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I THE BATTALION Page 2 College .Station, Texas Thursday, February 17, 1972 Listen up CADET ISLOUCH by Jim ’Earle VCfSUS Editor: Obviously, Mr. Mardis is ignorant of the fact that black students also pay student service fees. Funding of the Black Aware ness Committee doesn’t come solely from any one ethnic group. Also, I am compelled to remind Mr. Mardis that Texas A&M University is a state^sup- ported institution. The State of Texas is sup ported by taxes levied on and collected from all its citizens, including blacks. I do not think it hard for Mr. Mardis’ intellect to realize that while blacks have dutifully sup ported this institution indirectly with their tax dollars, they and their sons and daugh ters had been excluded from reaping the benefits of the educational opportunities at A&M since its incipiency. Only within the last decade have blacks been able to put a “finger in the pie.” As for the need of a “WAC,” I submit that past and extant programs under the MSC are adequate in this area. With respect to Mr. Mardis’ being asked to vacate to enable a black to replace him, I would imagine that the request was made because of a preference for a friend instead of an abhorrance to live with him. No, Miss Thompon’s statement did not upset me in the least. However, I think that Mr. Mardis himself is perturbed in realizing that discrimination can very well be a two way street! Marvin Bridges Services fee allocations (Continued from page 1) booklet would be enough for them to publish a better one. Present at the meeting to an swer questions regarding the al locations problem were Tom D. Cherry, vice president for busi- affairs, and R. Clark Diebel, con troller of accounts. Cherry said that the reason there was some necessity to completing a plan soon was that the Board of Di rectors likes to have time to de liberate on a matter. The board will work on the “Squirt, this is truly a well-written letter for a date! It has depth and sensitivity, but I think it would sound better if you didn’t begin with ‘Dear Boxholder’! About those letters The Battalion’s letter policy states that letters must be signed though names may be withheld by arrangement with the editor. This means that the letter writer must personally con tact the Editor and explain his/her reasons for having a name withheld. It is up to the Editor’s discretion to decide if the reasons are valid. So, if you don’t want to sign your name, get in touch with us. Otherwise don’t expect to see the letter in print. Inquiry told Smoke seen at Fogg sinking GALVESTON, Tex. (A 1 )—A U. S. Coast Guard inquiry into the sinking of the tanker V. A. Fogg heard testimony Wednesday con- , cerning the location of a smoke cloud in the Gulf of Mexico and leaky pipes and fittings aboard the vessel. Lt. Cmdr. Kenneth R. Gard, a Coast Guard pilot from the Cor pus Christi Air Station, told of receiving the report from Na tional Aeronautics and Space Administration pilot Roger C. Zeieg about a large smoke cloud off Galveston Island. Gard said the cloud was locat- A JLLEN Oldsmobile Cadillac SALES - SERVICE “Where satisfaction is standard equipment” 2401 Texas Ave. 823-8002 ed shortly before dark Feb. 1. He said it was approximately a quarter of a mile wide and cov ered an area some 15 miles long and dissipated slowly. Gard said he searched a 20 by 35 mile area around the smoke area at altitudes between 300 and 500 feet Feb. 1 but saw no ves sel in distress or spotted any debris. He told of seeing three or four tankers in the search area and several smaller vessels but it was dark by this time and they could not be identified. The Fogg sailed from Freeport Bulletin Board Tonight Young Americans for Freedom will meet in the Old College Sta tion City Hall at 7:30. Orange County HTC will meet in the lobby of the Memorial Stu dent Center at 7:30. Aggieland picture will be made. Rio Grande Valley HTC will meet for club photo in front of the Memorial Student Center at 7:30. with 39 men aboard the after noon of Feb. 1. Wreckage of the vessel was found last week on the bottom of the Gulf about 50 miles off Galveston Island. Div ers who found the wreckage said they discovered evidence of a tremendous explosion. The ship had delivered ben zene to Freeport and had headed into the Gulf to clear her tanks of the benzene residue before going to Galveston. She was still carrying 19,000 gallons of ex plosive xylene. Charles Floyd Jr., of Jackson ville, Fla., a pumpman who left the Fogg Jan. 30 in Freeport, told the inquiry board about vari ous pipes, pumps, valves and other fittings which had been leaking or repaired. He said that in the after pump- room the seals on some pumps were leaking and one time put eight inches of a chemical into the pumproom bilges. He told of repairing leaks from wing tanks into cofferdam areas in both the forward and after sections of the vessel. Cbe Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers 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 77843. 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 year; _ _ _ _ "ng rate furnished on requea The" Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, Texas 77843. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for .—, 11 rUttr.nff’hn credited to it or not pontai are: Jim Arts ; Members of the Student Publications Board Lindsey, chairman ; H. F. Filers, College of Liberal F. S. White, College of Engineering; Dr. Asa B. Childers, Jr., College of Veterinary Medicine; Dr. W. E. Tednck, College of Agriculture; and Layne Kruse, student. 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State Z'P (If Box Number used — indicate whether P.O. Box or University Box) Name of College/University □ <5> 1971 Playboy NOTE: This offer is made only to students cur rently enrolled in a college or university. Send to: PLAYBOY COLLEGE CENTER 919 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60611 41 oo Rates apply to U.S., U.S. Poss. and Canada only. budget at its Feb. 29 meeting, but Cherry admitted that the senate was ahead of others who were sending in various money proposals. He said that the de tails of the fee allocations for next year did not have to be fi nalized immediately. “There has to be money for the hospital, regardless of source," he said. “The board does not need a complete fee distribu tion plan. All that has to be de cided is athletics and hospital funding.” After Hartsfield’s motion to send the issue back to committee for a final vote at next Thurs day’s senate meeting, adjourn ment was voted for, even though two items were still on the agen da. “Alex Dade (Sr-Eng) was com pletely mistaken in moving for an early adjournment of the meeting,” Sharp said. “There was only about 15 minutes worth of business left on the agenda. I hope in the future things of this nature don’t occur in respon sible government.” “It was terrible for the senate to vote that way (41-25-3),” Clay exclaimed. “They have an obli gation to the students, and they’re not doing their jobs when they vote to adjourn with two items left.” The unfinished business includ ed the method of voting on the proposed constitution in the sen ate and a motion regarding rela tions between the senate and the College Station City Council. US. mounts new strikes, Hanoi claims twoplanes SAIGON <■£’) — U. S. planes mounted a new series of strikes inside North Vietnamese terri tory Wednesday, American mili tary sources said. Radio Hanoi claimed two planes were shot down, and a number of pilots were killed or captured. The U. S. Command declined comment. The command has a policy of revealing aircraft losses only after search and rescue op erations for any downed pilots are completed. It says early dis closure might endanger chances for rescue. If the Hanoi claims are sub-t stantiated, it would mark the first American aircraft and pi lots reported lost over North Vietnam since the five days of heavy air raids last Dec. 26-30, when more than 1,000 strikes were flown and 12 planes were lost. The U. S. informants and pi lots gave only scant details of Wednesday’s raids. They said most of the strikes were in North Vietnam’s half of the de militarized zone and that there may have been some further north. The sources would not disclose the targets, but said some of the strikes were “protective reac tion.” This means pilots can at tack enemy antiaircraft defenses considered a threat to U. S. re connaissance planes flying over North Vietnam or planes bomb ing enemy supply lines anywhere in Indochina. Radio Hanoi claimed that a number of jets attacked popu lous areas of North Vietnam's two southernmost provinces, Quang Binh and Vinh Linh. The informants did not dis close the number of planes or strikes, except to say the raids were substantial. Earlier, a senior U. 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