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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Tuesday, March 21, 1972
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Listen up
Engineering
Center under fire
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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PEANUTS
ed against the total number of
registered voters in College Sta
tion that percentage drops to less
than 10%. If all persons who have
the right to vote, but for some
reason failed to register, are con
sidered we find that fewer than
5% of the people in College Sta
tion put a man in office to deter
mine policy for all of us.
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
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