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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Thursday, April 19, 1973 Listen Up— CADET SLOUCH by jim Earie p ee V ote Request Supported Editor: We, the Students of Concern, support the referendum on Stu dent Services Fees. We wish to be characterized as such and not as lame ducks, dead elephants and defeated candidates. True, this group has members in their last days here, students finishing bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees, but we also are students who have worked in student gov ernment; many in more than one office, students who have won elections as well as lost them. Since when is it a matter of rid icule to have lost a student elec tion at A&M ? But, let us make clear that all are students whose political life at A&M is extant and will be until we leave campus; furthermore, some of us are stu dents who won elections. But for now no more labels, no “Senator” or “President”. For the moment we are students—Students of Concern (SOC). “I keep having this urge to build a bonfire!” Student Senate, 1973-74 The Student Senate begins a new year tonight after the recent Spring Elections brought a turnover in Student Government (SG) leadership. Senators will have their hands full with issues coming up such as an optional laundry plan, persuading the Board of Directors to allow the SG to hire a student lawyer and other important, student-related issues which can effect the bulk of on-campus students. Two things are going to appear as changes next year as a result of fresh leadership. One, the Senate meetings will be held on Wednesday instead of Thursday nights. This will aid in getting news to those who leave the territory come Friday afternoon, missing out on Senate proceedings as published in The Battalion. Secondly, and a point we disagree with, is the way the Senate members are being made to sit in special sections at the meetings. According to Shariq Yosufsai, SG vice president, senators must now sit with their fellow representatives, meaning that students from the Corps must sit with Corps reps only, off-campus senators must sit with off-campus senators only, residence hall living area senators must sit with reps from this area only, and so on. The purported reason is to allow students from a living area or college, etc., to caucus. We believe this will only serve to make matters more confusing than they already are at the meetings and pit students back into the Corps vs. Civihans syndrome again. The RHA and the Corps of Cadets worked hard to eradicate this friction this past year. It would be a shame if a move such as the Senate’s would start to add to an almost vanished divisiveness. In any event, we wish the new Student Senate good luck. It’s going to iteed all the help it can get from everyone. 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Address correspondence to The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for , • . tta. ti n i- r> o.-o • n -ij- reproduction of all news dispatchs credited to it or not Listen Up, The Battalion, Room 21/, Services Building, Otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous College Station, Texas 77843. origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. Members of the Student Publications Board are: Jim Lindsey, chairman ; Dr. Tom Adair, Dr. R. A. Albanese, Dr. H. E. Hierth, W. C. Harrison, J. W. Griffith, L. E. Kruse and EDITOR MIKE RICE B - B - Sears News Editor Rod Speer Women’s Editor Janet Landers The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M, is Sports Editor Bill Henry Assistant Sports Editor Kevin Coffey May, and once a week during summer school. Ponderosa Specials • Friday Evening: Fish Fry — $2.00 • Sunday Noon Lunch $2.00 • Special Weekend Rates for Parents & Students Call 846-5794 Ponderosa Motor Inn No. AJ048M — $125.00 17 jewel, self-wind, Bell alarm, 98.2 ft. water tested, day-date calendar instant date change, yellow top/stainless steel back. whether or not the hospital fee is in or out of the Student Serv ices Fee allocation called for on the acted on that yet, contrary to what you have been led to be lieve, so fee allocations is not a dead issue. DEAD ELEPHANTS Virginia Ehrlich Mike Lindsey LAME DUCKS Dick Zepeda Paul Turner DEFEATED CANDIDATES Rochelle Lindsey John Nash Nancy Usnick speech in this country. As we are on American soil we are thus under its law and we share the same rights to a certain extent. One of the few rights we do have is freedom of speech. Mr. “Name Withheld” tells me to keep my mouth shut. Is he afraid that what I have to say might be taken notice of. My previous letter was directed at the Zionists who are not being pushed into the sea, but to the contrary, they are pushing the Arabs deeper and deeper into the desert. ★ ★ ★ Between those excusing this issue as “last year’s action” and those promising “to handle it next year,” this is a tough time to be a student who is concerned, that is why all senators and officers, old and new, are not. Old student government types have served their terms, they don’t want any more problems. New types are busy, too. “Bring us your prob lems next year,” they say. The SOC says, “Let the students de cide now.” Sign the referendum petition and the students will find time to wrestle with this issue. Don’t let the Board of Directors’ busy schedule sway you. The fee can’t even be collected much less distri buted until August when fall pre registration fees become due. Be sides no one knows for certain Editor: Contrary to what former presi dent Kruse would imply, lame ducks, dead elephants and defeat ed candidates are not inherently evil nor do they desire to lead the students off the Senate’s “true path” to Student Services fees. The students should be given the opportunity to vote on what happens to his Student Services fees and if senators, lame ducks, defeated or otherwise believe that the student voice has not been heard, they have the right and responsibility to test that hypo thesis or to attempt to correct the situation. Could it be that lame duck, dead elephant Mr. Kruse is bitter about giving the student an opportunity to express himself? Shannon Turner ’73 You expect me to keep quiet while two million of my people are living in refugee camps. To attack a problem is to hit at home. It is American - manufactured bombs that keep us in refugee camps, not the wrath of the House of David. If the American gov ernment stopped the billions of dollars which the Zionists drain from this country for their cause, they could help educate those “who must go without for lack of funds.” My education is not free. I pay for it. I also pay taxes on my books and what I eat and drink. My country is also paying for it through the vast profits which the American oil companies make back home and bring here. It is not me that should keep quiet but you, the American. Youth have already started to question the rights and the ex istence of so-called Israel. Fouzi Ben-Ali ★ ★ ★ Editor: With reference to your article on April 17. This letter is espec ially dedicated to Mr. “Name Withheld.” The first thing an international student learns on arriving in the United States is the Constitution. Under the first amendment we are told that there is freedom of As a note to end all letters on the subject, THE BATTAL ION apoligizes for Tuesday’s headline. 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