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I X Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Thursday, April 20, 1972 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Eatje Listen up Local politics debated tsTTE-UD AL-'-' c*jrs Tti'S “Sorry, but we civilian students will be pretty busy this week!” Editor: To what depths will an Aggie stoop to defeat another Aggie ? One of this university’s students has apparently become so blinded by political ambtion that no “gut- tactics” have been spared in his attempts to discredit Rep. Bill Presnal, current representative from this district. This student has used “brush- fire,” hit-and-run, back-stabbing stunts not to show his qualities, but instead to tear down one of the most effective representatives in Austin. These tactics only go to prove that Mike Essemeyer is not mature enough, neither per sonally nor politically, to repre sent this district. Since his many sham techniques have failed, he has even resorted to attacks on Rep. Presnal’s immediate family. How low can a candidate get? The student candidate has yet to come out strongly for any thing. His entire verbal campaign has been based on Negativism. Is this the type of leadership that we want to represent us ? I doubt it. But I must honestly concede that he has run a good advertis ing campaign. Since most of my classmates do not have a lot of money, I can only wonder where any student can get the funds necessary to finance such things as billboards, placards, bumper stickers, and ads. I take this A&M student’s tac tics as an insult to my school and to my intelligence. Therefore, I sincerely recommend that we re elect Rep. Bill Presnal to the House of Representatives. Stephen L. Baker ’72 ★ ★ ★ Editor: Last Saturday, April 15, a group of five volunteer Faren- thold campaign workers, of which I was one, went to Manor East mall for the purpose of distrib uting Farenthold literature and bumper stickers. We arrived at 9:30 a.m. and had been working for approximately thirty minutes when a man drove up and let eight junior high school children out of the car. These children were well stocked with Barnes bumper stickers. I was standing outside the mall entrance; there fore, I was a perfect target to be asked if I wanted a bumper sticker. I said, “no thanks.” The little boy said, “I don’t care ei ther.” “Why are you doing it then?” I asked. And he replied, “I’m getting paid for it.” Need less to say, I wondered about the sincerity of Mr. Barnes’ cam paign. At 10:30, we received another surprise. A man from Cecil Cul pepper’s office arrived on the scene with some disappointing news. We were on private prop erty without the owner’s permis sion, and we were to leave imme diately. The Farenthold volun teers left, but we did not stop campaigning. The group went downtown where we were well received. We do not question the legality of Mr. Culpepper’s request, but we do question the request on an ethical basis. The Farenthold vol unteers were denied the right to campaign for their candidate while the children paid to cam paign for Barnes were allowed to remain. As long as this discrimi nation exists, Farenthold support ers will have to obtain informa tion elsewhere. Sheila Wilson BUSIER - JONES AGf REAL ESTATE • INSURANT F.H.A.—Veterans and Conventional! FARM & HOME SAVINGS ASSOCIATE! Home Office: Nevada, Mo. 3523 Texas Ave. (in Ridgecrest) New courses are offered by Philosophy Dept. Sheriff’s changes, unusual methods improvements in mark jails SAN FRANCISCO </P> _ The city that brought you the flower children now brings you its new sheriff who: 1. Sports a peace symbol on his gold badge. 2. Offers to rent “rooms” at the county jail at $10 a night so the public can see what it’s like to be behind bars. 3. Sponsors rock concerts to raise money for jail inmates, and dances on the stage h'msclf. 4. Makes a surprise midnight visit to the jail, declares it “dis gusting as hell,’Land launches re forms. pm “Suppor Your Local Sheriff” took a new twist when former San Francisco policeman Richard D. Hongisto, 35, took office four months ago after defeating a 60- year-old incumbent who had held the job for 15 years. Hongisto quit the police force in 1970 after 10 years to work as a television reporter. He says he decided while lying in bed one Sunday morning last July that he could be sheriff. With the support of young people, liberals, minorities and the city’s politically organized homosexuals, Hongisto won over three contenders who split the law-and-order vote. He received 36 per cent of the vote. Like his badge, his campaign posters featured the peace sym bol, and he described his oppo nents as “hawks who were trying to solve social problems in the United States with more money, more weapons and more men. It hasn’t worked in Vietnam and it won’t work here.” On March 26, the sheriff raised $14,000 for jail inmates by throw ing a rock concert. Hongisto danced on the stage in a pin striped business suit, two-some performances with various women partners, until 2 a.m. Proceeds from these “jailhouse rocks” as he calls them are ear marked to buy TV sets and other recreational equipment for the jails. Hongisto says he donates a third of his $26,337 annual salary to a youth group, as well as $150 a month to rent a store-front in the Haight-Ashbury district, once the heart of the hippie culture. Here he plans to sell art objects made by jail inmates who will get the money when they are re leased. “I’m a liberal, maybe