THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, April 15, 1966
Wanderin
By Larry R. Jerden
While I did receive a two-line letter of encouragement for my
last column (see Sound Off), the only criticism sent to this office
was unsigned, so could not be printed among the letters. It is,
however, so entertaining that I will take the liberty to print it here:
To - Larry R. Jerden.
My fine featherbrained friend:
My petty-billed Christian chirper;
My war mongering warbler:
My red, white and blue-breasted champion of mother country
and yesterday’s apple-pied perfection:
It has been so nice to note
The absence of your column;
Your droll remarks on world perfection,
Coeducation and all tradition solemn.
But now you’ve brought it back again-
Why did you ever do it?
You rant and rave like the John B group
And there’s really nothing to it.
Oh, Billy G., to learn by mistakes must make you blush,
To err must cause your Christian cheeks to turn bright red.
Like Minever Cheevy; you curse the present
And long for what is dead.
Oh, if you should run for Senate Pres, and V.P. too
You could stamp out Non-regs, pacifists, beatniks, Moham-
madens, girls, people you don’t understand and all that other vice.
But the greatest benefit would be to allow us to double our
pleasure by voting against you twice:
The Penguin
Now, as I re-read this little composition, I notice that it is mainly
not worth answering. The author must agree, remaining anonymous.
I would, too, writing something like that!
But, it does reveal somethng of his make-up. He’s the sort
who thinks that when a man seeks improvement, he means to look
at the past, not the future. He also seems to relegate the American
colors and national pride to the past.
I do not like war in the least, and I’d much rather be on a
beach with my girl than fighting Vietcong in a rice-paddy . . .
but I hate to see America crawl . . . and I’d rather fight Communism
8,000 miles from that girl than from her doorstep.
He also doesn’t understand Christ or Christianity. To err is,
after all, human. I just hate to see America make the same stupid
mistakes that have been made so many times before.
Anyway, The Penguin would be better off at the South Pole,
I’d say, where the warm scorches of truth wouldn’t singe his little
tail feathers.
I really hate to write this sort of thing and all, when that column
was really written on the spur of the moment in the first place.
I at least succeeded in getting some mail, and all Aggies love
that.
Even Battmen.
Good news: the Peanuts book was found! My Batt-buddies
weren’t the culprits, after all. It was the Battcave Kitty. She used
it to defend herself from the Battdogs.
Anyway, if you’ll just glance over under the “Slouch” cartoon,
you’ll see the review.
Speaking of peanuts, I wonder who the next Student Senate
president will be? All seriousness aside, have any of the candidates
got a platform? I didn’t file . . . the Buddhists were against me . . .
Sound Off
Editor,
The Battalion,
Your editorial 4/13/66 was very
good, let’s have more of the same.
M. Liny, ’65
★★★
Editor,
The Battalion,
I have three points to air for
the enlightenment of all!
1) How come all arts and hu
manities are being “statiscised”
and “mathamaticised ? ” Is this
a fad ? Does the advancement of
knowledge depend exclusively on
statistics and mathematics ? Most
of the original minds of the world
did not care for statistics.
2) A brilliant student may not
have any interest in statis
tics. Why statistics should be
“thought” on him ?
3) How about asking all science
boys to study Plato, Aristotle,
Hobbes, Darwin, T. S. Eliot, Ta
gore, Sartre, Metaphysics, Latin,
Greek, Arabic? Excellence im
plies a well-rounded, balanced
education.
Education must produce excel
lent human beings, not money
earning machines. A technocrat
or an engineer or a scientist or
mechanic without a thorough
grounding in the humanities is a
human monster, a danger to a
community.
If an arts student is to be tu
tored by statistics, I feel, the
science students must equally be
choked to death by the classics.
Should we care for original
ideas and thoughts or should we
worship a jugglery of graphs,
facts and numbers!!!
Reflectively,
A. Laman
★★★
Editor,
The Battalion,
Dear Class of 1968:
I wish to take this opportunity
to thank you all for electing me
as your representative to the Me
morial Student Center Council. I
particularly thank those of you
who supported me in this election.
I will try to merit your confi
dence by doing the best I can to
represent each of you well.
Sincerely,
Ronald D. Zipp
P.S. Let’s stay great—’68
★★★
Editor,
The Battalion,
“The Love of a Student”
A student’s love is one of fear—
It’s loving a girl that just isn’t
here.
It’s waiting for mail—a hope
for him—
A mailbox that’s empty—a day
that’s dim.
It’s holding her picture and see
ing her face—
And wanting to leave this lone
ly place—
It’s a dream-troubled night of
little sleep.
An ache in your heart that’s
ever so deep—
Alone on weekends and hoping
she’s true.
Wondering if she’s alone and
wanting you—
It’s hearing a song you listened
to then—
The words bring back memories
—you’re blue again.
It’s wondering about her
through day and night.
“Did you know that the Lord
up above created you for me to
have ?”
He picked you from all the rest.
I had a heart and it was true—
But now it’s gone from me to
you—
Take care of it as I have done—
For you have two and I have
David B. Cyr
Class of ’69
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It’s great!
Included are the psychiatry
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A flip of the page and the
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It’s hard to say just where the
Peanuts charm lies, but its
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Schulz books.
Some of the book’s impact
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he is chuckling over the inherent
humor. Somehow it is easier to
accept some lessons when they are
taught by “Good Old Charlie
Brown” and Company than when
blasted forth in an editorial in
a paper or delivered from a pulpit
on Sunday morning.
Then there is just “pure”
humor. Schulz is a master of
squeezing the most out of one
line drawn on paper. He gives
his characters a complete per
sonality in one frame, and can
change it in the next by merely
drawing a line a certain way on
their faces.
But what, really, is Peanuts.
It’s a look at life the way we
live it., but can’t see it without
Charles M. Schulz to guide the
way.
Of course, I’m prejudiced be
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for years. But all that is needed,
I believe, to convert anyone to
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HELP, CHARLIE .BROWN—
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Sprite, you recall, is
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we just couldn't keep
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Flip its lid and it
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Bubbling, fizzing,
gurgling, hissing and
carrying on all over
the place.
An almost exces
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Hence, to zlupf is
to err.
What is zlupfing?
Zlupfing is to drinking what
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eating.
It's the staccato buzz you
make when draining the last few
deliciously tangy drops of
Sprite from the bottle with a
straw.
Zzzzzlllupf!
It's completely uncalled for.
Frowned upon in polite society.
And not appreciated on campus
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But. If zlupfing Sprite
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