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College Station, Texas
Thursday, August 11, 1966
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CADET SLOUCH
“I know how you feel, but it’s not his fault all you get is
circulars!”
Advantages For
Students Who
Come To A&M
By P. L. (PINKIE) DOWNS Jr. ’06
Texas A&M University has a top-quality faculty and
excellent physical facilities, equipment, and buildings.
Faculty members are given every assistance in their
teaching and research; their relations with the student
body are ideal for the best in education.
Every student who has applied himself, who has suc
ceeded in making himself an integral part of the student-
body community, and who has made good grades will
receive a salady of from $450 to $750 per month upon
graduation from Texas A&M University.
Although cost of an education at all colleges and
universities in Texas varies according to personal interest
and the individual’s thrift, the cost for a regular nine-
month session at Texas A&M University ranges from only
$950 to $1100 for a resident of Texas. Compare this with
other colleges and universities in Texas.
The student at Texas A&M University has the oppor
tunity of being a member of the Corps of Cadets for four
years, in the best voluntary military organization in the
nation.
The Health Service at Texas A&M maintains a com
plete hospital and out-patient clinic for student health care.
Staffed by four physicians, the hospital operates on a
twenty-four-hour basis. In addition to infirmary space for
one hundred patients it has an X-ray laboratory, diathermy,
and other hospital facilities. The individual cost per stu
dent for the nine-month session is only $20.
Aggie wives can secure excellent secretarial and
similar positions at a good salary to assist their husbands
in getting their degrees.
Texas A&M University has a friendly campus. Students
greet each other, as well as faculty members and guests,
with a Texas “Howdy.” It is always customary for students
to introduce themselves to persons with whom they are not
acquainted.
The Aggie Ring, designed by the Senior Class of 1894,
is not worn until the senior year. It is one of the highest
honors that can come to a senior. This is worn with the
Class number representing the year the Aggie graduated.
In the years that follow, A&M Former Students wearing
this ring recognize each other all over the world.
The Placement and Student Aid Office has charge of
the famed Opportunity Award Scholarships, and there are
hundreds of students at Texas A&M University on such
scholarships. Other scholarships and fellowships are also
available. This office also assists students in securing part-
time jobs on the campus. Student loans are available for
students with satisfactory scholastic records.
Just as Texas A&M University has the most famous
student body in the world, everywhere known for its Spirit,
so its Former Students have taken with them into their
later lives the same fine loyalty, helpfulness, and character
that they learned on the Texas A&M campus. “Once An
Aggie, Always An Aggie!” The Texas Aggie
By BOB ROBINSON
Censorship of movies! Cen
sorship of books! Censorship of
magazines! Censorship is mov
ing into new areas never before
dared. Houston, in the near
future, may begin censoring the
movies shown in it’s Art The
atres. Now isn’t that great? We
really need for the government
to protect the citizens from such
obvious questionable forms of
entertainment.
I recall the time an enlight
ened New York government
banned the Tarzan books from
public schools because he (Tar
zan) lived with her (Jane) in
the jungle and nowhere could
it be found that they had been
properly and legally married.
Now that was smart sensible
censorship.
The purpose of this column
though, is not to praise or con
demn efforts already made, but
rather to offer helpful, construc
tive suggestions to what they
might do in the future.
Here are some things that had
been previously neglected but
which should be looked into in
order to make the censorship ef
fort complete:
First of all, kissing scenes
must be completely eliminated
from movies and all forms of
literature because they give our
young people such ideas. And
everybody knows what happens
when our young people get
ideas.
Secondly, all forms of violence
should be omitted from the
screen and the written page. It
seems that every other word
conotates or brings about violence
in one way, shape, or form. If
this keeps up, our young people
will begin to think that it’s the
thing to do. And think of all
the ideas they pick up from
reading and watching westerns
and murder mystdStes.
Thirdly, anything containing
traumatic emotio^Sl experiences
should be violently opposed as
being harmful to the child’s
mental growth. He’ll experience
it in real life soon enough, so
why not protect him as long as
possible.
What about fairy tales and
comedies ? Do we want our chil
dren to grow up believing in fan
tasies ? Of course not. They
simply must be removed also.
Of course, everything I’ve been
saying about books and movies,
goes for comic books, as well.
