Page 2 THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, DEC. 5, 1975 _
Catching ‘Christmas gas
a part of Aggie tradition
president at the time.
ttiil W||!|ii|i!^|iii T D, ttwho has made a con-
' : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : - : : : tracted trip to Europe and part of
By DON MIDDLETON toilets on the fourth floor of Dormit- Rhode Island, is expected to return
and ory 2. That’s where Corps Head- to Toddville by way of Navasota at
JOHN ADAMS quarters was located — andstillis.lt two o’clock next week. Reservations
When the Beat t.u. euphoria happened two more times that year, have been made for him on the
faded to a tolerable level late yester- and Corps Staff still didn’t move out. Bryan-College Interurban. Dr. Biz-
day, Middleton realized that it was That was also the last year that the zell writes that he notes a striking
time to pound out some words of Longhorn’ was published. The next difference between Americans and
wisdom concerning the history of our Y e ar and someone got the gas and foreigners, in that they speak a dif-
hallowed school. Adams had proba- changed the name of the yearbook to ferent language.
bly been sitting in his office for three *he Aggieland. College residents are anxiously
awaiting the President’s return, as it
% is rumored that he has grown a flow-
A ing beard.”
Nobody ever accused Bizzell of
being immune to the gas. Take, for
S instance, the time he posed for a pic-
4 TJr M ture next to a purloined Rice Owl
ii ) ^—r T| ^ on g with the cadets who purloined
it.
i It was only natural to steal Rice’s
Owl, since three years before, in
1917, they had a case of the gas and
got Rice’s Coat.
During those days, from 1914 to
1929, it was easy to get the gas.
Mainly because the Aggies had ten
winning football seasons in a row.
.. The coach from 1917 to 1928, with
* * V 111’the exception of 1918 when he went
J to war, was Dana Bible. We doubt if
he ever had the gas. But he never
had a losing season at A&MC, either.
College President W. B. Bizzell, to the left of the Rice Owl, His first season he went undefeated,
grins approvingly along with the cadets who stole the untie , am unscore upon,
stuffed mascot in 1920. Courtesy University Archives. In fact, he beat his opponents by a
combined score of 270-0. He did it
days waiting for his sometime part- And that same year Coach Homer again his second season to prove it
ner to show up. Norton got the gas and produced a wasn t a fluke. Aggies, 275 — oppo-
But Middleton had fallen victim to losing season. That was something nents, zip.
a tradition older than kissing after Homer rarely did. In fact he only did v i i_ i j r
touchdowns, quadding, Aggie jokes it five times in the fourteen seasons ics, the gas has been around for
or even hazing. Yes, devoted he coached the Aggies. quite a while and it looks like it s here
readers, Christmas gas is here to In the old days, the gas was not sta y- \j r y lew Aggies escape at
stay. just something that floated around > east a mi . ld case ofth , e g as ; Xt L s hard
While half of this writing team was prior to Christmas and Summer re- ^. )r ^ 1S to imagine ma ing it tirough
slavingoverafilefilled with interest- cesses and during the entire senior f’ na l s w< : e wit out a goo , np-
ing facts from A&M’s past, the other year. The gas was enshrined every ioaring cose o it.
half was teaching fish to sing “Winter year in a special section of the year- Ten bucks says Pat Thomas and Ed
Wonderland in two part harmony. book called “The Greenhorn. Simonini have the gas, but good.
The gas is not new to “Sing-Sing No one, not even the College pres- Along with Garth Ten Napel, Edgar
on the Brazos. ” Oh, no. The gas has ident, was safe from the barbs hurled Fields and Lester Hayes. Not to
been here for longer than your by the Greenhorn staff. In 1924 the mention Blake Schwarz, Jimmy
great-grandfather, class of ought- Greenhorn ran a page called “The Dean, Jackie Williams, Richard Os-
something, can remember. Daily Bulletin, presumably a borne, Robert Jackson, Bubba Bean
It was here in ’47 when some en- parody of The Battalion. One of the anc j B ruce Welch,
terprising cadets striken with the gas articles was headed “Dr. Bizzell to
removed the flush valves from all the return from Europe. ” Bizzell was Thomas made All-American for
the second year. There’s going to be
%, , oarflF a change in the fish campusology
question. Thomas joins a rather elite
8 rou P °f Aggies who accomplished
the same feat — Joe Routt, Jack Lit-
■ilSBr" tie, John Kimbrough, Charlie
Krueger and Bill Hobbs.
This is the sixth year the Aggies
have placed two or more players on
the first team. In ’39 there were
three and in ’68 there were four. The
team’s record in 1968 was 3-7.
9|Kj|Sj|H Hmmmmm. The sportswriters who
Am/ , v . pick the All-Americans must have
had the gas.
By now you must be convinced
that although some traditions come
and go, the gas is cemented firmly
into the lifestyle of the students, offi-
' ’■ t Hr rwr ~ r ' ''' “ ’ L ' eer.s and faculty of the A&M College.
* r r i |j| , f , ,, The face of the school may change,
A group of sophomore cadets helped the football team get but the gas — well, you get the mes-
Rice s goat in 1917. Courtesy University Archives. sage.
Campus Comments
How do they stand it?
Senate vacancies abound
\.QF COURSE, WHERE SOVIET DFITMTT IS CONCERNED, I GUESS I'M A LONALP UEAGAN CONSERVATIVE!'
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By SANFORD RUSSO
Campus Editor
After watching the student senate
in action, it’s truly amazing that any
one stays in the body very long.
In fact many people don’t stay in
the Senate past three meetings
pleading grade trouble, inability to
fulfill obligations elsewhere, or are
asked to leave because of non
interest.
There are always senate positions
to be filled. Not a senate meeting
passes without a plea from Jeff
Dunn, student body president, for
someone to apply for this position or
that.
It’s gotten to the point, in the past,
that by the time spring elections roll
around, half the senate is presiden-
tially appointed-senatorally ap
proved.
What this means is friends of
senators, people who couldn’t make
it in an election or senate “groupies”
end up with what should be elected
positions.
It’s enough to make one wonder if
voting exists as a courtesy and not as
a decision-making action. It also
causes the question “does the Senate
really represent me?” to be asked.
Another factor of consideration is
the people who run for senate seats.
Are they really sincere if they leave
the senate after a month or two of
“service?”
It’s a well-known fact that if a per
son puts up enough flyers and big
enough billboards they can be
elected to almost any office they de
sire.
Maybe popularity and name-
recognition shouldn’t be the criteria
by which Senate seats are filled and
later vacated.
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