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Pag-e 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Wednesday, April 16, 1969 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Listen Up the batt forum j “I know records are important, but I want someone else to be the watermark for a while!” BOARD (Continued From Page 1) into an additional elementary school. “WE ARE in the midst of a population explosion,” Dr. Por ter noted in outlining projected school enrollment. School board figures, compiled with the assistance of a con sultant, indicate an enrollment of 4,340 children in the College Senate Agenda The following items will be considered at Thursday's Student Senate meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the library conference room, ac cording to Senate President Bill Carter: • Committee and Representative Reports • Old Business A. Report on Reapportionment Amendment B. Change in Appeals Board Recommendation C. Education Committee 1. Pass-Fail 2. Published Professor- Course Evaluation 3. Curriculum Reforms 4. Teaching Techniques 5. Library Utilization • New Business A. Faculty Achievement Awards B. TISA Report C. Activity Fees D. Senate Banquet E. Report on Governor’s Stu dent Body Presidents Com munications Comference F. Aggie Sweetheart G. Constitutional Amendment H. Fish Handbook I. Speaker Policy Revision J. Voting Booths Location K. MSC Brochure Proposal Station school system by 1978- 79 — double the present enroll ment. Porter said the figures are based on a population estimate for College Station of 37,200, excluding single Texas A&'M students. He emphasized the school sys tem needs more classrooms now. Its effective utilization rate is more than 90 per cent, well over the 83 per cent considered the maximum desirable. IN ADDITION to Drs. Wooten and Porter, other school board members at the College Hills PTA meeting were Drs. Lambert Wilkes and Benton Storey. School Supt. W. T. Riedel also participated in the meeting. He discussed the academic aspects of the school program, pointing out plans are being made to place counselors in elementary schools, similar to the ones in high school and middle school. Dr. Porter said the board plans to realign the grades in elemen tary and middle school. If the plan is adopted, elementary school will include grades one through five and middle school, grades six through eight. Ele mentary school currently encom passes grades one through four. Board members plan to visit other A&M Consolidated schools and make presentations similar to the one conducted for the College Hills PTA. Tonight On KBTX 6:30 Here Come the Brides 7:30 Good Guys 8:00 Beverly Hillbillies 8:30 Green Acres 9:00 Hawaii Five-O 10:00 News, Weather and Sports 10:30 Wednesday Night Movie— “Assault on a Queen” ENDORSEMENT LETTERS Due to space considerations and in the interest of equal treatment, the following policy will be in effect for next week’s Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs day issues only: Each candidate in the General Elections may have published one letter, in which he states his candidacy, and up to two letters of endorse ment from other students. As always, of course, the gen eral letters-to-the-editor policy (stated at the bottom of this page) will be in effect. —Ed. Editor, The Battalion: We have just returned from a student conference on political af fairs. We were “privileged” to meet delegates from the U. S. Military Academy. All delegates arrived in civilian dress. The majority of delegates were stu dents who do not participate in the ROTC program; therefore, for the majority, civilian dress was their normal attire. Like wise, for us, a uniform was our normal attire. We were shocked to find, however, that the dele gates from the military acad emies never once wore their uni forms. Delegates from the Naval Academy received slight ridicule when they arrived at the confer ence, and quickly put away their uniforms along with any thing else that might connect them with the military. The repre sentatives from the Merchant Marine Academy and West Point brought uniforms with them but never once put them on. Since a uniform is our daily dress, we felt no need to change for a con ference where anti-military fac tions were present. Maybe this is insignificant, but it seems to us that one of the purposes of attending this kind of conference is to represent one’s university. We are sad to find that students of the other insti tutions are not as proud of their schools as we are of ours. We found in general that students of other schools were eager to learn about the uniform and particu larly the school which we repre sented, both the military and civilian parts. We are also sad that the stu dents from the military schools missed a wonderful chance to favorably represent the United States military system. A lot of people may tell Aggie jokes, but no one can say Aggies are not proud of their school. Did you hear the one about the Ensign who . . . Gary Hall ’71 Bill Brady ’71 ★ ★ ★ Editor, The Battalion: On April 24 our student body elects a new Student Senate president. The student body as a whole needs an elected member who can best represent the wishes of the majority of stu dents on this campus. The office that best fits this need is Stu dent Senate president. The per son that best fits this need is Garry Mauro. Garry has shown his capability in the past