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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, March 25, 1971 From other campuses cadet slouch by jim Earie Universities dra w criticism “Would you please start from the beginning so I can record it? This is the most creative alibi for being late with an assignment that Fve ever heard!” By JAMES R. JACKSON “There isn’t that much differ ence between hippies and cow boys—people are people and they grow up with their own sense of values,” Lome Greene said in a speech at Tech recently. Greene, better known to many as Ben Cartwright of the Pon- derosa, was in Lubbock last week for the 29th annual ABC Rodeo. Speaking of hippies and cow boys Greene said, “We judge peo ple by their responsibility to so ciety and to other people. There are some people who we call hip pies that have this sense of re sponsibility towards society. “I think college students today are young people who want to prepare themselves for life and for their future,” he said. “I don’t think the university pro vides them with this preparation for living. The university is bent upon keeping students in school longer and longer because the system cannot fit them into so ciety once they are graduated. “I think our educational sys tem is about 200 years behind and I can understand why stu dents are discontent. I think a college degree is marvelous, but students should be prepared for a profession.” Bonanza is viewed by four mil lion people in countries all over the world. “This just proves that Listen up Election advice presented Editor: To the student body of Texas A&M: Wednesday night I had the privilege (if you want to call it that) of attending (as a proxy) the Senate meeting in which the proposed new constitution was presented for the third time and once again was defeated. Although I strongly support this proposed constitution — which could have made student government on this campus a lot more meaningful—I don’t feel I should elaborate on its merits and weak points, as well as the reasons for its defeat. However, I feel I ought to make you aware of something I consider of extreme importance as far as the success of student government is concerned. Each senator, as any other elected of ficer, always should represent the views and opinions of his constituents, not of his cluster of friends. Most important, each senator always must think of the effect measures presented for consider ation will have upon the overall student body and not on particu lar segments or groups of stu dents, be they civilians, cadets, women, international students or others. Student government at A&M always has been characterized by a lack of effectiveness, not be cause it doesn’t have the muscle and power to be effective and responsible but because when the time comes to be resolute it plainly refuses to use that power. That is the time when narrow mindedness, interests and pre conceptions are placed in the way of achieving a better student government. It is here where the duty of your respective sena tor becomes part of the game. This year’s Senate has tried to accomplish many things that would have strengthened our stu dent government; it wasn’t sue- tonight on the tube Numbers in ( ) denote channels on the cable. 2:30 3 (5) Edge of night 15 (12) Sesame Street (PBS) (Repeat of Wednesday) 3:00 3 (5) Corner Pyle 3:30 3 (5) Town Talk 15 (12) Kukla, Fran and Ollie (PBS) 4:00 3 (5) That Girl 15 (12) The World We Live In 4:30 3 (5) Bewitched 15 (12) What’s New (NET) 5:00 3 (5) General Hospital 15 (12) Misterogers’ Neighborhood (PBS) 5:30 3 (5) CBS Evening News 15 (12) Sesame Street (PBS) 6:00 3 (5) Evening News 6:30 3 (5) Family Affair 15 (12) Campus and Com munity Today 7:00 15 (12) The French Chef (PBS) 7:30 3 (5) Jim Nabors 15 (12) Masterpiece Theat er: The First Church- hills (PBS) 8:00 3 (5) CBS Movie 15 (12) Entertainment Now 15 (12 Fanfare (NET) 10:00 3 (5) Final News 15 (12) San Francisco Mix (PBS) 10:30 3 (5) Dan August 11:30 3 (5) The Detectives Bingo—Weekdays at 5, BCS*TV/9. Nothing to buy. You need not be present to win. cessful because much of the mus cle needed to implement the in novations was not employed to its full capacity. But this does not mean that things cannot be tried again. In about six weeks an election will be held in which a new slate of officers and senators will be chosen by you. If you really want to make our student gov ernment stronger, please be sure who you vote for. Don’t vote blindfolded or as a block; use your own judgement. If you don’t know who the candi date is whose name appears on the ballot, don’t cast a vote for him or her, because we will stay at the same dead end we are in. Try to get acquainted with the candidates. Don’t wait until they come to knock at your door, try to find out by yourself who they are and how they stand on stu dent power. Upon how they per form next year will depend the success of student government at Texas A&M. Therefore I urge each of you to get in touch with your candi dates. You can and should start right now, because it is each of you who determines how mean ingful a student government we will have here. You, and only you, determine who your senator will be. Fernando Giannetti All we can say is Amen, bro ther.