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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, March 20, 1968
Editor’s Report
Begs For Pity
The April 2 edition of Look Magazine has in its pages
a “candid report” of 23 college editors who describe the
problems of the draft, Vietnam, administrators, parents, sex,
drugs, race relations, the future, and other items an editor
of a college newspaper is supposed to know all there is to
know about.
Some of these characters appear to be normal human
beings. Some of them look like they don't know which way
is sideways- Seven women editors were questioned for the
report and gave opinions on questions that do not concern
women in the least.
But this is not what we have a gripe about. There edi
tors proposing to speak for students at their respective
schools, felt that “their personal destinies are caught up in
forces they cannot influence.”
This article is the most blatant attempt that we have
been exposed to lately to try to generate pity for the college
community.
An example of the typically unbiased souls answering
Look’s questions is Harvard’s editor, Joel Kramer. He
“could not be friends with anyone in the ROTC.”
Frank Quigley of Fordham said that although anti-
ROTC feeling isn ? t as strong as it is at other schools, “ROTC
students are considered immature” and “just people who
like to play with guns.”
We hope you will read the article and trust that you
will find it as amusing as we did. —C. H. R.
“It’s a little grading device I whipped together!”
Sound Off
Things To Come
There will never be any love lost between former Ala
bama governor George Wallace and President Johnson.
Neither will there ever be any love lost between Wallace
and his campaign wagon and the Negro populace of Omaha,
Nebraska.
His appearance in Omaha prompted a demonstration
by Negroes at the Civic Auditorum, followed by rioting in
a Negro section of the town.
A 16-year-old Negro youth was shot and killed by an
off-duty policeman and 12 others were treated for injuries.
This prompted a request by Negro leaders from Omaha
that Attorney General Ramsey Clark send some observers
to the city to investigate racism. An editorial proposed that
the violence was caused by black racists and whites smypa-
thetic to their cause.
No matter who of the Omaha populace was to blame,
that great American George Wallace got the ball rolling.
—C. H. R.
Tricky Dick’s Back
Richard Nixon isn’t thought of as “Tricky Dick” any
more. At least not by the younger members of the press.
When the former vice president lost the California gu
bernatorial race in 1962, he told the press:
“You won’t have Nixon to kick around any more be
cause, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.”
Needless to say, he has had many press conferences re
cently, and many more will follow as Nixon tries to win the
Republican nomination for the presidency.
But he evidently has seen the folly of his way and has
granted the members of the press a degree of courtesy.
His philosophy about press relations:
“It will never be a love affair like some newsmen had
with Kennedy, but I would like to have the newsmen’s
respect, if not their affection.
The youth of the press will be easy to win over, but
the veteran of two decades will remember Nixon’s attitude
and clashes of the days he spent prosecuting Communists-
—C. H. R.
Editor,
The Battalion:
Say, Ags! Do you know the
elections are coming 1 up March
28th ? Do you care ? Do you care
if responsible people are elected?
Will the people elected be the
choice of the whole campus? If
you care about these things,
Aggies, then you should do some
serious thinking.
Who is running for office ?
Do you know ? Do you know what
offices they are seeking? Should
you know as responsible Ags ?
What can you do? You all
know that as Aggies you have a
responsibility to yourselves and
the school to see that responsible
people hold the positions that
the candidates are seeking. Is
there some way you can voice
your feelings, if you have been
thinking? Is there any power
you have at your command as
Ags to show what you feel ?
There is? Then use it! Remem
ber, you owe it to yourselves
and to the school!
Paul Clore ’70
★ ★ ★
Editor,
The Battalion:
We would like to take this
opportunity to thank everyone
for all the support which the
class received for the Junior Ball.
It is the effort, work, and atti
tude of this caliber which will
make our class stand above the
rest—working together and re
ceiving nothing but the feeling
of a job well done. An outstand
ing job! However, as in many
situations, recognition does not
always go to those deserving in
dividuals to whom credit is due.
We would like to take this oppor
tunity to point out a few of the
workhorses who are responsible
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THE COLLEGE STATION CHICKEN SHACK
Across from A&M Golf Course
Phone 846-2323 Hours — 11 a. m. to 8 p. m.
for making the ball the success
that it was.
• The Junior Council, which is
composed of representatives from
each outfit and civilian represent
atives, who netted $1200 from
sweatshirt sales, selected the
finalists and provided the chair
men for all the committees.
