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Page 2 College .Station, Texas Thursday, February 17, 1972
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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
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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’!
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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-
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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.
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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. S. mili
tary source noted that North
Vietnam had moved surface-to-
air missiles to near the DMZ
where they could hit American
planes flying intensified air
strikes in the northern quarter
of South Vietnam in a massive
campaign to crush an expected
enemy offensive.
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