Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, December 11, 1969 ON OTHER CAMPUSES the battalion CADET SLO „ r „ ^ Friday Last Day By Monty Stanley At Long Island University in New York, a recent survey re vealed one out of four pay phones working. Sound familiar? An in formal student survey would probably also reveal that the fre quency of foul-ups is in direct proportion to the degree of urg ency of the situation. Some phones on the survey were hard to label one way or the other— as in the case of the roulette-o- phone located in one dorm lobby which worked for approximately one person in six. Emergencies are especially en tertaining at LIU. The security office has only one already over worked phone, so they can’t guar antee a response; the university operators go off duty at 9 p.m. (as if they could do anything even if they were on duty); and the single dorm phone for some reason doesn’t ring when its number is dialed. And to top things off, a call to the telephone company reveals that the repair men are on strike. The situation’s a lot like that r •- here, except that the last a Item a- t‘ ve listed would not work. Have rT IP* |j you ever tried to ■ ? ! call the phone ^ company? I’ve waited fifteen 1 minutes for an answer before giving up. Taking off on the Beatles’ Mc Cartney thing, a columnist for LIU’s Seawanhaka, Robby Ar nold, writes that a controversial chairman of the LIU board of trustees (whose name is also John) was actually killed early in the semester when his electric blanket short-circuited after he spilled a martini on it. Since that time, the newspaperman writes, the board has conspired to conceal this fact from the pub lic rather than risk a heated bat tle to choose his successor. Robby has irrefutable evidence. For example, last week, the man suspected of masquerading as the chairman for the last three months addressed a Studen Council meeting. When a tape recording of his speech was play ed backwards at half speed, it re vealed that he was really saying “I buried John.” Furthermore, the man appeared in a snapshot taken in September with an elbow in his right ear, “a widely known Polish symbol “meaning that the recipient of the elbow knows that this man John is really dead. The real clincher though, is the mole on the man’s left wrist. Ac cording to the columnist, who saw him in the men’s room of the Humanities Building, the mole, when viewed in reverse through the mirror which they were standing in front of, reveal ed itself to be a miniature tableau which pictured the board of trus tees gathered around a grave. Kind of makes you wonder sometimes. Maybe Dean Hanni- gan. . .? Editor: This letter is one of reflection and comment as I enter my elev enth year as a "dreamer” known as the Aggie football fan. In this period I’ve seen The Battalion predict that each Aggie season would be a great one and each game a victory. By doing this they followed A&M’s blind but sacred tradition of military obedience, allowing no space for criticism and disregarding the obvious. Although the ludicrous ness of this has long since passed, one can feel only pity as the Batt staff, in their Thansgiving issue, predicted Aggie victory in game comparable to a Minnesota Vik- ings-A&M Consolidated clash. Texas A&M must realize (and the rest of the SWC, too) that there is only one Darrell Royal and one Frank Broyles; 98 per cent of the time they are going to win. Sure, we’ve beaten them once in 13 or so years and no doubt in 10 more years we’ll win again. Until 1979 I suggest we form a new conference with military schools (Army, Navy, Air Force, VMI), have our pre-conference schedule include church schools (Baylor, SMU, TCU, Brigham Young), leave the state schools (Ohio State, Michigan, LSU, Tex as, Arkansas) alone. Such a schedule lends itself to possible victory as never before seen by Aggie supporters under 50 years of age. The former stu dents would like it (no more turkey salted with tears); the Battalion staff would have a chance to improve its record; the Corps would have a veritable “ball” yelling, marching, saluting, comparing haircuts with cadets from the other service academies, while their teams struggled through four quarters of football. I do hope some action is taken immediately on my proposal be cause my “Wait Until Next Year” bumper sticker has almost worn through. Julian S. Smith, Jr. ’66 Tyler, Texas ★ ★ ★ Editor: A long time ago, when boys looked like boys and girls looked like girls, there were cowboys at Texas A&M. These boys were proud of their school and did their best to make and keep it an institution where a person who really wanted a college education could get one and be proud of it after he got out. Now it seems that a lot of boys come to college, not to get an education, but to avoid the draft. The cowboys to day are not too different than their predecessors. They still want a good education and know that A&M is the place to get it. They are still trying to keep the standards up so when they gradu ate they will have a degree to be proud of. Naturally some of the boys who wear western apparel have something undesirable on their boots some of the time. A carpen ter has sawdust on his shoes and a mechanic has grease on him. At least most of these boys are working and trying to help pay for their college education instead of relying completely on their parents for all of it. Or possibly they are working so they can buy soap and razor blades and pay $1.75 for a haircut at least once a month instead of looking like a shaggy dog. The individuals wearing west ern apparel should not be fully condoned for getting up on the tables in the mess hall, but to them, this was one way of trying to show the boys with longer than usual hair that boys should look like boys and not some inter mediate sex. It looks like people should have a little more pride in their appearance. There is no law which states that a person must attend Texas A&M, nor is there a law which says he must stay here after he gets here. To use an old Aggie saying, “Highway 6 runs both ways.” Jerry Richards ’70 Deward Strong ’70 Richard Flynt ’70 Che Battalion Opinions expressed in The BettxKmr trrrr ffiuse of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax- supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. LETTERS POLICY MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association The Associated Collegiate Press iptions year; £6.50 per full > sales tax. 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Members icy, chai F. S. White, Student Publications Board are I. F. Filers, College of Liberal f Engineering ; Dr. Asa B. Childf Medicine; and Dr. Jim Arts ; Childers, Ja. Z. L. Carpenter, The Battalion, published in Collei Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, Sepi May, and once a week during summer school. student newspaper at Texas A&M is lege Station, Texas daily except Saturday, nd Monday, and holiday periods, September through Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San 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 Little, Tim Searson, Bob Robipson Columnists Monty Stanley, Bob Peek, John Platzer, Gary McDonald Photographers Steve Bryant, Bob Stump Sports Photographer Mike Wright COFFEE LOFT North Gate, University Dr. at Tauber One Block East of Post Office FILM “ANIMAL FARM” A 75 minute feature cartoon version of George Orwell’s fable 8:00 P. M. Sharp FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12 Everyone Welcome Admission — 50tf Discussion will be led by Dr. Russ Thompson, eco., Mr.Bemie O’Neil, pol. sci., and Mr. Pat Decker, english. “THE THIRD GENERATION” will entertain with song and guitars after the discussion. Coming Soon: Jan. 9 Film: “The Olive Trees of Justice” — 50