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College Station, September 23, 1971 Bob RobiUSOU
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
A&JVFs construction circuses
“Here’s a letter to th’ editor that says he can’t think
0 b f ut a w y ou,rt W s^ g h,r‘ h a m A e &M and ‘ he — “ -
“LAAA-DEEEES . . . AAAND
. . . Gentlemen!” The chubby
little man with the bow legs and
penguin suit paused midway
through his pendulum swing,
turned a slight shade of pink and
added nervously, “and students.”
He completed the arc with his
open palm reaching for the top
of the tent.
“Prepare yourselves for the
greatest show of your lives. These
next four years will pass as min
utes and if you are one of the
lucky few, you can stay another
year for your own private en
core.”
The little man smiled, polished
the “Go Gene, Go!!” button pin
ned to the lapel of his coat and
stepped over a barricade to the
center ring.
The crowd was breathless with
anticipation. Some wise guy
dropped a pin and got a punch
in the nose for his efforts. Stu
dents, professors, staff members
and visitors from all over the 50
states eagerly awaited the begin
ning of the performance.
“To my right ! ! ! ” Arm out-
flung, voice ringing through the
years, fatty was warming up to
his introduction. “The beautiful,
irreplaceable C o e d i n a braves
three trenches and a 50 foot deep
hole in order to meet her student
prince at the MSC coffee shop
for a Coke.”
Everyone in the stands turned
in the direction of the ringmas
ter’s waving hand.
Listen up
More about our traditions
Editor:
In response to a recent letter
to the editor you stated that the
civilians know the traditions of
Texas A&M and do a good job
of voluntarily following them.
There have been too many in
stances where civilian students
violate traditions, for no appar
ent reason other than to provoke
cadets. There have been several
times when a polite request not
to walk on the Memorial Student
Center lawn was answered with
curt and often impolite responses,
or simply ignored.
At the Wichita State game, I
asked a civilian student to re
move his hat in honor of the 52
flags and what they mean; this
is another of the A&M traditions
that civilian students supposedly
“know and follow.” The only re
sponse was a barrage of snide re
marks from surrounding civilians.
Immediately after the last Sil
ver Taps, the lights, not a few,
but almost all the lights in Hart
Hall were on, As if that wasn’t
enough, someone was serenading
the area with psychedelic squeals
proceeding from his stereo.
There have been too many yell
practices where the civilians pop
their heads out of their windows
or come outside to watch the
band go past and then continue
with what they were doing, as if
they thought that yell practice
wasn’t for them. Maybe it isn’t.
I am tired of the A&M stu
dents who have never been to a
football game, a yell practice or
participated in anything at A&M
other than occasional appearance
in class calling themselves Aggies
because they don’t know what the
word means.
Sid Bednar ’73
Certainly some civilians “vio
late” traditions as they are not
forced into following them as
some groups are. Also, in a
university of 14,000 it would be
ridiculous to expect everybody
to aimlessly fall into line. For
these reasons traditions are not
always observed by some civil
ians. But take a look around
you at the next game or yell
practice, you’ll find that there
are more civilians than you
think.
And by the way, Kyle Field
is not a memorial. It is not
required that anyone remove
their hats.—Ed.
★ ★ ★
Editor:
As you know the Baylor Bears
play Texas A&M on October 23.
Many Baylor girls have heard
about the Aggie spirit and are
anxious to date an Aggie for the
game. If any of the boys at A&M
would like to have a date with
a Baylor girl for the game, then
write Lynn Walters at P. O. Box
6116, Waco, Texas 76706. Please
include the following informa
tion: name, campus address,
phone number, hometown, age,
major, classification, interests,
and brief description of self. En
close a self-addressed stamped
envelope for reply.
Lynn Walters
Cbe Battalion
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Coedina jumped into the ring,
smiling, waving frantically at the
adoring onlookers and promptly
fell into the first ditch. Seconds
later, she climbed out, carrying
a caution sign in her free hand.
The crowd applauded her as she
deftly eluded the next two
ditches and someone shrieked as
she tripped over another caution
sign and dropped into the 50 foot
pit .
Minutes of cold silence passed.
A road grader started up some
where outside the tent, but no
one noticed. Then a yell. Instant
ly the crowd was on its feet,
cheering wildly. Coedina was car
ried out of the pit on the shoul
ders of her student prince, a
Coke in each hand.
The ringmaster called Coedina
and her prince out to the center
ring. They held hands, bowing to
their adoring public, spilling
their Cokes.
The ring master took his hat
off, a circular metal hat, painted
red, and bowed, too. The show
had begun. He started to intro
duce the next act, but the clowns
beat him to it.
They rumbled in on a 1907 VW
with tractor treads over the
wheels. Two of them. Behind them
came four more clowns with picks
and shovels and a huge bag of
cement. Behind them came an
other clown with a hose.
They pushed the ringmaster out
of the way and rumbled up to the
first trench. The two clowns with
picks and shovels started chop
ping away at the sides of the
ditch.
The two clowns with the bag of
cement muscled their way up to
the ditch and dumped the cement
on the first two clowns. The
clown with the hose ran up to
the ditch and started dowsing the
whole mess.
During the excitement, a police
official looked for the license
number of the tractorized VW and
opened up his citation book. This
was after the fire official took
away the water hose.
The driver clown started argu
ing that he wasn’t parked, just
waiting for a temporary bridge
to be built over the trench.
The officer started writing out
another ticket.
The argument continued for
three hours and the officer had
to send a clown back twice for
a fresh pad. He had just finished
taping a ticket over the exhaust
pipe when the VW roared into
life and climbed into and out of
the ditch. The officer chased it,
scribbling furiously on his pad.
Four years later, the ringmas
ter, tired lines etched into his
jelly bean face, came out for a
final bow. He called Coedina to
the center ring. She waddled out,
smiling and waving at the cheer
ing crowd, slightly plump from
too many Cokes. The graduate
prince followed close behind, wav
ing his orders for induction into
the armed services.
The seven clowns came out for
their bows. Two of them, encased
in cement, were carried by their
buddies.
The officer was nowhere to be
found.
“And now, ladies and gentle
men . . . and graduates, a fond
good-bye. May your years of try
ing to find new routes to your
classes be instrumental in hurdl
ing the obstacles of life outside.
Don’t forget to pick up the new
up-to-date map at the door so
you can find your way off the
campus. It’s a bargain at $15.”
The ringmaster and performers
left, backs slumped in sorrow at
the end of another era. Spectators
formed a line at the door, check
books in hand.
The cop was at the bottom of
the pit, next to the overturned
VW, writing out a ticket.
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Fish yell leader
tryouts will be
held this Monday
Fish yell leader tryouts will
be held Monday at the Grove,
A&M’s head yell leader Jim Fer
guson has announced.
Interested male students should
report to the Grove at 5 p.m.
Feguson said the field will be
narrowed to 10 candidates by 6
p.m. by the yell leaders.
The yell leader committee will
interview the 10 finalists Monday
evening and select five fish yell
leaders.
Tonight
Cepheid Variable Science Fic
tion Club will meet in the Physics
Building room 146 at 7:00.
Austin Hometown Club will
meet in rooms 2A-B of the Me
morial Student Center at 8:00.
San Angelo-West Texas Home
town Club meets in 3-A of the
Memorial Student Center at 7:30.
Motorcycle Club will meet in
room 3B of the MSC at 7:30 to
pick up membership cards.
International Students Associ
ation will meet in the Assembly
room of the MSC at 7:00.
Monday
Wings and Sabres will meet in
the Military Sciences Building at
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