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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, October 15, 1971 CADET SLOUCH Listen up by Jim Earle < A H ITI Itl IStra tlOn must be altered’ Editor: In the tradition of our Fore fathers: We hold these truths to be self- evident, that all men and women are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. That to secure these rights Administra tions are instituted among People, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, in cluding Students. That whenever any Administration becomes de structive of these ends, it is the Right of the Students (People) to effect changes and to institute an altered Administration, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such, form, as to insure justice for the Students and the safety and hap piness of the Students. We have reason for action be yond gripes. Amongst these rea sons are: (1) Nominal parking privileges on non-existent parking places. (2) Suppression of cyclists who have fewer and fewer streets on which to ride (the above problem led to too many bikes) (3) A long list of insults and abuses included in the rule hand book. (4) A despotic Dean of Stu dents (5) An MSC more and more for people other than students (6) Grass sacred to all but Saintly construction workers (7) Trees that dwindle away on campus as well as off (8) Abnormal boy-girl ratio on campus and discouragement of housing for girls because “we are moving too fast” toward a coed campus. (9) Poor laundry service (10) Our rights of ownership under which we may give our football tickets to whomever we please being denied. (11) The suppression of Yell Practice (12) An ineffectual Student Senate (13) And a proliferation of in effectual committees We have suffered injury added to insult. Maybe there is some truth in the sweatshirts labeled “Aggie Animal.” We are surely not treated as human beings. Si lence is fatal. G. Ramp of Hart Hall Johnathan L. Kiel Richardo Aredondo ’74 Albert L. Lively ’74 Michael L. Madden ’75 Thomas J. Jordan ’74 Carl D. Russell ’75 Billy Vincik ’74 Ron W. Harris ’74 Gregory Geris ’74 LeRay Novacek ’74 Richard Osbum ’74 Harold Lisby ’74 Kurt Ladury ’74 From now on type your names so we can read them.—Eld. ★ ★ ★ Editor: I have just finished reading Miss Davis’ article in the Oct. 14 issue of the Battalion regarding Dr. Fisher’s speech on Women’s “Liberation.” This article was at best a slanted report of the pro gram. I was present at the speech and found Dr. Fisher’s attitude and conduct to be extremely rude, evasive and designed to intimi date her questioners. Not only were direct answers to any ques tions totally absent from her rebuttals, but male students were frequently interrupted before be ing allowed to complete their questions. The Battalion reporter’s use of the words “antagonistic,” “derog atory” and “taunting” when re ferring to males and their ques tions is misrepresentative of the style and content of the questions. Any attempts to question or crit icize the Women’s “Liberation” movement in any way were quick ly drowned out by Dr. Fisher’s repeated outbursts. It was her “You’re positive that your ride doesn’t leave early, your grandmother is not sick, you don’t have to see a doctor?” On women’s lib In the past week two speakers on campus have dealt with civil rights. One was Dr. Marguerite Fisher, dealing with women’s lib, and one was with Julian Bond, dealing with racial equality. The reception each received was radically different. Julian Bond was greeted with a crowd that part of stood for two hours just to hear him speak. He twice received standing ovations and often received applause. Almost everybody left the speech happy. Dr. Fisher was treated with abuse during and following her speech. The audience left disgruntled and angry. We question the reasons behind this difference. Was it because Julian Bond was black, respectable black, and the “liberals” were afraid to point out the inconsistencies in his speech or, worse yet, ignored them? Or was it because Dr. Fisher was one of those “bra-burners” who are brought here by Great Issues, and at no small expense, just to let a few hecklers play around some evening rather than study? We feel that the last statement is probably true. Many Aggies, especially those who marred Dr. Fisher’s speech, regard women’s lib as a joke rather than the civil rights movement it really is. It deserves all the respect and all the work and interest that racial equality receives. It does not deserve disrespect and heckling by a few people who want some kicks at someone else’s expense. It is a movement that has earned and needs support. Give