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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Tuesday, March 21, 1972 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Listen up Engineering Center under fire FOR BEST results he t try BATTALION CLASSinifo/* < Editor: We feel quite strongly and with joyous acclaim, that the all new Zachry Engineering Center, which shines like a jeweled beacon on the dismal edge of our campus environment is perhaps the finest example in recent year (JFK Cen ter for the Arts being the only exception) of that great architec tural character that typified the design genius of that all-time wiz ard of aesthetic delight—Albert Speer! who gave so unselfishly to the fatherland. Congratulations TAMU, you have done it again. P.S. Who buys all those light bulbs ? David Dacus Steven A. McCleskey, and 25 other names that space will not allow us to list. ★ ★ ★ Editor: As a member of the Somerville Volleyball Team I would like to add something that was left out of the Tuesday, March 14th issue Alternatives cited of The Battalion. In civilian vol leyball, Somerville won the cham pionship, undefeated at that. I do not understand how this was left out since the Corps and civilian championship games were played at the same place and same time. Could it be that the “reporter” was a member of the corp, or was he just a little lazy ? I can understand if he was bored with the style of vol leyball played by the White Band and Squadron 5. It was rather sloppy and uncontrolled, some thing like diarrhea. But he still should have observed the Somer- ville-Hart Hall game, not to men tion the semi-final game between Somerville and' Biology 1, any of which could beat the Corps champions with the greatest of ease. Russell Haas Sorry about that. The article was supplied to us by the intra murals department and we assum ed they had all the information in the out in article. We will check it the future.—Ed. ★ ★ ★ Editor: I am a candidate for Place 6 on the College Station City Council. I am not seeking this office for personal recognition or advance ment; nor am I attempting to polarize the community. Rather, I intend to provide more respon sive and progressive leadership for College Station and build a union of understanding among all the people of our community. Let me be frank for a moment. There are persons in the commu nity who say smugly that stu dents here will never elect a coun cilman. Why? They do not vote. Sad as it may seem, they may be right. My co-workers and I esti mate that 25-50 students cast bal lots in the December City Council election. The gentleman that won that seat on the council did so with less than 450 votes. That was substantially less than 50% of the total votes cast. When weigh- Alaska pipeline report made “Is it a bad sign to get excited about getting a letter even though it’s addressed to ‘Boxholder’!” WASHINGTON <A>) _ The In terior Department issued today its long-awaited analysis of en vironmental impact of the propos ed Trans-Alaska oil pipeline, in dicating that a route through Can ada instead would be far less de structive. The report, in weighing a total nine volumes of about 25 Nixon urges tough prosecution of narcotics violations, abuses NEW YORK UP) _ President Nixon, asserting that the drug traffic strikes at the very heart of American society, called Mon day for “strong, tough prosecu tion” to combat it. “I consider this to be the No. 1 domestic problem that concerns the American people,” he told newsmen. Dramatizing the campaign, for which he has asked 1973 funds of $600 million; ^the ■ President conferred here with Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, undercover agents and top officials in the Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement which he created in January. After the meetings, which last ed IVz hours, he went by helicop ter to Kennedy Airport where he inspected U.S. Customs proce dures for hunting out illegal drugs. The President then flew back to Washington for a meeting with his Cabinet Committee on Inter national Narcotics Control which was set up last September to help curb the international drug traf fic. As part of the same widerang- ing program, Nixon has a meet ing scheduled Tuesday with Pre mier Nihat Erim of Turkey which is expected to take up the prob lem of opium poppy growing in that Mideast country. Erim’s government has banned culture of the flower-raw material for heroin—but he said last week continuation of the ban would de pend on finding alternate crops and new industrial development. The United States has already promised $35 million. At the New York meetings, Nixon noted that Turks produced opium, but do not use it. The gov ernment there, he said, “is very, very tough on it.” About 35 officers at the first meeting of the New York sec tion of the Drug Abuse Enforce ment office heard the President say that the traffic was “the most reprehensible of all crimes . . . it strikes at the very heart of the society in which we live — it strikes at the fabric of American life.” New York, described by Myles Ambrose, national head of the new office, as the area with “prob ably the largest concentration of heroin addicts in the nation” is the first of nine regional centers set up in the antidrug fight. Other regional offices will be established in Atlanta, Cleveland, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Kan sas City, Los Angeles and Phila delphia. The meeting with Rockefeller, and city and state officials dis cussed 12 special narcotics courts set up under a $7.5-million grant from the federal government