—Ed. Deadline near for 4 Y’ posts Applications now are being accepted from Texas A&M stu dents for YMCA Fish Camp counselors and Student “Y” Asso ciation Cabinet officers. Dan McQueen, “Y” publicity chairman, said applications and a list of qualifications are avail able in Room 102, YMCA Build ing. The application deadline is next Wednesday. Interview times will be scheduled when applications are returned, McQueen added. Cbe Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax- supported, non-projit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. 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 77S13. The Battalion, a 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. MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association The Associated Collegiate Press Mail subscriptions are $3.50 year; S6.50 per full year. All s _ . sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, Texas 77843. ers o chairn the Student Publications Board are: Jim H. F. Filers, College of Liberal Arts; ~ Jr„ rpenter, College oger Miller, student. Membe Lindsey, chairman ; n. r. tilers, uouege oi tioeral Ar F. S. White. College of Engineering; Dr. Asa B. Childers, « College of Veterinary Medicine; Dr. Z. L. Carpenter, Colb of Agriculture; and Roger Mill The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los F rancisco. Angeles and San EDITOR DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE Assistant Editor Hayden Whitsett Managing Editor Fran Zupan Women’s Editor Sue Davis Sports Editor Clifford Broyles people throughout the world are essentially the same and their values are essentially the same,” Greene said. ★ ★ ★ ★ Draft resister David Harris, former president of the Stanford University student body and hus band of folk singer Joan Baez, was released Monday after 20 months in federal prison. According to an article in The Oklahoma Daily, student news paper of the University of Okla homa, he said he would do the same thing again if he had to serve 10 years. Harris said he would continue to work against the draft and against the war in Vietnam. He noted that he will be on parole for the next 16 months and his movements will be subject to re striction by his federal parole officer. “There’s only one way the war will be stopped and that is when the people who support the butchery won’t do so any more,” he said. Harris said nonviolence was the only way to stop war and that bombing buildings made no sense. ★ ★ ★ The Gainesville Gay Liberation Front (Gay Lib) sponsored a “workshop” last week at the Uni versity of Florida, according to an article in The Florida Ali- gator. The meeting was for the pur pose of “reaching out a hand to the public” according to Julius Johnson, Gainesville Gay Lib Chairman. Members of Gay Liberation held the workshop under a tree in the Plaza of the Americas and discussed their views with any interested passers-by. A mimeographed sheet given to participants explained some of the goals of Gay Lib: Encounter people of the com munity, both “gay” and “straight” in encounter groups and social events. Inform the public of “the na ture of the affection which exists between persons of the same sex.” Protect those who “are fright ened or lonely as a result of their sexual behavior.” The workshop was the second public meeting of Gay Lib at UF. The first meeting had been a failure according to Gay Lib member Andy Hughes, because “Most people didn’t have the nerve to show up.” KENT STATE WHAT HAPPENED-AND WHY Pulitzer-prize winner, James Michener, recreates the tragedy at Kent. In an eye-opening book conden sation he reveals, step by step, the events that led to the fatal shootings. It is all here, includingthesurpris- ing reactions from adults and students across the country, and Michener's advice about handling the division between American lifestyles.Oneof38article$ and features in the April READER’S DIGEST Bulletin Board TONIGHT Chemical Engineering Wives Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Richard Davison, 303 Crescent in Bryan, to elect officers. Cepheid Variable Science Fic tion Club will meet at 6:45 p.m. in the Assembly Room of the MSC to discuss the Saturday miniconvention. SATURDAY Engineering Technology Wives Club will have a garage sale in Hensel Park from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Clothes, books and other articles will be sold. Chemistry Wives Club will have a wine-tasting party at 8:30 p.m. in the Casa del Sol apart ments party room. MONDAY SCOPE Water Pollution Com mittee will meet at 7:30 p.m. in room 3B of the MSC. Phi Eta Sigma will meet at 8 p.m. in the Ballroom of the MSC to elect new officers and have Aggieland pictures taken. Cepheid Variable Science Fic tion Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in room 346 of the Physics Build ing. Prison reform (Continued from page 1) cal Seminary in Springfield, 111., the following three years. He served as correction board secretary six years and sat on the Illinois Parole and Pardon Board a year before accepting the TDC directorship. 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