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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, March 29, 1972
THE BATTALION
Listen up
Quad details
not racist or bigoted
Editor:
I would like to reply to the let
ter by Giro J. Nava printed March
24. Mr. Nava appears to believe
that the harassment during a
quad detail is "... a celebration
of bigotry, hate and racism.” I
have never seen a quad detail
which was anything other than
good natured fun for all parties
involved. A member of the Corps
may be quaded for any reason;
birthday, after receiving an
award, revenge for a previous
event, 72 days before Final Re
view for all of the class of ’72,
or why not all Mexicans (Mexi
can-Americans) on San Jacinto
Day? In any event, the cadet is
not quaded because he is disliked.
I feel sure that no Corps member
gives much thought to the Texas
War for Independence while quad-
ing a “Mexican.” Who cares if
the war was racial or territorial
or who fought for Sam Houston ?
I feel that a cadet who is never
quaded is disliked and I don’t be
lieve that any quad detail is
“ . . . a celebration of bigotry,
hate and racism.”
Raymond Loomis ’71
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Editor:
There seems to me to be three
strong reasons brought out in
your reply to the Tessies in
Thursday’s (Mar 23) Batt, for
the silencing of editorial comment
in the Listen up column.
The first is quite obvious to
any halfway neutral observer. It
was your plain and overt rude
ness to the point of cruelty. The
letter very plainly showed shock
on behalf of the Tessies that the
Senate voted to include only A&M
coeds as applicants for Aggie
Sweetheart. Evidently the Public
Relations committee has retired,
when people so closely involved
in an issue must use the Batt,
which admittedly must present a
neutral account, as their only
source of information. Instead of
making up for this information
gap with a diplomatic and in
formative reply, hence showing
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
some trace of knowledge about
human nature and journalistic re
sponsibility, you reply with cute
metaphorical phrases with cutting
overtones. It can only hurt every
one involved, unfortunately, in the
long run, including yourself.
The second was one of your
infamous double cuts. “The only
reason the sweetheart was trans
ferred away this year is because
the senate didn’t have the intelli
gence to vote that way in the
previous years . . .” This really
tells the girls who asked for rea
sons a hell of a lot. Surely the
reason was due to the greater
number of single women on cam
pus this year, the first year to
be a significant fraction of TWU’s
enrollment. It’s tolerable to be
cute with our own student’s let
ters, but look at the impression
you have left them with our stu
dent government. In addition, by
expressing your opinion here, you
have left them with an ad homi-
num remark that is a lack of
compassion and feeling for others
and is of course very fallacious
in both content and intent.
The third is that you show
yourself to be unqualified in
knowledge to represent by cor
respondence our University. The
“old song” which is soon to be
your alma mater of sorts, does
not begin with “We are the Ag
gies.” One can only visualize the
editor of the school newspaper in
the stands at a football game
humming the verse to the school
song while the rest of the student
body sings, until we get to the
chorus, where he can join in be
cause the words are easier.
It seems that this is the proper
time to break social relations
with TWU. It is too bad that this
necessity should occur with hard
feelings after the many years of
social fellowship between the two
schools, simply because of a lack
of diplomacy by student leader
ship and an iconoclastic drive to
be cute by our student editor.
Randy Durham
And I have exactly the experience
the Board needs, the experience
of youth ... of knowing, feeling,
and understanding things the
other six members of the Board
are cut off from by age. Being
18 in 1952 or 1932 does not quali
fy to understand the problems of
youth in 1972.
I may be better prepared to
be a Board Member than older
men with longer views. How
many of them have crisscrossed
48 states and Canada, traveled
thousands of miles in Latin coun
tries, gone to Boys State in Wash
ington, attended Fish Camp? I
have.
My experience is up-to-date. I
graduated from Consolidated last
year. Elect me this year.
Jim Cox
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Sorry about the bit about the
song, my mistake. But one thing.
Listen up is not supposed to be
“neutral,” and it isn’t.—Ed.
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“Frankly, I couldn’t think of a thing to say!”
Goodbye!
If anyone is around to read this blurb, the Batt staff
extends best wishes for a good Easter Holiday. We recom
mend that you sleep, shave at least for church, don’t drink
too much, and get back here in one piece. We don’t like to
have Silver Taps right after Easter.
Editor:
I am Jim Cox, political science
major running for Place 6 in the
A&M Consolidated School Elec
tion April 1. I need the support
of all people who believe youth
should be represented on school
boards. I need a campaign man
ager in each dorm. Call 846-5942
to volunteer.
About 2000 students are eligible
to vote. They can help elect me
by voting absentee at the Super
intendent’s Office, corner of Jer
sey and Anderson, until March 28.
Some people say Aggies should
n’t vote in this election. I dis
agree. Who knows the needs of
education better than a student
who spent a dozen years in pub
lic school not long ago?
Some say Aggies shouldn’t vote
because they pay no taxes. Every
Aggie supports this community
economically. Ever notice the tax
on a meal? a book? Ever pay
rent? utilities? Ever get a slip
under your windshield wiper?
Some people say things about
me, too: I’m too young, too in
experienced. I disagree. My youth
is an asset because it would give
the Board direct access to the
thoughts and feelings of students.
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