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4 t T P»f* 2 College Station, Texas Tborsdajr, Aagoet 1, IMS THE BATTALION Sound Off CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle The Batuhoo Ust weak I made my first visit to your campus. I am a stu- dent of the U nirereity of Texas at Austin and I wasn’t expecting too much out of Aggielaad. I had received a bed impression of Aggieland because of the tradi tions! rivalry between our schools and because of last year's Turkey Day game. To say the least, I was pleasantly surprised. When I came down Highway 6 and saw the view of jroui* campus from the north, my ill will toward your campus bejran to crumble. It is impressive and, as I learned la ter, full of 92 years worth of, well, I hate to admit it, glorious tradition. I watched my best friend glow with pride as he told me about the campus and its landmarks. • He told me of your M. S. C; the &2 American flags at Kyle Field; and the 52 trees at the drill field which made me respect you and made me treasure the good ri valry we have. A good rivalry such as we have is best built on mutual respect. Then on Thursday afternoon I went on a little tour of the campus. I was awed by your new library and I could feel the “Es prit de Corps” in the Corps Dorm area. The last place I went to on Wy little trip was to the Sys tems Building. Of all places on campus I wanted to see, this was near the top. I was almost sick at my stomach at the sight of the inside walls of the Systems Building. There must be 30>mi different names, signatures, dates, and other graf fiti i permanently inscribed on the walls. I was shocked. This ter rible sight just doesn’t make any sense. The only way I could make this mees fit in with the M.S.C., the bonfire, the spirit of “MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN" is to think that the Aggies are really Southwest Conference Chum pa instead of the Southwest Con ference Champs. Any visitor, who may have no other opportunity to see the Spir it of Aggieland, who visits the Texas Forestry Department Head quarters, may leave thinking that it actually may take four Ag gies to replace a light bulb. Now I’m not pro-Aggie, as an orange-and-white blooded Long horn Bandsman, ! am definitely opposed to yall <on Thanksgiv ing Day afternoon) .but I. feel that our rivalry should be based on respect. I cant respect some thing as Uw-Aggie as that trash on the walls. You Aggies pride yourselves on your “strict, mili tary discipline,” but the nerve center of your school’s operation looks as scummy as our hippies. As a final / V>int, you realise that it is easy to say “Dumb Ag- gie.” Maybe this is because you would let this trash accumulate for thirty years before cleaning it off. A copy of this letter will be sent to the Chairman of your Board of Regents. President Ear] Rudder, and the Association of Former Students. Maybe all of yall can "MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN!” See ya’ in Austin on Turkey Day! Jay Jackaoa The University of Texas at Austin Member, The Long kora Bead ★ ★ ★ Editors Note; The Syatems Building was built in the early IPSO’s, and to say that the Aggies of today (or any other time for that mat ter) are to blame for the defacing is not quite fair. According to Robert Jenkins, planning engineer with the Phy sical Plant Department, the build ing was left open and largely at- •tended at all hours of the day and night for years. ANYONE could come and go as they pleased at any time. The names and dates, if closely inspected, do not necessarily re flect upon the students at AAM. At the moment, a project is underway to find means to cor rect the unsightly situation, and retain the original decor of the building as much as possible, said Jenkins. --4 ■ J B M noresr 661 & ^They’re from another campus protesting our football Pope Discusses LSD, Marijuana Society has no more room for real adolescence, according to one authority. Ed Pope, extension human de velopment specialist with the U. S. Department of Agriculture, blamed such an attitude for much of the drug use and “youth revo lution” today. He said a youth doesn’t have time to grow up gradually at his own pace. “Youth are thrust from child hood into adulthood too fast in our culture,” Pope said in an interview at Texas AAM Uni versity. “They have no time to discover a real sense of identity.” But youths have always been searching for their place. Pope said. They have just quit swallow ing goldfish and wearing raccoon coats. Many turn to drugs for “kicks” and to help in their search. Al- thought they are not new, drugs are getting the attention today. Why? Pope said that through modern communications and the nation’s emphasis on science, youth know a great deal more a great deal earlier in life than they ever did before. From this combination of greater knowledge about every thing and leas time to digest it gradually, arise confusion, con flict and protest in all forms, from drug use to college campus revolts, he said. “It is difficult for young people to decide who they are and because of this they find all kinds of protest against lack of oppor tunity to grow up gradually at one’s own pace,” the human lations specialist said. "But it is unfortunate that the public is being scared to death of marijuana and LSD,” said P°P*- “They are scared to such a degree that they fail to learn about the positive achievement in research and therapy accom plished through their use.” Some of the supervised medical research and therapy include treatment of alcoholics and use in psychotherapy. Pope cited LSD research by Dr. Kenneth Godfrey of the Veterans Administration ' Hospital in Topeka, Kan. In one LSD treatment, called psychedelic, Godfrey found the patient presumably able to see himself in a different and more acceptable way. This treatment is used with alcoholic and psycho , neurotic patients. In another treatment, termed “psycholytic,” LSD is thought to lift the forgetting barrier so one may be able to work with the unconscious material brought up during the drug experience. Godfrey’s report said LSD and like drugs may, after sufficient research, prove to be a boon to the psychiatrist in the treatment of