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The Battalion
Tuesday, April 13,19
Cherished Aggie
Ring belongs here
There is some extremely bad bull get
ting ready to happen in regard to the
name change that was opposed recently
by our own Texas A&M University Sys
tem Regents. The fact that the name of
our beloved university could be prostitut
ed out to lesser universities is abhorrent
enough, but to universities is intolerable.
The Aggie Ring is a cherished symbol
that is possessed and recognized by
Rightin' Texas Aggies all over the world.
I recently got my Aggie Ring and it came
with a pamphlet that says "when you see
one (an Aggie Ring), say "Howdy," for
you know the owner is someone special-
A TEXAS AGGIE." Do you think that a
student from Laredo State University
would say "Howdy" in response or even
know what it meant?
Or how about Yell Practice, Elephant
Walk, the 12th Man, or Muster. Do you
think that you could carry on a nostalgic
conversation about working on Bonfire
with a former student from Corpus
Christi State University who would be
perplexed at being asked to pick out the
Aggie War Hymn from a "Name That
Tune" session.
If we allow this to happen, the Aggie
Ring that we have worked so hard to ob
tain will be as meaningless as it is at most
other universities. We will be hesitant to
approach others wearing the Aggie Ring
when we are far from home because we
do not know if hey are a "real" Aggie or
not. Although I have never heard theses
schools mentioned in the same breath
with Texas A&M and other top universi
ties, that is not the main reason for my
disapproval. I would not want any uni
versity in the world to be able to obtain
an Aggie Ring whose symbolism and tra
ditional value have been built up for over
a century.
This is all-important concern should be
the first order of business for our new
student body legislature. If you want to
accomplish something that will be re
membered forever by Aggies every
where, this defenses of our sacred ring
will prove that we have indeed elected
the best government to represent the val
ues and integrity of Texas A&M Universi
ty- the one and only. THE AGGIE RING
STAYS HERE!!!
Mike Regitz
Class of'93
accompanied by 41 signature
• Ed note: The Battalion ran a story on Fri
day, April 2 stating that the Aggie Ring will
not be made available to other Texas A&M
System schools.
Reader offers insight
into war hymn history
July of that year.
A portion of that article is as follows:
"Although the sheet music for 'The Aggie
War Hymn' carries the familiar "Good
bye to Texas University' lyrics as the sec
ond verse, the first verse wasn't written
until five years later.
" 'In 1926 the Former Students Associ
ation and yell leaders pestered me to
write a second verse that could be more
readily used at all athletic events,' Wil
son told John Adams, Jr. '73, author of
We Are the Aggies, the story of A&M's
Association of Former Students. T felt at
the time like I do now,' he said, 'that the
student body has a mind of its own and
would, regardless of how many verses
are added, continue to sing the first and
most meaningful rendition.' Numerous
attempts to introduce the 'second verse'
to incoming freshmen classes have consis
tently failed to win student acceptance."
For your information, the library in the
Clayton Williams Jr. Alumni Center has
almost every yearbook (Longhorns and
Aggielands) and issue of "The Texas Ag
gie^ available to anyone interested in
looking through them.
I'm not sure what results you (whoev
er was responsible) will get from your
'poll,' but next time word the questions
fairly. As far as I'm concerned, the poll
was more of a scam and a waste of time.
I will continue to sing the original
verse of the 'Aggie War Hymn' and be
fore you bother to ask the question, I will
never sing "true" and "AMU" in place of
"we" and "AMC" in 'The Spirit of Ag-
gieland.'
During the recent student body elec
tion, an 'opinion poll' was distributed
concerning the "Aggie War Hymn." It
stated that we sing only the second verse
of the hymn and asked the students re
sponding if we should start singing the
first verse at events.
Not only was the question clearly bi
ased in a manner to get students to re
spond "yes" to the question, but stating
that we sing only the second verse is a
matter of text placement, not history.
The September 1980 issue of "The
Texas Aggie" ran a special story on the
history of 'The Aggie War Hymn' follow
ing the death of the song's composer,
James V. 'Pinky' Wilson '20, who died in
Lee 'Leo' Olyniec
Class of'92
ridicule homosexuals or was it just hu
morous?
I don't know the answer, I only heard
a small part of the poem, and I wasn't
there. But, I believe the intent of those
circulating the poem is important.
I do take a strong objection to one of
Brandon's statements. "My opinion of
gays is not from ignorance; it is from
what I know is right and moral!" My
question is how do you know what is
right and moral? What I know is that ho
mosexuality is wrong, for me. But I have
never been conceited enough to think that
my beliefs of right and wrong are ab
solute and should or even could apply to
every human being. And short of God
appearing before me and giving me the
answers all I have to work with are my
personal beliefs.
If you choose not to tolerate " gay
lifestyle" that's fine, more power to you.
I only know a few gay people, and what I
know is that I've never had to deal with
another persons gay lifestyle. If those in
dividuals had not come out and told me
they were gay I never would have
guessed. They look, act, and talk as
straight as you and I and ninety-four per
cent of the population do. But, again
that's your choice, not right and wrong,
just your choice.
But what do you do when your best
friend tells you he or she was gay? If you
think that is an impossibility. I'm afraid
you are just kidding yourself. But once
again, that's your choice, right or wrong.
I'll make my choices based on my beliefs
of right and wrong. In the end I believe
God is the only one who can judge any
way.
against prostituting oneself and there
laws of sodomy.
Another idea is that since there issa
evidence that people are genetical
predisposed to the homosexual 'lifesh
they cannot be held responsible for th
actions since it's in their genes. Anotli
@!#&@! to that, first of all weallkni
that some people are predisposed
become alcoholics, myself included,!
that doesn't mean that they losetheirfi
will and cannot stop themselves fro
taking a drink, it's absurd to think t!
just because one is genetically inclin
towards something that it is some sort
automatic permission to do whatev
they please. Secondly, if genetics rul
the way we conduct our lives to
degree then what about all the
who were supposed to be drunksti
sobered up for good or the homosext
who have come to their sensesai
renounced their 'lifestyle', I ha
personally seen both of these thia
happen many times.
I am definitely not a homophobe
worked for three years in a booksti
with lesbians and one homosexual
not once did I go into homophol
seizures when these individuals we
around me. To show that I am no
close-minded individual my pho
number is 846-3946, I invite Ms. Reti
any member of the GLSS, or anyi
disagreeing with me to call and perk
we can have lunch so I can show yon
person that you are wrong.
EhkWfl!
Class of
Students respond to
homosexuality issue
Ryan Isenberg
Class of‘94
•I am writing in response to Brandon
West's opinion on the gay poem circulat
ed at last weeks College Republicans
meeting.
I agree that people have the right to
"make fun of" various groups. But what
was the purpose of the poem? Was it
written for comedy's sake, or was there
another point to be made? When the
poem was circulated was the intent to
•I am sick and tired of the idea that
because I KNOW homosexuality is wrong
that I am somehow a bigot, homophobe
or just plain ignorant. I can hardly be
called ignorant, I read the newspaper
everyday, watch CNN, watch the
national news and read news magazines.
I know the arguments being used to
try to make homosexuality palatable to
the majority of people such as "It's only a
different lifestyle" @!#&@!, prostitution is
"just another type of lifestyle" but it is
still illegal and immoral. There are laws
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