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THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, November 3, 1966
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
JhSJs
“I’m going to miss the rush and wait ’till Friday!”
The Spirit Of Aggieland
By JEAN MARTIN
There’s an old tradition at
A&M — football. With it come
some of the other joys of life,
midnight yell practice, burning
banners and the bonfire.
The night before the big night
the silence is broken by the band,
and no one can resist the wonder
ful feeling of being trampled and
trampling as the solid mass
moves to Kyle Field. Spirits are
high. “Fish Jones, are you
drunk?” “No, sir.” “Why not?”
“No excuse, sir.”
Once inside, the lights are cut
off to allow for more Aggie tra
dition. All is quiet, and the
stadium is aglow with fire from
those who came without a date
and don’t want to forget what it’s
like. The spell is broken by
“Why aren’t you kissing your
date?” “She won’t let me, sir.”
The Aggie Spirit actually goes
back a few years, to the time of
thfe" cave than, but ih those days
we wrestled mastodons arid saber-
toothed tigers instead of hogs.
A&M preserves the traditions in
herited from our tough fore
fathers; but rather than a matter
of life and death, it’s a matter of
beating the hell out of Arkansas
or not.
The game proved that even
Arkansas has benefited by the
research of Texas A&M, which
has enabled farmers to grow big
ger cows, sheep, and pigs every
year.
Aggies are good sports. We
know we can’t get all the points,,
but the saddest words after the
game were, “I didn’t even get to
kiss my date. I want to kiss my
date.!”
In spite of the score, the Ark-
ansasans were not able to leave
Kyle Field without some doubts
of their victory. They had paused
to watch curiously as A&M gave
the last loyal yells with the vigor
that proved we were undefeat-
ed. It’s the Spirit of Aggieland
that 'Will forever haunt those who
would like to think they beat the
Aggies.
I
Sound
Editor,
This letter is to repute the
article which appeared in the
Batt Nov. 1, 1966 concerning the
“high life” of the athletes and
the scrumptous meals we enjoy
daily.
The main complaint is your
use of the word “Athletes” when
the article dealt with football
players exclusively. You gave
the impression that all athletes
enjoy these extraordinary meals
when this isn’t the case.
Right now, the cross country
team, potential SWC champions,
are in the peak of the season and
have yet to even catch a whiff of
a 14 oz. T-bone or anything other
than standard Sbisa . . . chow.
That article will give my bud
dies in the regular Corps another
reason to say we athletes have it
easy with meals like that, easy
Corp life, and new dorms.
In reality, our meals, even dur
ing the peak of track season, fall
short of the menu described in
that article.
Naturally an athlete’s Corp life
is easier—in order to be a good
athlete, one must have already
attained a high degree of self dis
cipline which the Corp endeavors
to instill in its members.
As for an easy life — we on
the track and cross-country teams
are up at dawn the first four days
of each week running, and again
EVERY afternoon, often logging
16, 18, 20 or more miles daily.
I sometimes wish we could get
those 6,000 calories a day but
am reminded of the futility of
that venture with the sign “no
seconds on meat” staring me in
the face.
In conclusion, keep the good
food going to the football team
because they deserve it but don’t
try to make everybody believe
ALL athletes are getting that
chow.
J. W. Heffner (Track) ’69
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Editor,
The Battalion,
Saturday I got my first taste
of what the Aggies call two per
centers. Being new to Aggie
land, I am just getting familiar
with some of the Aggie tradi
tions, but it wouldn’t take an Ag
gie to be disgusted at the be
havior of the fans at the A&M-
Arkansas game.
It was great to have such a
good crowd at the game, but how
many realized that a large per
cent of the crowd had probably
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never been to a home game, and
only came to this game because
of the Aggies undefeated record.
Consequently the true Aggie
fans ended up standing in the
isles the entire game—that is
until the last quarter, and then
those fair weather fans poured
out of the stadium.
Surprisingly, even a Corps
member, a senior, headed home.
I am under the impression that
an Aggie fan stands by the Aggie
team, even when they are losing.
This certainly wasn’t the atti
tude of the fans at Saturday’s
game.
If all those two percenter-ers
would have just stayed home
there would have been plenty of
seats for the true Aggies—and I
believe we could have done a good
job boosting those Fight’n
Aggies.
We didn’t beat Arkansas, but
look-out SMU . . . Gig-em!!
Mrs. B. F. Cockrell
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Editor,
The Battalion,
Sir,
Once a week I pick up all the
Batts in my front yard and then
throw them away.
I was wondering over coffee,
why the Batt doesn’t have a
good cross word puzzle. It would
be most enjoyable to have three
cross word puzzles to work every
day, rather than two, and it
would help the looks of my yard.
George Lovett ’63
Finance Club
Speech Today
Davis McGill of A. G. Edwards
& Sons in Bryan, a member of
the New York Stock Exchange,
will speak at the Finance Club
meeting at 7:30 p.m. tonight in
Room 208 of Francis Hall.
In other business, a junior
representative to the Liberal Arts
Council will be elected and plans
made for an upcoming barbecue.
Open Letter
Invites Aggies
At last, it’s that time of year
all TWU girls have eagerly been
anticipating — the 1966 Dallas
Corps Trip. In order to get into
the Aggie Spirit of things, the
Student Council of Social Activi
ties has planned “Tessie Kickoff”,
a dance in the Student Union
Building and in the Old Gym
nasium Building at Texas Wom
an’s University, Friday, Novem
ber 4, at 8:00 p.m.
We will be featuring a “Go-
Go” band, The Yaks, Aggie Spirit,
and lots of fun.
Many lucky Tessies and Aggies
already have dates for this week
end. However, for those who do
not, we have planned to have
TWU hostesses at the dance who
guarantee to help you find a date.
We have more surprises in
store for you, but that will re
main a secret until you arrive in
Denton, Nov. 4.
An Aggie game not preceded
by yell practice? Unheard of.
At midnight we will have a real
“Gig-Em!” yell practice on the
lawn in front of Hubbard Hall.
What to wear? You will be
most comfortable in casual
clothes.
You will see posters on your
campus with all the vital infor
mation concerning these activU
ties.
As President of the Studerft
Council & Social Activities I
would like to invite you to the
campus of Texas Woman’s Uni
versity, Friday, November 4. Our
entire student body is looking
forward to seeing you there to
help make the 1966 Dallas Corps
Trip a giant success!!!
Sincerely,
Cheri Holland
President, SCSA
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