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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1974
Listen up
Tales OF "THE GlOACbS
— PRESENTS —
Winning season noted
Editor:
Ever since I got back from Au
stin I have heard nothing but gripes
about the 1974 Fightin’ Texas Aggie
football team. We just finished our
best season in 18 years. How soon
people forget.
Granted, the game Friday was a
disappointment but it wasn’t T. U.
that “slapped” the Cotton Bowl out
of the Aggies’ hands (Aggie tires of
waiting; Listen up, Dec. 5); it was
SMU.
A victory over the Mustangs
would have given the Aggies the
Cotton Bowl two weeks before they
went to Austin, hut that’s all behind
us now. What’s not behind us is the
credit Coach Bellard, his staff and
players should he getting for having
our
Man at Batt)
By WILL ANDERSON J
'ONE . .
The answer to Alan Brown’s and Mike Cogwin’s
question (see Listen up) was provided by Dr. John J.
Koldus, vice president for student services.
When a state university begins and ends its terms is
approximately determined by the state legislature, Kol
dus said. The university is also told its number of holidays
and complete jurisdiction on their distribution.
TAMU uses all the days oil it is allowed by the legisla
ture, he said. They are approved by the Board of Direc
tors. It is generally preferred to have as many of the days
off as possible for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New
Year’s and Spring Break.
Koldus noted that a state university has no required
number of days that it must be in session, so any missed
class days do not have to be made up.
Thus, Labor Day is just another school day whether
a day off is given for bonfire or not.
This answer is for John Welch (see Listen up) and
any other left-handed students on this campus.
The explanation for the shortage of desks for left-
handed students was given by Wesley Donaldson, direc
tor of purchasing and stores.
“To the best of my memory, the percentage of left-
handed students is typically around 5 percent, he said.
Left-handed desks were suggested once during a renva-
tion, he said, but the concensus was that their installation
would cause more problems than it would solve.
“Just because 5 percent of the students are left-
handed, it doesn’t mean that every class would be 5
percent left-handed,’ Donaldson said.
He said right-handed students would often be forced
to sit in left handed desks. By the time a left-handed
student gets to college, chances are he has adjusted to
right-handed desks. A right-hander, however, would be
faced with a new problem with no time allowed to get
used to it.
Dr. Charles E. MeCandless, director of academic
planning and services, said attaining left-handed desks
does not present a problem.
“I can’t believe they wouldn’t be provided if there
was a need demonstrated for them," he said.
Dr. MeCandless said he thought a request for desks
should go to Donaldson’s office and that Gen. Alvin R.
Luedecke, executive vice president of plants and
grounds, would have to endorse the request.
one hell of a football season.
Finally, for Steven Gilbert, the
writer of “Aggie tires of waiting,”
and anyone else for that matter, if
you are tired of supporting the Ag
gies, please quit.
I would hate to have you sit
through any more disappointing 8-3
seasons.
David H. Walker
Walker is not the Aggie
quarterback.—Ed
Stolen guns
Editor:
Yesterday afternoon (Dec. 5) be
tween 2 p. m. and 3 p.m., I had two
guns stolen out of the cab of my
pickup. One was a .300 Weatherhy
Magnum Rifle and the other a Re
mington 1100-12 gauge shotgun.
My truck was parked at the side of
the Petroleum Engineering Build
ing just up the street from Zaehry
Engineering Center. The truck is a
white 71 CMC with a small camper
on back. The camper has a black
boat rack on top. The truck has
Alaska license plates.
If anyone happened to be walking
by at that time and saw anything
that looked like someone taking the
guns I would appreciate it if you
would let me know. 1 can be
reached at 845-2241 during the
week days and 693-3573 in the even
ings and on weekends.
And to the crooks who stole
guns you better thank God ^
d id n ’ t walk ou t of the building, II)
a loaded .357 Magnum in tk
compartment that you didn’t
Trent Laisk
Lefties stand
Editor:
Why, in all of A&M,
the new features like theHairijf
ton Center are there no left-kid)
desks? Such things do exist.
I n the colleges where I haves#
them, they are usuallyplacedmilj
left side next to the aisle onontu
so as not to bother the right-km!)
students.
I have English in the
building and it isiinpossiblelo^
a 500 word theme at those desk
John %
The answers to both quesfe
are in today’s paper—Ed,
Old adage
Editor:
In reply to Douglas E. Gai
problem of trying to figure
whether or not our school istkk
(Traditions plague A&M; Listen®
Dec. 3), I would just like to remis
him of an old adage;
“Highway 6 Runs Both Wav
Wayne C, Oit
Slouch
Jim Ear
“Not a word! Don’t even open your mouth!’’
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