THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, October 15, 1971
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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.
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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.
Sue Davis presented you with a
realistic view of your questions.
All we can say is “grow up Ag
gie.”—Ed.
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