Pag-e 2
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, October 15, 1969
THE BATTALION
Editor:
Patriotism includes the recog
nition of beauty in one’s country.
Since I feel I do see the beauty
of our country, I see beauty in
that each of us has the privi
lege to express an opinion. Fur
ther I see implied in this privi
lege is the unruled-upon observ
ance or non-observance of the
Vietnam Moratorium.
Under a democracy, our coun
try must exhibit the “right” opin
ion of the majority instead of
the “right” opinion, but before
this, the majority opinion has to
be determined. As voters we
choose from powers which have
ideas instead of ideas which have
power, thus the majority of vot
ers may hold a politically unex
pressed opinion. Understanding
this, I feel that to demonstrate
sincere ideas, the majority (or
minority) may have to go be
yond the ballot and that non
violent protest is not only a priv
ilege but a necessity in our de
mocracy.
Paula Dobrovolny
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Editor:
I live in College View (B-18-A)
and would like to comment on the
article in Wednesday’s Battalion
“Trash Service Criticized By Col
lege View Residents.”
We have one of these disposal
areas behind our building which
is always neat as a pin. How’s
that? When people move in and
out the boxes are usually put
outside the trash cans but there
is no big mess. Many mornings
the people who do such a splendid
job of keeping the grounds
around here pick up the loose
trash and deposit it in the cans.
Frankly I think the grounds peo
ple and trash people do a good
job.
Donald F. Smith
1 the
graduate
For all of you who have been
following the football seating
“controversy” for the past few
weeks, it is no surprise when I
tell everyone else that the gradu
ate student body emerged vic
torious after last week’s Student
Senate meeting. And that emerg
ence came after a long, hard four
hours of debate not only on foot
ball seating but on the nationwide
Moratorium scheduled for today.
Since the last “Graduate,” the
Graduate Student Council has
held its Fall New Graduate Stu
dent Orientation and believes that
it was an unqualified success. The
attendance was about 150, includ
ing a dean or two, a department
head, and several members of the
graduate faculty. Many students
who were there remarked to me
and to members of the GSC that
it was very informative and that
they were glad they attended.
For those of you who missed it,
we will have a Spring Orientation
sometime during the spring se
mester on a date to be decided on
early in that semester.
Those of you were at the ori
entation will recall that I pre
sented the proposed football seat
ing plan and said that I would
use this column to tell what hap
pened and why it happened at
the Senate meeting, so here goes.
Collier “Doc” Watson, chairman
of the Student Life Committee of
the Senate, presented the two
plans of seating as arrived at by
a subcommittee of the Student
Life Committee, Plan A being
the same as last year, and Plan B,
the “tenure” system. It was
moved and seconded that Plan B
be adopted, and there ensued
volleys from all sides, flurries of
friendly amendments, recesses for
calcus, etc. By the time the smoke
had cleared, the Senate had ap
proved Plan A, with these altera
tions: 1) all graduate students
and seniors will pick up their
tickets on the first day or days;
2) the “consideration section” was
reduced to Sections 238 and 239;
and, affecting only undergradu
ates, 3) if, for instance, your ID
number shows you to be with the
senior class but your activity
card says that you are academ
ically a junior, you may use the
ID card classification to obtain
seats wtih seniors if you so de
sire. What 3) means is that you
may use either your ID number
or your academic classification to
get football tickets, whichever is
most advantageous to you. The
implications of this are that
transfer students and non-Aggie
graduate students will have much
better seats than they would have
had under the “tenure” system.
From what was said Thursday
night, however, this may only last
this year since the Athletic De
partment is considering going to
the “tenure” system next year.
But, in the meanwhile, enjoy your
good seats this year. Now that
we have this major issue resolved
for this year, the Graduate Stu
dent Council, erstwhile defender
of the graduate student, is ready
to take on anything (almost)
where a student thinks he is
getting the raw end of the deal.
