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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Friday, November 22, 1968
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
“ . . . Couldn’t this Bonfire be a plot by the faculty to make
us appreciate class?”
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About the closest I’d ever been to anything- like my
appendix operation was back in the seventh grade when
sugar cubes were still legal and everyone assembled at the
local high school for polio immunization.
When my stomach first began giving me trouble two
weeks ago, I went over to the University Hospital. There,
because it was Friday, were quite a few other students
complaining of stomach pains. We were lined up and a
nurse shoved thermometers in everyone’s mouth.
As she backtracked down the line she would pull
out the thermometers and announce in a loud voice: “There’s
nothing wrong with you — here, take these blue pills.”
Well, needless to say I just prayed that I was running
a fever, because it didn’t feel like Sbisa pains this time.
After a few hours it was into the operating room at
St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bryan and everything came out
all right. ^
There is possibly nothing more frustrating than trying
to recuperate from an operation.
Everyone is always trying to cheer you up. They crack
funny jokes and bring you hilarious books to read. They
turn on Jonathan Winters and generally try to make things
bright and happy.
Believe me, when you’ve got stitches running the
obstacle course around your abdomen there is nothing more
painful than to laugh.
It’s really not the laughing that hurts, it’s trying to
contain it that really causes discomfort. When a laugh
starts, it is in your throat, then travels the length of your
esophagus and finally is smothered in your lower gut.
When a laugh is forthcoming, you can tell, and try to cut it
off before it reaches your sensitive area, but to no avail.
This hurts even more because stifling a laugh down
there (especially if you’re a jelly belly like me) is like try
ing to pull the little tiny hairs from your nose without
making your eyes water.
One thing is for sure—if anyone trys to make me play
Santa this Christmas there's not going to be too many
tummy rumbling “ho, ho, hoes”.
Sign of the Times
Last night’s special Student Senate meeting was some
thing of a milestone in student-administration relations.
For the first time anybody can remember, a major proposal
has been explained to representatives of the people it will
affect before any action is taken, rather than being acted
on and then passed down from on high. The fee-increase
proposals explained by Howard Vestal make sense, and the
need for such an increase seems clear as well.
The idea that people should have some say in what’s
going to happen to their pocketbooks isn’t radical, of course;
but in the hazy world of students’ rights, such a change in
the administrators’ policy represents an historic shift in
attitude which student leaders here find encouraging.
What’s more, the give-and-take in this and in an earlier,
informal meeting with students on the proposals have
produced suggested changes which show the students’
thinking in the measure to be voted on by the directors.
The result, we feel, is a highly workable and agreeable plan.
We haven’t reached Nirvana by a long shot, of course,
but it’s not because the Student Senate and administration
officials aren’t trying. Already we can see improvement
from the days of the “public-relations lapse” that made
computerized registration a touchy point around here, and
the “new attitude” to which Senate Vice-President David
Maddox referred last week, seems to offer hope of bridging
the Acceptability Gap.
Listen Up
By MONTY STANLEY
Texas Tech has changed its
calendar for next fall semester
in a way that is unique among
state-supported schools in Texas.
School will begin -Aug. 26 and
end Dec. 20, allowing everyone
to be completely finished with
the semester by the Christmas
holidays. Depending upon final
schedules and dates of spring
registration, this will give the
student from 23 to 32 days of
vacation, at a time when he can
really make good use of a break
in studies.
If schools are to stay on the
present semester system, rather
than switch to the quarter system,
as many schools have done, this
seems a decent compromise, at
least as far as date scheduling
goes. It might be enough to make
the semester system worth hold
ing onto, which is good news for
those of us who get nauseated at
the thought of three sets of finals
rather than just two.
As a matter of record, it is
the considered opinion of this
columnist that Finals Week is
a subversive, malicious, premedi
tated attempt by “Them” to de
stroy what little peace of mind
is claimed by the American stu
dent today.
★ ★ ★
“Student Apathy?—Not Here”
was the name of the editorial in
the Del Mar Foghorn, which was
followed by a story about their
baseball team, which a few brave
individuals are trying to form.
So far, 16 players have shown
interest. Heck, that’s 6 or 7 more
than you really need.
★ ★ ★
One problem that has been
publicized in nearly every school
newspaper received by The Bat
talion is that of student parking.
Angelo State College in San An
gelo looked into the figures in
volved in their present problem.
It turns out that they have al
lotted twice as many faculty park
ing spaces as there are faculty
members while, conversely, there
are twice as many students as
there are student parking places.
The gripe, of course, is that stu
dents feel they should have at
least an even start in the parking
race since they do pay a parking
fee supposedly for that right.
