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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Wednesday, March 7, 1973
Listen Up—
CADET SLOUCH
by nm Earie jjugjjeg Hall Presents Will
“I’ll admit that those pocket calculators are cute, but
what’s going to happen when the profs learn you can work
twice as many homework problems and quiz problems?”
Editor:
We, the soon to be former resi
dents of Hughes Hall, being of
sound mind and body do hereby
declare this to be the last will
and testament of Lloyd H. Hugh
es Hall. To those females moving
into this low rent district, we
bequeath the following high class
features:
1. Central dust blowing system
(annual accumulation of 26.13
inches)
2. Irrepressible brown shower
groad
3. Last semester’s semi-annual
janitor visits
4. Giant pesticide - resistant
roaches with the following indi
vidual talents:
a. Pops the top on your fa
vorite beer
b. Brush their teeth with
your toothbrush
c. Carries off your 10 lb. bag
of kush
5. Seasonal water fountains
6. Hughes Hall mascot, the
weekly skunk
7. One-inch thick posturepedic
mattresses, perfectly contoured
for flat chested bodies
8. One-armed bandit vending
machines
9. Variable temperature show
ers (temperature dependent on
commode usage)
10. Private washing machine
(janitor’s sink)
11. Suite sewers
12. Fragrant breezes from the
west pasturelands
13. Sbisa’s connoisseur’s de
lights
Politics Is For Everyone
This is definitely going to be a good semester for politics at A&M.
What started out to be a relatively unexciting term of monotony has
quickly changed into an almost ‘them vs. us’ slate of political
aggressors.
With the System’s board of directors sanctioning political
gatherings and campaigning on campus, students should begin to see
more than the regular grind of campaign posters.
Two students have filed for positions on the College Station City
Council in a decided effort to put more student input on the council
since A&M’s enrollment comprises the bulk of the local community.
Also, apartment dwellers aren’t getting all the fair shakes they might
possibly get if a student was on the Council to recognize their
problems.
After several years of having the 18-year-old vote lawmakers and
leaders all over are beginning to realize that youth does have something
to say, if not verbally, through the ballot box.
Another interesting race is beginning to develop with five students
having already filed for the top spot in A&M Student Government and
possibly more after this paper went to press this afternoon.
One thing is still standing out as alarming, however.
There seems to be a lack of interest in running for the positions
other than the top pests in Student Government, the Graduate Student
Council and class officer ranks.
Could this mean that students are growing tired of crying, “We
want student input!” or is this just because the current leaders have
failed to recognize their constituency thus entailing apathetic feelings
toward themselves and their positions?
We hope that neither is the case because this is an exciting time to
live and take part in running governmental affairs, both for
constituency and for those supposedly doing the leading and
lawmaking.
It is truly unfortunate that all students can’t meet with student
leaders everyday to duscuss problems, but students leaders aren’t just
interested in themselves as many would like to think the majority is and
they are interested in helping others with their problems.
The Battalion receives complaints all the time from students not
knowing what is going on in Student Government and who are the
falsely labeled “Big Men on Campus”.
A complaint to us will not automatically make a student more
knowledgeable about campus politics; only a concerted effort to get
involved with the program will do that.
If you’re interested in finding out who will be doing what for
whom next year on campus and the city, contact the candidates
(whose campaign signs no doubt will begin rapidly appearing
everywhere). They can only expand their scope of what is going on
through us, the students, if we talk to them and tell them what we want
from them, not them telling us what they want to do for us or for
themselves.
Cbe Battalion
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EDITOR MIKE RICE
News Editor Rod Speer
Women’s Editor Janet Landers
Sports Editor Bill Henry
Assistant Sports Editor Kevin Coffey
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★ ★ ★
Editor:
We feel that Town Hall really
outdid themselves on Military
Weekend with Freddie Hart and
the Heartbeats. The lines out
side G. Rollie were so long we
waited an hour to get in, only
to count the overflowing crowd
on our fingers. Even Ralph Nader
drew a larger crowd.
The students pay for the attrac
tions that appear for Town Hall,
therefore the majority rule should
determine what concerts came to
A&M. Texas A&M University
use to have a majority of “kick
ers” but the fact is this univer
sity has changed and “kickers”
concerts are now a waste of the
students’ money. TAMU must
keep pace with the rest of the
colleges and universities through
out the country and STOP sup
porting these dinky-dink concerts
that hold so very little interest.
The Town Hall committee
could possibly combat this letter
with the fact that there is a lack
of funds available to bring big
names to A&M. The non-kickers
at TAMU feel that Town Hall
should combine their resources by
cutting out the cheap concerts and
bring several big names to A&M.
By big names we do not mean
“Flash Cadillac.”
R. Craig Johnson
Marti Kamerbeck
Student
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realize they do nothing.
“I at least hope the winner of
the election will be forced to ex
amine the structure and approach
his term with an idea of what
good he can do for student gov
ernment.”
The structure of Student Gov
ernment is perpetuated by those
who win because, Copp said, “If
you become president you have to
say the whole office is worth a
damn. Otherwise, you’d destroy
your whole ego trip.”
Copp discovered this when he
won an election at Clemson four
years ago — “That got student
government out of my system.”
Previously, he was active in
high school government — run
ning 11 times, losing 11 times.
Copp feels his main qualifica
tion is not serving after he was
elected president of his church
fellowship in the seventh grade.
“I had a crush on this girl and
went to fellowship every week
to see her,” the non-candidate
candidate said. “They elected me
president, I broke up with the
girl and I never went back
again.”
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WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW:
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Pre-Seminary college curriculums to pursue?
Financial Aid?
Opportunities in ministry?
AUSTIN PRESBYTERIAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY will be
on campus Tuesday - Wednesday, March 6-7. Place:
Placement Center, YMCA Bldg., College Station, Texas.
Call 845-6551 for further information.
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