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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, July 2, 1969 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle . . . Men, I realize it’s warm today. But !” Editorial Editor’s Note: The following letter was received in the Battalion Office yesterday. It comes from Dale Lewis of Dallas, Tex. “Local police in the cities of America are under attack by the communist criminal conspiracy, as are county, state and federal law officers. Injuring or murdering them, calling them names, discrediting them in any manner possible—are the ways of Reds and their stooges in the black and student movements. So there ought to be at least one more law—one to give extra protection to our police, who are our first line of defense. One of the 50 states, we hear, is considering an act making the murder of a policeman automatically punishable by death. We hope it contains a provision assessing a mandatory 30 years (without parole) to anyone seriously injuring a law officer. The Texas legislature would do well to vote for such a law. Our police are expected to protect even those who set out to murder them. And it appears that black riot-makers in Dallas, as elsewhere, are thirsting to start some riots. Several of these have been in jail a number of times, but local bleeding hearts are always able to get them out. We would like to see the new community-relations committees in our city and others justify their existence by taking up the cause of the local police. These our defenders should be defended and supported, so they can be free to do their duty for the rest of us. American police work for modest pay at the hardest job in the country. ” Although most Americans would tend to agree whole heartedly with such an admirable stand, it is hard to swallow what Mr. Lewis says in its entirety. Agreed, American police (and others the world over) do work at hard jobs for low pay and never receive much recognition for the good they do. But it is unlikely that the line of distinction between what is right, wrong, communist, or otherwise can be drawn with any clarity. It is generally accepted that many of our disturbances, especially by students, are instigated by outside agitators, meaning someone affiliated with a subversive organization. But all of these adjectives are mere labels that bend and change with the times and many times what was good becomes bad and the average man has trouble distinguishing between evolution and revolution. There’s no doubt that our present system could use some change, but giving a policeman in the streets another nightstick to wield in the form of another law would do more harm than good. Murder is a crime which, taken in the context of premeditation, is usually punishable by death. Policemen represent authority to most people and the feeling behind this proposed law is that anyone defying authority should be condemned to death without benefit of trial. An example is Joe College, who believes fully that he is doing the right thing by standing up for his rights and marching in a peaceful demonstration with several hundred others. Who’s to say if this demonstration was started by good people standing up for their beliefs or by some communist conspirators? In the course of the march, police armed with tear gas and mace intertwine their forces within the marchers ordering them to disperse!. The marchers refuse and violence breaks out and a policeman is killed along with several of the marchers. The policeman under this law is entitled to have his murderer executed while the just-as-dead marchers were killed supposedly in defense of society. The really sad thing about an instance like this is that all of the dead men, no matter which side they were on, felt what they did was right. Looking at it from Joe College’s point of view, it wouldn’t be fair for a policeman to come up to a student marcher, fully armed, and stomp him because the cop knew there would be no retaliation. There’s another side of the street, too. RMC By MONTY STANLEY The Navy recruiters who are visiting A&M this week were at tu last week but received a slightly different reception. The administration at the Austin cam pus is so rattled and shell-shocked by student activists that they weren’t about to take any chances. So they placed the recruiters on the second floor of the Business Administration Building rather than the student center. Got to have that “freedom of speech,” don’t we, SDS ? For everyone we want to hear, anyway. Playing at a theatre at tu this week is “The Babysitter.” The cutline reads “She came to sit with baby . . . and ended up with Daddy!” ★ ★ The Baylor Col- ; lege of Medicine graduated/ its first Negro] MD in the 67- ■ year history of | the school. His i name is Leo Orr, and he is a grad uate of Prairie View A&M. ★ ★ ★ Carpenters were replacing the floor of the Intramural Gym at Texas Tech last week and un covered some interesting salvage. Acting as kind of an “unintention al cornerstone,” the floor had preserved some real relics, in cluding several copies of some 1929 newspapers, and two 1936 football schedule cards, complete with the scores penciled in. ★ ★ ★ Even at East Texas State, courses of black study are being offered. Six English courses de signed to give public school and college teachers “information about the Negro culture, lang uage and literature” are being offered at ETSU this summer. Instructors include two “local folklorists” and three visiting lec turers. ETSU’s paper reports that stu dents at Texas A&I University in Kingsville have been success ful in preserving a popular stand of trees and walkway, which had been designated a parking-lot-to- be. More than 900 persons signed a petition opposing the destruc tion of the area, reports the school’s South Texan. It’s not like we’re getting hard up for news or anything like that, huh ? ★ ★ ★ The University of Minnesota’s plans for 1971 include complete computerized registration. Lucky dogs, now they’ll be able to pick their favorite professors, and all those other advantages that come when you