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HBHI : ' 3; Pag-e 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Friday, March 21, 1969 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle ^)0 “The next time a guy is talking about a flour bomb, don’t ask him what it is!” LISTEN UP 1^—_ the bait forum —— Editor, The Battalion: On a campus that tolerates no extremist dissent, even in the form of political speakers who might disagree with views of those in power, and whose presi dent quakes in his boots at the thought of SDS or AABL affect ing the young minds he so zeal ously guards from “wrong ideas,” I was shocked to see posters ad vertising retired Brig. Gen. Rob ert Scott’s speech. Even The Bat talion, sometimes better known for what it leaves out than what it prints, wrote the speech up as if it were similar to another Great Issues series. Clearly this speech was pushed by both Dr. Douglas, the voice of Wallace and “Let Freedom Ring” on campus, and the administration. Nothing gets that much publicity without their approval. The speaker’s extremism is in dicated by his advertising pitch, “What’s Happened to Patriot ism?” It is confirmed by a look into the group bringing him here, the Brazos County TRAIN Com mittee. Doubters might call 846- 3711 and hear Dr. Douglas. This week’s topic is the Communist at tempt to subvert American youth through the Beatles’ music. He has accused Nixon of consorting with Communists and naming a Communist to the UN. But this doesn’t seem to fright en the administration, bent on protecting “young minds” here. Simple charges of communist or liberal associations could easily bar speakers from A&M, but no attention is paid to neo-Nazism, which is as dangerous as com munism. Why not Curtis LeMay and Robert Welch next? Welch might get a few laughs; he re cently termed sex education a Communist plot to get American youth thinking about sex. Well, some Aggies might not swallow that idea. This incident should establish in students’ minds that the ad ministration has nothing against extremist dissent — as long as it ia their own brand. But who knows—we may all be wrong and they will next ask Eldridge Cleaver and Madelyn Murray (A&M’s first riot?). Let freedom ring! Daphne Magee By MONTY STANLEY Does Phillip Luce realize that Tuesday night, when he spoke of the “BSU” stormily making de mands on a riot-tom campus, most of the peo ple in the audi ence thought he was talking about the “Baptist Stu dent U n i o n?” (Does that ex plain the discon certing patter of laughter which followed your comment, Mr. Luce ? ) He was referring, of course, to the Black Student Unions, which are a part of student activities on many campuses. Could be that this little misunderstanding on our part says something about the state of affairs on campus, a state which could be changed for the better with just a little ef fort on the part of students. ★ ★ ★ Two students at Washington State got into a little trouble with the cops. As a matter of fact, they got into a lot of trouble and one was sentenced to 30 days, the other to 90. The judge stipulated that they could start serving the sentences on week ends till school was out. Talk about sitting a restriction. What does a guy tell his girl? ★ ★ ★ At the University of Oklahoma, the utimate in student demands is being realized. According to the Washington State paper, which covered the demands in an editorial, handicapped students at OU have threatened a campus “roll-in” unless a “handicapped vice president for handicapped student affairs” was appointed. Also at OU, Jewish students have demanded that an “Israeli general be named to oversee Jew ish student affairs and a kosher kitchen.” The TRAIN Committee is an off-campus organization with no ties to the university or its ad ministration. The speech to which Mrs. Magee refers is sponsored by the group, which mailed The Bat talion a publicity release concern ing the program. We published a story March 11 based on that release; this in no way repre sented an endorsement, any more than reports of airline crashes should be considered endorsements of airline crashes. Regular readers of The Bat talion are probably aware, by the way, that announcements of com ing Great Issues presentations are almost invariably front-page news; the story on Gen. Scott’s speech appeared on an inside page, because as a community- news topic it was not considered to have as much news value as campus events such as Great Is sues talks. —Ed. And at the same university, language majors have staunchly demanded “French maids in the dormitories, native Mongolian counselors, Turkish baths, and Swedish masseurs.” The “demands,” of course, were somewhat less than serious, and designed to point out the unrea sonableness of a growing number of minority demands. However, many rational people consider each one of these OU demands at least as feasible as complete satisfaction of the ultimatums being delivered to college adminis trations across the country by such groups as the SDS and the Black Panthers. ★ ★ ★ At the University of Maryland, incidentlly, students’ “demands” were quickly met—on a somewhat more limited scale, perhaps. Male students numbering around 300 THE 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. 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Arts Coll Members of the Student Publications Board are: Ji is h: Clark, College < lege of Agricult aers i Lindsey, chairman ; Dr. David Bowers, Arts ; F. S. White, College of Engineering ; Dr Clark, College of Veterinary Medicine ; and Hal Taylor, Col- are : J im ege of Liberal Dr. Donald R. Battalior The published in Co Su unday, May, an . student newspaper at d in College Station, Texas daily except Saturday, and Monday, and holiday periods, September through id once a week during summer school. Texas A&M is Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chic Francisco. icago, Los Angeles and San EDITOR JOHN W. FULLER Managing Editor Dave Mayes Sports Editor John Platzer News Editor Bob Palmer Staff Columnists John McCarroll, Mike Flake, Monty Stanley, Jan Moulden Staff Writers Tom Curl, Janie Wallace, Tony Huddleston, David Middlebrooke Assistant Sports Editor Richard Campbell Photographer W. R. Wright SOPHS 6l JUNIORS ATTENTION Pictures for The Aggieland are being made for Jrs. & Soph’s S-Z