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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Tuesday, December 19, 1967
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Holiday Hopping,
As Ags Head Home
Local merchants may say that happiness is Bryan-
College Station, but for most Aggies happiness will be see
ing the campus in their car’s rear view mirror as they
leave for the holidays.
That joyous Christmas and New Year’s break once
again heralds the end of another year, calendar-wise if not
scholastically.
The thought of home, the family, a girl friend, good
home-cooked meals, and late-night celebrating all but blot
out the painful reality of term papers, chapter upon chapter
of “catching up” and that after New Year gremlin—final
exams.
For Corps fish, the holiday means they’re halfway
home, the toughest part is over. I wonder how many old
army war tales will be told around the Christmas Eve
table.
For administrators, teachers and staff the holiday will
be a welcome break from eight to five routine. On Christ
mas Day most will don imaginary red suits to play S. Claus
to their children and Bonnie and Clyde to their wallets.
Everything looks warm, rosey, and promising but the
most important thing to remember is Santa laughs Yo Ho
Ho, not Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of rum.
And when you drive, that makes the difference be
tween a warm and a cold body.
If you think you’re excited about leaving for home
and about packing the car 48 hours in advance, think about
6,000 other Aggies doing the same thing.
And then multiply that number by 100 and you may
get an idea of how many cars will be on the road between
you and the safety of home.
You may get away with skipping tomorrow’s classes
to make it home sooner, but you can only “skip” life once,
and it’s easy to do at 80 miles an hour.
Take a little extra time, be alert, DON’T drink and
drive, and as they say, you’ll arrive alive.
We’d like you to enjoy many more holidays, and watch
the clock change in Time Square until Guy Lombardo fails
to host New Year’s Eve or the sun fails to rise in the east—
and no one knows which will come sooner.
Have a happy holiday season. See you next year in
Dallas.
Make - Up Schedule
ALL CORPS SENIORS
CLASS PICTURES
DEADLINE
DEC. 20th
Things are getting tough ail
over. Columnists are running
short of material and are having
to reach pretty far for something
to keep the advertisements from
running together.
Across the Brazos in Austin,
the sports columnists are momen
tarily suffering from a notable
lack of praiseworthy athletic
accomplishments to extol. Here,
where last-minute exams have
taken most of the laughs out of
a place where people don’t walk
Sound Off
Editor,
The Battalion:
I read your “open letter” edi
torial of last Thursday with a
good deal of interest. I searched
in vain for a logical rebuttal to
the aims and purposes of the
Young Peoples’ Draft-War Sur
vey, and found only snide and
sarcastic witticisms in its place
(“Bravo, well said, ye philoso
phers of omnipotent knowledge
and bravery.”)
Reading between the lines, I
believe I see a pervading fear of,
hatred for, the stated principles
contained in the survey. Reac
tions such as this never won a
debate, Gentlemen, and they can
hardly be expected to win jour
nalism awards for AM.
As I write, it occurs to me that
Tommy DeFrank was fired from
his job as editor of The Battalion,
and the paper was effectively re
moved from student influence, all
because of his “irresponsible”
journalism. Well, now, what
have we here ?
Your editorial of last Thurs
day was as irresponsible as any
I have read, inasmuch as you
made use of a counterfeit argu
ment technique in order to silence
your opponents without answer
ing their criticisms: If you can’t
fault his argument, then at least
crucify him.
It appears that your editorial
credo must be something like:
Irresponsible journalism is no
vice, provided that it is done in
order to defend established tra
ditional beliefs and prevent them
from coming into question.
Charles L. Hethcoat III ’68
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Editor,
The Battalion:
We are writing in regard to the
article “Open Letter to Draft-
War Survey” which appeared in
the December 14 issue of The
Battalion. We agree entirely
with your attitude towards these
“just and moral” students, but
disagree wholeheartedly with
your concluding paragraph. In
it you invited these people to
visit Texas A&M and distribute
their petition in the Duncan area.
Why do you suggest that they
visit only the Corps area ? As
civilian students, we are also in
full support of the policy in Viet
nam and those men who are
fighting there. We would gladly
welcome the chance to tell those
“peaceniks” where to go. We
strongly resent your exclusion of
the civilian students of this uni
versity who feel the same as we.
In fact, we shall go so far as to
suggest that you owe all the
civilian students an apolgy!
Allen J. Nutchler ’71
David R. Calvert ’71
Bert Allison ’71
Robert L. Henson ’71
David M.Prescott ’71
Editor’s note: The invitation to
the Duncan area was extended to
emphasize a point, not to discred
it the civilian populace of Texas
A&M.
* * *
Editor,
The Battalion:
Who is Steve Bancroft to dic
tate what anyone else should or
shouldn’t wear? Nobody, that's
who.
On behalf of the portion of the
student body that was recently
insulted gratuitously by Steve, I
say “Thanks a bunch, Steve.”