Do you realize that Mickey and
Minnie as well as Donald and
Daisy have been going together
for years and still aren’t married
yet? Why, it’s anti-social.
These are just a very few
of the things in movies and lit
erature which are objectional.
There are so many, there isn’t
room to mention them all. On
second thought, yes there is. I
say we ban all movies, plays,
books, magazines, comics, and
other forms of literature. That
way we’d cover it all in one quick
sweep.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This column
has been censored and the
opinions expressed in it are those
of the student writer only.
Exams And Baby
Don’t Mix With Ag
Gerald Roy Bratton didn’t
have opportunity to be appre
hensive about becoming a father.
The recent veterinary medicine
graduate at Texas A&M was tak
ing an exhaustive state board ex
amination when his first child —
a son — was born.
Midway through the 40-hour,
three-day exam Tuesday, a note
from Dean Alvin A. Price’s of
fice was passed to him.
“Mrs. Bratton gave birth to a
baby boy at 2 p.m.,” the note
read.
“I couldn’t really say whether
it helped or not the rest of the
afternoon,” the DVM graduate
from Mason remarked.
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An Old Fogey Never Changes
By HERKY KILLINGSWORTH
It’s that time of the year again
when the little birds and bees
that have been humming about
the campus all summer are drown
out in their music-making by
those beautiful sounds of the air
hammer and those sweet smells
of fresh paint. The campus is
aglow with the August enchant
ment of little smudge pots placed
romantically about the buildings
and as starstruck couples stroll
about you can hear them coo, “Oh
look at the cute roadblocks.”
During the breaks between
classes freshmen take to the huge
piles of dirt to build dirt-castles,
only to have them torn down
later by disgruntled juniors who
have just received the results of
their latest quiz. Seniors, find
ing themselves among the non
graduating, go climbing about
the cranes singing “They’re com
ing to take me away” while oth
ers simply sit around sniffing
fresh paint.
Yes, August is a beautiful time
of the year. Riveting, painting,
hammering, and fainting fills the
air as students clamber through
the various detours. It has been
reported, and by a reliable source
mind you, that the blockades have
been set up by a psychologist
testing the reaction of students
in a confused state; but we’re
Aggies and will show them that
we can remain in our usual
messed-up state of mind.
Actually I’m writing this as
a protest, a sit-down with the
advantages of a cushioned seat.
My car is struck between two
roadblocks and I’m afraid that a
bull-dozer will run over it any
day. In the meantime it sits
there collecting dust and tickets.
Soon I won’t have to worry about
the tickets. At last report it
was three-fourths of the way
covered by dirt and I'm sure that
the last fourth will come tomor
row. I wish I hadn’t left the
windows down.
Also I’m slightly mad because
my room was a different color
when I returned after class to
day . . . pink. I’ve always hated
that color for a man’s dorm;
lavender maybe, with a black
ceiling, but no baby pink. May
be it wouldn’t be so bad but
the painters failed to remove my
pictures or books and now my
Playmate fold-outs are pink all
over. And how do you think it
looked when I went into my P.E.
class with a pink book? It
tickled them pink.
And then again the road con
struction has completely messed
up my time schedule. You can’t
teach an old dogs new tricks.
This morning I missed class com
pletely when I fell into a ditch
and couldn’t climb out. At that
time of the morning I thought
it was the steam tunnels.
Take the street between the
MSC and Guion hall for example.
For ages now I have been taught
that it was a cardinal sin to go
down it the wrong way. Indeed
I once received a ticket for try-
ing to cut off four blocks with
a quick cut through the one-way,
Now it’s expected for one to go
that way; and as I said you can’t
teach an old fogey new customs,
at least not when you consider
that he was around when they
first built it the old way.
Oh the disgrace of it all. When
I was a freshman it was beat
into my head to not walk on the
MSC grass. And now that sa
cred grass is being tom up and
carted away. It crushes my soul
to see this and I would enter the
“C” from the back but I can’t
find it for the road construction,
or stadium construction or what
ever is going on there.
Therefore I have but one choice
to make. I’m hibernating into
the steam tunnels to live amidst
the rats. It leaks but then the
campus itself seems to be leaking
into actual civilization and 1
can’t bear to see this happen.
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