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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Tuesday, October 25, 1966
Sound Off
CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Challenged Issued
A&M Shop Makes
‘Remember that ‘next year’ we used to talk about?”
Charlie Brown In Third
TV Special For Halloween
Halloween brings more tricks
than treats to good old Charlie
Brown and the rest of the “Pea
nuts” characters in their new hol
iday special, “It’s the Great
Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,” ani
mated cartoon feature to be
broadcast in color Thursday, Oct.
27 (8:30-9:00 p.m., EDT and
PDT; 7:30-8:00 p.m., CDT) on
the CBS Television Network.
Who else would get rocks in
stead of goodies in his trick-or-
treat bag? Who else would be
the unwitting model for the
neighborhood’s jack-o’-lantern ?
Who else would fall for the same
old football trick for the ump
teenth time? Good grief, nobody
but Charlie Brown.
Meanwhile, back at the pump
kin patch, Linus prepares for his
annual Gi-eat Pumpkin vigfl,
awaiting the arrival of that leg
endary figure who flies through
the Halloween night bringing
toys to good little children every
where. So far, Linus has never
seen the Pumpkin — and neither
has anybody else — but his faith
survives the ridicule of his “Pea
nuts” playmates and he per
suades Sally to join him in the
suspenseful watch.
The rest of the gang are busy
planning and making their cos
tumes for the annual Halloween
party. Thinly disguised as a
World War I ace, Snoopy (the
sort-of-beagle) gets so carried
away with his costume that he
embarks on a colorful fantasy in
which he and his Sopwith Camel
engage the wicked Red Baron
in a history-making dogfight.
Editor,
The Battalion,
As a civilian student walks
across campus he is approached
by a virtually infinite number of
Fish who introduce themselves
with utmost courtesy and respect.
These men will be the leaders of
this country some day soon and
the Corps of Cadets help them
meet this demand. They are
drilled in subjects ranging from
table manners to study habits.
But this is common knowledge.
What most observers fail to rec
ognize is the pride that the cadets
have in their school, their outfit,
and most important, in them
selves. This pride in one’s self
prompts a person to self improve
ment and integrity.
The pride that the Corps has
for Texas A&M is most widely
displayed at football games. As
the yell leaders give the signals
for different cheers, the cadets
quickly respond and I must add
with the loudest voices. A cadet
can easily be recognized by his
uniform, but even without it he
stands apart from the crowd.
Where does this leave the civilian
element of the student body ?
Must we always be prompted to
action by the rest of the crowd ?
Surely there are some who will
disagree with this writer’s opin
ions, but if one takes a good look
around him at a ball game, he is
impressed more by the spirit of
the Corps than o an.
I challenge the civilian student
body of Texas A&M University to
let themselves go, throw off your
shroud of vanity and show the
world that civilians are Aggies
too.
Paul F. Gunner '70
Editorial Blasted
“It’s the Great Pumpkin, Char
lie Brown” marks the third tele
vision feature starring characters
from the popular United Feature
Syndicate comic strip, “Peanuts,”
created by artist-writer Charles
M. Schultz, who also writes the
television scripts. The first in
the series, “A Charlie Brown
Christmas,” broadcast last De
cember, was honored with a Pea
body Award and a Television
Academy Emmy Award. The sec
ond, “Charlie Brown’s All-Stars,”
a humorous salute to baseball and
vacation time, was one of the
most popular shows of the spring
season.
Editor,
The Battalion,
I haven’t read the newspaper
published by Texas A&M Uni
versity very much this year, and
so the copy I glanced through the
other day may have been an
exception. The “editorial” was
probably not the type which has
been regularly appearing, either,
but I feel a small point should be
made clear to the editorial voice
of this publication.
In your “Go! Snowball, Go!”
piece, you said some things which
may have offended a lot of Ag
gies, or maybe my skin is a little
thin. Nevertheless, I personally,
and many of my Aggie Buddies,
get a sick kind of feeling when a
newspaper comments on the “stu
dent” spirit “gathering size and
momentum” and on Aggieland
having a “rebirth of student en
thusiasm.” This is fine for the
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description of a “cookie-pusher”
school when it has a winning
team, but not in Aggieland.
The editorial was fine, but it
needed a little editing, such as:
in Aggieland, a student is called
an Aggie, and his spirit is called
Aggie Spirit. We don’t have “re
births” of Aggie Spirit, because
Aggie Spirit never dies. In Aggie
land, we yell till it hurts whether
our record is 0-10 or 10-0 in the
newspapers. And that is only
in the newspapers, because Ole
Army has never lost a game. We
may get outscored, but never
licked.
