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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Wednesday, January 26, 1972
Listen up
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Booze on campus is back as an issue
“I cut mine because it started bothering me more than
the establishment!”
Bulletin Board
Tonight
AI*() will meet at 7:30 in the
Library Conference room for a
smoker. All interested invited.
Thursday
Student Senate will meet in
room 116 of the Physics building
at 7:30.
American Society of Mechanical
Engineers will meet in front of
the Memorial Student Center at 7.
Aggieland picture will be made.
Skiing and Scuba Diving Club
will meet in room 301 of Bolton
Hall at 9.
Editor:
Many of today’s colleges and
universities are being confront
ed with various questions con
cerning the degree of permis
siveness that should be granted
to college students on the uni
versity’s grounds. Among these
questions is that of allowing al
coholic beverages on the campus
and in campus dormitories.
In deciding whether to allow
alcoholic beverages, a university
must consider the strong argu
ment used by the University of
Houston that “no person should
be abridged of his rights or re
sponsibilities under state laws
just because he is a student at
a college or university.”
To those students, who have
been able to escape the confines
of the “on campus living policy,”
this question seems to be rather
remote. Yet to those dormitory
students who support campus ac
tivities after 5:00, aid in the fi
nancing, maintenance and literal
existence of the dormitories, and
participate in dormitory and
campus wide government, are de
nied their rights as United States
citizens due to the narrow mind
edness of our university adminis
trators.
Another aspect that must be
considered is the purpose of lim
iting on-campus drinking to
those who are legally of age. If
it is to remain neutral as an in
stitution, it would allow each in
dividual his own choice. To allow
alcohol on campus is not to show
favoritism or disfavoritism, but
rather to grant each individual
his own choice in this democratic
system. The present policy does
Nixon and the war
President Nixon’s bombshell announcement last night of the
negotiations between the United States and the North Vietnamese has
implications for this nations that are mostly for the good.
They also hold out a hope for the nations most ravaged by that
war. North and South Vietnam, and for the whole of Indochina.
It is indeed an odd turn of events for the president who just
offered us a heavily military and technologically oriented budget,
though odd turns of events are becoming more and more common for
“Tricky Dicky.”
But the points brought out in Nixon’s speech are good and viable
points that both sides should be able to work with. They are proposals
that resolve the basic differences between the two nations and provide
for a future.
" ” 1 NixonVnrairr-concern with the United States in relation to the
war is with the POWs. And this is as it should be, for if anyone has
suffered in this war it is the POWs of all armies and their families.
Too, Nixon has agreed to set a date for total withdrawal from
Vietnam. This in itself is a major step. The president is now willing to
withdraw all troops, none of those dangerous token forces or garrison
troops left behind to get into trouble.
Aside from the United States involvement in Vietnam, Nixon’s
proposals for an end to the fighting are excellent.
He calls for a general cease fire in all of Indochina. This is a good
point, but one that might be slightly unrealistic. The ending of fighting,
and therefore the possibility for expansion, amy mean quite a bit to the
North Vietnamese, especially since things are going well in Laos and
Cambodia.
The hope for agreement that there will be no intervention by
other nations in Indochina is also a good idea. The rights of nations to
determine their own futures is one that the United States has
constantly violated in the past and is one that should be controlled very
strictly.
Perhaps one of the biggest surprises in the entire thing is the offer
by South Vietnam’s President Thieu to resign for free elections in
South Vietnam and for the elections to be supervised by an outside
party. Following the almost dictatorial elections held earlier this year,
this is a major concession by Thieu. One wonders what the pressures
brought to bear upon Thieu were to get him to agree to this.
But as Nixon says, the whole thing lies with the North
Vietnamese reluctance to accept this plan. It is firmly in their hands
now and the way they act, publicly, will determine much.
The plan is a good one, and we feel that most of the world will
recognize it as such. This will mean much to the North. It is easy to
scream Yankee imperialism and be believed; there has been much
Yankee imperialism before, but it is another thing to have the facts out
and in front of everybody. The North will hopefully recognize that
they will probably lose by refusing this plan, not only in extending a
non-victorious war, but in the respect of nations throughout the world.
