THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, November 14, 1967
Thank Your Wallet
A&M Costs Less
Remember A&M’s own march-in last spring when it
was announced that all students living on campus would
have to pay board, and prices were raised $20 to boot?
Don’t feel alone Aggies. There’s nowhere you can go
to escape (unless it’s Vietnam).
Four-fifths of the nation’s state colleges and universi
ties have raised tuition, fees, and room and board rates this
year, according to the National Association of State Uni
versities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC).
NASULGC (A&M is a member college) says today’s
state university senior is paying about 15 per cent more for
his education this year than as he did as a freshman in 1964.
As an A&M student, you’re far better off than you
think you are. The figures in parenthesis represent what
you pay for two semesters at A&M, while the other figures
are the average charges at state colleges and universities
for 1967-68 according to NASULGC.
Tuition and required fees, $351.50 ($192) ; the same
for a non-resident, $850 ($492) ; room and board, $850
($656).
Even though college costs at A&M have risen and by
necessity will rise in the future, costs are still well below
the national average.
Member universities reported that costs have risen for
two reasons. For many, state governments did not appro
priate enough money, and charges had to be raised to make
up for the shortage, and second, many colleges are being
squeezed by rising costs of food, labor, operation, and con
struction, all factors in A&M’s price hike.
But a justification of higher costs and the prospect of
more additions to the price tag of a college education does
not make it any easier for the student who has to pay the
tab with a part-time job.
Fortunately Texas A&M, as well as several other Texas
colleges, still have reasonable costs for the quantity and
quality of their education.
Bulletin Board
TODAY
The Pre-Med Pre-Dental Society
will meet tonight at 7:30 in Room
113 of the BSB Building.
The Psychology Club will meet
tonight at 7:30 on the fourth
floor of the Academic Building.
Dr. William R. Smith, industrial
psychologist will speak.
The Scuba Club will meet to
night in Room 305 of Goodwin
Hall at 7:30. Underwater slides
and movies taken by club mem
bers will be shown.
THURSDAY
The Amarillo-Panhandle Home-
Town Club will meet in Room 3-A
in the Memorial Student Center
at 7:30 p.m. Plans will be made
for the Christmas Party.
The Corpus Christi Hometown
C'lub will meet in Room 3-C of
the Memorial Student Center at
7:30 p.m.
The Student AVMA Auxiliary
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the
South Solarium of the YMCA.
Mrs. Fannie Eaton will speak on
“Achieving the Total Look.”
The Orange Hometown Club
will meet in the Academic Build
ing at 7:30 p.m. for a “very im
portant meeting.”
The San Antonio Hometown
Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in
Room 145 of the Phisics Build
ing to elect yell leaders and dis
cuss plans for the Thanksgiving
Party.
The College Station Chapter of
The American Meteorological
Society will meet at 7:30 p.m. in
Room 305 of Goodwin Hall. Mr.
E. L. Deacon will discuss Tur
bulent Transfer and Evaporation
Studies.
Editor,
The Battalion:
For several years I have been
concerned about the way people
drive on campus. After reading
Pete Burch's letter and Robert
Solovey’s “Speed, Brother, And
Hit Another,’ I feel compelled
to speak out.
It is almost a cinch that Ron
ald H. Mehlen was injured by a
student. Who else drives on the
campus at that time ? To take
that incident and indict student
drivers solely, as Solovey has
done, is wrong.
Driving with a reckless dis
regard for the lives of pedes
trians is charactristic of drivers
on this campus. I see students,
staff, faculty, and yes, even the
KK’s, driving at speeds which
appear to be well over the speed
limit and are certainly so fast
that the driver could not stop in
time if a thoughtless pedestrain
stepped out in front of him any
closer than half a block away.
Look around. If you see some
one driving, I will lay you ten to
one he is speeding. I see vehicles
every day with “Texas A&M Uni
versity’ on the door zipping up
and down the streets. I see stu
dents rushing off to some other
place. I see secretaries driving
as if there is something free
wherever they are going but the
suply is limited. I see professors
storming off in their work cars
as if they were competing for
some sort of prize. I see wives
drop their husbands off and then
leave as if they had just remem
bered that they had something
on the stove at home. I see all
of this every day, and it makes
me sick.
