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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Friday, October 12, 1973
CADET SLOUCH
Listen Up
h >‘Solid Religious Life’ Lacking Hert
you T ay 1 , can describe graduate college is that
ays feel somebody is following you I”
Editor:
“Texas A&M University is non
sectarian, but its high objectives
cannot be achieved unless its edu
cational program is founded on a
solid religious life. Divorced from
the spiritual aspiration of the in
dividual and of the group, educa
tion cannot be complete.”
This quote is taken from the
A&M 1973-'74 catalog. There are
no courses in Bible study or theol
ogy offered at this University.
A&M is a state supported
school. However, other state sup
ported schools not only offer these
courses, but give up to 12 hours
credit for taking them. Some of
these schools offer Bible study
courses through local churches.
Others have Bible history classes
included in their curriculum. Tex
as Tech, T. U., North Texas State,
Sam Houston State and TWU are
a few of the universities offering
Bible courses.
If education cannot be complete
without a good religious back
ground, why isn’t the Bible offer
ed in our educational curriculum.
Anna Crumrine *76
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Editor:
Campus construction has made
the atmosphere uncomfortable
enough without having some lawn
mower riding around belching
blue smoke like a mosquito fog-
ger. How about a little ecological-
minded undating on some of the
maintenance equipment around
here ?
Van Samo
★ ★ ★
Editor:
The issuing of free grade points
for physical education courses is
a ridiculous policy and should be
So-Called Tradition
A topic of increasing concern has been the enforcement
of the so-called tradition of not walking on the grass at the
Memorial Student Center and removal of hats inside the
building. We say “so-called” because no ruling body in
A&M’s history ever approved the grass and hat policies—
they simply evolved.
These methods of respecting former students killed in
war action has been great in thought, but poorly carried
out. Some students have caused headaches no end for people
such as President Jack Williams and Association of Former
Students Executive Director Buck Weirus because visitors
and former students have been roughed up by overzealous
individuals trying to enforce non-existent policies. It’s been
getting worse each year.
To compound this problem, student leaders have realized
that the grounds of the MSC have never had memorial status.
The building has only been dedicated to honor deceased Ags
and was named the MSC.
discontinued. To “reward” hard
working students with free grade
points, as advocated in a Battalion
editorial, is absurb. Competent
hard-working students enrolled at
a major university should be able
to maintain a 2.0 GPR without
these free points.
Then again if these free points
keep some students from gaining
admission into profesional schools,
shouldn’t “Caveat Emptom” be
imprinted on all application
blanks for admission to TAMU ?
Otto Zeck
★ ★ ★
Editor:
Your sensitive and thought-pro
voking editorial of the Oct. 9 edi
tion brought tears to my eyes.
Just think, not only can A&M
brag that we have the largest
freshman honor society, but we
can also brag that we enable
more “hard working students who
deserve a break” to stay here
when they would flunk out of
other schools. Surely anyone can
see that both attest to the high
intellectual caliber of A&M.
I’m glad that women are going
to be encouraged to take P.E. I
wonder how many we lost because
they didn’t get the break they de
served. Also how many were cut
out of scholarships because they
didn’t have an inflated GPR.
I have heard subversive people
mention that A&M's inflated GPR
is dishonest, but dishonesty is cer
tainly a small price to pay to en
able more good Ags to stay on.
Besides, we all need a good ego
boost now and then. Nevertheless,
I wonder if it is something that
we can be proud about.
Barbara Felkins
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Editor:
Oh boy! We've now got two
million-gallon fuel tanks, so let’s
turn on all of those totally worth
less display lights around Zachry
and the Oceanography-Meterorol-
ogy buildings. Insomiac chickens
in Navasota do enjoy the sight at
3 a. m.
And it’s so economical! Each of
those 24 lights at the engineering
center is only 400 watts. Such an
example for our outstanding Uni
versity makes it look more like a
den of apathy.
Does anyone in the administra
tion care to contest the judge
ment ?
C. David Stasny ’74
The Student Senate now has a bill for consideration
which would request University officials to extend memorial
status to the grounds. It does not ask for a ruling- on a hat
or grass policy and we hope no such action is initiated.
Since the building is public property open to anyone, we
don’t see how the state can require people to take hats off
or keep off the grass no matter what students here might
want.
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The grounds should be dedicated as a memorial and at
the same time students should respect it as a memorial on
their own initiative—without written rules. With so little
grass left around the center, it would seem foolish to con
tinue the method of accosting fellow students, faculty and
visitors and ordering compliance—especially when it causes
bad feeling and publicity for the University.
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Editor:
Re: Josten Ma’s Oct. 9 letter
concerning the Corps of Cadets.
