THE BATTALION
Pag-e 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, November 6, 1968
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—Really feeling stupid is convincing yourself that it
is more important to stay up and watch the election returns
rather than studying for two major quizzes the next day
and finding out at 6 a. m. you don’t know anymore than you
did two weeks before.
—Overheard on election day—“You did right by vot
ing today, but after all it was your democratic duty,” the
Aggie said to the sweet young thing. “Well, it might be your
democratic duty, but it was my Republican right,” the
conservative cutie replied.
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They’re at it again. For more than a year the eight-
to-five residents of the new Services Building have watched
the grass in front nursed along.
At first it seemed that no grass at all was to be planted
and it had been decided to turn the tract into a weed test
plot for the Experiment Station. Betting was hot and heavy
and for some time estimates of the different kinds of wild
grasses and weeds on the front lawn ran as high as 47.
Finally it was seeded and yardmen worked long and
hard with yo-yoes (weed slingers) to make it look present
able. Water was applied at all hours of the day and night,
making the front lawn look like a rice paddy.
About August there was a rather uniform stand of
Bermuda grass and mowing and trimming took most of
the day.
Now, much to the dismay of the Services Building’s
occupants, the beautiful carpet of grass is being tom asun
der to lay water pipes under the sidewalk.
Par for the course will be that the hole will be filled
in a few days and grass reseeded, watered, mowed and
trimmed and at the first sign of spring the whole lawn will
be ripped up and a modem underground sprinkler system
installed.
Bulletin Board
TONIGHT
Handball Club will meet at 7:30
p.m. in DeWare Fieldhouse. A
clinic in basics will be held.
Hillel Club will meet at 7:30
p.m. in the Hillel Building. Serv
ices will be held at 8 p.m. Friday.
Finance Society will meet at
8:00 p.m. in room 3-C of the Me
morial Student Center. Business
meeting with plans for field trip
to be discussed.
THURSDAY
Dallas Hometown Club will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in rooms 3-B
and 3-C of the MSC. All mem
bers with tickets for Dallas
Corps party must turn in tickets
and/or money that night.
Weightlifting Club will hold
an intra-club competition meet
at 7:30 p.m. in G. Rollie White
Coliseum weight room.
Orange County Hometown Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the lob
by of the Academic Building.
Bell County Hometown Club
will meet immediately after yell
practice in room 205 of the Aca
demic Building.
Editor, The Battalion:
There’s been a lot said lately
about the spirit of the Twelfth
Man and I suppose this always
arises when things aren’t going
the best. However, this year a
lot more has been said because
of the rivalry between the civil
ian students and the Corps.
Well, at the Arkansas game I
was standing beside one of the
civilian students and he yelled
until he couldn’t and then men
tioned the “two-percenters” that
were leaving before time had ex
pired. Then this is what we saw
—a uniformed Ross Volunteer
leaving during the yell practice.
I imagine he didn’t want to be
labeled a two-percenter so he
stayed for the “Twelfth Man”—
Way to go, three-percenter RV.
I ask you, how we can ask the
civilians to turn out when they
see a Ross Volunteer leave be
fore yell practice is over? How
about the example that the up
perclassmen are supposed to set?
I agree that the juniors and
seniors should be allowed privi
leges but with privileges comes
responsibility and they should be
willing to do their part in sup
port of the team. What we need
is a united effort. The fish, soph
omores, juniors, and seniors—^to
gether; the corps with the civil
ians. But before we can have
that, the members of our elite
organizations are going to have
to pull their heads out and do
what is expected of them. How
about it, two-percenter ?
If for any reason this RV had
reason to leave before yell prac
tice had ended and I am mistak
en, I offer my sincere apologies
for my ignorance. On the other
hand, if there is no reason for
a man to leave his team, I’d like
to know what the deal is.
Gerald Witkowski ’71
excellent academic atmosphere
and the many extracurricular ac
tivities available to a student,
make an undergraduate educa
tion at Texas A&M among the
best attainable anywhere in the
country. The Graduate Student
Council wishes to acknowledge
and acclaim the great value of
many of the traditions observed
at Texas A&M.
The Graduate College has a
current enrollment of about 2650,
of which approximately 1600
(60%) received their baccalau
reate degrees at schools other
than Texas A&M. These people
have come to Texas A&M for the
primary, and in some cases sole,
purpose of obtaining an extreme
ly high-quality graduate educa
tion. While fully appreciative of
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the value of Aggie traditions,
most do not care to pafticipate
in many of these traditions and
none cares to be forced into par
ticipating in any of them.
Some of Texas A&M’s strong
est and proudest traditions are
associated with athletics, partic
ularly football, and it is because
of the insistence of many Aggie-
exes and undergraduate students
that graduate students partici
pate in these traditions that there
has appeared disharmony be
tween the graduate and under
graduate student bodies. One of
the goals of the Graduate Stu
dent Council is to remove as
many potential sources of fric
tion between the graduate and
undergraduate student bodies as
possible. As is the case in almost
every instance of conflict of in
terests, however, both sides must
be prepared to move toward mid
dle ground. The Graduate Stu
dent Council therefore endorses,
and requests, the following revi
sions to football seating with the
hope that this proposed seating
arrangement will be much more
acceptable to both graduate stu
dents and undergraduate stu
dents.
Anthony R. Benedetto ’68
Graduate Student Council
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim fiarlt
“WHO WON?”
Editor,
The Battalion:
The following was omitted
from Dale Foster’s front page
story on the revised graduate
student seating in Monday’s Bat
talion because of lack of space:
The proud heritage of Texas
A&M University has given rise
to many fine traditions. These
ftiany traditions, along with the
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