• The committee chairmen and
the people on his committee who
spent all Saturday from 8 a.m.
to 6 p.m. decorating: Bruce Bax
ter, Chairman of Decorations;
Steve Petitfils, Joe Byrd, Dennis
Guill, Mack Frazier, and Charlie
Schwab, and their dates.
• The other committee chair
men: Walt Dabney, pictures; Ray
Grisham, tickets, and Corbit Mag-
by, refreshments.
• We would also like to take
this opportunity to thank those
individuals who contributed their
time to make the Ball more mean
ingful: Mr. and Mrs. Gaines. Mr.
Gaines, who is our class sponsor,
guided us every inch of the way.
Our gratitude cannot be express
ed in words.
• Honored Guests. We would
like to thank you for coming; it
was an honor having you there,
and we appreciate your interest
very much.
As you can see, no one indi
vidual or group of persons can
accept credit for a job well done
when it requires the support of
the whole class. Support and suc
cess was measured by the num
ber who contributed by working,
presenting ideas, giving time, and
most of all being present. It was
supported and very successful.
We are not thanking you; we are
congratulating all the Class of
’69 for a job well done!
Danny Ruiz,
for class officers.
Class of ’69
VC Arms
Found In
By JOHN LENGEL
Associated Press Writer
SAIGON <A > ) — The massive
U.S. and South Vienamese drive
to root the enemy from around
Saigon turned up a big arms
cache Tuesday that may have
been intended for attacks on the
capital’s Tan Son Nhut air base.
Vietnamese found the cache in
brush beside the Saigon River
five miles north of the air base.
They reported finding 80 122-
mm rockets, 1,200 mortar rounds,
138 bazooka shells and a half-ton
of TNT.
The base has been hit repeat
edly by rockets and mortars since
the enemy launched its lunar
new year offensive Jan. 30 that
swept into Saigon and other ma
jor cities.
So far the operation has re
ported killing 821 of the enemy
since it was launched March 11.
The Americans have lost 32 killed.
Just south of the operation,
South Vietnamese fought a battle
with the Viet Cong and reported
killing 46. The Vietnamese com
mand said its casualties were
light.
THE FIGHTING broke out 35
miles southwest of Saigon in Kien
Hoa Province. Kien Hoa is the
next province south of Go Cong,
the southernmost province in the
big operation known as Quyet
Thang—Resolve to Win.
The only other action reported
was on the coastal plain, 310
miles northeast of Saigon. Rifle
men of the U.S. 11th Light In
fantry Brigade said they killed
11 guerrillas in a brief skirmish.
There were no American casual
ties.
In the far northwest below the
Bulletin Board
TODAY
The Finance Society will meet
at 7:30 p.m. in Room 202 of Fran
cis Hall.
The Texas A&M Sailing Club
will give the second lesson of the
beginning course at 7:30 p.m. in
the YMCA.
THURSDAY
The Deep East Texas Home
town Club will elect officers at
7:30 p.m. in Room 3A of the Me
morial Student Center.
The Amarillo Hometown Club
will have dinner at 6 p.m. at the
Monterrey House.
The Orange Hometown Club
will make plans for an Easter
party at 7:30 p.m. in the lobby
of the Academic Building.
The Mechanical Engineering
Seminar Program will hear Mike
D. Batey and Bill Nicks, engi
neers for Southwest Bell Tele
phone Co. in Houston, speaking
about Bell’s management training
program for engineers at 10 a.m.
in Room 303 of Fermier Hall.
The Fort Worth Hometown
Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in
the Art Room of the Memorial
Student Center.
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Cache
Saigon
demilitarized zone between North
and South Vietnam, North Viet
namese poured a 125-round bar
rage into the surrounded U.S.
Marine base of Khe Sanh. A U.S.
military spokesman said casual
ties were light among the 7,000
defenders.
IN THE AIR war, U.S. airmen
flew 71 missions against North
Vietnam Monday, concentrating
on Kien An airfield six miles
southwest of Haiphong, a power
plant 27 miles northeast of the
port, and roads and storage areas.
There were no immediate reports
of damage.
U.S. headquarters reported an
Air Force F-100 Super Sabre jet
was shot down in the North Viet
namese panhandle 30 miles south
west of Dong Hoi. One crewman
was rescued and the other is
missing. It was the 811th U.S.
combat plane reported downed
in the North.
At Ta Khli base in Thailand,
the U.S. Air Force put its new
swing-wing F-lll fighter-bomber
through flight tests. The 1,500-
mile-an-hour plane will do the
work of 16 of the present fighter-
bombers used in Vietnam, a U.S.
officer said. The first combat
flights over North Vietnam are
expected in about two weeks.
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