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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1974
Your Man at Batt
by Greg Moses
Four of the five senior class officers have petitions
asking for graduation in Kyle Field rather than G. Rollie
White Coliseum.
The petitions were distributed Tuesday and signatures
will be collected today. Chris St. John, social secretary, is
the organizer of the project.
He says he first heard about the change April 15. The
next day he talked to Larry Hoelscher, senior class
president, and Gary Anderson, senior secretary-treasurer.
Anderson told him that an appointment with Dr. Tom
Adair, assistant to the president, had been set up.
“We got no help from Adair,” says St. John. He took
informal polls in class and says he found most seniors in
favor of the Kyle Field site. Friday he went to Dean Edwin
H. Cooper, chairman of the convocations committee.
Cooper told him to work out something with Randy Ross,
former student body president, or Hoelscher. Ross was out
of town because of a death in his family and Hoelscher
would not organize the petition.
“When Dr. Williams got several seniors together we
discussed the problems,” says Hoelscher referring to the
April 9 meeting discussed in Friday’s column. He says no
one expressed doubts about the site change at the meeting.
“It is my feeling that it would be most advantageous
to graduates and parents to have the graduation in G.
Rollie.” Besides the heat and rain possibilities, Hoelscher
says, the people watching Final Review and the graduation
will have a pretty big strain.
“People are looking at this in a very short term point
of view. Even with a ticket system, to move that many
people in case of weather in that amount of time is
ridiculous.” He doesn’t think people are considering the
comfort of the elderly in the heat. “The drawback to G.
Rollie will be partially remedied by a ticket exchange
system proposed by Dr. Williams,” says Hoelscher.
“After the meeting with Dr. Williams we got a lot of
feedback,” says Nick Nichols, a student on the con
vocations committee. A lot of people made arrangements
after the April 2 letter announcing the graduation in Kyle
Field . .. seniors would rather have a ceremony where their
grandparents, parents, brothers and sisters could attend.
What do you say? “Heck, 1 like you a lot but they gave me
more money for college?”
Mike Turner, vice president, said the informal polls
showed that the average senior invited six guests. “This was
put on people a little late in the year,” says Turner. “People
had already made plans.”
Kent Crockett, class historian, thinks it should be
changed back to Kyle. “What do you do,” he asked, “send
out an invitation and tell them they can’t come? . . . ’Send
presents, but you can’t come.’ This is our last thrust to
change it.”
“We’re not trying to talk down to the administra
tion,” says Nichols. He says he was told that individuals
who call up administrators and complain are not considered
representative of the senior class. And that is why he says
the petition is important. He was also told that a petition, if
done correctly, isn’t a bad thing.
I asked Anderson if he was also a sponsor of the
petition. “I’m not really sure whether I am or not,” he says.
He has a petition but, like the others, he hasn’t collected
signatures and, unlike the others, he doesn’t know if he
wants to collect signatures.
“I don’t think there is anything that can be done
about it,” he says. Anderson called Adair on April 12 and
was told that the “ball was already rolling.” He arranged an
appointment with Adair. “I didn’t figure there was any
thing we could do,” he says. “I’m resigned to the fact that
it will be in G. Rollie White and there’s nothing I can see
that can be done except express our dissatisfaction.”
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Editor:
Here are some facts about
track coach Charlie Thomas which
seem to escape the memory of
some track fans:
1. A&M won the SWC track
title in 1970, finished second in
1971 when Curtis Mills turned an
ankle in the 220, finished second
in 1973 in Austin when the team
was picked to finish fifth.
2. A&M has won one title, fin
ished second five times and third
six times since 1959.
3. Tracksters coached by Charlie
Thomas hold five Southwest Con
ference records, and all but one
school record.
4. Tracksters coached by Char
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records (indoor mile relay, 880 re
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5. Five tracksters coached by
Charlie Thomas have earned All-
America honors.
There are few coaches anywhere
who could match that record.
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After reading the entry into
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mara I feel I must clarify the
ideas that I presented earlier.*
Miss McNamara stated in her
article that “perhaps his solu
tion for streaking would work.”
After that she seemed to confuse
my ideas for handling a riot as
the same for a non-violent pro
test. Maryanna agreed that I do
not feel streakers should be gun
ned down; only suspended from
school. As for protest gatherings;
they must be handled carefully by
both participants and police. It is
obvious that in many non-violent
protests there are experts plant-
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in opinion. If I were a store own
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and enter into my shop I would
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work, not stopping until it was
warm and empty. When a man
earns something he is less apt
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exercise their “you owe it to
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They are getting enough of that
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welfare system.
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my point. If a man wants some
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be of material value or in the
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haps honest work) or be prepared
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