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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 27, 1988)
Wednesday, April 27, ^SS/The Battalion/Page 7 r tmagTB nawrBi Idara )ma$ INK TIC REGCWS IE 1HE 5T A, SO WE r ‘CALVIN I8fy dJ imittees i m unity orth in before tra pan- tlivan to ed to be n. ds, chief i-Contra e many )e “ven 1 otics in- nocrats. en run- ed for nd cau- the cal- ingvr- [able. I of the stake to - in the all seats e Com- aated to gust, in the Sep- neeting, renova- llion. etion in — e -j Cadets will celebrate birthday of retired Reveille IV with party By Pam Mooman Reporter Reveille IV, the registered collie who was the Texas A&M mascot for nine years before she was retired in 1984, will have a birthday Sunday. Company E-2, the Corps of Ca dets outfit that took care of the col lie, will have a party for her — com plete with a cake, said Dr. Lee Phillips, director of the Office of Professional Development at A&M and current owner of Reville IV. “We wait until Final Review and jo over to the E-2 dorm,” Phillips said. The collie, who will be 14 years old, was retired in a halftime cere mony during A&M’s last 1984 regu lar season football game, which was against Texas Christian University. Another registered collie, Reveille V, now holds the job of A&M mas cot, but her immediate predecessor still holds a place in the hearts of some A&M students. When Reveille IV was retired on Dec. 6, 1984, she was placed in the welcoming arms of Phillips and his wife, who live in Bryan. Hans Meinardus, who took care of Reveille IV when he was a sopho more in Company E-2, said Reveille IV was retired for her own sake. “We noticed that Rev IV was get ting older,” Meinardus said. “She had been serving in the Corps for nine years, which is a long time for anybody.” It was time for Reveille IV to be a dog and not a glorified person, he said. Meinardus said the four-member committee that decided where Re veille IV would live after retirement wanted a home for her in the local community where she would be cared for. “The Phillips are a really good couple,” Meinardus said. “He is a real gung-ho Ag and a big Rev sup porter. He was overjoyed to take her.” Phillips said he kept up with Com pany E-2 through the years. “We had known the mascot cor porals from the first to the last,” Phillips said. “We didn’t ask ques tions; wejust took her.” Reveille IV has lived with the Phil lips for three and a half years. Phil lips said Reveile IV has many posi tive traits that make her lovable. “She’s very affectionate,” he said. “She has patience.” Phillips said that when he spoke at the Navasota muster, he took Re veille IV wih him. Children climbed all over her, but she is well-man nered and has never snapped at a child, he said. Members of Company E-2 helped to make the retired mascot comfort able in her new home. The Phillips had a porch behind their house, and members of Company E-2 enclosed it so Reveille IV could have her own room, complete with Astroturf for carpet. Mementos of her days as the A&M mascot cover the walls of her room, Meinardus said. Phillips said one of Reveille IV’s old coats is among the collection. Meinardus has fond memories of Reveille IV and Reveille V. Meinar dus said he got Reveille V as a puppy in a shoebox the first time A&M de feated the University of Texas in November 1984. But he still had Re veille IV at the time, he said. “I actually lived together with them in my room for three weeks,” he said. They got along just fine as long as Reveille V stayed in her bounds, Meinardus said. Both Phillips and Meinardus have high praise for Reveille IV. She did a good job of represent ing A&M, Phillips said. Meinardus said he was sad to see Reveille IV retire, but said she de served some free time. “We hated to see her go,” he said. “She was always a lady.” West Point cadet loses final appeal of dismissal CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — A cadet who claimed his refusal to psychologically haze freshmen led to his ouster from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point has lost his final appeal of the dismissal. But John Edwards’ case has prompted the Army to appoint a panel of three high-ranking officers to review the Fourth Class System, the method of indoctrinating new cadets that Ed wards said led to his dismissal. Edwards, 24, a native of Portland near Corpus Christi, was a junior cadet at West Point who held a3.59 grade-point ratio and ranked in the top 5 percent ol his class until he was dismissed Jan. 5. Ret. Gen. Roscoe Robinson, an outside investi gator appointed last month to review Edwards’ case, has ruled there is no evidence to justify overturning the academy’s dismissal, according to a Pentagon official. “Gen. Robinson found that while Cadet Ed wards achieved considerable academic success at West Point, under the ‘whole-man concept’ he in other endeavors was a marginal cadet,” states a letter from William D. Clark, the Army’s princi pal deputy assistant secretary for manpower and reserve affairs. The letter was forwarded to Edwards by U.S. Rep. Kika de la Garza, D-Mission, who has writ ten the Army on Edwards’ behalf. Robinson could not be reached by the Asso ciated Press for comment Tuesday. Paige Eversole, an Army spokesman at the Pentagon, said the deputy chief of staff for per sonnel on Monday signed the official papers “se parating Edwards from the academy.” She said Edwards will be placed on reserve status for the next two years. “I guess I should have expected this,” Edwards told the Corpus Christi Caller-Times Monday. “I guess I’ll look at attending college some where in Texas in the fall or spring,” Edwards said. Edwards has said he was ousted because of his refusal to participate in the Fourth Class System’s indoctrination of freshmen students enforced by upperclassmen, which he called a “humiliating and degrading” form of psychological hazing. Edwards said upperclassmen, for example, force new cadets to walk at a quick pace around campus, eat at attention and memorize long lists of information. If the new cadets slip up, he said, they are, “yelled at constantly” by upperclass men. 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