THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, June 5, 1969
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
. . Blue cards, green ones, and a few white ones—Are
you sure you hafta have a pink one, sir?”
By MONTY STANLEY
Does anyone remember the
hangup job done by the Student
Senate at the end of the year,
and the outstanding progress
made in student politics in gen
eral? Well, as a kind of com
parison, the members of Washing
ton State University’s Student
Senate have an end-of-the-year
tradition of adjournment which
matches A&M’s in effectiveness,
if not drama. After clearing up
the last official business of the
year, student senators finish the
last chaotic discussion with a
wild shaving cream fight. At
least something like that would
be less trying on students and
would do less harm than our
present tradition.
Speaking of student govern
ments which blast out in a cloud
of futility, WSU’s paper also
carried this hauntingly familiar
sounding story concerning the
Spring student elections—
“Any rational,
logical individu
als who have
t tried to make
S / sense of or un
derstand the op-
* erations and poli
cies of the Elec
tion Board during
this election have been left feel
ing like Alice in Wonderland.
“Not only did the Election
Board seem to confuse the whole
situation, they did not seem to
know what their policies were
from day to day.
“For instance, one student was
informed that it was fine for
him to run for the office of
senator, despite his last semes
ter’s grades . . . then, after
he obtained the necessary signa
tures and filed his petition, he
was informed that the Election
Board Chairman hadn’t read the
rules and had misinformed him.
“The Chairman then informed
him that he could run as a write-
in candidate and challenge the
rule if he won, which he did. The
result was that he was denied
the position and the Chairman
commented that it was a ‘cut
and dried situation from the be
ginning’.”
★ ★ ★
Here’re some interesting Per
sonals from the University of
Minnesota’s Want Ads section:
“Mac got an 80 in Physics 9.
Wow! 14 points over.”
“Female minor looking for fe
male over 21 with I.D. Pref.
green eyes, 5’6”.”
“Tim E. is conducting a Nude
Marathon. He’s a hairy guy.”
“Paddy Murphy is dead ... no
more guna-guna’s for the big
banana.”
I just report ’em, I don’t ex
plain ’em.
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Emory University in Atlanta,
Georgia—William Sloane Coffin,
the controversial Yale chaplain,
was scheduled as a speaker by the
Student Center Board. The ar
rangements called for some stu
dents to meet the man at the
airport. However, at the airport,
they encountered a man who
called himself William Sloane
Carlson, who claimed he had
never heard of William Sloane
Coffin and besides, he had ar
rived at Emory to speak as they
had requested (He was a hypno
tist). Well, this really wouldn’t
get it, the students figured, and
told the guy as much. He then
got burned and demanded the fee
the Student Center Board had
guaranteed Coffin.
After a bit of a hassle, Carlson
was taken to a nearby Rodeway
Inn where he called his agent.
His agent refused to defend either
Coffin or Carlson. The next morn
ing was taken up with a con
frontation between Carlson and
the dean, who restated that the
SCB would not pay the fee. A
day later, William Sloane Carl
son had left Atlanta—without
paying his bill at the Rodeway—
and the SCB is presently hard at
work forgetting the whole affair.
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A father of 10 has commuted
each day this past year at North
eastern University in Boston, in
order to complete requirements
for a bachelor’s degree in psy
chology. The kicker is that he
and his family live in Sebago
Lake, Maine, which is 120 miles
from the campus. He already
makes $14,000 annually, but says,
“I wanted to do something with
my next 20 years which would be
more satisfying and meaningful
... I had for some years been
thinking in these terms but had
allowed ‘practical considerations’
to interfere with my plans.”
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Woodsman, spare that tree!
Such was the scene at the Uni
versity of Massachusetts as a
young coed rushed to stop work
men on a bulldozer about to re
move a tree which was on the
site of a new building to be
constructed. UTA’s Shorthorn re
ported that she was soon joined
by a group of students who took
over the bulldozer and rallied a
group of about 100 students, who
then drew up a list of demands
which included the halting of the
construction which would have
caused the destruction of the
scenic pond on the campus.
