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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1974
Listen up
Batt charged with knocking
church-goers; forgiven once
Editor:
O.K. who’s the wise guy who
let it out in print? You guys
may edit the only College News
paper in town, but please try not
to act like it. I’m no journalism
major, but I do read the Batt—
not because I want to but because
I have to. You guys better watch
it or next year, before you know
it, the “Fork” will be running
rings around you.
What am I talking about? This
—“The Exorcist, however, is a
multifacted film that is not con
tent just scaring people; it does
more.
It makes them vomit.
It makes them faint.
It makes them see psychiatrists.
It makes them go to church.”
Batt eds I charge you with
using propaganda to influence the
public thought! I claim you have
used the technique of suggestion
and association to criticize those
that go to church.
Why? You guys are the editors.
You all probably have at least an
IQ of 100. You all have most
assuredly taken the SAT, so you
tell me:
Question: What does going to
church have to do with vomiting,
fainting and those that have
emotional or mental disturbances?
Oh yes, I know—you didn’t
mean it that way at all. Sure.
That’s what any press agency
would say when caught in the act
of controlling the public. Regard
less of whether it was ill-meant
or not is irrelevant. The fact
remains that this article remains
Unconscious propaganda. And un
conscious propaganda still ad
versely influences the public!
How? Oh come on eds, we both
know the technique of associative
persuasion has been used for
decades in advertising to gyp the
naive masses by causing them to
associate power, health, mascu
linity, and even beauty with vari
ous, sometimes useless products,
right? And we also know of the
press’s subtle use of unconscious
propaganda to downgrade cer
tain politicians, right? Sure.
Now you’re in the act too, Batt—
right? You’ve succeeded in doing
your readers an injustice, too—
congrats!
You are forcing your readers
to, at the very least, unconscious
ly associate church going with
vomiting, fainting and the men
tally disturbed. Nice going, Batt
eds; what do you do for an en
core? Anyway, whether inten
tional or not, you Batt eds were
supposed to prevent it. Let your
readers decide for themselves
whether going to church has any
thing to do with vomiting, faint
ing and those who need their
heads shrinked. Let them make
their own associations.
I’ll forgive you this time, but
listen up Batt eds—it had better
not happen again.
Briggs R. Myrick
★ ★ ★
The agent’s name was Roland
Stone (no joke Rod). I was told
I was being reprimanded for “pro
fanity in a public place.” I did
utter a slight cuss word to my
friends of five years but no com
plaints were registered to the
owner of the establishment. What
has come of our society if police,
(which I feel are employes of me,
Mr. Taxpayer), can harass stu
dents because their hair length
may differ greatly from Mr.
Stones’ or because Stone was in
a bad mood.
I was asked to leave the estab
lishment or I would be run down
town. I feel (and so do my
friends) that I had my constitu
tional rights violated by this man.
I just want to warn the students
of this university that sufferages
such as this are happening in this
community. Be careful Aggies.
Bill Echols
★ ★ ★
Student paper
Beer bugged
Editor:
Last night while enjoying beer
at Sparky’s I feel that I was un
justly accosted by an employe of
the Texas Liquor Control Board.
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
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Editor:
Re: the firing of Steve Goble
as managing editor of The Batt.
At first reading I must admit
that I felt much the way that
John Nash (and, I assume, The
Batt staff) seemingly feels about
the dismissal of Mr. Goble. Fur
ther consideration of the matter
however led me to conclude quite
the opposite.
Many students at this university
have been placed in positions of
varying degrees of responsibility,
myself included. I have observed
many student leaders, who, be
cause of these responsibilities
have created conflict between
their scholastic and extracurric
ular activities. A past RHA pres
ident was one such case. Randy
Gillespie chose to step down, he
did not try to run the RHA as a
non-student.
In my opinion, a student has
two choices when confronted with
a scholastic-extracurricular con
flict. He may:
1. Unburden himself of extra
curricular responsibility or,
2. Keep the responsibility at a
possible risk to his scholastic
standing.
In short, I hereby conclude
fault with respect to the follow
ing parties:
1. The Student Publications
Board, for not acting quickly and
decisively on this matter.
2. Mr. Goble, for continuing in
a position which should rightful
ly be held by a student.
3. The editor of The Battalion,
for failing to have a qualified
successor ready in any event. I
assume that Mr. Speer was qual
ified to take over upon the demise
of Mr. Rice.
We are fortunate enough to at
tend a university where the fol-
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lowing phrase is included in eve
ry issue of its student newspa
per:
“The Battalion is a non-profit,
self supporting enterprise oper
ated by STUDENTS (my caps)
as a University and Community
newspaper.”
Let’s keep it that way.
Mark Rankin
More listen up
•SO WHAT'S WRONG WITH CLAIMING YOU AND NIXON
DEPENDENTS'?'
Academics ‘hallmark’ of greatness
Editor:
Derrick Suehs attributes this
year’s 17% increase in student
enrollment at Texas A&M to its
REPUTATION. What reputation,
many males, rather few females ?
The fact that coeds are now ad
mitted to a predominantly male
university body is a major fac
tor in increased enrollments, to
gether with A&M’s other quali
ties. Repeated such enrollment in
crease may well become this Uni
versity’s “problem” but presently
is its “pride.”
Suehs states “A&M has the
best reputation in this state and
is becoming well known all over
the country. It is known for its
Corps of Cadets, traditions, and
the way Aggies treat each other
and their school. The students
are known for their love they
have for this great university and
for each other.”
Wouldn’t it have been splendid
if Suehs had mentioned A&M’s
REPUTATION based upon schol
astic achievements, academic in
tegrity of its faculty and respon
sible intellectual discussion. These
the hallmarks of any great
graduates and undergraduates, at
different levels of intellectual
maturity.
As long as this university has
faculty and staff who demon
strate dictatorial behavior rather
than inspirational leadership and
moral guidance towards their fel
low scholars, A&M’s reputation
as a university is loowered. Tues
day’s fiasco (Student Publication
Board meeting) can do nothing
but harm to this institution in the
academic fraternity.
“Let’s keep this university’s
reputation going in the ‘right’
direction” by further improving
scholastic and intellectual stan
dards and uplifting academic in
tegrity. Let’s make it number
one in the nation.
Jocelyn Tommerup
★ ★ ★
having a good time? If the ad
ministrators are so immature as
not to recognize the stress and
tensions that are built up in a
college student over weeks of
testing and study, either they
have forgotten or the administra
tors never felt the tensions of col
lege. Take your pick.
Does streaking occur every
night? No! Do students demon
strate every night? No! Then
what is this university so worriel
about? This administration acts
like the students in this univei'
sity are not human. We’re not hi
man, We’re Aggies! That’s right
Administration, wise up! If yts
think I’m going to Texas kki
to think and act like you, then I
must be in the wrong place. Hii
place could be great, don’t mess
it up any worse than it is.
Gene Whitney
Public relation offices open
Applications for the offices of
treasurer and chairperson of pub
lic relations of the RHA are now
being accepted. Application forms
may be picked up and returned
to the main desk of the Student
Programs Office no later than
5 p. m. Friday, April 19. Require
ments include at least a 2.5 GPU
dorm.
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Free spirit
are
university which maw be defined
as a community of scholars in
search of truth. Such a commu
nity consists of ALL members of
the university, faculty, staff,
Editor:
In the past Week, I have read
so much of Texas A&M as an in
stitute of higher learning that I
feel it’s ironic that the recent an
ti-streaker letters are views that
one would expect from pre-school
ers. What I don’t understand is
why is this university so intent
on suppressing the free spirit of
the students ? What is wrong with
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