switch to computers, just like us. In the town next to the Uni versity of Minnesota campus, there has been established what could become a foundation for a valuable change in attitudes. It fs the new Police Community Relations Center. Throughout the day, friends and curious people MARTIN (Continued From Page 1) or in a single specialized field of criminal justice can wreck this program if it prevents coopera tion and coordination.” Dies quoted philosopher-histor ian Will Durant's admonition to study roots of crime, corruption, economic inequities and political failures in processes of biology, the nature of man and centuries of history. “Reconcile yourselves to modest and gradual improvements after your proposals have faced the necessary test of conservative re sistance,” Dies quoted the author. Then he insisted on using the strength of society to protect society. “I believe in an international brotherhood of man that will re place this atomic stalemate,” the third-generation Texas govern ment official declared. “But until it comes, I believe we should pro vide for the security of our na tion, ourselves and our children by using the might of this na tion.” Cbe 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. LETTERS POLICY Letters to the editor should be typed, double-spaced, and must be no more than 300 words i?i 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. 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The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M is ished in College Station, Texas daily except Saturda published in College Station, Texas daily except Saturday, EDITOR RICHARD CAMPBELL Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, September through __ . t-, ,., May, and once a week during summer school. Managing Editor Monty Stanley come and leave and talk with the two officers there. The atmos phere is pleasant and the people have reacted in a friendly way. Says one of the police officers, “Our main job here is to explain the functions and policies of the police department. In a very gen eral way we are attempting to create better understanding be tween the police and the com munity. We are not here to pro mote our side. We want to hear the other side as well.” Positive approaches like this, taken during the summer when everything has cooled off, are the only thing that will preserve campus order when the action begins anew in September. And it will. ConferenceToTalk About Eng. Center A pre-construction conference will be held in Dallas next week on Texas A&M’s $7.5 million en gineering center. J. O. Adams, A&M vice presi dent and controller, said repre sentatives from A&M, the W. S. Bellows Construction Corp. of Houston and Department of Health, Education and Welfare officials will meet to discuss the project. Adams explained that since A&M received federal funds for the center a pre-construction con ference must be held prior to groundbreaking. W. S. Bellows Construction Corp. was the low bidder on the 317,575-square-foot center with a $7,546,000 bid. The center will house under graduate and graduate instruc tion and research. It will be located across Spence Street and facing the Cyclotron Institute. The center is expected to be completed by September, 1970. The big brother of a particle telescope in operation at Texas A&M is about 50 per cent com plete and “rocking,” the uni versity’s cosmic ray physicists reveal. Used to study high energy particles originating near the top of the earth’s atmosphere, the massive instruments will make simultaneous measurements in Texas and Bolivia, according to Dr. Nelson M. Duller, project director at A&M. The smaller of the two instru ments will be shipped to Mt. Chacaltaya near La Paz, Bolivia, - later this year for installation at the high-altitude site. Steel rocker mountings enable orientation of the telescopes from the zenith to below the horizon. Spectrometer telescopes “see” high energy particles called muons in electrified spark cham bers containing special gas mix tures. They are expanding man’s basic knowledge about cosmic ray interactions with the earth’s atmosphere and the protons’ “grandchildren” that reach the earth’s surface. the muon’s path and the resulting angle provides data on its energy and direction, among other things. Dr. Duller works in the Air Force Office of Scientific Re search-funded project with Dr. W. R. Sheldon of the University of Houston, Dr. Gene Cantrall and Dr. Phillip Green of A&M. The physicists indicate the new spectrometer is 18 feet tall and will weigh 13 to 15 tons. “Electronics are being com pleted now,” Duller said. The telescope will employ five spark chambers ranging from four to six to three by three feet in size. Magnets wound by hand with No. 14 wire weigh 4.3 tons each. “The bigger instrument will have better resolution and will be able to recognize higher energy particles,” Cantrall explaihed. Because of its smaller size, the 9Vi-ton prototype will be at Cht- caltaya, Duller indicated. It hu been in operation since last March. The A&M physics pro fessor said crating will begin in October. The telescope will go by ship from Houston to Africa, Chile; switch to train to La Pa; and then truck to the 17,000-foot high installation site, where Mil and the University of Maryland have experiment stations. ‘At that altitude, we’ll be abort half the atmosphere,” he added “Thus by changing this variable, we’ll get a whole new point of view.” Duller, Sheldon, Cantrall, Gren and a graduate student will put the device into operation Chacaltaya. Invisible to the human eye, the fast-traveling particles bombard the earth constantly and pene trate deep into the ground. Dens ity of the cosmic ray offspring is such that a person is pene trated by a thousand muons a minute, Duller said. He explained that several nu clear particles, including pions and kaons, are created when a cosmic ray strikes air atoms. Under current nuclear theory, pions and kaons decay into the •sub-microscopic muons. They travel at almost the speed of light, Duller noted. 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