★ ★ ★
At the University of Oklahoma,
donors in the annual blood drive
had the opportunity to replenish
their precious body fluids right
away. The departments of geology
and petroleum land management
sponsored a beer bust for all in
volved in the blood donation con
test.
Teague Criticizes Kennedy
For Comments On Vietnam
U. S. Senators should confine
their criticism on Vietnam to
policy differences, and quit try
ing to dictate orders to field
commanders, Representative Olin
E. Teague said recently.
Teague aimed his sharp re
marks at Senator Ted Kennedy
for the Senator’s criticism of a
recent military operation in which
U. S. and South Vietnamese
troops took a hill overlooking the
A Shau Valley in South Vietnam.
“The Senator has every right to
his opinions, and the duty to
speak out on policy matters;
however, he has neither the
knowledge nor the experience to
second guess our commanders in
the field,” Teague said.
“The Senator’s disgraceful and
damaging comments, obviously
based on news reports and with
out any effort to seek out the
facts, were not only untimely,
but worse, comforting to an en
emy whose only hope for success
in aggression is to weaken the
will of the United States at
home.”
“The U. S. troops in Vietnam
are the finest this nation has
ever fielded. They do not make
the policy decisions but they do
A&M Spending Bill
Passes Committee
A one-year spending bill ap
proved by a conference commit
tee of both houses of the state
legislature for the fiscal year
from September, 1969 to August,
19T0 includes a version which
provides Texas A&M with $22.2
million for its main campus.
These funds specifically pro
vide for faculty salaries, main
tenance, fellowships, campus se
curity and many other items.
In addition, $415 thousand was
appropriated for operation of the
system offices.
Other facilities granted funds
were the new Veterinary Diag
nostic Laboratory, $253 thousand
(same as the original House ver
sion) and the Agricultural Ex
periment Station, $5.6 million
(an increase of about $400 thou
sand above both the House and
Senate bills.)
Three facilities received com
promise figures from the original
House and Senate versions. They
are the Extension Service, $4.9
million; the Engineering Experi
ment Station, $1.3 million; and
the Engineering Extension Serv
ice, $366 thousand.
Total appropriation in the con
ference report for the entire A&M
University System amounts to
over $37 million.
Texas voters get a chance to
state their preference or dislike
of daylight savings time on the
November, 1970 General Election
ballot. The resolution to let the
voters decide was passed by the
House, May 27.
County Judge W. R. Vance,
Kent Potts of the Bryan-College
Station Chamber of Commerce,
Bob Cherry, assistant to the
President of Texas A&M, and
Warren Harmon of Bryan joined
Senator Bill Moore and Represen
tative Bill Presnal at the signing
of House Bill 189 by Governor
Preston Smith, May 29.
The bill clears the way for a
petition of election to create a
Brazos County Airport Author
ity,
lAt The Grovel
“Ocean’s 11” will appear Fri
day on the Grove Theater screen
at Texas A&M in a schedule
change by the Memorial Student
Center summer program.
The movie starring Frank Sina
tra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis
Jr. and Angie Dickinson will re
place “Nnght People,” announced
Grove Manager Sammy Young of
Dallas.
“Night People” with Gregory
Peck and Anita Bjork will be
shown Sunday, July 20.
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carry out the tremendous burden
that this Country has put on
them.”
“I think the Senator has done
himself dishonor and he should
apologize to the field command
ers and to our troops in Viet
nam.”
“Let the politicians have their
disagreements. I too disagree
with policy decisions. I think we
should never have committed
troops in Vietnam with their
hands tied, but it is not the men
in Vietnam who are making the
policy mistakes. They are doing
magnificently a dirty job in car
rying out the assigned mission.”
“They deserve more than un
warranted criticism; they should
not become pawns in any politi
cal dispute.”
“Senator Kennedy is not yet
Commande r-in-Chief of the
Armed Forces and until he has
such command, he should refrain
from trying to dictate to our
field commanders and restrict his
comments to those who make
policy.”
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