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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Friday, September 29, 1972 Listen Up— CADET SLOUCH by jim Earie Bicycle Registration: Pro And Con “It’s the least we could do for campus visitors!” Colleges Of Engineering, Science, Agriculture Hold Career Day Here The Colleges of Engineering, Agriculture and Science expect 5,000 high school and junior col lege students, teachers and par ents for the annual “Career Day” Saturday. Deans of each college also in vite TAMU students, friends and parents to participate. Engineering and agriculture exhibits will open at 8 a.m. in the new Zachry Engineering Center. The displays will continue through 4 p.m. Coordinating that pro gram are Engineering Asst. Dean J. G. McGuire and Agriculture Asst. Dean Richard Potts. The College of Science opens its program at 9 a.m. Coordina tor Dr. Gary D. Doolen said the exhibits will be on the basement and first floor of the new Biology Building until 3 p.m. TAMU faculty and students will be available at both build ings to answer questions. Editor: I applaud your Batt Editorial of Wednesday, Sept. 27, about bike registration being “a two- sided coin.” I have been feeling, every since the Ad-Hoc Commit tee released fliers encouraging boycott of bicycle registration earlier this week, that someone should tell students about the other side of the story; your edi torial did that quite well. There is one other point I would like to make. As you said in the editorial, bike riders and other students can decide at a later date whether additional money should go to pay for bike trails in ad dition to the bike racks that are being purchased with the initial funds; but at the present, the registration should not be boy cotted. My point is this: that the paths are not exclusively for the bi cyclists. I have not found a bi cyclist yet who feels like he needs to pay money for bike trails. On the other hand, I have talked to a number of pedestrian students who would like to see bicyclists using bike trails instead of side walks. I have seen a couple of students with bike tread marks on their legs where they were hit. I have heard several complain about almost being hit. Thus, the trails may not be so much for the cyclists as for the safety of the pedestrians. It is a fact that the number of students, and therefore pedestri ans, on this campus will increase for the next several years. It is also probable that the number of bicycles will continue to increase. Given these facts, pedestrian safety, which is a minor issue now, will increase in importance. It hardly seems fair to charge the pedestrians in order for them to be safe on the sidewalks. It is somewhat more logical to charge the cyclists. As you mentioned, there may be alternative solutions which should be examined. But the prob lem should be solved one way or another (for ignoring it is not one of the reasonable alterna tives), and any solution is likely to cost money, since the sidewalks alone cannot permanently handle the incx-eases in both pedestrian and bicycle traffic. Bulletin Board SUNDAY McGovern-Shriver Voter Reg istration Rally will be at 1 p.xn. at the Bethune Women’s Club, Houston Street, Bx-yan. Ralph Yarborough is the keynote speak er. Refreshments will be served and literature on the campaign will be available. For further in formation contact Steve Dunkel- berg, county coordinator, at 846- 8538. The Unitarian Fellowship will meet at 7 p.m. at 305 Old College Road South to hear Dr. Maneul Davenpor-t, head of the Philoso phy Department, speak on “the Morality of Politics.” Club will meet at the “Little Red School House” 3737 East 29th St., Bx-yan. Margaret Jabulik will speak. The Aggie Cinema is to meet in Room 2C of the MSC at 7:30 p.m. M.A.S.H., the cinema’s up coming special attraction, will be discussed. The Camera Committee will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the MSC Assembly Room to hear John West speak on spox-ts photogra phy. Cameras, films and process ing will also be covered. The Industrial Education Wives The Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences Wives Club will meet at 705 Inwood Drive, Bryan, 7:30 p.m. to elect officers. Come for volleyball games and refresh ments. Pi Tau Sigma is having a smok er in the Birch Room of the MSC at 7 p.m. TUESDAY Ag Eco Club will meet in Rooms 112-113 of the Plant Sci ence Building at 7:30 p.m. Environmental Awareness Com mittee will meet in Room 3C of the MSC at 9 p.m. Wildlife Biology Association will meet in the Biology Science Building East, Room 113 at 7:30 p.m. Dr. Clai'k Hubbs, from the Department of zoology at the University of Texas, will speak on the rare and endangered fishes of the southwest. Cbe Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student irriters only. The Battalion is a non tax- supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising: Services, Inc, New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles. MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association The Associated Collegiate Press LETTERS POLICY Letters to the editor must be typed, double-spaced, and no more than 300 words in length. They must be signed, although the 'writer’s name will be withheld by arrangement with the editor. Address correspondence to Listen Up, The Battalion, Room 217, Sendees Building, College Station, Texas 77813. Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester; $6 per school subject ales tax. Advertising The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, year; $6.50 per full year. All subscriptions subject to 5% sales tax. 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EDITOR MIKE RICE Managing Editor Larry Marshall News Editor Rod Speer Women’s Editor Janet Landers Sports Editor Bill Heni-y Assistant Sports Editor Kevin Coffey GIG ’EM AGGIES G I G E M G I G E M POT - TOPS Handcarved Mahogany Great New Gift Idea! Two Sizes Regular or Elongated $14.95 Hanover Building Materials 1512 Finfeather 823-9096 It is interesting to note that students in the past have, upon occasion, accused the administra tion of failing to plan for the future. On this occasion, the Ad ministration is planning for a problem which will become very i-eal in, say, about the next five years. The Ad Hoc Committee should think about this fact very seriously. Don Webb ’74 ★ ★ ★ Editor: I must disagree with your edi torial on bike registration in the Sept. 27 issue of The Battalion. The main controversy, I have found, is not where the money is going but that it is compulsoxy. Students on this campus have had compulsory fees stuffed down their throats, and they’i'e damn tired of it. If the registration fee was a voluntary thing, I think a lot more students would be willing to register their bikes with the po lice (that’s a $1 fee). The addi tional $2 is pure BS. If the idea is to get the people who use the facilities to pay for them, well and good. But if so, then how can the university justi fy a compulsory student activities fee ? That fee goes for all sox-ts of things most people don’t use. In fact, they can’t use everything that fee goes for — the facilities wouldn’t begin to hold 15,00 stu dents. You think we need security for bicycles. Right. We do. But leav ing your bike in a rack overnight is a really good way to lose it. We’re not going to have bike security without a tight, well- organized patrol of the bike areas. You think that the necessity for a bike path could be allevi ated by a temporary system! That doesn’t make any sense at all. The best that a temporary system could be expected to do is to allow time for a bike path system to be built. Of course, this may take a little time, as Gen. Leudecke (who is in charge of such projects) feels that a bike path system would be tx-ouble, as it would take away 500 parking spaces. Your last point is really off. If you think that funds collected by registi-ation can be allocated after they’re taken, then you aren’t a very good student of the system. The funds will be spent exactly as the administration wishes to spend them, and the students will be left out in the cold. Stephen Goble (unregistered) cycle path system. Officials are, however, looking for a temporary parking solution which would relieve a large number of bicycle problems. —Ed. ★ ★ ★ Editor: Your editorial in Wednesday’s Battalion asking for an end to the bike registration boycott ap pears a bit forced and rehashes what has already been thrown at the student body. Your weak argument disinte grates with the last sentence, “We can work out details for spending funds as students and cyclists wish them to be spent later.” I have seen many changes on this campus in the past five years but even partial student control of the expenditure of funds is not one of them. Why should the administration heed the demands of students once they have the registration fees collected and safely lost in the mysterious Coke Building? The one fact that has emerged is that the university has spent or is obligated to spend a total of $25,225 for bike racks and de cided to rip off the students for it. The security of bicycles argu ment has just been used as a smoke sci'een. One town registered my bike for 25 cents and I received a plate six times the size of the TAMU plate. Houston charges $1.00, most universities charge $1.00 to $1.50, and College Station only charges $0.50. The students have gotten a mouthful of feathers from your two-sided coin, both sides of which are tails. F. H. Huddleston ’72 Steve Brooks ’72 Stephan Krug ’73 FOR BEST RESULTS TRY BATTALION CLASSIR The university has not spent $25,225 for bike racks, but only about $15,000. May we re-assert bike racks cannot be paid for by the State of Texas—by law. All funds must be collected like automobile fees—separate from state monies. —Ed. PAWN LOAN Money Loaned On Am Of Value. Quick Cash For Am Emergency. See Us For Ready CaJ Today. Texas State Credit Pawn Shop 1014 Texas Ave., Bryn Weingarten Center Aggie Soothe PS: VV Redmond Terrace Drugs Phone 846-1113 1402 Hwy. 6-South College Station, Texas Prescriptions, Etc. 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