The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 29, 1980, Image 10

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    Page 10 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1980
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A commitment to tradition.
Kent Caperton will do justice to the legends and traditions
of Texas A&M, and simultaneously add an invigorating spirit
to the Texas Senate.
Kent Caperton’s commitment to Texas A&M is undisput-
able. He is a former student body president of TAMU, and later
became an assistant to former A&M president, Jack Williams.
Kent has also taught at A&M as a visiting lecturer in the
College of Business.
Kent understands the problems which Texas A&M faces.
During the I980’s, he will be the ideal person to articulate and
defend the needs of our university. He will fight to keep A&M
strong, and will zealously guard the Permanent University
Fund. Kent believes in A&M; he will work hard for its future.
The new decade calls for a new kind of senator, an intelli
gent, dedicated senator who represents the true feelings and
interests of A&M students, Kent Caperton is right for the job.
Kent Caperton is hard-working, forthright, and aggressive.
Texas A&M deserves no less.
Class of 71
President of Student Body
Assistant to the President
Distinguished Student
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Cadets like spurs traditio
By MARCY BOYCE
Battalion Staff
Jingle cap, jingle cap, jingle cap walk.
Bottle cap spurs and an accompanying jingle cap walk readily
distinguish freshmen cadets from the rest of the Texas A&M Corps of
Cadets this week as they prepare to confront Mustang mania Satur
day at Southern Methodist University.
The entire Corps will travel to Dallas this weekend for midnight
yell practice and the football game the following day.
The spurs traditionally are worn every year to raise spirit the week
before the Texas Aggie-SMU Mustang football game, but also to
remind all cadets that “before you can wear your senior spurs, you’ve
got to wear your fish spurs,” Corps Operations Officer Phil Greilich
said.
Freshmen cadets usually make the spurs the weekend before SMU
game following a week-long raid of campus vending machines and
alleys beside local bars, Greilich said.
The treasure hunt culminates in a mass bottle-cap pound-out on
the quad in front of the Corps dormitories. The caps are punctured
and threaded onto a clothes hanger which is wrapped around the
freshmen’s heels and held on by a boot band.
Some outfits require their freshmen to wear 84 caps on each shoe
to represent their class year, while others wear the number of their
squadron or company on each shoe, Greilich said.
“Freshmen let their imaginations go wild on the way they can
make them (the spurs) extend from the rear,” he said noting that
upperclassmen often have to advise the freshmen how to angle the
spurs to prevent tom pants.
The trip to the SMU game this weekend is their first Corps trip of
the year.
Midnight yell practice will be held Halloween night on the parking
lot of the Railhead on Greenville Avenue and Park Lane in North
Dallas and a field across the street, Senior Yell Leader Mark Outlaw
said.
Kenny Davis, a comedian-singer, will be appearing in the restaur
ant’s lounge which has a 300 seating capacity, he said.
The mayor of Dallas, Bob Folsom, and distinguished members of
the faculty have been invited to attend a parade of the Corps in
downtown Dallas at 9 the following morning, Nov. 1, Greilich said.
Beginning at Griffin and Young streets, he said, the Corps will
march north on Griffin, turn right on Commerce street and pass a
reviewing stand in front of what used to be the Baker Hotel.
The Corps followed by Parsons’ Mounted Cavalry will then pro
ceed down Commerce, across Akard Street where the Fighting Texas
Aggie Band will play, turn right on Harwood and then disband at
Young Street.
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week, in honor of the football game against the Southen
Methodist University Mustangs this weekend. The numberol
flattened bottle caps in a freshman spurs is decided by tils
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ATTENTION
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LONDON — In the lofty great hall of the Royal Courts of Juste, |
six ambassadors, including America’s Kingman Brewster, gathersl
before the Queen’s Remembrancer to watch a man count 61 nails,
“This is an unusual, exceptional, even unique ceremony,” said tk
Queen’s Remembrancer, Sir Jack I.H. Jacob.
Nothing better illustrates how tightly the English cling to their
past than this faintly comic “Rendering of the Quit Rents” — tk
yearly rental payment to Queen Elizabeth for two plots of U
nobody can even find.
But Jacob, in his black robe and chest-lengh curled wig, said sud
“time-honored traditions lie at the heart of the social fabric.”
They are observed for the people, not for show. The British saw
many ancient ceremonies for themselves, waiting until the tourist!
have gone as if to prove that these traditions have genuine meanif
and are not empty display.
“Such ancient, time-honored, traditional ceremonies show ou
pride in the past, our faith in the future,” said Jacob, whose oddoffici;
of Queen’s Remembrancer is another ancient holdover. “And be-1
sides, they add a little color to our lives.”
Hardly any page of living history goes back further than theanndj
Quit Rents ceremony. The one held the other day was the 7l
“It is older than Magna Carta,” Jacob said. “Some authoritiessayilj
is older than any other ceremony but the coronation itself.
“It is one of the oldest, most esoteric and distinctive ceremonies ii|
English legal history.”
So the lord mayor came in procession, all scarlet, lace and
ostrich plumes. There were lords and ladies, justices and
commissioners, four former lord mayors and four embassy heads dj
mission.
They watched a throwback to feudal times, when the king sottl
times accepted as rent paid a token — a rose, a glove, a pepperci»|
— instead of cash or service.
Queen’s Remembrancer Jacob doffed his black tricorn hat till
ritual three times, then outlined “a quit rent of extreme eccentricityj
for a plot of waste ground called “The Moors” in the county d|
Shropshire.
The rent was first recorded in 1211, but the land’s location was
in the shuffle of centuries. Now, Jacob said, it has been “found’il
last.
“In one bold stroke of creativity,” he said, current Lord Mayor Sc
Peter Gasden picked a farm field in his native Shropshire
declared it was “The Moors” of the quit rent. He even erected i
plaque to solemnize the fact, and brought the farmer to London t«
see the rent paid the ancient way, with a billhook and hatchet,
Eight centuries of custom required city official Stanley F. Heatk
to prove the billhook was dull and the hatchet sharp.
Five times he struck a bundle of twigs with the billhook, then will
a shrug held up the bundle uncut. But one blow of the hatchet sent!;
severed half of the bundle whistling past his right ear.
“Good service,” the Queen’s Remembrancer said.
The second rent was first paid in 1235 by Walter le Brunt, wk
squatted next to the London tilt yard of the Knights Templar and sel
up a forge to shoe their horses and mend their armor.
“The exact location of the forge has given rise to a great deal d
research and speculation,” Jacob said. But after 745 years nobod;
knows where it was. Its rent, hoewever, remains what it was then-
six horseshoes and 61 nails.
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