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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Wednesday, February 25, 1969
John McCarroll
Bulletin Board
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
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As just about every employee of the Texas A&M Uni
versity System knows by now, folding, bending or spindling
checks is taboo.
The Payroll office has sent out a memorandom asking
everyone to be more careful, as it is causing a lot of extra
work over there, re-punching the automated cards. What
I would like to know is how anyone could hold onto his pay-
check long enough to mutilate it, as evidently some people
have.
The whole computer payroll fracas reminds me of a
story I heard a few years ago about an elderly man who
walked into the local bank to cash an Internal Revenue
refund check.
TONIGHT
Psychology Club will meet at
8 p.m. in room 6 of Nagle Hall.
The warden from the Ferguson
unit of the TDC will be guest
speaker.
Dallas Hometown Club will
meet at 8:15 p.m. in the lobby of
the MSC. Picture will be taken.
Class “A” or coat and tie.
The Aggie Wives Bridge Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the
MSC. Beginners, intermediates,
and regulars are invited to at
tend and play for prizes.
steps of the MSC. Picture i
Aggieland will be taken.
Listen Up
He strolled up to the cashier’s window and opened his
weathered billfold and removed a wad of paper. He began
to unfold the computerized card when the teller said:
“You really shouldn’t fold those checks like that—Uncle
Sam doesn't like it.”
‘Ma’am,” the man said slowly, “there are a lot of things
Uncle Sam does that I don’t like.”
He cashed his check.
Editor,
The Battalion:
This poem was written by Capt.
Joe Bush ’66, former head yell
leader, who was killed in Vietnam
earlier this month:
THURSDAY
Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post
4692, will meet at 7:30 p.m. at
the Post home. Monthly business
meeting for members.
The Gavel Club will meet at
7 p.m. in the YMCA basement
meeting room.
Tyler-Smith County Hometown
Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the
MSC Social Room.
Brazoria County Hometown
Club will meet at 8 p.m. on the
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A national dog food company has just announced the
“1968 Pido Awards” for people who have contributed the
most to promoting dog-raising. In addition to the “Dog-
dom’s Woman and Man of the Year” and “Dog Handler
of the Year” award, there is the “Dog Writer of the Year”
award.
“With th’ climate as sensitive as it is, it’s hard to express
our enthusiasm without fear of more criticism!”
It really disappoints me to learn that it is a man who
has spent most of life writing about—of all things—dogs.
I know that I’ve written some real dogs of stories and there
are quite a few television and movie script writers that
should have won the same award, except under less honor
able circumstances.
Luce Speaks Out
For Silent Majority
That vast, silent majority of college students who
don’t make headlines like those on page 5 may have found
an active spokesman for their non-cause.
A recent issue of The Daily Texan carried articles and
pictures on the visit of Phillip Abbot Luce, a California
official of the Young Americans for Freedom, who debated
Assistant Prof. Larry Caroline at the University of Texas
at Austin. Luce, who sports a manelike haircut and a
mustache, was active in the Progressive Labor Movement
until 1965, but left the organization when “it became ob
vious . . . that no matter how much we called for more
freedom in this country, what we were really proposing
was totalitarianism.” He now appears to be a major critic
of the “New Left, with high potential for reaching that
silent majority.
What’s happened to the world? Everything is sex . . .
everything. You can’t even order fried chicken now with
out Freud entering into it.
Try to order a plate of “second-joints” and see what
happens. You are corrected by the waitress:
“I’m sorry, sir, we don’t serve second-joints—how
about ‘thighs’ instead?”
The same thing is true of drumsticks. They are now
called, of all things, “legs.” Not to mention the order of
“breasts” that any 12-year-old can request.
What we need is for the Poultry Science Department
here to start an all-out campaign to save the young and
the weak from such obvious undermindings of morals.
State Rep Urges Black Culture Bill
Rep. James R. Nowlin of San
Antonio has introduced a reso
lution in the 61st Legislature ask
ing for the creation of depart
ments of Afro-American Cultures
in state institutions of higher
learning, his office reported
Ken Lewallen, chairman of the
A&M Committee on Black Stu
dent Affairs, commented that he
felt the teaching of black cultural
courses would help people to bet
ter understand the Afro-Ameri-
TO A COMMUNIST
American, American I’ll always be
Through all my life with liberty.
