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By MONTY STANLEY
Angel Flight girls at East
Texas have made a uniform
change — the new outfits in-
brocaded
hemlines,
elude blue-and-silver
rank and high-water
two inches above
the knee. The uni
forms must have
brought an uplift-
in morale, too, be
cause last Thurs
day, they chal
lenged and out
marched the guys of the Arnold
Air Society in a drill competition.
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At the University of Southern
Louisiana, there is a celebration
called Aggie Day which includes
a race in which girls feed their
dates with their hands and a
contest to see who can dress up
a sheep the cutest. The coverage
of the event didn’t say what they
did to the sheep after they fixed
it up.
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Reports The Daily Texan in a
recent release concerning an ar
rest: “The raid on the house
on Route 7, Lake Travis, resulted
in the seizure of more than 5,000
potted marijuana plants which
were being tended by candle
light.” Now really, guys, that’s
a stinking pun.
One teacher at tu struck back.
In a class called “Twentieth-
Century Literature and Elec
tronic Media,” a film was shown
called “Confessions of a Balck
Mother Succuba,” which com
bines violence, sex, and televi
sion commercials, An unidenti
fied student complained about
the “dirty films” shown in the
English class. At the next class
meeting, the students saw a tape
of Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-in,
including a spliced-in section
showing the English prof, who
presented to that student the
Laugh-in Fickle Finger of Fate
Award, promised to announce in
advance any future movies which
“might offend the class,” and
dedicated to the complainant Bob
Dylan’s song “All I Really Want
To Do Is Be Friends With You.”
Also at tu, 10 grad students
set up several eight-foot tall
boards on the West Mall, with a
gob of chalk — for an informal
survey of what students want for
the new union building to be
built in 1970. Of course, not all
the comments expressed in. chalk
are directly pertinent to the
union. Various sidewalk philoso
phers have written, among other
things, “God is not dead. He
just can’t find a parking place,”
‘Someday the day will come
when night won’t,” and “Nostal
gia just isn’t what it used to
be.”
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Cowboys are apparently going
mod. In the Texas Technological
Ranch newspaper is an ad for the
latest — cowboy boots with
buckles across the top of the
foot.
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Minnesota Daily personal: “Ma
ture male grad seeks discreet
female roommate. For phone,
write P.O. Box 4121.” Think of
that first meeting when it does
occur. I mean, just how would
a guy “man his manners?”
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The Daily Cougar reports that,
situated across the street from
“the reported eighth wonder of
the world, Houston’s Astrodome,
is what could be referred to as
the eighth-and-a-half, or pos
sibly ninth creative cosmoplasm,
‘The Thing.’” It is a $10,000
five-ton mass of styrofoam and
two by fours, glued and bolted
together, occupying a lot on Fan
nin Street. Called a variety of
names, it is called by its builder,
an architecture senior, the “40-
Editor,
The Battalion:
To Walton Hall:
We who attended the Walton
Hall Retreat at Lake Somerville
Saturday, April 19, wish to thank
those who were involved. We hope
and feel that the effort put forth
on your part will help to bring
foot erection of architectural im
provisation.” It seems archi
tects the world over are a great
deal alike.
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Various professors at Rice
University have offered a series
of concrete proposals for educa
tional reform. These include an
end to all divisional requirements
like forcing engineers to take
freshman English, election of all
courses, pass-fail for the fresh
men and sophomore years, more
opportunities for independent
study — and the elimination of
majors.
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An ad for a nightclub serving
the University of Oklahoma fea
tures a bikini-clad, long-haired
babe and this comment: “This
clean, innocent, gullible Inn Club
waitress will do anything to help
you!”
the student body of Texas A&M
closer together as a unit. We
hope to see more things of this
nature in the future. We feel this
was a big step forward for us
in being recognized as part of
the A&M campus and wish to
express our thanks to you.
A Group of
Appreciative Maggies
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Editor,
The Battalion:
In the realm of A&M traditions
nothing is more moving than an
Aggie Muster. This 67-year-old
tradition, which started as a re
sult of a student demonstration
in 1903, has evolved from a well-
meaning but crude roll-call cere-
money into a colorful, glittering
spectacle of patriotic speeches
rife with accounts of harrowing
bravery and fortitude in Bataan
death camps and congratulations
for A&M’s resistance to demon
strators, disorder, and progres
sive change; all accompanied by
a military band, rifle squad,
bugle corps, and a host of ethe
real male voices. When I see how
far A&M has taken this ceremony
in 67 short years, I can almost
forgive those demonstrators
whose unjustifiable actions
brought it about.
John B. McAuley ’71
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Editor,
The Battalion:
With all the voting and cam
paigning going on, it seems some
thing has been overlooked. This
something is decency and having
respect for the feelings of others.
I am referring to a couple of the
campaign signs containing pinups
with double meaning phrases. It’s
too bad when someone from off
campus drives through and finds
phrases on signs with suggestive
meanings.
My reason for writing this
letter is to simply ask other
people to think more deeply about
their actions and its possible con
sequences. In my opinion, and I’m
not the only one who feels this
way, I would not appreciate my
parents, girlfriend, or sisters
coming onto this campus and
reading such phrases.
Rusty Sims
George Martinez
Warren Piette
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Editor,
The Battalion:
On leaving this year’s Muster
ceremony, I found, at the south
end of the Systems Building and
at the base of the front steps,
three one-dollar bills, neatly fold
ed together.
If whoever lost this money
would call me (845-5830), I will
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Council members also expressed
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versity Residence Halls.
“Now, as I understand you, you need to leave early because
your grandmother died?”
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be glad to return the found bills
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It is in the spirit of the Aggie
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