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THE BATTALION . Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, October 2, 1973 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Listen Up — Civilian, Coed Recognition Asked (REMEMBER L.S.U J?EM EM DER 5.C. “My sentiments completely! Editor Preceding the Wichita State Game I had the pleasure of sit ting next to a very sweet and lovely young lady at the Century Club dinner. Her father is a gard- uate of A&M, as were her uncles. The University itself stands on land once owned by her family. All her life she had loyally de fended A&M—this I can relate to. I was such an Aggie booster that I went to a state university half-way across the country rath er than go to tu.—When women were admitted to the campus, she was delighted. And she enrolled. Having completed three years at A&M, she is now a Senior. She was eagerly looking forward to the first football game, and to the traditional privilege of being in the Boot Line. Her date, a graduate student, gently teased her with mock alarrm, “What? Girls in the Boot Line?” But you could tell that he was, as were my husband and I, impressed by her love of A&M and her spirit. After the game we saw this same young lady. But instead of the bubbling enthusiastic girl she had been, she was completely “down,”—sharp contrast to the victorious crowd leaving the stad ium—It seems that when she joined the Boot Line, not only had Seat-Belt Law Challenged There is a movement afoot to enact laws which will require every motorist to “buckle-up” his seat-belt or face a fine. Meanwhile, mandatory regulations by the Dept, of Trans, will require that every automobile, beginning with the 1974 models, will have to be equipped with a system which will prevent the starting of the car engine unless the re straint system is fastened. A few years ago, it was proposed that an air-bag passive restraint system be mandatory in all automobiles starting in 1976. Before that, a crash-proof auto design was claimed to be the answer to saving lives and reducing injuries when motorists become involved in accidents. In between times, energy absorbing steering columns were touted as something called a safety device that would prevent axial movement of such columns in crashes and save lives. Advocates of such “hang-on” modifications in vehicles became involved in “playing the numbers game” quoting the number of lives that each of these systems would save annually on the highways. Safety door-locks and reinforced door panels were hailed as a further step forward in preventing car owners from killing themselves. The highway trauma record is clear showing that these devices were incapable of halting the fatalities. The one “positive in this world factor” that was known to all car buyers was that vehicle prices were climbing at an alarming rate each year. Safety bumpers and devices claimed to “sweeten the exhausts” came iinto prominence and car buy ers were forced to pay for them whether or not they wanted them, if they were necessary or if they performed. Advocates of all these innovations were careful to sug gest that each of these devices would cost very little in production. Cost estimates ranged from the ridiculous to the sublime and were calculated by guessing. The track record for all this type activity is less then palatable to the man in the street and it is time that he refuses to continue as a guinea pig for “hair-brained” schemes. The time to protest is before conditioned reflex public relations campaigns get under way and mandatory laws are enacted. —National Motor Vehicle Research Safety Foundation she met with a negative attitude, but she had actually been kicked by some Corps members in boots. I checked with her later, and she was quite bruised. So these were not accidental bumps by a foot, inflicted ' when someone was crowding her out. They were de liberate. Two generations of my family, my husband and three genera tions of his family are Aggies. Having had sons in the Corps, jhaving trailed to the campus from Galveston to football games and dances in the “big band days,” having attended all the home games (a 500 mile round trip) since the mid-GO’s—except as pre vented by illness from using our tickets—having served the Fed eration of A&M mothers on both local and state level, I do know a bit about A&M. I know that in the Corps you are being trained to be officers and gentlemen. This incident—an isolated one I hope— does you seniors no credit. It does the Corps no credit. It does A&M no credit. More and more as the years pass, you young men will realize that A&M is “something else!” On no other campus can you find spirit like the Aggie spirit. Dr. Williams can tell you what it means to have a stranger come onto the campus, “feel” it, and arrange to give a huge sum of money to a school so different