I can understand having to
write this kind of letter to a
newspaper in Moscow or Paris,
but one published in Aggieland,
never!
Larry R. Jerden ’66
Space-Age Gadgets
United Campaign
Drive Extended
To Attain Goal
College Station’s United Chest
drive, 67 percent complete at the
end of the scheduled campaign
Friday, has been extended.
James E. (Jocko) Roberts,
drive director, said $14,000 to
ward the $21,000 goal had been
pledged by mid-afternoon Friday.
“We are encouraged by the way
donations have poured in during
the last few days,” Roberts re
marked. “This community has
never let these agencies down.
I’m sure we are not going to start
now.”
Roberts said the board of direc
tors of the drive met Monday to
officially extend the campaign.
“We had no alternative but to
extend the deadline,” Roberts ex
plained. “A number of depart
ments at Texas A&M University
have not reported. “I’m positive
that we will receive contributions
from them early this week.”
Deadline Extended
Deadline for filing application
to take the U. S. Foreign Serv
ice Officers written examination
has been extended to Oct. 29,
Dr. J. M. Nance, head of Texas
A&M’s Economics Dept., an
nounced today.
Dr. Nance said the test will be
given here Dec. 3.
Manufacture of space-age gad-
getry is routine work for Texas
A&M University’s Research and
Instruments Shop.
The Space Technology Division
facility makes everything from
lunar exploration modules to air
planes.
Assistant Research Engineer
Joe Brusse is in charge of the
shop and has nine specialists
working under him. They in
clude three machinists, three lab
mechanics, two electronics tech
nicians and a welder.
Working with steel, iron, alumi
num, brass, copper, wood, plas
tic and cloth, the men produce
hardware for research projects
being conducted by the aerospace,
nuclear, civil, chemical, petroleum
and mechanical engineering de
partments and the Texas Trans
portation Institute.
The four-year-old shop is in
volved in construction of a driver
for the Gas Dynamics Labora
tory’s shock tube, a “moon bug”
accelerator for the Activation
Analysis Laboratory, a wind tun
nel and an aircraft propeller dy
namometer. The technicians are
also modifying a Grumman air
craft for a flight mechanics pro
gram.
Chief project currently is de
velopment and operation of the
dynamometer. Research is per
formed on a rig which was built
from a forklift, and automobile
differential and f wo marine en
gines and is used for turning a
horizontally mounted propeller at
1,500 to 4,000 revolutions per
minute.
The $140,000 project, fi
nanced by NASA, is supervised
by aerospace head A. E. Cronk
and requires the services of a
variety of aero and electrical
engineering students.
The instrument shop, located
off a main hanger at A&M’s Re
search Annex, is littered with
metal scraps and curlicues of
metal shavings.
“Metal shavings are a sign
we’re making money,” states
Shop Supervisor Joe Budig, who
began turning metal in Germany
when he was 14 years old, before
World War I.
“we do engineering design, de-
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tailed design, manufacture and
assembly,” Brusse notes. “In
supporting Space Technology Di
vision research, we asist on proj
ects designed to give graduate
students work and experience.”
Brusse says shop organization
is still in the embryonic stage.
The lab is striving to establish
an organization to meet varied
requirements but remain flexible
for any contingency.
“Some equipment we build
could be bought cheaper on the
retail market,” Brusse points out,
“but engineers want it modified
from the way it comes off the
shelf.”
“Everything we make is prob
ably the first and last of its
kind,” Brusse adds.
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To Hold Steak Fry
A steak fry for Walton Hall
Dormitory students is set at 1
p.m. Saturday in Hensel Park.
J. P. Kana, steak fry commit
tee, said about 150 Walton Hall
residents and their dates will join
in the weekend feast before the
A&M-Arkansas game Saturday
night.
Walton Hall President Mike
McCollum said dorm activity card
holders may eat free. Non-card
holders will be charged $1.
To most students football is
just a game. But to the play
ers it’s a grueling, unfair,
full-timeway of life. Saysone,
“You end up after four years
with a bum knee, talking
a clod, fit for nothing.” Now
a Florida State professor in
“Speaks Out” charges that
football makes coaches liars
and the rest of us hypocrites.
Read about his plan to pay
the players. And about the
sly ways coaches force in
jured players to give uptheir
scholarships. Don’t miss this
story and another on F. Lee
Bailey, Boston’s sensational
lawyer with a mind for mur
der. Both are in the Novem
ber 5 issue of The Saturday
Evening Post. Get your copy
today.
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