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• Columns • Editorials • News Briefs Cbe Battalion -Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, May 20, 1966 • Opinions • Cartoons • Features Dress Regulations Need Enforcing Texas A&M, because of its military tradition and Aggie pride, has long been known for students who kept their personal appearance neat and sharp. In the last few years, this general goqd appearance has been violated more and more often, in open disregard of university regu lations. The situation has now become so critical as to prompt letters to the President of the University and the Dean of Students (see Sound Off). What is worse, it has lowered the excellent reputation of A&M, something that has to taken 90 years to build For the benefit of those students who do not have a copy of university regulations, for those students who have violated those regulations, and to those in places of responsibility who have failed to enforce them, The Battalion takes the liberty of printing exerpts from University Regulation 58: ”58-1. All students will wear clothing which is in good taste and generally accepted by people of this community. For moral classroom and laboratory activities women will wear dress which are in good taste and suitable for the class, and which are not of an extreme nature. Cadets will wear the uniform as prescribed by the Commandant.” “2. ‘T’ shirts (including practice jerseys, etc.) will not be worn on the campus by a student unless he is participating in an athletic activity.” “3. Shower shoes will not be worn outside the dormitory by any student at any time.” “4. Tattered trousers (including blue jeans, khakis, etc.) will not be worn on the campus.” “5. Socks will be worn with shoes (of all kinds) on the campus at all times.” “6. A student will be required to have a neat appearance on the campus at all times. He will be clean shaven with proper hair cut, and without beards.” ”9. No student will wear, on the campus, any article of cloth ing which displays athletic or similar emblems awarded by schools other than Texas A&M (includes other colleges, high schools). These are the regulations. They have been violated, and are being violated daily. It is now time for students and administrators to make some decisions. For the students, the decision is simply whether they are going to dress like Aggies, or like “beatniks.” For the administration, the decision is, again, simple: Either enforce the regulations of this university, or do away with them. Read Classifieds Daily “Happiness is a graduating senior!” Prowler Reported In Hensel Area Reports of a “peeping tom” operating in Hensel Apartments have reached the campus securi ty officials, according to Chief Ed Powell. Witnesses have reported that over the last three weeks a man has been seen stealing women’s underwear and peeping through windows in the married student’s apartments. “We don’t know whether this was a local person or an out sider, but we’ve got a pretty good description of him,” Powell said. He added that Campus Security officers have doubled their patrol of the area and are in constant radio contact with both College Station police and the Buildings and Utilities Department. He also said that the husbands of the area are keeping special watches, and a student wife who phoned the Battalion said the wives were not staying at home alone while their husbands were away studying. “The wives that work are at a disadvantage because they don’t get to put out their wash till evening and its out after dark,” Powell said, “but if they would leave their lights on maybe he wouldn’t come back.” Sound Off Editor, The Battalion: I heard you talk at the Moth er’s Day program this past Sun day and must say that I whole heartedly agree with you about the appearance of the students as compared with most other schools. However, I have been noticing the deterioration of this atmosphere by the civilian stu dents. It seems that as long as they are “free loading” on the reputation of Aggies they would at least stay dressed neatly, hair cut and combed, and be present able. Does the administration try to keep these students to keep themselves up? I saw sev eral this past weekend that made me ashamed to believe anyone could look like they did and be called a student of Texas A&M. Wm. H. Reber, Jr., ’42 ★ ★ ★ Editor, The Battalion: Dear Mr. Hannigan, I’m disturbed about the grow ing number of students who are beginning to beatnik-ize the cam pus by not wearing socks, and who are more and more looking like those characters in California who are always demonstrating. I understand there is already a directive concerning proper dress and appearance. Do you think it appropriate to re-issue it? Jack Boggan, Instructor Indian Students Plan Culture Exhibition The India Association will spon sor an exhibition on India next week in the lobby of the Memo rial Student Center. Features of the exhibit will be the story of Indian progress and the nation’s historic link with the past in terms of arts and culture. The displays will be open to the public for one week starting Monday. 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