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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Friday, February 2, 1973 CADET SLOUCH News Analysis — " v J"" f “ rl " Vietnam: Gets Ceasefire But No Peace By JERRY APPLEBAUM Alternative Features Service With the signing of the Viet nam cease-fire agreement in Paris President Nixon acknowledged his political, military and diplomatic defeat in that small Southeast Asian nation. The Jan. 27 agreement does not differ in substance from Oc tober’s agreement that grew out of secret negotiations between the Democratic Republic of Viet nam’s Le Due Tho and Dr. Henry Kissinger. The Dec. 16 New York Times reported that in November Kis singer presented two new demands to Tho that would have funda mentally changed the agreement. The first was that the DRV and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam remove all “North Vietnamese” troops from the south, or ack nowledge that they are there “illegally.” The second demand was that the DRV and PRG ac cept the Thieu regime as the “sole” government in the south. These two demands ignore the Vietnamese bargaining position for the last five years and the 1954 Geneva Accords which state “The Aggies sure have been understanding about the shortage of female housing! Several groups have offered to share their dorms with us!” Listen Up— Coed Shuns Dunn; Clearcutting Topic Of Program Praises Keathley Dr. Jack K. Williams: As a freshman coed at TAMU, I am hoping that I will be able to live in other dorms besides Dunn during my next three years here. This summer I stayed for four days in Keathley Hall dur ing pre-registration. The room was comfortable, well lit and su perior to my room in Dunn Hall. I have nothing against the Krue- ger-Dunn complex, but I feel that I should have an option to choose cheaper on-campus housing. On second thought, I do have a major grudge against the Krue- ger-Dunn complex. This is a per fect example of the double stan dard on this campus. The fresh man women had to have their par ents sign a curfew card if they wanted to stay out past midnight on school days and 2 a.m. on weekends. No freshman male ac quaintance of mine had to suffer this indignity. Living in a dorm like Keathley would mean that women would be treated like people and would ac tually be trusted. There could be no inconvenient I.D. checks like those a resident of the Krueger- Dunn complex experiences when she returns after curfew. I think living in a dorm like Keathley would represent progress in achieving dignity for the women of Texas A&M. Jan Gregory ’76 Arguments for and against clearcutting timberland will be discussed Tuesday at a special dinner program sponsored by A&M’s Forest Science Depart ment. The program features Dr. James W. Curlin of the Library of Congress Environmental Pol icy Division and Gordon Robin son, forestry consultant for the Sierra Club. The public also is invited but those attending the dinner must make reservations with Cliff Hickmann at 846-0286 or 845-5034. Activities begin with a dinner at 7 p.m. in the Ponderosa Inn. Dr. Curlin has a varied back ground in natural resources man agement. He was associate direc tor of an environmental program at the Oak Ridge National Lab oratory, a research scientist with TVA and was associated with International Paper Co. and Kirby Lumber Corp. Local Frat Goes INational; Hosting Dance Saturday By TED BORISKIE Staff Writer With the growing civilian stu dent population, A&M now has its first and only national social fraternity—Sigma Phi Epsilon. Not yet a chapter, A&M’s “Sig Ep” must remain a colony until Mar. 31 when it will become the Texas Mu Chapter, the thirteenth chapter in the state. Represent atives from Sig Ep chapters from across the nation will be on hand for the official installation cere monies and banquet to be held at Briarcrest Country Club. The fraternity, incidentally, will be sponsoring a dance after Sat urday’s basketball game against TCU at the Shiloh Club. U.S. Rock will provide music for the BYOB affair which starts at 9 p.m. The A&M colony was formed from Phi Delta Sigma, a local fraternity formed in 1965. There are 120 alumni, all of whom may come for initiation as charter members of Sig Ep. “We looked at several fratern ities before we decided on Sig Ep,” said colony president Larry English, “and we’re really pleased we did.” Sigma Phi Epsilon was founded in 1901 at Richmond College, now the University of Richmond. Originally consisting of 12 mem bers, its ranks have swelled to 110,000. Of the 60 national fra ternities, Sig Ep was 38th in order of founding but has since grown to be the second largest fratern ity in number of chapters, repre sented on 187 college and univer sity campuses across the nation. Among Sig Ep alumni are Carrol O’Connor, TV’s Archie Bunker, and Bob Lilly, tackle for the Dal las Cowboys. On other campuses, fraternities have a long history and rich tra dition, the first fraternal organi zation being established in 1750. Seventy-six per cent of the U.S. Senators are fraternity men. “There are numerous advan tages in being in a national fra ternity instead of a local,” said English. “You get recognition on other campuses, access to Sig Ep’s National Housing Fund, aid from Sig Ep alumni; there are really no disadvantages.” Along with the establishment of the Sig Ep chapter is the for mation of the Golden Hearts, or Little Sisters, a coed auxiliary to a Sig Ep chapter. Membership is based on an interest in supporting the chapter and participating in chapter activities. The Golden Hearts has its own national as sociation, and receives its own newsletter. Golden Hearts has already been established