even a radical,” the sheriff said in an interview during a typical 14- hour work day. He was dressed in a grey flannel suit and vest that made him look more like a banker than a sheriff. “No doubt conservative people see things differently than I do. But the fact is we’re getting many things accomplished, and that’s the point,” Hongisto said. All crime fighting in San Fran cisco is done by the city police department. The 320-man sheriff’s office runs the jails, provides court bailiffs and serves legal papers. The new sheriff’s major efforts to date have been for the 1,200 inmates in the county’s two jails. Hongisto has begun a new drug counseling program, instituted employment and psychiatric coun seling for all inmates and a venereal disease treatment pro gram for the women. He has eliminated censorship of prison ers’ mail and ordered deputies to ignore hair length when choosing- trusties. His own dark hair is cut medium-length. Hongisto has doubled medical care, increased jail classroom hours from two to 60 a week and says, “we’re grinding away at a dental program.” The sheriff surprised his depu ties Jan. 17 wtih an unannounced midnight inspection of the wom en’s jail. Because he took a re porter, San Franciscans found out that overcrowding was forc ing women to sleep on the floors of cells without toilet facilities. The sheriff also invited report ers along when he ate Easter Sunday dinner in a cell with in mates. An anonymous donor’s $3,500 provided steaks in place of the usual Sunday fare of fish- sticks or hotdogs. Hongisto says his aim was to publicize his contention that pris oners cannot be fed on the present daily allowance of 68 cents per inmate. With public support, he hopes city officials will approve his request for a budget with $1.3 million more than last year and a daily food allowance of $1.08. Hongisto admits his style is a cross between Hollywood and Haight-Ashbury. But he says his aims are deadly serious: publicizing the need to reform jails and the criminal justice system. Mayor Joseph L. Alioto and other politicians have been cau tious not to rain on the sheriff’s parade. “The sheriff is dedicated to more efficient management of our jails,” says Alioto. “We intend to give him every assistance . . . and the people must not be afraid to experiment.” A candidate for a Ph.D. in criminology from the University of California, Hongisto proudly points out that all his newly ap pointed aides have degrees, in cluding the city’s first black undersheriff. Separated five months from his law student wife, Hongisto lives alone in a cluttered two-story walk-up. Calhoun named president - elect of ASEE group Dr. John C. Calhoun Jr., vice president for academic affairs at A&M, is the new president-elect of the American Society for En gineering Education, Dr. Harold Bolz, ASEE president, announced. The TAMU official was elected in nationwide balloting by indi viduals belonging to the 13,000- member organization. Cbe Battalion m, a student newspaper at Texas liege Station, Texas, daily except f, and holiday periods, Septembe Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student luriters only. The Battalion is a non-tax- supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enter prise eilited and operated by students as a university and com in unity newspaper. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M, is published in College Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and holiday periods, September through May, and once a week during summer school. LETTERS POLICY Letters to the editor must be typed, double-spaced, and no more than 300 words in length. 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Rights herein an College or V eterlnary of Agriculture; and Layne Kruse, student. Servic t ranc Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San EDITOR HAYDEN WHITSETT Managing Editor Doug Dilley News Editor Sue Davis Sports Editor John Curylo Assistant Sports Editor Bill Henry New courses for junior and senior honors students and grad uate students have been initiated in the Philosophy and Humani ties Department for the fall se mester. The two new courses and an additional section in the junior- level Philosophy of Science were announced by Dr. Manuel M. Da venport, department head. New courses include Philosophy 497H and 631. A one to three cred it hour offering, 497H will allow honors students to pursue inde pendent work with philosophy professors on an individual ba sis. The problem of religious knowl edge, a three hour graduate course, will investigate various theories of truth and meaning of religious beliefs including empir ical, psychological, literal, sym bolic and existential theories. Da venport will instruct the Tues- day-Thursday 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. course. Philosophy 305 (Philosophy of Science) will have Monday-Wed- nesday-Friday at 2 p.m. and Tues- day-Thursday 12:30 p.m. sections, taught by Dr. Stanley R. Carpen ter and Hugh J. McCann, respec tively. Other departmental offerings this fall are Near Eastern Reli gions, Philosophy of Religion, Modern Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind and Mathe matical Logic. All are three-hour courses. The last two are for graduate students. FOR BEST RESULTS TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIED l&M, T Jlitatio i jlor Co! lived a first abilitai Need A Place For Your Date To Slay Civilian Weekend? 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