opinion
Battalion/Pagsll
February 24,
Too early for fun in the sun
Attention all beach bunnies and sun
worshippers.
(If your skin is already tan or red, this
means you.)
I hereby launch my campaign to get
you off the landscape and into the clas
sroom — or workplace or domicile or
anywhere that you can’t be found catch
ing rays.
Really. Just a few days of sunshine and
people shed their outer layers (and most
of their inhibitions) and prompt others to
do the same.
’Tis true: sun worshipping is conta
gious. Groups seemingly multiply day by
day until it’s hard to see if the campus
even has landscape.
You’d think the Sun God told his chil
dren to go forth and spread the Good
Word: “Sun’s Out!”
Classroom attire changed overnight
from casual skirts and pants and designer
jeans to short shorts and halter tops, sun
dresses and sandals, muscle shirts and
thongs.
The fact that department stores bring
out summer fashions during their post-
Christmas sales is no reason why students
should don them before April.
Should the temperature dip to the 40s
again, those folks still will be clad in their
sunsuits — blue goosebumps included.
They’ve already done their spring clean
ing and packed up all their snuggies.
What’s the deal?
Already the eau de Coppertone wafts
through classrooms and corridors.
And after class: roller skates, frisbees
and more short shorts. It’s disgusting.
Some of these people even have the au
dacity to sit around and savor ice cream
in the sun. Ice cream outside should be
outlawed til April.
It’s only February.
Some states are still snowbound.
Where’s your sense of nationalism? Isn’t
it a tad bit tacky to bask in the sun while
fellow Americans are freezing to death?
Think about that while you’re checking
those tan lines.
Granted, Texans are blessed with fair
er skies throughout the year than some
folks see in a decade, but that’s no excuse
to let loose and go frolicking through the
grass. Where’s that sense of integrity?
* Where are all those studious college
types?
And how did these fair weather
friends come to have so much time on
their hands, anyway? Not 10 days ago
they complained of impending tests,
term papers and class projects. Mid-term
grades are just around the corner.
But now they’re out in the sun, having
fun. Did teachers suddenly cancel semes
ter assignments to let their students study
for finals? It’s doubtful.
Soon they’ll partake in the who-has-
the-worst-sunburn-on-Monday syn
drome, that masochistic practice that has
everyone seeing red.
The sun worshippers whose faces are
tan now will have the bronzed and beauti
ful look by spring break. That’s when the
Snow White minority members will make
their debut under the sun ... sunscreen
included.
Slouch
By Jim Eaf
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Reader’s Forum: Two,
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Editor:
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It’s truly amazing the cycles the Amer
ican political scene goes through. For ex
ample, the fad was liberalism in the six
ties, making conservatives appear like
money grubbing, rights denying, ogres.
Now the cycle has swung toward conser
vatism, which Finds liberals depicted as
spend-thrift-bleeding-hearts. No doubt
liberals will again, someday be popular.
Each phase had their own do or die
legislation; the result of which effectively
reverses all past wrong doings and evil
deeds. Opposing the legislation is a size
able part of the population, who project
fatal repercussions if the new law is
enacted.
This time aroud, conservatives are
proposing sweeping welfare and social
reforms, including abortion, while the li
berals are resisting, if not outright, then
secretly. But there should be noted a dis
tinct difference in this end of the cycle,
for religion, and not blatant social misjus-
tice is the motivating factor of the conser
vative campaign (an argueable assump
tion). So much so is this true, that reli
gious denominations are fading, and in
their place has been thrust two new and
distinct religious affiliations. These are
the God fearing, star-spangled, conser
vatives; and the evil, immoral, spend
thrift liberals.
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Letter: A few individuals spoil image for entire Cor
Editor:
Regs, non-regs both needed
each other to keep Aggieland as strong as
if can be.
I am writing in response to the recent
rapid infux of complaints concerning
Corps members (Kermit People, c.t.’s). I
do not question the validity of these com
plaints against particular persons who, by
chance, happened to be in the Corps, but
to instigate the Corps into this is highly
irrational and unfair.
