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Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, October 8, 1969 THE BATTALION John Platzer CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Mets Champs! What Next? National League Champion New York Mets. New York Mets: National League Champions! New York Mets: Champions of the National League. New York Mets: National League Champions ? No matter how you say it, it just doesn’t sound right. And, yet, as Casey Stengel would say “thems Amazins” are indeed Na tional League Champions. Considering such recent events as the American Football League’s Super Bowl win, Neil Armstrong’s walk on the moon and Tiny Tim’s marriage plans; “The Amazins” simply seem to be following a national trend. If this trend is allowed to con tinue, the news of tomorrow will resemble the news of today and, yet . . . FORT WORTH, (A&P) —Sev enteen TCU coeds grabbed two of Texas A&M University’s male yell-leaders, lifted them up and carried them away Thursday night during a freshman football game in Amon Carter Stadium. The action occurred in the third quarter of the game when the coeds suddenly rushed from the stands and encircled the bewil dered Aggies. The coeds, clad in purple mini-skirts, had trouble lifting the two yell-leaders who Head Aggie Yell-Leader Rif- faty Raft, who was undisturbed by the coeds, said that the inci dent was “disgusting” and de manded an apology from TCU officials. “I can’t understand it,” Raft said. “There I was standing right out front and they ran right past me. The girls’ lack of taste was disgusting. It was my most em barrassing moment.” Raft explained that the calm exhibited by the yell-leaders dur ing the incident could be contrib uted to “our past experiences with Maggies.” COLLEGE STATION, Tex. (A&P)—Parking spaces on the campus of Texas A&M presently outnumber the amount of cars by 8-1, according to Campus Se curity Chief Written (One-Bul let) Citation. “We have completely quit giv ing out tickets and the students will be allowed to park wherever they please from now on,” Ci tation said. “This is only fair since they pay the bills. Besides many of the staff like to park on the outside and walk in for the exercise.” Citation said that the prob lem had reached epic propor tions and that a solution would have to be found. registration fee to be paid by the university to any student with a car on campus. xxxx AUSTIN, (A&P) — The Tex as Longhorns went through their final full day of drills today in preparation for Thursday’s bat tle with traditional rival Texas A&M. “We have only a prayer,” Long horn Head Coach Winless Skein said in commenting upon his team’s chances against the de fending National Champions. The top-ranked Aggies of Coach Lotsa Luck will enter the Thanksgiving Day classic as 24- point favorites. A&M is current ly riding a 32 game winning streak and has won their last 12 contests against Texas. Coach Skein said that his Long horns (2-8) would have to turn in their finest performance of the season Thursday to keep from getting embarrassed. “I see no way we will be able to stop their offense. They come at you out of that drumstick formation and just beat you like a drum.” Read Classifieds Rail) Would You Believe? Fresh From The Gulf OYSTERS on the half-shell or fried to order Served Right Here on the Campus 5 to 7 each evening at the famous Oyster Room MSC Cafeteria l One 3<f 1963 C s ieed tri 946-46 7 6 I Horse 'Tail Ric HUNTSVILLE, (A&P) — A major traffic problem exists on the highway between Huntsville and College Station, a member of the Texas Highway Department to feel compelled to try their hand at what they consider more so phisticated music like Motown and Stax songs and even show tunes. Taj Mahal is one of very few exceptions. Taj Mahal is jus tifiably proud of his blues heri tage and he is not about to aban don it. polished than his first, and the new one is more polished still, without being slick or sterile. “Giant Step” is a bargain be cause it is a double album set selling for the price of a single album. The first album is Taj Mahal’s standard recording style. It all sounds very smooth and Bulletin Board TONIGHT Data Processing Management Assn, will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 2A of the MSC. Port Arthur Hometown Club will meet at 8 p.m. in Room 110 of the Military Science Building. THURSDAY Parachute Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 113 of the Plant Sciences building. Tyler-Smith County Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 3D of the MSC. Computer Science Wives will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Blue Flame Room of the Lone Star Gas Co. Dallas Hometown Club will plan a Thanksgiving party at 8 p.m. in Room 2B and 2C of the MSC. Brown County Hometown Club will meet at 8 p.m. in the second floor lounge of the MSC. Chemical Engineering Wives Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. at Mary Beth Brasington’s home, 302 Fidelity, College Station. FRIDAY Chess Committee will have a beginner’s class at 7:30 p.m. in Room 3B, MSC. Parachute Club will have a training class for those who wish to jump this weekend at 7:30 p.m. in Room 113 of the Plant Sciences building. of those wee hours of the morn ing jam sessions that have be come so popular lately. Guitarist Jesse Edwin Davis’ playing is a delight on this cut as it is throughout the album. He is well- schooled in jazz chording and he uses this knowledge extensively. He is a master of control, play ing intensely without degenerat ing into excess. The second album in this pack age, “De Ole Folks Back Home,” is- performed by Taj Mahal with out his band. There are several weak spots on this album. It is extremely informal and some things just do not rate album time. But other pieces are gems. His banjo playing and finger picking guitar style is just good old down home playing that is hard to beat. This set will not make it with those interested solely in cheap thrills. There is no assault on the senses. There are no fuzz tones, wah- wahs, or electronic gim micks. There is an abundance of relaxed easy rolling music that at the very least can serve as a good change of pace album. Cbe Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax- supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. LETTERS POLICY MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association The Associated Collegiate Press Mail i*; $6.50 per ful tax. Advertis subscriptions 1 year. All are $3.50 per semester; $6 pe ubscriptions subject t sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on The Battalion, Room 217, Services Buildir school to 414% Letters to the editor should be typed, double-spaced, arid must be no more than 300 words in length. They must be signed, although the writer’s name will be with held by arrangement with the editor. Address corre spondence to Listen Up, The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, Texas 77843. 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[Typingr, nericard enthusiastically offered their help. When last seen, the girls were disappearing through the North end of the stadium with the two yell-leaders in tow. No fight seemed to be put up by the two captives but desperate screams of “Who Wha, Who Wha” were heard. “We just can’t afford to have all these empty parking places near the buildings,” he said. “Its not good for appearances.” Among the solutions currently under consideration by Campus Security, is the shipping of 220 cars from Navasota to be per manently placed around the A&M campus and a $10 per semester said here yesterday. “The problem reaches its peak on the weekends,” Scoota Long said at a gathering of the local Edsel owners. “Every weekend its the same thing,” Long said. “It seems as if every student at Sam Houston piles into a car and heads for A&M, where all the action is.” Off The Record by Gary McDonald GIANT STEP—Taj Mahal A generation or two ago this nation’s musically talented Neg roes were to be found almost ex clusively in the field of blues music. Today this simply it not true. 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