CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
John Hotard
Put It Up! Take It Down!
This isn’t the year of the horns. holding a megaphone and yelling “Because of the damage to
“This may look like a strange sign to be handing on my
door, but I don’t have any room inspections to worry
about!”
They’re After
Us Again!
Watch out, freshmen!
The Rebels at the University of Texas at Arlington
have announced that this is the year of the Superbonfire.
At least that’s what the homecoming bonfire has been
called by Tom Sheppard, Rebel Rouser club president.
A UTA bonfire committee chairman boasted that “We
plan to beat A&M this year,” and “we expect some trouble
from both Aggies and TCU.”
We can’t speak for TCU but it seems Aggies are too
busy studying to bother with burning the trash before it
is ceremoniously lit tonight at Arlington.
Last year’s bonfire was a whopping 15 feet high and
40 yards in diameter—maybe it fell down. But UTA bon
fire committee hopefuls say today’s bonfire will top A&M
at more than 100 feet.
While A&M’s impressive pyramid of flame borders
on a heavy lumberjack operation, UTA spokesmen refer to
their project as “wood collecting contest” in which eight
fraternities and the men’s dormitories compete for four
trophies.
Two of the most humorous aspects of the UTA at
tempt is a request for “the combined help of the student
body to guard the thing those last two nights.” In addition,
the Rebel Rousers “will offer a ‘spirit stick’ to the sorority
and the girls’ dorm floor which provides the best entertain
ment for the guardians of the wood pile.”
One Aggie wrote The Battalion and observed that
“maybe with a two-week work period and the cooperation
of all the loyal garbage collectors in Arlington, they can
pose some sort of threat.”
But like the Abominable Snowman which is often
talked about but seldom seen, someone better get a picture
of this colossal woodpile before it passes into history as
merely abominable.
We offer no trophies to our freshmen or upper class-
men, and we have yet to award a spirit stick, but all
competitors are invited to come to A&M to see what a real
bonfire looks like.
This isn’t even the year of the
bumper stickers.
This is the year of the gross
football signs on the dorms.
The competition this year is
not only among the outfits to see
who can gross out the others,
but also to see who can get their
sign up before the Authority
comes along and censors it.
Each outfit has thus appointed
an officer-in-charge of signs to
see that the sign is gross. For
this, they designate someone who
himself is gross. So far, none of
the outfits have had trouble fill
ing the position.
To counter this move, the Tri-
gon came up with a GROSS
(Grand Reformer Of Sinful
Signs) officer. He nans around
with a four-foot stamp and
stamps CENSORED on all those
that don’t meet the standards.
Corps Staff, not to be outdone,
has the Chaplain go around and
censor the signs before the
GROSS officer gets there.
Meanwhile, the various Bri-
g - ade and Wing staffs have not
been exactly sitting around on
their cans. They have THEIR men
going around censoring before
the Chaplain gets there.
This is what’s known as mili
tary one-upmanship.
And who gets caught in the
middle of it all?
The poor fish.
They design a sign. The officer-
in-charge comes around and tells
them to do it over; it’s not gross
enough. So they make a new one,
get his approval and start to put
it up.
The Brigade or Wing staff of
ficer comes by and says it’s too
gross. Don’t put it up.
But who ever listens to staff
officers? They put it up anyway.
The Corps Chaplain arrives on
the scene. “Take it down.”
They take it down. Out comes
the Officer-in-charge.
“FRESHMEN!!! GET THAT
SIGN BACK UP!”
Back up goes the sign. They
get it tied down. Out of a fourth
stoop window leans the GROSS
officer.
STAMP!!
Down comes the sign.
So now the outfits are taking
a new approach. Last week one
outfit’s sign said “APPROVED
BY WING STAFF. APPROVED
BY CORPS STAFF. APPROVED
BY THE SHED.”
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Another had Sarge in a skirt,
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“RAH RAH RAH.”
This trend will continue until
the signs become so chaste that
A&M will start losing its mas
culine image and the Trigon will
come out with the following di
rective :
A&M’s masculine image, all unit
commanders are hereby directed
to instruct their men in the art
of gross sign-making.”
The cycle is now complete, and
once again begins its downhill
roll.
Bulletin Board
TODAY
The Midland Hometown Club
will meet in Room 2A of the
Memorial Student Center at 7:30
p.m.
The Port Arthur Hometown
Club will meet in the Gay Room
of the YMCA at 7:30 p.m.
The Corpus Christi Hometown
Club will make plans for a Christ
mas party at 7:30 p.m. in Room
3C of the Memorial Student Cen
ter.
The Marshall Hometown Club
will meet in Room 3B of the
Memorial Student Center.
The Deep East Texas Home
town Club will meet in the Me
morial Student Center at 7:30
p.m.
The LaGrange Hometown Club
will meet in Dormitory 18, Room
223, at 6:30 p.m.
The Fort Bend County Home
town Club will meet in Room 3A
of the Memorial Student Center
at 7:30 p.m.
The Galveston Island Home
town Club will meet in the Art
Room of the Memorial Student
Center after Yell Practice.
The Williamson County Home
town Club will plan a Thanksgiv
ing dance at 7:30 p.m. in the
Second Floor Lobby of the Me
morial Student Center.
The Mid-County Hometown Club
will meet in Room 2D of the
Memorial Student Center after
Yell Practice.
The Dallas Hometown Club
will make plans for a Thanks
giving party at 7:30 p.m. in the
Assembly Room of the Memorial
Student Center.
A Senior Mechanical Engineer
ing Seminar Program featuring
D. R. Ward, senior vice president
for Brown and Root, Inc., will be
presented at 10 a.m. in Room 303,
Fermier Hall. Ward’s subject will
be the search for oil in Cook
Inlet, Alaska.
The Victoria Hometown Club
will meet in the YMCA, Room
204, at 8 p.m.
The Wharton County Home
town Club will discuss a Christ
mas party at 7:45 p.m. in Room
2A of the Memorial Student Cen
ter.
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