Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Thursday, November 9, 1967 Speed, Brother, And Hit Another The inexperienced driver and the disregard for the law and common courtesy almost cost one Aggie his life Monday night. It seems that some student drivers are bent on destroy ing others as they cut corners and whiz along campus streets. On Monday Ronald H. Mehlen was left unconscious in the middle of Houston Street, near the University Hospital. Whether Mehlen was struck by the car which raced by him and left the scene or by something protruding from the car is not clear. But what is clear is that the incident almost cost him his life, for another driver could have accidentally run over a body lying in a partially lit street at 11 p.m. The fact that more pedestrians have not been hurt by thoughtless student drivers is amazing. Although the law is on the side of the pedestrian, woe be it to he who steps into the street when a car approaches, for on this campus few cars even slow down for safety. At any hour, Houston Street, from North Gate to G. Rollie White Coliseum, is considered by some to be a 40- mile-an-hour avenue. We support strong enforcement of speed laws through out the campus, and would revoke campus parking privi leges for two or more campus speeding violations. We support well-lighted streets and intersections and road resurfacing, especially on Houston Street near Sbisa Dining Hall. Automobiles which fail to yield to pedestrians should be picketed. And pedestrians have an obligation to be cau tious and allow cars to pass as quickly as possible. Safe, slow driving is especially important for football games and upcoming basketball games when the amount of traffic increases. And for the next two weekends, large, log-laden trucks for Bonfire will present a further hazard to the speeding driver and unwary pedestrian. We know you are an ace behind the wheel, but for the other fellow’s sake, drive safely, slow down, let pedestrians cross and don’t tolerate potential killers on campus streets. —Solovey Let All Juniors Just Be Juniors It is an accepted fact that the parking situation is not one that puts a smile on everybody’s face. But the purpose of this editorial is not to blast parking facilities. The topic we are concerned with is the way certain individuals are dealing with the problem. In the parking lot behind Dormitory Five in the Duncan Area, spaces are allocated to seniors and juniors. Naturally, seniors are given enough spaces for their cars. This year, not enough spaces are available for all juniors who have cajjs and live in the area. Therefore, the junior spaces ate filled on a first-come, first-serve basis. With only 1 spaces for junior cars, late-comers must park in the sophomore lot. Not so for staff juniors. An order has been issued reserving 24 spaces for these privileged characters. They are guaranteed a spot close to the dorm so they don’t have to spend precious time walking from the distant sophomore lot. To our knowledge, this is another Corps first. From the time Corps members are initiated in the ways of A&M, they are told that a major premise of Corps life is the fact that all their classmates are their equals, not their superiors or inferiors. Now, someone with visions of glory and newly-acquired power has decided that this tradition can be shucked for their convenience. All seniors are equal, all juniors are equal, all sopho mores are equal and all fish are equal. A reserved parking space for staff juniors? Why not a special place for all left- handed English majors with a GPR of 2.5 or more? If this editorial does nothing but incur the wrath of every staff junior it will have accomplished its purpose. No one is happy with the situation as it now is but them. An immediate change is highly unlikely. The privi leged few guard their spots jealously. It means so much to them that they come out at night with their notepads and take down the names of their classmates who have dared to violate such a vital rule, and then proceed to process ten demerits for the offender. Staff juniors are supposed to be the leaders of their class and the ones to see that Corps traditions are honored. We think it’s about time they got with the program. —Rowton CADET SLOUCH b y J ' mEarle Mantovani Wows Audience With Special Music Style times story “I’ll make you a bet before either of us reads it! I’ll bet there’s at least one letter about th’ Aggies clapping too much, too little, having too good of a time or not good enough or something about Town Hall last night!” By