EAT A MEAL in Sbisa Hall
and when you leave, try to cross
Houston Street. People driving
South will almost run you down.
They have just passed a 15 MPH
speed limit sign, but they care
not. They will never care unless
there is enforcement of what the
sign says. “So what? I’m in a
hurry, and besides, the Aggie is
a wary animal that is very dif
ficult to corner.” Their actions be
speak this thought.
The shameful thing is that it
is all unnecessary. There is hard
ly any place west of the railroad
that cannot be walked to from
any other place on the main
campus in fifteen minutes. From
Kyle Field to the CE building is
one example. If a man walks five
MPH on the sidewalks along
the streets and a car averages
ten MPH, the car makes it in 714>
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minutes. If the car averages thir
ty MPH, it take 2V 2 minutes.
How many men’s lives is it worth
to travel from Kyle Field to the
CE building in 2^ minutes. How
many men’s lives is five minutes
of a driver’s time worth? It seems
that a lot of people think that
five minutes of their time is
worth any number of other men’s
lives. Their driving shows it.
I see the solution to the pro
blem as strict enforcement of the
speed limit. When I was in the
Army, I learned to do what the
signs said, because the penalty
for not doing so was severe and
intended to make me wish that I
had done what the signs said.
Go to any Army post. You will
find thousands of pedestrians,
just as at A&M, but you will not
find any speeders. The reason for
the difference is enforcement. It
exists on an Army post. It doesn’t
exist at Texas A&M.
BEFORE THIS IS dismissed
as just another tirade against the
KK’s, let me give them credit
where it is due. The Campus Se
curity Force does a tremendous
job of securing the campus and
making the students’ property
secure. In my years at A&M, I
have never known or heard of
an incident wherin a student’s
car was broken into and things
stolen out of it, except one time
in 1961 or 62 when a theft that
would take about ten minutes
occured in Navasota or Hemp
stead Lot. There may have been
other cases, but I didn’t know of
any. I think that the only reason
for the paucity of such incidents
is the fact that this campus is
patroled at night. The Campus
Security Force does a great ser
vice to the students and the rest
of the university if they are no
thing more than night watchmen.
But night watchman duty is not
the only thing at which the KK’s
are proficient, They also excel at
writing parking tickets, all of
which are strictly according to
the book and the signs. I have no
vendetta against parking tickets,
per se. The thing that galls me
is the fact that the parking re
gulations can be and are zealous
ly enforced, but almost no other
regulations or laws having to do
with automobiles and the driving
of them are enforced. I have
seen numerous parking tickets
that were written at 4 A.M., when
free parking on the campus
changes to required parking in the
proper lot. I have seen numerous
parking tickets that were writ
ten at 7 A.M. or thereabouts. It
is almost impossible to violate
the parking regulations and not
get caught. I learned this from
observation and the hard way,
and I gave it up quickly.
If the parking regulations can
be enforced to the letter, why
cannot the speed laws be enfored
at least to the spirit? If men’s
lives are more important than
someone's reserved parking place,
why cannot some of the zealous
officers who presently protect the
reserved parking spaces be div
erted to protection of the lives
of the pedestrains who outnum
ber all persons who use parking
spaces ? Why ?
A PERSON WHO DRIVES
recklessly is a menace to the life
of everyone who walks. He is as
dangerous as a den of rattle
snakes let loose at a yell practice,
and he is not nearly so predic
table as the rattlesnakes. The
ratlesnakes would probably run
from the students rather than
at them as the driver does.
I say that he doesn’t need to
drive on this campus at all. He
should be restricted from driving
on the campus for a calendar
month for the first offense. If
he does it again, he needs to
walk for a long semester. Money
out of a man’s pocket means
very little to him unless it is
enough to make him badly bent
if not broke. If he had these pen
alties staring him in the face he
would think before he took off
like a ruptured duck going some-
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where that is not over a mile
away. He doesn’t think now. I say
that this is what ought to be
done now, not tomorrow.
