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THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, April 4, 1967
CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle
“Laughing at those corn-ball jokes didn’t do it!”
Reds Make Port
A Shooting Gallery
The Pentagon has disclosed that Communist freighters
delivering supplies to North Vietnam’s port of Haiphong
have fired at U. S. warplanes.
The military officials said that the planes had not
been hit and had not returned the fire. There was no
identification of the ships involved.
American pilots, up to this point, have had to contend
with what has been termed the most effective anti-air
craft defense ever devised while making their daily raids
over North Vietnam. Now they must watch for fire from
ships of supposedly non-combatant nations who shoot at
them from the safety of the harbor. The harbor has been
labeled off-limits to American bombs by Washington.
Red anti-aircraft fire has been extremely successful
thus far due to the restrictions placed on the American air
men. Red gun emplacements are often situated in civilian
populated areas where the U. S. planes are forbidden to
return the fire.
Only when the guns are located away from these areas
have the pilots been allowed to silence them.
Red airfields are also off-limits to American attacks.
The Coommunist Migs must leave the ground before the
Americans can attack the enemy jets.
And now another “don’t” area has developed into a
potentially deadly obstacle to the bombing. Anyone with
a gripe against the Americans can now get into the act.
Bring the whole family. For the price of one boatload of
supplies brought to Haiphong Harbor, get three shots at
the American jets. Knock one down and the captain of
the vessel gets a teddy bear.—J.G.
Editor,
The Battalion;
Dear Sir:
While visiting the campus Fri
day, March 17, with a friend who
is a former student of the Uni
versity of Texas, we parked his
car in front of the MSC next to
the drill field. Since a practice
review was going on I thought it
was a good turn to let him see
the corps first hand. He got a
first hand show all right. When
we returned, two of his tires were
flat. As a former student I was
very humiliated, and more con
sternated by the cryptic, four-let
ter words and tobacco juice fur
ther decorating the car.
Fighters, this happened in the
veritable front yard of our cam
pus and to a former student to
boot, me! It was not good bull.
Neither did it reflect what I be
lieve to be the true spirit of Ag-
gieland. Let’s not let this happen
to any other ’sips who might visit
us.
We wish to thank Mr. Buck
Weirus of the Former Students
Association who was most helpful
in getting us on the road.
Sincerely,
C. A. Bedinger, Jr. ’64
★ ★★
To the Editor:
It seems that we’re still beat
ing the proverbial dead horse. On
Feb. 9, the Battalion devoted
space to the issue of clothing
regulations. On March 31, we
had another repeat performance
of the same.
The editor rests his case on two
points: One, that such regula
tions are in the “bluebook.” I
read it twice. The second time
because I didn’t believe the first.
Never had I seen a university
with such a voluminous list of
laws, doctrines and dogma. Even
still, I assumed that most of these
rules were to be taken with a
grain of salt. The clothing regu
lation was one such rule.
Laws are made to protect the
people which they govern. Like
wise, a school sets down rules
which are to help the student.
Many of these rules are flexible
and subject to revision. Some
times laws are archaic and when
such is proven to be the case,
they should be revised or omitted.
Less than ten years ago, few
people would have dared to wear
Bermuda shorts or torn off pants.
Now it is accepted fashion in the
U. S. and neither our government
nor society has toppled because of
it. Much the same can be said
for shoes without socks or no
shoes at all.
We have passed the days of
high button shoes and stiff neck
collars. Since fashion and the
acceptance of various modes of
fashion are changing, obviously
archaic rules about fashion
should be changed.
Reflection upon the university
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Sound Off
and A&M’s reputation in the com
munity is another dead horse,
perhaps the corniest of them all.
Let’s face it, a university is
judged by one thing and one
thing only, the education it gives
the student and the intellectual
capacity of that student when he
leaves that institution.
A big war cry here is “let’s not
be another Berkeley” or “we don’t
want those Berkeley-types here.”
No matter what you say of Berke
ley, you must remember that last
year it toppled Harvard Uni
versity as the leading higher edu
cational center in the U. S. (re
port from the New York Times).
With all of Berkeley’s public
ity, still only the highest ranking
seniors in California schools go
to Berkeley and to most students
and parents, it is considered an
honor to go there.
If people are afraid that loose
dress on campus will lead people
to believe that A&M is a beatnik
school, let me assure you that
that will never happen.
As it stands now, A&M is con
sidered a slob school full of
groads and hicks by the average
Texan, so what reputation are
you trying to save ?
Again, if one visits either
Berkeley or Harvard, one will
find the complete gamut of dress
ranging from ties and jackets to
casual dress to sloppy and torn
clothes. As I’m sure that it will
be granted that these schools are
considered two of the best in the
U. S. It will be seen that student
dress is insignificant unless, of
course, the liberal attitude toward
dress created a liberal attitude on
campus thereby increasing the
intellectual atmosphere leading to
the calibre of these institutions.
