Page 2 THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1975
A bargain moat
Compromise fails
Crocodiles, piranhas and spirit
Editor:
I recently graduated from A&M
and have since entered graduate
school at a university in
Washington. Now that it is football
season I thought you might be in
terested in how school spirit is ex
pressed here.
When I arrived here I was
shocked to see that the University
did not have a wall surrounding its
campus. But, they do have a 12-
foot-wide moat containing
crocodiles and piranhas. Curious to
know more, I asked a nearby stu
dent about the moat. He proudly
said it was the only one of its kind
and it had only costed $3.2 million
to construct.
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exclaimed my informer.
“Remarkable, was all I could
say.
“Quite a bargain, huh?” he asked.
I said I didn’t know because I
hadn’t priced any moats lately. He
then added that it played an impor
tant role in school spirit, too.
“How s that?” I inquired.
He explained, “Once a year be
fore the last football game 1600 bar
rels of crude oil are poured into it
and set afire. Then all the students
link hands and form a continuous
ring inside the circle of fire.
He went on, “We then yell, 'Claw
’em Cougars,’ and sing our fight
song while the band plays. As a
finale we take three students dres
sed as our opponents and throw
them into the flames.
“The shouting can be heard two
blocks away, and the flames have
been seen as far away as 10th St.!”
After a short silence I inquired,
“Well, does everybody partici
pate?”
“Naw,” he disgustingly admitted,
“there’s a few kooks on campus who
are against it.’’
“Well it does seem like a waste of
fuel with the energy crisis and ev
erything,” said I.
“Listen,” he sternly replied,
“have you ever realized how much
fuel is wasted across this nation
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everyday just from overfilling of gas
tanks?’’
“I guess I never considered that, ”
I timidly responded.
“Besides,” he added, “no cost is
too great for increasing our school
spirit.
“And it really helps the spirit
here?” I asked.
“Of course!” he said, as if I had
asked a dumb question. “We’ve
won three out of our past seventeen
games against that team.”
“Three out of seventeen doesn’t
sound too good to me, I stated.
“Well, he said defensively, “ii
we hadn’t had our Ringfire we
might not have won any of them.
Besides, this year will be different. ’
He asked me if I was going to be
there and I said I thought I’d proba
bly be busy.
I know this all sounds unbelieva
ble, but people do strange things for
strange reasons sometimes. GIG
’EM.
David Schaub
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5.43 percent. The phone company’s
original request was designed to
boost the rate of return to 8.4 per
cent.
If the rates are put into effect,
both cities will probably take legal
action, asking the district court to
issue a restraining order or tempor
ary injuction, to stop the rate in
crease.
The case would then be taken to
district court where a final decision
on the increase would be handed
down, following a hearing.
Bryan Mayor Lloyd Joyce said
Thursday night the city will fight the
rate increase if General Telephone
does put the new rate hike into ef
fect Monday morning.
“We will use every means at our
disposal to stop this increase from
going into effect, he said.
College Station Mayor O. M.
Holt could not be reached for com
ment.
The phone company last sought a
rate increase in May 1972. Thatcase
was settled out of court between
both cities and the phone company
after a year of litigation in the85lk
District Court in Bryan.
During the meeting, the phone
company offered to settle fora
$688, (XX) increase and agreednotto
ask for more until the state utilities
commission goes into effect in Sep
tember 1976, according to one city
official.
Both cities turned down theoffer,
saying it was still too high.
At another point during the meet
ing, acording to another city official,
the cities offered to grant General
Telephone a $375,000 rate hike, an
increase of $155,693 from the cities
original offer.
General Telephone declined the
offer.
One city official said that during
the discussion the phone company
again reduced its offer for an in
crease from $688,000 to 8550,000.
The cities also refused that offer.
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