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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, December 17, 1969
THE BATTALION
John Platzer
Of Cowboys vs. Longhairs
A&M has made a basic change
in the Hollywood scripts of the
old Cowboys and Indians movies.
It has become the Cowboys and
Longhairs all of a sudden with
the Corps supplying the most
attentive portion of the audience.
If you don’t fit in any of these
three groups you can forget it
because you definitely aren’t “in”
anyway.
In the old West it was the In
dians who went around scalping
the Cowboys. At A&M it is the
Cowboys who want to do the
scalping for a change.
It seems rather odd that the
all-time expert on this subject
was at the same time a cowboy,
a soldier and a longhair. His
name, of course, was General
George Armstrong Custer.
Considering the fate that
awaited Custer at the Little Big
Horn, could it be that this man
who fits so nicely in each group
would not be accepted by any
of them ?
To find the answer to this
earth-shaking question, a repre
sentative of each group was
“rounded up” (pardon my pro
fanity Longhairs and Corps
members) and asked for his opin
ion of the General.
Answering for the Longhairs
was Isit Agirl while
Boots represented the Cowboys
and Drawn Saber spoke for the
Corps.
The specific question was: How
would you evaluate General
George Armstrong Custer’s place
in history and is he one of your
more highly thought of heroes?
Isit Agirl: That warmonger is
no hero of mine. He got exactly
what he deserved if you ask me.
That was a civil war that the
Sioux were involved in, what
right did he have going where
he wasn’t wanted ? That was
President Grant’s war. The peo
ple weren’t behind the efforts of
those capitalistic imperialists. So
the Sioux were scalping a few
settlers—so what? My gosh, they
had to get their kicks some way.
I mean like after all, man, who
are we to go around knocking
someone else’s bag. Anyway, old
Sitting Bull wasn’t a bad sort of
guy. He begged Custer to come
smoke a few joints with him
where they could take a trip
together.
Boots: Well, pard-
ner, I haven’t ever really thought
about that if you want to know
Listen Up the bait forum
Editor:
An article in the Dec. 10, 1969,
Battalion pertains to A&M’s
“initiating a broad-based research
program to develop techniques for
containing oil spillage such as
occurred earlier this year off the
coast of Santa Barbara, Calif.”
Oil spillhge need not be on so
large a scale to present problems.
Environmental destruction occurs
when small volumes of oil—say,
for instance, four or five quarts
of crankcase oil—are dumped
where they are drained—for in
stance, at the Hensel area service
racks—on a recurring basis. From
the racks, and extending down
stream, the banks of the small
creek and standing water in the
creek are covered by a layer of
oil.
This should be an opportune
time for the facility to be im
proved so that the pollution by oil
spillage (and resultant stench) of
this area might be eliminated.
Containers could be provided for
oil drained here, as well as for
empty oil cans and old filters.
Perhaps one of the service sta
tions would provide containers, in
return for receiving the oil for
reprocessing. It would further
seem that students utilizing the
facility would be willing to use
these containers for the intended
purpose and take care to leave
the facility as clean as it was be
fore they used it.
Most persons are becoming in
creasingly aware of the problems
we are creating by pollution of
the environment. The University,
as a natural resource-oriented in
stitution, has an excellent oppor
tunity to further the cause of
public awareness of our environ
mental problems. A good policy
might be to “put our own house
in order” and give maximum em
phasis to the programs which are
designed to further this cause.
Harry M. Ohlendorf
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Editor:
I feel that the “milk accident”
in Sbisa was quite unfortunate
and not exemplary of true Aggie
behavior. However, I can feel no
genuine sympathy for Mr. Kieras
because no one is forcing him to
wear his hair in such a fashion.
Mr. Kieras made the following
statement in his article of Decem
ber 10: “My appearance is an
invitation to share new ideas and
is not a justification for a per
son’s contempt.” I would like to
point out several things to Mr.
Kieras. First of all, a person does
not need a strange or weird ap
pearance nor does he need to be
a non-conformist to bring forth
new ideas.
