CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
CONFAB
“I don’t really need to leave early for the holidays, it’s
just the challenge to see if I can talk him into it!”
A Campus Of Sheep
“Sheep are noted for making paths in fields because they
habitually follow without question, never bothering to make up their
minds.
“The same seems to be true of Aggie pathmakers . . . The
pathmaker pounds the same ground, day after day, until bare ground
shows where grass once flourished . . .
“On the campus of a school dedicated to the creation of leaders,
there now exist the symbols of a campus of sheep.”
Those remarks are from an editorial in the May 18, 1966
Battalion. If they sound applicable today, then they’re a monumental
tribute to the immutability of Aggieland.
But two major differences exist between the A&M of 1966 and
the present: The appointment of a campus landscape architect, Robert
H. Rucker, has indicated the administration’s interest in taking campus
beautification seriously; and at least one student, graduate economics
major Lawrence Stelly, has launched a drive to further that goal.
Whether these differences can mean results, of course, will depend on
whether 1969’s students will be any easier to shake loose from those
sheeplike ways than in 1966.
The major drawback to this sort of crusade is obvious: it’s so
unglamorous as to seem hokey, or even picayunish. At many other
colleges, a headline like “Civilians Postpone Resolution On ‘Keep Off
Grass’ Plan” would most likely deal with controversy over marijuana
use. So far, that topic hasn’t even become part of the general
conversation, much less the goal of official student legislation here; and
certainly, there are many other items of more importance to the
improvement of this university. But as long as taking action on the
relatively minor goal of removing a few campus eyesores isn’t
preventing those other items from being discussed, why not take
action?
When Stelly proposed his resolution to the Civilian Student
Council last week, he probably had anticipated somewhat modest
approval, coupled with ideas on how to implement plans for eliminating
sheep-trails. What he got was a debate over the effectiveness of
resolutions in general, followed by a tabling of the motion for
committee consideration.
Still on Stelly’s agenda are the Student Senate and the Senior
Council. The former seems sufficiently concerned with those more
basic improvements that it won’t spend time bickering over the pros
and cons of sheep-trail policy statements; the latter could be effective
in reaching seniors in the Corps, where only seniors are allowed on the
grass.
But until somebody besides Stelly and Rucker shows some
interest in campus beautification, the trails will continue to cross-hatch
key areas like the Academic Building mall and the main drill field. Paths
on the grass, alas.
By MONTY STANLEY
Washing-ton State University’s
Board of Control has endorsed a
commendable idea that could
stand to be aired around here. It
is a proposal that, if passed by
the school’s faculty membership,
will allow students “to initiate
their own courses.” This would
enable students to fill their gen
eral curriculum with interesting,
worthwhile courses not offered in
the standard curriculum. This
representation of younger ideas
would give the student a more
meaningful say in his own edu
cation and could also throw some
much-needed imagination into the
field of curriculum planning.
★ ★ ★
Last week, the U of H admin
istration vetoed a request by the
SDS that Mark
Rudd, leader of
the Columbia
SDS riots, be al
lowed to address
the student body
on campus. The
SDS has also
been advised that it could not hold
conventions at either the Univer
sity of Texas or the University
of New Mexico. In any case, as
a result of these incidents and
other conflicts of opinions, the
SDS at the U of H has split down
the middle, leaving seven people
in the original membership, ac
cording to the Daily Cougar. The
split was reportedly between the
“old line anarchists” and the “pew
democratic centralists.” Looks un
promising for the SDS, at least
on the U of H campus. On the
other hand, how much harm can
be done by a split when the found
ing principle was anarchy in the
first place ?
★ ★ ★
At Victoria College, the pinna
cle of the social session was final
ly reached at their annual West
ern Day. The climax of the cele
bration was reported to be made
up of events such as the tobacco
spitting contest and the pie-eat
ing contest, hopefully not in that
order. It is rumored, incidentally,
that next year there will be a
Cool-Hand Luke Egg-Eating con
test. In all likelihood, it will be
followed by another picnic inno
vation, the Spontaneous Egg Toss.