sup plemented by $2.5 million from the state. Fish summer conferences scheduled to start May 29 Summer conferences for next fall’s freshmen and transfer stu dents will begin May 29 at A&M. Two-day events held generally twice a week during the first two summer months, the conferences streamline counseling-testing and registration programs for new students. The summer confer ence assists them through the transition to college. The primary aim, however, is to give individual attention to each new and transfer student in testing, degree program ad justment and orientation. TAMU admissions, registrar, counseling and testing and the various col leges participate. Each entering student is ex pected to attend one of the con ferences. New students will have one of 13 Monday-Tuesday or Thursday- Friday conference date choices, indicated S. Auston Kerley, Coun seling and Testing Center direc tor. Transfer students will have conferences on Sunday and Mon day of June 25-26, July 9-10, 23- 24 and 30-31. AARGH! John R. Moffitt THF ON/-V THING X DON'T UNDERSTftUD IS TH'S STRANGE. DR'VE ••• T HRVE rv+is power- poll CONSOMI DESIRE to NEVER TAKE ANOTHER BflTH. Hoffi-it 1 tz Cbe Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M, is flip mriters nnlv The Battalion is a non-tax,^ published m College Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, tile Student writers only. 1 ne uatianon IS a nontax 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. The Associated Press, Texas Press Association LETTERS POLICY The Associated Collegiate Press Letters to the editor must be typed, double-spaced. Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester; $6 per school and no more than 300 words in length. They must be year; $6.50 per full year. All subscriptions subject to 5% signed, although the writer’s name will be withheld by sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on reauest. Address: ° , ,, ... , , , The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station arrangement with the editor. Address correspondence to Texas 77843. ’ Listen Up, The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, —— ——— College Station, Texas 77843. T ! le Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for ° reproduction of all news dispatchs credited to it or not — otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous Member, of «b. Stud„« P„blie..lon, Bm.rt Jto £?& * U ”“■» F. ,n £ WhlS, B ihUdL.tS.! potss. t.M ,t ClWe Station. Te,-. Co,,e " 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 pounds, was prepared: under court order after environment groups won an injunction in 1970 block ing pipeline construction. Interior Department officials said no action will be taken for at least 45 days on the appli cation of seven oil companies to build the pipeline across Alaska from its North Slope in the Arc tic to a tanker port on its South Coast. The report is limited to dis cussion of the environmental im pact of the proposed pipeline and of various possible alternatives and indicates no decision on the speculation. But it points out that “denial of the companies’ application might lead to an application, how ever, for one of the alternative routes discussed in the state ment.” The statement also points out that construction of a pipeline to carry natural gas from Alaska’s North Slope to the U.S. Midwest is under consideration and would have to follow one of the routes through Canada. “Less environmental cost would result from a single transport corridor accommodating both the gas pipeline and an oil pipeline than from two separate corridors” which would be necessary if an oil pipeline took a different route across Alaska, the impact state ment noted. The report considered several possible routes through Alaska to tanker ports on the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska as well as overland across Alaska and Can ada to the U.S. Midwest. It rejected as not feasible the concept of transporting oil en tirely by tanker from Prudhoe Bay on the frozen Arctic Ocean, The notion of a pipeline to a tanker port on the Bering Sea was described as “questionable.” Comparing pipeline routes through Canada with pipeline- plus-tanker routes through Alas ka, the report found the Alaska route preferable from only two aspects of environmental impact while it considered a Canadian route better from six environ mental viewpoints. The proposed pipeline route to the tanker port of Valdez for which the Alyeska Pipeline Serv ice Co. is seeking a permit, ap peared to be considered the worst choice in terms of the hazard of environmental damage from ac cidental oil spills both on land and at sea. 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The date for the upcoming election has been conveniently set for Tuesday, April 4. The over whelming majority of us will be enjoying Spring Vacation at that time. That means we must make the effort to vote absentee. The dates for absentee balloting are March 16-March 31. Ballots are to be cast at the College Station City Hall. The Student Senate is providing a bus to aid in trans porting students to City Hall and back. I urge you to make the ef fort to vote absentee and make Bruce Clay your city councilman. Bruce Clay LICENSE PLATES Required by April 1 '72 tags available now at MSC on TAMU ckmpus, courtesy of Raymond Buchanan, Brazos Co. Tax Assessor-Collector MSC DESK OPEN 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday thru March 24 Buyers must show registration card forms, or certificate of title and 1971 license receipt. 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