by serving in many elected positions on our campus. In this cam paign he has shown his maturity THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalio?i 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 neiuspaper. LETTERS POLICY Letters to the editor should be typed, double-spaced, and must be no more than 300 xvords in length. They must be signed, although the writer’s name will be with held by arrangement with the editor. Address corre spondence. to Listen Up, The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, Texas 77843. MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association Mail subscriptions are $3.50 year ; $6.50 per full year. All subs sales tax. Advertising rate furnish' The Battalion, Room 217 Texas 77843. ?r semester; $6 per school bscriptions subject to 4% ihed on request. Address: Services Building, College Station. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for j; ^-i— —1.. - not Members of the Student Publications Board are: Jim Lindsey, chairman ; Dr. David Bowers, College of Liberal Arts: F. S. White, College of Engineering; Dr. Donald R. Clark, College of Veterinary Medicine ; and Hal Taylor, Col lege of Agriculture. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M is published in College Station, Texas daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, September through May, and once a week during summer school. Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising ices, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Servic Franc othi origin published herein, matter herein are also reserved. Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. EDITOR JOHN W. FULLER Managing Editor Dave Mayes Sports Editor John Platzer Staff Columnists John McCarroll, Mike Plake, Monty Stanley, Jan Moulden Staff Writers Tom Curl, Janie Wallace, Tony Huddleston, David Middlesbrooke, Dave Berry Assistant Sports Editor Richard Campbell Photographers Bob Stump, Bop Peek Sports Photographer Mike Wright Regular $1.45 Now 96c CANADIAN BACON AT EITHER OF RALPH’S LOCATION ‘Join The Fun’ Ralph’s No. 2 East Gate 846-4266 Free Dorm Delivery Ralph’s No. 1 North Gate 846-4112 ALLOW 15 MINUTES • CARRY OUT OR EAT IN. THIS OFFER EXPIRES 18 APRIL through a concerned, well-run, sportsmanlike campaign. If the students in this school wish to elect a truly progressive leader of men, then elect Garry Mauro Student Senate president. John B. Blake ★ ★ ★ Editor, The Battalion: The National Champion Fight ing Texas Aggie Fish Drill Team returned from Washington, D.C. Sunday to a demonstration of spirit and unity typical only of Aggieland. The Fish Drill Team is grateful for the tremendous support it has received. They will continue to represent the Spirit of Aggieland, the spirit that has helped make A&M and the Fish Drill Team number one. fish George Barrientos The Freshman Drill Team National Champions 1969 ★ ★ ★ Editor, The Battalion: The purpose of this letter is to inform the Civilian students of certain cold, hard facts about the political situation at Texas A&M at this time. Since the Corps became optional in 1964, the Civilian Students have al lowed themselves to be com pletely subjected to the will of the steadily decreasing minority. Civilian Student leaders have con tinually preached and believed unity between Corps and Civilian students. Corps leaders, to a large extent, have gone along with this idea as long as it was to their best advantage. When this was no longer the case, the “unity” idea was scrapped and pleas such as “Keep the uniform where it belongs — at the top” were renewed. Whenever there was any doubt of winning an election, a plea to keep the Corps at the top was usually sufficient to draw (or maybe force?) ade quate support. I think me Civilian Students stop this fool ish nonsense and take their rightful place on this campus! Why should we tolerate the burning of Civilian candidates’ signs in the Duncan sign area within 15 minutes after they are erected ? Why should we toler ate such uncalled for actions as drowning out Civilian campaign ers in the Corps area ? Why should we continue to tolerate hypocritical preaching of unity to us and then out-and-out advo cation of Corps supremacy to them ? Why should we continue to tolerate Corps domination of elections by totalitarian tactics as in the recent Class Elections? Will we become an active part of this student body or continue to allow ourselves to be intimi dated ? If you care about Texas A&M and its future, get out and vote Thursday, April 24, 1969, and see that your voice is heard so that student government will represent you! Your individual vote is extremely important as is that of each of your friends. Let’s end this intimidation! Get out and vote! David L. Alexander Candidate for Vice-Pres., Civilian Student Council REDDIN (Continued From Page 1) moving to the Los Angeles area.” BATTALION: Has the image of police departments improved in the last five years ? REDDIN: “I think the middle class and higher classes of the population have learned to look to the police departments as their authority for protection because of the turmoil of race riots and violence that has erupt ed in our cities in the last five years. But I still believe - there is doubt in poverty stricken areas whether the police depart ments really care or not.” AGGIES ... DON’T DELAY! 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