from those he’d seen. He could tell you about speakers who’ve come here, been treated with re spect even by those with oppos ing views, and gone away prais ing A&M in speeches across the country. I challenge you, men of the Corps. Civilian students are a fact of life. Women students are a fact of life. Realize, please, that they, too are entitled to privileges that are traditional. Together with them, and with the Former Students and the Ag gie Moms, let’s KEEP that spe- 'WE HAD TO CAN YOUR DAILY SHOW, SAM — THE ONE THING THE PUBLIC ISN'T INTERESTED IN IS THE PUBLIC INTEREST!' €bt Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the editor or of the writer of the article and are not necessarily those of the University administration or the Board of Directors. The Battalion is a non-profit, self-supporting enterprise operated by students as a University and Community newspaper. LETTERS POLICY Letters to the editor should not exceed 300 words and are subject to being cut to that length or less if longer. The editorial staff reserves the right to edit such letters and does not guarantee to publish any letter. Each letter must be signed and show the address of the writer. Address correspondence to Listen Up, The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, Texas 77843. Members of the Student Publications Board are: Jim Lindsey, chairman ; Dr. Tom Adair, Dr. R. A. Albanese, Dr. H. E. Hierth, W. C. Harrison, J. W. Griffith, L. E. Kruse and B. B. Sears. Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising Services, Inc, New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M, is published in College Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and holiday periods, September through May, and once a week during summer school. FRENCH’S WEE AGGIELAND SCHOOL State Licensed, Day Care, Kin dergarten, Pre - Kindegarten, Private First, Drop-in Care, and After School. Village and Anderson in College Station. 846-6952. TOASTMASTERS MEET MON. OCT. 8th — 7:30 P. M. BRYAN CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY Improve Your Speaking & Communication by Participation. Plan Now To Attend cial spirit here at the campus we all love. “MOM” ★ ★ ★ Editor: At the recent Boston College game we encountered an experi ence which seems to reflect the apparent close-mindedness of a few “old Army” Aggies. Since both of us are seniors, we were exercising our privileges. by standing in the Senior victory line at halftime, awaiting the ar rival of the football team for the 2nd half. We had the opportuni ty to stand first in line, in which respect we felt very lucky. How ever, certain people didn’t think we deserved this right. These certain people happened to be dressed in the Corps of Cadets uniform, were wearing senior boots, and commenced to yell, “Get those Maggies out of here!” After this outburst, one of them spit his tobacco juice out on the track, while the rest gave us the once over more than once, seem ingly appreciating our presence more than they cared to admit. First of all, we are not Mag gies, but Aggies. We have never heard of the Texas Cows, the Arkansas Sows, or the Rice Owl- ettes. We have just as much right to be called an Aggie as anyone at this school. We are active in our student body, we support athletic events, we re spect our fellow students and faculty members, we pay tuition and other university expenses, and we feel that we are as much the 12th man as any Aggie in Senior boots. Secondly, since A&M dropped the mandatory Corps of Cadets enlistment quite a few years ago, any senior at Texas A&M, wheth er he or she be civilian or cadet, has the right to stand in the victory line and cheer for the Fightin’ Texas Aggies. We have accumulated 95 hours, we have ordered our senior rings, we pick up our football tickets on Mon days with the rest of the seniors, and we will graduate in May with our fellow Aggies, receiving our diplomas from the same hands as they. Finally, if it means anything to these “old Army” Aggies, we are both proud to say that one of us is the daughter of a co captain of the 1939 National Championship Aggie football team, while the other is engaged to a senior co-captain of the 1973 Texas Aggie football team. They both feel proud to know that we care enough to support our team in the victory line. So, to those cadets who dis played their rudeness to two fel low Aggies on Saturday night, and any others who may share the same views, we hope that you will come to the realization that women at Texas A&M are here to stay, not just for weekend dates, but as equal participants in the everyday life of Texas A&M. Margaret Ann Price ’74 Nancy Wehmeyer ’74 ★ ★ ★ Editor: It seems there should be some provision made for transfer stu dents who live off campus to re ceive a package containing a bare minimum of songs and yells for yell practices