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Listen up
‘Hassling
the establishment’ is called for
THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, October I1 |1S
HEAD BATTALION CLASSIFIEDS
Editor:
If you’re really fed up with the
policies of our beloved univer
sity, then do something about it,
citizens. Hassle the people re
sponsible. If you can’t get to
them, bug someone who can. And
Keep At It. One permanent itch
is a lot more irritating than any
number of transitory problems.
If the ticket policy gets to you,
be sure you and everyone you
know gets their tickets. Mail the
unused ones back at the end of
the season. If you don’t like the
laundry monopoly, send the max
imum allowance every time—and
get your friends to do the same.
Practice massive civil disobedi
ence—but don’t break the law or
you’ll end up losing.
Bug anyone who can help out
—student senators, committees,
all university officials (when they
catch on that they will get hell
for bad decisions even when it’s
not their “responsibility,” they’ll
start to get interested in what’s
CADET SLOUCH
going on), your congressmen and
other government people, your
parents and relatives . . . Raise
a big stink—if you want to still
be here when they get around to
doing something about it.
Every minute someone is hassl
ing the establishment, they lose
that much time from their other
work. They’re so outnumbered
they won’t be able to afford bad
decisions—and that’s when they
might start to think about us,
too.
Stephen Goble
Civil disobedience can be in
terpreted many ways. Working
for change within the boundies
of the law is good. Working out
side or on the edge of the law
is usually ineffective.—Ed.
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Editor:
The article in the Battalion,
Thursday, October 14, concerning
the campus parking situation was
very enlightening. Perhaps it was
a misprint, but this article states,
by Jim Earle
“He’s to blame for me missing class too! If he hadn’t
let me leave early for th’ Corps trip, I wouldn’t be so pooped
today!”
Avoiding the shaft
This university’s fee and tickets policies, whether intentionally or
not, are shafting a lot of students.
Students, without any voice to one way or the other, have to pay
several fees that provide for things they don’t use or don’t have the
opportunity to use.
They must shell out for football games they don’t want to attend,
they must pay for a laundry, perhaps clothes mangier would be a better
term, they don’t want to use and they pay for food they don’t want to
eat.
Ironically enough, when they pay for something they do want to
see, such as the Carpenters, some are turned away because it is a
“sell-out.”
Indeed, it is a sell-out, the students have been sold out.
It seems ridiculous, and typical, that the university feels that a
student should have no input into the levying of fees for something
purportedly for him. If a student doesn’t want to go to a football game,
and there are a lot of them this year, he should be the one to decide if
he is going to pay for his ticket. If, on the other hand, he decides to pay
for the ticket, then he should have the rights of property and decide in
what manner he wishes that ticket to be used.
About the same applies to the laundry. Many students put little
trust in the university laundry, with good reason, and do their laundry
elsewhere. They are still levied $25 by the university, however.
Town Hall is a whole different matter. In this fiasco the students
want to go, which speaks good for Town Hall, but can’t, which speaks
for itself. The problem is that the coliseum holds about 4,000 people
less than those who have paid for tickets. They compound this problem
by going ahead and selling tickets to non-students at raised prices even
while they have students who have paid for tickets begging for them.
But what to do about it?
There is a lot. Hassle the people responsible for these problems, as
the first letter in Listen Up says. Show them that the students are mad
and want a change. Get out and work for a better system. All you can
lose is the shaft.
“Staff make do with 3,198 park
ing spaces, most having individ
ual reservations.” It also states
“ . . . 2,663 staff permits issued
as of September 10.” It appears
the staff does indeed make do
very well with 535 more parking
spaces reserved than permits is
sued'.
This is very believable to any
day student walking to his eight
o’clock class after parking his car
out in the boondocks. It is pretty
depressing to walk through acres
of empty staff lots near the cen
ter of the campus. Maybe it’s just
that all those empty lots are there
because profs are always late for
class.
It is really a comfort to know
our illustrious University Police
is working “ . . . around the clock
to keep students from blocking
driveways and parking in staff
lots.” You can never tell, that
student car parked in a staff lot
at 2 a.m. might be blocking miles
of traffic.
