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College Station, Texas
Tuesday, January 23, 1^73
THE BATTALION
Listen Up —
Exchange Store, Registrar Rules Hit
Editor:
I am incensed about the fact
that with all of the publicity in
recent years .concerning the pres
ervation of our natural resources,
our Exchange Store still requires
that each purchase (regardless of
size) be placed in a paper bag.
Think of the number of stu
dents who made purchases dur
ing the rush at the beginning of
each semester. How many stu
dents visit the Exchange Store
several times during the week
and receive a bag each time?
The environmental questions
notwithstanding, think of the
money the Exchange Store could
save by not having such a re
quirement.
Bob Thomas
Chuck Cargill, manager of the
Exchange Store, doesn’t want to
think of all the theft which could
occur without the use of the
bags.—Ed.
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Editor:
I had an experience last Mon
day which puzzled me consider
ably and I am sure it puzzled
hundreds of other students who
had the same experience.
Although I had paid my reg
istration fees within the alloted
time, I faced the first day of
classes without a schedule. The
Registrar’s Office informed me
that it would give me a Xerox
copy of the original for a dollar
and if I wanted a copy of my
fee receipt, I would have to go to
the Fiscal Department and pay
another dollar.
I realize that in a school this
large unfortunate things like lost
schedules are inevitable. Even
though we students are given lit
tle or no mercy if payment for
our fees is one day late, I can be
understanding when my schedule
does not arrive on time.
But why must I pay a dollar
for a piece of paper hardly worth
a nickel, especially when I have
done nothing wrong?
Is this an example of higher
education or big business ?
The Registrar’s Office ex
plained, “That’s just what we
charge.”
Steve Luse
University Registrar Bob La
cey says that the Fiscal Office
spends extra money to mail out
schedules via first class to stu
dents’ local spring addresses. If
they are undeliverable, the sched
ules are returned to the Fiscal
Office where students may find
them. Otherwise, duplicates cost
a dollar apiece, he said.—Ed.
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Editor:
After reading Mr. D’Abadie’s
letter, I felt I had to write in and
show the other side of the coin.
For three years I lived in Pur-
year Hall. If it weren’t for the
good friends I made there, I
would have left A&M three and
one-half years ago. I remember
the nights when I’d come back
from the library at 11:30 after
being there all night. I remem
ber those lonely weekends I spent
in my room, or somewhere else,
when everybody else went home.
I remember the hours of TV
watching and basketball playing
I did, instead of having some
thing better to do (with the ex
ception of studying).
I bet you could go over there
tonight and find many of the
same examples.
In my opinion, some of that
lonely time could be spent in a
fraternity, as long as studies
aren’t interfered with. The more
activities that would be planned
because of these fraternities
would break the bordedom of
A&M. And don’t tell me people
can’t get bored here because of
so much offered. I, as well as
many students, have seen the
parking lots on weekends and
the faces of Ags who receive or
don’t receive letters in their
boxes.
People need to be involved.
Not only in the Corps, CSC, Ro-
WASHINGTON <A>>—The man
who said he listened to wire
tapped conversations from Dem
ocratic headquarters testified
Monday he thought it was legal
because his orders came from
the security chief of President
Nixon’s reelection committee.
“Weren’t you suspicious that
some hanky-panky was going on,
that something was wrong when
he told you to use an assumed
name?” Judge John J Sirica
asked the witness, Alfred C.
Baldwin, III, at the Watergate
trial.
“Not the use of an assumed
name, no sir, your honor,” said
Baldwin, a former FBI agent who
deo Club, dorm councils and all
the other countless organizations,
but in something new and differ
ent. Different in the sense that
it is not peculiar to A&M.
It is my belief that A&M will
be like TU, socially, in 40 or 50
years. This will be after you and
I have been long gone from A&M
and maybe this earth. Fraterni
ties aren’t hideous and evil. They
accomplish worthwhile goals and
represent a university well.
John Rapp
once taught police science.
Baldwin said he used the alias
Bill Johnson at McCord’s direc
tion.
Baldwin, the prosecution’s star
witness, was on the stand for the
third day as the third week of
trial began for G. Gordon Liddy
and James W. McCord Jr.,
charged with conspiracy, burg
lary and illegal wiretapping in a
case involving a break-in at Dem
ocratic headquarters last June.
The judge questioned Baldwin
out of the hearing of the jury at
the completion of cross-examina
tion by McCord’s lawyer, Gerald
Alch.
The judge said he felt it his
duty to clear up questions.
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In the spring of 1972, Richard
M. Nixon, in a simple sentence
of 12 words, provided his own
theme for the next four years
and, quite possibly, for his place
in American history.
The President was talking
about his trip to China—a trip
that symbolized the end of
China’s isolation from a large
part of the world community.
"There are things I can do that
no one else can do,” the Presi
dent said in describing his jour
ney to Peking.
What Richard Nixon said
about himself in that connection
also applies to his role in ap
proaching three major problems:
1—The organization of the
peace: The American people
have been so preoccupied with
the Vietnamese war that they
haven’t given enough attention
to the single greatest problem of
the 20th century: How to prevent
violent outbreaks among major
nations. Intercontinental ballistic
missiles with thermonuclear war
heads have created, an entirely
new dimension in warfare. Yet
there is no corresponding new
dimension in the machinery for
maintaining peace. Approaches
to the resolution of disputes
among nations are as unscientific
and disorganized as they were
500 years ago.
No world statesman today is
in a better position — to para
phrase the President — to help
build a structure for an enduring
peace than Mr. Nixon himself.
The United Nations is not now
equipped either to deal with the
basic causes of war or to prevent
a major breakdown in the inter
national arena. Unless the United
Nations can be given lawmaking
and law-enforcing powers, it is
difficult to see how the organiza
tion can survive—or, indeed, how
world peace can be preserved.
President Nixon’s historic
triumph sets the stage for un
paralleled opportunities in creat
ing a workable system of peace
through world law. Apart from
the traditional problems of na
tions in dealing with one an
other, there are now entirely new
questions beyond the reach of
individual nations to solve by
themselves. World environmental
deterioration is one such issue.
Depletion of world resources is
another. Only a fully function
ing world organization can cope
with such problems.
2—Improving the quality of
life in America: If a sound basis
for world peace can be achieved,
the President will be in a posi
tion to reduce our commitments
abroad. American money and
energies can be turned to basic
needs and challenges at home—
rebuilding our cities, fighting
contamination of our air and
water, providing jobs and decent
housing for Americans most in
need of them, giving our disad
vantaged citizens a sense that
they belong in and to this society,
raising the level of education and
health care, and removing the
elements of combustibility from
inter-race relations.
3—Restore the historic right
to privacy of American citizens:
Under both Democratic and
Republican administrations dur
ing the past decade, individual
liberties have been eroding, es
pecially in matters of privacy.
The advent of electronics and
transistors has made available all
sorts of exotic devices for de
priving individuals and organiza
tions of their constitutional rights
of privacy. Obviously, govern
ment has to be efficient in com
bating lawlessness. But much of
the wire-tapping and spying has
nothing to with law enforce
ment. Abuses in this area are
now so widespread and flagrant
that they constitute a major
threat to American values and
traditions. Nothing short of
presidential concern and initia
tive in these directions can re
verse this ominous drift.
The President’s acceptance
speech was free of gloating or
personal jubilation. He was ob
viously conscious of the fact that
a new stage now opens for
serious and sustained achieve
ments. It is doubtful whether
any President in our. history was
in a better position to do what
Richard M. Nixon can now do.
It will be an interesting four
years.
Copyright, Norman Cousins. Dist. by
Los Angeles Times Syndicate.
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