CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
I Listen Up the batt forum I
Editor:
I am sitting on fire base Jack-
son listening to the Armed Forces
Radio and Television Service
(AFRTS), and Paul Harvey is
on. He was commenting on the
student unrest and violence in
the states. He said that Texas
A&M is not breaking the peace
but keeping it. He also said that
the student body president, Ger
ry Geistweidt, told the Parents
Day audience that A&M students
would not strike and promote vio
lence.
As an Aggie, class of ’68, this
makes me proud, as I am sure
it does all Aggies. The student
body is to be commended for its
lack of physical action and a ma-
Houston senior wins
honor scholarship
Martin G. Peter II, senior in
dustrial distribution major of
Houston, has been awarded the
Houston Industrial Association
honor scholarship.
He received the scholarship at
a joint banquet of the HIDA and
A&M’s industrial distribution stu
dents and faculty.
Also honored at the event was
Joseph Becker, purchasing direc
tor for Truckline Gas Co. of Hous
ton. He was presented HIDA’s
“Man of the Year” award as out
standing purchasing agent of 1969
by George Blank, association
president of Houston.
“This room is going to be a study module, so I can’t look
anywhere without seeing my notes!’
State employes group seeks
donations for Mexia school
Garden club presents
city landscape plans
Landscape plans for the new
College Station City Hall and
Fire Station-Police complex have
been developed by the Brazos
Valley Men’s Garden dub, Mayor
D. A. “Andy” Anderson reported.
The plans were developed as a
public service to the City, Fred
Brison, Garden Club president,
said in presenting them to the
mayor.
Club members involved in their
preparation were Karl Vonbieber-
stein, Neal Schirato and Danny
Shilk.
The local chapter of the Texas
Public Employe’s Association is
collecting articles for the Mexia
State School for retarded chil
dren.
Brazos Valley Chapter No. 66
has placed containers, near resi
dence halls and university apart
ments for students to place their
contributions in.
The group is collecting used
clothing, toys, books, magazines,
appliances, bicycles, balls or other
items Aggies may have collected
during the year.
Items normally discarded by
Aggies on the move can be used
by the children, a chapter spokes
man has said.
Collections will be accepted
through the end of the semester.
Bulletin Board
WEDNESDAY
Panhandle Area Hometown
Club will meet at 5:45 p.m. in
Wyatt’s Cafeteria parking lot.
tonight on the tube
ture attitude. I don’t mean to im
ply that there is not dissent, be
cause there undoubtedly is, but at
least Aggies don’t resort to vio
lence and destruction.
These are trying times and as
usual Aggies have stood up to
the problem in a mature and ra
tional way. My congratulations to
the student body and faculty.
Sincerely,
Eugene Geninger ’68
9th Infantry Division
Fire Base Jackson
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Editor:
As Mr. Willett (this column,
The Battalion, May 14) felt com
pelled to express his views on the
Kent State University killings,
so do I.
There appears to be no evi
dence that any of the four young
people killed at Kent State were
protest leaders or even radicals.
One was walking to class, one
was a spectator, and nothing in
dicates that the other two were
violent (Time, May 18, 1970).
Federal and state investigations
have been opened to try to de
termine why anyone should have
been killed at Kent State. Even
Vice President Agnew has not
tried to defend these killings.
Why do you try to do so, Mr.
Willett? How do you conclude
that these students got “exactly
what they deserved ? ”
Marvin W. Rowe, Asst. Prof.
Dept, of Chemistry
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Editor:
On April 15, 1970, Dean of
Students James P. Hannigan is
sued a letter concerning on-cam
pus activities, including especially
“rally, assembly, parade, speech
. . . demonstration . . . etc.” In
reference to this letter I would
like to point out the attitude that
seems to prevail among the ad
ministrators of this campus.
Again quoting Dean Hannigan,
“The interpretation by the Dean
of Students of the Basic Policy
will govern student life outside
the classroom.’ (emphasis mine)
I had no idea when I decided to
come to A&M that I would be
governed and watched as if Big
Brother in 1984. I had no idea
that I would give up my basic
freedoms as an American citizen.
I inferred from the Dean’s letter
that the only education is “book
learning.”
I recently received a letter
from the President of the Uni
versity of Cincinnati, Walter C.
Langsam. I would like now to re
fer to his letter and show to Dean
Hannigan, and others, that there
are other forms of education, es
pecially if one wants a “rounded-
out” education. Because this let
ter is too long to print in “Listen-
Up,” I will summarize it. U.C.
was closed last week for several
days due to the possibility of
bodily harm or destruction to
public property. There was “peace
and relative calm on the campus,”
until an “influx of outside pro
testors” was noticed. Under these
circumstances U.C. closed. My
point in referring to this letter is
that, even during such a tense
period, President Langsam stat
ed, with a show of understanding
and open-mindedness, that “the
University is and will continue to
be a forum for all viewpoints; an
institution at which any individ
ual or group may express opin
ions freely as the opinions of that
individual or group; and a uni
versity so committed to academic
freedom that it can neither dic
tate to nor impose upon any
member of its community a spe
cific position on any matter of
public controversy.”
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ministration were a bit more
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