And just think of all the reve
nue those parking tickets bring
into the university coffers. Not
even the city of Houston charges
a five dollar penalty fee if a
parking ticket isn’t paid within
72 hours. Of course it must take
a large portion of the ticket mon
ey to pay the salaries of so
many hard working officers and
to buy all the hot new pursuit
cars to catch the fleeing student
parking offenders.
Campus security—HA! It seems
the only security they are inter
ested in is their job security.
Gary Markham ’71
James Willner ’71
Roger Pierce ’71
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Editor:
I am an irate bikerider, who
wishes to complain about incon
siderate pedestrians. I was in
volved in a near fatal accident
on the 14th. While cruising
along on my bike at 17 mph, eye
ing the chicks on the Library
mall, a C. T. marched rich in front
of my bike. “Leaping Leukemia”,
I cried, as my bike swerved to
the left, sailed over the ivy gar
den and into the barbed wire. As
I lay tangled in the wire, my
buddy took my twisted body and
endeavored to stop the blood
which was flowing profusely.
Don’t these pedestrians know
that the sidewalks are for the
bikes and their place is in the
street! ? How can I ride the
wind if I have to worry about
pedestrians in my way?
I hope in the future these peo
ple will learn their place on this
campus. If you don’t believe my
story, ask anyone who was
around the Library at 6:45 or
one of the nurses at our fine
hospital.
Dan Elliott ’75
Oh, we believe you, we believe
you. But are you sure the peo
ple in white were nurses? You
can also take your complaint to
the k.k., we are sure they’ll help.
—Ed.
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Editor:
Last week in this column, I
complained about how the civil
ians were given no notification
about the change of Yell Prac
tice from in front of Henderson
Hall to the Corps Area. You re
plied by quoting the Head Yell
Bulletin Board
Tonight
AIIE meets at 7:30 in the Me
morial Student Center Ballroom
to hear Donald Klein speak.
Business Administration Wives
Club will meet at The Owl Shop,
Dunn and Holick Sts., at 7:30
p.m. There will be a demonstra
tion of arts and crafts.
All Engineering Technical So
cieties will hold a joint meeting
in the Memorial Student Center
Ballroom at 7:30 p.m. Speaking
will be Don Kline.
South Louisiana Hometown
Club will meet in the lobby of
the Memorial Student Center at
7:45.
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Leader as saying that notices
were sent out to be placed on
bulletin boards in the dorms. That
statement shocked all of us at
Walton Hall and several other
dorms.
Therefore, I talked with Jim
Ferguson (Head Yell Leader) to
find out why he stated that we
received notices when we did not.
I was happy to discover that the
Yell Leader Committee did try
to send out the notices. I was
also impressed with his willing
ness to serve the whole campus.
I wish to take this opportunity
to apologize to the Yell Leader
Committee for my criticizing
them. The reason we did not re
ceive notification was not unwill
ingness on the part of the Corps,
but lack of ample communica
tion systems between them and
us. Hopefully, we will find op
portunities for cooperation in the
future to improve relations.
James K. Goode ’73
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Editor:
This is written in reply to Mr.
Wally Groff’s explanation of the
current ticket policy at this uni
versity.
Mr. Groff states “that he feels
a student is cheating the others
when he gets a date into a foot
ball game without buying a date
ticket.” All I can say to this is
that poor Mr. Groff can’t see the
forest for the trees. The student
tickets have all been paid for
prior to the football season. If
an individual student decides not
to attend a game, is it not his
right and privilege, to give his
ticket to someone else to use, if
he so chooses ?
What Mr. Groff fails to under
stand is that a student at A&M
is forced, and I mean absolutely
forced, to buy these tickets to
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support the Athletic Department,
whether he wants to or not. This
strikes me as an extremely poor
policy.
The solution to this deplorable
situation is given by Mr. Groff
himself, probably unwittingly.
Quote, “We could make more
money by charging $3 for each
student ticket and letting him de
cide which games he wants to
attend,” unquote. This is without
a doubt the policy that should
be in effect right now.
I am 28 years old, a senior,
and a veteran. No one has the
right to force me or any student
to spend hard earned money on
extracurricular events without
our own free choice.
I challenge Dr. Williams, Pres
ident of this University, to rectify
the dictatorial attitude of the
Athletic Business Office and give
freedom of choice back to the stu
dents, where it belongs in the
first place.
Bill Jackson ’72
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