Friday, October 2, 1987/The
Battalion/Page 3
State and Local
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reshman cadets spur tradition
Respite SMU season probation
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gawaited.Tlii; By Amy Young
6-1 earthqualf Reporter
ig one will I; An old Texas A&M Corps of Ca
ron their I B ts tra didon — the wearing of bot-
.. T 3 * K-cap “spurs” by freshman Corps
nines of Los iiembers — has a new’ twist this year,
t the big one I The spurs traditionally were worn
0 Derrent El 'h 6 freshman cadets throughout
^ • Be week preceding the A&M-South-
Bn Methodist University football
■me, said Erik Jackson, a junior En-
s a beautiful i sh and P hil osophy major and
• i , ’ Bember of the Aggie Band.
mish school, II|
00. I’llcontintti ^ owever ’ has been placed
il . B probation by the NCAA, which
eSan leans there will be no 1987-1988
But I won’t football season for SMU. But the
i comes thetawT 5 decided 10 continue the tradi-
he beast B n ^ wear ' n g die spurs this week
tor Saturday's game against Texas
ior journals If ch University.
Battalion. Blhe Red Raiders’ mascot rides a
Birse, so the idea in w’earing the bot-
B-cap spurs is to “spur” the Aggies
onto victory, Jackson said.
jGary Hendershot, a freshman in
If band, says the spurs are con-
lucted with wire coat hangers and
|ttened bottle caps, varying from
Bitfit to outfit. Most of the bottle
Bps are collected from "bottle-cap
Hey,’’ next to the Dixie Chicken tav
ern at Northgate.
Photo by Sam Myers
Junior Ralph Parman, standing at far right, of Company E-l, waits for some freshmen to put on their
spurs before going to lunch.
J
J Hendershot said most outfits pre
fer to reflect the year of their grad-
idng class by placing that number
caps on the spurs. For example,
[is year’s freshman class is the Class
.'91, so the freshman cadets are
faring 91 bottle caps — either 46
one and 45 on the other, or as
My as 91 on each spur.
“Outfits try to make their spurs
Biiform,” Hendershot said. “One
lay of doing this is by painting the
bale caps all the same color, such as
fcyal blue (the freshman class color)
(maroon and white.”
Jibe commanding officer of each
lorps unit decides how the spurs
be designed, but the freshmen
j must construct the spurs t hemselves,
with virtually no help from the up
perclassmen.
“Mr. Jackson, our 1st sergeant,
showed us his freshman spurs,”
Hendershot said. “He said, ‘All
right, fish, I’ll give you permission to
scope out my spurs,’ and held them
up so we could see how they were
made.”
In order to organize the design of
the spurs, Hendershot said, the
freshmen had “bottlecap” last Sun
day night and discussed ways in
which they might be made.
“We can’t go anywhere outside
without our spurs,” he said. “We’re
supposed to take them off just be
fore we enter a building and place
them back on when we leave. When
a freshman cadet is caught without
his spurs, he is usually issued a de
merit.”
Accumulation of demerits can
bring some type of punishment
from Corps upperclassmen,
Hendershot said, such as having to
walk the perimeter of the “bull-
ring,” a designated area behind
Dorm 9, for two hours.
“If one of the spurs breaks while
the cadet is somewhere on campus,
he must remove the other spur and
‘wildcat’ all the way back to his
dorm,” he said.
Troy Johnson, a freshman in the
band, said the spurs draw a lot of at
tention and questions on campus.
“A lot of non-regs ask about our
spurs,” Johnson said. “They proba
bly think (the spurs) are stupid, but
to them the Corps is just a big game.
“It’s a tradition. It can be a pain,
but it can also be a lot of fun, if you
let it.”
The freshman spurs, he said, are
symbolic of the transition that takes
place between a cadet’s freshman
and senior years in the Corps.
“It’s just helping prepare you for
when you wear your senior boots,”
Johnson said. “You can hardly wait
to get through the week, but when
the week’s over, you can look for
ward to reaching your senior year
and wearing your real spurs.”
Committee promotes
supercollider plan
included on ballot
By Doug Driskell
Staff Writer
Funding for the superconduc
tor supercollider is one of the
eight proposals on the Nov. 3
ballot the Build Texas Commit
tee is promoting, a spokesman
for the committee said Thursday
at a press conference at Eas-
terwood Airport.
If Proposition 19 is approved,
$500 million in general obliga
tion bonds will be appropriated
to help convince the federal gov
ernment to locate the project in
Texas, said Tom Vickers, Bexar
County Judge and chairman of
the Build Texas Committee.
These bonds will be issued
only if the state is awarded the
project, he said.
Economic propositions 4-8, 11
and 23 also are sponsored by the
committee, he said. If voted into
law, it is estimated that the prop
ositions would create more than
60,000 jobs and increase
statewide income by almost $6
billion.
“Collectively, the heart of the
program is a $1.9 billion bond
package for various projects
such as state prisons, water pro
jects, local public works, the su
percollider and the agriculture
fund,” he said.
“If it is passed in its entirety, it
will put some 60,000 Texans
back to work,” he said.
“This is at a time where there
are over 700,000 Texans out of
jobs,” Vickers said.
According to a booklet put
out by the Build Texas Commit
tee, Proposition No. 7 allows for
state bonds for local public
works projects.
This proposition may help
Bryan-College Station, Vickers
said.
“What this does is allow local
communities to, in essence, sort
of piggyback on the state’s credit
rating,” he said.
“They really borrow money
from the state, so they have to
repay it,
“But, because the state has a
strong credit rating it will cost
the taxpayers less interest.”
Vickers is traveling statewide
to clarify the purpose of these
propositions, he said.
“Part of the problem, that we
perceive, from the ballot stand
point, is the fact that there are
more propositions on the ballot
than ever before in the history of
Texas,” he said.
“This could have a tendency
to be confusing to the average
voter,” he said. “So, we are try
ing to get the word out concern
ing the importance of this pack
age of eight Constitutional
amendments.”
There are 25 constitutional
amendment propositions and
two referendums on the ballot,
Vickers said.
The committee faces no orga
nized opposition, Vickers said.
Voter apathy and voter igno
rance over the issues are the only
kinds of opposition the commit
tee faces.
The committee was initiated
by Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby, he said.
It has grown from his initiating
action and the legislative action
that produced the propositions,
he said.
Any proposition that is listed
on the ballot must be passed by a
two-thirds majority vote in both
the Senate and the House.
Correction
An article in Thursday’s At
Ease incorrectly said that the lot
now occupied by the Cow Hop
Expansion previously was occu
pied by the Sundance Club. The
space previously was occupied by
the Sunset Grill.
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CO-OP CARRER FAIR
Monday, October 5, 1987, the employers listed will be on campus participating in the Co-op Career Fair.
These employers will primarily be interested in hiring co-op students, but if your are interested in either
summer or full-time employment, please feel free to come by. The Co-op Career Fair will be held be
tween 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. with a lunch break from 12:10 to 1:00.
EMPLOYER
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ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES-Austin
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E-SYSTEMS-Greenville
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FT. HOOD-Killeen
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GENERAL DYNAMICS-Ft. Worth
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IBM-Houston
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JOHNSON CONTROLS-Irving
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KIMBERLY CLARK-Paris
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MCNEIL CONSUMER PRODUCTS-Round Rock
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NABISCO-Houston
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