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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Wednesday, August 19 1 , 1970 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle BOAT prexy says school was upgrading “Don’t ask me anything, don’t say anything! I’m afraid you’ll disarrange my brain cells and all my studying will come out wrong on finals!” Students to begin late registration Students who did not pre register for the fall semester will begin delayed registration Mon day, Aug. 24, and continue through Friday, Aug. 28, Regis trar Robert A. Lacey announced. Classes will begin Monday, Aug. 31. Returning students who pre registered for the fall semester were mailed class schedules this summer upon payment of fees. Lacey said delayed registra tion procedures for returning stu dents will be the same as last spring. The registrar empha sized that the procedure may be initiated on any day of the week of Aug. 24-28. The returning student will ob tain his card packet at his major department, meet with an advisor and arrange and schedule courses to be taken this fall. He will then report to one of four housing locations and get a fee data card. Male day stu dents will report to the Legett Hall lounge; women, the housing office in the YMCA; civilian stu dents, Hart Hall lounge, and Cadet Corps dormitory students, Lounge “B” between Dorms 2 and 4 in the Duncan area. Students end the procedure by turning in card packets and fee data cards at registration head quarters, Room 001 of the YMCA. The president of the Building Officials Association of Texas (BOAT) contends the one-week Municipal Inspectors Training School conducted last week “up graded the quality and education of city inspectors.” Truman Lyles, BOAT president from Weslaco, said one of the main purposes of the school was to give inspectors a better under standing of building codes, new products and ideas. “We find that each city seems to interpret standard building codes a little different than other cities,” Lyles pointed out. He emphasized a need for “raising the image” of the city inspector. Attendance at the first inspect ors training school ever held in Texas includes 66 students and 45 instructors. Nine states and the District of Columbia are repre sented, including 50 Texas cities. John R. Rauch of the Texas Engineering Extension Service noted several of the out-of-state representatives are looking at the program for future use. States represented include Alabama, Flo rida, Georgia, Illinois, California, Louisiana, New York, Oklahoma and Texas. Lyles is typical of many build ing inspectors. He not only is the building official for the City of Weslaco, but also wears the hats of chief mechanical and electrical inspector, fire chief and fire mar shal. Although Texas has metropol itan areas with up to 150 inspec tors, most of the state’s 700 build ing-protected cities have one man with several duties to perform. Hoyt Page, building official from Richardson near Dallas, claims there is “a dire need for education at all phases of muni cipal inspection.” Page is first vice president of BOAT and chairman of the Edu cation Committee which helped set up the inspectors school through Texas A&M’s Engineer ing Extension Service. Currently BOAT is considering a certification program for in spectors. Page suggests upgrad ing a department will mean more efficient workmanship and better construction. ' Che 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 nezvspaper. LETTERS POLICY The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M, is published in College Station. Texas, daily except Saturdi Sunday, Monday, and holiday periods, S daily except Saturday, ^u..periods, September through May, and once a week during summer school. 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 tiame will be withheld by arrangement with the editor. Address correspondence to Listen Up, The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, Texas 77843. 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Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San icisc EDITOR FRANK GRIFFIS We were the first CATV service in Bryan and College Station. And of course we're the biggest. And since 1968 we've spent $341,151.01 in new cable and transistorized equipment to insure our service is still the best. And we continue to update our system to provide Bryan-College Station families* all the TV programming authorized by the FCC, '(Including 1982 new families and 566 reconnections for former customers: Jan. 10—Aug. 20, 1970 report) MIDWEST VIDEO CORR 846-8876 The CA TV Professionals LISTEN UP I the butt forum V Dear Sirs: Perhaps Mrs. James who wrote to you on Aug. 12 would be inter ested in this little tidbit of news. I quote from Time magazine, August 3 issue, page 6. “For some Americans it has been an article of faith that the campus upheavals of recent years could not be the spontaneous work their children, but must in fact be the fruit of sinister plot ting and manipulation by the Communists. A corollary convic tion has it that any disenters who come off the worse from encounters with law enforcement officers undoubtedly asked for it. Both were knocked down by no less an authority than the Fed eral Bureau of Investigation. William C. Sullivan, the bureau’s No. 3 man, said that there was ‘no centralized conspiratorial plot stemming from the Communist Party’ behind the campus up risings, although, he said, the Communists had tried to exploit the unrest. And the FBI investi gation of the Kent State killings discloses that the Ohio National Guardsmen who opened fire, kill ing four students, were not sur rounded by demonstrators and could have controlled the situa tion without shooting.” I am 22 years old, a secretary, and putting my husband through college. I hope, however, that I am never to busy to stand up for my right of freedom of speech and peaceful assembly. Perhaps if Mrs. James does not like the noise that comes with these rights, she would prefer Communism, of which she has so much to say, in which there are no such rights. Since Mrs. James and 4,000 other people apparently support what is going on in Indochina, I suggest that you send your broth ers, husbands, and sons there to fight and die then, and leave those of us who realize this war to be immoral, useless, and wasteful at home. While Mrs. James is concerned about the destruction of a sym bolic piece of cloth, I am con cerned with the destruction and murder of human lives. I am glad I have the intelligence, appar ently lacking in many people, to realize which is more important. Sincerely, Mrs. Rebecca Rohrbough Hubbard set to be closed Hubbard Street south of the System Administration Building has been closed indefinitely to vehicular and parking traffic. The one-way street between Bizzell and Spence will be utilized for parking equipment and con tractor vehicles connected with construction of the new ocean ography-meteorology high rise, noted Morris Maddox, assistant chief of university police. He pointed out that other cam pus streets are either blocked or are partially blocked due to con struction work. Deansgate TOWN SHIRE / BRYAN. TEXAS 77*01 BUSIER AGENCY REAL ESTATE • IltSURANCE F.H.A.—Veteran* and Convention*! Leuu ARM A HOME SAVINGS ASSOCIATION Home Office: Nevada. 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