Too, it may serve to help stop or ease the blow of a predicted
major Tet offensive by the North and the Viet Cong. Nixon may have
been alluding to this when he said that the plan “lies ignored in a secret
channel while the enemy tries again for military victory.”
On the home front, it is a major victory for Nixon and a loss for
his opposition. If the North Vietnamese do not accept the proposal,
Nixon can say that he tried to his fullest extent. If it does succeed,
Nixon will have accomplished that which most Democratic hopefuls say
they will do. End the war.
May this last be the outcome.
Cbe Battalion
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EDITOR HAYDEN WHITSETT
Managing- Editor Doug- Dilley
News Editor Sue Davis
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Assistant Sports Editor Bill Henry
not allow individual freedom, but
rather denies everyone their
right to choose.
Does the present liquor on-
campus policy really limit the
consumption of alcoholic bever
ages, or does it merely change
the point of consumption ? I can
hardly be led to believe that any
individual with a desire to drink
is going to deny himself that
privilege. In an attempt to ful
fill that desire, the individual is
forced by present policy to leave
campus. This creates a problem
as now the person is on a high
way and must drive from the
point of consumption back to the
dormitory which increases the
possibilities for accidents. So the
University’s present policy does
not seem to solve any problems
but merely add to them.
University life is to better
prepare each person for the ac
ceptance of responsibility once
he is removed from these ivory
covered walls, yet the adminis
tration sees fit to remove legal
elements from our collegiate
learning experience. I would sug
gest that students back their
dormitory and campus wide or
ganizations such as Civilian Stu
dent Council and Student Senate
in an attempt to change this un
democratic policy.
William Hatherill
We were in error about liquor
being prohibited by state law.
It is a rule made by the Board
of Directors. We apologize for
this mistake.—Eld.
Editor':
I would like to comment on the
critical remarks you made in the
editorial “Nixon’s State of the
Union” in the January 21, Friday,
Battalion concerning Nixon’s pro
posed $900 million for increasing
technology. As with most misty-
eyed, foggy-brained, self-styled
liberals, you criticize technology
because it is technology without
delving further to ascertain what
that technology encompasses.
Surely you would agree that im
proved mass transportation is
among the nation’s highest pri
orities—after all, improved mass
transportation is necessary to
counted the increasing number of
cars and the concomitant pollu
tion, and you seem unhappy
that “scarcely a representative
amount” will be spent on “pollu
tion research and prevention.”
Similarly, you would surely agree
that better, more comprehensive
health care is among the nation’s
priorities—you claim “there is no
indication of funds to help deter
the turmoil in our cities,” and the
liberal line holds that poor health
care is one of the causes of this
turmoil. In light of this, I be
lieve you might be interested to
learn—since you have obviously
so far not bothered to inform
yourself of these facts—exactly
what Nixon said about the $900
million for technology. He said
it would involve projects “de
signed to improve our everyday
lives in ways that will range from
improving mass transit to de
veloping new systems of emer
gency health care that could save
thousands of lives annually.” He
also noted that portions of this
$900 million will be oriented to
attacking other of our urgent
domestic problems. Isn’t it amaz
ing what one can learn by looking
at the actual facts rather than
rotely reciting an old, wornout
liberal line!
Nixon further elaborated that
some of this $900 million will be
used in seeking out and perfect
ing new pollution-free sources of
energy. Since he didn’t elaborate
further and since you obviously
don’t know what he did say about
the $900 million, you surely don’t
know what he didn’t sajJ
how much of that $900
will be directed toward
forms of pollution research,]
you attack it any way. Til
so typical of the yapping ter
on the left—you scream for
pollution research, for
mass transportation, and foj
proved health care, then
hypocritically and hysterical!
tack the very technology SI ,
eally aimed at those proH
May I suggest that a cun
this folly is to make somethin
an effort to inform yours
and particularly to do soinen
nal thinking. The expeh
might be refreshing—for
you and your readers.
Ralph Hi,
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