Students Had Better
Start Talking
If three events of last week are any
indication, students had better start talking.
The three in particular:
• On Wednesday night, at the invitation
of the Civilian Student Council, A&M
President Earl Rudder dropped by four
civilian residence halls just to talk informally
with students living there.
• That same night, on another part of
the campus, members of the A&M chapter of
the American Association of University
Professors expressed a desire to invite
students to chapter meetings for the sole
purpose of simply hearing what they had to
say.
• Then Thursday night the Student
Senate, without a dissenting vote, approved
plans to launch “Operation Feedback,” a
program that sends teams of two or three
senators armed with student opinion
questionnaires into every dormitory on
campus in an effort to find out what is on the
student body mind.
Here then are representatives of the
administration, faculty and student govern
ment all trying to establish some kind of
communication link with the “silent
majority” of people on this campus, the
students.
As our columnist Monty Stanley com
mented, “this year the mountain comes to
Mohammed.” And we commend these
mountain-movers.
But by the same token, the mountain
could just pass Mohammed by, if he doesn’t
speak up and acknowledge its presence.
Communication, to be meaningful, must
stimulate some response. Otherwise it is
reduced to the level of useless noise.
So if you want to change something, say
something, “silent majority.” You’ve got
some people listening to you who can help.
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Editor:
I was just reading the letter
to you from Robert A. Petty,
Ernie Stern, and Tom Tamez that
appeared in the Tuesday, Nov. 4
edition of The Battalion.
These gentlemen were appalled
by the small showing of Aggies
at the airport who greeted the
team after the last game. They
are wondering ‘what things are
coming to’ and how ‘AGGIES’
could not show support for the
team when the ‘going is rough.’
acknowledgment of appreciation.
In my opinion, it is not Aggies
who have failed to support the
team, but the team who has failed
to respond to the undying loyalty
of the student body. I did not go
out to the airport, nor am I likely
to again as long as the football
team and coaches give the ap
pearance of caring less whether
I, or any other Aggies for that
matter, support them.
Mrs. L. Rohrbough
College Station
pel-mission from the corps in or
der to attend.
If a lot of people did not turn
out at the airport for the same
reason I did not, it was not be
cause the “going got rough.” I
was one of those hundreds who
turned out at the airport after
the Army game, after waiting
when the plane was late, only to
see the entire team and the
coaches, with the exception of
two players, get off the plane
looking like the face of death
itself, not looking at, smiling at,
or waiving at anyone of the ad
miring crowd.
When I go out to congratulate
someone for a job well done, I
expect at least a smile or some
Editor:
It is the stated position of this
University that all students, ci
vilian and cadet, are a part of
the University and its activities;
yet in the “Invitation,” published
in the Nov. 6 issue of The Bat
talion, there is an obvious belief
on the part of some that this is
not so. The “invitation” expressed
that, “The Corps of Cadets wishes
to invite ...”
From this statement it appears
that the memorial is the private
property of the corps, and that
the civilian population of this
University must receive official
May I point out that some of
those names on that memorial
are the names of civilians, one
of whom is my brother; and I
resent the attitude displayed by
the corps that this memorial to
all Aggies is under their private
jurisdiction.
May it also be pointed out that
this University boasts of har
monious cooperation between ci
vilians and corps, yet when such
statements as these are presented
it would appear as if this were
not true.
I am proud to be an Aggie and
I think this is a great school;
but I think that such articles as
“Invitation” are an insult, not
only to the entire civilian student
body, but to the entire school as
well.
David Hugh Russell
Activities
Bulletin Board
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dents this weekend. The program
i& arranged by the Student Senate
Welfare and Life Committees and
is in its second year.
TONIGHT
Chess Committee will meet at
7:30 p.m. in Room 3B of the
MSC.
MONDAY
Chess Committee will meet at
7:30 p.m. in Room 211 of Francis
Hall.
Matagorda County Hometown
Club will meet at 8 p.m. in Room
2B of the MSC.
Army Cadet Wives Club will
hear a home economist of the
Lone Star Gas Co. speak on
Christmas cooking at 7:30 p.m.
in the Blue Flame Room, Lone
Star Gas Co. building, 201 E.
27th St., Bryan.
TUESDAY
Mechanical Engineering Stu
dents Wives Club will hear Bon
nie Lay Speak on decorating a
small apartment at 7:30 p.m. in
the Brazos Room of First Bank
& Trust.
Society for the Advancement
of Management will hear two
speakers from Southwestern Bell
Telephone Co. at 8 p.m. in the
MSC Assembly Room.
Brazos Valley Kennel Club
will elect officers and view a film
of the Chicago International Dog
Show at 7:30 p.m. in Seminar
Room 1 in the Veterinary Hos
pital.
Pre-Vet Society will elect offi
cers at 8 p.m. in Room 100 of the
Chemistry building.
Range and Forestry Club will
hear Sid Goodloe discuss manage-'
ment practices on the rangeland
of Kenya, Africa, at 8 p.m. in
Room 103 of the Plant Sciences
building.
THURSDAY
Texas A&M Polo Club will meet
at 7 p.m. in Room 203 of the
Animal Science Building. No
horses or equipment are required
for membership.
Also on campus this weekend
will be 70 members from the
Class of 1934 for their 35th an
niversary reunion, and 200 for
mer students for the fall council
meeting of the Association of
Former Students and the associa
tion’s board of director’s meet
ing.
The Floral Test Garden will be
an added attraction this week
end. Fifty-seven varieties of
chrysanthemums are at their
peak bloom on the one-half acre
garden located east of the foot
ball stadium op Houston Street
Besides the 2,500 chrysanthe
mums, several varieties of bego
nia and a bed of snap-dragons
are blooming.
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ever. Some girl pulled a pocket
knife out of her purse, bent over,
and scraped it up without so
much as a glance around.
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