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■ . . ■ • • ■ • • . ■. ■ .• '••• —. .. Senate Forms Committee cadet slouch byjimEarie (Continued from page 1) times this is not true, and arti cles are published in The Bat talion over his objections. “There have been numerous stories that have appeared in the Batt that I would have pre ferred not to have run,” he said. Explaining the nature of some of his objections, Stephenson said he finds himself opposed to stories that subject the univer sity to “needless” criticism. He said that generally his function on the newspaper is to make sure that what goes into The Battalion is accurate, in good taste, and not libelous. Stephenson added that he has urged editors not to let The Bat talion be used as a “battle ground” in the “letters to the editor” columns. He said he objects to letters that “grossly misrepresent the facts, make personal attacks on someone, or are highly inflam matory.” Also, he said he dis courages letters that make “threats.” “A lot of my philosophy can be summed up in the old saying, ‘Why air your dirty clothes in public?’ This is what a lot of letters to the editor try to do.” Stephenson said that instead of writing letters to the paper, stu dents should bring their com plaints before such bodies as the Student Senate, where some posi tive action may be taken. “Like it or not,” he added, “what goes into The Battalion re flects on the university.” He said that many who read The Battalion throughout the state do not take into account the fact that students write the articles. Stephenson maintained that the newspaper does have a re sponsibility to the university and should even be “somewhat of a booster of the institution.” In the question and answer session, senators pressed Steph enson to further clarify his posi tion in relation to the editor. “Does the editor have the final word concerning what goes into the Battalion?” one asked. Stephenson replied that he would not say that this would be true on all occasions. He said for example that if the editor wrote a column calling for the assassination of someone, he doubted whether he would allow it to run. “But if the column was written in good taste and not libelous, why wouldn’t you?” another sen ator asked. “You mean you would want to see the column run anyway?”, Stephenson questioned. A number of senators replied, “Yes.” Listen Up Editor: “For some time now the Texas A&M football and basketball teams have included substantial numbers of non-agricultural ma joring participants. However, this fact has been overlooked or ig nored by many people. This fact is an insult and a slap in the face to those students majoring in other fields. On several occasions I have heard the Corps of Cadets, Mike Mistovich, Spec Gammon and others refer to A&M athletic team members as ‘Aggies’ or ‘Farmers.’ This flagrant degrad ation of non-agricultural major ing members of the teams and majority of the student body in general must not be tolerated!” Sound rather ridiculous, Mr. Peek? I feel confident that the athletic teams and the student body at t.u. don’t feel personal insult at being referred to as “steers” or “longhorns,” just I feel confident that the vast ma jority of Aggies don’t feel per sonal insult at being referred to as “01’ Army,” “Cadets,” “Farm ers,” or “Aggies,” even though they may not be physically asso ciated with any of these groups. I am amazed at times, Mr. Peek, at how such narrow minds acquire positions as important as Manag ing Editor of The Review. It seems to me that it would require just the opposite ... at least to be qualified. Gary J. Martin, Marketing major and very proud to be called an Aggie Upham Dissertation Entered in Contest Dr. W. Kennedy Upham, as sistant professor of sociology, has recently been honored by the nomination of his Ph.D. disser tation for a national competition. The sociology faculty at the Uni versity of Florida has submitted the dissertation on “A Sociologi cal Analysis of Man-Land Rela tions in Central America” for the Rural Sociological Society’s com petition for the best dissertation award for theses completed in 1968 and 1969. ★ ★ ★ Loftin Honored As Top Teacher Richard B. Loftin, senior phys ics major, has been recognized by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation for schol arly excellence and outstanding personal attributes. The Navasota High School graduate received honorable men tion in the annual fellowship com petition, ranking Loftin in the top 2,000 of about 12,000 out standing graduating seniors nom inated for the honor by more than 800 colleges. Foundation selection commit tees picked 1,153 finalists as Designates and “the most in tellectually promising” 1970 grad uates planning careers as college teachers, e x p 1 a i n ed President Hans Rosenhaupt. An additional 1,000 students were given honor able mention. Study awards, grants and fel lowships are usually awarded Wilson Foundation designates and names of students receiving honorable mention are called to the attention of graduate deans. Loftin was one of 108 honorable mention students in the Louisiana and Texas region. ★ ★ ★ Graduates Complete Helicopter Training Three graduates have complet ed helicopter pilot training at Fort Wolters while serving in the Army. Next assignment for the three second lieutenants, Robert A. Keesecker of Galveston, Gerald L. Krafka of Rio Hondo and James H. Springfield of Texas City, is advanced flight training. Keesecker and Krafka will go to Hunter Army Airfield, Ga., and Springfield is bound for Fort Rucker, Ala. Springfield and Keesecker were commissioned at A&M and studied industrial technology and account ing, respectively. An agricultural engineering major, Krafka re ceived his commission through Officer Candidate School. tonight on the tube Numbers in ( ) denote channels 7:00 3 (5) Jim Nabors Hour on the cable. 