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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Friday, April 5, 1968
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
“Now, as I understand you, you need to leave early because
your grandmother died?”
Newsweek Surveys
Student Opinions
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REACTION
Sometimes one of the best ways to resolve our own
problems is to listen to someone else’s.
As one of the finer schools in the Southwest A&M
works not only independently but often in harmony with
universities throughout the nation.
There is the saying that “Boys will be boys’’ and in
many respects A&M students hold similar opinions to other
students across the nation.
Lacking direct data from our own students, a look at
the opinions of other students may give us an insight into
some of our own probable reactions.
A recent survey of American college student opinion
on major issues shows them to be far less rebellious and
much closer to adult views than is commonly believed.
The poll was conducted by Newsweek magazine and
represents a cross-section of 8,700 students from 150 col
leges.
Among the highlights of the survey:
On Vietnam only 17 per cent advocate a unilateral halt
in bombing and withdrawal of U. S. forces, while 34 per
cent would escalate the war effort to seek a military victory,
and only eight per cent, as of last January, would call a
cease fire and seek negotiation as is now being attempted.
On the draft, the survey showed that 44 per cent of
the students disapprove of someone who rejects his military
obligation, while 37 per cent accept his position if he is
“sincere.”
Sixteen per cent failed to pass judgement saying it
was a personal decision.
On politics, no Presidential hopeful received a plurality.
Highest is New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy with 15
per cent backing for the Presidency. President Johnson and
Richard Nixon each received 11 per cent, Nelson Rocke
feller 10, George Romney 9, and Ronald Reagan 8.
There was a big shift on as to who the students thought
was today’s “Big Man on Campus.”
Thirty-nine per cent said they preferred the “good stu
dent or intellectual,” while 17 per cent selected the “involved,
aware” student. No other grouping drew more than 9 per
cent and athletes didn’t even figure in the returns.
Votes for “the person in the world who you most
respect,” included 19 per cent for a parent or relative,
followed by 3.4 per cent for John F. Kennedy, and then
two per cent for “myself”.
Most students—some 73 per cent according to News
week—are content with the college they attend and would
return again in given the chance to begin over. Sixty-three
per cent said they wanted to get advanced degrees.
If the survey is relatively accurate and represents a
true cross-section of opinion, then in many respects A&M
can see its own face.
Editor,
The Battalion:
A few days ago I witnessed
something that destroyed most
of my pride that I felt in going
to A&M. Do es this sound
familiar?
Well, the letter that was print
ed in The Battalion Thursday was
about as one-sided as could be,
and omitted a few facts.
The facts are, to start with,
that any person should have a
right to dress and do as he wishes
to the extent that it really gets
ridiculous. There are very few
students on campus that have
gone beyond their rights.
This boy that hails from Atlan
ta, Georgia, I think, is one of
these few. In addition to having
extra long hair, he has obscene
insignias on his motorcycle hel
met. We have respectable girls
and women on campus that main
tain higher moral standards than
he does.
But does he have a right to
wear this riding down the streets
of A&M in front of visitors and
our female students?
Also, some of these guys dress
like ‘Vigilantes” with no socks
and ragged clothes with shirt
tails hanging out.
These guys also have records
of some kind in school or out of
school. Not all of them, but some
do, as I know for a fact.
There are also quite a few of
these people that disgust the
people of A&M that have a little
higher moral standard than they
do.
If you are lucky, you will find
maybe one per cent of all Aggie-
exes to back you because maybe
they have turned into criminals
or have very little reasoning as
Mr. Sorrells does.
I again say I believe in rights
100 per cent. If you think these
guys are all right and the country
and western Klan are wrong, well
go west, young man, all the way
to Berkeley and leave this college
to decent people.
Larry Huddleston ’70
Chief Martindale ’70
★ ★ ★
Editor,
The Battalion:
In my wanderings across this
campus to and from classes I
mistakenly stumbled across a
piece of literature that I feel this
campus should be totally aware
of. This piece of literature to
which I am referring calls itself
an “underground newspaper,” the
name of which is “Paranoia.”
I believe it has several worth
while articles that somehow have
failed to catch THE BATTAL
ION’S eye, or were passed over
as material of sheer nonsense,
non-truth and unworthy of space
in THE BATTALION.
Instead of printing articles that
are excerpts from the A.P. and
U.P.I. presses, which any news
conscious Aggie can read in a
newspaper or hear on a radio,
I think that THE BATTALION
would rise to the level of a
better school newspaper if its
reporters printed some of the
controversial issues that are on
this campus.
Rick Miner ’70
★ ★ ★
Editor,
The Battalion:
Upon arriving at Texas A&M
University, a person finds himself
wallowing in a tide of “Howdy,
Sir,” military and corny strands
of “Your Cheating Heart” being
played by the follow-your-mother-
and-don’t - forget - your-perfect-
country type boys. And, while
floundering around, he mutters
under his breath, “where are the
open minds; where are the in
telligent people; where are the
pople who have thoughts?” He
tries to raise himself above the
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ignorant apathy that surrounds
him to find if there are people
who have opinions, people who
don’t hang onto every word that
dribbles from the mouth of Lyn
don Baines. But, he is probably
unsuccessful.
Yet, at last, there is something
that he can look to. This is Texas
A&M College’s new underground
newspaper, “Paranoia.”
A&M Students, look up! At
last we have freedom from the
unthinking stagnancy which en
gulfs this campus. At last we
have people who look at the hard,
bitter truth of today’s issues.
Texas A&M is coming around
to the enjoyment of the true
purpose of the university. That
purpose is to re-examine every
thing that has been taught in the
light of new developments.
I will tell you what the reaction
to this newspaper will be. The
corps will call it “the work of the
hippies.” The cowboys will call it
“the work of the Communists.”
But, Aggies, I beg you to read it
out; face the facts. It may com
pletely destroy your sense of
security, everything which you
have been comforting yourself
with in the midst of war. But
would you like to be ignorant
and secure or wouldn’t you rather
see the bludgeon that is about to
strike you over the head so that
you can “duck” in time.
Listen to the faint applause of
the intelligent, and perhaps you
will hear that applause grow.
Someday, you may hear a stand
ing ovation and be able to call
Texas A&M a University.
Ryan Bernard
WS Junior Catches
Cave Salamander
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and a half, some of them cutting
classes, in order to vote, revealed
that the election wasn’t run as
efficiently as it should have been.”
JOHN P. MALINE agreed with
other candidates that there were
discrepancies in the election.
“I think the decision to hold a
new election is a good idea, even
though I’m not planning on run
ning again,” he said.
ALLEN D. JANACEK said:
“I consider that Thursday’s
election was unjust to the Corps
of Cadets.
“Not to my disadvantage, be
cause I didn’t get that many votes,
but to the leading candidate’s dis
advantage. I will not campaign
again for the office, but I do not
support any certain candidate.”
COLLIER R. WATSON sug
gested a program to unify the
civilians and Corps members.
I do not plan to campaign ac
tively,” he said. “I think the
whole election was kind of messed
up. I’ve got a feeling that there
will be harsh feelings between the
civilians and Corps members be
cause of the over-all results.”
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A rare blind cave salamander
from the Edwards Plateau area
of Texas has been captured by
David W. Mabie, a junior wildlife
science student.
Mabie is keeping the animal,
technically a typhlomage tridenti-
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tory. Three other similar sala
manders, died almost immediately
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Baldauf noted many cave ani
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