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College Station, Texas
Thursday, April 28, 1966
THE BATTALION
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Extreme Caution Urged
On Splash Day Weekend
The annual frolic known as Splash Day
will begin this weekend on the beaches
of Galveston, Freeport, and other Gulf
cities. The day usually runs every weekend
for a month, and is infamous for under-age
drinking, indecent exporsure and a large
number of arrests.
Although this event was once officially
sponsored by Galveston, the sanction was
withdrawn after the 1961 edition resulted
in near-riots and hundreds of arrests.
That year, 40 Aggies, including Student
Senators and a class president, were arrest
ed. This year, a substantial number of Ags
will doubtless make the trek to the coast,
where they will be greeted by Texas Ran
gers, auxiliary police, regular officers,
sheriffs, Liquor Control Board officials and,
if needed, dogs and men from the Houston
Police Department.
These officers will not be lenient, by
any means, and that is quite understand
able when they will have to control thou
sands of high school and college students
swarming the beaches around the clock,
running something like a 50-50 mixture of
alcohol and blood in their veins.
With somewhere between 20,000 and
35,000 students expected, these officers will
not be able to handle each offender, or sus
pect, with the courtesy of a Campus Secur
ity Officer writing out a parking ticket.
They are not going to attack innocent bath
ers, as some would have the public believe.
They are simply going to try, under the
worst possible circumstances, to enforce the
law; the same law that so many of the
students, mostly minors, are making the
trip to break.
What then, should the Aggie beach-
lover do ? Stay on campus, or at least away
from the “golden strand?” Very few Ag
gies would take such advice if it were given
by Gene Stallings on All-College Night,
and The Battalion would not deprive any
one of their fun.
Caution, then, should be the word.
Extreme caution.
Highways will be crowded with cars
bearing alcohol-laden students to the beach
es, and the sand will be thick with these
same scholars-on-a-holiday. It might be
wise for anyone planning the big trip to
stay as sober as possible on the beaches,
and not stay there too late into the evening.
It’s gonna be heavily patrolled, so Aggies
with their dates will be too-often disturbed
to enjoy them, and those with too-empty
bottles and too-full veins will likely be taken
to the Galveston jail.
It is possible to have a great time Splash
Day. Its even possible for 35,000 students
to have a great time, for all of them to
return to Monday’s classes in one piece,
and for one of them to land in the pokey.
But it’s not very likely.
A bunch of these pleasure-seekers will
have miserable times, because they will
be there for the purpose of breaking the
law and will get caught. Some will re
turn to classes with broken bones, or not
return at all. And more than one will land
in the jail.
Irate parents will call the police, demand
ing apologies, and explaining that “my
Johnny” is a good boy.
“Yes, ma’am, I’m sure he is, it’s just
that he was too drunk to walk and hit a
policeman when the officer tried to pick
him up out of the mud.”
This will probably be answered with
charges of “police brutality.” Funny, no
one ever thinks of their little boy as the
one who is breaking the laws he should
have been taught to respect.
Splash Day can be fun. But you have
to work at it!
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Reynolds
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By Mike Reynolds
About two and a half weeks
ago, I picked up a copy of this
paper and was attracted by an
article on its front page announc
ing the speaker for commence
ment. Now since I am a hopeful
graduating senior, I decided to
read the article and find out just
who the person is we will listen
to Saturday morning before get
ting the sheepskins.
participate i n commencement
with the sole purpose of beitif
graduated from A&M, why can't
they have something to say about
the ceremony ?
I was immediately taken aback
when I noticed the speaker would
not be a public official. He is
not in the limelight. I don’t
even know him.
£A/UJS
APR-
This afternoon, I bumped into
Norris Cano, the senior class
head honcho, and asked him just
who had the authority to choose
the commencement speaker. He
looked at the ground and mum
bled something about students
don’t have a thing to do with it.
It is up to a faculty-adminis
tration committee.
Maybe the school just exist}
for research programs anj
grants. (Some of my fellow stu
dents in California have gottai
quite heated up about just this),
Maybe the school exists for
faculty members so that they
will have a place to draw securi
ty and a salary. Maybe the
school exists for numbers, dol
lars, new buildings, academic ex
cellance, or whathaveyou. If it
exists for any of the above rea
sons, its time for a change. The
school should exist for the stu
dents.
“We’ve gotta do something—Ever since we made him
whistle jock he’s been practicing all day long!”
My only complaint is the stu
dents do not have a voice in
their only commencement exer
cises program.
Just once, somebody ought to
ask a student for an opinion ani
then take some stock in it. Did
Franklin, Student Life Chainmn
of the Student Senate, demon
strated great ability in finding 1
decent, inspiring speaker foi
Muster. I doubt that student'
would do any worse for
mencement.
Firemen School Board Meets Saturday
The Texas Firemen’s Training
School Advisory Board will meet
here Saturday to review the pro
gram for the 1966 school.
Chief Henry D. Smith of TFTS
said firemen from approximately
30 states and seven foreign coun
tries will participate in schools
scheduled July 17-22 and July 24-
29.
Maybe I am mistaken, but I
always had the idea the school
existed for the students and
without them, there wouldn’t be
any need for the institution.
Therefore, since the students
I repeat, my only gripe is that
students don’t have a say in wkt
speaks to them.
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against Campbell’s Soup.
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