THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, September 6, 1973
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
104-
Tough Commune Life
Rare Sight in 1970s
*
“You can go in and check, but I’m almost certain that
your class doesn’t meet in 104!’’
A Man Moves
By JURATE KAZICKAS
TAOS, N.M. LflP)—Communes,
the promised lands of the drop
out generation struggle on.
Once, in the flower child days
of the 1960s, they numbered into
the thousands. But that era has
passed and the lustre has faded.
Some have outlasted bitter win
ters with firm commitments to
till the land. Some have shifted
emphasis, from drugs to Jesus,
from farming to handicrafts.
Some have lingered only because
their people have no place else
to go.
But many more have disappear
ed, cast aside like yesterday's
toys.
“There’s just no standard defi
nition of what the phenomenon
is,” said Dr. Bennett Berger, a
sociologist at the University of
California at San Diego. “Some
have no good reason why they
should survive, but they do.”
At the height of the movement,
the focus was on northern New
Mexico, with its wooded hills,,
arid land and desert vistas. There
were 30 communes in the region
several years ago. Today there
are about a dozen.
At one, police recently search
ed for a man who allegedly
threatened the life of President
Nixon, a charge which later was
dropped. The land has been giv
en away to a guru and commune
members are packing to leave.
At another, tourists are wel
comed on Sundays and dance
On...
barefoot with members. The com
mune dwellers work in the gar-
idens, pray together and build
more homes. It flourishes. At a
third, lost children of the revolu
tion, ex-convicts and young girls
in animal skins ignore the filth
and wretchedness of their sur
roundings to talk with bravado
of a free world.
The first is called Momingstar.
Momingstar is four years old and
nearing the end. Once it was an
open-air crash pad for hundreds
of itinerant backpackers and a
home of dozens of committed
landlovers. Now the dozen dwell
ers are moving on.
“It was such a dream com-
WASHINGTON <A>) _ Here, at
a glance, are items discussed by
President Nixon at his news con
ference Wednesday:
CONGRESS: Nixon will send
to Congress Monday what amounts
to a new State of the Union
message urging action on admin
istration measures involving in
flation, defense and energy.
OIL: He said that if oil-pro
ducing Arab states expropriate
U. S.-owned property without fair
compensation and continue to in
crease oil prices, they will lose
their markets as Western nations
look to other supply sources.
AGNEW: He recalled that he
already has expressed confidence
in Vice President Spiro T. Agnew,
under investigation in connection
with alleged political kickbacks in
Maryland, and would have no
comment on the investigation.
mune in the beginning,” said
Mark, 17, who came to Moming
star three years ago after flee
ing his California home. “We
worked in the gardens, helped
with the mudding of the houses,
dug ditches, raised horses. Then
all these people started coming
and took a lot of our energy
away. It all fell apart.
“There were three winos who
did nothing but sit around and
drink. Then came the metaphy
sicals who kept turning on with
their peyote. And then about a
year ago the revolutionary trip
began. Everybody had a gun. It
was just something else to do.
take before he would agree to
give up tapes of presidential con
versations sought by Watergate
probers.
PROPERTY: The Internal
Revenue Service audited his tax
returns for 1971 and 1972, he
said, and did not order him to pay
any more money. There has been
speculation about whether he was
subject to capital gains taxes on
his personal property transac
tions.
INFLATION: The administra
tion is doing everything that
should be done to stop inflation
without bringing a recession, he
said, and his economic advisers
believe some of the benefits from
various steps should be evident
over the next few months.
MINIMUM WAGE: Nixon said
he will veto a bill to raise the
News Conference Highlights
The passage of time at A&M generally seems slow to
many because basically the same events may occur each
year. But for others fully involved in campus activities,
the hands of time seem to speed up when not closely guarded.
Such as it was with the retirement of Dean of Students
James P. Hannigan.
Basically a military man, since the day he entered West
Point, Dean Hannnigan represented what an education at
A&M is all about—leadership at its best.
Hannigan has led an unusual life, one that began in
the New York military academy, when he was editor of the
academy’s paper and annual and graduated in 1929 after
also being a yell leader.
After being stationed at the White House as a lieuten
ant working with social functions, he left the continental
United States for a three-year tour in Hawaii. He later
transferred to the American embassy in Paris before com
ing back to West Point to teach language in 1936.
Hannigan had his first brush with Aggies while in a
dugout in the World War II on the European theater. It
was here that one of the men in his command persuaded
him to take part in an Aggie Muster.
The former brigadier general also served time in Korea
before arriving at A&M in 1959 to work for the late Gen.
Earl Rudder as Dean of Students for A&M’s 5,000 students.
Dean Hannigan now has his sights set on a trip to
Australia and then Tahiti after a long deserved two-month
rest. But, A&M students who knew him shouldn’t forget
him easily.
Those who recognized A&M’s growth through Hannigan
realize his most basic contribution to campus life was the
maintaining of A&M’s essential traditions and lifestyle.
So long, Dean Hannigan. And thanks again.
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WATERGATE TAPES: It
would not be appropriate, Nixon
said, to specify what kind of
Supreme Court decision it would
minimum wage from $1.60 an
hour to $2.20 in 1973 in hopes
that Congress will pass a new
bill that would not be inflationary.
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