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Students continue protests
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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, May 14, 1970
CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle
(continued from page 1)
at 43 military installations would
participate.
In New York City, the City-
Wide Work Stoppage Commit
tee, an organization of students
and workers set up recently to
promote a general labor strike
against the war, said 300 work
ers met with an equal number of
students to discuss strikes for
peace.
“Everyone at the meeting was
for a general strike to demand
immediate withdrawal from
Southeast Asia. The question is
when,” a committee spokesman
said.
The meeting came following
verbal clashes on Wall Street
between another group of 1,000
workers and 800 peace demon
strators from half a dozen busi
ness schools at Eastern univer
sities.
The letter to Mr. and Mrs.
Louis A. Schroeder of Lorain,
Ohio, said, in part, “Mrs. Nixon
and I have been deeply saddened
by your son William’s death,
cutting off so tragically a life
so full of youth and promise. He
has been and will be continually
in our thoughts and prayers.”
Suggestions for a high-level
commission to investigate the
killings at Kent State Were en
dorsed by Robert H. Finch, sec
retary of health, education and
welfare. He also said he favored
proposals to give college stu
dents time off next fall to work
in political campaigns.
President Nixon has sent hand
written letters to the parents of
the four Kent State students, the
White House disclosed. The an
nouncement said the correspon
dence was “extremely personal”
and would not be made public.
The Ohio National Guard dis
closed what it suggested was new
evidence of sniper fire at Kent
State at the time the students
were killed on May 4. Guard
spokesmen have maintained that
troops opened fire after a sniper
began shooting.
The guard spokesman said
nearby construction workers
heard a shot before the killings.
He also said a .32-caliber revolv
er had been found in a nearby
river.
Interior Secretary Walter J.
Hickel said in Washington that
after the Kent State killings and
his letter to the President com
plaining about the administra
tion’s attitude toward youth, a
Nixon aide told him to “cool it,
Wally, this will blow in 24 hours.”
Hickel made his remark in an
interview on the CBS “60 Min
utes” television program.
In San Joes, Calif., Dr. Ho-
bard Bums, acting president of
San Jose State College, announc
ed his resignation, saying he was
tom 'between his legal responsi
bilities and sympathy with the
college’s antiwar factions.
Hunter College in New York
City, which had reopened after
closing to protest the Kent State
killings, was officially closed to
day to heed protests by black
students over the killing of six
Negroes during rioting in Au
gusta, Ga.
At the University of Iowa in
Iowa City the faculty voted to
abolish their ROTC program. At
Trinity College in Hartford,
Conn., the faculty voted to rec
ommend cutting off academic
credit from ROTC courses.
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Editor:
I feel compelled to express my
views concerning the shooting of
the four students at Kent State
University. The incident was most
unfortunate. I must express my
condolences to the parents, rela
tives, and friends of the victims;
however, I am unable to feel that
to highlight positive cleanup pro
grams that should be initiated,
students mobilized a number of
committees that fanned through
the surrounding community to
identify cases of pollution and en
vironmental neglect.
Well, gang, how many of you
have looked around our own cam-
which serves increasingly as a
magnet for relaxing and talking
in a pleasant atmosphere, and
the placement of trash receptacles
every few hundred feet all over
campus) there appears to be little
reason why we can’t live and
work in a clean litterless “home-
away-from-home”— that is if the
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the students did not get exactly
what they deserved. If I looked
down the barrel of a loaded gun,
and, instead of moving away,
moved closer and threw rocks at
the holder of the weapon, I would
expect to get shot. Those students
seemed too stupid to realize this.
Now they don’t realize anything.
Michael D. Willett ’70
★ ★ ★
Editor:
Just two weeks ago, this Uni
versity held a day-long Sympos
ium on Environmental Awareness
as part of a nationwide expres
sion of student concern for clean
and attractive surroundings. The
programs were well attended.
Thoughtful discussion was the
order of the day. In a crusade
pus lately—as I did last Sunday
when things were kind of quiet?
The place looked like a kiddie’s
playpen covered with discarded
toys, shredded books and cutouts
—only in our case the toys seem
to be shake cups, handbills, and
Schlitz empties. The lawns, hedg
es and walks in the Sbisa-Aca-
demic Building section were es
pecially deep in trash, although
general littering isn't confined to
that area.
students expressed concern at the
Symposium sessions are really
as concerned as they seemed to
be ... . How about it ... . ?
Leslie M. Reid Head
Department of Recreation
and Parks
We really shouldn’t point the
finger at our neighbors until our
own house is in order. Visitors
and friends that come to Texas
A&M have always scored us well
in friendliness and neatness of
our grounds. With Mr. Rucker’s
vigorous program of beautifica
tion (e.g.: the Floral Test Garden
★ ★ ★
Editor:
What this school needs is
good chess committee. Would
you believe a more active chess
committee ? An attempt is be
ing made to expand the chess
committee. In addition to chess,
other think games will be intro
duced next year. Meetings are
Friday nights at 7:30. We would
especially appreciate a faculty
member volunteering his services
as adviser.
George W. Lockwood ’72
Bulletin Board
TONIGHT
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.
The Host and Fashion Commit
tee will meet at 7 p. m. in Room
2B of the Memorial Student Cen
ter to make plans for summer
programs and 1970-71 activities.
The San Angelo Hometown
Club will meet at 7:30 p. m. in
Room 3C of the Memorial Student
Center.
The Texas A&M Polo Club will
meet at 7 p. m. in Room 203 of
the Animal Science Building.
University Women will meet at
7:30 p. m. in the Social Room of
the Memorial Student Center.
Club will meet at 7 p. m. in Room
211 of the Doherty Building.
Wayne Glenn, president of West
ern Hemisphere Petroleum, Con-
tenintal Oil Co., will speak on the
transition from engineering to
management.
Any person interested in finding
out about the committee or crit
icizing it is invited.
MONDAY
The Campus Committee of Con
cern will meet at 7:30 p. m. in the
Coffee Loft (UCCF Building).
. TUESDAY
The Petroleum Engineering
Club will hold a steak fry at 3
p. m. at Minter Springs. Eating
begins at 6 p. m. Tickets must be
purchased from the secretary in
Room 201 of the Doherty Build
ing by Friday.
Fallout Theater to present
2 plays Saturday in Guion
SUNDAY
The Alpha Phi Omega will meet
at 2 p. m. in Room 3D of the
Memorial Student Center.
The Petroleum Engineering
“Spoon River Anthology” fea
turing a unique staging tech
nique, folk music and poetry will
be presented by Fallout Theater
Saturday, concluding Aggie Play
ers productions for 1969-70.
The play, a view of late 19th
Century village life in Illinois,
will curtain at Fallout Theater
in Guoin Hall at 8 p.m.
Aggie Players director C. K.
Esten said “Spoon River” will fol
low a Saturday morning child-
dren’s production, “The Emper
or’s New Clothes,” at 10:30 in
Guion. Admission to the Eileen
Wenck-directed children’s play is
free.
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LT. JOHNNY GRIFFIN.
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most appreciated gift by the kids and my
self.
I know this is asking a lot, but Aggies
are known for giving a lot. If there are
any donations, please send them to my
address and I will be happy to take them
to the school.
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