★ ★ ★
Hardin-Simmons University al
so plans to hold a tobacco-spitting
contest at their rodeo this year if,
in the words of their dean, “The
committee could come up with no
better events.” Now really, dean,
what could be better than a to
bacco-spitting contest ? Hall
hockey, maybe, but then that’s a
game for city slickers. Also on
the agenda for this year’s rodeo
are a cigar-smoking contest and
a beard-growing contest, (that is,
if they don’t find out the recently
expressed “real reasons” why
students and professors wear
beards).
★ ★ ★
The editor of The Jolly Roger
from Victoria College inadver
tently named herself among the
group of which she was speaking
when she profoundly remarked,
“April Fool’s Day seems like a
special day set aside for fools.”
It must be recognized that this
chick has quite an amazing grasp
of the obvious.
★ ★ ★
Believe it or not, those clowns
at Tech — the Red Ropers — use
that bell of theirs at baseball
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games, too.
Also from Tech, a psychology
professor has forsaken the ever
present, overworked white rat in
his laboratory studies, and has
switched to prairie dogs. As a
matter of fact, he has just fin
ished compiling what the Univer
sity Daily describes as “the first
atlas of the brain centers of the
black-tail prairie dog.” In all fair
ness to the professor, however,
students at A&flVT
rather fight than
Psych 408
would still
switch.
★
★ ★
St. Joseph’s College in Indiana
recently underwent the same
change as A&M, that is, from
an all-male to a coeducational in
stitution. The immediate reaction
was slightly different, however.
The school rented a bunch of full-
sized highway billboards in In
diana and surrounding states, and
decorated them with this declara
tion: “Now we’ve got Brains and
Beauty—St. Joseph’s (Co-ed) Col
lege.” A&M could easily follow
suit, with a couple of minor slo
gan alterations. Like, maybe
“Now we’ve got Brains and, well,
Girls—Texas A&M (Co-ed) Insti
tution.” No, seriously, though,
discrimination against Maggies is
just another example of danger
ous bigotry (Really—some of my
best friends are Maggies. I just
wouldn’t want my sister to mar
ry one). Besides, on the A&M
campus, we can surely find bet
ter, more worthwhile things to
discriminate about than sex. When
you think about it everyone would
benefit from a good Female Stu
dies plan, if it were open to
everyone.
Listen Up
The Time's Coming Soon ...
CIVILIAN WEEK
APRIL 21-25
CIVILIAN WEEKEND
APRIL 25, 26
Editor,
The Battalion:
To the Class of ’71:
I want to thank all of you who
voted for me in last Thursday’s
run-off election. It will be both
an honor and a pleasure to serve
you as next year’s MSC represen
tative. I promise that I will do
my best to fill that position and
uphold the trust you have placed
in me.
Mitch Timmons ’71
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who will serve as host for the
convention.
SCON A captains and the areas
that they will serve are: Derick
Bonewitz, Houston; Taylor, Dal
las; Ken Fenoglia, Fort Worth;
Sam Garcia, San Antonio; and
Mark Satterwhite, Corpus Christi.
Mel Hamilton will serve as cap
tain in the Midland-Odessa area,
and Flannigan will conduct drives
in Tyler and Longview.
“Black-Africa—the dilemmas of
development,” is the topic for
next year’s SCONA conference
scheduled for Dec. 11-13, Lesses
announced.
“THE TOPIC was selected from
four topics submitted by the plan
ning committee to the executive
committee of SCONA, because we
feel that it is a vital problem that
is going to involve America more
and more in the future.”
Other topics presented by the
planning committee were “The
Problem of Student Dissent,”
“After Viet Nam—What?” and
“Latin America.”
Six possible roundtable discus
sion topics for next year’s con
ference were listed by Mayfield.
They are (1) the problems of
emerging nations, (2) United
States’ relationship with black
Africa, (3) the U. S. responsibil
ity in Africa, (4) tribalism versus
Nationalism, (5) black Africa, the
last frontier; and (6) economic
aid in Africa.
LESSER announced that John
Scott, special editor of “Time,”
magazine, was the first invited
speaker for next year’s confer
ence to accept.
Mayfield listed Dean Rusk, for
mer secretary of state; Eugene
Rostow, brother of last year’s
SCONA keynote speaker, Walt
Rostow, assistant secretary of
state for African affairs; and Dr.
George Sheppard, chairman of
African studies at the University
of Denver as invited speakers who
have not notified SCONA on
whether they will accept or not.
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