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THE BATTALION '
Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, June 19, 1969
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
“What a relief to hear it’s the interest rate they raised to
At first it sounded like the minimum grade point
ratio!
Editorial
At the risk of being labeled a traitor to the present
generation, the Battalion would like to commend the
decision of those future Aggie athletes who decided to enroll
here instead of other colleges because “it is one of the few
remaining colleges that is not troubled by lousy hippies and
SDS and will not tolerate them.”
Craig Campbell, a very talented golfer and the son of
Paul Campbell, who quarterbacked the University of Texas to
a bowl victory over Georgia, visited our Austin counterpart
and decided against it because “he couldn’t stand all those
longhairs.”
This is not to say that Texas is the only university in the
Southwest with longhairs, but is has become a widely-
circulated barb that they harbor quite a few within their large
enrollment.
Freshmen footballers Mike Coy of Amarillo, Herman
Mauch of El Campo, and Fred Placke of Giddings have all
been quoted as saying that they planned to attend A&M
because it offered less of this student upheaval than other
colleges.
Basketball signees Ron Eeton of San Jose, 111. and Bob
Gobin of Perryton and trackster Sammy Skinner of Deer
Park have all expressed similar thoughts about A&M.
Is Texas A&M becoming the image of all that is pure
and lily-white? That is doubtful because even here in the
Brazos Valley there is quasi-corruption. (Re: SDS eruption
last year of its small continguent, and demands of this year
made by black students to President Earl Rudder.) The real
difference between A&M and other schools is that A&M is
steeped in tradition while other colleges have nothing to fall
back on when decision-making time comes for their future.
Although military training in the famous Aggie Cadet Corps
is voluntary, it is a guiding factor in shaping the university’s
thinking toward the issues now facing all American univer
sities.
Although change is a must if a university is to progress,
that change comes in many forms. Concession by students
and, likewise, those from administration need to be ex
changed in something other than a combat situation. When
you stop for a minute and retreat into some private corner
where there are no radios blaring or televisions on, you can
look back on the whole situation and see both sides of the
coin.
The students have a legitimate beef because they want
some say in the building of their future in the colleges and
the establishment and/or administration have years of expe
rience behind them to help temper their decisions. Admit
tedly, not all members of either side stick to their ideals.
Student becomes rioter and establishment becomes hypo
crite. Name-calling is cheap and the students remedied that
by taking the situation into their own hands. For the first
time in their life, the established authority of our colleges
had to walk across a swamp that they had never forded
before. Now at least the administrators realized that there
was indeed a problem to solve.
Thankfully, this problem has not manifested itself in its
strongest form at A&M because of these traditions which
many hoped would hurry up and die. These traditions serve
as a buffer between A&M and outside agitators.
One of the prospective Aggie athletes summed it up best
when he said, “It’s worth something to me to go to a school
where I know I can attend class the next day and not have
my education disrupted.” R.M.C.
By MONTY STANLEY j
ON OTHER CAMPUSES
drugs in the dorm. It was esti- 1 —
mated that at least 50 per cent contract get all those extra pledged the efforts of the school
of the male dorm students had g ra de-points. to its eradication. Here at Col-
smoked marijuana, and many Anyway, the resulting denial lege Station, luckily, we don’t
smoked in their rooms simply administration to get rid have any racism yet. Just ask
opening the windows, stuffing a Q £ «R 0 tsey” hacked off the SDS. any Nigra,
wet towel under the door, and They gathered in the quad and ★ ★ ★
burning incense. The little news began to search for a possible As has been reported around
item was inadvertently made se ige target. They marched up 20 times since last October, there
quite a bit more believable by an £ 0 secon d floor of one build- is still a big crisis at Texas
advertisement on the next page, j n g. an d swung on into a lounge Technological College over what
for a clever, pocket-size, Rolla- room only to find a prof in the to change the name of the school
butt cigarette machine. I mean, middle of a French class lecture. to. The main desire on the part
really, roll your own, in Boston? Some of the students reportedly of the students, it seems, is to
That s a bit much. ordered the prof and his students rid of the “Technological” part
In May, North- . . out, saying they were “taking of the name, while the desire on
eastern’s SDS over,” but another guy, evidently the part of most people that
