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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 19, 1969)
I r ll_ kr, . . Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, reoruary 19, 1969 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle mo rrmn un ro the graduate By MITTY C. PLUMMER May graduates, this is the eleventh hour for making appli cation to attend graduate school on a fellowship or assistantship. To dispel any doubts you might have had about making such an application, I have chosen to out line a few of the highlights in the golden day of a typical gradu ate student as you might find it next fall. M Why are you studying now? Your quiz is not until the day after tomorrow!” We Got Beat The day begins between 8 and 9 &.m. as our graduate student motors sedately onto the campus in his tastefully styled, well main tained, late - model automobile (who’s to say a '59 Olds is not tastefully styled?). The morning sun shines down as if only to re flect the manly hues of the care fully tailored sport coat (pur chased during an out-of-season sale at Sears). And the campus acknowledges his presence as undergraduates step respectfully aside and the stream of auto mobiles open like the Red Sea at his passage, once he has made the appropriate threatening ges tures at a rather weak looking driver. We got beat last night. The basketball team outscored Baylor, 86-74 of course. But we—the student body, former students, everyone who calls himself an Aggie or who hopes one day to do so— might as well have been backing a big loser. What’s ironic about the sickening spectacle that stopped the game, (see story, page 1) is that the A&M team’s per formance—one of the finest of the season—was over shadowed by the actions of its supporters. The game will be remembered by most not as the one in which Aggie basketball players showed outstanding ability as competi tors, but as the one in which Aggie students showed dis gusting immaturity as spectators. The exact details of the fight are murky at best, and apparently there are almost as many accounts as there were witnesses. The game videotape seems to be the only objective record, and without having reviewed it, we can see little or no point in trying to point accusing fingers at anybody. The game was being played in an electric atmosphere. The Aggies had lost a heartbreaker two weeks earlier in Waco, where the home team’s sportsmanship left much to be desired. The packed house here had worked itself into a vocal frenzy, partially because the Aggie team and many supporters were still smarting from the Waco treatment and partially because this was the SWC’s “number one game.” Such circumstances might explain, if not excuse, a fight between keyed-up players. They can never excuse mob intervention by spectators. The Juan Marichal-John Roseboro debacle of a few years back might provide an effective analogy for those who seek to prevent similar blackenings of A&M’s name in the future. Their fight erupted under similar circumstances ; but the baseball fans were far enough removed from the field that their emotions weren’t immediately translated into action. Unfortunately, the seating arrangement in G. Rollie White places students within five feet of the court’s base line. Self-control and five feet of space are all that sepa rate violent emotions from violent action. And in a minority of the student body, both factors suddenly vanished last night. And so we got beat. No. i In College Sales Fidelity Union Life Insurance Company 303 College Main 846-8228 THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax- supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. LETTERS POLICY Letters to the editor should be typed, double-spaced, and must be no more than 300 words in length. 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Members of the Student Publications Board are: Jim Lindsey, chairman ; Dr. David Bowers, College of Liberal Arts ; F. S. White, College of Engineering; ege Arts : F. S. White, College of Engineering; Dr. Donald K. Clark, College of Veterinary Medicine; and Hal Taylor, Col lege of Agriculture. at Texas A&M is The Battalion, a student newspaper published in College Station, Texas daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, September through May, and once a week during summer school. Represented nationally by National Educ Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Lo Francisco. cational Advertising is Angeles and San EDITOR JOHN W. FULLER Managing Editor Dave Mayes Sports Editor John Platzer News Editor Bob Palmer Staff Columnists John McCarroll, Mike Plake, Monty Stanley, Jan Moulden Staff Writers Tom Curl, Janie Wallace, Tony Huddleston, David Middlebrooke Assistant Sports Editor Richard Campbell Photographer W. R. Wright ATTENTION Soph's & Junior's A- D Pictures For Aggieland Are Being Made At University Studios, North Gate, Now. MUST Have Your Cooperation For Pictures To Appear In Yearbook. phenomenon that deserves look ing into, fills the hours. The re search, if sufficiently diverting, might even be pursued into the night or the wee hours of the following morning, thus account ing for the bags seen under the eyes of some graduate students. If the topic is of sufficient gen eral interest, he might even take the time to