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College Station, Texas
Thursday, September 28, 1967
Sound Off
mEBATTAUON caoet slouch by Jim Earle Bulletin BoUrd
Editor, The Battalion.
Your editorial of Tuesday the
26th, entitled “Yell Practice
Lacks Civilian Support,” was ab
solutely repulsive. It was writ
ten with a total lack of integrity
and intelligence.
For your information, civilian
students pay exactly the same
student services fee as a member
of the Corps. This fee entitles
us to a seat in our respective
class section in Kyle Field for all
home football games. There is
no reason why any member of the
Corps should have a reserved seat
on the students side of the field.
I was one of the civilians who
sat in the senior section sup
posedly saved for the Corps sen
iors. We had no choice. There
was no other place to sit and stu
dents (civilians) were already
sitting in the aisles. As many ci
vilians as possible honored the
roped off section.
As for the poor junior Corps
students who had to sit on the
five-yard line, the rope separat
ing the juniors and seniors was
between the ten and fifteen.
You say civilian students want
the glory and the best seats. This
is also a misconception. It is the
Corps that must want the glory.
They were the ones who wanted
to march in front of the televi
sion cameras and the girls; not
the civilians.
About the poor showing of ci
vilians at the Monday Yell Prac
tice. You say yourself that the
Corps students have to be there.
I wonder how many would go if
they didn’t have to.
And you are wrong again in
thinking the civilian students
have a way of getting the Spirit
an hour before game time and
losing it an hour afterward. If
you went to the last midnight
yell practice, you would have seen
a lot of civilians who stood out
in that deluge only to be denied
entrance to the Grove because all
of the gates weren’t opened. The
civilian students on this campus
care just as much as anyone
about the Aggie games and the
team.
I agree that it would be a poor
solution to the seating problem
to have to separate the Corps and
the civilians at the ball games,
but I can not agree with the idea
that the Corps should have re
served seats when there are not
enough seats to begin with. I
hope there will be more seating
space for all students on October
7, when the Aggies “Beat the
hell out of Florida State.”
Bill Liles ’68
101c Lynn
Bryan
made me mad. It was the sen
tence about non-regs having spir
it an hour before the game and
losing it afterwards that I didn’t
like. Many civilians, as well as I,
didn’t even know there was a yell
practice Monday nite.
Another thing, it isn’t the non-
regs fault if the corps doesn’t get
the best seats. Since more stu
dents are civilian than corps,
what should be done ? Makes the
civilians wait until the corp fin
ishes marching and everyone
make a mad dash for seats ?
When I came into Kyle Field to
seat down, I was told to go up
the ramp and all the way to the
top. Therefore, how can I and
the other non-regs be blamed for
sitting where we were instructed
to sit.
As far as standing on the seats,
I didn’t like that either and I
think that was wrong. It seems
to me however, that rather than
a case of civilians doing wrong
to the corps, adjustments in the
seating arrangements need to be
made to cope with A&M’s ever
growing population,
Sincerely yours,
Steve Wolf ’69
park in the unpaved lot by G.
Rollif^. White on a rainy day,
thereby ruining car and clothes.
The existing arrangement is
definitely not in step with the
present day modern university
complexes. The situation should
again be reviewed and I am also
of the opinion that if the Campus
Security men were as anxious to
alleviate the crisis as they are in
finding cars which can be cited
with parking violations, it might
eventually lead to a solution of
the problem and provide mutual
gains for the University and its
students.
Sincerely
Klaus D. Meybaum
Ssgt. USAF, Class of 68
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Editor, The Battalion:
There are several things that
could be said about your recent
editorial concerning civilian apa
thy. However, harsh words will
not solve the problem that seems
to exist among new civilian stu
dents. You stated this problem
in your answer to “fish” Mor
gan’s letter and I quite “It seems
“frosh” Morgan has little knowl
edge of Aggie tradition.” It is
not difficult to me why he has no
knowledge of our traditions—no
one has informed him. Couldn’t
the Battalion serve the student
body better by running a series
of articles about Aggie tradition.
Maybe some people who think
they know all of the traditions
will also benefit from the arti
cles.
Jerry Moody ’70
(Editor’s note: Campus Se
curity Chief Ed Powell noted
some of the same problems Sgt.
Meybaum points in yesterday’s
article in the Battalion concern
ing lack of parking facilities.)
Editor, The Battalion
I used to enjoy going to the
snackbar of the MSC for coffee
and an occasional lunch but no
more. Since the powers in charge
have decided to use paper plates
and plastic cups the taste of the
food and coffee has changed. I
wonder how many other Aggies
feel the same.
