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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Thursday, February 8, 1968 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Mike Plake Bowl Fund Split Windfall For A&M The University of Alabama and Texas A&M recently split almost $500,000 from their 1968 participation in the Cotton Bowl. A&M’s share of the receipts should amount to about $100,000 after splitting the rest with the Southwest Con ference. The hundred grand came as a bonus to the school, especially when the path to Dallas was so rugged and un certain until after Turkey Day. We’re not sure how the money will be utilized but we would like to make a few suggestions. The new addition to Cushing Memorial Library will provide space for a million books, yet the university pres ently owns less than half that number. A donation of about Ijalf the bonus funds, in the name of this year’s winning football team and coach, could buy about 5,000 books. Assuming the Athletic Department will handle the money, appropriate since they won it with determination and sweat, such a gift would provide a lasting and fitting tribute, and “Cottton Bowl Room” of the library. Some of the money could be used to renovate and add to the popular handball courts, renovate Downs Natatorium, build a mile asphalt track for students and staff and pur chase additional equipment in all sports areas. Football scholarships seem inherent in receiving the gate receipts, with the spoils going to the players, thus, only a few suggestions of how the remainder could be utilized for everyone’s benefit. A sum of $50,000 would seem to satisfy this need, and, We hope officials evaluate all aspects of athletics when allocating the money and provide not only for the future but for improvement of the present. 1984: Year Of The Comeback “It’s for civilian wear!” Battalion Surveys Cadets Oppose Higher Fees By BOB PALMER Battalion Staff Writer Cadets feel that the $75 charged for uniforms of Drill and Cere mony Cadets are “excesssive, un fair and an attempt to run off D&C cadets,” according to a Bat talion survey. Reaction varied as to what a fair cost should be, but, of the 225 cadets polled, 111 said $50 per semester. The survey also indicated that several hundred Aggies could re turn to the Corps if the fees were reduced. THE CADETS were vehemently opposed to any increase over the present fee. The administration has since announced that no in crease is planned and will remain $75 through the fall of 1968. The administration, however, has not indicated that a reduction is possible. The effect of the current fee has angered many cadets. “The D&C fee is outrageous and uncalled for,” said one cadet. “The school did not go broke when D&Cs paid no fees and I don’t think it’s going to go broke now.” THE D&C FEE should be low enough to afford cadets unquali fied for contracts a fair chance to stay in the only good part of this school.” Other cadets noted that with the increased limitation of con tracts, the number of contract ca dets would decrease. With a D&C fee forcing non-contract Aggies out, the Corps would become no thing more than an overgrown “fish drill team.” “There are not enough contracts to fill all the leadership positions in the Corps, therefore D&C men are needed for these positions. I feel that increasing the fee would eliminate or certainly discourage many of these needed men from remaining in the Corps,” a cadet declared. “IF THINGS stay like they are, A&M will be a civilian school,” he continued. “The Corps needs D&Cs to in crease its size. Hundreds of Ag gies want to be in the Corps but can’t qualify for a contract or afford high D&C fees.” Another cadet pointed out that D&C men are just as much of an “Aggie” as those with con tracts and every effort should be made to retain them. “If A&M expects to have a Corps of Cadets in the future, the D&C fee should be lowered, not raised,” still another cadet said. “D&Cs are important to the Corps and even the rise to $75 scared quite a few people off. I think that the Corps is important to anybody, and people unable to pay for uniform rental should not be deprived of the privilege.” “A REASONABLE price for D&C fees was $50. With an in crease there will be fewer and fewer D&Cs. The Corps will get smaller. This is a long range plan to eliminate the Corps at A&M,” the Cadet charged. Many cadets also indicated in the survey that D&C Aggies were being persecuted. “The military advisors are try ing to run the D&C’s out of the Corps,” one commented. “Being a member of the Corps is an unmistakable honor, the Cadet Corps has heaped honors on A&M. To extort, that is to in crease a charge on uniforms year after year, an organization that only brings credit to the Univer sity is criminal,” he went on. “IT AIN’T fair, I quit,” one cadet summed up the frustration of the D&Cs. Many Aggies attacked D&C fees on the principle that it left the Corps only to the rich. “The A&M Corps of Cadets has through the years been an insti tution completely lacking any class distinction, appealing to rich and poor alike. “With increasing D&C fees the Corps will soon be come an exclusive club eliminating those members who would not qualify for a contract and who were in a lower economic group, thus denying the advantages of the Corps to them and denying the Corps the benefit of their membership.” faced with either getting an Army or Air Force contract, becoming a D&C cadet or going civilian. “I feel that raising the D&C fee will make it impossible for many Corps members to remain. This charge puts Corps member ship on a financial basis of quali fication which is unfair.” One cadet summed up the feel ing- of most of the sophomores THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. 