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■ ... ■ r! ; • . ■ . ; Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Wednesday, April 7, 1971 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Listen up Students offer support, candidates give views Editor’s note: As in past years. Listen Up rules concerning cam paign letters are simple: each candidate may write a letter, and two people may write endorse ment letters. As best we can, we will hold all candidates to that. Editor: I am a candidate for president of the Texas A&M student body. My platform is uncomplicated. I support all efforts to make this place a real university. I’m against conservation, wiretap ping in the dorms, militaristic mentality, Mickey Mouse, eudae- monism, drug abuse, environ mental design projects, the war in Indochina, go-kart tracks and brussel sprouts. Bill Hamilton ’72 We read Steve Canyon too. —Ed. ★ ★ ★ Editor’s note: The following letter was written in response to statements made by the Bexar County GOP chairman in an As sociated Press story The Bat talion published last Friday. “By the time this is published everyone will be gone for th’ holidays, so why do anything?” Dear Sir: I read part of your letter to President Nixon concerning Lt. William Galley in an Associated Press article in The Battalion, the Texas A&M University news paper. Two of your comments that I disagree with are: “Since when does a Vietnamese life mean as much as one Ameri can life or even two hundred Reds to cater to consumer MOSCOW (A*)—Premier Alexei N. Kosygin has promised the Soviet people to make their life “more prosperous, more mean ingful and interesting” in the next five years by boosting the production of consumer goods more than 40 per cent. At the same time, he declared Tuesday, defense spending must increase as well because of the “American Imperialists” and their “disgraceful, dirty, bandit war” in Indochina. In a four-hour report to the Soviet Communist party con gress on 1971-75 economic guide lines, Kosygin pointedly avoided boasting of overtaking the Unit- -J ■ ed States. His predecessor, Ni kita S. Khrushchev, had predict ed that the Soviet Union would outrun the United States eco nomically by 1970. “A long and stubborn struggle lies ahead” in economic competi tion with America, he said. With out setting a target date, he as serted he is nevertheless confi dent that, communism will even tually defeat capitalism. Kosygin’s economic planners apparently have embarked on a campaign to satisfy the hunger of the Soviet consumer, mindful perhaps of the violent reaction to widespread poverty in Poland last winter. The Soviet people have been the poorest-clad and worst-fed of all populations of industrial ized countries. Kosygin listed a number of specific targets for improving the lot of the average man: —Availability of meat, fish, eggs and vegetables to increase 40-60 per cent. —The worker’s average month ly salary to jump 20-22 per cent. —Improvement of working conditions for Soviet women. Moore Hall designs, builds footbridge for girls’ camp Residents of Moore Hall have designed and built a footbridge 58 feet long for the Girl Scouts at Camp Howdy west of Bryan. The structure is 5 feet wide, 15 feet above the creek and provides better access to the camp area. Stuart Hirsch, graduate stu dent in the Recreation and Parks Department and head resident of iMoore Hall, directed the con struction. He said the bridge is a public service project by Moore Hall res idents. tonight on the tube Numbers in ( ) denote chan- 15 (12) Campus and nels on the cable. Community 2:30 3 (5) Edge of Night Today 15 (12) Sesame Street 7:00 3 (5) Room 222 (PBS) (Repeat 15 (12) NET Playhouse of Tuesday) 7:30 3 (5) To Rome With 3:00 3 (5) Gomer Pyle Love 3:30 3 (-5) Town Talk 8:00 3 (5) Johnny Cash 15 (12) University 8:30 15 (12) Soul (PBS) Instructional 9:00 3 (5) Hawaii Five-O 4:00 3 (5) That Girl 9:30 15 (12) They Went 4:30 3 (5) Bewitched Thataway (PBS) 15 (12) What’s New 10:00 3 (5) Final News (NET) 10:30 3 (5) The FBI 5:00 3 (5) General Hospital 11:30 3 (5) The Law and 15 (12) Misterogers’ Mr. Jones Girl Scouts paid about $450 for materials and tool rental. Moore Hall students donated labor of an estimated 200 man-hours, or a value of $600 or more. Other student workers were Harry Need (designer), Bill Gore, Jerry Cook, Joe Horlen, George Moreng, Bill White, Bubba Lor- mand, Kelly Gaskins, Steve Shimotsu, Larry Kruse, Kent Lindsay, Mike Moore, Gail Brow der and Sam Leyendecker. The bridge was officially dedi cated by President Jack K. Wil liams. Other officials on hand were Gen. A. R. Luedecke, vice president; James P. Hannigan, dean of students; Col. Eugene Oates, civilian student advisor; Richard Denham, civilian student counselor; and Ed Cooper, assist ant to the president, Bulletin Board TONIGHT Aggie Wives Bridge Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in room 2B of the MSC. Council of Adult Stutterers will meet at 8:30 p.m. at 306 Border brook in Bryan. The meeting is for high school or adult stutter ers. For more information con tact Lee Reeves at 822-5830. 5:30 3 (5) 15 (12) 6:00 6:30 (5) (5) (PBS) CBS News Sesame Street (PBS) Evening News Courtship of Eddie’s Father Snack bar will remain open The Golf Club Snack Bar will be open throughout the Easter holidays with slightly different Bingo—Weekdays at 5, BCS*TV/9. Nothing buy. You need not be present to win. hours, the Food Services Depart ment has announced. Thursday the snack bar will be open from 7 a.m.