Pag-e 2
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, June 9, 1971
THE BATTALION
Listen up
Questions raised on quantity of campus lighting
Editor:
TAMU presently stands on an
aesthetic threshold. While its sur
rounding cities and its own edges
are inundating themselves in a
mercury vapor glow each night,
the central part of the campus has
for the most part been quietly lit.
New planning, however, threatens
to change this.
While I realize being able to
see the stars at night is not es
sential to human existence I do
rather enjoy it, and the fact that
mercury vapor lamps light the
sky as well as the ground does
indicate a high level of waste. It
seems to me that a university
should be able to find an alter
native to further light pollution.
If the old incandescent lighting
system must be replaced rather
than simply augmented, then let
the choice be at worst like the
globes near the library. If the
university truly wishes to lead the
way to the future, the next step
will be the removal of the mer
cury and sodium vapor lamps that
presently disfigure the edge of
the campus, and their replacement
with a less wasteful light source.
A university, after all, should be
a place where students can dis
tinguish between night and day.
Terence P. Yorks
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Editor:
Re East Pakistan, your front
page articles of 12 May and 2
June: I have read these with con
siderable interest, as I lived in
East Pakistan for seven years.
The danger expressed by Kam-
aluddin Hyder is very real. The
response by M. Akram Zaki claims
that it is a “family quarrel” and
“no outsiders have any right to
intervene.”
In any civilized nation, if the
master of a family abuses, tor
tures and kills members of the
family, the Law provides for a
court to remove these members
from the control of the master for
their own safety. The process is
even swifter if the “family” is
artificial.
This is the situation in East
Pakistan. It is time for the United
Nations to force West Pakistan
out of East Pakistan, and in fact
to arrange for this country to
become the independent nation of
“Bangla Desh.”
Since Pakistan was created in
1947, West Pakistan has bled
East Pakistan economically and
now literally. The religion of Is
lam has not been enough to bind
these widely separated areas, be
cause the people are of different
cultures: they look different, they
eat different food, they speak dif
ferent languages. In short, they
have nothing in common but the
desire for survival.
But West Pakistan with its
guns (largely U.S.-supplied) has
spent the foreign exchange from
jute grown only in East Pakistan
to develop primarily West Pakis
tan. Now, in a simulated move to
ward democracy, West Pakistan
has ambushed East Pakistan.
Next (watch the news, as it leaks
out despite strict censorship)
comes starvation and disease in
the land of the Bengali, with
deaths possibly in the millions.
West Pakistan would not regret
the reduction of the population of
East Pakistan from the present
75 million to a total smaller than
the 60 million of West Pakistan.
There can never be any recon
ciliation between the Bengali of
East Pakistan and the Punjabi
and others of West Pakistan. Re
fer to the “Mason Report”—the
report by three Harvard Profes
sors of Economics, which begins
and ends by saying that East
Pakistan (Bangla Desh) will in
evitably be free.
The tragedy, however, contin
ues as long as West Pakistan
controls. Short of armed inter
ference, the only leverage is eco
nomic: the United States should
stop every kind of aid right now
until West Pakistan quits Bangla
Desh. Hopefully, other nations
capable of giving aid will act like
wise. Preferably, action by the
United Nations will begin to solve
the problem.
Kindly note this: My good
friends in my 7 years in Dacca
included West Pakistani as well
as East Pakistani. If I lose the
friendship of any of them for the
stand I take, I am sorry, but the
Bengali cause is the just cause.
The militaristic and cruel present
Government of West Pakistan
must answer to the free world.
It is concealing the true answers
through statements from its em
bassies and through deliberate re
striction of any objective report
ing on the situation in East Ben
gal.
Yes, 200 Aggies are indeed in
danger. And their country, pres
ently under martial law, will be
rescued by far-left Communism
unless the free nations act now
to establish desired democracy.
Pakistan must be West Pakistan
only. The eastern portion must
be Bangla Desh, an independent
nation. When that is accomplish
ed, then let us help them both,
but separately.
R. E. Vroom an
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Editor:
In my last letter, which you so
kindly published, I took Capt.
