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Friday, May 13, 1966
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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-
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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
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