The letter written by him and
his band of peace freaks was very
childish. The slogan he quoted is
just a part of A&M. Nothing
personal is meant against the
races. The Corps has always
echoed violent or “groady” say
ings.
One must be exposed to the
rough side of life rather than
just the rosey side if he wishes
to become a leader.
Those signing the letter have
already shown they would rather
sip coffee in class than go through
the Corps and become someone
worthwhile.
John Lee ’75
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Editor:
Re: Josten Ma’s Oct. 9 letter
concerning the Corps of Cadets.
It seems the civilian members
of TAMU like to exaggerate and
sensationalize anything they be
lieve is wrong with the Corps. I
am a second year member of the
Corps and I have never before
heard the atrocity, “I don’t care
what the peace queers think, I just
want to kill some chinks.”
The people who wrote the letter
concerning this wish to leave the
impression that the Corps is a
group of atheistic racists bent on
genocide. This so-called atrocity
is the words of one man, which
these people construe as the atti
tude of the entire Cadet Corps.
The answer to Ma's question
concerning the Corps “crap out” is
yes, it is another tradition of ours
and it does build mind, spirit and
unity. This is something a civilian
student will never understand.
Mike Paulsen ’76
Greg Knape ’76
John Mosser ’76
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Editor:
Re: The Oct. 4 letter from Mr.
Prince, Mr. Triplett and Mr. Krue
ger concerning yell leaders.
I can see your point in wanting
yell leaders at the south side of
the field, as well as the east side
where they are normally located.
But it wouldn’t be plausible. To
be fair to all the fighting twelfth
men, yell leaders would have to
be placed in front of every section
and that is out of the question.
As to weather it is on account
of your being ‘non-regs,’ I don’t
believe so.
I’m sick of hearing from the
Corps that it has so much more
spirit than ‘non-regs’. Sure, the
turn out to the home games is
almost 100 percent, but what do
you expect, Corps students are
forced to attend. It’s a fact that
if they didn’t have to go, their
turnout would be considerably less.
I was glad to see ‘non-regs’ as
yell leaders this year for the first
time, but next year I’d like them
all to be ‘non-regs’.
It’s time for the Corps to ‘pull
its head out’ and realize you don’t
have to wear a uniform to be an
Aggie.
Steve Allaire ’76
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Editor;
The names of two old A&M in
stitutions are being changed and
I see no reason for this.
Oct. 2 in which two A&M
reflected upon the treatment|J
received upon joining the Siiii;
Bootline at the Boston Collf^T^iw^
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explicit about their strong des ^s ami repair
to join the bootline and the quip:
ifications which they felt
site to obtain this high privilj
Indeed, having completed Tip.,
hours, having ordered an AftW 8811 S 190 - ph
senior ring, and being a
graduate in May are all imj
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tant parts of joining the l»j^ in „ t rr pe “‘'- 8
line. However, I submit
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gible, but just as important
ifications they should have cilfc cheveiie j
sidered before setting foot ony„ n ^ tio t "L n ^
track to join that line. Boso.
You see, it is a question
The Memorial Student Center is
now the University Center. Why ?
hasn’t the MSC just been enlarged
and expanded, or is it all a new
animal ? The MSC was dedicated
to the Aggies who died in World
War II. Are we now taking this
memorial away from those men ?
Can’t it all be the MSC and have
the new parts dedicated to the
Ags we say “here” for each April
21?
Changing the name of the Ex
change Store to the Texas A&M
Bookstore seems unnecessary to
me. “The Exchange Store” is a
unique name for a college book
store and quite identifiable with
A&M. It’s the same old Exchange
Store that was on Ross Street.
Maybe students will retain the
old names even though the signs
read differently. It has been ten
years since A&M’s status was
changed from college to univer
sity, but the Ags still sing, “We’re
from Texas AMC.”
Lynne Edwards ’76
★ ★ ★
The MSC still exists and is part
of the University Center, which
includes the Rudder Conference
Tower. The Texas A&M Book
store is just that, it hasn’t been
an Exchange Store for years and
hence the name change. The
Singing Cadets now sing, “We’re
from Texas AMU,” as it should
be. — Ed.
★ ★ ★
Editor:
I am writing in response to
the letter in The Battalion on
see, it is a
deeper qualifications! Howma:
times in the past three yea;
have these young ladies misi; HOBBIES,
a Yell Practice? How mat
times have they stood on t!
“wood” at Kyle Field? Ho |
many times have they retuiJ
from a game or a Yell Practy^ Panel
unable to speak because
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“yelled their guts out” supfw;,,,
ing the team ? How many limp”
have these young ladies wili|
catted from the gates of Kp
Field to their seats? How mail
times did these young ladies
down and “push ’em off” f{
the Sergebutt wildcat when tl
were Juniors? How manyofti
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and records for years past
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