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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Tuesday, March 14, 1972 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Listen up Making light of things at Hensel area V, Q © Q> © O c Editor: At the March 7 meeting of the University Apartment Council the administration’s reply to a request for additional lighting in the Hensel Apartment area was explained by Mr. Ed Davis, As sistant to Mr. Howard Vestal, Director of Management Serv ices. The explanation given was that no additional lighting is “feasible” in the area. The request was based on the results of a poll taken last fall (with a 91% response from the residents, a 187-43 majority fav ored additional lighting) with the purpose being to help deter crim inal activity in the area and to serve a much needed convenience to both residents and visitors to the area. Mr. Davis stated such lighting would provide only “marginal” benefits and there fore was unfeasible since “money doesn’t grow on trees”. I maintain that the additional lighting is neither unfeasible nor unreasonable. Much needed peace- of-mind and safety would be afforded Hensel residents and University Police would be aided in their “regular patrols” of the area by the addition of this light ing. I further maintain that the university has misplaced its pri orities. The massive lighting of the new Zachry Engineering Center gives much less than “marginal” additional security and convenience to that building and its occupants. How much can it cost to con struct one street light ? How much is the weekly electric bill for the unnecessary lighting of the Zachry Engineering Center? I expect that since we are only students and do not live “on campus” we do not deserve safe ly illuminated building and park ing lots. David N. Bailey Vice-President University Apartment Council Davis says that “if anything there has been a decline in crime” in your area. The univer sity currently feels that the benefits would be marginal if such lighting were put in com pared to the cost of installation. Davis also said that if there was to be an increase in crime then there would be no doubt about installing the lighting. As for the lighting on Zachry Engineering Center, there you touch on a sore point around campus. The lighting, in terms of one administrator, is “grossly overdone.” Every other bulb has been removed from the lights for now. A lighting expert is sup posed to make a study of the campus lighting and make rec ommendations sometime in the near future. Be sure your area is considered.—Ed. ★ ★ ★ Editor: In regard to the MSC Complex fees increase, I am glad that the “arbitrary figure” decided upon by the administration was $5 in stead of $50. Personally, I would not have cared if the MSC Complex had never been started. I would rather have seen my money go for enlarging Sbisa to a size that would accommodate the number of students who are forced to eat there. By the way, I think Moffitt has a great comic strip! Jim Epley ★ ★ ★ Editor: I have a few comments to For all-volunteer Army needs more incentives “Four guys share this box with me and once a week is all we need to check it to stay current!” WASHINGTON (A>)_The De fense Department told Congress Monday that additional incentives may be needed to achieve an all volunteer armed force by July 1, 1973. “In spite of maximum efforts to increase enlistments and re enlistments, it does not now ap pear that we can beat the target date,” Roger T. Kelley, assistant secretary of defense for manpow er, said in testimony before a Senate Armed Services subcom mittee. Right on, K. K.! a "•JT v yfeM An unusual, but very good event took place next to Sbisa Dining Hall Monday evening. There, surrounded by close to a thousand of jeering Aggies, stood one lone member of the University Police, ticket book in hand and smiling. ., . , Smiling? Yes, because the Ags were jeering the drivers of speeding cars that the policeman had been stopping and issuing warnings and tickets to. They were backing the fuzz all the way in this case. They had good reason to be doing so, too. That part of road by Sbisa is one of the most traveled on campus by both autos and pedestrians. Therefore, knowing the typical campus driver and pedes trian contempt of things mechanical, the area is one of the most dangerous on campus. So here was this cop, unfortunately we couldn’t find out his name, standing beside the road stopping speeding cars. Delighted students were standing around giving the officer moral support and pointing out oncoming speeders. They also handed out quite a bit of peer criticism to drivers. We need more of this tiling on campus. University Police have acquired reputations as parking violation men without campare, but things, until yesterday, were relatively untouched in speeding circles. Perhaps things will change. We hope that they will. Having an officer out there, and in other critical places, for about a week would probably put a damper on a dangerous situation. We can only agree with one student who shouted out just as the speeder was stopped, “Right on, K.K!” Kelley reported progress in de creasing reliance on the draft in the last six months of 1971. He said in that period seven out of 10 enlistees were true volunteers compared with six out of 10 a year earlier. Combat arms’ enlistment in the Army increased from a monthly average of 250 in the last half of 1970 to 3,000 in the last half of 1971. But, he said, “the fall-off in draft-motivated enlistments has been more rapid than the increase in the supply of volunteers. “The short-run outlook, there fore, includes the likelihood that recruiting production will be be low current targets in one or more of the services. “The Navy, in fact, has fallen short of its recruiting goals for six successive months.” To overcome this, Kelley said, the Navy began offering three- year enlistments March 1, in ad dition to the customary four-year term. Kelley said it is too early to measure the effect of pay in creases that became effective Nov. 14, but