at A&M to assist in Sig Ep activities and provide a sweetheart. Little Sister Jane Poe, a junior physical education major, is the current sweetheart. Other fraternities, such as Phi Delta Theta and Pi Kappa Alpha, are watching the degree of suc cess Sig Ep will experience at A&M before deciding to install chapters of their own. “We welcome other fratern ities,” said English. “Competition is what keeps fraternities alive.” Having just completed their rush program, Sig Ep has 38 members and 18 pledges. The pledges must go through a six week pledgeship before initiation into the fraternity. “I personally see a lot of fra ternities appearing here in the next few years,” said English. “With the coed population in creasing like it is, it probably won’t be long before this campus sees a sorority.” Che Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers 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 LETTERS POLICY Mail subscriptio: Let lets 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. 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EDITOR MIKE RICE Managing Editor Larry Marshall News Editor Rod Speer Women’s Editor Janet Landers Sports Editor : Bill Henry Assistant Sports Editor Kevin Coffey that “the military demarcation line is provisional and should not in any way be interpreted as con stituting a political or territorial boundary.” Vietnam is one coun try, not two. Twice after Kissinger’s “peace is at hand” statement the secret negotiations broke up over the new demands. On Dec. 18 Presi dent Nixon ordered the carpgt bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong in a gamble that the Vietnamese would be forced to accept the U.S. demands. The result was that the U.S. lost 34 B52s and five swing-wing Fill fighter bombers, and added more POWs to the ones it claimed to be protecting. In Bonn, six members of Willy Brandt’s Social Democratic party in the Bundestag likened the bombing of the DRV to the Nazi bombings of civilians in Spain during the Spanish civil war. Sweden’s Premier Olaf Palme is sued a statement on Dec. 23 call ing the U.S. bombings a “form of torture” similar to the Nazi atroc ities at Guernica, Babi Yar and Lidice. agreement relations between the two countries would be “strained.” It seems clear that the bomb ings were a threat to Nixon’s rapprochement with the U.S.S.R. and China. It is also apparent that the U.S. and not Vietnam was forced back to the negotiating ta ble to sign the agreement. The Jan. 27 agreement does not contain Kissinger’s two provi sions. Instead, the agreement does not mention “North Vietnamese” troops at all, and does recognize the existence of “two South Viet namese parties,” the Thieu regime and the PRG. It is unlikely that there will be real peace in the south in the near future. President Thieu described the signing of the agreement as “the end of the first phase of de feat of Communist military ag gression,” and said the next phase would be “a political struggle in which we will defeat Communist atheistic doctorine.” With more than half of the south under the control of the PRG (New York Times, Jan. 25) and a strong pro-PRG and neu tralist movement in the cities, it will be difficult for Thieu to wage a successful political struggle in the south. Nor is it clear that this is his intention. Last Tuesday Thieu said, “I only consider it a cease-fire agreement. As to whether or not we will have real peace, we must wait and see.” The massive U.S. milife build-up of the Thieu regime ii the last few months indicates tin “political struggle” is not exp«i. ed to succeed and that civil ws; in the south will once again breai out. If and when this happen the Thieu regime will probakli fall. It was not able to defeattb National Liberation Front wij the direct military support of tk U.S. Without that support tk better organized NLF is sure j gain even more territory than: now controls. BUSIER -JONES AGENCY HOME MORTGAGES INSURANCE ASHING' al advisi r said T1 lasting on the the Sovie (ietnamei 11 counti s, have 1 in deck iam, Kis: ! is no a; and Pek :wo big restrair Boyd Named Head Of TVMA Nixon, sensitive to world opin ion, sent a letter of protest to Sweden and advised Palme he could not send a new ambassador to Washington. While the renewed bombing of the North was taking place, Nixon was reported to have made over tures to China and the Soviet Union urging them to pressure the Vietnamese to accept the de mands. The Chinese responded, according to the Peking Review, with a mass rally in the Great Hall of the People for Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, the Foreign Minister of the PRG. The Soviet Union hinted at a postponement of Chairman Leon id Brezhnev’s scheduled visit to the U.S. In a New Year’s Eve address Soviet Premier Kosygin condemned the bombing and said that unless the U.S. sign the Dr. Charles L. Boyd of Texas A&M’s College of Veterinary Medicine is president-elect of the Texas Veterinary Medical Asso ciation. The professor of veterinary medicine and surgery was elected to the post by association mem bers and will assume the presi dency of the TVMA in 1974. Dr. Boyd will be recognized at the first joint convention of the TV MA and New Mexico Veterinary Medical Association in El Paso Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 3-4. Dr. William H. Kirskey of Fort Worth will assume the TVMA presidency for 1973 at that meet ing. Other new officers, all TAMU graduates, are Dr. Charles N. Mc Donald of Richmond, first vice president; Dr. Alton F. Hopkins of Dallas, second vice president, and Dr. Ed B. Avery of Pearsall, third vice president. 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