Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, April 1, 1970 THE BATTAU^DN
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Editor:
In the best interest of all who
read The Battalion, please print
the remainder of this letter.
According to the Webster Dic
tionary, fornication is defined as
the “illicit (unlawful) sexual in
tercourse on the part of an un
married person.”
According to the Word of God,
in the King James Edition of
The Holy Bible, fornication (or
premarital sex) is dealt with as
follows:
I Cor. 6:13-20 “. . . Now the
body is not for fornication, but
for the Lord; and the Lord for
the body. And God hath both
raised up the Lord, and will also
raise up ^us by His own power.
Know ye not that your bodies are
the members of Christ? Shall I
then take the members of Christ,
and make them the members of
an harlot? God forbid. What?
Know ye not that he which is
joined to an harlot is one body?
For two, saith He, shall be one
flesh. But he that is joined unto
the Lord is one spirit. Flee
fornication. Every sin that a
man doeth is without the body;
but he that committeth forni
cation sinneth against his own
body. What? Know ye not that
your body is the Temple of the
Holy Ghost which is in you,
which ye have of God, and ye
are not your own? For ye are
bought with a price: therefore
glorify God in your body, and in
your spirit, which are God’s.' ’
I Cor. 10:8 “Neither let us
commit fornication, as some of
them committed, and fell in one
day three and twenty thousand.”
II Cor. 12:21 “And lest, when
I come again, my God will hum
ble me among you, and that I
shall bewail many which have
sinned already, and have not re
pented of the uncleanness and
fornication and lasciviousness
(lustfulness) which they have
committed.”
Eph. 5:3-7 “But fornication,
and all uncleanness, or covet-
eousness, let it not be once named
among you, as becometh saints;
neither filthiness, nor foolish
talking, nor jesting, which are
not convenient: but rather of
giving thanks. For this ye
know, that no whoremonger, nor
unclean person, nor coveteous
man, who is an idolater, hath
any inheritance in the Kingdom
of Christ nad of God. Let no
man deceive you with vain
words: For because of these
things cometh the wrath of God
upon the children of disobedi
ence. Be not ye therefore par
takers with them.”
Heb. 13:4 “Marriage is hon
orable in all, and the bed un
defiled: “But whoremongers and
adulterers God will judge.”
John E. Combest
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Editor:
Since my letter appeared in
the Battalion on Tuesday, March
17, I have been confronted by
many of my friends who obvi
ously got the wrong idea about
my letter. They thought that by
writing the letter, I was wedging
a bigger gap between the corps
and civilians, but actually I was
trying to show a way to help re
move some of the tension built
up among these two different
segments on our campus. If
meant to be a compliment or a
degradation, whooping is still
taken as insulting by most of the
women I have talked to. If they
feel this way about whooping,
what can come from it but fur
ther ill feeling and higher ten
sion ? It is also widening the
gap for those people who dress
according to their own personal
taste. If people were serious in
efforts to unite the campus, they
could start with something sim
ple like holding down the whoop
ing. Maybe a more pleasant or
socially acceptable greeting such
as “howdy”, or “hello”, or even
a smile could do much more to
make things go better between
co-eds and everyone else on cam
pus, including those who sport
flare bottoms and a beard or
mustache.
As for my lack of maturity,
my asine behavior, and my
ignorance, I feel these are mat
ters that were not disclosed in
my letter of March 17, but if
you, Mr. Steven, can see all that
and not see the idea represented,
then possibly I possess these
ignorant qualities of which you
speak in your letter of March
19.
I would further like to thank
Mr. Stevens for fighting for my
“right to be ignorant”, but I feel
it is not necessary. If there ever
came a time for me to fight for
my rights as a citizen, due to an
attack on the U. S. by someone
trying to take these rights, I
would then shun my civilian
clothes and don those of the mili
tary and fight along with you.
Until then, I still reserve the
right to think for myself, and
wear what I want to wear.
Timothy E. Hutchton
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Editor:
I believe that the Battalion’s
policy of printing all of the let
ters sent it, including obviously
prejudiced ones, is the only mor
ally acceptable thing to do. The
fact that a reader can be con
fronted with new if opposite
points of view shows that the
Battalion believes in educating
its readership with two (or more)
sides of a current hassle. Let
ters to the editor are particularly
good at making people think and
reason, because only a writer’s
thoughts are confronting the
reader, and not a certain code of
behavior or dress. The result is
a higher level of reasoning as
well as the recognition of the
fact that there are other inter
est groups and minorities. One
does not see the writer and in
stantly stereotype him into any
particular group or behavior code.
The same old material may
seem to be rehashed again and
again, but if it’s rehashed long
enough, maybe we’ll get some
thing done about it. Some of
the factions referred to in Mr.
