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Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, September 27, 1966
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Thank You 9
Miss Chalet
Anna Chalet, a gracious trouper, displayed a very real
and sincere love for the Corps of Cadets Thursday night.
Before her one-night performance here, she told The
Battalion that in case many students were turned away
at the gate she would repeat the show in its entirety.
It was her “deep admiration for the Corps of Cadets”
that prompted such a statement.
An automobile accident two years ago came close
to cutting short her singing career. But she said the
“spirit of the Twelfth Man made me want to get back
into the field.”
Was she sincere or just publicity-hungry ?
Unforeseen extenuating circumstances caused one of
the sparsest audiences in recent Guion history and gate
proceedings were practically non-existent.
It must have looked bleak indeed from the stage.
And where many entertainers would have left this
campus without ever glancing back, Miss Chalet announced
the second performance would go on as promised.
Cadets in the audience went on a recruiting rampage
and before showtime Guion Hall was a packed theater.
And Miss Chalet showed her appreciation with a sincere
from-the-heart performance.
Had she not been forced to compete with mid-week
scheduling and yell practice, a second performance would
have been unnecessary and her claimed love for Aggieland
would have gone unproven.
But it was necessary and proven beyond a doubt.
Stadium Shenanigans
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By JOHN HOTARD
HOLD IT! STOP! DON’T ASK THAT
GIRL TO THE GAME YET!
There have been some changes made in
the traditions and dating procedures at A&M
football games.
To begin with, you will no longer kiss
your date every time A&M scores. You will
kiss her after A&M fumbles.
All dates left standing under the stadium
while the Corps marches in are free game
to non-regs. (WAH WAH)
Seating in the stadium will be arranged
in such a manner that, when Varsity’s horns
are sawed off, there will be seven freshmen
and one junior to a group.
When the Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band
marches onto the field, the Corps will wild
cat. The non-regs will be making time with
the Band’s dates.
will be made up of dates instead of senior
(Boosts team’s morale.)
After scoring, anybody who can make
to the yell leaders’ dates before they do, mo
power to them.
Corps members: after the final gun,
onto the field and carry off the players
Non-regs: After the final gun, run ai
carry off the Corps’ dates.
After a touchdown, you can kiss ever
date you can get to before the PAT. Aft
the PAT, you can kiss every date you ca>
r
hov
get to before somebody slugs you.
Anticipate the scoring. Just before
score, have the guy next to you go for drink
Then, if we score, think of the guy's jxk
date, standing there all alone, with nobodif'"
to turn to. Be an Aggie and kiss her.
Or be a good Aggie and get her phon
number at the same time.
Through arrangements with ETV, moni
tor television sets will be made available for
those Aggies in the end zone.
The Senior Line for the football team
If any games are televised, remember thai ut
the nation is watching you. Conduct your cor
self in the best Aggie tradition. Gross everjfor
body out.
“You study hard, take good notes, turn in all your assign
ments and everything! But what’s your real secret to
READ BATTALION CLASSIFIEDS
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Death Of God
makin’ good grades?”
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True Or False? Ta P s
By MIKE BERRY
A new theological dialogue now
sweeping the nation is seeking to
provide modern man with an al
ternative to the traditional form
of Christianity that, hopefully,
will have more cogency in our
age.
This modern theology seeks
to adapt Christianity to a more
realistic state after the “Death
of God.”
This rather shocking- announce
ment is one that naturally causes
controversy and turmoil, but it is
also “an event of great libera
tion and joy . . . not keeping one
from something but making
something newly possible,” wrote
Rev. William Hamilton in an ar
ticle in the August issue of Play
boy magazine.
The “silences” or “disappear
ances” of God have been recorded
throughout the history of the
Church, explained Rev. Hamilton,
and are accepted tenents of re
ligious dogma.
But now, the disappearance of
God is permanent, he continued,
the manifest presence of God
has been withdrawn from the
perception of modern man. His
existence remains unquestioned
but his withdrawal must force
Christianity to form a subtler
concept of God.
The discrepancy between impli
cation and meaning of this move
ment gives a clue to the character
of the movement. In our age
where right is determined by
what is most efficient and by
what “works best,” the movement
finds its most eloquent justifi
cation for its impreciseness.
Ignoring the nuances of theolo
gical language, the “Death of
God” believers, in essence, say
that the forms and conventions
of religious practices are out of
touch with modern needs.
The reality abides, but the old
er forms of thought and language
are hopelessly obsolete.
How did God die, then?
His death was caused by us,
explains Rev. Hamilton. The
state of man’s knowledge has
made the God men believed in
100 years ago inapplicable, he
says.
The movement has exhibited no
visible signs of widespread ac
ceptance, but some religious
thinkers agree with some of the
claims.
“The gods that we built up as
idols or mental images are dead,”
explains Thomas J. Seay, minis
ter of the A&M Church of Christ.
But the Death of God is no
small matter, and for better or
for worse, some excitement is
justified.
Oh, hail, departed comrades, we
before thee stand silent.
You who walked among us now
will forever be silent.
We stand alone waiting — while
on our breaths — a silent
prayer . . .
Thinking that for us others may
assemble there.
Then — steps in the night — as
the honor guard comes near.
The slow, mournful tramping of
feet falls upon our ear.
Orders ring through the dark
ened, night, as our fallen com
rades stare—
Then come the shots of blessed
musketry that fill the silled
air.
And lo—from the night—in a
thousand places — the bugles
cut the liquid air,
Tears run down the cheeks of the
solemn Aggies standing there.
Three times the bugles cry out—
as if to reach the very souls
Of those who watch, and those
departed, who have reached
their final goals.
Michael Schrantz, ’70
The oldest botanical garden
in the Western Hemisphere
thrives on the West Indian island
of St. Vincent. It was established
in Kingston in 1765 to introduce
exotic and commercial plants
from the Far East to the West
Indies.
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