chapter demand- flp * more important, apologized to count is to get rid of the “Col
ed that ROTC be Jfct the prof, stating, “That’s all lege” part of the name and sub
abolished from ». i]r / right. We don’t want to disturb stitute it with, of course, “Uni-
the campus, or at * any classes.” God knows, the versity.” One group of students
least stripped of ^ SDS wouldn’t want to disrupt decided to protest, but not in the
academic credit. an y classes. In any case, about presently accepted method of
When several 9:30 a.m. they assembled in the campus protest. Instead, they
ROTC members rejoined that, Interfaith Lounge, locked the sent clean-cut representatives to
contrary to rumor, baby-killing door, and refused admittance to the legislative proceedings in
waq not the only skill they prac- anyone else. They should con- Austin, who would be sure to re-
ticed in the organization, it was sider themselves lucky. Had they fleet nothing but good upon the
decided that maybe there should been at A&M and still not want- school, to try and stop the pas-
be a poll on the subject. The ed to bother any classes, they sage of the bill, which would re
result of the poll was that 80 per just would have had to wait till name the ranch Texas Techno-
cent of the students voted to after 5:00. Or, they could have logical University (these stu-
keep ROTC on campus. It was shared the MSC coffee shop with dents want it to be called Texas
found, however, that close 984 fellow angry students. Or, State University). And it work-
to two-thirds of the voters wish- they could have taken the lan- ed. Said one representative who
ed to remove academic credit guage lab. appeared in Austin to block the
from the course. For that mat- Of course, woe be unto them bill, “Everybody keeps telling us
ter, though, there are a lot of if any of them had their shirt- what a good impression we made
jealous D&C cadets here at A&M tails, or weren’t wearing belts with our soft voices, short hair
who hate to see people under or socks, or if any of them had and clean bodies.” However, in
real long hair, or . . . well, guess case you haven’t heard, the
they would have had to shake off name-change bill has been passed
the language lab, too. and it looks like the school will
★ ★ ★ be called Texas Tech University.
At Emory University in At- ★ ★ ★
lanta, Georgia, “70 hours of The following AP report, is
demonstrations, rallies, class dis- not strictly a case of campus
c u s s i o n s , restraining orders, news, but it sounds enough like
emergency meetings, rumors, it to make it eligible for at least
fears, and hopes, “finally brought this column’s very shakey defini-
about a reaction from the admin- tion of campus news since it’s
istration. In a signed letter, the from the U. of Oklahoma paper,
president of the university offi- Water pistol fights have been
cially recognized that “racism banned from the floor of the New
exists at Emory University” and York Stock Exchange. Not only
that, but a fine of $1,000 and a
6-week suspension from work
face workers who douse other
people with talcum power or dis
rupt business by sending up gas-
filled balloons.
MEMORIAL
(Continued From Page 1)
and plaque is being studied,” ex
plained planning engineer Rob
ert A. Jenkins. It might also in
clude a built-in bracket to hold
an American flag.
THE LATTER innovation is
being considered as the result of
efforts by members of the A&M
chapter of Alpha Phi Omega.
They placed flags at each of the
markers for Final Review. The
gesture was well received noted
Ron Smith, APO president of
Dallas. Flags would be placed
on Memorial Day, Dec. 7, Military
Day and other special weekends.
“One reason for re-designing
the monument is to allow lawn-
mowers to get close to them
without disturbing placement,”
Jenkins observed. He indicated
plans are for markers similar to
those that locate former campus
buildings.
Jenkins said no cost estimate
has been made for the project,
which might be an appropriate
undertaking for a class or other
group.
“It shouldn’t be too costly
though,” he said.
The physical plant official said
eight memorials are missing and
in some instances the tree and
monument both are gone.
A physical plant survey shows
the memorials extend from the
West Gate World War I memor
ial along Jones Sti - eet in front of
the iMemorial Student Center, on
Houston Street at the south cor
ner of Bizzell Hall and on Lamar
Street to Hart Hall.
FIFTY-THREE of the markers
were dedicated in ceremonies in
front of Guion Hall on March 2,
1919, as “A Tribute to the Mem
ory of the Sons of the College
Who Fell in the World War for
the Cause of Political Liberty and
Social Justice.”
Live oaks were planted Feb.
23, 1920, according to records of
the Archives Office.
“President W. B. Bizzell offi
ciated and Board of Directors
President L. J. Hart was the
speaker,” recalled Archivist Er
nest Langford. “A squad of four
cadets planted each tree, with
dirt falling around the roots to
the notes of the National An
them.”
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