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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, April 25, 1973 Listen Up— CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle A&M: A Mixture Of FedingS Editor: I would like to address Suzanne Hitt, her friends, and all others in this academic community who are similarly depressed. It is “that time” of year again, (spring finals-yecch), and it’s hard to avoid depression, but I would like to make some obser vations : Professors who seem cold are often pre-occupied with one or more of their many duties. Pro fessors who seem indifferent are often struggling to maintain ob jectivity in their grading sys tems. Administrators who seem vindictive are usually trying to maintain the integrity of the University’s rules and systems. Students who are rude or aloof are primarily frightened of flunking, failing to get into vet school or med school, or missing out on the dean’s list. University living requires us to perform un der pressure—peacefulness is en tirely too boring. I am what one might call a perpetually erratic student. After this term, I will have taken 100 courses over 25 terms at four different colleges. In my view, the A&M faculty and students s Former TABS Director Dies me?’ “Want to check by the meteorology department with Dr. Ide P. Trotter, the sixth director of the Texas Agricultur al Extension Service and chair man of A&M’s Agronomy De partment for eight years prior to that assignment, died Tuesday in a Bryan hospital. He was 77. Trotter was a native of Browns ville, Tenn., and had served as Extension agronomist and spe cialist in Missouri for 13 years before coming to head up A&M’s Agronomy Department in 1936. Praise For A Good Effort We don’t condone or condemn the action the Board of Directors will probably take in raising room and board fees for next year. It’s not their fault, it’s more a fault of the American way of life. The Board should be praised in its efforts to postpone taking any action of this sort, particularly in an inflationary period where the entire wholesale food price index rose at an annual rate of 21.5 per cent in the first quarter of this year. We think students are fortunate that no increase in campus laundry costs were proposed. With a study for optional laundry costs being under consideration by the Senate and University officials who have grown tired of fighting for the existence of a compulsory laundry, an increase would have been foolish, indeed. The last substantial increases in room and board came four years ago and for people who are dealing with food and energy supplies on such a large scale, we’re surprised a proposal for a substantial increase didn’t come sooner. Sure, this substantial increase is a hard pill to swallow and could drastically affect the future of some students at A&M. But, may we offer a suggestion so next time it won’t be so large a pill: raise the fees on a gradual basis instead of playing catch up. Many other colleges in Texas are doing just this and no complaints out of the ordinary are heard. We think it could work here, too. Che Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the editor or of the writer of tne article and are not necessarily those of the University administration or the Board of Directors. The Battalion is a non-profit, self-supporting enterprise operated by students as a University and Community newspaper. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M, is published in College Station, Texas, daily except Saturdr published in College Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and holiday periods, September through May, and once a week during summer school. Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising Services, Inc, New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles. 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Sears EDITOR MIKE RICE News Editor Rod Speer Sports Editor Bill Henry Assistant Sports Editor Kevin Coffey SENIOR &ING tJANCI Saturday, April 28 Banquet —7 p.m. —Duncan Hall Dance — 9 p. m. — New Ballroom $15.00-Couple for Banquet & Dance $10.00 - Couple for Dance only LAST CHANCE .... Tickets for banquet go off sale 4 P. M., THURSDAY, APRIL 26. are more warmly human than one could hope for. This term I have had special reason to thank the entire English faculty for its kindness and generosity. I much prefer their style — companion ship and aid when necessary— to that of my glad-handing smil- ing-faced friends who turned away. I believe in this definition of “Human” — human is coldness, warmth, viciousness, compassion, woe, joy . . . human is ambiva lences and paradoxes—they are our strength. Animal “must do the things he/she feels.” Human has a great deal of control— human can be two things at once. Suzanne, please don’t be bitter about “hurt and sorry,” without them “peace” woudn’t mean a thing. Carlson W. Yost ★ ★ ★ Editor: Thank God the energy crisis is over. I thought that nobody would ever be able to see every square inch of the Zachry Engi neering Center from Navasota at 3 a.m. again! Ray Quinn ’73 ★ ★ ★ Editor: In the midst of reports and warnings of fuel and power shortages we can look out the window at any time of night and view the Zachry Engineering Center flooded with light. It seems the Oceanography-Meteor ology Building is or will be get ting the same treatment. This magnificence expends over 36,000 kilowatt-hours of power/year for Zachry alone. Is there a valid excuse for it, or is it merely an “insignificant waste ?” I would like to hear from you, President Williams. If you are not responsible, at least tell me who is. C. David Stasny ’74 ★ ★ ★ Editor: In reply to Pam Bilderback’s letter in The Battalion on April 20, 1973, we of the Department of Poultry Science are also aware of the rat problem, and have been for some time. Rat bait was put out on 9/5/72, 11/30/72 and 4/ 2/73. The type of bait used goes under the trade name of Warfa rin. We use this type as there have been a number of restric tions set on the type of poisons we can use. This type of rat bait does not start eliminating rats until they have been consuming the bait for approximately two weeks. The same week that Ms. Bil- derback noticed the rats, the Uni versity exterminators had al ready been notified and were promptly on the job. The Uni versity exterminators are also working with commercial exter minators on this problem. We appreciate Ms. Bilderback’s concern and would like for all to know we are doing our utmost to alleviate a perennial problem. C. R. 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