15 (12) What’s New 4:30 3 (5) Bewitched 7:30 15 (12) French Chef 15 (12) Folk Guitar 8:00 3 (5) CBS Thursday Night 5:00 3 (5) General Hospital Movie 15 (12) Misteroger’s 15 (12) Creative Person Neighborhood 8:30 15 (12) NET Jazz 5:30 3 (5) CBS Evening News 9:00 15 (12) Why You Smoke 15 (12) Sesame Street 9:30 15 (12) NET Festival 6:00 3 (5) Evening News 10:00 3 (5) TX News Final 6:30 3 (5) Family Affair 10:30 3 (5) Tom Jones 15 (12) Campus and Com- 15 (12) The Show munity Today 11:30 3 (5) The Detectives €bt 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. MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association The Associated Collegiate Press LETTERS POLICY Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester; $6 per school r; $6.50 per full year. All subscriptions subject to 4^4% sales tar. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station. Letters to the editor should be typed, double-spaced, and no more than 300 words in length. They must be signed, although the writer’s name will be withheld by arrangement with the editor. Address correspondence to Listen Up, The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, Texas 77843. Texas 77843. rep rod The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use oduction of all nfews dispatches credited to it or rwise credited in the paper and local news of spontanc otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneou origin published herein. Rights of republication of all othe matter herein are also reserved. shed her are Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. 1969 TPA Award Winner Members of the Student Publications Board are hairman ; H. _F. Eilers, College of Liberal Lindsi F. S. College College of Agriculture. re: Jim Arts ; ey, chairman ; H. r. Ellers, College ot Eioerai Arts, White, College of Engineering; Dr. Asa B. Childers, Jr., ?e of Veterinary Medicine; and Dr. Z. L. Carpenter, The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M, is published in College Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and holiday periods, September through May, and once a week during summer school. Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising Services. Inc.. New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San EDITOR DAVE MAYES Managing Editor David Middlebrooke Women’s Editor Cindy Burleson News Editor Pam Troboy Sports Editor Richard Campbell Assistant Sports Editor Mike Wright Staff Writers Hayden Whitsett, Bob Robinson, Chancy Lewis, Janie Wallace, Fran Haugen, Randy Murdock, Billy Buchanan, Gibril Fadika, Tommy Thompson Sports Writer Clifford Broyles Columnists Roger Miller, Mike McClain Photographers Jim Berry, David Gawthorpe, Mel Miller, Robert Boyd Sports Photographer Mike Wright FLOWERS ^ Complete Store Baby Albums - Party Goods Unusual Gifts Aggieland Flower & Gift Shoppe 209 University Drive College Station 846-5825 GOLF CLUB SNACK BAR Serves the Best Char Broiled Burger In The WILD WILD WEST OPEN DAILY FROM 10:30 A. M. to 4:30 P. M. Prepare quickly for an office job. Mature women often ploye sually have more sense ibility, more juda are pn ferred by employers for office job ally ha’ They usl responsibi reliability. s o s ; Igment and A business you shortly for in an excel attractive offr stimulating, women! 'ill qualify lent sal< course ary ce, amoi successful men sng and NEW TERM STARTS MARCH 17TH Dial 822-6423 Today McKenzie-Baldwin Business College THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, March 5,1911 For all your insurance needs See U. M. Alexander, Jr. ’40 221 S. Main. Bryan 823-0742 State Farm Insurance Companies - Home Offices Bloomington, 111, “ . . . and the next thing I knew this pressurized can of talcum powder exploded!” Senate Recommends Court (continued from page 1) mitted that perhaps 100 coeds had been involved in some way with the organization, but told the senate that it needs to have a means to by which to hear the coed’s viewpoint. Henderson argued that the question before the senate is not how representative UW is, but how the coed may have the op portunity to make her feelings known to the senate. Vice President Kent Caperton urged senators not to let their personal biases stand in the way of granting senate representa tion to an important segment of the student body. Bradley’s motion failed to get the two-thirds vote of the senate membership needed for approval, failing 37-16. A move later in the meeting to bring the issue to the floor again succeeded, but also failed to receive at least a two-thirds approval vote. In other business, the senate approved with little debate Elec tion Commission President Noko- mis (Butch) Jackson’s proposal to grant six representatives to the College of Education, to be filled in the April 23 election. 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