JOHN HOTARD Battalion Columnist This was one of those when several leads for a come to mind. How about: The Music Man was on campus last night. Or: “Say, I’ve heard that song be fore—and by the same orchestra, too.” Or maybe: Texas A&M took another step toward putting culture in its agri cultural image last night in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Mantovani was his name. Music was his business. To an estimated audience of 5,000, he played the favorites. He appealed to the society matron, the music lover, the student. He played songs such as “Strangers in the Night,” “Love and Marriage” and “Ebb Tide,” and interspersed them with “Spanish Gypsy Dance,” the theme from “Fiddler on the Roof” and “Swedish Rhapsody,” which set his fans off on a little toe tapping. He didn’t lead his orchestra— he conducted. It seemed as though he silently told them to give it everything they had or he would hit them with his baton. Mantovani, the man, was as personable backstage as he was between selections; some of it went over—some of it didn’t. He pointed out backstage that he enjoyed playing to audiences such as this one because there was a more informal air. “I can have more fun here than, say, at the New York Philhar monic,” he said. He was pleased with the acous tics of the coliseum. He was wor ried at first that everybody wouldn’t be able to hear him, but “he got the word at halftime,” as he put it, that everything was fine. The last ten minutes of his performance could best be de scribed as “Mantovani’s Antics,” where there was a humorous camaraderie between him and his orchestra, while he would imitji the playing style of the varim members. The 41-piece orchestra, wkl includes 32 stringed instrumec is based in London. It has has three-month tour of the Uniti States for the past 11 years ai goes on many world-wide toil: It plays quite a few colleges its tour. Mantovani remarked that, evj though college students have tin own music these days, they sli come back to his or other simili artists’ style of music. He said that he enjoyed pb ing here, and that he would | to come back. We’ll be waiting. Albert Fay Guest Speaker For YR Meeting Monday \i«l onstage. He tried some humor Albert Fay, national committee man from Houston, will speak at the November meeting of the Texas A&M Young Republicans Monday night. He will discuss what the Na tional Committee and its chair man, Ray Bliss, are doing to pre pare for the ’68 elections. According to A&M club chair man Gleen McDaniel, this topic should be “highly interesting and informative.” “The race for the Republitt nomination is beginning to m row,” he said, “and we may able to forecast more closely! outcome once we know whp the national committee standi The meeting begins at7:45p.i and will be held in the CoffeeLd at North Gate. Coffee and doupi nuts will be served following 6 program. Bulletin Board TODAY Cooke County Hometown Club will meet in Room 109 of the Agriculture Engineering Building at 7:30 p.m. DeWitt-Lavaca Hometown Club will meet in Room 203 of the Academic Building at 7:30 p.m. Fashion Group of A&M Wom en’s Social Club will meet at Chapman’s Paint and Wallpaper at 7:30 p.m. El Paso Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 3C of the MSC. The Aerospace Engineering Wives The Aerospace Engineering Wives Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Bank of A&M. The Waco-McLennan Hometown Club will meet in the Reading Room of the YMCA at 7:30 p.m. A M. E. Seniro Seminar will have a program on the laser and holograms at 10 a.m. in Room 303 of Fermier Hall. D. Mike Batey of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company will be the speaker. The LaGrange Hometown Club will see a film in Room 3A of the Memorial Student Center at 7:30 p.m. The Pentagon Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 201 of the Military Science Building. The Houston Hometown Club will make plans for the Corps Party after Yell Practice in Room 201 of the Physics Build ing. The Amarillo Hometown Club will discuss a Christmas Party in Room 2B of the Memorial Stu dent Center at 8 p.m. The BiStone Hometown Club will organize at 7:30 p.m. on the 1st floor of the old Biology Build ing. The Aggie Christian Fellowship will hear Philip Jones, a graduate of Westminster Theological Semi nary, speak about “The Older Testament’s Portrait of Christ.” The meeting begins at 7:45 p.m. in the All Faiths Chapel. Pick Plenty of SWINGS! A*-i- AT ‘fitccfis/iiic c htvs. CTELL-0 S motsmtA! 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