THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, February 10, 1971
Policies explained
Some students around the campus seem to hold misconceptions
about The Battalion. Some of them are outlined in the letter appearing
in today’s “listen Up.” We feel it is unfortunate the misconceptions
exist and hope they are not shared by a majority of the student body.
We are charged with printing inaccuracies, half-truths and lies. We
strive to print only the truth, and it is hard. When we quote opinion, we
try always to give a source and tell why that source is qualified to give
an opinion. When we quote facts, we try to use reliable sources.
We have no double standard, either. Nor are we ultra-liberal or
new left. If anything, we’re slightly left of middle-of-the-road, but not
by much. We try to print what is interesting or important. We try to
keep opinion out of our news columns.
Aside from this, the editorial page, opinion to any degree is
permitted only in sports and women’s news, and then only within
limits; columns by the editors of those pages are an exception.
We don’t play partisan politics, nor do we attack the ROTC
program and Texas A&M traditions. We sometimes question policies of
the Corps of Cadets or ask people to think about what a tradition is and
why they want to follow it, but somehow that doesn’t seem like
attacking to us.
The article questioned in the letter was not even one written by
us, but one we quoted from another campus newspaper, one at
Washington State. To assume the opinion it expresses is the one we
hold is to err, because we do not print only that which we agree.
What it comes down to is that we like Texas A&M, and we want
to see it grow and improve. The opinions and policies we advocate, on
this page are those we believe will help move us toward those goals. But
our beliefs do not carry over (as best we can determine) to our news
columns.
Bulletin Board
TONIGHT
Sailing Club will meet at 7:30
p.m. in room 110 of the Architec
ture Building.
Intervarsity Christian Fellow
ship will meet at 7:30 p.m. in
room 304 of the Physics Building.
Pre-Vet Society will meet at
6:30 p.m. in the Vet Medicine Sci
ence Building. Activities include
having picture for the Aggieland
taken.
Junior Class Council will meet
at 7:30 p.m. in room 113 of Nagle
Hall.
TAMMBA will meet at 7:30
p.m. in the TAMMBA Building.
THURSDAY
Texarkansas Hometown Club
will meet at 7:15 in front of the
MSC to have pictures taken.
Texas A&M Motorcycle Club
will meet at 7 p.m. in the Social
Room of the MSC.
Pecan Valley Hometown Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Art
Room of the MSC.
Texas A&M Model Airplane
Club will meet at 8:15 p.m. in
room 202 of the Physics Building
to plan the spring contest.
Chemical Engineering Wives
Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the
home of Mrs. J. D. Lindsey, 1029
Walton in College Station.
Graduate Student Council will
meet at 12 noon in the Art Room
of the MSC.
The Civilian Student Council
will meet at 7 p.m. in room 3D
of the MSC.
Listen up
Battalion column attacked
Editor:
The Battalion article Jan. 28
concerning the “evils of ROTC”
is replete with innaccuracies,
half-truths and outright lies.
First, any individual who would
voluntarily sign his name to an
agreement without fully under
standing what he is signing cer
tainly can’t be categorized as
“bright.” It clearly states in the
contract that the individual is
subject to immediate active duty
upon breach of contract. “Bright”
people know that any contract is
equally binding upon both par
ties.
Second, there are no lower in-
service standards than induction
standards. Physical and mental
standards for all are stated clear
ly in appropriate service regula
tions.
Third, the assumption of the
mantle of “conscientious objec
tor” for cadets who leave the
ROTC program after one or two
volunteer years more than
smacks of hypocrisy.
I realize how popular it is to
day for The Battalion staff to
attack anything that doesn’t
align with the ultra-liberal or
new left. This article is another
example of The Battalion’s dou
ble standard in its publishing
policies.
In the past, Mr. Middlebrooke
has spoken of justice, of A&M’s
need to progress, of how “this is
the twentieth century” yet The
Battalion is replete with biased,
prejudiced articles typical of the
slanted, “yellow journalism” of
the nineteenth century.
Nevertheless, Mr. Middlebrooke
and company in one respect have
succeeded in keeping The Bat
talion in tune with the times.
Attacking ROTC, mocking A&M’s
traditions and conservative tone,
spewing out meaningless gener
alities and rhetoric are all very
popular at universities through
out the nation; universities like
U.T., Berkeley, etc.
“Ride on” (sic) Mr. Middle-
broke and company, and maybe
someday through your efforts
A&M, instead of U.T. will be
known as “Berkeley East.”
Greg Vernon ’72
Cadet Greg Vernon is refer
ring to an item in the Jan. 28
“From other campuses” column.
The item was quoting from the
student newspaper at Washing
ton State University. The only
chance Battalion personnel had
to inject any opinion on the
matter was in selecting the items
to appear in the column. In that
respect, the views may or may
not represent those of James R.
Jackson, who writes the Bat
talion column. —Ed.
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Listen Up, The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building,
College Station, Texas 77813.
Members of the Student Publications Board are: Jim
Lindsey, chairman ; H. F. Filers, College of Liberal Arts;
F. S. White, College of Engineering; Dr. Asa B. Childers, Jr.,
College of Veterinary Medicine; Dr. Z. L. Carpenter, College
of Agriculture; and Roger Miller, student.
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EDITOR DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE
Assistant Editor Hayden Whitsett
Managing Editor Fran Zupan
Women’s Editor Sue Davis
Sports Editor Clifford Broyles
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