I’ll fight and I’ll die, if there be
need,
For the right to live the American
creed.
Anarchist, Communist, come face
me!
And one tough American you’ll
surely see,
I’ll fight and I’ll die, just as I
live.
My small life to my country I’ll
give.
America I love, try and take her
away,
And you’ll be sorry that you lived
that day.
For I'll beat you, and in triumph
I’ll reign,
And a free American I shall
remain.
Free I live, in God I trust.
But the arms of the free, they
bear no rust.
Come and fight me, and you will
see
Why America today has liberty.
We all love our land, we’ll fight
and die
Before your flag will be seen in
our sky.
Yes, I’ll fight for my country and
I’ll fight well.
I’ll beat you down, and stomp you
to hell.
Then I’ll return home and
American I’ll be
While I live out my life in liberty.
This expresses the creed he
lived and died by.
A Friend of Joe (Class of ’66)
(To many of us, YAF might still conjure up visions of
Young Republicans for Goldwater, the Junior Minutemen
or the Sons-of-Birchers. Luce does not consider YAF to be
“an extreme right-wing organization,” but sees it as “the
only activist group on campuses opposing the New Left,”
the Texan reported.)
Among Luce’s points were the following:
• Many administrators “are fearful of protecting the
interests of the majority of students,” many of whom "are
now willing to oppose groups that try to force their opinions
on them.”
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said his reasons for in
troducing the resoluf®g|i were
predicated on the fact that “many
of the crucial problems that beset
urban America today stem from a
lack of understanding and knowl
edge in the areas of Afro-Ameri
can politics, economics and soci
ology.”
can race.
“I feel the teaching of the cul
tures of Afro-Americans should
be taught in our state colleges and
universities, so that a pride and
dignity can be shown of the black
American,” Lewallen said. “I also
feel that in the future, A&M
should try to work some Afro-
American courses into its cur
riculum.”
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• If campus leftists were true revolutionaries, “in
stead of playing revolutionary games,” they would go fight
for North Vietnam.
Senate Agenda
• Students opposed to violent methods of changing
the present system should work with local political parties,
‘who are crying for young people.’
• Opponents of New Left activists “are not allowed
to speak because these young people feel their position is
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The following topics will be
taken up at a special Student Sen
ate meeting at 7:30 p.m. Thurs
day in the library conference
room, according to Senate Presi
dent Bill Carter:
totally correct,” and are “unwilling to allow the opposition
to be heard.” The New Left is “terrorizing student opinion.”
Those of us who haven’t yet reconciled ourselves to
the New Left’s assertion that the System must be destroyed
if social ills are to be cured, may see some encouragement
in the words of activists like Luce. The system may be
riddled with faults, but most of the members of that silent
majority don’t want to try doing without it; and with more
spokesmen like Luce, we may never have to.
• Old Business
A. By-Laws
B. Committee to Draft Letter
to Legislature
New Business
A. YMCA Resolution
MSC Resolution
Blue Book Resolution
Election Commission
Revisions
B.
C.
D.
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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
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Assistant Sports Editor Richard Campbell
Photographer W. R. Wright
ATTENTION
New Barbershop hours at College Station
Beginning March 1, 1969
MSC Barbershop
Don’s Barbershop
Northgate Barbershop
Will be open Monday thru Friday 8:00 to 5:30
Closed Saturday and Sunday
Rep. Nowlin said that several
of the nation’s superior colleges
of higher learning have created
departments of Afro-American
studies in both graduate and un
dergraduate divisions and are
presently graduating students
with degrees in this area of study.
Rep. Nowlin went on to add
that he feels Texas “has one of
the finest collegiate systems in
the country,” and that the addi
tion of Afro-American cultures
departments to state colleges
“would further enhance the stat
ure of this state’s educational
system.”
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—Chicago Tribune “. . . Impresses First As An Interpreter.”—London Times
Thursday
Feb. 27, 1969
MSC Ballroom
8:00 p. m.
Admission:
Student Activity Card
Town Hall Season Ticket
Rotary Community Season Ticket
or
Single Admission Ticket
Student $1.00 Patrons $2.00
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Will be open Tuesday thru Saturday 8:00 to 5:30
Closed Sunday and Monday
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