Now it is time for me to attack
several factions on this campus
and probably get some people mad
in each of them. First, let me
state my position as being not
that of a rabid crusader against
anybody but rather as an inter
ested observer who has been a
member of each of the factions.
The object of this verbal assault
is the self-righteousness displayed
by any of the several groups, or
cliques, or factions, as you please,
now in existence on our campus.
On a small, usually harmless
scale this is exemplified by the
“If you’re not in Company Z-5,
you’re not worth a damn” or by
the “If you don’t live in Geezen-
blat Hall, you’re useless” sort of
rivalry. This sort of bantering
is usually a result of esprit-de-
corps and rarely becomes in
grained in a person to the extent
that he actually honestly believes
it. On the microscopic level, we
talk about this behavior in only
one person, who then becomes a
disruptive influence within his
microcosm, exhibiting character
istics very similar to those of a
cancer. Cancer, in its initial
stages, is microscopic and attacks
only a few cells of the organism.
Let us now take our “believer,”
as I shall call him, and place him
in an environment where resist
ance to evangelism of “the only
way” is either low or negligible.
We start getting more and more
“believers” until before long the
microscopic organism (the be
liever) has left his microcosm
(himself” and has flourished into
a macroscopic organism within a
macrocosm (“a faction, clique,
etc”). We now have a large
number of people who believe
very earnestly and sincerely that
they are in possession of the only
“truth” or are the only ones who
deserve a certain title (e.g.,
“Aggie”). This cancer has spread
from the microscopic, single cell-
attacking organism to the flour
ishing, malignant cancer attack
ing everything that falls in its
path. Had it been detected and
treated while in its formative
stage it might have been removed
as a threat to the systems of the
host. However, unchecked it will
continue its malignant march
through the body of its host until
the host can no longer support
both its own normal functions
and the cancer—at which point
the host succumbs.
I hope my analogy was not lost
to anyone because detection and
prevention must be on an indi
vidual basis. If you are “can
cerous” and you are man enough
to admit it, you are also man
enough to “cure” yourself and
help others detect and cure it
within themselves. This “cure is
virtually painless and is based
almost entirely one on tenet: You
are no more equal or are not any
better than anyone else simply
because you live in Geezenblat
Hall or belong to Company Z-5.
What this requires is that each
person within a faction open both
his eyes and his mind to the fact
that the above tenet must indeed
hold forth in every single person
on this campus. The “organism"
is question can not support one
“cancer,” much less two or three,
and can not be hale and hearty
when in competition with an in
fluence competing wdth it for the
means to attain its goals.
’Nuff said.
Che Battalion
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CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Editor:
I want to take this opportunity
to thank the senate for reaffirm
ing our right as A&M students
to the freedom of expression as
guaranteed in the first amend
ment to the U.S. Constitution; it
certainly is reassuring to know
we’ve somebody on this campus
volunteering their services as
watchdog for the rest of us, to
say nothing of preserving A&M’s
image as one of the last remain
ing bastions of good, ol‘ fashioned
patriotic fervor; you can’t begin
to imagine how thrilling it is for
me to return from a year of duty
“over there” and find the Con
stitution still intact, thanks to
the courageous efforts of the
likes of the student senate at
A&M; keep squelching the activ
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army . . .!
Norcliffe Meyer
Mayeaux Assigned
Air Force 1st Lt. Gilbert E.
(Gil) Mayeux II, a 1967 Texas
A&M graduate, has been assigned
to a strategic missile squadron at
Whiteman AFB, Mo.
The Minuteman ICBM combat
crew deputy commander is in
volved in control of a 10-missile
complex. The Minuteman support
To Missile Base
base 65 miles from Kansas Qj
is an element of the Strat
Air Command. Missile cot
crews stationed there control)
nuclear missiles.
Lieutenant Mayeux is the!
of Air Force Lt. Col. (ret) i
Mrs. G. E. Mayeux of 0
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