THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, February 14, 1969
Guest Editorial
CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earie
Youth
Finally
Air Fares
Defended
Rep. Arnold Olsen (D-Mont.) is fighting to save the
youth discount currently offered by 24 airlines.
The discount has been challenged by the Civil Aero
nautics Board because it is “unjustly discriminatory" against
passengers who must pay full fare. Examiner Arthur Present
has decided the youth fare should be abolished. The de
cision will be implemented unless the five-member CAB
overrules it.
Olsen is seeking a review by the CAB in hopes it will
overrule Present’s decision. Olsen’s arguments are:
• Permitting a young person to fly half-fare in a seat
that would otherwise go empty is not discriminatory against
regular passengers.
• Revenue loss from the elimination of the practice
would cause higher prices for all passengers.
• Youth fares contribute to education.
• Youth fares are a “bright spot in a world that gen
erally discriminates against young people.’’
The first point is not entirely accurate since many air
lines have adopted the two-thirds fare confirmed reserva
tion system. By getting confirmed reservations, the stu
dent is not always getting a seat that would go empty.
However, the elimination of the youth fare would
create a definite loss of revenue and the youth fare does
contribute to education.
Being able to fly at a reduced rate enables the student
to attend whatever school he chooses without being severely
limited by distances. It also reduces the traffic congestion
on highways at vacation periods.
An important point lies in the origin of the anti-youth
fare ruling. Did all those discriminated-against adults pro
test? No. The bus companies protested. The bus com
panies challenged the youth fares in the interest of ending
discrimination.
Now young persons are in danger of losing their per
mits to reasonably inexpensive air travel, adults are in
danger of having to pay higher fares and college students
are in danger of having to take to the roads as one body
at vacation times—and we bet they won’t be in buses.
—Excerpted from The University Daily,
Texas Tech
Let’s Do It Again
This could be the start of something great.
Last week, Battalion reporter Tom Curl came up with
a simple but novel plan for getting complaints about local
telephone service: just announce a given time for readers
to call in their gripes to reporters manning the Batt phone.
As a result, many of the complaints that had been making
good dinner-table conversation but accomplishing little else
were presented to General Telephone officials. This in turn
produced the give-and-take article in Wednesday’s issue;
iu the long run, hopefully, it will result in better service
from the company.
At any rate, we believe the procedures in the Battalion
Intelligent Telephone Criticism Happening can have future
applications. We won’t even have to change the name, in
fact; “telephone’’ can refer as well to the means as to the
subject of the complaints. And that way, the name can
retail its acronymal (acronymous? acronymic?) charm.
We’ll keep on the lookout for a situation that lends
itself to another Happening. In the meantime, we’re open
to suggestion. Keep those cards and letters coming, folks.
By MONTY STANLEY
One of the few causes of a
constructive, rather than destruc
tive, nature that have been adopt
ed on campuses across the nation
is the campaign to lower the
voting age to 18. The movement,
which somehow manages to main
tain its progressive respectability
in spite of its basic “Establish
ment” orientation, has seen ex
pression at least once in each of
the states, according to a Col
legiate Press Service report in
the Rice Thresher. Though it has
been successful only in two states,
Kentucky and Georgia, it remains
an important current issue at
the University of Oklahoma, Ok
lahoma State, Washington and
the University of Minnesota,
among others. The interest is es
pecially prevalent in Oklahoma,
where student leaders are involv
ing the high school students also
in their movement known as
LOVE, for Lower the Oklahoma
Voting age to Eighteen.
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On the other hand, students
are still, at this moment, rioting
for what they want—for what
they feel they have coming to
them simply because they exist—
at Berkeley, San Jose State and
San Francisco State, among
others. In addition, we all know
that rioting has become a com
monplace event, if not a style of
life, in many parts of the nation.
At last count, it is true, the riot
ers and militant dissenters were
in the minority. However, as yet,
still no word from that smug,
supposedly vast, silent majority.
Something’s got to give.
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The University of Houston’s
mascot, Shasta III, was involved
in a little trouble this week. The
100-pound cougar is normally
chained outside his small house
on campus. According to a moth
er, her four-year-old daughter
was bitten on the throat and
scratched when she went to re
trieve a ball which had rolled
within the animal’s reach. A bad
season’ll do that to you, you
know.
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De Anza and Foothill Colleges,
among other California schools,
are experimenting with a form of
problem-discussion known as the
“encounter.” In its most extra
ordinary form, the “marathon
encounter,” members of the two
groups (for example, student and
faculty, black and white, or even
the group made up by all the
workers in an office) spend 12
hours in a room, and have food
and drink brought in to them.
When someone has a complaint,
he holds the hhnds of the person
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and states his feelings exactly.
The theory behind this procedure
is that, after 12 hours, any pre
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From the world of miscellan
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Campus cause of the week
coming up. In case some readers
haven’t been on a commercial
flight for a while, there is great
concern presently over the report
of the Civil „ Aeronautics Board
concerning youth fares. Examin
ers from the CAB have suggested
termination of the student dis
count rate. While not direct news
of other campuses, the upcoming
final decision will affect nearly
all college students. Many stu
dents are from places (for ex
ample, California) which restrict
them to just one visit, or at the
most, two visits per year. Of
these, many could not have af
forded even that one trip without
the special rates offered to
youths. This may not seem like
such a big deal. Actually, maybe
it wouldn’t be, except that this
writer is one of those students.
“I think we’ve got something here! It appears that there’s
a definite relationship between grades and study time!’’
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