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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Friday, February 25, 1972
Listen up
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle Blacks 031*1 Of the SYStCm 3Lt TAMU
Editor:
Fortunately or unfortunately,
Mr. Mardis, our accepting “money
from the Anglo-American” is part
of the system at Texas A&M.
Since, obviously, you are opposed
to this part of the system, why
don’t you exert what mental ef
forts you can muster toward de
vising a plan whereby we would
not have to?
Mr. Mardis, not one black stu
dent nor the Black Awareness
Committee is intimidated by your
statement that we “are going to
have trouble and will meet oppo
sition.” And I assure you that
I have no paranoia about Anglo-
Americans being out to get me!
Further, your whole line of rea
soning and all your rhetoric is
probably characteristic of only a
few students at this university.
Man, don’t even tell me that
“Anglo-Americans do indeed ex
ist” since all one has to do is
look around this environment.
And now you have feelings, so
what else is new?
Mr. Mardis, let me submit that
I have ascertained your ulterior
motives in continuing this dia
logue in the Battalion. You and I
can elaborate in depth on this is
sue in person without utilizing the
Battalion. I am not hard to get in
touch with.
Marvin Bridges
Nixon
“I can’t get used to th’ idea of Aggies holding hands
with^each other!”
(Continued from page 1)
enclave totaling more than 9,000
rooms is described by the govern
ment as demonstrating “the wis
dom, talent and highly accom
plished building technique of
China’s ancient laboring people.”
This made the second day of
sightseeing for Nixon. On Thurs
day he cast aside the cares of
state to see the Great Wall of
China, built 2,200 years ago to
keep out barbarians.
From the ramparts and look
ing away to where the wall
stretches to the far horizon,
Nixon in a philosophic mood ob
served that there should be an
end to “walls of any kind between
peoples.”
Implicit in his statement was
a hope that he could pierce the
wall of hostility that has been
erected between the two nations
Railroading
John Henry may have been
pretty good at railroading but he
could have picked up a few point
ers at last night’s Student Senate
meeting.
They may sing songs about how
Henry drove spikes but they could
be talking, in the senate anyway,
about how Spike drove the Stu
dent Senate for a much longer
tinle.
We are speaking of how the
Student Senate was railroaded,
and willingly let itself be railroad
ed, into passing a services fee al
location about which it knows
relatively little. L ' J " *
The “Spike” is- Spike Dayton,
who is better at engineering than
Casey Jones. And, alas, did not
end in a crash last night.
Now please don’t think we are
blaming Dayton totally for flash
ing the allocations through. If
anybody deserved the blame the
senate should get the brunt of it,
the editor of this newspaper, who
is on the senate, being no excep
tion.
But without Dayton, it is doubt
ful that such would have been
the result.
He proposed the plan, explained
it, offered himself as an expert,
and pulled it off. It was masterful.
He had the senate so confused
that they would have been ready
to donate the allocation to the
Baylor basketball team.
His method was to just avoid
anything that might look bad for
athletics. Indeed he had to, be
cause he was trying to get
through almost double what last
year’s allocation was.
He would not detail why they
needed the extra funds, he would
not explain what were those “idi-
osycracies” Bellard has, he would
not explain why athletics pays a
scholastics officer, who in the
past has worked only on football,
$14,000 a year, or why tutors were
hired when A&M already has a
free tutor service.
Even when questioned repeated
ly on the same subjects he would
not give any details.
In fact, when asked about the
tutors by Shariq Yosufzai, one
of the more respected senators, he
replied:
“I brought you a realistic budg
et, will someone ask realistic ques
tions?”
Well, we will ask some of Sen
ator Dayton. Such as, why bilk
the senate ? Is there something
that will appear badly for athle
tics? What is it? Does he know
anything about athletics? If so,
can he answer questions ?
But basically, why should a
student senator be so intent on
railroading through such a major
issue as allocations? Why not
give answers to the questions?
Who is he representing?
The Student Senate itself didn’t
help matters at all either. After
spending a confusing time in the
constitution they were willing to
be confused in the allocations. It
wasn’t until after the damage had
been done that Senator Layne
Kruse caught on that all was not
quite on the up and up.
Of course, like we have said,
the damage has been done. It is
a pity that it will probably be the
students that have to pay for it.