write a small book about his findings. There is the possibility that a professor will invite him over for a dinner of exotic game birds. The professor dines on pheasant while the student eats crow. And such is the day of the graduate student. LISTEN UP L_ the bait forum J Editor, The Battalion: THERE IS also a great range of travel available to the gradu ate student since various learned societies are sufficiently desirous of learning of his exploits that they pay his fare to various points in order to hear him speak. ONCE IN the office, thought fully provided by his department as an additional lure to talent such as this, he joins some of his peers in a session of “Monday Morning Quarterback of “World Problem Solving.” The discussion is interrupted periodically as one or more of the group is called away to class. So, May graduate, what more could you want? Fun, travel, money (adequate while in school, sufficiently greater amounts after the advanced degree), plus an excitement that I can’t describe. Maybe it’s knowing you are in the process of out-learning and out-earning your senior buddies who left. Maybe it’s just being in on something that undergradu ate school might have been but wasn’t. Anyway, give it a try. It’s a proven fact that you will be better off for it in earning power if not in the quality of your life itself. As I found myself seated in G. Rollie White Coliseum recent ly watching the football re cruits being presented to the pub lic, I noticed an oddity: there were no black athletes in the entire group. I began to wonder “why not at least one.” Surely out of all the sensational black athletes who proved themselves on the gridiron this past fall, there is one who could make the gruelsome Texas A&M football team. It couldn’t be because of academic abilities because at least one of the many black athletes, if not all, could keep up with both the academic and athletic standards of this university. Tru ly it could not be because of the racial atmosphere because the racial atmosphere here on the campus between the students is far better than other schools of A&M’s caliber. So why; what is it, can anyone tell me? people in his programs here at A&M; no, if we have to turn white in actions, speech, way of life and most of all remain voice less and without representation. A piece of the action will get things on the move. I believe in most of the traditions of Aggie land but the tradition of “lily white teams” (racism) must be eliminated. Can you do it? Most of all, can you dig it? Lance Phillips Senate Agenda The following items will be taken up by the Student Senate Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Li brary Conference Room, accord ing to Senate President Bill Carter: Committee Reports Old Business A. Sweetheart Ring B. Room/Board Fees C. By-Laws The black man is a part of this system, and it is a fact that even the most racist person here must admit. Constantly you guys are asking us can the gap be closed, and if so, what must be done to bridge the gap in our relation ship? Once again here is the answer—yes, if and only if the white man can dig and use black • New Business A. Special IMSC Resolutions B. Defacing of Public Buildings Curriculum Reform and College of Liberal Arts Referendum on Housing Muster Speaker Room Fees C. D. E. F. Tonight On KBI 6:30 7:30 8:00 8:36 9:00 10:00 10:30 Here Come the Brides Good Guys Beverly Hillbillies Green Acres Hawaii Five-0 News, Weather andS|« Wednesday Night Modi “The Oscar” SHOES 3un Stnriii umberfiitp men’s ta 329 University Drive 713/MW College Station, Texas 11MI State F 708 H< PALACE NOW SHOWING DAVID NIVEN ‘THE IMPOSSIBLE _ YEARS" .? At noon he meets his lady, and, if he is older, his lovely, well- groomed children in their color- coordinated play clothes that dis play both his wife’s originality and the family wealth. He dines on the sumptuous repast which gained its name and fame from a member of another nobility, the Earl of Sandwich. This is fol lowed by a fine cigar and a few moments relaxation before return ing to the afternoon’s activities. THE AFTERNOON holds a greater variety of activities than the morning. Perhaps an enlight ening lecture on a topic of interest or, perhaps, a casual investiga tion of a little-known natural Town Hall Presents... G. Rollie White Coliseum Thursday, February 20, 1969 8:00 p.m. Texas A&M Student Activity Cards and Town Hall Season Tickets Honored OTHER TICKET PRICES: Aggie Date or Spouse $1.50 Other Students $2.00 General Admission $3.00 Tickets on sale at MSC Student Program Office One daj 3<t pel cm/m 4 p.i NOW SHOWING Show Times 1:15 - 3:15 - 5:15 - 7:151 ELIZABETH TAYLOR MIA FARROW more haunted than In “Rosemary's Baby” in A JOHN HEYMAN PROOUCTOJ Joseph losets SECRET CEREMOIU and otarrino ROBERT MITCHUM PEGGY ASHCROFT PAMELA BROWN Furnishe Two or th 822-20; BAT! QUEEN ADULT ART SERIES | “SWEET SICK1 lor Flowers For The Freshman Ball See Your Dorm Salesman or Come by the Floriculture Greenhouses Between 8:00 a. m. and 5:00 p. m. On Thursday or Friday. Student Floral Concession ‘Run for Aggies, by Aggies” PEANUTS By Charles M. Schu PEANUTS I don't think you shoulp be INHALING ALL THAT CHALK DUST, CHARLIE BROUIN.. We si Wher Qi 1 Pai Piltei Parts Save Bra 2 Auto AC - Sta A] Mo; Tires Just other 220 E . .