelor’s degree.”
“Their honours course is equiv
alent of our masters, but they
have to go to the masters after
honours courses,” he explained.
“Their masters is a more ad
vanced degree than ours.”
The 59-year-old Arkansas na
tive discussed another facet of
education in South Africa.
“They practice segregation
with a vengeance,” he said.
“Europeans and non-Europeans
are the two general classes. I
was listed as European. Non-
Europeans are required to carry
a card with their racial classifi
cation. They have to produce it
at a moment’s notice.”
“Their segregation in schools is
called separate development,”
Hays continued. “Newspapers
note editorially that ten times
as much is spent on the average
white education as on the non
white.”
do. Which of the following are
open?
a. the steam tunnel grates
b. a left-wing government
prof’s mind.
c. that same paper-back book
you have read ten times before.
6. You sent your overcoat home
with your room-mate to get it
cleaned. The climate for the en
tire time since he left has con
sisted of:
a. rain
b. rain
c. rain
d. etc.
7. You decide to call the one
single girl that you know in Col
lege Station. She has:
a. gone home for the semester
break
b. a virus infection
c. too much homework
d. a room-mate with an inven
tive mind.
8. Your entire fees for the
spring semester amount to
$312.67. You get a statement
from your bank. Your balance
is:
a. $300.56.
9. You can’t understand why
your final schedule was so easy.
You look back over the courses
you took. You:
a. slept through Thursday and
didn’t wake up until Friday
b. slept through Thursday and
didn’t wake up even on Friday
c. forgot all about that E.E.
quiz
d. failed
e. got a letter from the draft
board wanting to know if D is
correct.
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