this week, March 17-21. Your cooperation is necessary for picture to appear in the yearbook. gathered outside the women’s dorms between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. and “demanded undergarments.” The girls obligingly tossed their panties and stuff out the windows, apparently satisfying the men. The night before, a nude girl had broken the monotony of the night with a mad dash across an open space on campus before several pairs of amazed eyes and into a waiting getaway car. So, at the U of M, as at colleges all over, we see once again that, indeed, everybody’s got his own bag. ★ ★ ★ Speaking of bags, a successful panty raid on a dorm at St. Joseph’s College, in Rensselaer, Indiana, ended with a record be ing set in the singles category— one guy grabbed six girdles in one trip through the place. Think of the catapult a guy could make with six girdles. On a calm day, you could just about bomb Bryan with water balloons. ★ ★ ★ Observers of the “sign-up” area will appreciate this one. At SMU, two students saw an empty table pushed up against a wall in the Student Center, much as would be the case next to the post office in our own MSC. Anyway, these two figured that what they would do would be to use it for a “sign up” table, and they did. Every one who came by was asked to sign up. When asked why, the two soliciting students simply said “For nothing.” They drew 103 signers in the two hours they were there. Did it prove a point ? They think so: “At least no one can say SMU students are apathetic about everything now. When it comes to nothing, they’re all for it.” On the SMU campus, a new organization called the Black League of Afro-American and African College Students has been allotted the unusually high sum of $866.70. What is even more noteworthly than the sum, which was justified by an itemized bud get which includes the engage ment of speakers for the benefit of the entire student body, is the manner in which both the BLAACS and the student Senate conducted themselves. In an edi torial, the school’s paper, The SMU Campus, commended both groups for letting “rationality prevail” and generally proving the workability of “working with in the structure, to try to keep open the lines of communication which on so many other campuses have been broken down com pletely.” ★ ★ ★ Big news from Hardin-Simmons U is that the H-SU Cowgirl or ganization is “undergoing a com plete reorganization.” Among other drastic changes, it has now been officially “designated as the official hostess organization of the university.” Way to go, cow girls. John McCarroll Bare Facts Are Revealed In Psychology Club Talk Some of them looked nervous and fidgeted in their chairs — others made salacious remarks. One girl was evidently embar rassed by the whole situation and then there were some who tried to look confident and reserved. The speaker arose and walked to the lectern—a hush fell over the audience. “Well,” he began, “I was going to show slides with my talk, but my department head advised against it.” Then there were some uneasy titters in the audience and one 19-year-old “dirty old man” actu ally guffawed! For about a week there had been signs on the campus extol ling a talk before the Psychology Club entitled “Observations in a Nudist Camp.” Like all of the other filty-minded souls on cam pus, I envied those in the Psy chology Club but really didn’t plan to attend the meeting. SOMEHOW, Wednesday night, I found myself in a room all-too- familiar. It was a classroom that had been part of the Journalism complex in the sprawling base ment of Nagle Hall before the department was moved to the Services Building. Many a time had I sat in that Tonight On KBTX 6:30 Wild Wild West 7:30 Gomer Pyle 8:00 Friday Night Movie — “This Woman Is Dangerous” 10:00 News, Weather and Sports 10:30 Judd For the Defense 11:30 Alfred Hitchcock room and listened to lectures, but none so stimulating as that of Dr. James D. Preston, an assist ant professor in the Agricultural Economics and Sbciology Depart ment. Really more out of curiosity than anything else, I attended the talk. I wanted to see what the speaker would look like since the posters had led us to believe that he had actually been inside one of these compounds and as every one knows, to enter such a colony one must disrobe. DR. PRESTON was quick to point out that he was not speak ing from experience, but from re search by a fellow sociologist (not exactly studying starving com munities or dirty slums — eh ? ) who had visited three camps around Chicago. According to the speaker, nud ists justify their behavior by say ing that nudity and sex are unre lated, there is nothing shameful about exposing one’s body, sun shine on bare skin is healthful and there is pleasure to be de rived from being free of clothing. The nudists are evidently not as naive as they sound, as they set limits on the number of un married males admitted into their colonies. There is also a limit set on the number of trial visits a prospective sun-worshiper can make to a camp. PERHAPS MORE as unwritten codes than anything else, they also frown on staring, telling dirty jokes or unnecessary body contact. “They also prohibit dancing within a nudist camp—I{8 you could say they don’t il cheek-to-cheek dancing,” het tinued. Although it wasn’t brough in Dr. Preston’s present there are probably signs mil over the camp reading: “No staring in this area." “Please remove yours glasses.” “If you drink — don’t stn could be another sign, as Preston pointed out that drill is another taboo in nudistencln because: “. . . alcoholic bevew may lead to release of sexual hibitions which can in tumb to overtures—and they certc wouldn’t want a guy rum. around with a six-pack under arm making overtures.” THERE ARE three things!! the nudists avoid (other ti poison ivy): no talking about a politics or religion—inthatoii we might add. In short, the nudists imj« more restrictions within tk camps than in the outside w and then enforce them muchn: efficiently. One club member asked speaker toward the end ola talk: “If they don’t believe in dni ing, telling dirty jokes, tat} photographs, dancing, discuss sex, politics or religion, avoid body contact—whatdotli do?” “They play volleyball and bored,” another student quickly. 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