Norton’s letter — such as the
COEDS — have no real means
except The Battalion to use to
communicate with the rest of the
student body, to air their gripes
and complaints. Refusal to print
these letters will most certainly
cause further division of the stu
dent body, and hopes for any
small amount of progress will
vanish. Then Mr. Norton’s hopes
of a concrete student unity will
be just a dream, just as the
real desires of these “factions”
are dreams now.
Fernando Garcia
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Editor:
I think the Listen Up column
is doing a great job in providing
a “battleground for students to
make known their immature
prejudices. . . .” This is the first
communication of any kind,
among students, that I have seen
at A&M. A&M is behind almost
every institution in the nation
in providing both sides of an
issue. Letters-to-the-editor pro
vide one way of seeing both
sides, even if they are biased as
is everything seen or heard in
newspapers, radio, TV, and even
what your friends say. It takes
the mature individual to sift
through both sides and then
make an objective decision con
cerning an issue. For trying to
make The Battalion more of a
student newspaper, I say to the
editors — Right On!
Jerry Kirk
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Editor:
“. . . speaking, whipping out,
yell practice, bonfire, whooping
. . . Women never have nor never
will contribute to these traditions
which are responsible for the
spirit and heritage of A&M.” Mr.
Graver’s recent evaluation of the
role of the female at Texas A&M
must have been quite disturbing
to the many Aggie coeds who
served coffee and sandwiches in
the cutting and stacking areas
this past fall, to those who have
greeted an abrupt “howdy” with
a similar but not so impersonal
response, and to those who have
risked physical manhandling in
attending Tuesday and Thursday
night yell practices. Admittedly,
no Aggie coed has ever whooped
at me nor whipped out to me as
I walked across campus, but then
I haven’t really expected them to
do so.
What is it Mr. Graver that
makes maleness a prerequisite for
pride in the “reputation, spirit,
and heritage” of Texas A&M ?
Have you discovered some new
genetic factor which at birth is
instilled only in future male Ag
gies? Over one thousand female
students subject themselves daily
to routine whooping and inade
quate campus facilities for wom
en. They do this, Mr. Graver, for
the same reason that you subject
yourself daily to the physical de
mands sometimes accompanying
“good Aggie bull.” They feel the
same chills that you and I feel
when that Fightin’ Texas Aggie
Band strikes up the War Hymn,
the same ecstacy that we feel in
victory, and the same agony we
experience in defeat. In short,
they are Aggies . . . Why not give
them a chance ?
Joe Kornegay '72
Student Senator
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Editor:
Aggies,
Fifth Wheel?
What the hell is a fifth wheel?
This question has been asked
repeatedly the past two days. A
fifth wheel is a person who has
been left out of the system—who
doesn’t fit in. We feel that stu
dent government should make the
necessary effort to incorporate all
the fifth wheels into the decision
making process. In the past, too
many offices have been held by
those who seek only titles and
honors, who have been unwilling
to give the time and effort to
make student government real.
We of the Fifth Wheel Com
mittee pledge ourselves to the
priciple that student government
at A&M should become a forum
in which all perspectives may be
heard and responsible changes
implemented.
Charges have been made that
this campaign is an attack against
a certain segment of our campus,
specifically the Corps of Cadets.
These charges are unfounded. We
are not anti-corps. We are pro-
A&M and pro-student govern
ment. Indeed the very essence of
our philosophy is to insure that
all perspectives are heard and
their influence felt, To be anti-
any student group would be the
height of hyprocrisy.
Others have voiced concern
about the “benefits” of an organi
zation of this type. Our primary
purpose is to see that you, as a
student, are fully aware of our
candidates’ views and qualifica
tions. How many times in the
past have you voted and merely
circled the name that sounded
the most familiar? No wohder
student government has failed to
represent you.
It is our hope that by April
23 you can be thoroughly familiar
with what we stand for and the
direction in which we hope to
move student government at
A&M. Remember, that while we
hope to have an impact on the
future of student government at
A&M, the ultimate direction will
be determined by you, the stu
dents.
Kent Caperton
Candidate for Student Senate
President
Roger Miller
Candidate for Student Senate
Vice-President
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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,
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Sports Photographer Mike Wright
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WEDNESDAY
Aggie Wives Bridge Club will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Memorial
Student Center. A special April
Fool’s Night is planned.
THURSDAY
Business Administration Wives
Club will hold a Tupperware Par
ty at 7:30 p.m. in the Blue Flame
room of the Lone Star Gas Com
pany. For further information,
contact Mary Jane Roberts at
846-4628.
MONDAY
Brazos County Archeological
Society will meet at 8 p.m. in
the Chamber of Commerce Con
ference Room for their regular
monthly meeting.
Westbrook Attends
Robert F. Westbrook, with the
Texas Forest Products Labora
tory, Texas Forest Service, will
attend a shortcourse on “Intro-
ducation to Optimization Tech-
Computer Course
niques-Emphasis on Nonlinear
Programming Techniques.” The
one-week course is being held this
week at the University of Cali
fornia, Los Angeles.
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