Congratulations to all involved,
you represented nobody.
Berrigan released from prison
DANBURY, Conn. (A*) — Daniel
Berrigan, the pacifist priest, re
leased from prison Thursday aft
er serving 18 months for destroy
ing draft records says he will
press his crusade against the Viet
nam war.
“The war is still the first fact
of life for the living,” he said.
“There is no issue comparable to
the death of the innocent—not the
economy, not good fellowship in
China, not cancer.”
But the 51-year-old Jesuit said
he would shun the methods of
protest that put him in jail.
Rejecting the use of violence
if it meant doing physical and
psychological damage to human
beings, he said: “I would do im
mense physical and psychological
damage to draft records if this
were the right tactical moment,
but it is not.”
Berrigan, wearing a cross made
by a fellow prisoner, appeared
graying but chipper despite va
rious illnesses as he emerged from
the prison. He smiled broadly to
the cheers of 200 supporters who
had waited in 15-degree weather
outside the federal prison.
After embracing his brother,
Jerome, he turned and waved to
prisoners huddled around the
prison windows.
Berrigan went first to an ecu
menical service at a nearby
church then to Syracuse, N. Y.,
for a visit with his mother. He
plans to live at the Jesuits
Woodstock College in New York
City.
The poet and writer won parole
halfway through a three-year
term for destroying draft records
at Catonville, Md., in 1968.
AARGH!
...John R. Moffitt
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since Mao Tse-tung came to
power in 1949.
Nixon looked at the massive
Da Ling Gate on a nearby moun
tain and continued: “We will not
climb that mountain today. We
are already meeting at the sum
mit in Peking.”
The words were addressed to
Deputy Premier Li Hsien-nien,
who with Foreign Minister Chi
Peng-fei accompanied the presi
dential party on the tour.
Li thanked Nixon for “a great
speech” and added: “The Ameri
can people are a great people.”
Nixon used a visit to the near
by burial vaults of the
Ming emperors to express a hope
that many Americans will have a
chance to visit China.
“We have not known Asia well
enough,” he commented. “Com
munications have been badly ne
glected.”
A sour view of this week’s pro
ceedings came from William F.
Buckley Jr., editor of the con
servative National Review. He is
in the press party in Peking de
spite his announcement last July
he was suspending support of
Nixon because of the President’s
China Policy.
Asked what he thought the
trip had accomplished, he replied:
“Well, I think it is much easier
to talk about what hasn’t been
accomplished . . . All the rhetoric
to which we and others have been
subjected has been a rhetoric that
stresses friendship between the
American and Chinese people.
Now, in the first place, there was
no lack of friendship that I know
of between the people. a
We now declare a moratorium
on this issue. No further letters
will be printed.—Ed.
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Editor:
This letter is in answer to the
letter in the Wednesday, February
23, 1972 issue of The Battalion,
written by Mr. Stephen L. Baker.
It is unusual policy for a mi
nority (the Corps of Cadets) to
“accept” a majority (in this case,
the male civilian student body) or
even to demand concessions of
that majority. It is time for the
Corps to become aware of its sit
uation and to realize that this
campus no longer exists because
of or for the military uniform.
The Corps is now #2 of the three
major factions listed in Mr. Bak
er’s letter; and if the trend (tra
dition, if I may) continues, they
may be delegated to position #3.
A second point may be made
about the statement that civilians
merely osmose themselves into
the swirling mass of students.
This is ridiculous. It amounts to
saying that the individual civilian
simply disappears into obscurity,
while the elite Corps member
reaches far above the obscurity
of the masses and is placed by
some supreme being onto a pe
destal of distinguished merit.
accomplished by the Corps oi
dets shedding its ever present]
form and its holier-than-thom
tude.
James D. Forli
It is time that the Corps be
exposed as what it really is: the
only recognized fraternity on
campus; and it is time that it be
treated as any other fraternity,
either abolished or relegated to
an extra-curricula status. Having
achieved its rightful status, we,
as students, can then get down to
the basic question at hand, unity.
The uniform will be required only
at “Corps Club” meetings, the
Corps member will no longer
stand out above the rest of us
lowly students, and we can then
press together without class dis
tinction towards unity.
I, personally, have no argument
with military training, but the
unity we all crave will only be
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