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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY. MARCH 27, 1975
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Iranians seek freedom
The
Editor:
The news analysis by Alan Kil-
lingsworth in the Battalion of March
14 may puzzle many readers. It is
difficult to understand whether his
objective has been to sympathize
with the foreign nationals or to in
sult the peoples of the third world
countries.
contrast to his allegation that the
Iranian people “acept censorship”
due to their ignorance.
Killingsworth has based his arti
cle on his experience of living in
Iran for seven years. He has pointed
out the dictatorship and the lack of
freedom in our country. To the
question, “Why do they (the peo
ple) stand for it,” his answer ;is,
“For one simple reason. They don’t
know any better.”
In an unjust society, those who
have to be blamed, in the first place,
are the oppressors and not the op
pressed. Oppressive governments
manage to survive because they are
aided by big powers. The writer ex
plains the absolute rule in Iran but
fails to mention who brought it to
power.
Wherever there is oppression,
there is struggle and Iran is no ex
ception to that. Our people have
never seized the struggle for their
freedom. There are over 25,000
political prisoners in Iran. A great
majority of them have never been
outside their country to “pick up
ideas of freedom. These facts are in
But we share Killingsworth’s
view in the latter part of the last
sentence of his article. He correctly
predicts that these nations “will
eventually be run by the masses.”
We request Killingsworth and all
American people who are con
cerned about the freedom in the
underdeveloped countries to serve
this goal in the most effective way,
i.e., to press their administration to
stop supporting and arming unjust
and repressive regimes throughout
the world.
TAMU Iranian
Students Association
By WILL ANDERSON
Before the Board of Directors
meeting Monday, Board member
H. C. Bell complained to President
Jack Williams that the Battalion
and the Texas Observer had printed
a number of inaccuracies recently
about the Memorial Student Cen
ter. He urged the president to
force The Batt to print retractions
the same way Governor Allan Shi
vers (head of the University of Tex
as Board of Regents) did with the
UT Daily Texan.
Could it be UT has started a
trend? You know, the teasips have
also come up with some pretty
clever scenes with snipers in the
tower, Mr. Bell. Think how much
a Board-financed sniper could im
prove this cam-
Board rules
They said it wasnt so, and lo, it wasn’t
pus by eliminat
ing all those trou
blesome students
(whoops, Ags, I
hope I haven’t
given the Board
any ideas).
Bell failed to
mention what the
inaccuracies were. Williams sup-
wmmmmm
Complain to Jack
Machines wont put out for 20 cents
By ALAN KILLINGSWORTH
You’re hungry. You want to grab
a snack between classes because the
computer didn’t leave you a lunch
break. Then the big decision. Do
you blow 20 cents in the candy ma
chine or put it toward something
else? Usually, the hunger wins out
and so does the candy machine.
Down the slot goes another stu
dent’s 20 cents.
cents out of every 15 spent on soda,
to spend as he sees fit. He also gets a
little money from the other conces
sions, to spend as he sees fit.
The last time we went on vaca
tion, the candy prices went up by a
nickle. They didn’t go up over the
spring break be
cause it would be
too obvious a rip-
off. The campus
already has the
highest candy
prices in the
Bryan-College
Station area. You
can prove this to
yourself just by looking around.
Everywhere else, the price is 15
cents for candy and they even have
a good selection of moon pies. Not
on our campus.
Last year. President Jack K. Wil
liams saw fit to purchase things like
50 bronze paper weights for $400,
gas for Dr. Tom Adair (then assist
ant to the president) while he was at
the Rice game in Houston, flowers
for all the people who usually get
flowers, trips for the rugby team,
and 1,000 postage stamps for the
Retirees Club. Not to mention the
5,000 copies of self-defense for the
new women Aggies, some travel
expenses for the Board of Directors,
the charter buses for the visitors to
Aggie football games, and the num
erous luncheons, coffees and ban
quets that go with it all.
so the Aggies will know which ones
to leave alone? How about one de
cent concert a year? The list could
go on and on.
But what about the money you
put in those machines and never get
anything in return. There’s a little
sign on each machine that tells
you where to go (to get your re
fund). That is, if the place that gives
refunds has any money to refund.
This seems to be a big problem.
It is also a pain to walk all the way
over to the library to get the refund.
But there are solutions.
But, you can’t knock it. Someone
out there is making a fortune. All
they do is sit back, hire a few people
to put the candy in the machine and
soak the students. It’s free enter
prise and they have a darn good
monopoly.
Not all the money crosses the
great wall. The president gets six
This year, the vending machines
will make about $100,000. Sit back
and think of all the things that could
be done with that money. Of all that
money, the students in the dorms
get 50 cents per person. They can’t
even use the money to buy booze.
But you can buy your very own
bronze paper weight.
Oh, the things you could do with
the money! With all the construc
tion, why not go ahead and make all
the grass artificial. You wouldn’t
have to cut it and there wouldn’t
be any grass stains. How about
pastel toilet paper for the Univer
sity Center? How about poseys for
the wall? How about a list of all the
girls that read the self-defense book
If all the dorms and offices that
have the use of candy machines
would collect all the refund com
plaints and have someone take them
over to the library at one time, it
would save a lot of energy and be
worth your while. Each group could
draw up their own little affidavit and
have the robber’s location and the
rpbbee’s name and address. Take
them all over at once and get one
big hunk of money. And the way
those machines operate, there
would be one big hunk of a refund.
Or you can send this postcard to
the man with the money. The stamp
would cost eight cents but that
would still leave you with 12. That’s
not bad when you include all the
attention the machine would start
getting. Chances are you wouldn’t
get robbed nearly as much. Oh, and
one other thing. Attach a used
candy wrapper just to prove you do
buy their product.
