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Page 2 THE BATTALION Steve Haves College Station, Texas Thursday, October 7, 1971 J CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle [ ] ie Sklllker Speaks Oil jllllk Editor’s note: This is part three of a four-part series of an interview with the ecology Skulker. The Skulker is real, and so is the interview. The Skulker paused again. I think it was just to draw a breath before he continued. “But, hey.” I jerked, a little startled by such vivacity over one’s own thoughts. His reasoning aimed in another direction . . . dogs. “How about dogs? College Station has issued 210 dog tags since January 1, and this is esti mated to represent about 10% of the dogs in the city. In other words, there just might be about 2,000 dogs in your town, and per haps at least 5,000 in this area. Assuming a 50% sex ratio, some 2,500 dogs seek out trees each day. Are you going to take their trees? We have enough psychotic humans around here; let’s not start working on the dogs.” At this stage of the interview, I began to marvel at the intricacy of thought that went through the Tree Savior. I also worried about dogs, and I worried a little about the Tree Savior. “Do you have a favorite kind of tree, TS?” I asked, feeling some intimacy with the Skulker. It must have been because I sensed that only we on the entire A&M campus enjoyed the night. The Skulker, either minorly ir ritated with my calling him TS, or simply taken aback by such a stupid question, answered abrupt ly: “Of course, I have my favorite tree, too. That’s where I go to change into my ecosuit.” I wanted to ask him in which tree he usual ly kept his ecosuit, but for once that night good judgement pre vailed. Instead, since I wasn’t sure why the Skulker had been a bit irri tated, I returned to my more pro fessional manner and asked, “Cryptologists have stated flatly that underneath all of this secrecy is really a deeply-rooted concern for this area. That is, your worry for the safety of trees and other living things has some basis. What are these signs? “Junk.” The Skulker didn’t waste any words. “I’m not sure what you mean.” The Skulker sighed heavily, perhaps wondering if I really knew much of anything, especial ly about the environment. I sud denly felt ridiculously small, in the presence of such a person as the Skulker, and I had yet to see him. We were still sitting here with our backs to each other, separated by a most comfortable tree. The Skulker must have sensed my anxieties. “Very well, junk is more by-passes to attract more junky signs and commercial es tablishments; more by-passes which consume thousands of acres of good land; more mobile homes; more disposable beverage con tainers; more disposable wrappers around everything you purchase; the absence of an acceptable mass transportation system; the use of more good land for parking your automobile; polluted lakes; a sewage treatment plant which by-passes sewage during heavy rains; the lack of any coordinated system to recycle newspapers, glass and metal; the lack of co ordination which allows two copies of The Battalion to be de livered to many addresses in Col lege Station, Continued tomorrow. Listen up “After I read this, I realized that you had mistakenly handed in a letter to your girl instead of your theme. Have you considered fiction as a career?” Tickets policy brings gripes Bulletin Board Tonight Circle K Club will be started at 7:30 in the Business Admin istration building room 152. Cephekl Variable S-F Club meets in room 146 of the Physics building at 7 for a club auction. Student Senate will meet in the Library Conference room at 7:30. Midland Hometown Club will meet in the Birch room of the MSC at 7:30 to organize and elect officers. Model Airplane Club meets at 8:30 in room 202 of the Physics building to hear Dr. David Norton of Aerospace Engineering speak. Pakistan Students Association of America will meet in room 2A of the MSC at 8:30. Friday Pakistan Students Association will meet in room 2A of the Me morial Student Center at 8:30 to elect officers. Editor: The school is losing a lot of money on home football games so it decides to check ID’s. Re quiring ID’s won’t increase date ticket sales. It’s already too ex pensive to get a date here with out paying for a ticket. The Ath letic Business Office should pull its head out. You increase sales by improving the product, not re stricting the customers. Ronald Koehn Editor, As a new freshman, I have so far been amazed at the goings on Egypt claims that Suez Canal would reopening be a trap UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (&) —Egypt said Wednesday a sep arate agreement reopening the Suez Canal is a trap for the Arab world and would serve as a “springboard for further Israeli aggression.” Cairo’s foreign minister, Mah moud Riad, told the United Na tions General Assembly that any Suez agreement must be part of an over-all peace plan that in cludes Israeli withdrawal from territory it won during the 1967 war. Although Riad has privately criticized Secretary of State Wil liam P. Rogers’ six-point plan for reopening the canal, he did not meet those proposals head- on, a development noted by both U.S. and Egyptian officials. In their cautious reaction to the Riad speech the American officials said the most important factor is that Riad did not close any doors on the American effort