Hornstein to task over what I
and many others feel is the ap
parently callous manner in which
foreign students are treated on
campus. In order to not be con
strued as entirely negative in my
outlook, I would like to propose
that the University do something
constructive with regard to the
war in East Pakistan.
First, would it not be feasible
for the Aggie amateur radio sta
tion to “patch in” with the Amer
ican Embassy in East Pakistan
and thereby process requests from
our Aggie Pakistani students
about their relatives and fami
lies? I know, from my own per
sonal experience, that the US
Army, through an activity called
MARS, can relay long-distance
phone calls from Vietnam to hams
on the West Coast who then place
long-distance phone calls to other
states and “patch” the radio mes
sage into the phone line. I think
that would certainly ease the
minds of some Indian and Paka-
stani students and could easily
be arranged.
Second, if that could not be
done, I am sure the American
Embassy in Pakistan has an Army
attache with access to the Signal
Corps radio network. The calls I
outlined in the paragraph above
could be processed in a like man
ner. And, surely, A&M’s military
contacts—in the shape of Horn
stein—could easily snip through
the red tape that, no doubt, exists.
Lastly, why don’t the foreign
student advisory office personnel
organize a “relief fund” for the
refugees and families of Pakastani
Aggies? In fact, I suspect
a sizeable portion of the Asso
ciation of Former Students are
from India and Pakistan. I am
sure that the Aggies would be
eager to assist their fellow Ag
gies in this time of aggression
in East Pakistan.
B.D. Trail ’62
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Many bills receive little public notice beverley braley university travel
With the regular session of the
62nd Legislature at a close, it is
interesting to summarize the past
five months. During the course of
the session many reports are made
on the progress of the major bills
and other bills that draw keen in
terest from citizens all across the
state.
Consequently, there are hun
dreds and hundreds of bills acted
rectors of Texas A&M University
to levy student fees for the op
eration of the Student Center
Complex. A&M requested the au
thority to levy fees because the
Legislature does not appropriate
revenue for this type of expendi
ture and additional financial sup
port for the new Student Union
Building will be necessary. This
bill has been signed by the Gov-
upon by the Lesgislature which
receive little, if any, recognition.
Many of these bills are important.
This column is a brief summary
of some of the proposals I car
ried in the House of Representa
tives during the 62nd Legislature.
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Another bill on which I ex
pended much effort is the propos
ed constitutional amendment con
cerning state employees holding
a local elected office and still
drawing state salary. This meas
ure passed both houses of the
Legislature during the last week
of the session. It will be one of
seven or eight proposals submit
ted to the people in the general
election in November 1972.
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I also obtained passage of a
bill authorizing the Board of Di-
emor...
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A bill that may be a step in a
partial solution to the state’s wel
fare problems is one that provides
for a uniform accounting and re
porting system of welfare spend
ing. Reporting welfare expendi
tures was studied by the Senate
Welfare Study Committee.
A Senate interim committee
found that both counties and cities
are expending local funds on wel
fare programs inclusive of serv
ices to the medically needy. These
efforts are not currently reported
to the state and no uniform sys
tem of accounting exists.
There is no means of knowing
how many tax dollars may be
going into welfare efforts other
than those expended by the state.
The federal government only
matches state funds or funds
channeled through the designated
state agency. Hence hospital dis
tricts, city and county tax dollars
are primarily being expended
without any matching support
from the Federal government.
This bill, which has been signed
by the Governor, will provide for
the recording of all funds spent
on welfare so the state can r
ceive federal matching funds for
every dollar that is spent by the
state. I carried this bill in the
House.
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veston.
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A bill that already has received
the Governor’s signature author
izes all state agencies to make
advance payments to federal and
state agencies for merchandise
when the advance payment will
expedite delivery of the merchan
dise.
I sponsored this bill in the lower
house at the request of the Texas
Association of Senior College and
University Business Officers.
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Another bill which I sponsored
in the House was S.B. 942. This
has been passed in both houses of
the Legislature and it provides
for instruction in the general field
of marine resources at Texas
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