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do solemnly swear that I was ripped
off by the ma
chine in the
ing for
build-
cents.
that I
(Honest!) I also swear
wouldn’t care if it was just a dime,
but 20 cents is twice as much. I also
swear . . . but that was at the ma
chine. Anyway, I want you to pay
up. If it’s not too much trouble. OK?
Office of the President
TAMU
College Station,
Texas 77843
Signed,
A Real Student (Honest)
(Attach one candy wrapper) j
Che Battalion
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News Editors
Greg Moses
. . .Will Anderson
. LaTonya Perrin
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The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M, is published in College
Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and holiday periods,
September through Klay, and once a week during summer school.
Columnists Bill Sheen, Mike Perrin, John Vanore,
John Tim Cowden
Artists and cartoonists Dr. James H. Earle, Nguyen Dziem,,
Brad Foster, Rodney Hammack, Tom Brents, Scott Morgan.
ported a charge of “yellow journal
ism” against the Texas Observer
when he appeared before the Ap
propriations Committee of the Tex
as House of Representatives Wed
nesday. He avoided commenting on
the recent story by making refer
ence to an article the Observer
did several years ago. He later
refused to specify any inaccuracies
or comment on the story at all.
The Batt polled three state of
ficials to get their opinions of the
Observer’s story; Senator Bill
Moore (’40) of Bryan, House Ap
propriations Chairman Rep. Bill
Presnal of Bryan, and Billy Clay
ton ( 50), Speaker of the House.
None of them had read the story
or seen the MSC recently but they
agreed the Observer was not a
quality paper.
The only inaccuracies I could find
were two misquotes of my editor
(God save him), Greg Moses. A
conversation Moses was reported to
have had with Williams about the
university “fighting for its life”
was not in reference to the MSC
but to campus planning (remember
the wall?)
The comment Williams was re
ported to have made about the
Bauer House (UT’s version of the
Board annex on a smaller scale)
was made by another high admin
istrator to reporter Jim Peters.
Pahlmann a book of blank checks
and told him to do his damnedest.
So Pahlmann obliged and his work
could scarcely be more damned.
The Board visits the campus
only occasionally and their open-
business meetings seem to be mere
technicalities, so students have no
input there.
But Williams is usually here;
he lives within a couple hundred
yards of the MSC. Students might
turn to him as our advocate to the
Board.
I spoke to him in Austin Wed
nesday and he doesn’t believe many
students are displeased with the
MSC. He suggested displeased stu
dents should adopt the attitude he
has towards his income tax pay
ments. When he doesn’t like some
thing, he tells himself thatnoneof
his tax money helped pay for it;
he convinces himself his money
goes only to programs he supports.
So none of my fees went for cow
hide benches. I paid only for the
pool tables. And to those students
whose fees paid for benches, boy,
were von ever rooked!
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Moses said the misquotes were,
not major, though, and he is not
going to press the point. After all,
the rest of the story appears to
be very accurate and the facts were
obtained by The Battalion in the
face of great resistance by admin
istrative officials. The Battalion
printed its first story after two
months of research.
Many administrators complained
through official channels about
the waste but refused to comment
for the Batt. So while the admin
istrators would not (or were not
allowed to) help the Batt in its in
vestigations, they did not necessar
ily' support the Board’s action. The
blame for the MSC fiasco remains
on the Board’s shoulders.
A board is a collection of peo
ple appointed through political
channels to spend other people’s
money. You might be pleased (but I
doubt it) to know that our Board
is one of the most successful ones
at accomplishing that goal. They
gave interior designer William
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TAMU SURF CLUB
presents
THE COSMIC CHILDREN
THURSDAY, MARCH 27
7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
RUDDER TOWER
ROOM 701
GENERAL ADMISSION — $1.50
MEMBERS —.75
If you can find the hidden tickets, they’re yours!
The Aggie Players have hidden free tickets to Godspeilin
these places: Come out and hunt on Easter Sunday!
1. Ding Dong the witch is dead.
2. m/1503/S4.164/G6/1973
3. Yell leaders use to swim here
4. Dimestore cowboys like dimestore Indians and
exotic ladies
5. A&M's private "golden arches"
6. this egg was laid between 1838 & 1898
7. not 6 flags over Texas but ? over the world
8. twinkle, twinkle "big" star?
9. A cold machine that lays eggs? At Sbisa
anything’s possible.
10. See if you can engineer this "old" clue
11. R. C. Cola — a cush drink
12. Lions & tigers & bears oh my.
All Aggie Players and relatives exempt.
Come To Diamond Country
Sankey Park Diamond Salon
213 s. MAIN
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AGGIE CINEMA
The Aggie Cinema Committee is currently recruiting new
members for the remainder of this spring semester and for the
upcoming fall. Membership is open to all who are willing to be
active participants in film programming on the TAMU Cam
pus.
Please come by the student programs office and fill out an
information sheet by Friday, March 28th and turn it in to the
secretaries if you are interested.
step into the msc circle
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H peat house 1
Located at Briarwood Apts, above the leasing office.
Now has their own disc jockey to play your records by request.
LADIES (UNESCORTED)—ALL DRINKS
HALF PRICE—ALL OF THE TIME.
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Starting Monday, March 10,
these will be our weekly specials.
WEDNESDAY-HAPPY HOUR NIGHT
All drinks Y2 price all night long
THURSDAY-LADIES NIGHT
Free drinks to all ladies
NEW HOURS STARTING MARCH 26
OPEN WEDNESDAY — SATURDAY 5 P.M.
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