Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, December 12, 1969 THE BA I I ALIC^N jListenJUp the^batt^Jonim^^ Editor: Although I am just a freshman at A&M, I’ve learned quite a few interesting things in the short while I’ve been here. One of the most interesting is the fact that cowboy boots and a hat somehow gives one the power to openly humiliate and degrade those who don’t conform to the wearer’s idea of dress and style. They also provide the wearer with some miraculous knowledge of just how long all people should wear their hair, and, most amaz ingly of all, the right to tell those who object to having others’ ideas forced on them that they should leave A&M. One of the most hum orous things about all this is the zeal with which these “cowboys” defend America and democracy any time an opinion is advanced about our government. Yet they openly deny others the right to hold an opinion differing from theirs or to have hair longer than they think it should be. Our fath ers fought and died to preserve this country and its government so that we could go on having the freedom to live as we wish, not as someone else thinks we should. Tommy Thompson ’73 ★ ★ ★ Editor: There has been much conjec ture printed in these pages over the last few days concerning the cowboy versus the hippie type. I had not paid much attention to it until I read the opinion print ed in the Thursday, December 11, Battalion. In this article our cowboys were shown as hardworking, poor boys who were here just for a good education, and certainly would not dream of using college to avoid the draft. It explained that their actions in the table stomping incident were only be cause of their intense pride for A&M’s image. Gentlemen, open your eyes! How anyone can swal low these ambiguous generalities which took the brains of three to conjure is quite unbelievable. However, if these three honestly believe in what they wrote, then they had better pull their heads out of the sand and try to get some of this education which they speak of in such hallowed tones. The situation is not as they would have one imagine. The crux of the whole matter is that our heralded cowboys did not use common decency in air ing their opinions. It is well and good to have opinions but not to show them in such a manner. Yes, gentlemen, Highway 6 does run both ways and its center seems to have been left void of this thing called common decency. Frank Shellings ★ ★ ★ Editor: Many people on campus think the Political Forum is a failure. I disagree! Political Forum is succeding in warping the minds of dozens of students and faculty. Warping to the left (total state control of life), of course. The speech of Dr. Harvey Wheeler on Dec. 9th is an ex ample of Political Forum’s lean ings. Dr. Wheeler has changed his scare tactics from the BOMB 2 Receive Medals Army officers commissioned at Texas A&M have received the Bronze Star Medal for service in Vietnam. Capt. Bobby L. Springer, 1965 graduate of Rockwall, was cited for service in connection with op erations against hostile forces while technical supply officer in the 610th Maintenance Battalion. A mechanical engineering ma jor and Alpha Phi Omega presi dent at A&M, Springer is located (Fail-Safe, 1962) to biological ecology. Wheeler’s mixture of fact and fiction, presented as fact, is designed to cower people, psychologically, into submitting to total government control. Background information on Dr. Wheeler is interesting. He became a sponsor and faculty member of the New Left School in Los An geles in 1965. Others in the New Left School included Southern California’s Communist Party Chairman, Dorothy Healey, and other revolutionaries, including those from the Student Non- Violent Coordinating Committee, Congress of Racial Equality and others. Dr. Wheeler advocates “par ticipatory democracy” as a re placement for our Republic. By “participatory democracy” he means planned socialism. Accord ing to political analyst Alice Widener, Dr. Wheeler’s blueprint for “participatory democracy” bears a striking similarity to William Z. Foster’s Toward A Soviet America. It seems reasonable to request some pro-American, anti-com munist speakers. How about it? Don’t you agree ? Charles R. Douglas Asst. Professor, Soil and Crop Sciences Dept. For Vietnam Acts near Phu Loi. He has been in Vietnam 10 months. First Lt. Lament E. Meaux of Winnie was executive officer of an infantry company of the 199th Light Infantry Brigade when he was nominated for the decoration. The 1968 A&M graduate in indus trial distribution, now at Camp Frenzell-Jones, also holds the Combat Infantryman Badge. He went to Vietnam from Fort Car- son, Colo., last February. Robinson’s Crusoe By Bob Robinson “Very entertaining. This is the first play by the Aggie Players I’ve attended and I found it to be both entertaining and well pro duced.” ‘Tobacco Road” performed last night to a small, but enthusiastic audience of 149. In an effort to find out what the audience really felt about the production, the Aggie Players included small sheets in each of their programs asking for comments. Although a signature was specifically des ignated as optional, in almost every case the sheets that were returned were signed. The com ments, in every case, were sim ilar. The above quotation was signed Stephen Roper. Robert Merrill wrote, “The set ting and costumes were excellent. The acting was good. The pro duction was worth the price of the entertainment.” I’ve been around the campus on and off since about 1962 (The Great Registrar in the Sky may see fit to allow me to grad uate in August) and for several of the years, I worked with the Aggie Players. This is one of the best produc tions I can remember seeing on the Guion Hall stage. The idea to enclose these sheets came after only 95 per sons attended the opening night performance. “Tobacco Road” is one of the best plays to be taken from a book by a twentieth cen tury writer. Erskine Caldwell is famous in his own right, not only from “Tobacco Road,” but from “God’s Half Acre,” another best seller. There must be some reason for the light attendance. I decided to see what people thought of the Aggie Player ver sion. The following are more examples of what people thought. John E. Williams wrote “a very good performance.” Marcus Hill wrote “A&M needs more of this kind of enter tainment to broaden our field of entertainment.” John Rouse wrote “very good.” Not everyone filled out the slips of paper and I can only guess what they thought. Every one who did fill one out wrote generally complimentary remarks. Some had additional comments. Dick Blair wrote “good acting, but no change of scenery.” “Acting is pretty good and seems very realistic. Props and costumes are quite effective. Script for dialogue is terrible — playwright was really trashed out,” was unsigned. Billy Swain wrote, “A very good production that is well worth the time and small cost of admission. The only room for improvement is in the coffee sold at the play.” That we can do something about. There are only two more nights, tonight and tomorrow night, to see “Tobacco Road.” The only thing the Players need now is a larger response from the faculty and student body. 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