I hope something is done to
make him think before we have
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{By the author of “Rally Round the Flag, Boys!”,
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FOOTBALL FOR SHUT-INS
At next Saturday’s football game while you are sitting
in your choice student’s seat behind the end zone, won’t
you pause and give a thought to football’s greatest and,
alas, most neglected name? I refer, of course, to Champert
Sigafoos.
Champert Sigafoos (1714-1928) started life humbly on
a farm near Thud, Kansas. His mother and father, both
named Walter, were bean-gleaners, and Champert became
a bean-gleaner too. But he tired of the work and went to
Montana where he got a job with a logging firm. Here the
erstwhile bean-gleaner worked as a stump-thumper. After
a month he went to North Dakota where he tended the
furnace in a granary (wheat-heater). Then he drifted to
Texas where he tidied up oil fields (pipe-wiper). Then to
Arizona where he strung dried fruit (fig-rigger). Then
to Kentucky where he fed horses at a breeding farm (oat-
toter). Then to Long Island where he dressed poultry
(duck-plucker). Then to Alaska where he drove a delivery
van for a bakery (bread-sledder). Then to Minnesota
where he cut up frozen lakes (ice-slicer). Then to Nevada
where he determined the odds in a gambling house (dice-
pricer). Then to Milwaukee where he pasted camera
lenses together (Zeiss-splicer).
Finally he went to Omaha where he got a job in a tan
nery, beating pig hides until they were soft and supple
(hog-fiogger). Here occurred the event that changed not
only Champert’s life, but all of ours.
Next door to Champert’s hog-floggery was a mooring
mast for dirigibles. In flew a dirigible one day, piloted by
a girl named Graffa von Zeppelin. Champert watched
Graffa descend from the dirigible, and his heart turned
over, and he knew love. Though Graffa’s beauty was not
quite perfect—one of her legs was shorter than the other
(blimp-gimper)—she was nonetheless ravishing, what
with her tawny hair and her eyes of Lake Louise blue and
her marvelously articulated haunches. Champert, smitten,
ran quickly back to the hog-floggery to plan the wooing.
To begin with, naturally, he would give Graffa a pres
ent. This presented problems, for hog-flogging, as we all
know, is a signally underpaid profession. Still, thought
Champert, if he had no money, there were two things he
did have: ingenuity and pigskin.
So he selected several high grade pelts and stitched
them together and blew air into them and made for Graffa
a perfectly darling little replica of a dirigible. “She will
love this,” said he confidently to himself and proceeded to
make ready to call on Graffa.
First, of course, he shaved with Personna Super Stain
less Steel Blades. And wouldn’t you? If you were looking
to impress a girl, if you wanted jowls as smooth as ivory,
dewlaps like damask, a chin strokable, cheeks fondlesome,
upper lip kissable, would you not use the blade that
whisks away whiskers quickly and slickly, tuglessly and
nicklessly, scratchlessly and matchlessly? Would you not,
in short, choose Personna, available both in Injector style
and double-edge style? Of course you would.
So Champert, his face a study in epidermal elegance,
rushed next door with his little pigskin dirigible. But
Graffa, alas, had run off, alas, with a bush pilot who spe
cialized in dropping limes to scurvy-ridden Eskimo vil
lages (fruit-chuter).
Champert, enraged, started kicking his little pigskin
blimp all over the place. And who should walk by just
then but Jim Thorpe, Knute Rockne, Walter Camp, and
Pete Rozelle!
They walked silently, heads down, four discouraged
men. For weeks they had been trying to invent football,
but they couldn’t seem to find the right kind of ball. They
tried everything—hockey pucks, badminton birds, bowling
balls, quoits—but nothing worked. Now seeing Champert
kicking his pigskin spheroid, their faces lit up and as one
man they hollered “Eureka!” The rest is history.
* * * ©1967, Max Shulman
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