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The Battalion, published in Colle Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association EDITOR CHARLES ROWTON Managing Editor John Fuller News Editor John McCarroll Sports Editor Gary Sherer Editorial Columnist Robert Solovey Features Editor Mike Plake Staff Writers Bob Palmer, John Platcer, / Mike Wright Photographers Russell Autry, Mike Wright “I love the Corps, but if I can’t get a contract, I would still stay in if a more reasonable fee would be charged.” Transplants are becoming old hat. Heart transplants are being performed the world over. Kidney transplants are also becoming more numerous. It would not be surprising in the future to see successful brain transplants . . . Our story begins in 1984, an election year. THE PLOT: A powerful Tex an has been elected to the Presi dency. A southern ex-governor, whom we shall call George Wall, has waged a terrific campaign against the Texan. He has dis rupted the GOP, taking most of their votes with him, and has lost the election by fifteen elec toral votes. The despair of defeat has over come the candidate. He suffers a stroke. Medical technology be ing what it is, the doctors recom mend an immediate brain trans plant. With a new brain, the can didate will forget the deep de spair, and become a healthy, bigoted politician once again. The first scene: A hospital room. Wall is resting, in a coma. He thinks. DARN IT. Just fifteen votes. One stop-over, one last television dee-bait could have swung it. Darn it all.” More thinking. “I almost made it. Me, a southern Dark Horse, almost made it to the Presidency. A third party candidate. The Mormons, the Catholics, the Klan —they all supported me!” “Everyone thought I was only trying to throw the election to the House. And when they real ized the Republican split, it was too late. I already had their votes!” “You know,” he ponders, “I really believe the people sincerely wanted me. Not the politicing, the stump-jumping. The real me. I think they were finally begin ning to know me for what I am.” “AND I would have been a good President, too. I would have THE SOCIAL FRATERNITY OF PU 2)J la Si tc^ma Announces Spring Rush FEBRUARY 12-17 Rush is open to all Freshmen, Sophomore, and Junior students in good standing with Texas A&M University. Those interested should send a self-addressed stamped post card to: > PHI DELTA SIGMA Box 4993 College Station, Texas Post cards must be in on or before Saturday, February 10. Instructions will be sent by return mail. kept my promises. A fried chicken in every kitchen. A Southern Baptist Hymnal in every home. White and colored toilets. Every thing!” He rolled over on his side. “Think of the family name. Burleen as Governor at home. Me the President. And George Jr., as soon as he graduates, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court!” Two nurses glide into the room. They transfer him to a hospital cart. On the way to the operating room, a red light flashes on the rear of the cart every fifteen seconds. A green light on the front flashes the entire journey. On it is a placard, which reads: “George Wall for President, ’84, ’85, Forever.” As Wall is wheeled into the operating room, which is filled with electronic instruments, doc tors, and nurses, he loses confi dence. The despair returns. “WELL, I couldn’t have won it anyway. Why should I keep on thinking about it now ? Noth ing really matters anymore. Heck. I think I’ll just give up.” The doctor speaks to an aide. “Remember, watch the oscillo scope readings very carefully. A brain transplant is a touchy oper ation.” The candidate stopped his thoughts. “What’s that you say ? A brain transplant? Hey, that’s right. They’ve been having those things right along. I guess I just over looked them during the rush of the campaign.” He ponders the significance a brain transplant could have to his career. “Say, how about that. With a new brain, I could plan an entire ly new approach to a new cam paign. I could make a come-back! Hey, they’re going to give me a Shades of Hi second chance! Klan! “Wait a minute now. Whatkinj of brain are they going to gin me ? Goodness gracious alive, I hope they give me a gooi clean Southern brain. Why, \»i|i that, I know I could win thenej time.” Tears of hope stream frm the candidate’s closed eyelids. Hi mind shifts to future plans. A COMMENT from the doct» shifts it back. “What’s that? My donori identity? A SOUTHERNEE: Great Scott, a Southern Brit for me! Oh, Lord, if this is tnn, I’ll give electricity to Tuskegi Institute.” “You say he’s from Void Com. ty, Mississippi? Hey, now. Hn couldn’t — that wouldn’t be Ben Brene, would it? But I guessj could be. I knew he’d gotten sin during the campaign, but I didni realize it was that serious. Hi comes from down there sow. where, though. And he’s alwiji had a pretty good mind. Yes,li could be the man, at that." “Man, that’s courage. Thafi class. That’s zeal! Giving kj heart to the next President )| the United States. How alon • that.” “WHAT’S THAT again?" Tk t name broke up the candidatei train of thought. I know he wii the Nobel Peace Prize. I thid it was a darn nice thing, to gin it to a football coach. What it you mean, I’m wrong? Yoa'n wrong! This stuff you gave m must have affected my hearii| What did you say ? Martin Laths Kind? !!” “Why you lousy hippocritei You knew it all the time. Well heck with you. I won’t take It crummy brain. I’ll force mystll to reject it. I’ll die first!” THE Thumb L'ollego St i Degree Candidates in: B.S. B.S. B.S. B.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. 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