THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, March 25, 1971
From other campuses
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“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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
Recipient of a Texas Heritage
Foundation medal for develop
ment of the correction system
education and rehabilitation pro
gram, Beto is known for his work
in assisting inmates toward be
coming contributing members of
society.
Beto served on the National
Advisory Council on Correctional
Manpower and Training and as
consultant on the President’s
Commission on Law Enforcement
and Administration of Justice.
Among his memberships are
the American Correction Associ
ation, Southern States Prison
Association, Phi Delta Kappa and
the American Society of Church
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