THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, October 3, 1972
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Listen Up—
Footballers
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Hit Again
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TMANKs to MS'
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“Just because it’s against th’ rules is not enough for
me! I’m cold and I’m getting out!”
Bulletin Board
TONIGHT
Junior Class Council will hold
an organizational meeting at 7:30
p.m. in Room 2C, Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Accounting Club will meet at
7:30 p.m. in the Assembly Room
of the MSC.
Engineering Technology Society
will meet in Room 303, Fermier
Hall, at 7:30 p.m.
Laredo Hometown Club will
have meeting for election of offi
cers at 8 p.m. in Room 3C of the
MSC.
Student Chapter of Associated
General Contractors will meet at
7:30 p.m. in Room 127B of Zachry
Engineering Center.
Ag Eco Club meeting will not
be held tonight.
The Go Club will hold an or
ganizational meeting at 7:30 p.m.
ih Room 2B of the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Go, an ancient Chinese game, is
very popular with the Japanese
and in western Europe. National
championships and high-level
tournaments are held in several
Asian countries.
FOR
BEST
RESULTS
TRY
BATTALION CLASSIFIED
Anyone wishing to learn the
rules or wishing to play, is urged
to attend.
Business Administration Wives’
Club is holding a salad supper at
7:30 p.m., 104 Pleasant, Apt. 101,
Bryan. For more information or
a ride call Mrs. Mary Jesek at
846-3319 after 5 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Electrical Engineering Wive’s
Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. at
the home of Mrs. Jack Stone,
3703 Stillmeadow, Bryan. For
further information call Lindy
Triplett at 846-3843.
MSC Recreation Committee’s
Mixed Group and Aggie Wive’s
Group Bridge will meet at 7:30
p.m. on the second floor of the
MSC.
Tennis Club will elect officers
at 7:30 p.m. in Rooms 3C and
3D of the MSC. Dues of $4 will be
collected. For further information
call Leo Farrar, 845-1178.
THURSDAY
San Antonio Hometown Club
will make final plans for their
first party at 7:30 p.m. in Room
146, Physics Building.
MSC Radio Committee will
meet in Room 2C of the MSC
at 7:30 p.m.
Texas A&M Scholastic Service
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Lounge
A between Fowler and Hughes
Hall for an organizational meet
ing.
Editor
Notably Aggie football repre
sents A&M just as much or more
than the students or the alumni.
It has been my experience that
upon meeting someone and tell
ing them, ‘T’m an Aggie,” you
will be confronted with one of
four replies: (1) an Aggie joke;
(2) “Are you in the Corps?”; (3)
Do you know so and so?”; (4) or
“Who beat you last weekend?”
I want to comment on the last
reply; “Who beat you last week
end?”
I thought that what has been
happening over the last four years
was somewhat of a coaching prob
lem. I have since discovered what
a gross mistake we have made.
Our problems are not with the
coaches, we have the best avail
able, records have proven this—
our problems are with the team’s
attitude. Comments on the team’s
attitude and game performance
are long overdue and a couple of
things need to be said. To have
the material and to have the
coaching, but lack the will to win
makes football a fool’s game.
In the Sunday edition of the
Bryan Eagle, Jerry Waggoner,
the sports editor, expressed his
opinion of the Saturday night
game: “Embarrassment apparent
ly means more to the U.S. Military
Academy than it does to Texas
A&M.” Well, I’m from Texas
Public Safety
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nized in 1935 and, with the Texas
Highway Patrol, were placed un
der the DPS.
Controversy over their exist
ence has raged since claims of
brutality were lodged against the
Rangers following their actions
in settling a Mexican-American
labor strike in Zavala County
near Crystal City.
The force has been compared
to a Texas F.B.I. Its duties in
clude enforcement of law in cases
of major crime, mob violence and
during times when local officers
need assistance.
Director of DPS four years,
Col. Speir has been in continuous
service with the department since
1941, except for service in the
Army Air Corps during World
War II.
The Gilmer native and East
Texas State honors graduate
joined DPC as a highway patrol
man and worked up to the rank
of major and commander of the
Midland Region by 1957. Speir
became assistant director in 1962
and was appointed acting direc
tor upon the death of the late
director, Col. Homer Garrison Jr.,
in May, 1968. He was made per
manent director the following
September.
Col. Speir is past-president of
the Texas Police Association and
the Austin Rotary Club.
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EDITOR MIKE RICE
Managing Editor Larry Marshall
News Editor Rod Speer
Women’s Editor Janet Landers
Sports Editor Bill Henry
Assistant Sports ^Editor Kevin Coffey
It's a Great Year for the Aggies!
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Other Evenings Till 7 p. m.
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A&M and I am tired of being em
barrassed and I don’t think there
is one person in our 16,000 en
rollment that isn’t embarrassed.
We are tired of people saying
“poor Aggies,” and we are tired
of having someone who does not
care represent our school on the
football field. Aggies are winners
and we are tired of losing.
It’s terrible to generalize and
trademark a whole team • as
“losers” when some of the team
pours their guts out to win—but
it is the team that takes the
glory or the blame and the team
that suffers for a few apathetic
teammates. Everyone at this uni
versity is part of the team, the
12th man, and we are tired of
losing because some of our foot
ball teammates are apathetic and
don’t care. Not everybody has the
ability to play college football.
If we all did there would be
16,000 students working out every
afternoon and giving that whatev
er it takes to win. The team
is the chosen few to represent
all Aggies, students, faculty and
alumni. In short we are very dis
appointed in the players’ perform
ance.
Army proved on the field where
it counts that pride meant more
to them than to the Aggies.
Maybe the team needs to do a
little soul searching. If the play
ers do not have enough confidence
in themselves, get some—some
how. If you are giving 100% ef
fort—give 200%. If you don’t feel
embarrassed—be ashamed. Help
us prove Texas A&M has char
acter and there is a little some
thing more to this school that
others do not have. Show us you
want to play. Come on team, give
us something to be proud of.
Blake A. Cathey ’74
★ ★ ★
Editor:
The practical solution to the
A&M bicycle problem becomes
obvious after a little serious
study. Every day we observe some
accident or near-accident involv
ing two students, one on foot and
the other mounted. Logic tells us
that since the pedestrian is the
most, physically vulnerable trav
eller, he must be given the advan
tage in a confrontation with a
cyclist.
Therefore, any full-time pedes
trian who is able to display tread-
marks upon any part of his (or
her) person shall proceed to Cam
pus Police Headquarters and se
lect from a fleet of twelve j
suitable sledgehammer; taking
this, he shall be put at liberty
to demolish the unregistered bi
cycle of his (or her) choice.
The result—one more satisfied
pedestrian and one less mechani
cal menace (the scrap metal may
be sold to repair sledgehammers
and to build bicycle paths.)
Bill Thompson
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u Give a hoot,
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environment is being threatened
by pollution. Wild flowers along
our roadsides are being picked
rather than admired.
Smog is killing trees, it’s forcing
birds to find new homes.
Fish are running out of
clean water. Just what’s
being done about it?
A lot. But we’ve got a lot
more to do, a long way to go.
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