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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Friday, April 18, 1969
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
“Does not seeing it really make it taste better?”
That Was The Day
That Was
Random thoughts while mulling over a day that began
with a special Election Commission meeting at 12:15 a.m.
and ended with the Student Senate vacating the library just
before it was locked for the night:
Yesterday’s story on that Commission meeting didn’t
include quotes from Student Senate Vice-President David
Maddox, who appeared by virtue of a proxy before the
group; and this omission probably produced an inaccurate
picture of the situation. Maddox pointed out that University
Regulations say Student Senate officers “must have a
minimum overall grade point ratio of 1.5,” and that another
section excluding transfer grades from the “grade point
ratio” does not necessarily apply. No precedents could be
found for the particular situation, and an advisory opinion
from Dean James P. Hannigan termed the grades of Senate
presidential candidate A1 Reinert sufficient “for election
purposes.”
The point is, there seems an adequate case for the type
of judgment call the Commission made, considering the
vagueness of the rules, the lack of precedent and other
factors. But it was unfortunate—and a little scary—that the
voting on this “judgment call” seemed, to a great extent, to
be based on pro- and anti-Reinert sentiments. It’s scary
because for a few minutes, while 1 much of the campus slept, a
few Commissioners'were in a position to substitute personal
preference for judgment. (It should be noted that Commis
sion vice-president Tommy Henderson, who made the dis
qualification report in the same “strict-construction” ap
proach by which he consistently had judged cases during the
year, was to all indications acting in good faith and without
political motivation.)
At any rate, there is need for an improvement in the
system to prevent this sort of thing from happening. Possibly
the proposed creation of a separate “Polls Committee” and a
revised Election Commission (the latter to be mainly judicial)
is a step in that direction. We would, of course, recommend
rephrasing of any University Regulations that aren’t specific
enough to avoid these sticky situations.
By MONTY STANLEY
A coed at the University of
Oklahoma put a quarter into a
stamp machine at an automated
post office on a street comer.
She pulled out the penny stamp
which came first, then reached
for the six-cent stamps follow
ing 1 , which, to her amazement,
kept coming and coming. “They
just didn’t stop coming out. I
just turned red and wound them
up. It was real windy and I had
my arms full of books.” Accord
ing to the Oklahoma Daily, the
young lady hit the machine and
punched buttons till it finally
stopped. While a staring crowd
gathered around, she took the
$80 worth of six-cent stamps
back to her room and called the
post office.
★ ★ ★
Texas Tech’s latest addition
to its rodeo is a calf-dressing con
test. Teams are •
made up of two
girls who dress
the calf and two
boys who hold
the calf while
they do it, then
push or pull it
across the finish line.
★ ★ ★
Two coeds at TCU entered the
“Sigma Phi Epsilon Big Red
Sports Car Rally” just for the
heck of it and won first-place
trophies in their division and on
the overall level. Their finely
tuned competition machine — a
’68 Buick Skylark sedan.
★ ★ ★
Remember the news about the
school-owned and operated radio
station at East New Mexico
State ? The station is reported
progressing very well, and the
immediate funds will be raised
by the dormitories on campus.
Seriously, doesn’t the idea of a
student-supported station play
ing student - oriented music
sound cool ? Or is it like a dance
weekend at A&M.
(“Yeah, that’s what we need—
something to do around here.”
Then when it comes up, nobody
cares enough to go) ?
★ ★ ★
A Hardin-Simmons columnist
reports that when girls at Vassar
College gained the rights to
have male vistors on a 24-hour
basis, their president greeted
the announcement with these
words of caution: “I will say to
you very frankly that we cannot
afford the presumptions that
every young man with an eager
desire to know a Vassar girl
better can come here with a bed
roll and set himself up in your
rooms.”
★ ★ ★
Washington State University’s
columnist’s comment concerning
the athletes at their rival school,
the University of Idaho: “It’s
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not that they’re stupid. Most of
the Idaho athletes are capable
of blowing music out of an oca
rina or carving peach pits into
watch fobs, but that’s the extent
of it.”
★ ★ ★
While various other schools
across the nation celebrated
April Fool’s Day somewhat like
A&M, with overthrown news
paper staffs, student govern
ments, and cafeterias, students
at WSU preferred to do their
celebrating in a different way.
It was reported that “certain
elements” formed a nudist camp
in the elaborate tunnel system
under the campus.
★ ★ ★
Like girls who have been
around? A coed at the Univer
sity of the Americas, in Mexico,
has been a barker on the car
nival circuit, peddled Good Hu
mor ice cream, hitch-hiked across
Europe, acted in the movies, and
worked on a Yugoslav freighter.
Her name, incidentally, is Carrie
Nation Mallalieu.
Besides this apparent variety
in its students, UA is unique in
other aspects. The big sports
story in its newspaper, The Col
legian, was about the Intramural
Marbles Tournament. The most
often played games in the com
petition are Lucky Knucks,
Holding Steady, and Hunching
Boston. The article failed to
mention whether the games are
for funsies or keepsies.
★ ★ ★
The University of Texas (the
one at Austin) has had only two
major student protests in its
history — that is, protests in
which students went on strikes,
filled hallways and buildings,
disrupting work and studies. It
may be surprising that the first
time was in 1917, the second in
1944.
★ ★ ★
From the wide, wide world of
miscellaneous trivia with which
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It is my privilege to have been
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Having been “brainwashed” for
the past eighteen years by my
father, Max F. Powell, Class of
’49, and my brother, Joe M.
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It is nice to know that there
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where people greet you with a
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