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CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Listen Up Stay away from Sam “I can stand that rock music, but when it kills my flower it’s got to go!” Student directors Editor: I would like to borrow a little space in your school publication to extend a sort of public service message to the male students at Texas A&M. I am a female stun dent at Sam Houston State Uni versity, and have been here in Huntsville for a year and a half now, so I speak from a certain amount of experience. I have noticed a custom among many of you that upsets me because it represents for the most part a wasted amount of effort, time, and money: the practice of driv ing the 52 miles to Huntsville on weekends to solicit female com panionship for a night (or two). It’s not on a moral basis that I’m protesting (what red-blooded American girl would object to hoards of beautiful and usually eligible men cruising a dormant college campus?) but rather out of a certain compassion — you make the trip with such detailed plans and high hopes, only to find that there’s nobody here!!! The reason is a cold, hard fact of Huntsville/Sam Houston life; by 12 noon on Fridays the over whelming majority of students have skipped town for the week end; they won’t be back until Sunday night or sometimes Mon day morning. The result is that the four or five of us girls who usually remain (I live in Hous ton, but I consider myself as having moved away from Mom my and Daddy) are eagerly propositioned to go out on the town (to “hit the joints”, as it were), and usually turn you down because I don’t drink and the rest are engaged. I’m sorry, but be forewarned that that’s the way it is; really. And if you really want to meet girls, come on a weeknight. Anne Wilburn Editor: Although we members of the Corps of Cadets sometimes con sider our uniforms a pain to wear and keep clean, I would venture to say 100% of us take a great deal of pride in that uni form. We believe that only mem bers of the Corps of Cadets should wear the uniform. According to The Eagle, Thursday, January 27, Mr. Don nie Wiggington, one of Texas A&M’s new assistant coaches, appeared at a t.u. athletic ban quet dressed in a Corps uniform complete with Senior boots and a saber. I don’t know if Mr. Wiggington was trying to make fun of our uniform or was actu ally demonstrating his loyalty to A&M as a coach. If his loyalty to A&M was the case, he should have done as most of the civilian students at A&M do when they represent A&M and worn the traditional maroon blazer and a Texas Aggie tie. talion with considerable interest. I have a son who is a band fish, and I’m proud of him. I think that there are two aspects of the article that need comment. First, I think that it is desire able for the band to perform at as many school functions as pos sible and as many outside invi tations as is practical without in terfering with academic activi ties. Finances might restrict out of town activities, but certainly not campus functions. Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 1,1 Read Battalion Classified I am writing this letter com pletely unaware of the details concerning this incident. I would appreciate either a reply from Mr. Wiggington or a personal conversation with him to discuss his reasons for wearing a uni form to the banquet, if he did so. Dan McQueen ’72 ★ ★ ★ Editor: I read John Curylo’s article about the Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band in the January 20th Bat- Second, the band should get off of this voting idea immedi ately. If I thought that my son had already developed the ma turity, wisdom and judgment to make such decisions, there would be no reason to send him to Aggieland or encourage him to work hard at being in the Aggie Band. Youngsters learn these important things by observing them in responsible adults. If I sent my boys to school only to gather facts, I might as well send them to Austin! The band, yes the university, should be run like a good family — a benevolent dictatorship. The director of the band should make the decisions about performances — the boys would treasure his sincere deci sions later, and they would learn responsibility by seeing it in action. To sum it up: Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band — perform — yes — vote about it — no! Nolen D. Geddie, Jr. CALICO HEALTH FOODS The upcoming hassle for the students of TAMU is the placing of one of their number on the Board of Directors. But having a student on the Board of Directors is not the simple thing it might appear to be. Also, the difficulty does not lie in the most obvious hurdle, getting a student on the board. Having a student on the Board of Directors, non-voting of course, would be a relatively easy step compared to what must follow if that student member is to be effective. That student must not only be a member of the board, he must take part in the decision-making processes, most importantly, attending the various committee meetings before the official meeting of the Board of Directors. It is in these committee meetings that the board makes all of its important decisions. This is evidenced by two things: 1) by law the official meetings of the Board of Directors are open to the public, 2) the decisions are almost always unanimous. If this seems to indicate that the board does not want anyone to find out what actually goes on at the meetings, keep thinking along those lines. The committee meetings are closed to the public, legally, and it is here that the hashing out takes place. It is here that the undoubtedly excited arguments over coed dorms and the firing of Gene Stallings took place. Safe, secure from the public, secure from the students. But not so secure, not so secretive, indeed not so seemingly furtive, if a student is present. It is into these meetings that the student body must be sure that a student has access if he is to be effective. Be sure that it is this, especially this, that the board will try to prevent. Not that these committee meetings contain material that is highly sensitive, interesting, pornographic or anything else one might care to mention. No, most of it is taken up with the business of running a university, for the most part uninteresting. But because by nature these men are men who value privacy-and they don’t care for others meddling in their affairs. Not even, perhaps, if those affairs being meddled in affect the whole university, its faculty and staff and student body. That is among the reasons the board will probably oppose a student member of their august group. It is probably the major reason. It is a very shaky reason. If a student member of the Board of Directors is to be a member and not a figurehead he must attend those meetings. It is this goal that the students must work toward as well as placing a student on the board. Without it they have obtained nothing. Tomorrow: Why no support from the Administration? Huntsville may be bad on a weekend, but have you ever seen College Station?—Ed. CALICO Is Having A Sale ... 100 U S P Units Of Natural Mixed Vitamin E In Wheat Germ Oil. 100 Capsules — $2.00 Bulletin Board Tonight Agricultural Economics Club will meet in Room 112-113 in the Plant Sciences Building ab 7:30 p.m. Wildlife Biology Association will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 113 of BSBE. Wednesday The Economics Society will hold a meeting at 7:30 p.m. in Room 202 of Nagle Hall. MSC Radio Committee will meet in the lobby of the MSC at 6 p.m. Members should bring money to go off-campus for din ner and the meeting. Thursday Chemical Engineering Wives will hold a meeting at the home of Mrs. Leo Durbin, 3711 Sweet- briar, Bryan, at 7:30 p.m. Student Senate will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Library Confer ence Room. San Antonio Hometown Club will meet in Room 301 of the Physics Building at 7:30 p.m. Rio Grande Valley Hometown Club will hold a meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the MSC to select a sweetheart. Port Arthur Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Trigon. FOR BEST RESULTS TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIED Che Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those 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. newspaper at Texas A&M, is Texas, daily except Saturd The Battalion, a student published in College Station, Texas, daily except Saturday^ Sunday, Monday, and holiday periods, September through May, and once a week during summer school. LETTERS POLICY Letters to the editor must be typed, double-spaced, and no more than 300 words in length. They must be signed, although the writer’s name will be withheld by arrangement with the editor. Address correspondence to MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association The Associated Collegiate Press Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester; $6 per school full year. All subscriptions subject to 5% Listen Up, The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, Texas 77S-I3. year; $6.50 sales tax. Advertising The Battalion, Room 21 Texas 77843. 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