and games. I’ve had a terrible time trying to get this traditional material. I came to Texas A&M because it is a university I can be proud of as a student and later as a graduate. I am proud of it. I have talked with other people in the same situation who have had a similar experience. Student services has provided a lot of tradition-ori ented material, and I think they do an admirable job. Transfer students are a valuable part of A&M. They deserve to be al lowed access to its traditions. Phillip Christie ’75 The Student “Y” provides ma terial on traditions and defini tions of campus terms in a booklet. Inroll, and a roster of varsity football members statistics to transfer and freshman stu dents. This information it able at the Student Progrn fice of the MSC.—Ed. ★ ★ ★ Editor: As the father of six clj I was saddened to read tit tember 19, 1973 issue oftlt It included the interview lj thy Morgan relating the stt the girl who, after “coutit by the “Austin Clergy Gs and a representative of PI Parenthood, had an aborti What a pity the aborted was not given the chance interviewed by Kathy. This tragic episode seem congruous to appear in 1 school newspaper, which sents that school so unique credo of fair play. John R. Harris ★ ★ ★ Editor: I’m sorry to hear about J’s” traumatic experience ing through an abortion, also glad to know that you friend to lend you the you needed for the abortio: cause there is one sure life that was taken didn’th friend. I’m wondering, after yoi back your friend, how are and your student friend got pay back that life. Bill Ci’ Armory Dana Tickets Read Tickets for the Brazos Cc People’s Festival dance ares able at the ticket office is Rudder Conference Tower. Tickets are $2.50 per pe for the dance in the Bryat mory Saturday night, 8 p a.m. Three bands will providei riety of entertainment and and set-ups will be served. * PEMSTON CAFETERIA OPEN SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY BREAKFAST 7:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. COFFEE & PASTRY 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Featuring Klechka’s Kolaches each morning — A dining treat from old Europe you will never forget. 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EDITOR MIKE RICE Managing Editor Rod Speer News Editor T. C. Gallucci Women’s Editor Louie Holzem Sports Editor Kevin Coffey Ass’t. Sports Editor Ted Boriskie v < - SL-'.; - 1 ' ' / , ’ | « v V ■ ^ .«• I i35?Per.Dz. EARLY ADVERTISEMENT: Back in the 1 SSO's, Levi Strauss called his flared Levi's “spring bottom pants" and offered them to dealers at $13.50 per dozen. Popularity of Levi's has grown and millions of “blue jeans" are sold every year. How Levis Were Invehtei ... 20- Year-Old Immigrant Converted an Unwantt Roll of Canvas Into World's Most Popular Pants By The Rev. WEBB GARRISON Pastor, Central Methodist Church, Evansville, Ind., and Former President, McKendree College, Lebanon, III. Levi’s — the world’s most famous brand of pant worn by millions from Tacoma to Tokyo — were i vented by a 20-year-old immigrant lad, almost ^ accident. Levi Strauss, from Bavaria, was among the hordesv* set out for California in the gold rush, arriving in 1# He took with him bolts of cloth, which he sold — butt one wanted any of the roll of canvas he carried. “In San Francisco, a weather-beaten miner wanted! know what I had brought with me,” Strauss later retf! ed. “I pointed to my roll of canvas. ‘Should have broi# pants,’ the miner grumbled. ‘Pants are hard to get lif They don’t wear worth a hoot. Can’t get any that I strong enough to last.’ ” Strauss looked down at his roll of tough, durable^ vas cloth and an idea was born. What could be strool than canvas pants? The garments, to which he gavel first name, became standard wear by prospectors, c( F boys, loggers and others who helped open the West. When imitations sprang up, Strauss ordered all] cloth dyed indigo blue — and “blue jeans” came intobeif Then a Virginia City, Nev., tailor named Davisf satisfy a miner-customer who was always ripping outf pockets by stuffing them with rocks, took a pair of Lei to a harness maker and had him reinforce the podf with copper rivets. Strauss heard of it, hired Davis as| production manager, and in 1873 took out a patents rivets in pants. They have been a feature of Levi’s ef since. Will Rogers made frequent references to Levi’s, often wore them. In later years, Elvis Presley and Warhol, the artist-film maker, helped popularize them? college campuses and wherever youth — both male 1 female — congregate. Today, Levi Strauss & Co. is the world’s largest facturer of branded pants. The company sold over' million worth of the garments in 1971 and employs it* than 15,000 people — all busily turning out the pants ’ vented to meet a miner’s complaint. 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