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.
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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.
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