★ ★ ★
The University of St. Thomas
in Houston is sponsoring a stimu
lating series of “screenings and
discussions” entitled “The Film
Revolution.” Six top-flight con
temporary film directors will be
appearing in Houston in the next
month to appear in the series.
Featured last Tuesday was under
ground film director Andy War
hol, in his first appearance since
his near-fatal shooting after the
premier of his last film, “The
Imitation of Christ.”
★ ★ ★
The big campus crusade at
Washington State University is
for a fairer pricing of gasoline
in the area. For some reason,
Bulletin Board
SATURDAY
The Industrial Education Wives
Club will meet at 7 p.m. in the
Cashion Cabin at Hensel Park.
The club is holding a Social Pot
Luck Supper for husbands and
wives, and members should bring
a meat dish and dessert or salad.
SUNDAY
The Unitarian Fellowship will
hear the Reverend J. Frank
Schulman at 7:30 p.m. at the
Unitarian Church, 305 Old High
way Six, South. Schulman, Minis
ter of the Emerson Unitarian
Church in Texas, will present the
topic “The Pope and the Pill,” an
examination of the Pope’s encycli
cal ‘Humanae Vitae’ (on birth
control), the effect it is having
on the Roman Catholic Church,
and what it means to people in
general.
Tonight On KBTX
6:00 News, Weather and Sports
6:30 Wild Wild West
7:30 Corner Pyle
8:00 TX Friday Night Movie—
“Calamity Jane”
10:00 News, Weather and Sports
10:30 Judd for the Defense
11:30 Alfred Hitchcock
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Pullman residents are paying 38.9
for regular and 42.9 for premium
gas, five or six cents higher than
the average price in towns only
a few miles away.
★ ★ ★
The Baptists have officially re
leased the Baylor medical school.
According to an AP report, the
Baptist General Convention of
Texas voted overwhelmingly to
sever its affiliation with the
school, so that it would be able
to accept federal and state funds.
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Rain on the night of a pep
rally failed to dampen the spirits
of Texas Tech fans the week be
fore the Baylor game. Said the
University Daily, “Rain wet down
almost 500 Techsans packed into
the intramural gym Thursday.”
It must have been a real rouser,
because “Echo chamber atmos
phere afforded by the gym made
for a deafening sound at times,
although the gym was only par
tially filled.”
★ ★ ★
Let it not be said that the
student activists never find the
real answers to any problems.
As reported earlier, there has
been much student dissatisfaction
with tu’s student union and Chuck
Wagon. So, a regular old student
protest was made, complete with
pickets, boycott circulars, student-
supported food lines and such, in
an attempt to bring the facilities
to their knees. This group includ
ed SDS protestors who stood in
the entrances calling anyone who
crossed their picket lines “scabs.”
According to a student checker
at the Chuck Wagon, the protest
was just great—it was staged by
the “nickle and dime customers,”
and because of it, “all the paper,
garbage, and other filth is out
side today.”
★ ★ ★
The latest in a long line of
bids for Tech’s new name—Texas
State University and Technologi
cal College. TSTUTC ? Well,
that’s at least better than one
name suggested for the Institute.
Editor,
The Battalion:
There are many pressing prob
lems that the Class of 1972 must
face. The direction of Texas A&M
University will depend on the
actions taken by the Class of ’72.
I have decided to run for fresh
man representative to the Stu
dent Senate so that I can take
an active part in shaping the
future of our school. I believe
in the basic principles that have
made Texas A&M the school that
it is today. I also support equal
representation for all Aggies. My
main goal is to do whatever I
can to build Texas A&M into an
even better university. Your sup
port of my efforts will be greatly
appreciated.
David Moore ’72
Editor,
The Battalion:
I have a problem, one which
I’m sure many of the girls in
this area share. I would like to
come to the Aggie Bonfire, just
previous to the Turkey Day Game,
but unfortunately I do not have
a date.
My name is Ann Fort, I’m 5’7”
tall and weigh 117 lbs. I have
long blond hair and blue eyes.
I am 20 years of age. I know no
Aggies that are my age, and
that’s the problem.
I live in Bryan, but have no
phone in my home. I live at 308
W. 27th, apt. 1. I will answer
any letters of inquiry sent to me.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Ann Fort
(This may be the only college
newspaper in the country to
have printed, in one month,
three letters to the editor from
girls seeking dates — four, in
fact, if you count the one from
Lynne Lizard and Patti Pig.
Of course, this seems to be per
forming a public service, and
that’s one of our goals; but it’s
gotten to the point that we’re
seriously considering changing
the name of “Listen Up” to
“The Dating Game.”—Ed.)
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