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College Station, Texas
Thursday, October 5, 1972
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Listen Up—
Ags Complain About Everything—Food, Football, Letters, Etc.
battalic
Editor:
This fall I began my eighth
college semester. Since I entered
A&M I have read the Battalion
with interest, although I must
say that at times it hasn’t been
all that interesting. It’s not your
fault, but you see, since you are
the present editor, I am going to
attack you. Logical isn’t it?
Well doesn’t it stand to reason
that if the laundry is attacked
every year, and Wally Groff and
the football team are attacked
each season, and people stab at
the Quack Shack, and CT’s march
on non-regs, and Sbisa is blamed
for the CSC and the Student Sen
ate not doing anything, and bal
lots are cast against the Election
Committee every year, that I
should attack you simply because
everybody attacked Hayden Whit-
sett last year? Isn’t that just
super logical ?
Guess what? This year we pro
duced a new issue. DOWN WITH
BIKE REGISTRATION. UP
WITH BIKE REGISTRATION.
And on top of that we have
DOWN WITH SHUTTLE BUS.
UP WITH SHUTTLE BUS. Well
Mike, here goes: You, you . . .
you, ah, you .... well, you
EDITOR!! YOU EDITOR!
I suppose that attack on you
should start the ball rolling.
You’ll get a dozen letters tomor
row saying the same thing —
everybody cutting each other, and
pretty soon you’ll have to write
an editorial about it.
Can I ask a question ? Has it
solved anything? I honestly don’t
know, and I’m just asking. I’ve
read about A&M’s problems for
quite sometime now, and I’ve
even written a few letters to the
Batt griping like everybody else
—for after all, doesn’t everyone
like to read their name in print?
Such a yearly recurrence of the
same ole’ gripes indicates to me
Texas Rangers
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requiring a minimum basic stan
dard for peace officers was passed
three years ago and law officers
must now have at least 140 hours
of basic training.
The salary of a Ranger, said
Speir, is $845 a month. He com
pared this with the $15 a month
the first Rangers in 1835 received.
Director of the DPS four years,
Col. Speir has been in continuous
service with the department since
1941, except for service in the
Army Air Corps during World
War II.
Speir is a native of Gilmer and
and a graduate and Outstand
ing Alumnus of East Texas State
University. He is a past-president
of the Texas Police Association
and immediate past-president of
the Austin Rotary Club.
that the problems are not being
solved. I’m actually glad to see so
many people are willing to write
to the Batt, and I think that type
of student involvement is healthy,
but gee wiz, we ain’t not gettin’
no solutions!!
Now I realize change doesn’t
occur over night, but I do feel
that A&M would realize some
constructive change if students
would keep writing letters (tons
of letters), yet also get out and
do something about the problem
themselves. Don’t go through the
CSC or Senate, but write letters
directly to the person or persons
responsible for the infringements
of which you are complaining.
Start some petitions, draft some
proposals, print handbills, organ
ize and peaceably attack the
things that bug you, but man,
letters to the Batt aren’t always
all that effective.
Douglas W. Kirk
★ ★ ★
Editor:
Over the past month I have no
ticed a serious lacking here at
Aggieland. It seems to me that
this lacking is one of a peculiar
absence of Aggies.
The “Twelfth Man” seems to
have all but disappeared in the
Classes of ’75 and ’76, and em
barrassingly enough, it has even
disappeared from portions of the
classes of ’74 and ’73. I realize
the lack of a winning football
team has caused this, but even
before we began to be outscored,
the “Twelfth Man” just didn’t
seem to be there.
This however, is not the main
complaint which I have to present
in this letter. Tuesday night when
I went to “Silver Taps,” I could
hardly believe I was at A&M.
Guys walking with their dates
to “the final tribute given an
Aggie . . .” talking and giggling
the whole way. So called “Aggies”
went to this “final tribute . . .”
in jeans and T-shirts. “Aggies”
were lined up along the walkway
where the Ross Volunteers enter,
so that they won’t miss any as
pect of the “show.”
To top all this off, when I
turned to leave, I saw an “Aggie”
holding up a cassette recorder,
recording the entire “perform
ance.” Is this how an Aggie re
veres another Aggie who has
passed away ? Is this the best we
can offer a departed Aggie—
A side show which everyone comes
to watch at 10:30 some evening?
To me “Silver Taps” is the es
sence of Aggieland, one of the
symbols of the unifying “SPIRIT
OF AGGIELAND” that we pos
sess as Aggies. Once this disap
pears, the “Aggie” at A&M will
be forgotten and TAMU will just
be another university—not sig
nificant, not special, just one in
the crowd. These symptoms of a
dying Spirit are evident; the ques
tion is, “Can we save it or is it
already too late?”
