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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Wednesday, November 26, 1969
CADET SLOUCH
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by Jim Earle
‘Goose-Bump Group 9 Ready Board Meets Toda
The university’s patentable pro
ducer of goose-bumps generates
its reaction Thursday at Kyle
Field.
It begins when John C. Otto Jr.
of Dayton calls “fall in.”
The prickle grains momentum
as he commands “Recall, step off
on “Hullabaloo” and explodes
when the “Fightin’ Texas Aggie
Band” responds to the downbeat
of head drum major’s baton.
As the clarion fanfare of “The
Aggie War Hymn” rolls across
the stadium, heart beat surge and
adrenalin flows in students and
Aggie exes alike.
The remainder of the Aggie
Band’s A&M-TU game halftime
performance is a sure bet, at one
point or another, to reach the rest
of the 50,000
stadium.
Lt. Col. E. V. Adams, in his
24th season of directing the
Aggie Band, said the bass horn
section will again be spotlighted
through the march "Them Bass
es.” Sixteen new Sousaphones re
cently added to the band instru
mentation, eight of the band’s
former 18 basses, 38 trombones,
24 baritones, 12 French horns
and 71 comets and trumpets will
give the King march a solid
sound.
Four continuous minstrel turns
will provide an illusory effect
described by one observer as
“folding a handkerchief then pull
ing it through itself.” A viewer
can unravel the optical illusion
by picking out one musician and
or more in the following him through the ma-
After a “lost Indian” counter
march, the band will then form
the gridiron-wide and 50-yard tall
“T”, peel off the outer rim of
musicians through a counter
march and send the two letters
in opposite directions.
Leading the band during the
pre-game Cadet Corps march-in
and halftime performance with
Otto will be Maroon Band drum
major Richard D. Garrett of Free
port and White Band drum major
Daniel W. Gower Jr. of El Paso.
Band commander is Edwin
Lamm III of San Antonio. Rich
ard G. Sanchez of San Angelo
and Roland F. Bonewitz of Hous
ton command the Maroon and
White Bands, respectively.
A request for authority to seek
a department of sociology and
anthropolgy at A&M is among
the agenda items facing the
Texas A&M University System
Board of Directors today.
The 2 p.m. meeting also was
scheduled to include considera
tion or confirmation of five con
tracts and appropriation requests
totaling more than $500,000.
A&M is seeking permission to
establish a separate sociology and
anthropology department within
the College of Liberal Arts.
The institution currently offers
sociology through the Agtj
tural Economics and Si
Department within the Collefi]
Agriculture. Under the pi
the College of Agriculture
operate agricultural ecorfoi
a separate department,
State Farm
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Off The Record
by Gary McDonald
“We didn’t want to be overly sentimental—just to the
point!”
I LISTEN UP I
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Editor:
As a student working my way
through my last year of college,
married, and with a baby on the
way, I may sound a little biased
in favor of the Northgate mer
chants because it is through one
of these merchants that I am
able to pay my bills on time.
I am writing to supplement the
letter in The Batt of last Friday.
It just failed to mention the
number of Aggies Loupot has
bailed out of jail, the chickens
that are donated to the vet school
Bar BQ, the substantial donation
to the Aggie Rodeo Club, the
number of do-nuts and sweet
rolls I’ve passed out in the stack
ing area in the last week, yes,
passed out free, the number of
times the dishwasher has taken
the excess do-nuts to his dorm
and passed them out free of
charge, and many other things
not mentioned above.
Since I have pen in hand, I
would like to mention another
fact known to those who get
mixed up on the way to Silver
Taps. Is 30 minutes of silence
too much to give to a student
who has passed away? It’s a sad
day in Aggieland when I have to
lock the front door to keep a
crowd out during that 30 minutes.
As long as Lewis Fair owns it
and I run it, don’t bother to come
by during Silver Taps. We don’t
need your money that bad, be
sides, we’ll be closed. (t.u. sells
the same coffee).
Raymond Prewitt ’66
Night Manager
Lew Ann’s Restaurant
LET IT BLEED
— The Rolling Stones
The appearance of a new Roll
ing Stone album induces a total
loss of objectivity and equilibri
um. It is difficult to transpose
the excitement of listening to this
album onto paper. If that says
something about my deficiencies
as a writer, it says just as much
about the quality of the record,
which is, as most Stone albums,
a rock&roll classic.
When doing hard rockers like
“Monkey Man,” “Midnight Ram
bler,” and especially “Gimme
Shelter,” the ending of which is
a traumatic experience, they
reach the optimum heights of
ecstatic frenzy. However, they
are not confined to this kind of
music as several tunes testify.
For example, they do country
songs quite well, though as in
“Country Honk,” a country ver
sion of “Honky Tonk Women”
that tries the borders of sanity,
not always too seriously. There
is nothing on the album that
equals the poignant beauty of
“No Expectations” from “Beg
gar’s Banquet,” but “Love In
Vain” and “You Got the Silver”
come gratifyingly close.
The vocals, naturally, are ex-
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ceptional, displaying the distinc
tive and erotic style of Mick
Jagger, with a little help from
Keith Richards, a few lady soul
singers, and the London Bach
Choir. The lyrics are typically
Rolling Stone and might be de
scribed as a Stone version of
A&M’s very own fabled “ables.”
The fact that the late Brian
Jones plays on two cuts, as does
his successor, Mick Taylor, and
that the rest of was recorded by
the Stones as a foursome, defines
this as a traditional album. After
seeing them on their current U.S.
tour, I can say that they have
passed through the transitional
stage and impossible as it may
seem, they are even better than
before.
I GOT DEM OL’ KOZMIC
BLUES AGAIN, MAMA!
— Janis Joplin
Regardless of what many crit
ics say, Joplin’s new back up
band, while not giving her the
extra push I would have liked,
is not all bad. They do not work
against her. Technically, they are
a definite improvement over Big
Brother & the Holding Company,
though they lack that indefinable
spirit Big Brother had as one of
the original San Francisco bands.
Janis is in optimal recording
form. She has never been pre
sented better on wax. It so hap
pens that she is at her best when
the band is at its best, like on
“Try” and the bluesy ’’One Good
Man.” Her timing on "As Good
As You’ve Been to This World”
is superb and ingratiating. The
band lets her down slightly on
“To Love Somebody” and “Work
Me, Lord” where she turns in
excellent performances. They ob
viously understand the principle
of dynamics, but are a bit in
adept at executing it.
Janis still has not produced
that album so many people expect
of her. She still has not found
a band that can keep up with her.
Until she does, “I Got Dem 01’
Kozmic Blues Again, Mama” will
suffice quite nicely.
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