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
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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.”
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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.
Chambers above, between and
below heavy iron magnets show
the muon’s passage as an incan
descent violet spark, which is
recorded by camera. Magnets bend
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