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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Tuesday, May 12, 1970
CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle
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“There’s nothing I dislike more or had rather be than a
graduating senior!”
Sunday service to post office
boxholders to be discontinued
Sunday service to post office
boxes will be discontinued in
College Station effective this
Sunday, Postmaster Ernest
Gregg announced Monday.
Gregg said the move will re
duce post office operating costs
and provide better working con
ditions for employes through the
reduction of night time and week
end work schedules.
The postmaster reminded post
office boxholders that air mail
and special delivery services are
still available “to speed those
items you wish delivered on Sun
days.”
“I trust boxholders will agree
with the intent of this change,
and that no great inconveniences
to them will result from it,” he
added.
Bulletin Board
TUESDAY
The Society of Automotive
Engineers will meet at 7:30 p.m.
in Room 303 of the Mechanical
Engineering Building to elect of
ficers for the 1970-71 school
year.
The Texas Aggie Stage Band
will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the
MSC basement. The first prac
tice will be held. Anyone who
wants to join should come and
bring his own instrument.
WEDNESDAY
The Aggie Wives Bridge Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Rooms
2A and 2B of the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
The Veteran’s Club will meet
at 7:30 p.m. in Room 2C of the
Memorial Student Center. James
T. Smith, assistant director of
the Veterans Affairs Commis
sion, will speak on Educational
Benefits for the Veterans.
THURSDAY
The Texas A&M Young Re
publicans will meet at 8 p.m. in
the Coffee Loft. Officers will be
elected for the 1970-71 school
year.
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Editor:
Dear Mr. Wright,
We at Baylor read your article
about the James Street incident
in the April 22 edition of the
“Battalion”. We were glad that
someone had the guts to speak
out against Texas. When it
seemed as if Baylor Officials
were not going to take action, we
thought enough of the matter to
write a letter to the “Lariat,”
our school newspaper, express
ing our feelings about the inci
dent.
It is now May 5, and the con
ference meeting has ended with
the faculty fathers asking our
fair-haired Jimmy not to assault
too many more coaches before
he graduates. There is one thing
wrong though: Baylor officials
had the integrity to stand up to
the SWC and “tu”. The Baylor
Athletic Council made a motion
that James Street be suspended
from any further athletic compe
tition which is the penalty for
the assault of a coach. The
“higher echelon of the Southwest
Conference” did truly “flash
their burnt orange Jockey
Shorts” when they let the mo
tion die for the lack of a second.
That, dear hearts, is right; not
even the officials at A&M had
the guts to stand up to dear old
“tu”.
It seems that you were correct
when you said “Southwest Con
ference fans may find out that
the cliche of ‘if you are a good
athlete, you are god’ is certainly
true in the SWC.” Even the
A&M athletic council (sic) agrees
with your statement. If you do
not believe this, just ask them
why they did not second our
motion.
P.S. We bet that this is one
letter that never makes the pages
of The Battalion (sic).
Editor’s note: The letter was
signed by 14 students from Bay
lor.
★ ★ ★
Editor:
On May 7, we were studying in
our office in the YMCA. At
about 1:35 a.m. we heard a shout
of pain and surprise. Our window
was open, and we could see three
people kneeling on the sidewalk.
Thinking that an accident had
occurred, we rushed outside and
approached the huddled group.
On seeing us, the three ran in the
opposite direction — leaving Joe
Arrendondo lying on his back,
hands partially tied, with minor
cuts on the neck and elbows, and
hair partially barbered. In view
of the fact that the odds had
changed to an alarming three-to-
three ratio, the vigilantes scat
tered. As their yellow-striped
backs faded into the darkness,
the three of us took stock of the
situation. We went to call Cam
pus Security. As we waited, it
emerged that the assailants had
threatened to cut Joe’s throat if
he didn’t submit to the proposed
humiliation.
One can only guess at the goals
that the humiliation of certain
students is designed to achieve.
Given the sometimes heated de
bates on issues of students rights
and U.S. policy in Southeast Asia
that took place the preceding
afternoon and the confrontation
that took place in the Student
Senate that evening, it is fairly
certain that the assaults were
somehow irrationally related to
these issues. If anyone labors
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EDITOR DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE
Women’s Editor Cindy Burleson
News Editor Pam Troboy
Sports Editor Clifford Broyles
Assistant Sports Editor Mike Wright
Staff Writers Hayden Whitsett, Bob Robinson,
Chancy Lewis, Janie Wallace,
Fran Haugen, Randy Murdock,
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Tommy Thompson
Columnists Roger Miller, Mike McClain
Photographers Jim Berry, David Gawthorpe,
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Sports Photographer Mike Wright
under the illusion that the bar-
bering of a randomly selected
student on this campus has any
relationshij) whatsoever to the
preservation of American free
doms or loyalty to this country
in time of war, he is pitifully
betraying his own ideals.
