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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, March 8, 1973
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Listen Up—
Lower
Athletic Fee Allocation Urged
“That’s the most ingenious attempt to leave early for
the holidays I’ve ever seen!”
Editor:
After attending the Student
Senate meeting last Thursday and
hearing the discussion of the pos
sible separation of the sports fee
from the student services fee and
ensuing comments, I have a sug
gestion to offer as a possible solu
tion. Why can’t the sports fee be
handled like the shuttle bus, with
a student service fee and a user
fee?
This year, sports was allocated
$6.06 out of the $30 semester
service fee. The average student
attendance at each home football
game was approximately 9,000
people. This in turn means that
approximately 6,000 students did
not attend the football games.
That is 40 percent of the student
body—not a small minority. Nat
urally, attendance of basketball
games was even smaller.
The athletic committee has ask
ed for a fee increase to $11.28
per student for the coming year.
This is almost double that of last
year and again everyone pays it
and 60 percent use it. Using
16,000 as the projected enrollment
for next year, this increase will
generate about $180,480.
My suggestion is this: leave
the sports fee at its present level
of $6.06 and charge a user fee of
$9.30 for those who wish to at
tend the sports events. With the
estimated 16,000 students paying
the $6.06 fee and bringing in $96,-
960, and the average 3,000 stu
dents paying the user fee of $9.30
bringing in $83,700, a total of
$180,660 (about $180 more than
the higher fee for all) would be
generated.
This solution is a workable
compromise and could be modified
Let’s Reconsider, Senator
Students living in the Bryan-College Station area should be
appalled at the wool-pulling Sen. Bill Moore is trying to do over his
fellow solons in Austin, while realizing that Moore must be
mis-informed in saying “The young people themselves don’t want
majority rights.”
Opponents of this issue, introduced as a bill to the Texas Senate by
Sen. Bob Gammage of Houston, seem to be gaining the upper hand on
liberal and urban senators supporting the bill. But lobbying efforts by
concerned students such as the three that paid our concerned senator a
visit may help turn the tide.
Mr. Moore seems to be trying to make staunch Baptists of the
state’s youth by harping on the argument that 18, 19 and 20 year-olds
shouldn’t be allowed to buy whiskey. We just don’t see the issue of
justice and legal rights as concerning itself with the sale of an already
much-indulged alcoholic beverage.
One must ask the senator if he ever consulted 627,000 young
Texans what they want, much less if he ever bothered to check back
with his own constituency to find out where it stood on the matter.
We find it hard to believe that Mr. Moore would tend to ignore the
fact that there are enough young people, equivalent in number to San
Antonio’s population, who will be deciding the fate of himself and his
colleagues two years hence.
We hope Mr. Moore was at least mildly surprised by the Tuesday
visit of three Aggies to his office, at least enough to pull his wits
together and realize that these people are old enough to make major
decisions on leadership of the government along with their lives, enter
contracts, make wills and buy a glass of beer.
Cbe Battalion
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THE PERCY HUMPHREY
PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND
MARCH 26 - 8:00 P.M.
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without much trouble. The non
user does not have to bear the
brunt of the expense and the user
still gets a great savings, since
$9.30 at regular admission rates
would only buy 1 football game,
2 basketball games, and one
Coke.
The Senate will decide the fee
that will be recommended for us to
pay and its recommendations are
usually followed. Therefore, I
would urge each of you to contact
your senator and let him know
how you feel about the subject
so your interests will be repre
sented. After all, it’s your money.
John Mark Fitte ’74
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Editor:
I am struggling with my room
mate’s typewriter so that I may
bring you this news announce
ment.
I am a cockroach. My friends
call me “Cocky.” I object to the
letter recently printed in the Batt
from Keathley Hall. It seems that
the anonymous author doesn’t
like nor care for crawlets of my
variety. We are a very proud
breed. Let me tell you the legend
of the two foot cockroach.
Many years ago our Zorro fig
ure (hero, martyr, lone roacher,
etc.) founded a colony on the
A&M campus. It has been quite a
struggle to remain alive in a
world of insecticides and fast
moving newspapers.
Molere Echinos is the two-foot
roach you may have seen lurking
around near your drain wearing
the three-inch goulashes. He is
known to be the one attempting
to avenge the deaths of all the
roaches of our colony. His head
quarters are located somewhere
within the spanses of the great
steam de’ tada. (Steam Tunnel.)
I am proud of my home in
Legett (spelled with one g—it is
only a myth that Legett has two
“g’s”—although the acceleration
is great around here—ha, ha, just
a touch of humor. Shakespeare
and I should be PUNished) and
especially like my roommate be
cause he is a real crumby guy (he
leaves lots of crumbs for me.)
I would thank you to refrain
from printing slams toward me
and my kind and our home in
future issues of the Batt. If we
are riled, in mass we could prob
ably fill the Services Building
with crumbs. Or is that the case
already?
Let me remind Keathley Hall
that Molere Echinos has them on
his list. In short, cool it.
I thank you for affording me
the opportunity to air my views
and cast light on the whole crum
by subject. (Yum yum.)
Doug (Cocky) Kirk
★ ★ ★
Dear Editor:
In reference to the letter from
the Moses Hall Public Relations
Committee. I would like to ex
press my views on the subject,
Flash Cadillac. In it’s own right,
Flash Cadillac is a good band for
Fifties music. This is out-of-date
to some people but many of the
modern songs come from tunes
written during the Fifties. The
main problem here lies not with
just Town Hall, but with the
R.H.A., Town Hall and the Uni
versity. This year Town Hall had
its budget cut and lost money on
several concerts, namely, Elton
John, B. B. King and Freddie
Hart. The R.H.A. has been ex
perimenting with the students to
find out their opinions on dif
ferent types of events but have
been going about it all wrong.
Instead of asking the students
what they would like, the R.H.A.
holds the event and asks for com
ments later. Civilian weekend is
being based this year on a Fifties
theme. This was tried with bad
results during Sophomore week
end because of a bad turnout.
Civilian Weekend will be dull this
year because of two reasons. One,
neither Town Hall or the R.H.A.
will take the responsibility for
Flash Cadillac and promote the
weekend activities in advance to
change Student Opinion. Second,
students will not come in a form
of protest against Flash Cadillac.
I was not happy by a long shot
when I heard that Flash Cadillac
was going to play for Civilian
Weekend but attempted to find
out more about the problem be
fore determining a bad end. As
a suggestion to help clear the
matter, why does not Town Hall
obtain a tape of Flash Cadillac
and play it over the Campus Ra
dio Station at an appointed time
for people to listen to ? I do not
know about most people, but I
intend to go to the events that
take place Civilian Weekend and
have a good time.
Karl Mesloh
807 Texas Ave.
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