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by Jim Earle
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VEP Releases Statistics For
Voter Registration In South
Listen Up—
C. C. Writer
Blasts Ag Fans
ATLANTA, Ga. <A>)—The Voter
Education Project, Inc. (VEP)
said Tuesday more than two and
one-half million blacks of voting:
age were unregistered in 11
Southern states as of the begin
ning of 1972.
The VEP said there were 3,448,-
5(35 registered black voters in the
southern states in 1971, compared
Bulletin Board
TONIGHT
Weightlifting Club will meet
in G. Rollie White Coliseum
Weightroom at 7p.m. Informa
tion concerning upcoming Olym
pic and powerlifting meets will
be released. New members are
welcome.
Society for the Advancement
of Management will meet in
Room 202 of Francis Hall at 7:30
p.m. The club's trip to Houston
will be discussed.
Tennis Club will elect officers
at 7:30 p.m. in Rooms 3C and
3D of the Memorial Student Cen
ter. Dues of $4 will be collected.
For further information call Leo
Farrar, 845-1178.
MSC Recreation Committee’s
Mixed Group and Aggie Wiye’s
with 3,357,000 in 1970. The actual
number of voting age blacks in
1971 was listed as 5,997,064 for
those states.
White voting age population in
1971 was listed as 27,385,871, with
17,378,394 whites registered in
the Southern states. The VEP
said there were 10,985,000 white
registered voters in 1970.
VEP statistics show the great
est number of voting age blacks
in Georgia, with 700,519, and
Texas, with 844,137.
In Georgia, 68.76 per cent of
the white voting age population
was registered, compared with
64.24 per cent of the black voting
age population. Texas had 56.76
of the white voting age popula
tion registered, compared with
68.16 per cent of voting age
blacks.
In every state with the excep
tions of Texas and Arkansas, the
percentage of white registered
voters is larger than that of
blacks. In Arkansas, 80.89 per
cent of voting age blacks are
registered as compared with 61.39
per cent of voting age whites.
Extreme examples are Ala
bama, where whites are register
ed at a rate of 78.52 per cent,
Group Bridge will meet at 7:30 while black registeration is 54.68,
p.mT 8ft the second floor of the
MSC.
THURSDAY
San Antonio Hometown Club
will make final plans for their
first party at 7:30 p.m. in Room
146 of the Physics Building.
MSC Radio Committee will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 2C of
the MSC.
Texas A&M Scholastic Service
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Lounge
A between Fowler and Hughes
Hall for an organizational meet
ing.
and North Carolina, where 50.60
per cent of whites are registered
compared to 44.38 per cent of
blacks.
Over-all in the South, the av
erage rate of voting age whites
registered to vote is 64.97 per
cent as compared to the black
rate of 58.61 per cent.
The states included in the re
port are Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mis
sissippi, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and
Virginia.
Editor:
I really don’t expect to see my
letter in your column after read
ing the Oct. 3rd Battalion. That
is, since the paper was so totally
biased this may be too jolting to
print!
But I wanted all of you who
were involved in the printing to
know that I felt the hwole paper
was disgusting concerning your
attitude toward the Aggie foot
ball team.
And Mr. B. Cathey, in your
letter you spoke of how tired you
were of being embarrassed. Don’t
you think the guys who go out
on Kyle Field during spring train
ing, two-a-day workouts in Au
gust, not to mention everyday
from Sept.-Nov. and Sunday
meetings, working their butts
off, care that they have not been
winning ? ? ?
All of you who are cutting down
the team probably don’t know
what it’s like to go through all
the training and workouts and
then not be able to discover what
the problem is that is causing
you to be defeated. You think
they don’t care Mr. Cathey that
they are also being humiliated
and not just you, well you don’t
know what’s going on.
I’m so tired of hearing the stu
dent body cut down everything
about the Aggie team. Surpris
ingly enough, A&M fans, just
like any other school, will be on
the old band wagon when the
team is winning, but boy if they
aren’t, all they get is redicule.
And the 200'% effort you ask
them to give is damn hard to
achieve when, as it appears in
The Battalion, the “fans” are not
behind them. All the bull about
tradition and Aggies backing
whether winning or losing seems
to have flown out the window . . .
too—bad.
Well, I have confidence in them,
and believe me they’ll be back,
but it’s sad that when they do,
it’s going to be winning for them
selves and not the true-blue Aggie
fans. I know if I were out there
playing the best I was capable
of playing and earned a victory,
I sure wouldn’t be sharing that
victory with “band-wagon fans.”
I am well aware the majority
of the student body at A&M does
not share my feelings about the
Aggie football team bpt J did
want to make them known to you.
I am married to a football
player, a member of the losing
Aggie Team, and it hurts so bad
to see his disappointment after
a lost game. It hurts so bad be
cause he cares so much. When
people like Blake Cathey are up
in the stands giving his super
advice, I sometimes wonder why
that Aggie football player does
care.
C. C.
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Editor:
You may remember that while
you were taking pictures of the
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on Friday
night there was a guy up front
dancing. He was up there because
he enjoys dancing to the music
and because someone else had told
him it would be okay to dance in
front.
We can testify that he was not
on any drug, nor was he drunk-
hard as that may be for many
people to believe.
But what is really hard to be
lieve is the hassle this guy has
been through because he did what
he felt like doing. Any place else
no one would have thought twice
about someone dancing at a rock
concert and he would not have
been the only one doing it, either.
We don’t think everyone should
have to get up and dance, but we
do feel someone should at least
be able to do something as harm
less as dancing without getting
a big hassle.
Gregory Z. Smith
Harry E. Palmer
★ ★ ★
Editor
This is a suggestion in regard
to the purchasing of tickets for
football game.
My date and I waited for one-
and-one-half hours to get two
tickets to the Army game, while
students ahead of us were buying
up to fifty tickets at a time so
that they and their friends could
sit together. This practice puts a
terrible inconvenience on those
students who simply wish to pur
chase a couple of tickets and go
to their classes.
Why couldn’t there be a special
“express lane” for students who
wish to buy up to four tickets
only. This would alleviate the
time element in purchasing tick
ets for all the students, and allow
them to make it to their classes
on time.
Betsy D. Fach
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