Mel Richmond ’74
Mark Fitte ’74
★ ★ ★
Editor:
It is natural for everyone to
put the blame on the quarterback
when a team loses. After a bril
liant high school career and a
fine freshman season, Lex James
has never tasted success on the
varsity in three years.
In those years he has taken rid
icule and insults from the fans
after every losing effort. . Sat
urday night all I heard were
shouts and insults directed at
James. James has excellent tal
ent but has never had a chance
to use it due to very poor block
ing in the line. Even the best
quarterback in football couldn’t
get the Aggies anywhere with
the way the blocking has been.
Considering the injuries he has
received in the past three years,
James should be commended for
the courage he’s displayed just
by lining up behind the line. Lex
James and the whole team have
a lot to prove in the next few
weeks on way to the Cotton Bowl
and show the students, alumni,
and the fans just what they are
really made of and what kind
of team they can be.
Joe Hatcher, ’76
★ ★ ★
Editor:
Have you noticed how there
are no photographs in the 1972
Aggieland of people happily eat
ing in Sbisa dining hall ? It’s ap
parently not one of those fondly
remembered experiences one
would wish to see in the yearbook
in the years to come.
The quality of the food is, to
be blunt, consistently poor. I do
not wish to dwell upon that sub
ject, because I have just returned
from evening meal and I don’t
want to antagonize that which
my stomach is attempting to di
gest.
I do want to make public some
interesting experiences and ob
servations:
In the past month I have lost
some thirty pounds. True, I do
not regret the loss, as I was for
merly fat and now I am merely
plump, however I have not gone
on any conscious diet. It sort of
just happened. The weight loss
began my first week here, as a
matter of fact, and continues.
The pint bottle of Pepto-Bis-
mol my roommate picked up a
few weeks ago is nearly gone.
We’ll need more, and perhaps the
food people should take the funds
it doesn’t spend on the breakfasts
I miss and re-imburse us for what
we spend on the Pepto-Bismol.
Or maybe convert one of the col
ored water dispensers into a Pep
to-Bismol dispenser, for I’m sure
that we aren’t the only sufferers
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to survive in this manner.
Or try this experiment: Before
you fill your nice clean bowl
with salad, run your fingers along
the bottom of the dish. Chances
are you won’t feel a completely
smooth, plastic surface. True, the
material the bowls are made of
are soft enough to be scratched
by forks, but take a closer look;
chances are some of those “im-
Nixon To Win
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Barcelona; Mike Jackson, Monaco
II & Monaco I; Tommy Potthoff
and Bry Loyd, all other off-cam
pus areas, and Sharp—846-8237.
On-campus chairmen are Bon-
ney Jean Mann, Krueger-Dunn;
C. H. Long, Corps area; Jim De-
lony, Corps area; and Dave Su
Ajda, civilian area.
Canvassing should be done by
the end of the week and literature
should be distributed by the mid
dle of next week.
“We urge all students to vote
and whoever they’re working for,
whether it’s Nixon or McGovern,
to get involved because it’s for
the good of the country as well
as themselves,” Sharp said.
When asked why he supported
Nixon, Sharp answered: “I’m sup
porting him because I think he
more adequately represents the
beliefs and attitudes of this coun
try, rather than his opponent.
“Although you can never have
an ideal candidate, President Nix
on has shown this nation much
progress in many areas, including
the ones outlined above.
perfections” will turn out to be
specks of food. Sterilized by the
super hot water of the dishwash
ing machines, but they are specks
of old food, just the same. Comfy
nests for airborne bacteria to set
tle into.
I don’t think the food service
will change much because of this
one letter. That’s a pity. I feel
that I shall just have to endure
it till the time I move off campus
and can poison myself by myself,
to my own satisfaction.
Harry M. Itzkowitz
★ ★ ★
Editor:
Bill Thompson’s recent letter
concerning the bicycle vs pedes
trian hassle is obviously the re
sult of biased thinking. According
to him, any mishap involving a
bicycle and a pedestrian is totally
the fault of the bicyclist. This is
not true. Pedestrians are also re
sponsible for the traffic problems
on the sidewalks and malls. We
have been involved in a bicycle-
pedestrian accident in which the
pedestrian was at fault. He apol
ogized and there were no hurt
feelings.
Furthermore, Bill Thompson’s
“solution” indicates he did not
give the “bicycle problem” seri
ous thought. How can he possibly
conclude that only unregistered
bicycles present a problem ? Clear
ly, he has no way of supporting
this statement.
We could go on all day tear
ing his “logic” apart, since there
is very little logic to his think
ing. It’s this type of attitude that
rarely produces any “practical
solution’
where.
to any proll
Kathy %
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sonable programs offered by his
opponent. Instead I have seen
policy fluctuations and negative
rhetoric against the present ad
ministration and even against seg
ments of his own party.”
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