-5:30 p.m., and the rest of the holiday period it will be open from 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. The MSC cafeteria and the veterinary snack bar will be closed Thursday - Monday, and will resume normal hours Tues day, the department said. Cbe Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax- supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. LETTERS POLICY Letters to the editor must be typed, double-spaced, and no more than 300 words in length. They must be signed, although the writer’s name will be withheld by arrangement with the editor. Address correspondence to Listen Up, The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, Texas 77843. Jim Arts : Members of the Student Lindsey, chairman; H. F. E .o, F. S. White, College of Engineering; Dr. Asa B. Childers, Jr., College of Veterinary Medicine; Dr. Z. L. Carpenter, College of Agriculture; and Roger Miller, student. Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising Services, Inc., New York City. Chicago. Los Angeles and San Francisco. au: May, and once a week during summer school. MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association The Associated Collegiate Press Mail subscriptions are S3.50 per semester; S6 per school year; $6.50 per full year. All subscriptions subject to 414% sales tax. _ Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, Texas 77843. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. EDITOR DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE Assistant Editor Hayden Whitsett Managing Editor Fran Zupan Women’s Editor Sue Davis Sports Editor Clifford Broyles Vietnamese to one American?” and “. . . this man is not a criminal. He did not shoot an other American.” It makes me extremely angry to read of someone making such a comment, especially when that someone is a person in your posi tion. I would like to ask you three questions. Since when did God give you the privilege to make value judgements concern ing human lives ? Since when is an American life worth more than a Vietnamese life or for that matter, any other human life ? Since when is it only a crime when a person shoots an American and the reverse is not true ? Your comments sound as if they were meant as slurs to ward people who are not Ameri cans. I am not defending the people that Lt. Galley is accused of shooting or am I defending him, because I do not feel all of the facts in the case have been brought forth. But, I can defend the fact that I believe the value of all human lives is equal. You cannot prove to me that the fact a man is born in a certain coun try makes him better than a man born in another country. I was born in San Antonio of Chinese ancestry. That makes me an American, but that does not make me any better than a person of Chinese ancestry bom in another country. A person is only bet ter than someone else because he makes himself better than the other person. In the same letter you “sug gested the military tribunal that convicted Galley walk through military hospitals and look ‘at some of these pitiful Americans that were shot up by so-called unarmed civilians’.” I would like to suggest you look at some of the Vietnamese victims who were accidentally bombed and shelled by American pilots and artillery men. These victims also present a pitiful sight and are deserving of concern. Why aren’t you dis playing any concern for them? Is it because they are Vietna mese with yellow skin and not Americans with white skins ? I am sending a copy of this letter to The Battalion, The San Antonio Light, The Houston Chronicle, and The Houston Post in hopes that they will print it. I am interested in the reactions and opinions others might have towards your letter. I hope that the points I have brought to your attention cause you to think before you speak or write in the future. Try not to judge others by your standards because your standards may be wrong. Kenneth G. Eng ★ ★ ★ Editor: Recently much discussion has centered on the question of killing —whether in the streets or on the battlefield in Southeast Asia. Be cause people are indeed imperfect, there will always be killing and, although quite hard to admit, there will be a need for killing. An oppressor will try to over come others, resulting in deaths and, on a larger scale, war. When the situation arises which neces sitates taking the life of another human—and I mean morally jus tifiable—there should be no ques tions asked. Yet, when a group of people chant together expressing a want to kill others for the sake of killing, their mental stability must be questioned. One such chant is heard on the campus at A&M: “I want to go to Vietnam—I want to kill some Viet Cong.” The young men re peating this verse have no moral justification to warrant such a grotesque and immature idea. Is our military teaching young men to fight for a purpose based on morality or simply for the sake of killing? To actually voice an urge to kill another human and be proud of it is an act reveal ing a demented mind. Killing should stem only from a true ne cessity and not from animalistic urges. I hope, since ROTC trains men to be leaders, that those leaders could learn to think and to de velop moral codes to follow. Gerald Pollard ★ ★ ★ Editor: A problem exists at A&M that must be solved. This problem con cerns the morality of certain ideas that are prevalent within the ROTC program. ROTC leaders in doctrinate their members with policies of fear and hate with regard to United States foreign policy. These policies are imple- mented by chants and slogans such as, “I want to go to Vietnam, I want to kill some Viet Cong." Ai P r Teaching people to hate an entire race of people is—in my opinion I —immoral, whether we are at war or not. Are the people at war or is the “administrative elite" at war? Wars will continue to occur as long as people insist on ini' plementing fear and hate as a de vice for power. If these ideas and policies are changed, then tk; ROTC program may have a fu-1 ture. If not, then ROTC must be | abolished. B. Paul Quinn Lt. Col. Donald J. Johnson, as sistant corps commandant, said his office was unaware thij chant is being used. He explained office staff members rarely knot what chants are being used un less they happen to hear them at | a review. 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