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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, June 5, 1969 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle . . Blue cards, green ones, and a few white ones—Are you sure you hafta have a pink one, sir?” By MONTY STANLEY Does anyone remember the hangup job done by the Student Senate at the end of the year, and the outstanding progress made in student politics in gen eral? Well, as a kind of com parison, the members of Washing ton State University’s Student Senate have an end-of-the-year tradition of adjournment which matches A&M’s in effectiveness, if not drama. After clearing up the last official business of the year, student senators finish the last chaotic discussion with a wild shaving cream fight. At least something like that would be less trying on students and would do less harm than our present tradition. Speaking of student govern ments which blast out in a cloud of futility, WSU’s paper also carried this hauntingly familiar sounding story concerning the Spring student elections— “Any rational, logical individu als who have t tried to make S / sense of or un derstand the op- * erations and poli cies of the Elec tion Board during this election have been left feel ing like Alice in Wonderland. “Not only did the Election Board seem to confuse the whole situation, they did not seem to know what their policies were from day to day. “For instance, one student was informed that it was fine for him to run for the office of senator, despite his last semes ter’s grades . . . then, after he obtained the necessary signa tures and filed his petition, he was informed that the Election Board Chairman hadn’t read the rules and had misinformed him. “The Chairman then informed him that he could run as a write- in candidate and challenge the rule if he won, which he did. The result was that he was denied the position and the Chairman commented that it was a ‘cut and dried situation from the be ginning’.” ★ ★ ★ Here’re some interesting Per sonals from the University of Minnesota’s Want Ads section: “Mac got an 80 in Physics 9. Wow! 14 points over.” “Female minor looking for fe male over 21 with I.D. Pref. green eyes, 5’6”.” “Tim E. is conducting a Nude Marathon. He’s a hairy guy.” “Paddy Murphy is dead ... no more guna-guna’s for the big banana.” I just report ’em, I don’t ex plain ’em. ★ ★ ★ Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia—William Sloane Coffin, the controversial Yale chaplain, was scheduled as a speaker by the Student Center Board. The ar rangements called for some stu dents to meet the man at the airport. However, at the airport, they encountered a man who called himself William Sloane Carlson, who claimed he had never heard of William Sloane Coffin and besides, he had ar rived at Emory to speak as they had requested (He was a hypno tist). Well, this really wouldn’t get it, the students figured, and told the guy as much. He then got burned and demanded the fee the Student Center Board had guaranteed Coffin. After a bit of a hassle, Carlson was taken to a nearby Rodeway Inn where he called his agent. His agent refused to defend either Coffin or Carlson. The next morn ing was taken up with a con frontation between Carlson and the dean, who restated that the SCB would not pay the fee. A day later, William Sloane Carl son had left Atlanta—without paying his bill at the Rodeway— and the SCB is presently hard at work forgetting the whole affair. ★ ★ ★ A father of 10 has commuted each day this past year at North eastern University in Boston, in order to complete requirements for a bachelor’s degree in psy chology. The kicker is that he and his family live in Sebago Lake, Maine, which is 120 miles from the campus. He already makes $14,000 annually, but says, “I wanted to do something with my next 20 years which would be more satisfying and meaningful ... I had for some years been thinking in these terms but had allowed ‘practical considerations’ to interfere with my plans.” ★ ★ ★ Woodsman, spare that tree! Such was the scene at the Uni versity of Massachusetts as a young coed rushed to stop work men on a bulldozer about to re move a tree which was on the site of a new building to be constructed. UTA’s Shorthorn re ported that she was soon joined by a group of students who took over the bulldozer and rallied a group of about 100 students, who then drew up a list of demands which included the halting of the construction which would have caused the destruction of the scenic pond on the campus. ★ ★ ★ At the University of Oklahoma, donors in the annual blood drive had the opportunity to replenish their precious body fluids right away. The departments of geology and petroleum land management sponsored a beer bust for all in volved in the blood donation con test. Teague Criticizes Kennedy For Comments On Vietnam U. S. Senators should confine their criticism on Vietnam to policy differences, and quit try ing to dictate orders to field commanders, Representative Olin E. Teague said recently. Teague aimed his sharp re marks at Senator Ted Kennedy for the Senator’s criticism of a recent military operation in which U. S. and South Vietnamese troops took a hill overlooking the A Shau Valley in South Vietnam. “The Senator has every right to his opinions, and the duty to speak out on policy matters; however, he has neither the knowledge nor the experience to second guess our commanders in the field,” Teague said. “The Senator’s disgraceful and damaging comments, obviously based on news reports and with out any effort to seek out the facts, were not only untimely, but worse, comforting to an en emy whose only hope for success in aggression is to weaken the will of the United States at home.” “The U. S. troops in Vietnam are the finest this nation has ever fielded. They do not make the policy decisions but they do A&M Spending Bill Passes Committee A one-year spending bill ap proved by a conference commit tee of both houses of the state legislature for the fiscal year from September, 1969 to August, 19T0 includes a version which provides Texas A&M with $22.2 million for its main campus. These funds specifically pro vide for faculty salaries, main tenance, fellowships, campus se curity and many other items. In addition, $415 thousand was appropriated for operation of the system offices. Other facilities granted funds were the new Veterinary Diag nostic Laboratory, $253 thousand (same as the original House ver sion) and the Agricultural Ex periment Station, $5.6 million (an increase of about $400 thou sand above both the House and Senate bills.) Three facilities received com promise figures from the original House and Senate versions. They are the Extension Service, $4.9 million; the Engineering Experi ment Station, $1.3 million; and the Engineering Extension Serv ice, $366 thousand. Total appropriation in the con ference report for the entire A&M University System amounts to over $37 million. Texas voters get a chance to state their preference or dislike of daylight savings time on the November, 1970 General Election ballot. The resolution to let the voters decide was passed by the House, May 27. County Judge W. R. Vance, Kent Potts of the Bryan-College Station Chamber of Commerce, Bob Cherry, assistant to the President of Texas A&M, and Warren Harmon of Bryan joined Senator Bill Moore and Represen tative Bill Presnal at the signing of House Bill 189 by Governor Preston Smith, May 29. The bill clears the way for a petition of election to create a Brazos County Airport Author ity, lAt The Grovel “Ocean’s 11” will appear Fri day on the Grove Theater screen at Texas A&M in a schedule change by the Memorial Student Center summer program. The movie starring Frank Sina tra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Angie Dickinson will re place “Nnght People,” announced Grove Manager Sammy Young of Dallas. “Night People” with Gregory Peck and Anita Bjork will be shown Sunday, July 20. Cbe Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. 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