Editor:
Stereotyping is much too easy. It is too
bad that those sleezy non-regs have to be
so immature to backstab such an easy
target as the Corps of Cadets. If one
analyzes this last sarcastic statement, I am
sure that he can easily see my point.
Mr. Doug Cochran, a most striking
statement in your letter concerning the
Lakeview party incident began, “I am not
saying that it was only the Corps ...” Un
fortunately, I believe, as your letter clear
ly implies, that that is exactly what you
were saying. Miss Boyce, I am sorry to
imform you (in case you haven’t figured
it out for yourself) that your childishly
sarcastic “Saga of Sir Cadet” showed an
extreme lack of maturity, something I
most certainly regret seeing in the work
of an otherwise promising young jour
nalist.
The point is that the incidents in ques
tion are isolated ones involving indi
vidual students. They are not routine
occurrences within the Corps. The Corps
of Cadets, as a whole, has brought no
thing to this UNIVERSITY BUT
HONOR AND PRIDE. I too, painfully
regret that a few bad apples spoil the
whole bunch.
Rob Drury ’84
Squadron 2
All year I have read articles and letters
in The Battalion against the Corps of
Cadets. I guess Steve Silver’s letter Mon
day broke me to the point that I felt I
have to write in my point on view. Steve, I
can’t believe anyone would take pen in
hand to protest the issue of a cadet writ
ing, “Aggie Band ’84” in wet cement, but
quite obviously the offense upset you so
badly that you felt you must publicly add
your name to the list of Corps-Haters.
Your use of extreme sarcasm is only an
example of your own immaturity to ex
press your argument logically. The
cadet, I agree, was wrong to deface the
University grounds with what I’m sure he
saw as an expression of spirit and not the
ugly scar you invisioned. Also, I hardly
believe there exists any comparision be
tween the action of the cadet and break
ing windows. It seems to me that either
you are extremely jealous of the Corps of
Cadets, or the fact is you are just the
irrational individual you so clearly illus
trated in your letter.
It seems that every move the Corps
makes is printed negatively in some form
in The Battalion. Please understand,
Aggies, we are not perfect, and we shall
never claim to be. I’m in the Corps be
cause I wanted to experience Texas
A&M to the fullest, not to be on a team
against non-regs. I can’t imagine the size
of the editorial page if every wrong move
a non-reg made was printed.
Enough of this non-reg and c.t. stuff
— I say we’re all Aggies and hopefully
we’re here to get an education and ex
perience that unique Aggie spirit and tra
dition. Please don’t insist on widening the
gap between us like Steve does, we need
Doyle Lane ’85
Squadron 2
Departmental problems
Editor:
(I’m sorry I didn’t know the university
closed for lunch.)
To make a long nightmare longer my
professor finally explained that the
homework is graded on a scale of ten
points per problem. I turned in six prob
lems (60 points, right?). I had seven
points deducted, total, throughout my
papers. I realize my math background is
only up to Math 253 with a 3.2 gpr, but I
avoid the draft, but for some reas seni
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students in M.E. 212 failed lastse^hen he de
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Kevin Mauls
I would like to share my first experi
ence with the M.E. department. I enrol
led this semester in M.E. 212, and I was
pleased with the first day of classes, when
I found out that the course was standar
dized. I like this, because I do not have to
worry about any one person determining
the test, grades and material covered in
the course. That was my first and last
happy moment with M.E. 212.
After received my first graded
homework assignment back, I found a
grade of three. That was nice, but what
did it mean? I asked my professor, but
he said, he did not know. I also noticed a
point was taken off for not stapling the
papers together. I reread my two pages
of instructions concerning the form for
the homework, but.. . (just to note: Ev
erything said and passed out to the stu
dents during the first week of classes is a
contractual agreement between the stu
dent and the professor and the universi
ty) I found no mention of fastening the
papers together, but the professor only
laughed and said, “What is a few
points?” Well professor a few points out
of a possible ten is a few letter grades.
I proceeded to go to the coordinator
for M.E. 212,1 found his schedule nicely
placed on his door with his office hours
written in. I was there during his office
hours, but he was not. I went to the main
M.E. office, but found the door locked.
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