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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Wednesday, November 9, 1966 Fuller's Follies by John Fuller “Let’s try to figure this one more time! Let’s take it from th’ second quarter where we’re ahead 14-0 and we’re on th’ SMU goal line ...” $500Available For Finance Students Top finance students are be ing considered for the Houston Society of Insurance Management Scholarship. This award is given annually to a finance student at Texas A&M University. It carries with it a cash stipend of $500. The De partment of Finance nominates two or three students with the final winner being chose by the Houston Society of Insurance Management Scholarship Com mittee. “To be considered for the award, nominees should have a high grade point ratio and a financial need,” said Dr. Jack W. Coleman, acting head of the De partment of Finance. “The nom inee needn’t have any serious in tention of working in the field of insurance when he graduates, but he must be willing to indi cate he is interested in a career in risk management.” By JOHN FULLER About six weeks ago I dis cussed the alarmist crusade be ing carried on by a group called the Texas Smokers League, an organization of people who feel that their God-given right to puff stogies is being threatened by little old ladies in high-button shoes. Alas, not one angry protest note was received. No threaten ing letters appeared in my mail box, no bombs were set in the Batt Cave, no air was let out of my tires. And — o bitter pill! — the American Cancer Society completely ignored my effort. Not so with the column of Oct. 13. That was the one about the Great Mail Extinction; and even though I've already written some thing about the first wave of response to that one, the mail is still trickling in, and I just can’t let all those anonymous letters go unanswered. And since they are anonymous, the only way to an swer them, it seems, is in print. PROBABLY THE most mem orable contribution was a big greeting card which, when un folded, shows a little guy perched on the end of an elephant’s trunk, with the explanation “Just my in significant way of saying . . .” The elephant is about a foot square, and wears a bright pink sign reading “HI!” It’s “to keep the glare off the bottom of your mailbox,” according to the ex planatory note, and it’s signed by “two Rice Coeds Velma and Sue Carol.” The recipient of the award is usually a person who has com pleted his junior year. There’s also a letter from “Do- di” at Texas Tech, which sympa thizes with the universal prob lems of students away at college (the Great Mail Extinction, it seems, isn’t confined to A&M), and the only return address on that one is a Gamma Sigma stick er. There was also a locally- THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non tax-supported non profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for The Associated P publication of all otherwise credited in the paper and origin published herein. Rights of matter herein are also reserved. epubllcation of an news dispatches credited to it or not therwise credited in the paper and local hed hi alter herein are Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. 1 news of spontaneou iiblication of all othe Members of the Student Publications Board are: Jim Lindsey, chairman ; Dr. David Bowers, College of Liberal Arts ; John D. Cochrane, College of Geosciences ; Dr. Frank A McDonald, College of Science; Charles A. Rodenberger, College of Engineering; Dr, , .Robert S. Titus, College of Vet erinary Medicine ; and Dr. Page W. Morgan, College of Agricul ture. News contributions may be made by telephoning 846-6618 ditorial office. Room 4, YMCA Building. or 846-4910 or at the editorial office. For advertising or delivery call 846-6415. The Battalion, jblished in Colleg< a student newspaper a Station, Texas daily published in College Station, Sunday, and Monday, and holid May, and once a week during summer school. Texas A&M is xcept Saturda ...... — „„ ,,.,.50 per semester; $6 per school ^ ear; $6.50 per full year. All subscriptions subject to 2% sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA Building, College Station, Texas as daily except Saturday, periods, September through Mail subscriptions are $3.50 pe ? _ full tax. Adve: attalion. Ro 77843. MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising Services, Inc., New York Citj Francisco. Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Publisher Texas A&M University Student Editor Winston Green Jr. Managing Editor John Fuller Staff Photographer — Russell Autrey ready when you are... Get with the action in your long, lean, tapered TRIMZ jeans. Be tough with the “in crowd.” Free- fall comfort that sets a record for long play without wrinkles . . . never need ironing. Caper cord brushed bedfords, terrific twills, durable denims, crazy cords. 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It was, of course, anonymous, with no return address, post marked College Station, and it contained just a sheet of paper with the words “Fuller SHOOT!” The significance of that phrase can be explained by anybody who’s ever lived in the Duncan Area. It didn’t need to be explained to me. THE SOCIOLOGICAL implica tions of this series of letters should be pointed out, since there seems to be a parallel. All of the writers remained anonymous in varying degrees; all indicated some strong emotion (if it wasn’t sympathy, it was pure, naked disgust), and every one of the let ters was sent to my post office box instead of the Batt. In other words, nothing was wasted on a mailbox that hardly ever glints emptily. But the obvious outcome from this chain of events is not what actually happened. Granted, I began feeling like a minor celeb rity when I started getting all the mail; but little by little I began to realize that these anonymous letters were doing my mental processes no good. I discovered that plain, ordinary mail—^hereto fore a luxury—seemed lackluster and uninteresting. I caught my self looking suspiciously at every Maggie I saw, wondering how I could go about finding the ones who’d written those anonymous letters. I made the mistake of putting up the Rice coeds’ card on my bulletin board, and then spent sleepless nights staring fix edly at the luminous pink ele phant. I went around asking every student from California if he knew anybody that uses green- and-purple paisley stationery. Clearly, I was a candidate for Anonymous Letter - Receivers Anonymous. THE REMAINDER of this col umn, therefore, will be devoted to a humble, desperate plea: Maggies, Dodi, Velma, Sue Carol, Poison Pen Writers, and you out there in Ventura, Calif., whoever you are: if you read this, have a heart! The Great Mail Extinction was bad enough; the Great Anonymity Scheme (G.A.S.) is downright diabolical! 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