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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 29, 1978)
p a ge 10 THE BATTALION a FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 28. 1978 I in ATI len, 6! fore 4 can b< Cente ter gr Mr; grant tic l)e By i Tecoj Unit gies, ai and th system characl sity.” Kold nities j ball” sy recogni said th, tions hj such as dent cai am. Soroi Univi shirtj Yell Practice - midnight tradition By NATHAN HINES Battalion Reporter Midnight yell practice, like nearly everything else at Texas A&M, is a tradition. This tradition started back- in November of 1932, before the A&M and Texas football game, said Connie Beanam, Traditions Council member. According to Beanam, midnight yell practice started something like this: A group of students were sitting around talking when one of them thought it would be "good bull to get the “fish," or freshmen, moti vated for the game. This started off as a small plan, but it didn’t stay small for long. Soon the band and the entire campus had arrived carry ing fireworks and raliroad flares. This was the begining of midnight yell practice as it is known today. Friday at midnight, Indore each home game, the student body meets behind Duncan dining hall, on the Corps quad. As the band moves by the crowd, the masses fall in behind it. The yell leaders lead the proces sion to Kyle Field. Once there, the yell leaders lead the Aggies in the yells—the fighting threats that have become a trademark of Aggie foot ball fever. One tradition at A&M is kissing your date after each score. To get ready for this, at midnight yell prac tice the lights are dimmed and “practice” takes place. The freshmen without dates light matches so they can spot their favo rite upperclassmen during this time. Another highlight of yell practice is juniors doing push-ups, said Bob Kamensky, Corps commander. During the yell practice one of the junior yell leaders says “beat the junior class (what ever year it is) hell out of the game opponent, and the juniors do push-ups until they reach their class number. "Yell practice is g(x>d bull, said Jeff Hancock, head yell leader. “But there are some do’s and don'ts if you want to avoid getting hurt and have the best time.” “Don’t try to break into the bands ranks or try to steal one of their white hats,’’ Hancock said. They be come very irate and if by chance a person tries to do this, they will find I c out why the hand is dltj'B Fight in Texas Aggie Band.' I Hancock also suggested: I — Don’t try to rimacrJ Field. The only peoplesiJ the field are the yell leaders}* band. No one else shouldgd field until after the teamk 1 —“Wildcat” instead ofdJ This is done by holding bolt 9 above your head and veiling I — Women shouldn't wear9 Aggies have a "tradition" o(9 ing and grabbing behinds,t| march to Kyle Field, Biilp shouldn’t be taken asoflensit] generally considered a compli — Do not call a yell praditt] rally. Aggies yell, theyi —Don’t go to yell predictjl Tipsy maybe, but noonettj-j 1 drunk hanging on them. “Most important," HanwiJ "participate. 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Members of the association include well-known people stidij President Jimmy Carter and former President Richard Nixon No one in the association ever contradicts the name of the group) correctly spelling it "opossum. According to Clark, the "o'inopr sum is invisible. "Eat more possum says a bumper sticker on Clarks car 1) association's motto is "a registered possum is a better jKKsum. I'sually, if Clark is around, so is a possum. So it was on ak summer afternoon as Clark sat in his office in Clanton, a smalhom central Alabama, and talked about bis favorite subject. "I've got a possum running around here somewhere, ” them said. He looked in a paper bag beneath his desk. "He’s gone! exclaimed the mayor, who wSNsNemVutw under bis desk and behind furniture. Finally he said ”J seehisti: and thereupon pulled a small hairy creature from behind a pietn office furniture. Clark held the possum for a few minutes, which by this time a started drooling. lie explained that the possum moistens its tailii way. Tlie tail, to which the possum pumps its blood, serves is i' "radiator" to keep its body cool. Being president of such an association, one would think thatClni would tell a joke a minute about possums. But behind his handm moustache, the mayor adopts a serious vein when talking aboutllt[ ratlike animal, one of the few marsupials liv ing outside Australia Possums have a fact* like a fox, a tail like a monkey, ears likes and human-like hands. They carry their young in a pouch lilir kangaroo. Clark says possums are rapid breeders, their meat high in pi and they could Ik* the answer to the world’s food problem. The} have a simple, elementary biologic structure and make exc animals for medical research, he said. "Could you not learn auto mechanics on a A-model?" he asWj Clark said several research hospitals have started usingpossuimj their work but the meat of the animal is hard to find on 11 except possibly the Explorer's Club in New York. “The fat in a possum is low-saturated, he said, "and cleans} arteries like a rotorooter. ’ There are about 35,000 association members who pay a $5 lee hi join, and there are 100 actual growers. You do not have to omi| possum to be a member, nor is there any initiation rite requiring prospective member to cat possum, which Clark says sells fprSOi, S10 per pound. “I can’t afford it, ’ says Clark, who reported that possum me. "a little like pork and a little like chicken," and is especiallygW| served with sweet potatoes. 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