mentally ill patients. How ever. there is no question that this drug is not magical. It is a tool for well-trained individuals to use, Godfrey reported, warning that unwise use is likely to be the vehicle to mental illness. Pope said the main danger of LSI is having a bad trip with no one on hand to gejde the gser. “You cant tell how you will re act to the drug,” he said. “It de pends on personal makeup and the type of LSD he takes.” Drug use is a medical, psycho logical and social problem, the *P**i»liat said. No one is sure of the effects of drug misuse on any of these angles but “we need to work on the problem from all three angles.” At Hk Grove TONIGHT “The Heiress,” starring Olivia de Havilland and Montgomery Clift . ' FRIDAY “The Chalk Garden,” starring Deborah Kerr and Hayley Mills. SATURDAY “Take of Terror," starring Vincent Price, plus Chapter 9 of the serial. “The Phantom Creeps.” SUNDAY “Paranoiac," starring Janette Scott and Oliver Reed. MONDAY “The Dream Maker,” starring Tommy Steele. "Midnight Lace,” starring Doris Day and Rex Harrison. WEDNESDAY “A Raisin in the Sun,” starring Sidney Poitier. ”• Coffee Slated Honoring Hall Faculty and other members of Texas AAM will attend an ap preciation coffee Monday for Dr. Wayne C. Hall, University gradu- «kan and academic vice presi dent. He requested a leave of absence to accept appointment by the National Research Council. Member of the AAM faculty since 1949, Dr. Hall will serve as director of fellowships and advisors for new programs in the NRC Office of Scientific Per sonae! in Washington, beginning Sept 1. The coffee will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday in the Memorial Student Center ballroom. It is xpon sored by a seven-member Wayne Hall Appreciation Com mittee including Melvin R. CalH- ham. M. L. Greenhut, Richard A. Geyer, H. 0. Hartley. David W. Roe berg, Charles H. Samson and Johannes Van Over beak. The committee emphasised that the coffee is open to all employees of the University system. • Vail joined the AAM faculty as assistant professor of plant physiology, was promoted to pro fessor in 1964 and became depart ment head in 1968. He was named xraduate dean in I960 and also academic vice president in 1966. THE BATTALION t Opinion expressed tn The Battalion are those of the student writers only. The • Battalion is a non tfix-supported non profit, eelf-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper.' r- ■ ■■ . . - . . . - ' i . i i. Mrtnhrn of th* Student Publication* Board are: Jim ‘LtaSsey, rbainaaa; Dr. DavM Bow*r». C<>ll»*» of Liberal Art*: F. S. Whit*. Colics* of Kactn«rrine: Dr. Robert g. * Vatorinarr Madtrin* and Hal Taylor. Cal- Rapraaoatod setioaally by >1 •wvfsm. la*.. Nov York cRr. Francisco. ■anmai Mucauonai A<Jr*rtt*ln* Chicago. La* Sagelm aad Baa Th* Associated Pram t* catitted aadwtrat* to th* u** far jXe.hV'iilif— : r r, ■oooad-Oaw pbatasa ssM at Oolhse Station. Toa*. New* eon tH button* may bo ■ w at tha eStertal Bulldtay. Par nd*artl*ln« or d*U Tttm. Cottas* of Vi tase of AsricoKur*. by totapboaias MS-SSIS . „ Hama IIT, Sir item 4rMvary sail S4S441S. John McCarroU tell you what Pd do 9 * I i The Battalion, a itaiaat new* pa per at Ten** AAM to ■abitakaS is Caitage Sutton Texas daily seaspS Saturday, issiar. *nd Monday, aad hslidar period*. Soptembor through May. aad «a^ a Psdi dertag »uana*r «ehoaL MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association MaU rahatripttaa* are $SJ# par year; SSES par fall year. All ; IS par rrkxrl KDiTOR JOHN McCARROLL Reporters Mike Williamson, Hank Mills Heard a funny Btory on the way to the typewriter this morning about two fellows who got locked in the library the other night r »[ Senna that since there is so much moving going on over .there that something like that wag bound to happen Anyway the Btory goes that these two student* were work ing lata back in the stacks of the old library when one of them noticed that it was past midnight . ^ buxxer that usually signals eloeing-time must have been disconnected during the moving procedures and by the time thsg noticed the time, it was about 12:06, just about the same time the light* went out. After a moment or two for silent prayers, the two ftom one d ? or to ^ next trying to find a way out With no success they finally remembered what Alexander Graham Bell invented and called the campus security office to tell of their piiRht Feeling a little safer by receiving reassuring news that representatives from the campus security office would be therein Seconds they waited, and waited ... and waited .. uked what the delay was all about They were once again assured that their saviors w * re way, but a little disgruntled about being called out at that time of the night. Sure enough the two trapped students, feeling a* if I^ ly * e4UTh * d *°r another exit that had not been tried before. 0ne door ^ had not tried in their first futile attempt at escape—one marked “For Emergency Use a»*vt*' 00 *** this was emergency enough for anyone. Here they were already frightened by the thought ^♦k lng ^ ^ there with Socrates and Homer and the rest of them, they naturally did the only thing that was open to them. TW cautiously opened the door ... nothing happened. owniniTt^ them n e lk e * a . 8T ^ aJ1 room with another door SDk!? • .wellthey didn t know, but anything was bet- of getting a thorough dressing down by theK.K. s or spending the night there. for ^ 4cr,imbled for their last hope It openid?"* * 1 then one of them turned the knob. ♦w doo f ? pened and so did all hell for that matter, alarni ^ tnpped the ear-piercing, nerve shattering burglar ♦k.*^ inK * mo ^ nlifirh f ^d •afoty they did the only thing that two scared students could do: thev sprinted for the Iu!i y ♦n, tfc f ir ^ and aped away into the night with the alarm still clanging behind them. ^ By the way, they were both over 30 years old . .. .Odl ,ff3Ti.O MJ i( ■a an,g rfriv BUSIER AGEtffcY* 31 ’ 8i REAL ESTATE • INSURANCE F.H.A.—Vatvraaa mmt FARM tk HOMS SAVINGS ASSOCIATION Haw# Of fie#: NtvaAs, M* 2628 Texas Ava. (la EMgactaat) 648-2788 Call 822-1441 Allow 20 Minutes „ Carry Out or Eat-In ’ - t T : “ ! 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