Very truly yours
H. H. Hamilton ’46
Engineer Officers
Elected For 67-68
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Editor, The Battalion:
I am a civilian junior here at
A&M and Tm sick and tired of
hearing everything bad that hap
pens to the Corps blamed on the
civilians. This letter is in infer
ence to your “Yell Practice’s
Lack Civilian Support” article.
However, that isn’t what really
Editor, The Battalion:
Having been a recent victim,
along with many other Aggie day
students, of the over-anxious
penmanship of our Campus Se
curity Force, I feel it is time
once more to express our annual
concern over the lack of avail
able parking on campus.
It is quite obvious that with
the increase of the student body
at A&M, the parking situation
will become much more critical.
If the University is unable to ac
commodate the parking needs of
the day students, it should abol
ish on-campus parking and cre
ate a bus shuttle service instead.
This would be much fairer than
to charge every student a park
ing fee, only to discover that ap
proximately 300 more stickers
were sold than there are avail
able parking slots. It is also un
reasonable to require a student
to pay $5 or more so that he may
Edward Miller was elected
president of the A&M chapter of
the American Institute of Indus
trial Engineers Sept. 21.
Other officers elected for the
coming year were Steve Withers,
secretary; Ronald Kent, treas
urer, and Richard Severance,
public relations officer.
Larry Parsons and Tim Avel-
lono were selected as the junior
and senior representatives to the
Engineering Council.
The next meeting is scheduled
for Oct. 3 in room 207 of the
Engineering Building. Dr. A. W.
Wortham, head of the department
will be the speaker.
J. L. Petty Named
To Personnel Post
Jerry L. Petty of Tyler has
been named an assistant in the
Texas A&M University System
personnel office, announced Rob
ert L. Gulley Jr., director.
Petty, a 1966 personnel man
agement graduate of Texas A&M,
will be responsible for job anal
ysis and evaluation and assist in
the administration of position
classification and pay plans.
Since graduation, Petty, 23, has
been a personnel representative
for Carrier Air Conditioning
Company in Tyler. He expects to
receive a master’s degree in per
sonnel management from East
Texas State University in July.
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TODAY
Houston Hometown Club will
meet in Room 201 of the Physics
Building after Yell Practice. New
officers will be elected.
So u t h Louisiana Hometown
Club will meet in the Main Lob
by of the MSC at 7:30 p.m. to
organize for this year.
Abilene Hometown Club will
meet in Room 208 of the Acade
mic Building at 7:45 to organize
for 'this year.
Waco-McLennan County Home
town Club will meet in the Cus
hion Room in the YMCA at 7:30
p.m.
Bell County Hometown Club
will meet in Room 205 of the
Academic Building after Yell
Practice.
The San Angelo-West Texas
Hometown Club will meet fol
lowing yell practice in room 108
of the Academic Building. Offi
cers will be elected.
FRIDAY
Student Bridge Club will or.
ganize at 7:30 p.m. in the MSC
Social Room. All students and
wives are welcome.
A&M Women’s Social Club will
meet in the Ballroom of the MSC
at 3 p.m.
TUESDAY
The Marketing Society will
have a guest speaker, C. R. New.
lin, District Manager for Free,
ter and Gamble, at 7:30 p.m, in
the Assembly Room of the MSC
The Recreation and Parks
Club will meet in Room 113 of
the Herman Heep Building at
7:30 p.m.
The Orange Hometown
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the
Lobby of the MSC.
The Amarillo Hometown Clul
wil meet on the front steps oi
the MSC September 28, 7:15 p,ij,
A business and organizational
meeting wil be conducted, thost
wishing to join please attend.
U.S. Denies Indian Charges
“Maybe I’m not cut out to be a senior! I’ve been trying to
get ’em off for two days.”
NEW DELHI. UP)—U. S. Am
bassador Chester Bowles issued
an angry retort Wednesday to a
claim that CIA agents have in
filtrated industrial areas of Bihar
State and American missionaries
are converting famine-plagued
farmers under duress.
Chandra Shekhar Singh, the
state’s irrigation and power min
ister, was quoted Tuesday as say
ing Central Intelligence Agency
agents infiltrated a strategically
important industrial complex in
the garb of missionaries and re
search scholars.
The United News of India sail
Singh claimed a number of peoplt
reported to him that scores ol
drought and flood victims had
been converted to Christianity ra
the promise they would receive
relief. He was quoted as sayinj
children in mission schools wen
forced to say the United States
had saved them from starvatim
by providing food to them and
employment to their guardians.
Bowles’ response called it false
and irresponsible.
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