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CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Editor,
The Battalion,
At the present time I am in
South Vietnam, and I don’t get
a chance to read many Battalions,
but today I received some in the
mail through a friend. They were
a little out of date, but I was
enjoying myself reading them
and feeling a little nostalgic until
I read something that changed
nostalgia to nausea.
In the December 8, 1965 issue
there is a letter to the editor from
an unidentified senior in the
Cadet Corps complaining about
some corps staff juniors not
working on the bonfire, and the
stopping of wildcatting in the
messhalls. I don’t know all the
details behind either of the inci
dents, but the ruling on the wild
catting got me particularly up
set. What in the world is the
Corps coming to? There was
some comment in the letter about
wildcatting in the messhalls being
“only four years old.” I know
that is not correct, for it was
going strong when I was a fish
in 1958.
Wildcatting may seem like a
small thing, but what is next? No
more standing up at football
games. No more bonfire? I hope
not, but from the things I read
in The Battalion, it may not be
far away. Slowly but surely the
traditions are being eroded away,
and I’m sorry to see it. I hope
the students and administration
United Chest
Sets Meeting
The annual membership meet
ing of the College Station United
Chest will be held March 24,
Dr. Chris. H. Groneman, presi
dent, has announced.
Major items of business call
for election of five Chest di
rectors and a study of the finan
cial statement.
Five retiring board members
compose the nominating commit
tee which will present its choices
at the meeting in the A&M Con
solidated High School cafeteria
at 7:30 p.m. Others may be
nominated from the floor.
Retiring directors include
Groneman, Horace Schaffer, Dr.
R. H. Davis, Mrs. Charles Rich
ardson and Jim Lindsey.
Directors serve three - year
terms. Bylaws prohibit a board
member from serving more than
two consecutive terms. Past di
rectors may be renominated after
one year.
will think twice before taking
similar steps in the future.
If and when I get back from
Viet Nam this fall, and come to
see my brother, who will be a
freshman in Aggieland by then,
or come to a football game, I hope
I will still be able to discern some
flickering traditions of the Texas
A&M as I knew it still hanging in
there.
Sincerely
Richard F. Halter, ’62
1st Lt. AIS
Editors Note: Wildcatting is
permitted as of March 10.
★ ★ ★
Editor,
The Battalion,
The traders of news, journal
ists, have an admittedly difficult
task in presenting factual data
for the consumption of the ordi
nary citizen. In light of this,
since phraseology and semantics
play such an important role in
the mere presentation, it can only
be with a grain of salt, an endur
ing soul and a wry wit that the
consumption of the products of
this profession can remain palat
able to those of even a half-
informed nature.
This in itself extends a taint
to journalism which is of dubious
value. But when journalism
leaves the World of facts patently
behind in lieu of establishing a
bias, the bounds of enduurance
are surpassed. This was the
course of Gleen (Sp.) Dromgoole
in his last feature article (Sic)
concerning the Texas A&M
Library in last Friday’s Bat
talion, March 11, 1966.
In the first mistake, reference
materials cannot be checked out
of the library. In the second,
assuming that perchance Drom
goole was referring to Reserve
Books, the fine actually consists
of 25 cents for the first two hours
and 10 cents for each additional
hour. Even so the maximum is
$2.50 on any fine; except when
the charge is a billing of cost for
a lost book.
Now in taking issue with “G.
B.” Dromgoole, I should like to
point out that Reserve Books are
there for the benefit of the stu
dent body. When a teacher as
signs outside readings and the
books are not on a limited time
basis, there would be nothing to
stop a student from checking out
a book for the entire four weeks
and thereby deprive other class
mates of the use of the book.
If Dromgoole should claim ignor
ance in behalf of the coed, I
would have to concede the point.
There are not only people present
for assistance, all instructions
are placed in a written form if
time is taken to read. There is
even a date due slip in the back
of every book properly checked
out.
Further, I fail to see the con
cern over the “outrageous fine”
on overdue books. If the student
does not need the four weeks to
read a book, I hardly consider it
too much bother to return the
book before it becomes due. What
do you want—to deprive someone
else the use of the book until you
happen to remember to return it?
It is not necessary to wait until
the last day before renewing the
material if it appears that there
might be a conflict. A little fore
sight should not be an undue
strain. It should be noted also
that fines were not instituted to
make money, but rather to induce
the borrower to return the book
as soon as he is finished with it
for the convenience of all con
cerned. The library facilities are
of a communal nature.
In concluding, I strongly sug
gest that Dromgoole look before
he leaps, and thinks before he
speaks because being a supposed
journalist, his shdes are larger
than most. If perchance Drom
goole should like to see how the
library procedure works, I sug
gest that he drop by sometime
and ge this I.D. card punched
and get his I.D. card punched
so he can check out a book. I
would shudder to think of depriv
ing him of his privileges (?).
