Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, November 14, 1969 THE BATTALI^^N
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Editor:
In response to the letter con
cerning the indecency at Sbisa:
We will act as gentlemen should,
if we are fed like gentlemen
should be.
Bob Nivens
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Editor:
I am an employe of Texas In
ternational Speedway and a stu
dent at Texas A&M University
and I am writing to you concern
ing the wonderful improvement
in the Robert Boon Peek III col
umn. Such great work as the
article titled “TIS: Bush League”
cannot be compared to the in
excusably inept articles which
have in the past been penned
under the name of Bob Peek. It
is a miracle of modern education,
Pm sure, that has lifted our
young Jackboroian’s literary style
out of the depths of boredom and
redundance and upward into the
heights of “creativity.”
I know that it is not every day
that a university newspaper re
porter is nominated for a Pulitzer
prize, but speaking for myself
and not TIS, I would like to enter
Bob’s article into this year’s
competition under the category
of “Imaginative Comedy.” If this
bid falls through, maybe Bob and
Walter Mitty can get together
and talk about their days as bush
league journalists.
George Martin
PS.—I wonder who the short,
balding, well-tanned gentleman
with the British accent, who
claimed to be an ex-world cham
pion driver and handed out the
prize money at the awards ban
quet was ?
Immediately following the race,
Stirling Moss’s jet was being
warmed up and his pilot said he
was “pulling charts” for Chicago.
Soon after. Moss was seen hurry
ing to the airport with his wife.
Evidently, he decided at the last
minute not to forego the banquet.
As for the Pulitzer prize, we
don’t consider my column worthy
but we are considering forward
ing your letter as an entry in the
“Trivia” category. — Bob Peek.
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Editor:
I received a letter from my
mother telling me of the out
standing actions on the part of
two students at Texas A&M Uni
versity.
My parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.
E. Whitfill, live about four miles
from Ennis, Texas, and one mile
from Alma on the Interstate 75
expressway which runs about 50
yards in front of their home, with
a railroad running about 50 to
100 yards behind their home.
Saturday, Oct. 18, about or
between 10 and 11 p.m. a brake
locked on a Southern Pacific
train and resultant sparks caused
a fire on the right-of-way. These
two very conscientious boys
(whose names my parents didn’t
get) were returning to A&M
from a football game at Fort
Worth, saw the fire, stopped,
alarmed Mr. Whitfill and helped
him fight the fire until the fire
department could get there. This
action saved my parents’ home.
My father is 79 and my mother
is 74.
All of the family want these
boys to know they have our
deepest appreciation . . . but a
“thank you” is very small for
things these boys did.
Mrs. Brad Gurley
Campus Briefs
TWU Hosting Dance
In Houston Tonight
The sophomore nursing class
of Texas Woman’s University
College of Nursing Houston Clin
ical Center will sponsor a pre
game dance in Houston Friday
from 8-12 p.m., according to Amy
Stewart, co-chairman of the ticket
committee.
“Silver Soul Session” is the
theme, and the Fantastics, a
Houston band, will play at the
dance which will be held in the
TWU residence hall at 1130 M. D.
Anderson Blvd. in the Texas
Medical Center, she said. Admis
sion is $1 per person except for
Houston center clinical students,
who will be charged 50 cents.
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Mathematics Prof
To Have Colloquium
Dr. G. R. Blakley, inathematics
professor at State University of
New York at Buffalo, will pre
sent a colloquim here Nov. 20.
The 4 p.m. presentation in
Room 207 of the Academic Build
ing is entitled “Polynomial
Transformations Between Affine
Spaces.”
Dr. Blakley’s visit is sponsored
by the Mathematics Department.
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Day Student Forms
Available Monday
Applications for day student
permits will be accepted from
8 a.m. Monday until noon Dec. 1
in Room 110 of the YMCA, ac
cording to Don R. Stafford, asso
ciate dean of student affairs.
Automatic permission will be
given graduates, he said, as well
as married students and students
living with their immediate fam-
lies, and exceptions will be made
for medical reasons when verified
by a university physician.
Stafford added that students
who work may be excepted be
cause of hours worked, eating
arrangements or living arrange
ments.
Beginning with juniors and
seniors, additional considerations
will be handled on an individual
basis, he said.
“If the room situation is criti
cal,” he explained, “people who
do not fit these conditions may
be granted permission to live off
campus at the University’s con
venience.”
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Physics Colloquium
Set Tuesday
A physics colloquium on “Close
Coupling Calculations of Electron-
Atom Scattering” will be held
by a New Mexico physicist at
4 p.m. Tuesday in Room 146,
Physics.
Dr. S. Ormande, a physicist
with Quantum Systems, Inc., Al
buquerque, will conduct the ses
sion for faculty, staff, graduate
students and the general public.
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Dr. Davenport to Talk
On “American Mind”
Dr. Manuel M. Davenport, head
of the Philosophy and Humani
ties Department, will lecture on
the “American Mind” at 11:15
a.m. Sunday in Room 2A of the
Memorial Student Center.
In his talk, Davenport will ex
plain how Americans have com
bined pragmatism with puritan-
ism for a basis for the decisions
they make, using examples rang
ing from the Vietnam war to
marijuana smoking.
Davenport’s lecture was origin
ally scheduled for last Sunday
but was rescheduled due to an
illness in his family.
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Cat Leukemia Said
Not Contagious
Cat owners should not be
alarmed over recent reports that
the cat leukemia virus may be
infective for other species, includ
ing man, according to Dr. E. W.
Ellett, chief of the Small Animal
Clinic.
The College of Veterinary
Medicine professor noted the
American Veterinary Medical As
sociation found no evidence that
cats transmit leukemia virus to
humans.
Leukemia, one of the many
diseases common to man and
other animals, is the subject of
increasing amounts of research
to determine its causes and meth
ods of control. But drastic action
against cats based on the present
knowledge of leukemia would be
a tragic mistake, the AVMA re
port stated.
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Library Has Box
For Book Ideas
A receptacle for student sug
gestions for library book pur
chases has been made available
on the first floor of the university
library.
The university library commit
tee had the suggestion box in
stalled to provide students an
avenue through which their de
sires for general knowledge or
recreational volumes can be made
known.
Acting librarian John B. Smith
noted that books of a technical
nature should be requested
through the student’s departmen
tal representative to the library.
He said that books of the latter
type may be requested through
the suggestion box if the depart
mental route is not available to
the student.
Suggestions received will be
reviewed by the library acquisi
tions staff. Suggested books, if
appropriate and funds for their
purchase are available, will then
be ordered.
Smith said suggestions are
picked up at least once daily.
He added that appeals from
the library staff position may be
brought before the ad hoc sub
committee for student-library re
lations of the university library
committee. Dr. Thomas J. Kozik
chairs the committee.
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EDITOR DAVE MAYES
Managing Editor David Middlebrooke
Sports Editor Richard Campbell
Assistant Sports Editor Mike Wright
Staff Writers Tom Curl, Janie Wallace, Jay F.
Goode, Pam Troboy, Steve For
man, Gary Mayfield, Payne-
Harrison, Raul Pineda, Hayden
Whitsett, Clifford Broyles, Pat
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Rugby Club will practice at 3
p.m. on the field across from
DeWare Field House.
Life Insurance” at 7:30 p.m. in
Room 3B-C MSC.
MONDAY
Flying Kadets and A&M Aeror
club will discuss general flying
regulations at 7:30 p.m. in the
Art Room, third floor MSC.
TUESDAY
Marketing Society will hear
Frank Blackstone, supervisor of
agency development of the Na
tional Farm Life Insurance Com
pany, speak on “Marketing of
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