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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
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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.
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^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.
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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 . ..
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