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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.
Cbe Battalion
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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.
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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. No ill-intent was in
tended nor was it used in an
a derogatory manner. We
simply used a phrase of very
common nature around A&M.
The phrase was here long be
fore either you or most of
A&M’s present enrollment ever
entered here.—Ed.
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