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Reveille IV returns In the minds of many Aggies, Re veille IV will always be the school mascot. It doesn't matter that Re veille V is spnghtlier or more play ful, they want the old girl back none theless. Well, good news is on the way for those old Ags, an MSC spokesmen said Thursday. Local for mer student Buck Aggie is donating Reveille IV back — stuffed, for future generations to enjoy. "Well, we had to put the 'ole girl to sleep because of flatulence,” he said. “My son Carl was taking the University Plus course in taxidermy, and since they were just going to bury him down under the scoreboard, I let Carl take her along to class one day. He did a real fine job and she'll make a fine decora tion for the Flag room, there next to the piano." The former mascot will be en closed, standing at attention, one paw lifted in salute, inside a herme tically sealed glass case. “We just figured it would be a real fine gift," he said. “We might even start a new tradition.'' Parking spaces becoming extinct Campus preacher calls for return of traditional religion The Rev. P.S. D'Playate wants to take Christianity back to the time of Christ. "I think that we as Christians should try to take ourselves more like Chnst," D'Playate bellowed in a recent sidewalk sermon. “The best way to do that is to revive the old ways and the old traditions." Almost a dozen followers stood around and listened to D'Playate as he preached the Gospel at Rudder fountain. D'Playate, dressed in a plaid polyester suit, told of the evils of sin to his disciples and passersby. "Ye who has sinned shall be pun ished," D'Playate yelled as he pointed to Sinthia S. Lutt, a junior MRS major from Houston, who was on her way to the Quad. "Just like the whore of Babylon who tempted rightous men, you are also a tempt ress! The scriptures show how we must deal with sin!" Three of D'Playate's disciples grabbed Lutts and tied her to a tree while the other disciples gathered stones. After a few minutes a huge pile of stones was gathered. D'Playate, his disciples and various other Christians said a few prayers, read a few verses about God's di vine love, and then smashed in After posting the 101st "No Par king" sign this semeter, Hank Catchum, director of the No Parking for Pleasure department of the cam pus police commented on his agency. "We work with the city of Bryan and College Station to enforce strict parking regulations," Catchum said. "Our latest collaboration was the street down from St. Mary's where cheap students who won't pay a dollar for the mud lot park. "We figured these students were getting away with too much of a free ride. We realize they weren't blockin' nothing, but we can't have too much of a good thing around here, now can we? "You can talk to the transportation center and the campus police force, and they'll all tell you the same thing I'm about to, there's plenty of park ing on campus if everybody parks properly." Lutts' brains with the stones. = 3 ^ Z-z~c L ^-5 id y c £ 5 ** ' o 0 £ § ~ L i! < ^ sam s-sc- c i. 2 r' </; 2 X U X a.-E S -r = “ . C C - rz ^ r* ^ bC£ .5 ‘C = C < <■ u-« ^ - ox. — 31 — — c -C QJ ^ O H s oj Nob kills gardener An 89-year-old gardener died Thursday in a brutal lawnmower killing. Milton J. Wilintstone, who had worked for Texas A&M for 73 years, was mowing the MSC grass when several students yelled: "Get off the grass, dammit!" Wilintstone, who has been deaf since childhood, did not hear the students' threats. After a few minutes a group of about 30 students ran out on the MSC lawn, grabbed Wilintstone and hurled him to the ground. The students then ran over Wilintstone's body with the lawnmower while they whooped and yelled: "Beat the hell outta people who walk on the grass!" An impromptu yell practice was then held. Wilintstone was pronounced dead on the scene. His body was taken to Fred's Funeral Parlor in Bryan, Mar vin's Morturary in Millican, Charlie's Crematorium in Calvert, Henry's Funeral Home in Hearne and an un disclosed Northgate eatery in Col lege Station. Corps' old uniform takes on new look Texas A&M's Office of Public Prop aganda announced that the tradi tional Texas A&M Corps of Cadets uniform will soon be taking on a new look. Instead of the traditional brown, the new Corps uniforms will be black. Instead of caps, cadets will be wearing spiked helmets. Instead of riding boots, all cadets will be wear ing jackboots with hobnails. And a new armband will be added to the uniform. The uniform changes are part of the "New Corps" image that A&M is promoting. "Der neu changes vill macht us look much better," Corps Comman dant S.S. Adolf said. "It vill be an honour und a privlege to vear our neu uniform. Ve ist proud to serve der Vaterland!" Uber Corps Commandant Wil helm Shickelgruber echoed Adolf's sentiments. "'Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Tradi- . tion' ist our neu motto," Shickel gruber said. "Heute, Aggieland — Morgen, der Vorld!" Student Senate passes resolution to do something In action Monday night, Texas A&M's Student Senate passed a res olution resolving to do something this year, starting at the very next meeting. "Student government has gotten a bad rap in the past," said student leader Polly Tishan. "And that's something we want to change. Peo ple think we don't do anything for the students but we want to change that image, if we do nothing else this year." In other action, the Senate passed a resolution supporting the Faculty Senate in most everything they de cide to do. "We're trying to create a strong working relationship between the Faculty Senate and the students,” Tishan says. "We have what you might call a symbiotic relationship. We pass resolutions and pass them to the faculty for consideration and they review them carefully before voting them down. People who say the Faculty Senate never pays any attention are missing the point. We have our voice, even if the adminis tration doesn't listen to it." € V b v g b Si a S tb thi Fc of or ca th< hii wc pic wl