Our country has made a tre
mendous amount of progress
(more than any other country in
history) by accepting new ideas
and incorporating them into our
lives. Many of those new ideas
were quite radical at the time and
some were quite unpopular, but
they were eventually accepted,
and no one with long hair or
other form of unusual appearance
was required to bring these
changes about. In fact, if such
people had suggested or even
supported those ideas, they might
never have been accepted. I be
lieve that Mr. Kieras refers to
such non-acceptance as “narrow
mindedness.” On the contrary,
this is common sense.
People usually do not accept
the ideas or respect the judg
ments of people who show no re
sponsibility or maturity. Mr.
Kieras has the constitutional
right to believe what he wants
to believe, but no one has to lis
ten to him if they do not want to.
If Mr. Kieras expects to com
municate with his so-called “nar
row-minded” people (the majority
of people in the United States),
he will have to conform to their
standards. At present, he only
alienates them before he even has
a chance to express some of his
ideas.
So I suggest that if Mr. Kieras
wants to have his ideas listened
to and accepted; if he wants dig
nity and respect as a member of
this democratic society, then let
him show a little maturity and
common sense so that people will
listen to him. Let him present his
ideas in a standard way without
such childish gimmicks as his
“longer than usual hair.”
Stephen Mutschink ’72
★ ★ ★
Editor
As vice chairman of Political
Forum, I helped Monday in the
drafting of the committee’s let
ter to The Battalion in answer
to Dr. Douglas’ letter of Decem
ber 12. I feel compelled, how
ever, to make a few more com
ments as an individual student
that were not made by the com
mittee in its letter.
Evidently, Political Forum’s
efforts to balance its program
ming must have been overlooked
by Dr. Douglas. Mrs. Walt Ros-
tow, whose husband has a vest
ed interest in American govern
ment, appeared in November. In
the spring, Senator Strom Thur
mond and Negro Congresswom
an Shirley Chisolm should give
a fairly well-balanced view of
American Politics. Indeed, Politi
cal Forum’s success is depend
ent upon its balanced program
ming.
On a little more abstract level,
though, any thoughtful, reflec
tive American will readily admit
the advantages of being exposed
to ideas with which he is not nec
essarily in agreement. If our
reflective American is right, a
dissenting opinion, while hope
fully stimulating him to thought,
will only result in the strength
ening of his opinions. If our
reflective American is wrong, it
might well serve him to heed the
arguments of others. After all,
a belief that cannot withstand
criticism is not worth keeping.
David Reynolds ’71
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the truth. I am just a hard
working good old everyday
American. I don’t have time to
speculate on such things with all
this good old American brand
work I am doing. He did seem
pretty far out, though, and I
guess he got what he deserved.
Why, do you know he disobeyed
the orders of the President of
this whole confounded country.
A guy like that would probably
have hair all the way down to his
shoulders and you know how
worthless that type is. By the
way do you know the real rea
son for the battle? You see,
Custer was seeing Sittin’ Bull’s
daughter behind his back.
Drawn Saber: Without a doubt
he got what he deserved, sir.
Leading his men into a trap like
that, what kind of commander
was he anyway? Why he didn’t
even call in an airstrike to help
out. If he had kept up the air
attacks he would have ended
the struggle against those sav
ages in no time at all. Evident
ly he just didn’t care about tra
dition which is the backbone of
everything decent. I guarantee
you if he had followed tradition
he wouldn’t have lost.
To Bonfire Costs
Alpha Phi Omega, A&M’s serv
ice fraternity, has given $500 to
defray costs of the 105-foot 1969
Bonfire which burned Nov. 26.
Vernon Bartle, chairman of the
APO Bonfire committee, present
ed the $500 check, the fraternity’s
concession stand profits, to Head
Yell Leader Sam Torn at Tues
day’s basketball game in G. Rol-
lie White Coliseum.
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Chapel cordially invite the public to attend the
outdoor carol sing, featuring the Singing Cadets
and the A&M Consolidated High School Choir. The
program will conclude with the lighting of a 30-
foot Christmas tree.
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