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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, March 3, 1971 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Bill would protect reporters, sources “Texas is th’ only place where you can wear a swim suit under a fur coat and need both of them in th’ same day!” Listen up Fans ask changi Editor: This letter is not intended to insult any group of students at Texas A&M. Rather it is an attempt to rectify a bad situ ation that has been propagated by certain outdated traditions at the university. Having been a fan of Texas A&M since 1954, I have on nu merous occasions herd the phrase “poor Aggies” at losing athletic events. This type of thing only reflects bad sportsmanship on the part of our opponents, who ever they might be at the time. I have heard this said at Austin, Dallas, and Houston within the past five years. On Feb. 23, the University of Texas’ basketball team was our guest here at A&M. Of course, while on the court they were our piortal enemies. Before and after the game it was our responsibil ity to extend the l^apd of friend ship to them. Nevertheless, as usual, the UT players and students were insulted the whole time. What is worse, some of the insults were organized by our cheerleaders. The repeated use of the yell “beat the hell out of TU”, especially after Texas had pretty clearly lost the game, only made Texas A&M look bad. The necessity to use profanity in order to com plete yells merely shows a lack of vocabulary on the part of those leaders, the other students, and of Texas A&M itself. I personally cringe each time another student body chants “poor Aggies,” and for years it has enraged me. For the Aggies to reply in kind also angers me, since at least we should be able to refrain from such idiocy. As an Aggie for the past sev enteen years, I feel it my per sonal responsibility to do all that I can to further the cause of my school. I now challenge every in dividual Aggie (student, teacher, or fan) to either justify publicy such bad sportsmanship, or do his best to change the situation. Specifically, I challenge our predecessors at A&M — the mili tary — and in particular, the yell leaders. These individuals lead us in demeaning not only our op ponents, but (mainly) Texas A&M University. Is this what we want for A&M ? • Tim Stanfield ’72 ★ ★ ★ Editor: Texas A&M has long been known for the way the student body supports its athletic teams — louder and longer than any other school in the conference. Unfortunately, some Aggies apparently think that booing the opposing basketball team, its players and coach, when it is in troduced and yelling when the players are attempting a free shot is “supporting” the Aggie team. Such disgusting, unsportsman like conduct does much more to hurt the school than it does to help the team. Yelling for the team is great! Booing the op ponent is acting like a bunch of crude, rude, uneducated boors! Yell leaders, why don’t you stop this before it gets worse? B. R. Elsbury ’64 AUSTIN (A*) — The public has a vested interest in preserving the secrecy of a news reporter’s confidential sources, the House Judiciary Committee was told Tuesday. “A newsman becomes, in ef fect, the eyes and ears of the public,” said Rep. Dave Allred of Wichita Falls, a reporter for the Wichita Falls Times and Record- News. “And it definitely hinders a newsman’s activities if the source feels he is likely to be something other than unbiased. The source is liable to close up on him,” Allred said. The committee held a hearing- on Allred’s bill protecting news men from being forced to testi fy at trials or government hear ings concerning their sources of information. Allred’s bill also prohibits courts, the legislature or admin istrative agencies from forcing newsmen to produce unpublished photos or written notes. The bill was referred routinely after a one-hour hearing to a subcommittee of Reps. Ace Pick ens, Odessa, chairman; Tom Moore, Waco; and Bob Hen dricks, McKinney. James Crowther, vice president and general counsel of the Hous ton Post Co., representing the Texas Daily Newspaper Associa tion, said the bill “does not seem to adequately reconcile” the con stitutional right to a free press with that of compulsory testi mony by witnesses. He suggested an amendment saying a trial judge or one who impanels a grand jury may com pel a reporter to disclose a source “if there exists a compell ing need for such testimony and if in his opinion the same is nec essary to a proper administration of justice.” Otherwise, Crowther said, “it would put newsmen outside the law, and that is not right.” Dr. Norris Davis, chairman of the University of Texas at Aus tin’s journalism department, said he felt Crowther’s proposed 51 for Phillips AUSTIN, Tex. <A>>—The Tex as Longhorns outlasted Southern Methodist 96-88 Tuesday night despite Mustang Gene Phillips’ Southwest Conference record- shattering 51 points. 15 (12) 3:00 3 3:30 3 15 (5) (5) (12) Numbers in ( ) denote chan nels on the cable. 