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Columns • Editorials • News Briefs Che Battalion Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, May 13, 1966 + Opinions • Cartoons • Features f rida: I CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Sound Off S/mUAL Editor, The Battalion: The other day I received the latest edition of the A&M school catalogue. Out of curiosity, I looked up our vacation schedule for the 1966-1967 school year. I came across something that seems to be in error. They state in the new catalogue that our Christmas Vacation next year is to extend from December 17, till January 2, 1967. In other words, we must be back for classes on January 2. This means that we must travel over the New Year’s Day Holiday, which is one of the most dangerous holidays of the year. If a person happens to live out of state and he is driving, he must travel over New Year’s Eve, which is suicide. I can’t figure out why the ad ministration would want us to play Russian roulette with every drunk in the nation just so we can get back for classes. The administration must have made some sort of a mistake due to “re<P’ tape. Since The Battalion makes a great effort each year around Christmas to promote traffic safety, I hope that you can do something about this error. I am afraid that if something is not done about it, we are going to have a Silver Taps just after we get back from the Christmas holi days. Richard F. Jones If any of you Ags are inter ested just send along a letter with name, address, hobbies, and brief biography and I’ll get it to the proper folks. Gig ’em Aggies Major BRUCE M. MILLER, ’52 Advisory Team 84 APO San Francisco 96314 I say why not give the band the same treatment as any other unit that wins an award — or is that too much to ask? An Aggie Mom ★ ★ ★ Editor, The Battalion: Happy to report that we had a fine Muster in Saigon. There were more than 80 Ags ranging from the classes of ’36-’65 pres ent. Many were from Saigon and there were a few of us who came in out of the Delta and the prov inces surrounding Saigon. I’m writing to ask for help. I started a “pen pal’’ program here and have gotten far more Vietna mese than American participants so far. The Vietnamese are high school English students and be cause of differences in their school system range from age 14- 21 with most in the upper level. Both boys and girls are partici pating. ★ ★ ★ Editor, The Battalion: I just want to ask a question— and if you can’t answer it perhaps you would pass it on to those who may be responsible. Editor’s Note: Squadron 6 won the General George F. Moore award last year. ..This award, for the most outstanding military unit, is presented at the Mother’s Day review. Company A-l re ceived this prize for the current year, and it was presented at the review as is the custom. Last Mother’s Day, on the campus of A&M, I watched Squadron 12, I believe it was, re ceive the award for the most out standing or best drilled squadron on campus. They were marched front and center on the drill field, stopped in front of the reviewing stand, and everyone was told, in a most convincing voice, just how important this award was — how proud these boys should be — how much work went into it, etc., and were presented with their cords for everyone to see. The Band won the marching cord this year, for the best drilled unit, and it is presented at the awards ceremony held in the morning before the review. Squadron 17 won this award last year. ..Again it was presented at the awards ceremony. Current Best Seilers (Compiled by Publishers’ Weekly) “Been talkin’ baseball again?” Humor Flows To A New Low Gutter By LARRY R. JERDEN Battalion Associate Editor VERY BAT JOKES. The Sayre Ross Company, Donald Brockett, Josie Carey and Rose mary Parlak. Dell Publishing Co. 50tf. The title of this book, when translated, pretty well tells the tale. This 24-page, four by sev en-inch, paperback makes its at tempt at humor by punning any word that vaguely sounds like Bat. “How can you tell a cowardly bat”? “No batbone.” This sort of thing fills the pages, and the reader is speeded up in his struggle through the volume by the faint hope that the next joke, somehow, just has to be better than the last. Illustrations are simple draw- Mmlcofol Supply •923 S* Col I*)* Avo - ings of humorous (?) bats, and with one attempted-joke to a page, there’s a lot of white space. In this case, the space with noth ing at all printed on it comes out as the volume’s high-water mark. “What do they call a bat in Rome ?” “A Batalion.” The introduction states, “The Sayre Ross Company, Donald Brockett, Josie Carey and Rose mary Parlak stand behind the extreme bat quality of jokes con tained in this non-book.” Somebody should take the re sponsibility, and quickly clear the whole lot from the newstands be fore it reaches the public. A book like this is the best intice- ment for the institution of cen sorship ever published. The American public should at all costs, be protected from VERY BAT JOKES. Q: What is 30 (tinny ? \ A.- Vety bafcjokes j WHAT DOES A BAT WEAR OVER HIS PAJAMAS? A BATROBE This year, May 10, 1966, the Fighting Aggie Band won this same award — it was simply an nounced at the morning gather ing and the cords “were taken to them as they sat in their seats”. Not one word was said at the huge gathering on the drill field that afternoon. Now I realize that academic excellence and lead ership are more important than a mere band, but what a dull day Mothers Day, and yes, Final Re view, too, would be without the music of that same band, as the Corps go marching by. FICTION THE EMBEZZLER, Au- chine loss VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, Susann THE DOUBLE IMAGE, Maclnnes THE SOURCE, Michoner THE ADVENTURERS, Robbins NONFICTION IN COLD BLOOD, Capote THE LAST 100 DAYS, ToIand THE LAST BATTLE, Ryan THE PROUD TOWER, Tuchman GAMES PEOPLE PLAY, Berne Blaze Damages Systems Building Fire caused heavy damage to heating and cooling equipment in the System Administration Build ing early Friday. The blaze was reported at 4 a.m. by a passerby. Campus fire men snuffed the flames before they spread from a mechanical room on the ground level. The four-story building houses the office of President Earl Rud der and several staff sections. It was constructed in 1932 at a cost of $353,000. Replacement value would exceed $l , /z million, Parsons suggested. NOBODY will give you a better deal for your used books than Mr. Shaffer — at SHAFFER’S UNIVERSITY BOOK STORE THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non tax-supported non profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. u«« for or not The Associated Press is entitled exelusirelr to the republication of all news dispatches credited to it otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneoi origin published herein. Rights of republieation of all othi are also reserved. aid at College Station, Texas. herein id-Class postage paii News contributions may be made by telephoning 846-6618 846-4910 or at the editorial office, Rooi For advertising or delivery call 846-6416. or 846-4910 or at itorial oom 4, phoning YMCA Building. Members of the Student Publications Board are: Joe Buae^ chairman; Dr. David Bowers, College of Liberal Robert A. 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