it that. Bulletin Beard Steve Hayes Most output not most good Tonight Chess Committee will hear Dr. Dusan Djuric speak on Aleakine at 8 on the third floor of the Memorial Student Center. Tuesday AIIE meets at 7:30 in the Me morial Student Center Ballroom to hear Donald Klein speak. Wednesday Orange County Hometown Club meets in the lobby of the Memo rial Student Center at 7:30. Guess who said, “modern indus trial society is based on the as sumption that it is both possible and desirable to go on forever producing more and more goods for more and more people . . . More goods do not necessarily mean more happiness. More goods do mean more junk, and that junk in the air, in the water and on the land could make the earth unfit for human habitation before we reach the 21st century.” No, it wasn’t Ralph Nader, nor Paul Ehrlich. It was industrialist Hen ry Ford, II. E. B. Weiss, marketing leader, stated that the danger to market ing is our environmental-social crisis. “That is no longer subject to debate. So my point is that if these men, one a leading industrialist, and the other a marketing leader, in addition to such men as Barry Commoner and Paul Ehrlich who are dedicating their studies to the ecological crisis, all concur that we do have a catastrophe in the making, how long can we really continue to debate the seri ousness of the present ecological crisis? How long can we afford to consider the Ehrlichs, the Commoners, and the Fords as “alarmists”? How long before we arrive at a common understand ing and begin to return to social sanity ? In this regard, comments by men such as Ford and Weiss are encouraging but, tragically, coun ter opinions and archaic “public- be-damned” attitudes still pre vail in our largest corporations and public institutions. I refer particularly to General Motors, the nation’s largest cor poration, and also the nation’s largest air polluter, via automo- miles. General Motors was the target of Mr. Weiss, who pointed out that, “. ... few corporate executives accept any responsi bility for the role the corporation has played in despoiling our physical and social environment . . .” Weiss went on to say that General Motors was ... on the record, the corporation most re sistant to any socially responsible program of adequate scale.” Gen eral Motors’ suffocation of pub lic opinion (as well as literal suf focation) has even brought threats of reprisal action by one of its largest stockholders, the Rockefeller Foundation. I refer also to such organiza tions as the United States De partment of Agriculture, who in spite of mounting evidence of the dangers of pesticides, continues to advocate their use on a massive scale. In my opinion, it is a case of short-term economic gain, as opposed to the Ipng term bene fits for man. I refer to such mammoth funds as the Highway Trust Fund to which you and I contribute with every tank of gasoline. Such a gluttonous fund assures the con tinuing destruction of 24 acres of land for every mile of road, and insures only token consider ation of a much needed mass transit system. (The American Association of State Highway Of ficials has requested that $320 billion be spent on highway needs over the next 15 years. This is just under the present national debt. Obviously, this also insures continued strains on funds needed to solve problems in these areas of national importance. It may prove tragic, as well as ironic, that these institutions by their own self interests, at public expense, lead to their ruin as well as ours. Said advertizing’s Weiss, “Too unwilling, too unbelieving, too unconcerned add up to too little. And too little right now may very well mean too late ...” “answers” to male questions, not the questions themselves, which took the form of “antagonistic,” “derogatory” and “taunting” statements. At worst, the male questions stem from honest curi osity and a desire to know all the facts pertaining to an issue be fore making a decision. It is my opinion that the Bat talion should attempt to be ob jective whenever possible when reporting events on the A&M campus. Gerald Olivier “One male student asked Dr. Fisher why women should be paid as much as men when men have a family to support.’ “Another male student asked if the female-menstrual cycle and the risk of pregnancy kept women from acquiring executive jobs. These are just two of the ques tions asked Dr. Fisher. As a re ply, let me ask if you have ever heard of civil rights? Let me ask you why everyone we have talked to, including a student sitting with you, said they were ashamed and angered by the questions asked. 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