to achieve an interim settlement. They said Riad did not rule out an interim Suez agreement or the American role in achieving such an accord as long as it was on Egyptian terms. The American officials said Rogers will continue his efforts, including a Thursday meeting with Riad, the second session the two will have this week. The Rogers’ plan she attacked included these points: —Understanding that a Suez agreement “is merely a step to ward ... an overall settlement.” —Maintenance of the cease fire without a commitment to a binding peace agreement which is “not realizable now.” of a large university such as Tex as A&M. But one thing this past weekend really upset me. Going into the Cincinnati game, I hap pened to witness a sad if not em barrassing situation. A student had gotten a ticket from one of his buddies who was not going to the game, in order that his date could use it, and thus save him self some money. But because she was not a student at A&M and was from out of town, the gateman refused to let her get in with that ticket. What I cannot understand is why someone can not use another’s ticket who is not planning to attend the game, so that he can save himself a few dollars ? After all the ticket had been paid for and why let it go to waste when someone else could use it for his date or friend. It is incidents such as this that have left me wondering just how and why the university is run as it is. M. J. Hughes ’75 stead of removing them for park ing lots—park around them, un der them, near them, or above them, but please leave the trees. Maybe you should consider park ing in buildings several stories high or use shuttle busses. With all the intellectual giants we are supposed to have on this campus, surely someone could find an an swer other than removing our beautiful trees. Mrs. R. Gary Thompson —Withdrawal of Israeli troops from a canalside zone still to be worked out. —“Adequate machinery . . . for prompt detection of any infrac tions.” —Egyptian personnel east of the canal to operate it, with a compromise on whether they should be military. —Israeli use of the canal, with some “accommodation” on its tim ing. Editor: May I be so presumptuous as to ask for a moment of your time for the good of our university. I feel very strongly, as well as many others do, that our campus is one of the most beautiful uni versity campuses in our nation and I’d like to see it remain this way. Can’t someone apply a little thought to saving our trees in- Editor: In the past few weeks in your letters column, it seems to me that you are having a personal feud with the C.T.’s. Now this is fine and dandy if you don’t value your life, but I think that the editorials should be stressed on something else. Why don’t you “bitch” about the new policy on student tickets, waiting now an extra day to get your laundry back with only one sock, or the lousy food they still serve at Sbisa ? These are tangible, every day occurrences while tradition is intangible. Tradition is nice to have but it doesn’t affect my non-reg life like these others do. I think that you would do the student body more good if you fought for a better deal than now is given us. Besides, the parking situation hasn’t changed a bit. Steve Terry Oct. 12 due date for club funds Masterpiece recovered from ‘RobinHood’thief Applications for club aid from last year’s Exchange store profits must be turned in by 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 12. A financial statement, a budget and an itemized request sheet must accompany the application. Club requests will be condensed and sent to the Exchange Store Advisory Committee which will meet in late October or early No vember. The advisory committee will then make recommendations to the Board of Directors who will allocate funds late in No vember. Only clubs which are officially recognized by the Student Finance Department are eligible for allo cations. BRUSSELS (A>)_Police recov ered a stolen masterpiece by the 17th century Flemish painter Jan Vermeer on Wednesday from the back room of a restaurant where a self-styled Robin Hood was ac cused of holding it for $4 million ransom. The painting, “The Love Let ter,” was stolen from the Brus sels Palace of Fine Arts 12 days ago and has been the object of a massive hunt ever since. It was found hidden under the mattress of a 21-year-old waiter’s bed in the restaurant where he worked, police said. tail and the rest of the painting was untouched. After the theft mysterious tel ephone calls were received from a man who told newspapers the Vermeer would be returned only if $4 million were donated to Pak istani refugees. The caller, who contacted a Brussels newspaper Saturday, claimed he would sell the paint ing unless the ransom was paid to a Roman Catholic charity or ganization and a worldwide an tihunger campaign was undertak- A 4 inch-by-2-inch spot in the center was badly marred and scraped bare of its colors, police said. But they added that the damaged section contained little of the masterpiece’s essential de- Police said the caller was Ma rio Roymans, the waiter who was arrested after a wide hunt which ended in a cow barn. Officers found him burrowed into some straw and manure between two cows. Once in custody, police said, Royman led them to the painting. Cbe Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. 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