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CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Listen Up Ticket policy draws fire “We're through messing around- game!"’ -this is a conference Editor: We have watched this section for the last two days, wondering when the bombshell would drop and surprisingly, judging from the number of people involved, no one has expressed their views. Saturday night a number of student dates, wives, and friends with student tickets were turned away from the football game be cause they didn’t have I.D. cards. Wednesday, Mr. Wally Groff of the athletic department made an announcement in the Batt that from now on at all home football games, anyone with a student ticket without an A&M I.D. would be refused entrance. In almost all cases these tickets were acquired by borrowing I.D. and Activity cards from other students who gave permission to use them, or by buying the tickets from other students. Mr. Groff and other members of the athletic department have made a serious mistake in turning these people away. Mr. Groff stated that the University was losing money. Perhaps Mr. Groff needs reminding that all of the student tickets were paid for in advance by Student Services charges which amount to $60 a year per student. If our mathe matics are correct, about $840,000 is collected from students in ac tivity charges per year. We don’t know how much the athletic de partment receives of this amount, but undoubtedly it is substantial. What difference does it make how a person acquires a student ticket? Is it anymore unfair for a person to borrow another stu dent’s activity card and I.D. for a ticket to support the illustrious Aggie football team than it is for the University to collect money from some students who would Steve Hayes Skulker talks of people I think my frenzy must have frightened the Skulker. Maybe we were both embarrassed over our show of emotion. The Skulker much to my amazement began again, right where heTett off, but in a much more subdued, almost defeated tone of voice: “Junk; piles of throw-aways around each drive-in and in front of favorite places like East Gate Lounge and Ralph’s Pizza; the great Aggie tradition of remov ing one’s hat in reverence to the dead in one minute and in the next throwing beer bottles along the East Gate entrance to the campus.” His voice cracked. “Sor ry I can’t go on. I think I’m go ing to throw up and I don’t want to do it under a tree.” “I’ll get you a paper bag.” “No. Recycle paper.” “We can bury it in the ground. It’ll be mostly organic.” “No, I’ll make it.” The Skulker was a true Aggie.” Dawn was approaching, I heard the first songs of birds. I hurried my next question, I knew that the Skulker would be gone with the first ray of morning sun light. “Look, TS,” I pleaded, “Don’t you think it would be better if you and SOT would just give up this crusade and work within the system?” Go through proper channels ? ” The Skulker replied, “Some young people are satisfied by vis iting the local supermarket to watch the bananas turn brown. Others want to live. Different young people act differently un der the same circumstances. Adults act differently, too, but not many of them. Most adults are content to allow someone else to plan the fate of their city or state or natural resources. And. that someone is often a person who does not understand natural systems. Young people—your high school students and many college students—see the light.” At that moment I thought I did see the light, the first ray of sunlight. I knew the interview was almost over. Fortunately, the Skulker had not yet seen the rays. He went on: “Young people represent the first generation of Americans concerned with the future of your nation and your world and your fellow man. They see the kind of Earth they are inheriting and they don’t like the looks of it. They see that going through channels is like looking at the Grand Canyon through a six-foot tube with a one-inch diameter— you never really get close to the scene and you never really see it all at the same time. The youth of today want a piece of the action. They have the same driving spirit of rebellion as was evident in the founders of our nation. We had one American Revolution. I think another is starting and it will change our channels.” A rooster crowed, and I blurted out one last question: “Where will you strike next? It was too late. He was gone. Cbe Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student uniters 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. 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 yea sal ar; $6.50 P< Ad Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester; $6 per school $6.50 per full year. All subscriptions subject to 5% tax. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, Texas 77843. Members of the Student Publications Board are: Lindsey, chairman ; H. F. Filers, College of Liberal Arts; Jim Lindsey, chairman ; H. F. Filers, College of Liberal An F. S. White, College of Engineering; Dr. Asa B. Childers, J College of Veterinary Medicine ; Dr. W. E. Tedrick, Colle*,^ of Agriculture ; and Layne Kruse, student. Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising Services. Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San to the use for to it or not 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. EDITOR HAYDEN WHITSETT Managing Editor Doug Dilley News Editor Sue Davis Sports Editor John Curylo Assistant Sports Editor Bill Henry not go to any of the activities covered by the Student Services fee ? Isn’t the great coach Stal lings always asking the student body to support the team ? Mr. Groff and Mr. Stallings had better pull their heads out. How many people do they think will come to support a losing team for $6 a ticket or for any price, for that matter? Almost all of the people with student tickets would not even come to the games any other way. In our opinion, they should throw open the gates and let anyone in free—the stands were far from full Saturday night. If the infamous Stallings continues to lose footbal games he may find himself at the gate begging people to come in (and to save his job). So, we would suggest to the athletic department or whoever was involved in the decision that they reconsider this idea of check ing' I.D. cards, or there may be empty student stands in Kyle Field. A number of students have already stated that they would not come to any more football games if the incident Saturday night is repeated. Larry Hale ’75 L. W. Johnson ’72 Art Coinville ’74 Ronald Hale ’72 Habib Khinbi ’72 Tony Carso ’72 Roy Beyer ’73 Larry Ohls ’72 Cris Critchlow ’72 My apologies if any names are misspelled, your signatures were n’t always clear. See Senate story, page 1.—Ed. Editor: We are dreadfully sorr^ that the athletic department is going out of business because of loss of profit! How can Mr. Groff (Athletic Business Manager) say that the school is losing money when the student tickets have already been paid for in the Stu dent Service fee. Since the stu dent has paid for the tickets be forehand, it should be left to his discretion what happens to it. Mr. Groff should say that the school is losing profit from the resale of tickets not picked up by stu dents. These tickets are resold as date or general admission tickets. We think that the ticket options should be made available as are parking permits; that is, on a non-mandatory basis at preregis tration time. 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