A great deal of effort has been
expended by Americans in a long
and sometimes unsuccessful
struggle against government by
the clenched fist. It seems to be
a pitiful waste to further impede
this struggle by digression to
vigilante tacts. It is necessary
for both students and adminis
trative authorities to handle in
cidents such as the one described
above in a fashion appropriate to
the dangers that they entail. To
the instigators of these acts we
recommend a careful assessment
of the methods you have chosen
to protect the values which you
purport to hold. If you’re for
law and order, don’t engage in
crime. If you oppose the com
munists, don’t imitate their
tactics.
Sherman D. Roberts, ’69
W. R. Fewell,
Graduate Student
★ ★ ★
Editor:
Every day in the news I see
students of other universities vio
lent disrupting the education of
others and destroying property.
They are demanding the immed
iate withdrawal of American
troops from Southeast Asia, an
end to the draft, abolishment of
ROTC on college campuses, and
the impeachment of the presi
dent. In most instances, these
students are only a minority of
the student body, yet they dic
tate to the entire school.
I really do not believe they
fully understand what they are
demanding, but are merely act
ing in a follow-the-leader man
ner. The man they want to im
peach is withdrawing troops. I
do not believe any other human
being acting in sound judgment
could do a better job. What do
they propose to do with the
thousands of tanks, jeeps, heli
copters, artillery pieces, type
writers, hospitals, and innumer
able other pieces of equipment
that they haven’t even started to
think about yet? Walk off and
leave it to the communist?
burn it? dump it in the South
China Sea ? or pile it on the docks
at Cam Rahn Bay to rot be
cause we don’t have enough ships
or planes to move it all at once ?
It all has to come too and it
takes time and manpower to
move it.
President Nixon has pledged
to end the draft as soon as pos
sible. Obviously this cannot hap
pen until the country is restored
to at least a semi-state of nor
malcy. Whether these radicals
or anyone else wants to admit it,
the military is as vital to this
country as policemen or mail
men, and students have as much
right to seek an education in
military science as law or busi
ness administration.
I have seen the situation from
both sides, as a GI and as a stu
dent. I don’t like this war any
more than anybody else nor do I
want to see it expanded, but I
cannot see sitting idly by while
the enemy stacks arms in a so-
called neutral country waiting to
attack South Vietnam as soon
as the American troops go home.
If we let this happen then it has
been a gross waste.
I propose that the students of
this university have a demon
stration. Not for or against the
war, but to let the world know
that we trust the judgment of
our President, that we believe he
is sincere in ending the war, and
that he is interested in the young
people of this country. I also
challenge anyone to show me a
better country than the United
States of America, even with the
short comings it has.
Think about it.
Terry T. Penn
★ ★ ★
Editor:
I am chairman for the Former
Students High School Relations
program in Dallas County and I
want to congratulate the A&M
student body for having the good
sense not to blow their collective
minds during the Cambodian/
Kent State crisis. You are doing
more for A&M right now than
has ever been done before, and
the former students are taking
full advantage of the good repu
tation you are building. The
silence you hear is 20,000 former
students holding their breaths
that some two percent doesn’t
tear it all down.
Jim Cumley, ’52
Best regards,
★ ★ ★
Editor:
At Kent State University, Na
tional Guard soldiers shot down
students who were protesting an
extension of the war to Cambodia
an extension which the Senate’s
Foreign Relationship Committee
called illegal.
America should be proud of its
concerned citizens who risk being
murdered to protest an unjust
war.
James M. Lucas
M.E. prof, student
Dr. E. I. Bailey, assistant pro
fessor, and doctoral student Joe
Fowler of A&M’s Department of
Mechanical Engineering, are edi
tors of a news magazine of the
Gulf Coast Section of the Society
for Experimental Stress Analysis.
The magazine, The Gulf Coast
Analyzer, goes monthly to 340
area people interested in experi
mental mechanics.
editors of magazine
The May issue features an ai.
tide on recent developments j
three-dimensional photoelasticih
by W. B. Aiken of Cameron Inj
Works in Houston.
Bailey received his Ph.D, froj
A&M in 1969. Fowler is froc
Wichita Falls.
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