Doesn’t Steve realize that it is
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none of his business if people
wear hats in the mess hall ? Does
it affect him if people wear hats
in the mess hall? No. Doesn’t
he know that of all the twelve
thousand-odd students at Texas
A&M, not one came here to learn
a set of mores identical to his?
Doesn’t he know that it is the
custom in parts of Texas to keep
one’s hat on when eating in a
public place ? Probably not.
Probably he’s never been farther
west than Austin, and that was
to attend a football game. Only
his busybody instinct and his pro
vincial refusal to tolerate mores
that differ from his provoke him
to complain about something that
is none of his business.
Steve reminds me of the ox in
Ambrose Bierce’s fable that told
the ass that it should not bray,
saying “the like of that is not in
good taste.” When the ass
pressed him on this, the ox was
forced to admit “Why-ah-h’m. I
mean that it does not suit me.
You should bellow.” The ass put
the ox down, and Seve needs to
be put down, too; he also “tran
scends the limits of mere ef
frontery and passes into the
boundless empyrean of pure
gall!”
‘Good taste’ and ‘proper and
decent standards’ indeed! Leave
it to Emily Post, Steve. Decent
standards include keeping your
nose out of other people’s busi
ness.
Robert E. Bigham ’62
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Editor,
The Battalion:
Did you know that officially
no one is to park on either side
of Bizzell Street except faculty
and staff? And did you know
that a substantial number of stu
dents simply ignore that official
ruling ? So, do they get ticketed
for a parking violation? No,
they don’t and yes, they do. Now
how can this be? Well, accord
ing to the official explanation
put forth (regurgitated) by our
dauntless, intrepid, fearless and
bold upholders of the parking
code, “unofficially” students can
park on the west side of Bizzell
Street without fear of getting
that dreaded yellow slip, but if
a student parks on the east side
of Bizzell . . . friend that student
is officially in violation of the
parking code.
Makes sense doesn’t it? Of
ficially both sides of the street
are off limits to student parkers
and “unofficially” only the west
side of Bizzell Street is off lim
its. Would one be safe in as
suming our official campus se
curity police force policy on
parking violations inconsistent?
Gustavo De La Garza ’67
around laughing much anyway,
it’s us would-be “humor” column
ists who suffer.
Anyway, last week Bill Hal
stead, one of the sports columnists
at the Daily Texan, got tired of
speculating on the upcoming - bad
minton season and tried to inject
a little dry humor into his do
main, which is known, for want
of a better name, as “Halstead’s
Hornography.” (“Dry,” of course,
is a term for wine pressed from
Sour Grapes.)
“THE EXCITEMENT and
thunder of winning a Southwest
Conference Championship still
ringing in their heads, the Texas
A&M Aggies have been forced
recently into considering just
what they have gotten themselves
into,” he began. It got worse. In
fact, it got downright cute.
“Remember that the last time
the Texas A&M was in the Cotton
Bowl was 1941,” Bill continued,
following a couple of paragraphs
about “the Big City—Dallas,”
which has “more cars than cows,
real live streetlights, and indoor
plumbing.” Gosh, we remember
a few Corps Trips to Dallas and
Houston and even Austin, which
now has indoor plumbing too; but
of course the Cotton Bowl Classic
is a different matter, requiring
more polish on that crude Aggie
exterior. Right, Bill?
If you don’t believe it, ask the
Texas Exes of Uvalde, whose
advertising campaign “in coopera
tion with the Save Dallas Com
mittee” will offer “training in
Cotton Bowl Behavior” to Aggies.
This was the Basis of Halstead’s
work—the germ of an idea that
infected some 20 column inches.
YOU’VE REALLY got to hand
it to those exes. They aren’t
limited to the catty, condescend
ing wit that spawned the “Re
name College Station” contest.
Given half a chance, they can
smile through their tears and tell
Aggie jokes in the best tradition
of the sore loser.
Ah, but it’s the Christmas sea
son—time to think nice thoughts
about everybody—including horn-
ographers—and to wish full
stockings for all. Who knows—
if Bill’s a good boy, Santa might
bring him something to write a
real, sure-enough sports column
about. (And maybe he’ll bring me
something funny.)
Bulletin Board
TUESDAY
The American Marketing So
ciety will meet at 7:30 p.m. in
Rooms 3-B and C of the Memorial
Student Center. Guest speaker
will be E. E. Galloway, manager
of gas marketing with Texaco
Oil Co. in Houston.
The LaGrange Hometown Club
will meet at 6 p.m. in Room 223
of Dormitory 18.
FRIDAY
The DeWitt - Lavaca County
Hometown Club will meet at 8
p.m. at the American Legion Hall
in Yorktown.
The R i o Grande Hometown
Club will have a Christmas party
at Vera’s Paladium in Weslaco
from 9 p.m. until 1 a.m.
ATTENTION ! !
ALL CLUBS
Athletic, Hometown, Professional and Campus
Organizations.
Pictures for the club sections of the Aggieland are
now being scheduled at the Student Publications Office,
Y.M.C.A. Building.
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