D. S. Kirkland, ’65
Reynolds'
■Cap
By Mike Reynolds
A* Art.
“I was supposed to tell everybody ’bout the last forum
yesterday and forgot, so I’m gettin’ an early start on next
week’s.”
State Library Conference
Scheduled In Austin
Final program plans for the
First Texas Governor’s Confer
ence on Libraries, March 23 in
Austin, were announced by State
Librarian and Conference Coordi
nator, Dorman H. Winfrey.
Governor John Connally will
deliver the keynote address on
the conference theme, “Library
Excellence: Today’s Necessity.”
Robert Vosper, UCLA librarian,
and president of the American
Library Association, will speak
on “Library Support, A Shared
Responsibility.” As head of the
nation’s number one professional
organization for librarians, he
maintains a heavy speaking
schedule and will leave Austin
immediately after the conference
for Honolulu.
Vosper will be introduced by
the president of the Texas Libra
ry Association, Heartsill Young.
C. Stanley Banks Sr., chairman,
Texas Library and Historical
Commission, will deliver the offi
cial welcome.
Chancellor Harry Ransom of
the University of Texas will dis
cuss “Library Development in
Texas” as part of the morning
program.
A luncheon will feature an ad
dress by Mrs. Weldon Lynch,
Oakdale, Louisiana, nationally-
known lecturer on library prob
lems, and past president of the
American Library Trustee Asso
ciation. Her topic will be “Libra
ries Need Citizen Support.” Mrs.
Lillian Moore Bradshaw, director
of the Dallas Public Library, and
immediate past president of the
Texas Library Association, will
preside at the luncheon.
The columns of this paper have been filled recently
with various and sundry comments about poor government
among the students at Texas A&M. Those that choose
to attack this near-dead animal usually single out the
Student Senate. In passing, they pause to kick the Civilian
Student Council and then go on to the organization that is
supposed to represent the entire student body and leave the
CSC behind.
The Student Senate deserves some credit, certainly,
for it at least managed to consider one issue of note this
year, namely political clubs.
On the other hand, the Civilian Student Council has
managed to get together once every three or four weeks,
hear a report on their treasury, decide some miniscule amount
of business concerning Civilian Student Weekend and then
adjourn. This has not been the case just during the past
few days when the big weekend is around the comer, but
also the case for the past school year.
The Council can not really be blamed. It is just a
group of “don’t-cares” representing a bigger group of
“don’t-cares.”
I had the opportunity recently to help the editor of the
Aggieland try to come up with some activity shots typify
ing the civilians.
We soon found that the most representative shot of the
civilian would be a disappearing license plate.
Many students of this university has termed a cer
tain college to the east of us a suitcase college. Students
attend classes five days a week and disappear for the
weekend.
That college was and is in a advantagous position. It
is but 70 miles from Houston, and many students commute,
Twenty more miles to A&M won’t really make that much
difference. The Law Parking Lot looks like a desert on
Friday afternoon. Sure the Corps leaves too, but there are
many events such as class dances, Military Weekend, Cot
ton Ball, etc., and other entertainment that seem to hold
the cadets much better than the civilians.
The Civilian Weekend is one lone event in a nine month
wasteland of events to which students should look forward,
Social activities are not the only sore point. New
student week for civilian freshmen and transfer students
is practically non-existant. There are no dorm meetings
which students must attend for information, indoctrina
tion, or what have you. There are dorm daddies which
fill out the roster at registration and the next time you see
him, he is checking you out in the spring. Pity the poor
soul that tries to find him any other time.
Few people in the dorms know their president or other
officers and even fewer know what they are for.
Regulations are present, but in many cases treated with
great laxity. Students are allowed to live in what ever
degree of squalor or cleanliness which they choose. Dress
follows in the same fashion. College clothing regulations
are flaunted day in and day out.
Maybe some are trying, but there is no united effort.
The Council would be a good place to begin.
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you could stay in the sack all day
Moving your body around
is highly inefficient.
If communications were perfect,
you would never have to.
Of course, you would still
have to get exercise.
But that’s your problem.
We want to make it easier for you
to contact people, learn,
get information, attend lectures,
and hold meetings.
We developed Picturephone*
service so you can see as well as talk
when you call. And be seen, too.
We introduced Tele-Lecture service
(two-way amplified phone calls)
to let you hear lecturers
in distant locations. And so you
could ask them questions
no matter how far away they were.
Right now, many students can dial
from their dormitories to a
language lab. Soon a student
will be able to dial into a
computer thousands of miles away
to get information for his courses.
Depending on the nature
of the information, he might ge*
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as a video image,
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Others are being tested.
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