Listen up
Paqe 2 THE BATTALION
3 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1974
Senate structure given
Editor:
I read with interest Robin
Coppedge’s letter concerning the
Student Senate.
In it he said the purpose of the
Senate is “to serve the needs of the
student body.” I agree. That is why
I do more than show up every other
week for a Senate meeting.
Almost all productive work done
by governmental structures is done
behind the scenes in committee (not
Senate) meetings.
A quick check with the vice pres
idents of the various standing com
mittees revealed that Coppedge
was not involved in any of their ac
tivities. This I think is pretty strange
for a senator so concerned about
“the Senate’s inefficiency and inef
fectiveness.”
In short, Coppedge was part of
the problem, not the solution.
Tom Dawsey
Sen., Davis-Gary, Moore and
. Moses Halls
on my desk, let it ring and read a
book till someone answers.
And so students, just because our
administration, with the usual
foresight, is phasing out our job,
there’s no reason to get mad at us. I
suggest there be an increase in the
number of Centrex operators.
By the way, Centrex is “7” from
on campus, “845-3211” from off
campus/
Greg Marchand
Elmer Banes.
Slouch
Jim Earle
A6&E BOMPEIt
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Poor planning
Numbers game
Editor:
The two of us feel that an explana
tion is in order for the recent hassle
students have had in trying to get
phone numbers from the Housing
Office.
There are a lot of students here,
and they invariably want a lot of
phone numbers. These have been
getting more and more difficult to
obtain. When we first started work
ing for the Housing Office, there
was someone there 24 hours a day.
Now, due to financial reasons, the
office is only open for 35 hours a
week, beyond normal working
hours. Also, we have been in
structed to tell anyone asking for a
phone number call the Centrex
Operators, who have all the phone
numbers we do after about the sixth
week of school.
Now, we get a lot of hacked-off
people calling back, saying that the
phone rings 30 times and nobody at
Centrex answers. This is because,
unlike our regular phone that gives
a busy signal, they have a couple of
people at a switchboard with a lot of
lines. So if they get busy, they just
have the calls pile up on empty
lines, letting them ring till they get
to them or till the party gives up.
My solution is to just put the phone
Editor:
As I was walking around the cam
pus last week some questions came
to mind concerning the construc
tion work on campus.
First, several bushes were re
moved from the ground in front of
Crocker Hall along University
Drive. Whoever was responsible for
this did not replace the soil neatly.
Second, the sidewalks and part of
the mall near the Harrington
Center were demolished and re
moved by construction workers.
Who is responsible for these ac
tions? It is apparent someone is not
planning for long range projects
properly and should not be entitled
to hold this position of high respon
sibility.
It does not make any sense to
spend money for shrubs and
sidewalks and then spend more
money to have them removed!
Just because we have a half mill
ion dollars to waste on a wall does
not mean this University is entitled
to waste more money due to poor
planning.
Richard P. Machos ’78
An investigation of these condi
tions will be made—Ed.
W-1 respect
Editor:
With regard to the current Listen:
Up debate concerning the women’s
Corps:
It is not, as Katherine Beadling
contends, the duty of civilian stu
dents to give the members of W-1
self respect. If they feel no pride in
being a part of the Corps of Cadets,
they are free to withdraw from it.
The men’s Corps has had 98 years
to establish the esteemed position
they now hold. Of course, W-1, two
months old, uniformless, scattered
into several dorms, seems like, as
Mr. Chamberlain says, “a joke’ to
many students.
Respect must be earned. It takes
time, but it shall come. I know that
other students will join me in saying
that I have ten thousand times more
respect for a Corps that bases its
high standards not on arbitrary exc
lusion of any one group, but on ac
ceptance of only the finest of all stu
dents.
However, regardless of my opin
ion or Beadling’s opinion or the
administration’s opinion or the
Board of Directors’ opinion or any
one else’s opinion, W-1 is here to
stay. As a state-funded university,
TAMU must eliminate sex dis
crimination; it must abide by the
Texas ERA and federal HEW laws
or suffer appropriations cuts.
If Schwab and Hampton would
prefer to be dead when the first
female band member hits the field.
Blaire McPherson ’78
Kevin Fotorny ’78
Speed limits
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Editor:
Many people driving automobiles
on the TAMU campus are disre
garding the designated speed limits
and are placing the pedestrian in
danger.
The campus police, on the whole,
are going to have to put forth a grea
ter effort to reduce the number of
these violations before someone is
hurt or killed.
I, personally, have yet to see any
one receive a ticket for speeding on
this campus. I have, though, seen a
great number of parking tickets dis
tributed throughout the campus.
Perhaps a greater amount of time
is being given to parking violations
rather than moving violations. I am
almost certain that the parking vio
lators would not mind giving up
some of their allotted time to in
crease pedestrian safty here at
TAMU.
If these irresponsible motorists
are not controlled, we could be
short one Aggie in the near future.
Richard Denson, ’76
Late comment
Editor:
We thought at first that the indig
nation over the “unfair” distribution
system was no doubt raised by those
“fair-weather” fans who only sup-
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port a winning team, but it appears
that the people in this area will not
even support a team that is one of
the top ten teams in the nation.
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We feel that until students and
residents of this area can demon
strate their support of the best damn
team in the Southwest, that the
Student Senate should not under
take any attempt to change the sys
tem.
Beat the hell outa TCU!
Randy Janne ’75
James Bassett ’73
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risk!”
Word play
perhaps something can be arranged
because when fish Susie Snurd and
her mean french horn decide they
want to be in the band, there is very
little that anyone can do to stop
them.
So we might as well relax. In
another 98 years, this will all dre
worked out. Maybe.
Editor:
I have the last word on the Mag
gie Aggie coed debate.
What’s a Waggie?
An Aggie with a wiggle in her
walk.
G. E. Zeman ’72
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