2:30 3 (5) Edge of Night Sesame Street (PBS) (Repeat of Tuesday) Corner Pyle Town Talk University Instructional That Girl Bewitched What’s New (NET) General Hospital Misterogers’ Neighborhood (NET) CBS News Sesame Street (PBS) 6:00 6:30 15 (12) 7:00 3 15 7:30 3 (5) (12) (5) 4:00 3 4:30 3 15 (5) (5) (12) 5:00 3 15 (5) (12) 8:00 3 8:30 15 9:00 3 15 (5) (12) (5) (12) 5:30 3 15 (5) (12) 10:00 10:30 11:30 (5) (5) (5) Evening News Courtship of Eddie’s Father Campus and Community Today Room 222 NET Playhouse To Rome With Love Johnny Cash Soul (PBS) Hawaii Five-0 They Went Thataway (PBS) Final News The FBI The Law and Mr. Jones Bingo—Weekdays at buy. You need not 5, be BCS*TV/9. present to Nothing to win. Che Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those oj 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 newspaper. The Battalion, jblished in Colleg student newspaper at Texas A&M, is published in College Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and holiday periods, September through May, and once a week during summer school. LETTERS POLICY Letters to the editor must be typed, double-spaced, and no more than 300 -words in length. They must be signed, although the writer’s name will be withheld by arrangement with the editor. Address correspondence to Listen Up, The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, Texas 77S-I3. MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association The Associated Collegiate Press Mail subscriptions are S3.50 r; S6.50 per full year. All i sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on The Battalion, Room 217, Services Buildii ear ales : S6.50 Texas 77843. suest. Address College Station e use for r not Members Lindsey, chairman F. S. White. Colleg College of Veter: of Agriculture; the Student Publications H. F. Filers, Colleg Board are: Ji ers. College of Liberal Arts; iring : Dr. Asa B. Childers, Jr., lege of Engineering; Dr. Asa B. Childers, Jr., inary Medicine; Dr. Z. L. Carpenter, College and Roger Miller, student. origin pul matter he econ paper Right: its of d. cal news ipublicatic spontanei of all ot; cr blished herein, ter herein are also resera Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. IOUS :hei Servii Franc Represented nationally by National Educatr 'ices, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los / icisco. onal Advertising Angeles and San EDITOR DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE Assistant Editor Hayden Whitsett Managing Editor Fran Zupan Women’s Editor Sue Davis Sports Editor Clifford Broyles Going Overseas This Summer? WANT SOME MONEY? Applications for the MSC Overseas Loan Fund are available now thru March 5 in the Director’s Office of the MSC. a project of the MSC Travel Committee amendment was “still somewhat of a threat to a newsman.” “If news sources think I am going to be an arm of the grand jury, I am not going to get any information from them,” Davis said. Texas law now permits a judge to jail a reporter for contempt if he refuses the judge’s command to identify a news source, Davis said. However, he added, he knows of only three cases where a newsman has been jailed. Jack Douglas, managing editor of the Fort Worth Star-Tele gram, represented the 91 news papers of the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Asso ciation (APME). “We are not trying to set our selves up as priests . . . We are simply trying to get a situation where we can tell our sources, ‘if you will tell us what is hap pening, we will not reveal whom we talked with’,” Douglas said. Richard Seaman, managing ed itor of the Austin American- Statesman, said newsmen’s inter est in the bill went beyond the ability to get exclusive, by-lined stories. “Newsmen have the same in terest in good government, good legislation that you do ... We are not by-line happy ... ‘A by-line and a dime will get you a cup of coffee’ is a common reporters’ saying,” Seaman said. He said reporters should be free from subpoenas to appear before grand juries. “His sources would be nervous and very fearful if a reporter disappeared into a grand jury room,” Seaman said. Allred told the committee there was some question about a pro vision that the bill would not apply to radio or television sta tions that did not preserve vife tapes or scripts of their broad, casts for at least a year. He sail he would “be glad to work will a subcommittee on this.” “Any politician who has eve talked off the record with a nen reporter will appreciate thisbill,' Allred said. New elder of Kansas church also a senior in high school LIBERAL, Kan. <A>) _ At 18, Kae Stoddard is an elder — an elder in the First United Pres byterian church of Liberal. “I think they wanted more ideas from the youth of the con gregation and felt youth should have a say in the activities of the church,” the 5-foot-4 brunette high school senior said in telling of her election. The teen-age elder, who wears wire-rimmed glasses, said she had no specific proposals to offer at this time — “I just hope that I can be of some help to the church.” The Rev. William S. Sebring, minister of the church, said that although “teen-age elder” sounds like a contradiction, elders are chosen on the basis of commit ment, responsibility and mature judgment. He said other young persons have been elected elders in churches across the country and described it as a growing trend in his denomination. “Young people deserve to play a major role in the decision-mak ing processes in the church,” he said. 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