volunteer enlistments of men with draft lottery numbers above 241 increased 29 per cent in December and January com pared with the same two months a year earlier. make about the article in The Battalion written by Karen Kreipke on beneficial food addi tives. First of all, Texas A&M is traditionally an agricultural university supported by agricul tural interests, so it often seems that whatever they have to say agrees with their financial sup porters. This can be seen in many areas where the university makes statements of public in terest. Miss Kriepke of the Agri-» cultural Extension Service sees to side more with “Big Business” than with the consumer. Miss Kreipke stated in her article “Food additives prove beneficial to the consumer as well as the manufacturer.” Where is the proof that additives are beneficial ? Granted, there are some that are beneficial, but most are questionable. The vita min D added to milk is good be cause it promotes health. But anything added to “provide” a better color, flavor, consistency and texture” is added because the industries discard in their prepa rations the natural color, flavor, consistency and texture. For ex ample, to get “enriched flour,” the flour is first milled and bleached which either destroys or discards the 25 valuable nutrients avail able in whole-wheat flour. Then, less than five nutrients are re turned artificially to “enrich” the flour. The fact that indus tries are processing out most of the vitamins and minerals in our foods is fast making us the most BARKER PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO 405 University Dr. Phone 846-2828 FINE Wedding Photography AT Reasonable Prices TOO MANY £?.S to |! Bulletin Board GROUP- ; INSURANCE PROGRAMS ARE LIKE LEAKY FAUCETS. Tonight Committee for Clay will meet in St. Mary’s Student Center at 8. Wednesday Sophomore Council will meet at 8 on the west steps of the Zachry Engineering Center for their Aggieland photo. But they waste dollars, instead of water. Because they’re inefficiently designed. My job is cutting off the profit drain Maybe we should talk. Bob Phillips 707 University Drive 846-8031 PROVIDENT MUTUAL Campaign letters As we move into the period of student general elections, we wish to state our policy on campaign letters. We aren’t running any. There are several good reasons for doing this. All of them are because we are trying to be as fair as possible to the candidates. Since there are so many positions being filled in the elections, we can’t hope to run all the letters we get. Somebody is sure to come up on the short end of the stick and they would be quite upset because they wouldn’t have been treated fairly. They would be right. Another point of concern is that often we receive more than one letter about a candidate. We could run one from one particular person and then have the candidate come up with a letter from someone else that he wanted run. That wouldn’t be fair, either. What we will do is, in the important positions, run a 100-word platform statement from each candidate. All will be presented at the same time. We will decide which positions are important. We will also run a list of those running for positions such as senator, etc. which we cannot possibly lun a platform on. Until then, get out and file for those positions. Cbe Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M, is the student writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax- Published in College Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, , , . ... Sunday, Monday, and holiday periods, September through supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enter- May, and once a week during summer school. prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. . . , , ^ MEMBER . ,. The Associated Press, Texas Press Association LETTERS POLICY The Associated Collegiate Press Letters to the editor must be typed, double-spaced, Mail subscriptions are S3.B0 per semester; $6 per school and no more than 300 words in length. They must be year; $6.50 per full year. 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Childers?J?.,’ Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. of Agricu f ltu^?andTayn^ iC Kruie, D s r (udTnt E - Te<JriCk ' EDITOR HAYDEN WHITSETT Managing Editor Doug Dilley Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising News Editor Sue Davis Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San bports Editor John Curylo Francisco. Assistant Sports Editor Bill Henry LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA The Corsage Center— 1 Specializing in Aggie Corsages - Wristlets - Nosegays. Wide Selection of Flowers • Roses • Mini Carnations • Daisies • Gardenias • Cymbidium Orchids • Cattleya orchids • Mixed flowers. 29»h Street, 2920 E. 29th 823-5792 822-6047 The Floral Center “Full Service Florist” One Block East of St. Joseph’s Hospital. Phone Your Order — Pick Up Later PEANUTS f^EEEBSiir fed nation in J fed but worst world. We should assume most aij tives are dangerous to W health until they are establish through extensive tests to beneficial. There are too m examples of additives, drugs i secticides, etc., that have ’ “proved” safe, but after contij ued use have had disastrous , r suits. Man seems to be tryingt, replace nature with man-mai creations. Why can’t we be U py and utilize what has been gid en to us ? To me, a few eil minutes spent in my kitchen t promote my family’s health more important than saving i few minutes using packagi foods for — what ? What is monl important to you —- your futi health and a long life or ki attacks, cancer, senility, ritis, blindness, . . . poor healttl Mrs. Ronald L. Nelson The article was not writteij by Karen Kreipke, but aboull what she has to say.—Ed, ALLEN Oldsmobile Cadillac SALES - SERVICE “Where satisfaction is standard equipment" 2401 Texas Ave. 823-8002 NOW OPEN! ADULT LIBRARY CLUBS 333 University Drive ADULT ART MOVIES Open 7 Days A Week 3 p. m. Till Midnight Escorted Ladies % Price Monday Bring Date or Friend | Free. 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