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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.”
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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.
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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. Young black musicians seem
Taj Mahal’s first album was
mostly old blues standards done
pretty much like the originals.
Since then he has become in
creasingly more familiar with
studio technique. “Natchel Blues,”
his second album, was far more
clean. He is at his best when he
stays in a country blues style as
he does in “Six Days On The
Road.” The “piece de resistance”
is “Bacon Fat,” a number writ
ten by J. R. Robertson and Garth
Hudson of The Band. It is one
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