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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1983)
rwi ■« »- jarvjL ! *■ ■« »■ m -i M M M case, i ne Friday, January 28, 1983 It's ours...is not...is too During the United Way fund drive, Kreuger Hall residents kidnapped the Dunn Hall rocket and held it hostage. Krueger wanted ransom money from Dunn for the safe return of their mascot. The money was going to help support the charity drive. The men weren't very pleased with the actions of their sister dorm and subsequently both dorm councils became in volved in mediating the over blown dispute. Who says Aggies have a sense of humor? What more can be said about football players who attack a meek pizza delivery man, steal his pizza, and throw him down the stairs? The two Aggie players re sponsible said it was simply a prank; Jackie Sherrill said he didn’t want to talk about it; and several local reporters said they lost just a little respect for the man who leads the Aggies. Plus, he forgot the free Pepsi's Sherrill’s handling of the whole ordeal included calling a reporter from the Bryan- College Station Eagle at home to yell at him, having a reporter from the Battalion escorted (nicely, though) out of his office, refusing to speak on the matter, and assorted other public rela tions’ maneuvers. But nobody said it was going to be easy, did they? or... what Texas Monthly could have said For all you do, this wreck's for you Beer at Northgate is nothing new. Nor is beer on Texas high ways. But on Oct. 30, things got a bit out of hand. 8,000 cases of Miller Lite were dumped on University Drive at the Wellborn overpass shortly before 1 a.m., the College Sta tion alcohol curfew. Although no one was hurt, police guarded the site diligent ly. Aggies can be fierce when free beer is available. Ever seen a smoking tortilla... Last October, students were evacuated from Sterling C. Evans Library when smoke and heat from a custodial closet in the build ing set off the fire alarm. Students were not permitted into the library for fifteen minutes while officials searched for the source of the fire. It seems that a tortilla had been left to cook on a hot plate inside the closet. What else do they do during their breaks? FLy? or A RIVER RUM? OR A DRAWING PEA/? OR A... I scream, you scream, we all score for ice cream Midway through the Aggies' dismal 5-6 football season, head coach Jackie Sherrill decided the team was being rewarded perhaps a bit too much — espe cially since they wem't perform ing up to his usual standards. The first-year Aggie mentor exercised his contracted right and pulled the plug on the team's refrigerator — one that previously had been stocked with ice cream. The lack of dessert did not light the fire that Jackie had hoped it would. Instead, it simply fed the imaginations of several sportswriters who buried Jackie and the team in a pile of whipped cream and col umn inches. The ice cream episode was just another pot hole in the Aggies' "rocky road" of a season — one that looked as it might turn out "tutti fruity' and ended up as just plain old vanilla. I'm not so think you drunk I am In November, a Texas A&M freshman fell from a third floor window in Moore Hall, hitting a tree on the way down. Miracu lously, he was unhurt. His roommate said he had been drinking and apparently leaned out the window, passed out and fell to the ground. Supposedly, the stars were blurry in November. aTk 0 II 12 :t,* » !20 ’ ! , , IS .!« Eeenie, meenie, mynie, moe... The producers of the Twelve Men of Aggieland calendar de serve a big award for their efforts. They chose 12 men out 20 candidates to represent the beefcake Twelfth Man on a pin up calendar. The scientific researchers approached men at the pool, on campus and in clubs and asked the lucky few if they would be interested. Did they have to hump it to qualify? The University of Texas chose their 12 pin-up boys out of more than 400 carefully screened ap plications. Does this mean that U.T. has more good looking men than A&M? We certainly hope not. Women, get your transfer appli cations in early. The Buttalion Butt of the joke In November, a lookalike parody of The Battalion called "The Buttalion" hit the news- tands. And the fan. The brave authors appeared — with voices electronically gar bled, and their faces covered — on a local TV news broadcast ex plaining why they did it. For some reason they think we can't take a joke. But if they ever show their faces around here, we'll....