What this boils down to is that
by insisting and hammering on
the dress regulation on this
campus we are only hurting
A&M. As we are students at
A&M and don’t wish to hurt the
school, let’s just bury the dead
horse.
Donald E. Gouren
Dorm 22
★★★
Editor;
The Battalion:
Dear Sir;
Texas A&M is a University in
name only. It will remain so
until the student, the individual,
is allowed his basic freedoms.
As long as the student is not
offensive, body odor or filth, he
or she should be allowed the
freedom to choose his manner of
dress.
Just because a few are in the
position to administer and hand
down regulations, their personal
taste, the student as an individual
is prohibited from expressing
himself freely. An excellent
example of this administrative
domination occurred during the
fall semester when the issue of
political clubs on campus arose.
End result — Political Forum
farce.
How is the student to grow and
expand if he is surpressed every
time he turns around. Growth
and expansion are what the col
lege or university campus is for.
One’s education does not come
solely from books or classroom
material.
Is it right for a few to domi
nate so many? A campus needs
rules and regulations, but not
ones that defeat one of the uni
versity’s main objectives: to
THINK FOR ONE’S SELF.
The role of the University
should be to provide an atmos
phere of learning and free
thought, not to suppress it. Cloth
ing regulations are but a small
part of the basic issue: ADMIN
ISTRATIVE DOMINATION OF
THE INDIVIDUAL.
Jack Smyth ’66
Landscape Architecture
New Directors Welcomed
Into A&M Student Facilit)
★★★
Editor, The Battalion:
PHEW
A question to our sockless crew
If you feel you’ve lost a right
Have you tried to get the rule
changed
Have you tried to shed some
light ?
Have you told it to the Senate
Or written letters to the Ed ?
Instead of using your feet
How ‘bout trying your head ?
Yes, I’m really for you
You and all your kin
I’d like to help you out
Which way did you come in ?
Dan Galvin ’64
By MIKE FLAKE
Battalion Special Writer
The Texas A&M Baptist Stu
dent Union welcomed its new
director recently with a flourish
of activity.
At a recent bi-weekly vesper
service, Bob Birch introduced
himself to students with a short
testimony and personal history.
Refreshments and a social were
scheduled after the service.
Birch and his family moved
here from Tampa, Fla., where he
previously served as assistant
pastor and minister to Youth at
Spenser Memorial Baptist
Church.
“We had a great deal of acti
vity on the University of South
Florida campus and were involv
ed deeply in student work,” Birch
said.
Through the activities with
those students and by his own
experience with Baptist Student
Unions on the campus of Ste
phen F. Austin College, Birch has
learned to relate the Christian
experience as one “essential to a
happy, powerful life.” Formerly
a Methodist, Birch began attend
ing vesper services at the BSU
there and became interested in
reading the Bible.
“That was what you might call
my conversion,” he said. “That’s
when I began to realize some
thing of the life that Christ has
to offer a person.”
The Aggie BSU had been
without a director since the
summer, when Prentis Chunn
died of a heart attack.
Birch was quick to commend
the Aggies in their work with
out a director.
“They have shown a real faith
fulness,” Birch said. “It takes a
lot of courage to try to keep up
a full-time religious program with
a small group of full-time stu
dents, but they did it and en
joyed it.”
He outlined the plan for BSU
activities for the coming months:
“We have four areas we want
to emphasize: Studying the
Bible, Prayer, Evangelism, and
Christian fellowship.”
“What our program consists
of is simple. We want to honest
ly and sincerely show people how
real Christianity works, and we
want to invite them to share the
joy of the Christian life with us."
Birch is a graduate of South
western Baptist Theological Sem
inary. He attended Ashbury
Seminary, and Brite School of the
Bible. He also has a B.A. in re
ligion from Texas Christian Uni
versity.
Drug Raid Nets
Five At Lubbock
LUBBOCK, Tex. (TP)—Five
young men, four of them report
ed to be Texas Tech students,
were arraigned Monday on charg
es of possession of narcotics.
The five youths were arrested
shortly after midnight Monday
morning when Lubbock police
raided a party a block off the
Texas Tech campus.
Police said they questioned
about 65 other young persons at
tending the party.
Bulletin Board
Today
Ag Eco Club will meet in rooms
112 and 113 of the Plant Sciences
Building at 7:30 p.m. Will dis
cuss spring picnic.
Wednesday
Aggie Wive’s Bridge Club will
meet in the MSC at 7:30 p.m.
Hi’lel Foundation will meet at
6:30 p.m. at 800 Jersey. There
will be a supper and discussion
with other religious groups.
The Brazos Valley Gem and
Mineral Society will hold its reg
ular monthly meeting in room 229
Chemistry Building April 5th at
7:30 p.m.
All A&M University students,
faculty, wives, and any other per
sons interested in rock collecting,
fossil collecting, cutting of gem
stones, and the metal arts of
making jewelry are invited to at
tend the meetings.
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