Editor:
I was heartily surprised today
when cadet Larry Bragg ap
proached me, smiled, and asked
how I was doing.
Since arriving at Texas A&M
University in September my
pride in its Cadet Corps has be
come something I would defend
unrelentingly. Its goals and pur
poses are foremost on my list of
“musts” for a meaningful edu
cation.
But I have noticed a resent
ment from many of the upper
classmen who knew me during
my short stay in uniform. I have
heard of a chasm between the
non-regs and cadets but I didn’t
believe it really existed. So I
forgot about it and did my best
to offer the same courtesies to
all those cadets I had known be
fore I resigned as I do my non-
reg friends. To my astonish
ment the replies I got were
frowns or compact, emotionless
“howdies.” Because I was out
of uniform I was no longer
worthy of their attention.
Well, today, one cadet has halt
ed an ever-widening break be
tween myself and the individuals
in the corps simply because he
considered me, a non-reg, a hu
man being instead of just another
“Joe” out of uniform.
Doug Jones ’72
Robinson’s Crusoe
By Bob Robinson
Everything was the same. The
sun was peeking hesitantly over
the roof of the mess hall at the
other end of the quadrangle, not
sure, or may even a little afraid
of what it might find when its
rays illuminated the 13 clustered
buildings below. They were still
standing, though. The red-brown
brick, light gray metallic win
dows, and polished steel doors
looked as gloomy as ever in the
early light of dawn.
A flagpole was standing guard
over the north entrance of the
dormitory area as I started up
the long series of walks and steps.
It looked like it was 200 feet
high, although I knew better.
Everything looked out of pro
portion at the end of a too-short
weekend. Even the bugler’s stand,
near the base of the pole, looked
somehow forboding.
The part of the path that split
to the left around the flagpole
ran in front of the even-numbered
dormitories, past all six of them,
until it reached the mess hall at
the other end. My dormitory was
numbered seven, so I veered to
the right.
I strolled casually toward the
dorm, staring through the trees
at the multi-eyed monsters on the
other side, each of which was
grinning back at me with two
polished steel teeth. The trees
and shrubbery, separating side
walks wide enough to handle
companies in formation, were still
fairly dense and colorful, so it
was no effort to break my eyes
away and concentrate on the
cracks in the concrete.
The trees reminded me of the
park my girl and I had walked
through yesterday afternoon, be
fore I’d had to leave and start
the long drive back. I wasn’t
really anxious to think about it
right then.
Tonight, when I started my
letter to her, would be soon
enough.
The wide track sidewalks
Campus Security
Recovers Truck
A stolen U. S. Department of
Agriculture pick-up was recover
ed by Campus Security Friday
night, about an hour after it had
been reported missing.
Sgt. S. D. Gossett of Cam
pus Security said that as he
was patrolling through Hensel
Park he noticed the truck hidden
behind some trees. When he in
vestigated he found that the
USD A sign on the truck had
been covered over with masking
tape and that the engine was
still warm. He then had a patrol
man drive the truck back to the
campus and informed the USD A
that it had been recovered.
Gossett said that Campus Se
curity does have suspects in the
case but that no arrests have
been made.
sparkled in the new sun, at least
to the point where the mess hall,
two football fields in length
away, cast its shadow over the
area.
I wondered how concrete could
look so bright, yet the six build
ings sitting to my right, as well
as the ones directly across from
them, could look so gloomy and
depressing.
Maybe it was due to another
week of books and push-ups in
view.
Or maybe it was because some
one special was several hundred
miles away right now, someone I
knew I wouldn’t be seeing for
another three weeks.
The sound of the whistle from
a dormitory close to the mess hall
brought me back to the present.
It was getting late.
At the seventh smaller side
walk leading to the right, I turned
off and shortly found myself in
front of Dormitory 7.
With my hand on the door, I
paused momentarily to glance
around, and suddenly the whole
area went dark. I looked up to
see that the previously clear sky
was now blanketed with clouds
and the sun was contentedly
slipping behind them for the rest
of the day.
As I pulled the door open and
stepped inside, the first rain
drops began to fall lazily and
form a scattered pattern of dark
spots on the concrete.
Yep, everything was the same.
Cbe Battalion
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